Super Jesus

Super Jesus
Author: Fred J. Duncan
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2010-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1615668136

Have you ever wondered how Jesus could be man and God at the same time? Have you wondered how God can exist in three persons at once yet still be one God?Super Jesuswill give you answers to these and other questions about Jesus and the Bible.

The Gospel According to the World's Greatest Superhero

The Gospel According to the World's Greatest Superhero
Author: Stephen Skelton
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780736918121

Skelton leads the reader through fast-paced discussions of such striking phenomena as the influence of Christ's life on superheroes, and the similarities between the devil and comic book protagonists.

Jesus Super Kids

Jesus Super Kids
Author: Jcn Universal Inc
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-07-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9780692163955

A Christian charismatic book about 9 children who each possess one of the 9 gifts of the Holy Spirit. These wonderful multicultural children manifest God's power in a very special way.

Super Bodies

Super Bodies
Author: Jeffrey A. Brown
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2023-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 147732738X

An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustration—idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noir—examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning. Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative, Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that superheroes are to be taken not as representations of people but as iconic types, and the art conveys this. Even the most realistic comic illustrations are designed to suggest not persons but ideas—ideas about bodies and societies. Thus the appearance of superheroes both directly and indirectly influences the story being told as well as the opinions readers form concerning justice, authority, gender, puberty, sexuality, ethnicity, violence, and other concepts central to political and cultural life.

Superhero Jesus

Superhero Jesus
Author: Candace Baker
Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2022-01-12
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1638746958

Jesus is the strongest superhero known to mankind. With Jesus's incredible powers, he will raise a person from the dead, destroy the devil's workers called the demons, and heal all sick people who believe in him. When you're alone, sick, and scared, say Jesus's name, and Jesus will fight all the bad demons and destroy them so you can be happy and not scared anymore. Just have faith and believe in Jesus--this is all we have to do for him to help us.

Scarce Resoures

Scarce Resoures
Author: Brendan Detzner
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2011-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0578091941

The devil plays tennis with the last man in Chicago while a brontosaurus looms in the distance. An elderly blind woman thinks she's feeding the birds. A music industry insider falls short of immortality and makes a shocking confession. A girl with sharp teeth and an excellent sense of smell shops at a convenience store, avoiding chocolate. And fourteen more. ""Detzner's writing asks all the right questions, and answers just enough of them to leave your mind toying with the ideas for days ... If you're looking for cheap scares, look elsewhere. This is a writer that deals in an uneasy fear, in the unknown but somehow personal."" Derek Gettys, The Arson Club ."."..stories of unholy compromise, quiet madness and apocalypses both great and small... If you're not familiar with his work, these eighteen stories are a great overview of what he's been doing in the always flexible horror genre."" Michael Penkas, Black Gate

Theology, Disability and Sport

Theology, Disability and Sport
Author: Nick J. Watson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2020-01-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1351215086

This ground-breaking book provides fascinating insights into the fast-emerging body of research that explores the relationship between sport, theology and disability within a social justice framework. In the shadow of two major sport-faith events that fore-fronted the theology of disability sport, the Vatican’s international conference—Sport at the Service of Humanity and the Inaugural Global Congress on Sports and Christianity York St John University, UK, at which Dr Brian Brock led a thematic strand on the topic—this book provides a foundation for further research and practice. This text is a timely and important synthesis of ideas that have emerged in two previously distinct areas of research: (i) ‘disability sport’ and (ii) the ‘theology of disability’. Examples of subjects addressed in this text include: elite physical disability sport—Paralympics; intellectual disability sport—Special Olympics; equestrian sport; church, sport and disability, and; theologies of embodiment, competition and mercy. This book, written by leaders in their respective fields, begins a critical conversation on these topics, and many others, for both researchers and practitioners. The chapters originally published in the Journal of Disability and Religion and Quest.

True to Our Native Land, Second Edition

True to Our Native Land, Second Edition
Author: Brian K. Blount
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 1442
Release: 2024-10-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1506483011

True to Our Native Land is a pioneering commentary on the New Testament that sets biblical interpretation firmly in the context of African American experience and concern. In this second edition, the scholarship is cutting-edge, updated, and expanded to be in tune with African American culture, education, and churches. The book calls into question many canons of traditional biblical research and highlights the role of the Bible in African American history, accenting themes of ethnicity, class, slavery, and African heritage as these play a role in Christian Scripture and the Christian odyssey of an emancipated people.

Alla Nazimova in Googolplexnaire

Alla Nazimova in Googolplexnaire
Author: Terry Parrott
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2013-08-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1483668088

The Hitler Wins of the novelette of Smart Arse got into ambrosia and the occult, and eventually it was entitled Superbitch. Terry Parrott had indulged anti-Semitism. Maldek and the calendar were attacked with the Virgin Mary and Jesus Christ, and antichristianity put the Jewification of Maldek, in its debunked place. His anti-Lamaism was put below his Maldekism or Maldekianism. Lamaism was Oriental Jewification of Maldek and Tree of Life. So there were things akin to limnology and antitreeoflife, which Thoreau and Emerson were assimilated by, ex post facto? Things akin to Maldek and Machinery's Handbook were signs of parasitic Jewification, including the penumbral, obvious R.U.R.'s references to science of war and oldest, pivotal religions. Heron clashed with weapons of Jews, or weapons of the Dead Sea Scrolls. So Lamaistically the wrong kinds of Jews had goaded plantations, making gestures of zoandry and The Koran. The mark of the beast was a castration of numerology, and devoid of the Dead Sea Scrolls it entails a magical significance, partly. Ex post facto, Jews attacked Tree of Life, utilizing zoandry and plantations, crookedly. So NAFTA had bolstered sparse population of Jews, in pastoral communities. So akin to Jews' imitation of numerology, other things were imitated and castrated, including the pentacle or the pentagram.