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Author | : Jennifer Spredemann |
Publisher | : Blessed Publishing |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2023-12-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
How much would you sacrifice for true love? Brighton Parker is in his last year of school and his prospects for college are unbelievable. But he can’t get the pretty Amish girl he met last summer at Dawdi Christopher’s out of his head. The more time he spends with Bethany Byler, the more he realizes she’s the one he wants to spend the rest of his life with. Sure, his great grandparents are Amish, but none of his family is, and he has no Amish upbringing. But he knows that to be with Bethany in the forever sort of way, he’ll have to alter his life drastically. Not to mention, he’s quite certain his entire family will be against the notion—namely, his younger brother Jaycee who thinks he holds the world in his hands. For Bethany to leave the Amish would be an even greater sacrifice for her. She’d lose her entire family, all her friends, and the tight-knit community she’d grown up in. Will God provide a solution for their impossible problem? Another heart-touching story in the Unlikely Amish Christmas series!
Author | : Nik Ripken |
Publisher | : B&H Publishing Group |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1535951192 |
Bestselling author Nik Ripken, mentored by believers in persecution, offers a 90-day devotional to help you align your heart with God's, seeing the role sacrifice plays in the life of every follower of Jesus Christ. Individuals and families will be challenged to embrace sacrifice as their daily offering to God. It is through offering ourselves that we mirror the nature of the Father who gave His only Son to be crucified, and the nature of the Son who gave His very life to save sinners. Through this book readers will discover that their sacrifice can lead others, across the street and across the oceans, to discover new resurrection life in Christ.
Author | : Jan N. Bremmer |
Publisher | : Peeters Publishers |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789042918436 |
The Strange World of Human Sacrifice is the first modern collection of studies on one of the most gruesome and intriguing aspects of religion. The volume starts with a brief introduction, which is followed by studies of Aztec human sacrifice and the literary motif of human sacrifice in medieval Irish literature. Turning to ancient Greece, three cases of human sacrifice are analysed: a ritual example, a mythical case, and one in which myth and ritual are interrelated. The early Christians were the victims of accusations of human sacrifice, but in turn imputed the crime to heterodox Christians, just as the Jews imputed the crime to their neighbours. The ancient Egyptians rarely seem to have practised human sacrifice, but buried the pharaoh's servants with him in order to serve him in the afterlife, albeit only for a brief period at the very beginning of pharaonic civilization. In ancient India we can follow the traditions of human sacrifice from the earliest texts up to modern times, where especially in eastern India goddesses, such as Kali, were long worshipped with human victims. In Japanese tales human sacrifice often takes the form of self-sacrifice, and there may well be a line from these early sacrifices to modern kamikaze. The last study throws a surprising light on human sacrifice in China. The volume is concluded with a detailed index
Author | : Naphtali S. Meshel |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0198705565 |
Focusing on Σ--the idealized sacrificial system represented in the Priestly laws in the Pentateuch--this study demonstrates that a ritual system is describable in terms of a set of concise, unconsciously internalized, generative rules, analogous to the grammar of a natural language.
Author | : Benjamin J. Ribbens |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2016-06-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110477130 |
This monograph examines Hebrews’ understanding of the relationship between old covenant sacrifices and Christ’s new covenant sacrifice, especially as it relates to the question of efficacy. Most scholars think the author of Hebrews strips the levitical sacrifices of most, if not all, efficacy, but this work affirms a more positive depiction of the levitical sacrifices. A mystical apocalyptic tradition stands behind Hebrews’ description of the heavenly cult , which establishes the framework for relating the levitical sacrifice to Christ’s sacrifice. The earthly, levitical cult was efficacious when it corresponded to or synchronized with the heavenly sacrifice of Christ. Still, the author of Hebrews develops the notion of the heavenly cult in unique ways, as Christ’s sacrifice both validates the earthly practice but also, due to his new covenant theology, calls for its end. Ribbens’ bold proposal joins a growing number of scholars that place Hebrews in the mystical apocalyptic tradition, highlights positive statements in Hebrews related to the efficacy of levitical sacrifices that are often overlooked, and relies on the heavenly cult to reconcile the positive and negative descriptions of the levitical cult.
Author | : E. S. Turner |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2012-06-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0571296939 |
'So the recruiters, rolling up their sleeves, varied the appeal to pride, honour, manliness and vengeance with warnings to eschew shame, disgrace, betrayal, sloth and cowardice. From a poster showing the ruins of Belgium a woman asked, 'Will you go or must I?'' First published in 1980, Dear Old Blighty is E.S. Turner's superb account of life 'on the home front' in Britain during the Great War of 1914-1918: a time of conscription, propaganda, 'spy fever', industrial unrest in the arms factories, and grieving families turning to spiritualism. When even the blind were being recruited to serve as listening sentries for approaching Zeppelins, all were expected to contribute to the war effort; and, as Turner shows us, the means of exhortation (and the penalties for non-compliance) were many. 'No matter where you open a page, you learn something you feel you should have known.' Miles Kington, Independent
Author | : Ivan Strenski |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2003-11-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9047402731 |
Are social scientific theories and confessional theologies of sacrifice equally well suited as public discourse about religion? The French liberal Protestant theologians of the 5th Section of the École Pratique and the French doyen of sociology, Émile Durkheim and his two main followers, Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss, engage in a struggle over the proper approach to sacrifice in the public university. The Durkheimians argued that theological language and assumptions were inappropriate for this purpose because of their confessional allegiances. Another approach to sacrifice, free of confessional entanglements, was required. This is what Hubert and Mauss sought to provide in the Sacrifice: Its Nature and Function.
Author | : Samuel Chenery Damon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 800 |
Release | : 1902 |
Genre | : Christians |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anne McCaffrey |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2003-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0689860072 |
Award-winning fantasy author Anne McCaffrey returns with her bestselling Harper Hall Trilogy, wonder-filled imaginative classics now available in digest format.
Author | : T. A. Pruett |
Publisher | : LifeRich Publishing |
Total Pages | : 766 |
Release | : 2021-09-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 148973399X |
Having led an online Bible Study for many years, I began compiling my notes initially as a legacy to leave to my children. As I have continued to refine my notes through the research, it is my desire and prayer that the thoughts compiled help each person deepen their understanding of God’s Love Letter we call the Bible and enrich their individual relationship with our Creator - God the Father.