An effort has been made to determine which dates for the beginning and ending of the sixty-nine week prophecy can be substantiated biblically, historically, and astronomically. It is hoped that as a result, the confidence of many in the inspiration and accuracy of Scripture may be strengthened, and the greatness and glory of our Lord may be seen more clearly. California at the turn of the century was his stage and his adventures read like fiction until his luck seems to run out and he exits to China.
Was he a huckster from the outset? End of story. But then how do we explain the many Christians, in nearly every century since, who claimed to have seen, heard, met, and touched Jesus in the flesh? In Seeing Jesus, Robert Hudson explores the larger-than-life characters throughout Christian history who have encountered the actual face or form of the resurrected Christ--from the apostles Thomas and Paul in the first century to Charles Finney in the nineteenth and Sundar Singh in the twentieth.
Hudson combines history, biography, spiritual reflection, skepticism, and humor to unpack awe-inspiring and sometimes seemingly absurd stories, from a surprise sighting of Jesus in a cup of coffee, to Christ appearing to Julian of Norwich during a life-threatening illness to assure her that "all manner of thing shall be well. Through Hudson's quirky and lyrical prose we get to know people of unflinching faith, like Francis of Assisi, Teresa of Avila, Silouan the Athonite, and Sojourner Truth--those who claim radical encounters with Jesus.
The result is a fascinating journey through Christian history that is at once thoroughly analytical and deeply devotional. On Hospitals takes us beyond canon law, Carolingian capitularies, and Justinian's Code and Novels, to late Roman testamentary law, identifying new legislation and legal initiatives in every period.
In challenging long established orthodoxies, a new history of the hospital emerges, one that is fundamentally a European history. To the history of law, it offers an unusual lens through which to explore canon law. What this monograph identifies for the first time is that the absence of law is the key. This is a study of what happened when there was no legal inheritance, nor even an authority through which to act.
Here, at the fringes of law, pioneers worked, and forgers played. Finally On Hospitals offers a new picture of welfare at the heart of Christianity. The place of welfare houses, at the edge of law, has for too long encouraged an assumption that welfare itself was peripheral to popes and canonists and so, by implication, to those who designed the priorities of the Church.
This study reveals the central place for them all, across a thousand years, of Christian caritas. We discover a Christian foundation that could belong not to the Church, but to the whole society of the faithful. Facial disfigurements, congenital or acquired, not only erase these significant capacities, but since ancient times, they have been conjured up as outrageous and terrifying, often connoting evil or criminality in their associations — a dark secret being suggested "behind the mask," the disfigurement indicating punishment for sin.
An exploration of fictional representations of the disfigured face, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology, cultural and media studies, American studies and literary studies with interests in representations of disfigurement and the Other.
A powerful, unforgettable graphic novel from the world of Wonder, by globally bestselling and award-winning author R J Palacio. White Bird reveals a new side to Julian's story, as Julian discovers the moving and powerful tale of his grandmother, who was hidden from the Nazis as a young Jewish girl in occupied France during the Second World War.
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One of the Best Works of Julian Fellowes. Browne, and the note I had written to Auggie. But they told me their news first.
She was practically chirping. We were all having dinner. Hal told me—in his office—that they would wait to rescind their enrollment offer until after we had gotten accepted into another school.
And they would return the money. We had a verbal agreement. She got up from the table. Complete and utter nonsense! He looked really surprised. So did Mom. She looked fierce. Your boy was in the wrong! He knows it. You know it. He did bad things to that other boy and he is sorry for them, and you should let it be.
You two are too busy with lawsuits and stupid things like that. All that stuff with Auggie. It was my fault. I was mean to him, for no reason. It was my fault Jack punched me. I had just called Auggie a freak.
It was my fault! I was the bully, Mom! He is taking responsibility! He is owning up to his mistakes. It takes much courage to do this kind of thing. I wrote him an apology and I sent it to him in the mail! I apologized for the way I acted. He was getting mad now. Browne a long email telling him the whole story.
Dad cringed. Never in a million years would I have thought my mom would be the one to back down from anything, so I was completely shocked by what she had just said. I could tell Dad was, too. Mom shook her head slowly. Palacio by R. Hot La leccion de August by R.
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