Sentences with phrase «earlier books by»

They'll pick up a Stephen King or John Grisham book and buy it, just because they've read and liked earlier books by the same author.

Included among them was an earlier book by Robert J. Sharpe — The Last Day, The Last Hour: The Currie Libel Trial.

Not exact matches

The bank's overall loan book was up by 8 % from a year earlier.

The phrase had been popularized earlier that year in a book by Mervyn King, a former governor of the Bank of England.

Gurley took to Twitter earlier this year to announce an investment in Solv, a mobile appointment - booking health app inspired by the real estate industry.

Later, after reading a book called «Early Retirement Extreme» by Jacob Lund Fisker, he became determined to reach financial independence by age 37.

You Can Negotiate Anything, a chatty and amusing book by consultant and «world's best negotiator» Herb Cohen, had been published just months earlier, becoming a bestseller.

There's the classic 1989 interview with Steve Jobs, the story that introduced the world to open book management, and a blow - by - blow of Nike's early years, circa 1981.

United said this week its chief executive met with the Chinese consulate in Chicago over the possible impact to bookings from a customer being dragged off a plane but it was too early to tell if business in China had been hit by the event.

But that call for a review was significantly weaker than an earlier draft, seen by Reuters, that requested a 180 - day delay in the scheduled April 10 effective date of the rule, which is already on the books.

He was one of several tech titans who courted Trump early on, according to an excerpt from the revealing book, «Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,» by journalist Michael Wolff.

On the day the curbs were lifted by a U.S. judge, bookings from Iran surged, ForwardKeys said, leaving reservations for travel to the United States five times higher on Feb. 3 and Feb. 4 than the same two days a year earlier.

While Booking Holdings is holding its own financially — the company recently beat analyst expectations by reporting $ 12.7 billion in 2017 revenue, up 18 percent over the year earlier — the brand is making changes.

Shel is the primary author of both Guerrilla Marketing to Heal the World (endorsed by Seth Godin, Jack Canfield, Cynthia Kersey, and many others) and the earlier Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green (named a Groundbreaking Indie Book by Independent Publisher magazine) and an international speaker.

My book The New Rules of Marketing & PR is being published in early 2009 in the Turkish language by Kapital Medya.

Premier Pauline Marois» government, which backed away from an earlier prediction to balance the books by this year, now promises to guide the struggling province out of the red by 2015 - 16.

I got very lucky early on because someone introduced me to a book by David Goldhill called «Catastrophic Care.»

By early on, I mean before I actually knew it was a book.

The price ratio, drawn from the early research into value investment by Eugene Fama and Ken French, is book value - to - market capitalization (BM), defined as follows:

Incidentally, the book was in part inspired by a development in my personal investment strategy over the past year or so, which has made me re-evaluate some of my earlier thinking.

«I do find it a puzzling quality of liberal Christians that they tend to get excited when something that had been a cherished belief or practice of the Church is shown to have been false,» says Rod Dreher, commenting on a new book by a Notre Dame historian who says that the early Church's stories of martyrdom were false.

The latest book by Jamal J. Elias, religious studies professor at the University of Pennsylvania, takes its name from an early Islamic account in which the Prophet Muhammad censured one use of images but permitted another.

Bennett's own The Radical Imperative of 1975 would, by comparison, make the earlier book appear to be an anti-Communist polemic.

Can men study books written by the early church fathers; and then say, we did not receive it from man?

I took this from a discussion of Jesus» bloodline that is in wikipedia - «Differing and contradictory versions of a Jesus bloodline hypothesis have been promoted by numerous books, websites and films of non-fiction and fiction in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, which have almost all been dismissed as works of pseudohistory and conspiracy theory.

Touchstone provides a forum where Christians of various backgrounds — Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox — can speak candidly with one another on the basis of a shared commitment to the Great Tradition of Christian faith as revealed in the Holy Scriptures and set forth in the classic creeds of the early church.The term «mere Christianity,» of course, was made famous by C. S. Lewis, whose book of that title is among the most influential religious volumes of the past one hundred years.

Grondin has done substantial archival work to settle what the book's jacket calls «the facts of Gadamer's life»: upbringing, schooling, teachers, degrees, appointments, major publications, and other signal events (Gadamer's early illness, his two marriages, his arrest by East German police).

In a book called «On the Road to Civilisation, A World History» (Philadelphia 1937) it said, «Early Christianity was little understood and was regarded with little favour by those who ruled the pagan world... Christians refused to share certain duties of Roman Citizens... they would not hold political office.»

Doc — I read every Heinlein book I could get my hands on when I was a kid... they were all in the public library by mid-70's early 80's... «The Moon is a harsh mistress» and «The number of the beast» are my all time favorites.

A book called Disinformation, co-written by General Pacepa and the American professor of law Ronald Rychlak (best known for his book Hitler, the War and the Pope, a well - researched defence of Pius XII's record during the Second World War), which spells out these revelations at greater length, is «dubious at best» — or at least, the bits written by Pacepa are: the reviewer NCR admits that «what Rychlak contributes, drawn from his earlier work on Pope Pius, appears solid».

When the attempt was made to apply it to individual destiny (which was scarcely in the minds of the earlier prophets), in the sense that the wicked are punished by misfortune and the good rewarded by prosperity, it appeared palpably untrue, not only to the sceptical author of Ecclesiastes, but also to the far profounder poet of the Book of Job.

The New Testament books were highly regarded by the early Christians because they helped validate their faith in the Old Testament and make sense of it in light of Christ.

On Wednesday, Jamal Parris and Spencer LeGrande, now in their early 20s, gave an exclusive interview to CNN Atlanta affiliate WSB, saying that they are haunted by their experiences with Long and that they are writing a tell - all book about what they say happened between them and the powerful pastor.

You will observe that not one of the books of the Old Testament (in its finished form) is of earlier date than the eighth century BC Before that time there existed traditions handed down by word of mouth, and various documentary records and compositions, which were used by later writers.

Our «early traditions about Jesus» (to use the title of a little book by the late Professor Bethune - Baker) are not interested so much in what has been called the «biographical Jesus» as they are concerned with what Jesus did and said as he was remembered by those who believed him to be their Lord, the Risen Messiah, and who were therefore anxious to hand on to others what was remembered about him.

Thanks especially to the critical study of Dr. C. Harold Dodd, as summed up in his notable little book The Apostolic Preaching, we have become familiar with the word kerygma, Greek for «the proclamation»; and taught by Dr. Dodd and those who have followed the line of enquiry which he laid down, we have come to see that this kerygma was the very heart of the earliest Christianity.

The Ransom of the Soul: Afterlife and Wealth in Early Western Christianity by peter brown harvard, 288 pages, $ 24.95 In the opening pages of this book, Peter Brown declares that he will «compare two ages — the world of the early church in the late second and third centuries and the earlEarly Western Christianity by peter brown harvard, 288 pages, $ 24.95 In the opening pages of this book, Peter Brown declares that he will «compare two ages — the world of the early church in the late second and third centuries and the earlearly church in the late second and third centuries and the earlyearly....

On the face of it the passage is a mystical experience; but the way Alyosha got to it was by way of Father Zossima's putrefying body: he had to go through that experience of radical dissociation, accept it and take it with him, an experience fully described in the earlier part of Book VII, in order to come to the insight that «the silence of earth seemed to melt into the silence of the heavens.»

Early Jewish Writings - Josephus and his books by t - itle with the complete translated work in English: earlyjewishwritings.com/josephus.

Ever since the publication in 1903 of Wilhelm Wrede's famous book on this subject, The Messianic Secret in the Gospels, scholars have been compelled to take seriously the thesis it set forth, namely, that the whole conception of the secret Messiahship is an intrusion into the tradition, either read into it by Mark or at a late pre-Marcan stage in the development of the tradition, and not really consonant with the story of Jesus as it was handed down in the earliest Christian circles.

Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.

The present volume is really a collection of studies, and it might easily have grown to twice its size if other topics had been included: for example the miracle stories — I should have liked to examine Alan Richardson's new book on The Miracle - Stories of the Gospels (1942)-- or a fuller study of the so - called messianic consciousness of Jesus, the theory of interim ethics, the relation of eschatology and ethics in Jesus» teachings — see Professor Amos N. Wilder's book on the subject, Eschatology and Ethics in the Teaching of Jesus (1939)-- the influence of the Old Testament upon the earliest interpretation of the life of Jesus — see Professor David E. Adams» new book, Man of God (1941), and Professor E. W. K. Mould's The World - View of Jesus (1941)-- or sonic of the topics treated in the new volume of essays presented to Professor William Jackson Lowstuter, New Testament Studies (1942), edited by Professor Edwin Prince Booth.

Already in the earlier books it is clear that God functions as principle of limitation by ordering the eternal objects.

O. Hobart Mowrer, perhaps the most vocal moralist among the psychologists in the early «60s, is now joined by Karl Menninger, as his book title Whatever Became of Sin?

Yet such as it is — and the more certainly so, the more clearly we recognize just what the book is — it remains an extremely valuable document of primitive Western Christianity; though it by no means provides us with all we wish to know about the life and teaching of our Lord, or the life and teaching, activities, and beliefs, of the early church.

From the days of Marcion in the second century, certain Christians, troubled by the anthropomorphisms of the early Old Testament and by the immoralities attributed to Yahweh, have discredited the Hebrew books and have even wished to drop them from the Christian Bible.

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- C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Harvest Books, 1955), pp. 170, 72, 168.

The early church was disenfranchised — they had no Christian bookstores full of Christian books written by Christian celebrities — yet Jesus somehow still built His Church.

This approach makes the book somewhat uneven, relying as it does on some earlier writing by the author.