Sentences with phrase «stories earlier books»

I do hope we see a return to the connecting stories earlier books had though.

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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.
In a recent interview for Knowledge@Wharton the co-founder of microlending site Kiva talked about her new book Clay Water Brick: Finding Inspiration from Entrepreneurs Who Do the Most with the Least and shared stories from the early days of her paradigm - shifting startup.
Remember earlier this year Entrepreneur Magazine columnist Scott Gerber sent out a call looking for interesting stories for a new book titled Never Get a «Real» Job?
Gladwell's book might help you find the story early.
«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.
In an earlier writing Milosz had shown himself to be aware that this was the key insight of Job, even if, in the poet's version of the story, God says things that are rather more severe than anything to be found in the book of Job.
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.
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 Princestories — 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 PrinceStories 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.
One of the early stories recorded in the Book of Genesis has some searching words: «Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?»
Our story of Judah and his daughter - in - law Tamar, as also in fact the book of Ruth, indicates that in early Israel the levirate obligation might be extended to any near male relative.9 We note finally that this is a good story, not, obviously, in the sense that it is morally elevating (it candidly reflects the morality of the age), but in the remarkably graphic portrayal of character, especially Tamar, the deft integration of plot, and the skillful employment of suspense.
Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul.
He is currently being sued in a British court by the authors of an earlier book, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, who claim that Brown stole the «architecture» of his story from them.
It is quite out of the question to postulate monotheism of the crude conditions declared by our earliest authentic historical sources, the old stories in the Book of Judges.
How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.
How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 58, 68 - 71; and, from several sources, the evidence about «surrender» strongly indicates it involved the following:
How many generations told about the the earlier Holy Books being stories of old, fairytales, a myth...?
In the early pages of the book of Genesis is the well - known story of Cain and Abel.
In the early parts of the book, he shares the story of passing on an offer for a million - dollar endorsement deal for only one day of work.
Pentecostals who begin with Acts 1:8 often conclude their testimony by inviting their audiences to experience for themselves the Spirit's presence and activity as recorded throughout the Acts narrative, and to continue to expand the early Christian story into — as it were — an additional chapter of the book of Acts.
The book of Acts tells the story of the expansion of the early Church as it fulfils its missionary vocation.
What Brox has to say is accurate and up - to - date, but because the book is arranged topically (church life and organization; conflicts, heresies, schisms; theological literature) the great story and the vigorous personalities that make up early Christian history remain on the periphery.
I wonder how through history this story played against the story of Daniel and Susanna which is in the Deuterocanonical books and likely familiar to the early church.
Some of the early liturgies of the Church contain a lengthy recital, summarizing not only the salient facts of the whole Gospel story, but also outstanding episodes of the Old Testament from the Creation onwards, and running to some pages in the service - book.
In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.
• Jesus After 2000 Years: What He Really Said and Did (Prometheus Books 2001) • The Great Deception: And What Jesus Really Said and Did (Prometheus Books 1999) • Vi - rgin Birth: The Real Story of Mary and Her Son Jesus (Trinity Pr Intl 1998) • What Really Happened to Jesus: A Historical Approach to the Resurrection (Westminster John Knox Pr 1996) • Heretics: The Other Side of Early Christianity (Westminster John Knox Pr 1996) • Resurrection of Jesus: History, Experience, Theology (Fortress Pr 1995) • Gerd Lüdemann on the Secular Web (online) • Gerd Lüdemann's Homepage (online)
Pagels's and Ehrman's books in particular are page - turners in which early Christian history unfolds with the drama of a first - rate detective story.
The decline in the later book - length tales is proof, perhaps, of how surprisingly delicate a thing Bertrand R. Brinley pulled off with the early stories.
McKnight believes that the mutuality (or egalitarian) view taps into the «oneness - otherness - oneness» theme of the Bible's redemptive story that he introduced earlier in the book.
The latter part of the book tells the story of the early conversions and the founding of the order.
One of the sources, free - lance writer Allen Barra, a regular contributor to the New York City weekly The Village Voice who is writing a book with Marvin Miller, the former head of the Major League Baseball Players Association, told SI that early in 1985 he spent a few days with Winfield in Minneapolis while preparing a story for Sports Fitness magazine.
Share Speaking as a mom of early readers and an avid lover of reading (I only wish my reading list contained something other than children stories, but then again my music selection also suffers the same fate), I strongly believe in the importance of reading (the earlier the introduction to books the better).
In her latest book, The Developmental Science of Early Childhood: Clinical Applications of Infant Mental Health Concepts from Infancy Through Adolescence, she describes how larger forces in the family and in the child's biology can affect behavior and how to understand a child's deep story.
Throughout the book you will find stories and tips from mothers like you and health professionals who give evidence - based advice about all aspects of birth and early parenthood, from where to give birth to positive caesarean, skin - to skin contact and breastfeeding.
Pick a book with «Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls», a book about women in science or just a book with a female protagonist and plant the seed of success early on.
As first reported by Advertising Age, which broke the story of the Burnett - crafted Happy Meal book program, each title incorporates characters the agency created earlier to market and promote a healthier iteration of the Happy Meal.
And seeing how the early organizations for LGBTQ parents helped shape the overall LGBTQ rights movement of today (a story told in Rivers» book and in the 2006 documentary Mom's Apple Pie: The Heart of the Lesbian Mothers» Custody Movement) can inspire us to keep contributing to that broader effort, even as we balance the demands of work and family.
Six libraries in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System each received 100 new children's picture and story books as a result of the gift from the Brownstone Book Fund, a private organization in New York City that promotes early reading and a love of books, encouraging parents and children to read together.
Encompassing everything from ancient Greek geometry and quantum physics to the wedge and the World Wide Web, Science is a remarkable reference book that tells the story of science from earliest times to the present day!
That's the story of paleoanthropology, at least according to Ann Gibbons's book The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors (Doubleday, $ 26), a deliciously soap - operatic account of efforts to trace human ancestry through the study of fossils.
His story inspired a book, The Forever Fix, which heralded the LCA trials as part of the wave of successes for gene therapy, which was recovering from several setbacks — including the death of a patient and cancer in others — in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
We review two recipes from the book Colonial Spirits, the story of how alcohol fit into the everyday lives of early Americans.
My cousins, on the other hand, attended public schools in the city straight through and they would tell me stories how you'd need to get to class at least 10 minutes early to get a seat and text book.
And while the story of makeup artist Kevyn Aucoin ended much to early, in his short life he managed to give us three legendary books dedicated to his true love, and mine, makeup.
[One could read this story as a symbolic tale of Eden like the early chapters of the Biblical book of Genesis, with its prototypical Adam and Eve characters, the natural bounty of God's generous gifts, the biting of the apple, temptation, sin, and subsequent banishment from «heaven» by the coming of a fiery «hell.»]
Disney is already in early talks with Favreau and screenwriter Justin Marks to return for The Jungle Book 2, so now Serkis» film runs the risk of retelling a familiar origin story when audiences are already primed and ready for the sequel.
Since the case was highly - publicized, and the subject of a couple of best - selling books in the early 1980s, writer - director Phyllis Nagy's revisiting of the events plays fast and loose with the tone and tempo of the story.
The story is based on the popular children's book series by author Hugh Lofting, which was previously adapted for the screen in a 1967 musical starring Rex Harrison and in a series of films starring Eddie Murphy in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In a similar vein the story book music score, intended to perhaps conjure up nostalgic memories of early Hollywood adventure films, seems strangely out of place.
It also offers two featurettes --» The Origin Story of Big Hero 6: Hiro's Journey,» which follows the process of adaptation process from comic book to animate feature, and «Big Animator 6: The Characters Behind the Characters,» with the animators discussing the evolution of the characters on the screen — deleted scenes (in rough form, as they were removed in early stages of production; you can see one of them at the end of the post), and Easter Eggs for the kids to hunt for.
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