As Nadler, who teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin, represents it, the Theological - Political Treatise is not a demonic tract at all but a well - intentioned contribution to the construction of a more humane and tolerant world than the one in
which its author lived.
Amazon's new Kindle Unlimited program was unveiled recently, and it's already affecting the measure by
which authors all live — the Kindle bestseller lists.
Not exact matches
So does James Marshall Reilly, the
author of new book, Shake the World: It's Not About Finding a Job, It's About Creating a
Life about navigating the perpetually shifting ground on
which young people must build their careers these days.
If it had come to fruition, the Apple Music series would have been based on the book Elvis by
author Dave Marsh,
which examined the famed artist's
life.
Richard Florida, the urban studies theorist and
author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of
life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness about new ways of doing things,
which often comes from a strong counterculture.»
The Secret
Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age —
which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes
author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.
Pure Barre teacher and
author, Emily Liebert, recently released a new book, «Some Women,» in
which the main characters find inspiration for
life from the Pure Barre mantra, «You're stronger than you think.»
Levinson has worked in corporate marketing and is the
author of the Guerrilla Marketing series of books, the first of
which appeared in 1984; Horowitz, who
lives in Hadley, is a marketer and environmental activist / organizer and
author of eight previous books.
Jack Tatar is the
author of the book, «Safe 4 Retirement: The Four Keys to a Safe Retirement»
which takes a holistic approach to retirement that considers not only the financial aspects but the need to focus on health, wellness, mental attitude and staying involved as keys to
living a long and safe retirement.
He started writing for International
Living in 2011 and in the same year
authored Penang: An Inside Guide to its Historic Homes, Buildings, Monuments, and Parks, already in its second printing, and wrote and co-directed a documentary titled 1941: The Fall Of Penang
which showcased on the History Channel in August 2012.
CAROL LOOMIS: In the conclusion of a book, Dear Chairman,
which you recommend in this year's annual letter, a new book you recommend, the
author argues that «the
life's work of great investors is inevitably reabsorbed into the industrial complex with little acknowledgement of their accomplishments.
Many others are well - selling
authors who make a lavish
living from passive income from advances, royalties, seminars, and product sales —
which all started and then snowballed — from the sale of their book (
which of course started with writing a book proposal).
The issues with
which the
author deals and the questions he raises are aimed at those who would claim any absolute values in this
life, including possessions, fame, success, or pleasure.
CNN: My Take: The 5 key American statements on war Stephen Prothero, a Boston University religion scholar and
author of «The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation,» explores five texts that have served as «scripture» of sorts in American public
life, each of
which contemplate the meaning and ends of war
The
author of classics such as «Fahrenheit 451» and «The Martian Chronicles» was one of the last
living links to an era in early 20th century America in
which children got lost in stargazing or pulp magazines like «Weird Tales» instead of video games.
Dimitri Cavalli, source of many WWAI items over the past few years and
author of the Washington Examiner story from
which these quotes are taken, explains the change this way: Back then, Lynn was defending progressive causes, but now that «the so - called Religious Right has eclipsed the influence of the Religious Left in American public
life,» it's time to shut down religious influence.
By conceiving of collegiality in terms of «support groups,» the
authors fail to appreciate the potential for strong forms of collegiality that have the character of friendship, in
which fellow pastors share each other's
lives and help shape each other's character.
In a Czech land called «Comenia» that could be Bohemia, first the Nazis and then the Russians impose terror and devastation, through
which the
author traces the fate of several families, including that of an aristocratic woman who both supported the Nazis and saved the
lives of Jews.
She is the
author of Down We Go:
Living Into the Wild Ways of Jesus,
which will totally transform the way you think about «church,» I guarantee it.
An ancient book by unknown
authors,
which makes wild extraordinary claims such as snakes talking, a man
living in a giant fish for days, the dead rising, and so on.
I re-read a book recently, and the
author wrote about how she was supposed to speak at an event, and when she asked
which topic they would like to here her expound upon, they said, well, just tell us what is saving your
life right now.
If there is any proposition upon
which great minds have agreed throughout history, from Plato to Einstein and Whitehead, from Zoroaster, Ikhnaton, Moses, Isaiah, Jesus, Paul, the
authors of the Vedic hymns, Confucius, Lao Tse, to many recent Indian and Japanese writers, it is that human
life is not adequately interpretable in merely human terms.
We could argue that their books were written by several different
authors over a period of several decades, all of whom had competing interests and goals, most of
which involve self - advancing propaganda and fictional tales of the supposed
author's
life and ideas.
The film would be based on the biography Steve McQueen: The
Life And Legend Of A Hollywood Icon, in which author Marshall Terrill spent a decade researching McQueen's life, career and de
Life And Legend Of A Hollywood Icon, in
which author Marshall Terrill spent a decade researching McQueen's
life, career and de
life, career and death.
So now, the
author of Hebrews says, if these Hebrew Christians return to the sacrificial system, then there is not sacrifice there
which can offer forgiveness of sins or eternal
life.
2 Given this
author's care and demonstrated reliability, as well as his contact with eyewitnesses within the first generation after the events, this man can be trusted when it comes to matters in the
life of Jesus for
which we do not enjoy independent confirmation.
Nowhere is the
author making the point that if people sin willfully, or even if they return to an empty form of religion
which accomplished nothing, that this proves that they do not have eternal
life, lost their eternal
life, or never had it in the first place.
Just as the text says more than its
author knows, so its
author may be
living Out of that reality to
which the text points.
According to the
author of this psalm, God is a rock upon
which to build a secure, long, and productive
life.
The naïve interest of the
author of Acts in the miraculous should not prevent us from recognizing that he is in fact describing a corporate
life which had this new quality.
gave me a chance to rediscover Jane Austen, not least because she is my mother's favorite
author: For not only does the Oakesian matriarch own all six of the Austen novels in the elegant Oxford edition, but Park Honan's marvelous biography, Jane Austen: Her
Life, occupies a prominent place on her bookshelf as well ¯
which I gobbled up (naturally) even more avidly than I did the novels.
The
author analyzes the cultural and symbolic aspects of our
lives which are deep sources of political motivation.
But for the most part, the
author admits the evils embedded in Greek civilization, among
which one can easily name the constricted
life of most women, the demagoguery of so many politicians, and worst of all the degradation of the slave's
life (he quotes the medical writer Galen who once saw an owner poke his slave's eye out with a reed pen).
Being a physicist as well as a student of theology, the
author has avoided the claim that there is only one way in
which the
life of the scientist can be a proper
life.
The
author critiques the assumptions underlying the dominant market - place economic theory and proposes different assumptions
which take into account the fact that people
live in communities.
In some cases this means continuing the
author's lead in A Sort of
Life,
which, for instance, presents the horrors of boarding school (on the other side of the «green baize door» from his family quarters) as a season in hell, replete with demonic adversaries among the student body.
This would be an incredible claim to make today, but in an age when mythology was rife and factual accuracy was not exactly valued by committed religious zealots,
which the original
authors clearly were, the chance that the gospels we have today accurately reflect the
life of Jesus is virtually zero.
«The compensation,» writes a German
author, «for the loss of that sense of personal independence
which man so unwillingly gives up, is the disappearance of all fear from one's
life, the quite indescribable and inexplicable feeling of an inner security,
which one can only experience, but
which, once it has been experienced, one can never forget.»
With this preface, characteristic of the writings of Graeco - Roman historians and would - be historians, the
author begins the first of his two volumes
which deal with the
life of Jesus and the continuation of his mission in the spread of the gospel from Jerusalem to Rome.
The
author of 2 Timothy sees faith similarly in its family connection as «
lived first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice,» a faith
which only then can be said to «
live in you.»
The
author chooses an interpretation of the Transfiguration narrative in
which the time on the mountain is like a spiritual retreat — from
which Jesus and the disciples must return to the
life of active obedience.
I guess it's not so much the book itself that has inspired me, but the way the
author's continually refer to Jesus» teachings on the Sermon on the Mount, teachings
which no one in their right mind can truly contemplate without trembling at the sort of
life changes it demands.
When we read about Paul struggling mightily so that Christians in small churches will learn to
live in Christian harmony, perhaps we see an alternative vision of church — one in
which all the theological muscle of the
author of Philippians is marshaled merely to get Euodia and Syntyche to get along (Phil.
Perhaps one of the most enlightening things is that the
author gives a clear and succinct understanding of the Benedictine phrase ora et labora (prayer and work) and the context by
which both can be
lived out and flow one in to the other.
He raised armies, successfully withstood the attacks of the Lombards, the latest of the Germanic barbarians to invade Italy, made his authority respected in Italy, Sicily, Gaul, Spain, and North Africa, attempted to curb the abuses in the Church in the Frankish domains, inaugurated the Roman mission to Britain, preached frequently, endeavored to enforce clerical celibacy, prompted monasticism and improved the quality of
life in some of the houses
which were lapsing from their professed ideals, and was the
author of voluminous writings on theology that were long standard in the West.
1) going along that line, it's interesting that the
authors even knew the lineage of Mary or Joseph and they also make it a point to include that jesus has a royal bloodline (presumably to hammer home that Jesus fulfills the prophecies) and the second part is that the messiah is said to be born in Bethlehem (
which is widely accepted that jesus was) and Bethlehem is Josephs (not mary's) fathers land, but they do end up
living in Nazareth, so it makes you wonder a couple of things, why take a very pregnant mary to Bethlehem to have her son?
The pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Bell has
authored a book called Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever
Lived,
which ignited a firestorm of controversy over the weekend, weeks before it arrives in bookstores.
The
author, and perhaps Jewish thought in general at that time, recognized the intimate relationship of the age - old speculation of the Orient to that of Greece; both had come to express in differing terms but in essential unity the conviction that human
life is infused with a pervasive entity
which is more than human, finding its ultimate origin and nature in the being of the universe.
The fear of «a Catholic parochialism, in
which Catholic culture... simply projects its theoretically naïve biographical perspective onto the social and cultural map of the present» (page 76) seems to weigh more with the
authors of On the Way to
Life than a confidence in what we have to offer.
The
author's central claim is that a crucial impulse for St Francis» conversion, and the inspiration for his way of
life, was a re-interpretation or inversion of the code of chivalry that was both a product and the regulating force of the feudal system within
which he was born.