Wyniki wyszukiwania:

You Made Us for Yourself approaches the Confessions in light of what Augustine would have considered most fundamental: creation, understood in a broad sense. It is, Ortiz argues, the light within which Augustine wrote the Confessions and can account for the often despaired of meaning, structure, and unity of the Confessions.

This excellent set of essays firmly establishes the varied place and role that deification played in the Latin tradition. It will provide what will hopefully be the beginning of renewed interest in and scholarship of western ideas of deification. It will also end what has sometimes been cast as a distinctive and disjunctive relationship between eastern and western theologies. Each essay is well crafted, diligent, and meticulous in scholarship and an exercise in crisp and perspicacious expression. Ortiz is to be commended for bringing the collection together."" - Reviews in Religion and...

Veronica Ortiz Riveras worst nightmare came true Nov. 16, 2010, when her doorbell rang at Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Three men were standing outside: two U.S. Marines and one man wearing a U.S. Navy uniform. At first, she didnt know why they were there, but reality set in when one of them said, "We need to speak with you regarding your husband. May we come inside?"

In this heartfelt story about grief, family, and appreciating our nations heroes, she recalls hearing the devastating news that her husband, Javier Ortiz Rivera, had been killed in Afghanistan by an...