wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Contending for the Faith: The Church's Engagement with Culture
ISBN: 9780918954862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In this book Ralph Wood calls for churches to offer a sustained and unapologetically Christian witness to a postmodern world. Wood carefully chronicles how the church is watching the complete destruction of post-Christian institutions and practices that once shaped human character toward fulfillment in goods larger than humanity's own self-interest - the chief of these being the worship and service of God. Wood contends that Christian existence can never be taken for granted, and so the church itself must seek to create a Christian culture that offers the world a drastic alternative to its...
In this book Ralph Wood calls for churches to offer a sustained and unapologetically Christian witness to a postmodern world. Wood carefully chronicle...
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249,67 zł |
Preaching and Professing: Sermons by a Teacher Seeking to Proclaim the Gospel
ISBN: 9780802864468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Testifies to the presence of God as both our post-earthly hope and our present-world existence. These thought-provoking sermons by Ralph Wood, a layman who has taught religion and literature for many years, seek to till new soil in the fertile field of Christian faith and life. They draw on a wide range of reading not only in Christian theology but also in both classical and contemporary literature and culture. And they also mine Wood's own professorial and personal experience in dealing with both the old and the young amid -the chances and changes of life.- Testifies to the presence of God as both our post-earthly hope and our present-world existence.
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136,93 zł |
Comedy of Redemption: Christian Faith and Comic Vision in Four American Novelists
ISBN: 9780268007867 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Balancing theology with literary criticism, this work explores the comic vision in the works of four American novelists, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, John Updike and Peter De Vries.
Balancing theology with literary criticism, this work explores the comic vision in the works of four American novelists, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Per...
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157,35 zł |
Literature and Theology
ISBN: 9780687497409 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Literature and Theology is a volume in the Horizons in Theology series. It offers a highly engaging essay on the major concerns and questions regarding literature (fiction and poetry) as it intersects with theology--past and present. Ralph Wood is a senior scholar in this field, one who is able to address in a clear and concise style the scope and contours of this question as it relates to theological inquiry and application. He opens the broader lines of discussion in suggestive, evocative, and programmatic ways by focusing on representative and core literary texts. Horizons in...
Literature and Theology is a volume in the Horizons in Theology series. It offers a highly engaging essay on the major concerns and questions...
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69,51 zł |
Flannery O'Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
ISBN: 9780802829993 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the definitive edition of American authors. Fifty years after her death, O'Connor's fiction still retains its original power and pertinence. For those who know nothing of O'Connor and her work, this study by Ralph C. Wood offers one of the finest introductions available. For those looking to deepen their appreciation of this literary icon, it breaks important new ground.
Unique to Wood's approach is his concern to show how O'Connor's stories,... Flannery O'Connor was only the second twentieth-century writer (after William Faulkner) to have her work collected for the Library of America, the def...
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123,89 zł |
Tolkien Among the Moderns
ISBN: 9780268019730 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. It has long been recognized that J. R. R. Tolkien's work is animated by a profound moral and religious vision. It is less clear that Tolkien's vision confronts the leading philosophical and literary concerns addressed by modern writers and thinkers. This book seeks to resolve such uncertainty. It places modern writers and modern quandaries in lively engagement with the broad range of Tolkien's work, while giving special attention to the textual particularities of his masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. In ways at once provocative and original, the contributors deal with major modern artists...
It has long been recognized that J. R. R. Tolkien's work is animated by a profound moral and religious vision. It is less clear that Tolkien's vision ...
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131,12 zł |
The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the Kingdom in Middle-Earth
ISBN: 9780664226107 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 169 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep turning to Tolkien because here, in this magical kingdom, they are immersed in depth after depth of significance and meaning--perceiving the Hope that can be found amidst despair, the Charity that overcomes vengeance, and the Faith that springs from the strange power of weakness. The Gospel According to Tolkien examines biblical... Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fan... |
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108,68 zł |
Shingijutsu-Kaizen: The Art of Discovery and Learning
ISBN: 9780989863155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For more than 28 years, Kaizen consultants from Shingijutsu USA Corporation have been helping manufacturing and service organizations improve processes by teaching people the methods and tools of flow production. This book is a humble attempt to share the spirit, mindset, and methods of Shingijutsu-Kaizen and their approach to improving the human condition. You will learn how unique and sincere Shingijutsu sensei are as they work to eliminate waste from business processes. Shingijutsu-Kaizen teaches people how to think. You will learn, as never before, how to identify and correct abnormal...
For more than 28 years, Kaizen consultants from Shingijutsu USA Corporation have been helping manufacturing and service organizations improve processe...
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114,11 zł |