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Testament
by G.C. WaldrepIn this book-length poem, G.C. Waldrep addresses matters as diverse as Mormonism, cymatics, race, Dolly the cloned sheep, and his own life and faith. Drafted over twelve trance-like days while in residence at Hawthornden Castle, Waldrep responds to such poets as Alice Notley, Lisa Robertson, and Carla Harryman, and tackles the question of whether gender can be a lyric form.G.C. Waldrep's books include Disclamor (BOA Editions Ltd., 2007) and Your Father on the Train of Ghosts (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2011). He lives in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, where he teaches at Bucknell University, edits West Branch, and serves as editor-at-large for the Kenyon Review.
The Testament
by Elie Wiesel Marion WieselOn August 12, 1952, Stalin executed Russia's greatest Jewish writers. Paltiel Kossover meets the same fate but he is allowed to leave a written testament. Later his son, Grisha, reads this and finds that it lights up the dark planes of his own.
Testament: 30 Days of Remembrance
by Darlene ZschechThis immersive journey into worship and reflection pairs daily devotions from Darlene Zschech with her iconic songs, offering a powerful combination of Scripture, music, and personal insights to deepen your faith. Song and Scripture come together in this beautiful interweaving of worship, faith, and spiritual growth. Testament is a unique devotional experience that provides: Thirty devotions that expand on themes in Darlene&’s songs such as &“Shout to the Lord,&” &“In Jesus&’ Name,&” and &“Here I Am, Send Me&” Biblical insights into why God calls us to worship individually and communally Daily spiritual nourishment and application through stories and reflections from Darlene QR codes that lead to a multi-sensory devotional time incorporating Darlene&’s songs and additional content With her years of experience and passion for worship, Darlene brings a rich perspective to every devotion in Testament as she connects the messages of her songs with the truths of Scripture.
The Testament of Mary
by Colm ToibinPROVOCATIVE, HAUNTING AND INDELIBLE, Colm Tóibín's portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity. In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years after her son's crucifixion. She has no interest in collaborating with the authors of the Gospel. They are her keepers, providing her with food and shelter and visiting her regularly. She does not agree that her son is the Son of God; nor that his death was "worth it"; nor that the "group of misfits he gathered around him, men who could not look a woman in the eye," were holy disciples. Mary judges herself ruthlessly (she did not stay at the foot of the Cross until her son died--she fled, to save herself), and her judgment of others is equally harsh. This woman whom we know from centuries of paintings and scripture as the docile, loving, silent, long-suffering, obedient, worshipful mother of Christ becomes a tragic heroine with the relentless eloquence of Electra or Medea or Antigone. Tóibín's tour de force of imagination and language is a portrait so vivid and convincing that our image of Mary will be forever transformed.
A Testament to Freedom: The Essential Writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Revised Edition)
by Dietrich BonhoefferDietrich Bonhoeffer was only thirty-nine years old when he was executed in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, yet his courage, vision, and brilliance have greatly influenced the twentieth-century Church and theology. Particularly through his bestselling classic, The Cost of Discipleship, Bonhoeffer profoundly shaped such minds and movements as Martin Luther King, Jr., and Leonardo Boff, civil rights and leberation theology. A Testament to Freedom, completely revised and expanded for this edition, includes previously untranslated writings, excerpts from major books, sermons, and selected letters spanning the years of Bonhoeffer's pastoral and theological career. This magnificent volume takes readers on a historical and biographical journey that follows Bonhoeffer through the various stages of his life--as teacher, ecumenist, pastor, preacher, seminary director, prophet in the Nazi era and, finally, as martyr in pursuit of peace and justice. Translated and edited by Geffrey B. Kelly and F. Burton Nelson
El testamento auténtico de Nostradamus
by Daniel RuzoDescubre los vaticinios que ya se cumplieron y los que faltan por cumplirse Este libro es un estudio apasionante sobre el profeta más grande de todos los tiempos. Daniel Ruzo, el principal investigador esotérico en América Latina, llevó a cabo una investigación de más de cuarenta años y recopiló la biblioteca más grande que hay en el mundo sobre Nostradamus. Esto le permitió descubrir las claves del testamento del profeta, y entender cómo este texto fue escrito con la idea de que su mensaje central sólo pudiera ser descifrado cinco siglos después. Con estos elementos, Ruzo reconstruye la figura de Nostradamus, valora el conjunto de su obra y nos revela el pensamiento de una figura que ha despertado interés continuo a lo largo del tiempo.
Testamento de Salomón
by F. C. ConybeareEl Testamento de Salomón, muy valorado por los practicantes y estudiosos del ocultismo, es un texto compuesto pseudoepigráfico atribuido al rey Salomón, pero no considerado como escritura canónica por los judíos o los grupos cristianos. Fue escrito en lengua griega, basándose en precedentes que se remontan a principios del primer milenio, pero probablemente no se completó en ningún sentido textual significativo hasta algún momento del periodo medieval. En sus recensiones más notables, el texto describe cómo Salomón pudo construir su templo ordenando a los demonios por medio de un anillo mágico que le confió el arcángel Miguel.
Tested by Fire (The Baxter Series #1)
by Kathy HermanWhen a bizarre houseboat explosion rocks the close-knit community of Baxter, firefighters, friends, and neighbors stand powerless as the McConnells' blazing hull sinks to the bottom of Heron Lake. Grief turns to outrage as new evidence proves there was one survivor -- and points to murder, something this sheltered community has never faced in its hundred-year history. In a race with the FBI, Jed sets out to track down the sole survivor, coping meanwhile with his own painful marital struggle. Baxter's mystery and Jed's dilemma are ones only God can solve in this suspenseful, surprising story of redemption amidst despair in small-town America. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Tested by Fire
by Kathryn SpringerScarred ex-cop John Gabriel didn' t need anyone else' s problems, but he couldn' t refuse a request from his former chief. Until John learned what the favor to Chief Kelly entailed: keeping an eye on his granddaughter, Fiona, a young police officer facing a dangerous work situation. John quickly saw that Fiona was in trouble-- the fiery redhead lacked departmental support as she investigated a serial arsonist. And when the attractive rookie was trapped in a burning building, John was the one who ended up rescuing her. Yet could Fiona' s strong faith rub off on the cynic and make John believe in the Lord... and in the love that was miraculously blossoming in the stony soil of his heart?
Testify
by Douglas ManuelThis award-winning debut book of poetry examines race, masculinity, religion, class, and the African American experience in the American Midwest.A book of elegiac ambivalence, Testify&’s speaker often finds himself trapped between received binaries: black and white, ghetto and suburban, atheism and Catholicism. In many ways, this work is a Bildungsroman detailing the maturation of a black man raised in the crack-laden 1980s, with hip-hop, jazz, and blues as its soundtrack. Rendered with keen attention to the economic decline of the Midwest due to the departure of the automotive industry, this book portrays the speaker wrestling with his city&’s demise, family relationships, interracial love, and notions of black masculinity. Never letting anyone, including the speaker, off the hook, Testify refuses sentimentality and didacticism and dwells in a space of uncertainty, where meaning and identity are messy, complicated, and multivalent.&“Manuel charts the raw emotional complexities and the impossible daily reckonings that confront a young black man coming of age today in America. . . . Each powerful testimony in this collection stands as evidence of an eloquent and dramatic new voice in American poetry.&” ―David St. John, author of The Auroras and Study for the World&’s Body &“These potent poems testify to those ambivalent moments that might rend or right us, as when an interracial couple drive past a truck with a Confederate flag painted on its back windshield and from which a little boy turns to smile and wave: his &‘blond hair // split down the middle like a Bible / left open to the Book of Psalms.&’&” ―Anna Journey, author of The Atheist Wore Goat Silk
Testigo de milagros: Cuando el evangelio cobra vida
by Randy ClarkDios se mueve con poder, realizando señales y maravillas, brindando sanidad a los enfermos, liberando, multiplicando comida para el hambriento, resucitando a los muertos, principalmente por esta razón: Él es bueno. Y su deseo es mostrar su bondad, su Gloria, en toda la tierra.La gente dice a menudo, «Creeré cuando lo vea». Este deseo de mostrar los milagros es el inicio. La primera parte de este libro se compone de testimonios anecdóticos que exploran experiencias milagrosas angelicales en todo el mundo. Relata historias de experiencias fuera del cuerpo de personas que el autor ha entrevistado personalmente.La segunda parte del libro trata sobre los problemas relacionados con los milagros, comenzando con la interpretación de los milagros para los escépticos, su definición y razonamiento en contra de ellos, así como la forma en que intentan explicarlos, y cómo utilizan un argumento circular que hace imposible probar los milagros lógicamente.Tras esta exposición moderna, Randy establece la definición bíblica de lo que actualmente se conoce como milagros, y presenta un caso de los milagros. Un llamado a la acción y a aprovechar las oportunidades de crecer en el reino sobrenatural del ministerio. «Ahora que creo, ¿cuál es el siguiente paso?».
Testimony (African Amercan Ser.)
by Felicia MasonAfter eighteen long years, Roger Mackenzie has started to question whether or not being the leader of gospel choir, The Triumphant Voices of Praise, is really his calling, or whether it's time to start singing a new song. Yes, members of the choir may have the voices of angels, but they have the cantankerous spirit of devils, forever becoming embroiled in long and boring dramas that he must sort out. Leaving the choir would mean giving up regular contact with the one sexy crooner he does love seeing though, that or actually plucking up the courage to ask them out.
Testimony and Tradition: Studies in Reformed and Dissenting Thought
by Alan P.F. SellInternationally recognised for his scholarship in the philosophy of religion and Christian Doctrine, and for his ecclesiastical connections as former Theological Secretary of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the Reformed theologian Alan Sell has an established reputation amongst theologians, church and intellectual historians, ecumenists, and ministers of religion. This collection of Alan Sell's work on the Reformed and Dissenting traditions - which includes the Presbyterian, Congregational and United Reformed Church - spans key doctrinal, philosophical, ethical, historical and ecumenical topics. The author illuminates central themes within the history and thought of the Reformed and Dissenting traditions including: the catholicity of the Church and danger of sectarianism, the importance of church meeting, the centrality of the Cross in Christian thought, the need for a viable Christian apologetic. Alan Sell also includes the only modern study of Henry Grove and papers on Andrew Fuller and P. T. Forsyth, in whose work there is currently a revival of interest. With growing interest world wide in the Reformed family, which is the third largest Christian world communion, this book offers an invaluable resource.
Testimony in the Spirit: Rescripting Ordinary Pentecostal Theology (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology)
by Mark J. CartledgeThis book explores the ordinary beliefs and practices of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians in relation to the Holy Spirit. It does this by means of a congregational study of a classical Pentecostal church in the UK, using participant observation, focus groups and documentary and media analysis. This approach develops a framework in which the narratives of informants can be interpreted. Focusing on specific areas of interest, such as worship, conversion, healing and witness, each contribution from respondents is situated within the context of the congregation and interpreted by means of the broader Christian tradition. This book makes a unique contribution to scholarship by offering a rich and varied picture of contemporary Christians in the Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions, enabling a greater understanding to be appreciated for both academic and ecclesial audiences.
Testimony of Hope: Spiritual Exercises of John Paul II
by Francis Xavier Ngunen Van ThuanThe book consists of short meditations given by a bishop imprisoned in North Vietnam. These were delivered at a retreat during the pontificate of Pope John Paul II.
The Testimony of Simple Truths From God
by Teri Sawyer BradyAre you walking through life depressed and defeated? Does it feel like you are stuck in a rut and can’t get out? Author Teri Brady escaped the frustration, pain and anger of her past, and so can you. God can restore your hopes and dreams, and transform you into the person He created you to be. It is time to move forward and celebrate life! Make the decision today to stop believing the lies of the devil. The Testimony of Simple Truths from God will encourage you to open your heart and release everything that is holding you back. Once you do, enjoy living in freedom and hope as you take one step at a time, one day at a time, with Jesus by your side.
The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence
by Simon GreenleafIn this timeless classic, American layer and jurist Simon Greenleaf's expertly applies his understanding of legal principles to the narratives documenting Jesus' life and teachings in the New Testament. Through a careful analysis Greenleaf concludes the undeniable credibility and authoritative nature of the Gospels, substantiating their status as trustworthy historical records.
The Testimony of Two Nations: How the Book of Mormon Reads, and Rereads, the Bible
by Michael AustinUnderstanding the Book of Mormon on its own terms and through its two-way connection with the Bible Like the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Bible, the Book of Mormon uses narratives to develop ideas and present instruction. Michael Austin reveals how the Book of Mormon connects itself to narratives in the Christian Bible with many of the same tools that the New Testament used to connect itself to the Hebrew Bible to create the Christian Bible. As Austin shows, the canonical context for interpreting the Book of Mormon includes the Christian Bible, the Book of Mormon itself, and other writings and revelations that hold scriptural status in most Restoration denominations. Austin pays particular attention to how the Book of Mormon connects itself to the Christian Bible both to form a new canon and to use the canonical relationship to reframe and reinterpret biblical narratives. This canonical context provides an important and fruitful method for interpreting the Book of Mormon.
Testing Faith and Tradition: A Global Mennonite History (Global Mennonite History: Asia Ser.)
by John LappThe Anabaptist movement had its beginning in scattered places throughout Europe during the 16th century. Today these Anabaptist-descended Mennonite churches are declining in membership, but they are not without reinvigorated faith and hope. Frequent wars during the past 480 years strained these Mennonite churches immeasurably, especially when their governments battled each other. This volume recounts those torturous and formative experiences. Seldom have the distinguishing features of the Dutch, the French, the German, the Swiss, the Russian -- and more recently, the U.K. and the Spanish-Mennonite churches been examined. These churches' cultural and historical differences are significantly unique, and they are a key part of the history told in these chapters by European Mennonite historians and church leaders. The Umsiedler, with their sheer numbers and religious vigor, are a current force included in this ongoing story. Testing Faith and Tradition is the second volume in the Global Mennonite History Series.
Testing Fresh Expressions: Identity and Transformation (Routledge Contemporary Ecclesiology)
by John WalkerTesting Fresh Expressions investigates whether fresh expressions of church really do what is claimed for them by the fresh expressions movement and, in particular, whether their unique approach helps to reverse trends of decline experienced by traditional churches. Part 1 examines those claims and untangles their sociological and theological assumptions. From a careful study of factors underlying attendance decline and growth, Part 2 argues that long-term decline can be resisted only if churches are better able to attract children, the non-churched or both. Part 3 tests the comparative ability of a group of growing parish churches and a group of fresh expressions to resist trends of decline and discovers some intriguing social dynamics common to both groups. Part 4 argues that fresh expressions do not fulfil the unique role often claimed for them but that they do have the capacity to help reinvigorate the whole church.
Testing His Patience
by Lyn CoteThe Love Inspired line offers four brand-new monthly stories of faith, love and hope--perfect for bringing readers some relief from today's busy world! Since 1998 the NSR of the Love Inspired line has increased by 15 percentage points, attesting to its incredible demand and popularity. Being deemed responsible for a hung jury, teacher Patience Andrews finds herself at odds with D. A. Gil Montgomery. Determined to prove herself right, Patience gives Gil and all the townsfolk a lesson in friendship and forgiveness.
Testing Prayer
by Candy Gunther BrownWhen sickness strikes, people around the world pray for healing. Many of the faithful claim that prayer has cured them of blindness, deafness, and metastasized cancers, and some believe they have been resurrected from the dead. Can, and should, science test such claims? A number of scientists say no, concerned that empirical studies of prayer will be misused to advance religious agendas. And some religious practitioners agree with this restraint, worrying that scientific testing could undermine faith. In Candy Gunther Brownâs view, science cannot prove prayerâs healing power, but what scientists can and should do is study prayerâs measurable effects on health. If prayer produces benefits, even indirectly (and findings suggest that it does), then more careful attention to prayer practices could impact global health, particularly in places without access to conventional medicine. Drawing on data from Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians, Brown reverses a number of stereotypes about believers in faith-healing. Among them is the idea that poorer, less educated people are more likely to believe in the healing power of prayer and therefore less likely to see doctors. Brown finds instead that people across socioeconomic backgrounds use prayer alongside conventional medicine rather than as a substitute. Dissecting medical records from before and after prayer, surveys of prayer recipients, prospective clinical trials, and multiyear follow-up observations and interviews, she shows that the widespread perception of prayerâs healing power has demonstrable social effects, and that in some cases those effects produce improvements in health that can be scientifically verified.
Tethered to the Cross: The Life and Preaching of Charles H. Spurgeon
by Thomas Breimaier"Tethered to the cross" is how the renowned nineteenth-century English Baptist minister Charles H. Spurgeon (1834–1892) described the task of ministry and his approach to preaching. For nearly four decades, Spurgeon served as the pastor of the church at the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London. But what specifically guided the reading of Scripture by the man known as the "Prince of Preachers"? Tracing the development of Spurgeon's thought and his approach to biblical hermeneutics throughout his ministry, theologian and historian Thomas Breimaier argues that Spurgeon viewed the entire Bible through the lens of the cross of Christ. This method led Spurgeon to interpret texts in a consistent fashion, resulting in sermons, articles, and instruction that employed cross-centered language, which was aimed at the conversion of unbelievers. With Breimaier as our guide, better understanding of how Spurgeon approached the task of interpreting Scripture and preaching the gospel might enable us, too, to be tethered to the cross of Christ.
Tetsavveh: The JPS B'nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS Study Bible)
by Rabbi Jeffrey K. SalkinTetsavveh (Exodus 27:20-30:10) and Haftarah (Ezekiel 43:10-27): The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary shows teens in their own language how Torah addresses the issues in their world. The conversational tone is inviting and dignified, concise and substantial, direct and informative. Each pamphlet includes a general introduction, two model divrei Torah on the weekly Torah portion, and one model davar Torah on the weekly Haftarah portion. Jewish learning—for young people and adults—will never be the same. The complete set of weekly portions is available in Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin’s book The JPS B’nai Mitzvah Torah Commentary (JPS, 2017).
Tetsugaku Companion to Nishida Kitarō (Tetsugaku Companions to Japanese Philosophy #4)
by Hisao Matsumaru Yoko Arisaka Lucy Christine SchultzThis book offers the first comprehensive collection of essays on the key concepts of Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945), the father of modern Japanese philosophy and founder of the Kyoto School. The essays analyze several of the major philosophical concepts in Nishida, including pure experience, absolute will, place, and acting intuition. They examine the meaning and positioning of Nishida’s philosophy in the history of philosophy, as well as in the contemporary world, and discuss the relevance of his philosophy in the present context. The book next looks at the significance of Nishida’s philosophy in the wider contexts of science, arts, and religion. The book includes a glossary of key terms that have been translated in a unified manner throughout the volume.