Author: T. Desmond AlexanderPublisher: Kregel Academic
ISBN: 0825420156
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 213
Book Description
Writing the City
Author: Peter PrestonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134843674
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
`The expression of human experience it embodies ... includes all personal history'. Saul Bellow's view of the city is far from that of classic geographical descriptions which look at growth or decline, demographic patterns, traffic flows and economic potential: these empirically conceived models of urban geography fail to accommodate the crucial human aspect of city life. Located at the interface of geography and literature, Writing the City visualizes the city through the hopes, aspirations, disappointments and pains of international novelists and creative writers. From Manchester, Montreal and Sydney to Osaka, Varanasi amd Odessa, cities become more than their built environment, more than a set of class or economic relationships: they are also an experience to be lived, suffered and undergone. Thus cities are seen in terms of the innocence of an Eden now lost, a threat of sinful Babylon and the promise of a New Jerusalem.
Even Better than Eden
Author: Nancy GuthriePublisher: Crossway
ISBN: 143356128X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
God’s Story Will End Better than It Began . . . Experienced Bible teacher Nancy Guthrie traces 9 themes throughout the Bible, revealing how God’s plan for the new creation will be far more glorious than the original. But this new creation glory isn’t just reserved for the future. The hope of God’s plan for his people transforms everything about our lives today.
Author: William A. McClungThe Epic of Eden
Author: Sandra L. RichterPublisher: InterVarsity Press
ISBN: 0830879110
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Does your knowledge of the Old Testament feel like a grab bag of people, books, events and ideas? Sandra Richter gives an overview of the Old Testament, organizing our disorderly knowledge of the Old Testament people, facts and stories into a memorable and manageable story of redemption that climaxes in the New Testament.
The City of God and the Goal of Creation
Author: T. Desmond AlexanderPublisher: Crossway
ISBN: 1433555778
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
“For here we have no lasting city, but we seek the city that is to come.” –Hebrews 13:14 At the very heart of God’s plan for the world stands an extraordinary city. Beginning with the garden of Eden in Genesis and ending with the New Jerusalem in Revelation, the biblical story reveals how God has been working throughout history to establish a city filled with his glorious presence. Tracing the development of the theme of city in both testaments, T. Desmond Alexander draws on his experience as a biblical scholar to show us God’s purpose throughout Scripture to dwell with his redeemed people in a future extraordinary city on a transformed earth. Part of the Short Studies in Biblical Theology series.
Letters from an Understanding Friend
Author: Isaias PowersPublisher: Twenty-Third Publications
ISBN: 9780896224131
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Father Isaias Powers, author of Quiet Places With Mary and Women of the Gospel, offers creative ways to reflect and meditate on the message of the Gospel, through inspiring letters from Jesus.
From Land to Lands, from Eden to the Renewed Earth
Author: Munther IsaacPublisher: Langham Publishing
ISBN: 1783680938
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
The land is an important theme in the Bible. It is a theme through which the whole biblical history found in the Old and New Testaments can be studied and analyzed. Looking at the land in the Bible from its beginnings in the garden of Eden this publication approaches the theme from three distinct perspectives – holiness, the covenant, and the kingdom. Through careful analysis the author recognises that the land has been universalized in Christ, as anticipated in the Old Testament, and as a result promotes a missional theology of the land that underlines the social and territorial dimensions of redemption.
At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden
Author: Yossi K. HaleviPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060505826
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A brilliantly observed memoir of an unprecedented and remarkable spiritual journey. While religion has fuelled the often violent conflict plaguing the Holy Land, Yossi Klein Halevi wondered whether it could be a source of unity as well. To find the answer, this religious Israeli Jew began a two–year exploration to discover a common language with his Christian and Muslim neighbours. He followed their holiday cycles, befriended Christian monastics and Islamic mystics, and joined them in prayer in monasteries and mosques in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza. At the Entrance to the Garden of Eden traces that remarkable spiritual journey. Halevi candidly reveals how he fought to reconcile his own fears and anger as a Jew to relate to Christians and Muslims as fellow spiritual seekers. He chronicles the difficulty of overcoming multiple obstacles注eological, political, historical, and psychological注at separate believers of the three monotheistic faiths. And he introduces a diverse range of people attempting to reconcile the dichotomous heart of this sacred place柠struggle central to Israel, but which resonates for us all.
Author: Joseph Harvey Waggoner