Religious Studies
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Tacitus interprets Nero’s action in terms of his need for a scapegoat. As yet, the government may have considered the Christians outside Rome—if it considered them at all—too insignificant to ...
( Category: Apocrypha & Pseudepigrapha April 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1994-10-15 | Author:Billy Graham [Graham, Billy]

Questions to Ask In his poignant book, which he called Mother’s Song, John Sherrill relates the decision he had to make concerning the life and death of his mother. When ...
( Category: Theology April 17,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Midgley, Mary

This again is melodrama. A casino is a human institution, devised to serve specific human motives. ‘Chance’ in a casino context means the deliberate randomizing of a small section of ...
( Category: Modern April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-03 | Author:Schwartz, Gary E. [Schwartz, Gary E.]

GERALD L. SCHROEDER, PH.D. Changing one’s paradigm is not easy. Millennia passed before humankind discovered that energy is the basis of matter. It may take a few more years before ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Antonio Negri

NOTES 1. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Philosophical Notebooks, trans. C. Dutt, ed. S. Smith, in Collected Works, vol. 38 (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1976); Lenin, Notebooks on Imperialism, in Collected Works, vol. ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Eben Alexander [Eben Alexander]

20. The Closing Each time I found myself stuck again in the coarse Earthworm’s-Eye View, I was able to remember the brilliant Spinning Melody, which opened the portal back to ...
( Category: Near-Death Experiences April 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:Agamben, Giorgio [Agamben, Giorgio]

Threshold Perhaps the most decisive influence that officium as the paradigm of priestly praxis has exercised on Western ontology is the transformation of being into having-to-be and the consequent introduction ...
( Category: Religion, Politics & State April 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Agamben, Giorgio [Agamben, Giorgio]

§ 3 The Rule as a Liturgical Text 3.1. Lectio has been an essential part of the Christian liturgy since its origins. Today it is generally acknowledged that it derives ...
( Category: History & Theory April 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-02 | Author:Amit Goswami [Goswami, Amit]

THE VITAL BODY AND THE EXPLANATION OF DOWSING Dowsing is a very well-known practical phenomenon that many people have used to locate underground water. It comes in handy when you ...
( Category: New Thought April 4,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-01-22 | Author:Silver RavenWolf

[contents] 26. In two of my previous books (To Ride a Silver Broomstick and HexCraft [retitled American Folk Magick in 1998]) I concentrate on various aspects of healing. Although the ...
( Category: Comparative Religion April 3,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Stone, Larry [Stone, Larry]

Gravity-fed automatic pet feeders, similar to those available at Petco, could hold enough food for a week. Water in the ark could be transported not with buckets but with pipes ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 2,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2004-04-14 | Author:Lise Stern

Sources of the Chagim The Hebrew word for holiday is chag. The same root means “go round,” indicative of the cyclical nature of the holiday year. I mentioned earlier there ...
( Category: Jewish Life April 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-06-12 | Author:Johnson, Ken [Johnson, Ken]

“Daniel has elucidated to us the knowledge of the end times. However, since they are secret, the wise [rabbis] have barred the calculation of the days of Messiah’s coming so ...
( Category: Theology April 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 1956-03-28 | Author:Søren Kierkegaard [Kierkegaard, Søren]

9. The Price of Willing One Thing: The Exposure of Evasions But the one who in truth wills the Good, puts cleverness to an inward use: in order to prevent ...
( Category: Good & Evil March 29,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2006-10-18 | Author:richard dawkins

You will survive your own death. If you die a martyr, you will go to an especially wonderful part of paradise where you will enjoy seventy-two virgins (spare a thought ...
( Category: Philosophy March 29,2014 )