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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Gerald Mortimer
The books of the Latter Prophets have traditionally been treated as persuasive speeches, and interpreted according to their rhetoric. At the same time, interpreters recognize the poetic form of much prophecy. This study takes up the notion of the 'prophet' as 'poet', focusing on word-play in Hosea and on the lyrical plot of that book; the case is made for treating Hosea as a stark, full-length poem of inexhaustible power.
A Concise Dictionary of Theology
Gerald O'Collins; Edward G. Farrugia SJ
T. T.Clark Ltd
2003
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Compiled by two Jesuit theologians, this dictionary defines more than 1200 theological terms with entries ranging in size from single sentences to 500-word essays.
The Pastoral Epistles (ITC)
Gerald L. Bray
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
2019
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This commentary offers a verse-by-verse theological interpretation of the First and Second epistles to Timothy and Titus. Bray reads the letters as authoritative scripture, moving beyond questions of whether they are pseudonymous, and of whether or not they are post-apostolic, instead looking closely at how they have been understood in the life of the Church. Bray engages with the history of commentary surrounding these letters, ranging from the Fathers to contemporary theology and exegesis. He reads the epistles as the authoritative word from God to his people, and through his engagement with the history of interpretation shows the constant thread of witness and confession that unites believers across the ages. In so doing, Bray shows why the Pastoral Epistles have survived the passage of time and have retained the canonical authority that they have always enjoyed.
This commentary offers a verse-by-verse theological interpretation of the First and Second epistles to Timothy and Titus. Bray reads the letters as authoritative scripture, moving beyond questions of whether they are pseudonymous, and of whether or not they are post-apostolic, instead looking closely at how they have been understood in the life of the Church. Bray engages with the history of commentary surrounding these letters, ranging from the Fathers to contemporary theology and exegesis. He reads the epistles as the authoritative word from God to his people, and through his engagement with the history of interpretation shows the constant thread of witness and confession that unites believers across the ages. In so doing, Bray shows why the Pastoral Epistles have survived the passage of time and have retained the canonical authority that they have always enjoyed.
Gerald Durrell, director and owner of Jersey Zoo, was internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. The Overloaded Ark, his first, remains his funniest book. It describes an expedition to the remote territory of the Cameroons in West Africa, before independence. 'A delightful book . . . You can feel his bush-shirt sticking to his back . . . Bagging a monitor, smoking out a Pangolin (scaly anteater), celebrating the capture of the rare Angwantibo (small lemur), bird liming for Giant Kingfishers on the warm, milky waters of Lake Soden: he communicates every detail of his experiences with just the right degree of zest.' New Statesman
One must strive a little for the epic, old boy.It's 1959 and Philippe, Gustave and Henri, three veterans from the first world war, dream of making their escape from the soldiers' home, if not to Indochina then at least as far as the poplar trees on the hill...Gérald Sibleyras's Le Vent des Peupliers premiered at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, in October 2005 as Heroes, an English-language version by Tom Stoppard. It received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2006.
During the Second World War, Miklos Hammer, a Hungarian Jew from Budapest, was a member of the forced-labour Jewish battalion in the Hungarian army. But as the Nazis accelerated their anti-Semitic policies, he was arrested, held in the Jewish ghetto of a strange town, and then transported, one of millions, to the death camps. This is the story of his survival, as he told it to Gerald Jacobs - a survival made possible only by his own determination to take advantage of a few fortuitous events.
'It is a quality of flamboyant vigour in Mr Kersh that wins attention first of all for his fiction, and more especially, perhaps, for his occasional short story. When his flamboyant energy of sentiment and language comes off he achieves an effect of genuine distinction; at his surest, that is, he is a short story writer of a strongly individual and rewarding kind... the best and cleverest [of the 23 stories in this volume] tells with excellent economy of a ventriloquist's dummy which was inhabited, or so it seemed, by the spirit of the ventriloquist's murdered father... 'The Drunk And The Blind', the sketch of an old, battered and mentally ruined boxer, is done with a telling and slightly brutal power. 'The Devil That Troubled The Chess-Board'... is another sound thing in a vein of the slightly macabre.' Times Literary Supplement (1944)
'[This] is the story of the beginning and the end of St Paul, that most complicated and worrying of all the saints. The narrator is Diomed, a colonial officer stationed at Tarsus, enlightened, intelligent, a great fraterniser with the patrician natives, [who] sends the strange young Jew to persecute the Nazarenes... [Kersh brings] a highly concentrated area of Roman colonial history to very real life - the ornate wine-cup, the crapulous cold fruit-juice at dawn, dust on a sandal... King Jesus is here, all the time... the fly-itch nuisance to the Empire that wakes its prefects up in nightmare... This is a masterly book, full of live people and a live age, live language, too... We may adjudge Mr Kersh, after reading The Implaccable Hunter, to be now at the height of his powers.' Anthony Burgess, Yorkshire Post, 1961
Night and the City (1938) made Gerald Kersh's reputation, but it was as a war novelist that he reached a wide readership in 1942, via a pair of books about British army recruits, led by Sergeant Bill Nelson, preparing to see service in France. This Faber Finds edition collects both books.'[They Die With Their Boots Clean] is a picture of life in the raw in the Coldstream Guards, with all itsrigorous discipline, its humour and comradeship.' TLS[In The Nine Lives Of Bill Nelson] the conversations are terse, ferociously slangy, full of hyperbole and outrageous wit, often irresistibly funny.' TLS[Kersh] has sure magic in taking us through the training of raw recruits... Each man's story is briefly and dramatically told, the episodes are vigorous, and Nelson holds the centre of the stage, as he leads the battered troops over 63 miles of French territory to Dunkirk...' Kirkus Reviews
With The Song Of The Flea (1948) Gerald Kersh revisited the demi-monde of his famous Night And The City; but this novel concerns a writer, striving doggedly to make his living.'A remarkable novel... with this book Mr Kersh has taken a big step forward.' Sunday Times'[Kersh] has a remarkable talent... he is one of the comparatively few living novelists in this country who write with energy and originality and whose ideas are not drawn from a residuum of novels that have been written before... [The Song of the Flea] is the story of John Pym, a young man trying to earn his living as a writer... Mr Kersh draws on his picturesque and convincing knowledge of human vileness in a manner which is both entertaining and instructive.' Times Literary Supplement.
'The Thousand Deaths Of Mr Small is the best novel that Gerald Kersh has yet written... Charles Small, successful advertising expert and miserable man, turns over in his mind the 'stinking, sour, stagnant, untransmitted mass' which is his life... This book has a rich, warm quality; long and full of detail, it teems with humour, satire, incident, character; in a word, with life.' Yorkshire Post'It see-saws from side-splitting dialogue to such catalogues of loathing and revulsion as have rarely been seen in print, from outrageous farce to sudden compassion for the Smalls of this world, who find Hell enough in 'the eternal contemplation of themselves as they made themselves.'' New York Herald Tribune 'With brilliant descriptive power and an emetic vocabulary, [Kersh] has produced a tormented and forceful work.' Commonweal
Think of Sleuth crossed with Deathtrap crossed with a Feydeau and you'll have an idea of the wild and crazy, unpredictable hijinks in this hit play. Corpse! is set in London in 1936, and tells the story of twin brothers, one of whom plots to murder the other in the most unusual circumstances. Evelyn, an out of work actor, engages the genial Irishman Powell, with a shady past, to do away with his suave, sophisticated, monied twin. Their plotting in Evelyn's Aladdin's cave of a flat is punctuated by the visits of a delightfully theatrical landlady.1 woman, 3 men
Farce Characters: 3 male, 9 female Interior Set In an insane asylum we find a number of schoolteachers who have lost their mental balance trying to educate their pupils. The play starts hilariously when the ladies talk and act like their former charges. A love story is introduced with the visit of the niece of the superintendent and a young staff doctor, but each thinks the other is an inmate. This young girl thinks she would like to be a teacher, but after witnessing the antics of schoolteachers she decides to marry the doctor. We recommend it for churches, schools and parent teachers associations.
This is a personal memoir of good times in Chicago back in the days when candy bars and White Castles cost a mere 5 cents. Chicago is a "city of neighborhoods," whether you are talking about Chinatown, Canaryville, Bridgeport, Beverly, South Chicago, Bronzeville, Hyde Park, Woodlawn or Englewood. This story takes place in the old South Shore neighborhood nestled on Lake Michigan between Jackson Park to the north and the booming steel mills to the south. My cousin, Dr. Bruce Hannon of the University of Illinois, used to say, "Good people make a good place good" and South Shore was one of those places...
Down the Road Less Traveled: Alcoholism to Shangri-La
Gerald M. Knowles Ed D.
Gerald Knowles
2018
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Thrust into the great American Southwest life faced me with a road fraught between the challenges created by emergent social expectations on the one hand and the successive phases of my personal development on the other hand. My path was marked with breathtaking natural wonders, astonishing friends and inspiring experience and rich opportunity. The cumulative deficits of failures to obtain necessary shares of such virtues at each successsive stage made it tough to adequately perform at common standards of success. Alcohol became the substitute to provide escape and a sense of "feel good." At the brink of my dark abyss of self-destruction and despair groups of sober allies lifted me up. From whence unknown my tiny being alighted aside Cleopatra Hill in the United Verde Hospital amid the raucous and roaring copper mining souls of Jerome, Arizona. Doting females infused deep trust and hope that was essential later to sail through dark clouds of anger and abuse. Independence, wealth, romance and determination were discovered in Albuquerque. Fidelity and competence were captured on the football fields of the Winslow Bulldogs. Leadership and sportsmanship were bestowed by long time Flagstaff buddies. Strong identification with the life of Father Damien of the leper colony of Molokai flowered which led to the quest to become a Catholic priest. Leaving a religious vocation positioned me as ripe for romance and commitment. I suffered a Gatsby romance and ultimately partnered with an idyllic movie star look-alike, married her and fathered four children. I committed to become a teacher instructing elementary children, administering a large school and attaining advanced professional status as a university lab school demonstration teacher. I was catapulted out of Arizona to the University of Illinois doctorate program, a Rubicon crossing and total change of life-exhilarating, prolific, yet leading ultimately to disaster and demoralization. Tours of duty at three major universities afforded the opportunity to share and implement long held skills and values about education-good motives but faulted delivery. Finding 'no home' again in native Arizona State pushed me to Purdue, the streets of Gary, Indiana and my commitment to social change and civil rights. The wide-open opportunities and pressures accelerated to such a degree that alcohol was required as a substitute for feeling and action. Life became a downward spiral into a black abyss of 'pitiful and unbelievable demoralization.' The flight back to Arizona ended in a crash dive into another jail cell. Angels of sobriety appeared and pulled me back from the edge of catastrophe. Cleared of paralyzing dysfunction I pledged service to Navajo Nation. I witnessed the creation of hundreds of Navajo teachers and a group of school administrators. I played the unwanted role as prosecutor to remove the president of Navajo Community College. Refugee from a cancelled election I assisted the administrative capture of the first Apache controlled school. Then, I worked as a sheep dog for Kayenta in the establishment of the first autonomous Township within a Native American community- awarded high honors by Harvard. The magic carpet of 'Dances with Wolves' days lifted me up and through major challenges. Time came for contemplating my accomplishments and developing a sense of integrity for having a successful life. Noting my gifts of achievements has led to the acquisition of the virtue of wisdom. Onset of wisdom enables me to look back on my life with a sense of closure and completeness, and acceptance death without fear. It is a time of releasing the loss of existing relationships and reuniting with former acquaintances. The demons of terror, shame, rage and loneliness that had chased my spirit down roads and over passages had vanished. Joy, peace and freedom became irreplaceably bound to my being. Happiness of the soul was lifted above all circumstances and remains inside my personal Shangri-La.
Gerald describes this book as "A simple plan of how to respond when you receive a negative report." Gerald Dixon gives his account of how he triumphed and overcame his health challenge with the tumor he and his wife Cheryl called "the beast". In this book, he describes the journey and the benefits after coming through: What to do when you get the initial reportWhat to focus on as you go throughWhat it is like going through the valleyWhat you should change after the battle is wonWhat the golden nuggets are on the other side