Earthly Powers
Title | Earthly Powers PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Burgess |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781609450847 |
At the book's center are two twentieth-century men who represent different kinds of power: Kenneth Toomey, eminent novelist, a man who has outlived his contemporaries to survive into, bitter, luxurious old age as a celebrity of dubious notoriety, and Don Carlo Campanati, a man of God, eventually beloved Pope, who rises through the Vatican as a shrewd manipulator to become the architect of church revolution and a candidate for sainthood.
Above All Earthly Pow'rs
Title | Above All Earthly Pow'rs PDF eBook |
Author | David F. Wells |
Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2006-08 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0802824552 |
In this prophetic call to the evangelical church, Wells stresses that Christians need to confess Christ as the center in a society lacking a center, as the sovereign in a world seemingly ruled by chance, and as the one who can give meaning in a nihilistic culture.
Unearthly Powers
Title | Unearthly Powers PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Strathern |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2019-03-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108477143 |
This ground-breaking study sets out a new understanding of transformations in the interaction between religion and political authority throughout history.
Earthly Powers
Title | Earthly Powers PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Burleigh |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 941 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0061741450 |
In this masterful, stylish, and authoritative book, Michael Burleigh gives us an epic history of the battles over religion in modern Europe, examining the complex and often lethal ways in which politics and religion have interacted and influenced each other over the last two centuries. From the French Revolution to the totalitarian movements of the twentieth century, Earthly Powers is a uniquely powerful portrait of one of the great tensions of modern history—one that continues to be played out on the world stage today.
God and Earthly Power
Title | God and Earthly Power PDF eBook |
Author | J. G. McConville |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2008-09-30 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0567045706 |
Compares perspectives from critical methodologies in Old Testament study with perspectives from the history of interpretation of key Old Testament political texts
Earthly Powers
Title | Earthly Powers PDF eBook |
Author | David Anderson |
Publisher | BWL Publishing Inc. |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2018-04-14 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 022860124X |
A dark secret from the dying days of war-ravaged Nazi Germany re-emerges half-way around the world on a West Coast island and exerts a malevolent influence on its present day occupants. Thirty-something Terri Stark is living on isolated Arcadia Island while recovering from a failed marriage. But one day trouble comes to paradise. Someone is spying on her, and soon her beloved dog Ned goes missing. After a break-in, a mysterious person appears at her door and makes none too subtle threats. Terri has only one person to turn to: her estranged husband Jack, whose arrival escalates the situation. Soon they are separated again, Jack running for his life from relentless killers, Terri forced into a desperate treasure hunt, their survival dependent upon her success. A teenage defector from the enemy camp turns out to have vital information – and a hidden agenda of his own.
Somerset and All the Maughams
Title | Somerset and All the Maughams PDF eBook |
Author | Robin Maugham |
Publisher | Praeger |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1977-02-25 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0837182360 |