The Ragged Pursuit of Truth
Title | The Ragged Pursuit of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Lee |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Pages | 90 |
Release | 2015-10-27 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 146027444X |
Spiritual error is never a flat issue of doctrinal aberration or bad theology. It is at a deeper level a twist in our thinking about God, and a distortion in our views of ourselves and other people. Error is devious business precisely because it departs from the spirit and content of the Christian Scriptures while purporting to illuminate them. It force-fits the exegesis to get there and introduces its version of special revelation to jump the bumps in biblical interpretation. But the real evil lurks in recasting the package as God's message for the times. Every listener is pressed into the corner and compelled to make an ultimate decision: to remain faithful and embrace this fuller "truth," or reject it and be consigned to the margins of God's Kingdom. New truth becomes its own gospel, foisting a burden on ordinary believers, with God's pleasure or displeasure hovering over what they do with the new message. This device is shamelessly perpetuated in the contemporary Pentecostal-Charismatic world. Quite apart from the content, this methodology is devilish business and spiritual bullying....
The Ragged Pursuit of Truth
Title | The Ragged Pursuit of Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Randall Lee |
Publisher | FriesenPress |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2015-12-04 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1460274458 |
Spiritual error is never a flat issue of doctrinal aberration or bad theology. It is at a deeper level a twist in our thinking about God, and a distortion in our views of ourselves and other people. Error is devious business precisely because it departs from the spirit and content of the Christian Scriptures while purporting to illuminate them. It force-fits the exegesis to get there and introduces its version of special revelation to jump the bumps in biblical interpretation. But the real evil lurks in recasting the package as God’s message for the times. Every listener is pressed into the corner and compelled to make an ultimate decision: to remain faithful and embrace this fuller “truth,” or reject it and be consigned to the margins of God’s Kingdom. New truth becomes its own gospel, foisting a burden on ordinary believers, with God’s pleasure or displeasure hovering over what they do with the new message. This device is shamelessly perpetuated in the contemporary Pentecostal-Charismatic world. Quite apart from the content, this methodology is devilish business and spiritual bullying.
About Guilt and Innocence
Title | About Guilt and Innocence PDF eBook |
Author | Donald A. Dripps |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Pages | 318 |
Release | 2002-12-30 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0313013241 |
This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process. Why does the American criminal justice system punish too many innocent people, failing to punish so many guilty parties and imposing a disproportionate burden on blacks? This remarkably original and vital work argues that the problems are rooted in a disjunction between prevailing values and the prevailing doctrinal regime in constitutional law. Dripps asserts that the Fourteenth Amendment's more general standards of due process and equal protection encompass the values that ought to govern the criminal process. Criminal procedure ought to be about protecting the innocent, punishing the guilty, and doing equal justice. Modern legal doctrine, however, hinders these pursuits by concentrating on the specific procedural safeguards contained in the Bill of Rights. Dripps argues that a renewed focus on the Fourteenth Amendment would be more consistent than current law with both our values and with the legitimate sources of Constitutional law, and will promote the instrumental values the criminal process ought to serve. Legal and constitutional scholars will find his account of our criminal system's disarray compelling, and his argument as to how it may be reconstructed important and provoking.
Measure and the Truth
Title | Measure and the Truth PDF eBook |
Author | Doug Niles |
Publisher | Wizards of the Coast |
Pages | 334 |
Release | 2012-03-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0786962720 |
The epic conclusion to the fantasy trilogy that began with The Rise of Solamnia and Crown & the Sword continues the saga of the post-war era in Solmania, a central region in the Dragonlance world.
Eudora Welty and Walker Percy
Title | Eudora Welty and Walker Percy PDF eBook |
Author | Marion Montgomery |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2003-12-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780786416639 |
Eudora Welty and Walker Percy were friends but very different writers, even though both were from the Deep South and intensely interested in the relation of place to their fiction. This work explores in each the concept of home and the importance of home to the homo viator ("man on his way"), and anti-idealism and anti-romanticism. The differences between Welty and Percy and in their fiction were revealed in the habits of their lives. Welty spent her life in Jackson, Mississippi, and was very much a member of the community. Percy was a wanderer who finally settled in Covington, Louisiana, because it was, as he called it, a "noplace." The author also asserts that Percy somewhat envied Welty and her stability in Jackson, and that for him, place was such a nagging concern that it became a personal problem to him as homo viator.
The Bookman
Title | The Bookman PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 800 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN |
The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature
Title | The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 576 |
Release | 1758 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
Each number includes a classified "Monthly catalogue."