[PDF] The Ransom Of The Soul eBook

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0674967585

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Tablet Book of the Year Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West. “[An] extraordinary new book...Prodigiously original—an astonishing performance for a historian who has already been so prolific and influential...Peter Brown’s subtle and incisive tracking of the role of money in Christian attitudes toward the afterlife not only breaks down traditional geographical and chronological boundaries across more than four centuries. It provides wholly new perspectives on Christianity itself, its evolution, and, above all, its discontinuities. It demonstrates why the Middle Ages, when they finally arrived, were so very different from late antiquity.” —G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books “Peter Brown’s explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century...Brown shows brilliantly in this book how the future life of Christians beyond the grave was influenced in particular by money. —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator

Author : Peter Brown
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 47,23 MB
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0674286529

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A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year A Tablet Book of the Year Marking a departure in our understanding of Christian views of the afterlife from 250 to 650 CE, The Ransom of the Soul explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul that occurred around the time of Rome’s fall. Peter Brown describes how this shift transformed the Church’s institutional relationship to money and set the stage for its domination of medieval society in the West. “[An] extraordinary new book...Prodigiously original—an astonishing performance for a historian who has already been so prolific and influential...Peter Brown’s subtle and incisive tracking of the role of money in Christian attitudes toward the afterlife not only breaks down traditional geographical and chronological boundaries across more than four centuries. It provides wholly new perspectives on Christianity itself, its evolution, and, above all, its discontinuities. It demonstrates why the Middle Ages, when they finally arrived, were so very different from late antiquity.” —G. W. Bowersock, New York Review of Books “Peter Brown’s explorations of the mindsets of late antiquity have been educating us for nearly half a century...Brown shows brilliantly in this book how the future life of Christians beyond the grave was influenced in particular by money. —A. N. Wilson, The Spectator

Author : Ransom Riggs
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2015-09-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1594747784

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The New York Times #1 best-selling series. Like its predecessors, Library of Souls blends thrilling fantasy with never-before-published vintage photography to create a one-of-a-kind reading experience. A boy with extraordinary powers. An army of deadly monsters. An epic battle for the future of peculiardom. The adventure that began with Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children and continued in Hollow City comes to a thrilling conclusion with Library of Souls. As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children. They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all.

Author : David Malouf
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2010-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0307378934

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In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.

Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 24,46 MB
Release : 2011-08-09
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0375899235

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Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her "English" family. She slowly discovers that the "savages" have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?

Author : AMY. RANSOM
Publisher :
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,92 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781788175142

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The end of a relationship doesn't have to mean despair. Discover how to move past separation and embrace independence, positivity, authenticity and new beginnings. In eight parts and 111 accessible learnings, The Soul-Soaring Virtues of Separation combines the Law of Attraction - the idea that we can attract positivity into our lives - and self-help with Amy's own experience to help you find your way back home to you. The Soul-Soaring Virtues of Separation will share how separation can be the enabler to help you live an authentic and joyful life. This book is for you if you're in a place of limbo on the brink of separation, you've just separated, you're divorced and struggling to move forwards, or you're experiencing your first heartbreak after losing the love of your life. It will walk you through the eight stages that are present in separation - Assertiveness, Motivation, Insight, Self-Expression, Uniqueness, Independence, Awakening and New Beginnings. Separation, in its many forms, is a heady mix of conflicting emotions, often hitting all at once - but everyone can learn to fly and somedays your soul will soar higher than it ever has before.

Author : Monica Huerta
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1478021489

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In Magical Habits Monica Huerta draws on her experiences growing up in her family's Mexican restaurants and her life as a scholar of literature and culture to meditate on how relationships among self, place, race, and storytelling contend with both the afterlives of history and racial capitalism. Whether dwelling on mundane aspects of everyday life, such as the smell of old kitchen grease, or grappling with the thorny, unsatisfying question of authenticity, Huerta stages a dynamic conversation among genres, voices, and archives: personal and critical essays exist alongside a fairy tale; photographs and restaurant menus complement fictional monologues based on her family's history. Developing a new mode of criticism through storytelling, Huerta takes readers through Cook County courtrooms, the Cristero Rebellion (in which her great-grandfather was martyred by the Mexican government), Japanese baths in San Francisco—and a little bit about Chaucer too. Ultimately, Huerta sketches out habits of living while thinking that allow us to consider what it means to live with and try to peer beyond history even as we are caught up in the middle of it. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Author : John Phillips
Publisher : Hudson Hills
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781555953157

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John Ransom Phillips: A Contemporary Book of the Dead is an artist's monograph of watercolors on papyryus that

Author : Peter R. Brown
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0813938295

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The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial benefits—teaching, preaching, and prayer. Supporting them—quite as much as supporting the real poor—has been a way to accumulate eventual treasure in heaven. Yet from the rise of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Syria to present day, Christians have argued fiercely about whether monks should work to support themselves. In Treasure in Heaven, renowned historian Peter Brown shifts attention from Western to Eastern Christianity, introducing us to this smoldering debate that took place across the entire Middle East from the Euphrates to the Nile. Seen against the backdrop of Asia, Christianity might have opted for a Buddhist model by which holy monks lived by begging alone. Instead, the monks of Egypt upheld an alternative model that linked the monk to humanity and the monastery to society through acceptance of the common, human bond of work. This model of Third World Christianity—a Christianity that we all too easily associate with the West—eventually became the basis for the monasticism of western Europe, as well as for modern Western attitudes to charity and labor. In Treasure in Heaven, Brown shows how and why we are still living—at times uncomfortably—with that choice.

Author : Lee Rowan
Publisher : Dreamspinner Press LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2014-09
Category : Gay men
ISBN : 9781632162380

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When midshipman Marshall learns of Archer's sacrifice, he discovers what he feels for Archer runs stronger and deeper than friendship.