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Le bruit des autres
Traduit de l'anglais (Etats-Unis) par Jean Esch
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Depuis la mort de son mari, Celia tient le monde à distance. Propriétaire d’un immeuble à Brooklyn, elle a choisi ses locataires pour leur discrétion.
Puis il y a l’arrivée de Hope, une belle femme un peu perdue, fuyant un mari infidèle. Lorsque Hope entame une liaison dangereuse et qu’un...
What Women Want
Pentecostal Women Ministers Speak for Themselves
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2018
Pentecostal women ministers have been silenced in official conversations about their place in church leadership. What do women ministers believe about family life? Have they been influenced by liberal feminism? Do they really want to be equal ministry leaders with men? What Women Want answers these...
by Morris A. Inch
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
This text provides a novel approach to a critical issue--the potential of pain. Initially, the potential of pain is explored by way of paradise lost, as an explanation of why things are as we experience them. The book then entertains the classic Job narrative, as it pertains to addressing the question...
by Morris A. Inch
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
While justice is thought indispensible for a healthy society, its complex character gives rise to conflicting applications. Accordingly, The Enigma of Justice serves as an appropriate title. In greater detail, the course is set with a consideration of justice in context of the prophets. These were...
by Morris A. Inch
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2017
Two rival analogies compete for our attention: the law of the jungle, and the sacred canopy. As for the former, life consists of the survival of the fittest. As for the latter, the divine mandates serve as a framework for social ethics. This is in keeping with the conviction that we live in God's...
Mobilizing a Great Commission Church for Harvest
Voices and Views from the Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011
Mobilizing a Great Commission Church for Harvest addresses practical aspects of evangelism in the local church, with the voices and views of nineteen current Southern Baptist professors of evangelism. They address important topics to local church evangelism, such as Invitations with integrity and...
No Program but Time, No Book but the Bible
Reflections on Mentoring and Discipleship in Honor of Scott M. Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
This book is a collection of short reflections on mentoring and discipleship in honor of Scott M. Gibson. Gibson says: "The missing ingredient in the Church today is discipleship." This book casts a vision for all believers for what mentoring and discipleship can look like in the local church,...
A History and Critique of Methodological Naturalism
The Philosophical Case for God’s Design of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2016
Methodological naturalism is the thesis that only natural features can be factored into any legitimate explanation. Moreover, the thesis contends, any attempt to explain natural phenomena by appealing to supernatural features is unscientific and, therefore, illegitimate. This book argues that nothing...
Evil and Pain
A Critique of the Materialistic Account of Evil
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
A specific form of understanding of evil, in the problem of evil debate, gets assumed among a variety of materialistic naturalists. Owing to their physicalist and, in some cases, behaviorist philosophies, this understanding assumes a hedonistic view of pain that reduces valuation to pleasure and pain....
Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow
The Life, Philosophy, and Political Economy of James Mylne (1757–1839)
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
James Mylne (1757-1839) taught moral philosophy and political economy in Glasgow from 1797 to the mid-1830s. Rational Piety and Social Reform in Glasgow offers readers Mylne's biography, a summary of his lectures on moral philosophy and political economy, several interpretative essays, and a collation...
The Book of Job
A Modern Translation and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2017
The book of Job is the most challenging--and most engaging--of all the books in the Hebrew Scriptures. It challenges one's faith in the essential goodness of God and humanity. In this volume, Rabbis Kravitz and Olitzky provide an original, modern translation and commentary while also inviting classic...
by Wayne Allen
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In 1924, an Australian minister observed that while the world may be getting better off, the world is not getting better. Almost one hundred years have passed and little has changed. No doubt people today are healthier and wealthier than ever before. But people do not seem to be any more virtuous....
Embracing Our Inheritance
Jubilee Reflections on Korean American Catholics (1966–2016)
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
Korean American Catholics are celebrating their jubilee after having been officially recognized by the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1966. This occasion affords the flourishing Korean American Catholic community to take stock of their identity, celebrate this milestone, and prepare for the future....
A Dangerous Mind
The Ideas and Influence of Delbert L. Wiens
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
A Dangerous Mind is a celebration of the ideas and influence of Delbert L. Wiens. It contains tributes to him, essays inspired by him, and some of his unpublished works. This effort has been brought together by his students, colleagues, and friends at the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of...