The Christian and the Sword - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Christian and the Sword write by Peter Walpot. This book was released on 2011. The Christian and the Sword available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Laying Down the Sword
Laying Down the Sword - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Laying Down the Sword write by Philip Jenkins. This book was released on 2011-10-25. Laying Down the Sword available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Commands to kill, to commit ethnic cleansing, to institutionalize segregation, to hate and fear other races and religions—all are in the Bible, and all occur with a far greater frequency than in the Qur’an. But fanaticism is no more hard-wired in Christianity than it is in Islam. In Laying Down the Sword, “one of America’s best scholars of religion” (The Economist) explores how religions grow past their bloody origins, and delivers a fearless examination of the most violent verses of the Bible and an urgent call to read them anew in pursuit of a richer, more genuine faith. Christians cannot engage with neighbors and critics of other traditions—nor enjoy the deepest, most mature embodiment of their own faith—until they confront the texts of terror in their heritage. Philip Jenkins identifies the “holy amnesia” that, while allowing scriptural religions to grow and adapt, has demanded a nearly wholesale suppression of the Bible’s most aggressive passages, leaving them dangerously dormant for extremists to revive in times of conflict. Jenkins lays bare the whole Bible, without compromise or apology, and equips us with tools for reading even the most unsettling texts, from the slaughter of the Canaanites to the alarming rhetoric of the book of Revelation. Laying Down the Sword presents a vital framework for understanding both the Bible and the Qur’an, gives Westerners a credible basis for interaction and dialogue with Islam, and delivers a powerful model for how a faith can grow from terror to mercy.
Constantine's Sword
Constantine's Sword - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Constantine's Sword write by James Carroll. This book was released on 2002. Constantine's Sword available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A rare book that combines searing passion with a subject that has affected all of our lives. "Chicago Tribune" Novelist, cultural critic, and former priest James Carroll marries history with memoir as he maps the two-thousand-year course of the Church s battle against Judaism and faces the crisis of faith it has sparked in his own life. Fascinating, brave, and sometimes infuriating ("Time"), this dark history is more than a chronicle of religion. It is the central tragedy of Western civilization, its fault lines reaching deep into our culture to create a deeply felt work ("San Francisco Chronicle") as Carroll wrangles with centuries of strife and tragedy to reach a courageous and affecting reckoning with difficult truths."
Bible and Sword
Bible and Sword - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bible and Sword write by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman. This book was released on 1982. Bible and Sword available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Bible and Sword Barbara Tuchman provides a stirring account of the religious, cultural and political motives which led to the British conquest of the Holy Land in 1917 and to the Balfour Declaration.
The Sword
The Sword - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sword write by Bryan M. Litfin. This book was released on 2010-04-01. The Sword available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Four hundred years after a deadly virus and nuclear war destroyed the modern world, a new and noble civilization emerges. In this kingdom, called Chiveis, snowcapped mountains provide protection, and fields and livestock provide food. The people live medieval-style lives, with almost no knowledge of the "ancient" world. Safe in their natural stronghold, the Chiveisi have everything they need, even their own religion. Christianity has been forgotten—until a young army scout comes across a strange book. With that discovery, this work of speculative fiction takes readers on a journey that encompasses adventure, romance, and the revelation of the one true God. Through compelling narrative and powerful character development, The Sword speaks to God's goodness, his refusal to tolerate sin, man's need to bow before him, and the eternality and power of his Word. Fantasy and adventure readers will be hooked by this first book in a forthcoming trilogy.
