The Secret Gospel of Mark - 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 Secret Gospel of Mark write by Spencer Reece. This book was released on 2021-03-16. The Secret Gospel of Mark available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exquisite memoir of a life saved by poetry. "This is a portrait of the artist, narrated by a priest and a poet and a gay man with tenderness and searing honesty. Spencer Reece weaves the poetry he loves into how he has lived, the poetry as solace and relief, as confirmation and rescue, as redemption." —Colm Toíbín The Secret Gospel of Mark is a powerful dynamo of a story that delicately weaves the author's experiences with an appreciation for seven great literary touchstones: Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, James Merrill, Mark Strand, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. In speaking to the beauty these poets' works inspire in him, Reece finds the beauty of his own life's journey, a path that runs from coming of age as a gay teenager in the 1980s, Yale, alcoholism, a long stint as a Brooks Brothers salesman, Harvard Divinity School, and leads finally to hard-won success as a poet, reconciliation with his family, and the fulfillment of finding his life's work as an Episcopal priest. Reece's writing approaches the truth and beauty of the writers who have influenced him; elliptical and direct, always beautifully rendered.
The Secret Gospel
The Secret Gospel - 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 Secret Gospel write by Morton Smith. This book was released on 2005. The Secret Gospel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Secret Gospel gives the first real evidence of the method by which Jesus of Nazareth initiated his disciples into the esoteric practices of his teaching, making this is a very important book for the history of humankind. In 1958, Morton Smith traveled to Jerusalem to do research in the monastery library of Mar Saba, in the Judean Desert. What he found was no routine corroboration of New Testament history, but a precious fragment of a second-century document that would change our understanding of the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth. As exciting as the most suspenseful adventure story, Professor Smith's book is a lively and readable account of the discovery and unraveling of some of Christianity's most intriguing mysteries. ??The Secret Gospel invites a wide community of readers to share in the challenge of [Professor Smith?s] discovery, and to evaluate for themselves the provocative?and fundamental?questions it raises.? from the Foreword by Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels
Beyond Belief
Beyond Belief - 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 Beyond Belief write by Elaine Pagels. This book was released on 2004-05-04. Beyond Belief available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy. Spurred on by personal tragedy and new scholarship from an international group of researchers, Pagels returns to her investigation of the “secret” Gospel of Thomas, and breathes new life into writings once thought heretical. As she arrives at an ever-deeper conviction in her own faith, Pagels reveals how faith allows for a diversity of interpretations, and that the “rogue” voices of Christianity encourage and sustain “the recognition of the light within us all.”
The Wild Girl
The Wild Girl - 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 Wild Girl write by Michèle Roberts. This book was released on 1991. The Wild Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Nag Hammadi Library in English
The Nag Hammadi Library in English - 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 Nag Hammadi Library in English write by James McConkey Robinson. This book was released on 1984. The Nag Hammadi Library in English available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
