Vital Matters - 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 Vital Matters write by Mary Terrall. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Vital Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Published in association with the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters
Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters - 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 Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters write by Paul Robinson. This book was released on 2002-06-08. Opera, Sex and Other Vital Matters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Opera, Sex, and Other Vital Matters gathers both classic and never-before-published essays from one of the leading stylists in contemporary American letters, and one of our more revered public intellectuals, Paul Robinson. Diverse and elegant, the essays in this new collection showcase the sly wit and lightly worn erudition of their author. Each celebrates art and the flesh, directing us to the twin ecstasies of music and eros. The essays on opera gathered here explore how masterpieces like Fidelio and The Magic Flute reflect the intellectual currents of their day. Be it the work of Verdi or Mozart, Wagner or Strauss, Robinson compels us to search for meaning not just in the lyrics of opera but also in the music. In melody, not libretto, we are more likely to discern key historical complexities and appreciate the way opera transcends language and time. The essays on sexuality, meanwhile, are ruminative, funny, and even moving. At one moment, Robinson measures whether homosexuality is the result of destiny or free choice. In another, he shares a touching exchange of letters with a gay student in the process of coming out. The final essays that encompass "other vital matters" find Robinson at his most incisive. Whether defending Freud as the most influential thinker of the twentieth century, attacking the dreaded use of semicolons, reflecting on his own mortality, or even meditating on the nature of cats, Sex, Opera, and Other Vital Matters is an eclectic work that will appeal to any reader interested in the continuing relevance of ideas to life.
Vital Issues in Christian Science
Vital Issues in Christian Science - 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 Vital Issues in Christian Science write by New York City Christian Science Institute. This book was released on 1914. Vital Issues in Christian Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Matters of Vital Interest
Matters of Vital Interest - 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 Matters of Vital Interest write by Eric Lerner. This book was released on 2018-10-16. Matters of Vital Interest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A memoir of the author's decades-long friendship and spiritual journey with the late singer, songwriter, novelist, and poet Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, leaving behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a Zen retreat forty years earlier. Their friendship helped guide each other through life's myriad obstacles, a journey told from a new perspective for the first time. Funny, revealing, self-aware, and deeply moving, Matters of Vital Interest is an insightful memoir about Lerner's relationship with his friend, whose idiosyncratic style and dignified life was deeply informed by his spiritual practices. Lerner invites readers to step into the room with them and listen in on a lifetime's ongoing dialogue, considerations of matters of vital interest, spiritual, mundane, and profane. In telling their story, Lerner depicts Leonard Cohen as a captivating persona, the likes of which we may never see again.
Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate
Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate - 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 Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate write by F. David Farnell. This book was released on 2016-01-14. Vital Issues in the Inerrancy Debate available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The inerrancy of God's Word has been attacked throughout church history. Today's assaults are unique since neo-evangelicals now surrender to post-modernistic ideas of history and historical-critical ideologies that assault this vital doctrine. They seek to redefine the orthodox meaning of inerrancy. Since the signing of the Chicago Statements, troubling signs have once again appeared in recent years among many who either did not fight the battles for the inerrancy of Scripture as did the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, or who do not remember the troubling times that caused their development. The nature and definition of "inerrancy" are now being changed to include ideas of fallibility. History is forgotten. The need arises for sounding the alarm for Vital Issues in Inerrancy. Evangelical schools and churches that broke away earlier to defend inerrancy surrender now to academic prestige and scholarly fads instead of faithfulness to God's inerrant Word. The contributors pray that the Lord will raise up a new generation with the spiritual fervency of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy to uphold the inerrancy of God's Word: Isaiah 40:8--"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."
