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Wild Woman

A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint

By: Amy Frykholm

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Wild Woman

A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint

By: Amy Frykholm

In the dusty corner of a library, journalist Amy Frykholm discovers a footnote that leads her on a decades-long search for Mary of Egypt--runaway, prostitute, holy desert dweller, saint, and archetypal wild woman. As their storylines crisscross maps and centuries, both become more fully revealed--in the embrace of the sacred.

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Augsburg Fortress Publishers

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1506471854

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Julian of Norwich

A Contemplative Biography

By: Amy Frykholm

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Julian of Norwich

A Contemplative Biography

By: Amy Frykholm

The first fully-realized biography of Julian of Norwich—theologian, anchorite, and visionary of the Middle Ages. A groundbreaking and sometimes controversial biography that offers full tribute to the mystic Julian of Norwich. In May 1373, a thirty year-old woman living in East Anglia suffered an illness. She received visions—what she later called "sixteen showings"—revealing to her secrets of the love of God. When she fully recovered, Julian recorded and richly explored those revelations, creating what became the first English-language book written by a woman. Drawing on Julian's own writings, Frykholm's biography paints a vivid picture of the 14th century and this remarkable woman's place in it. Through plague, church corruption, economic devastation, and great personal loss, she presciently addressed her culture's greatest fears and anxieties. Ultimately, Julian of Norwich's life is shrouded in mystery, and yet she has become a significant figure in contemporary spirituality today. "Frykholm...has audaciously done something many people would have said was not possible: written [Julian's] biography. Frykholm has combined a careful reading of Julian's writings (at times scrupulous, at times midrashic, but at all times attentive) with a deep immersion in the scholarship of 14th-century England to offer an informed and absorbing...account of Julian's life." -Lauren F. Winner, Books & Culture "[Frykhom's] narrative, which she calls 'an act of empathetic imagination,' crackles with life." -The Denver Post "A sympathetic and realistic portrayal of a saint who, as it turns out, is both holy (that is, set apart) and as complicated as you and me....It reads with the energy of a novel and the insight of a spiritual classic." -Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, Christianity Today

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Paraclete Press

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1612614027

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High Hawk

By: Amy Johnson Frykholm

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High Hawk

By: Amy Johnson Frykholm

On Windy Creek reservation in South Dakota, the winds of change are blowing for longtime reservation priest, Father Joe. He receives a letter from the woman he might have married, his best friend's adopted son is accused of attempted murder, and the diocese decides to send him to a parish in Nebraska. Father Joe is shaken by these events. He begins a search for the long-lost mother of his friend's adopted son, and he finds far more than he bargained for. This is a layered story of love and history, the fragility of the past, and the power of second chances"--

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University of Iowa Press

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1609389735

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High Hawk

By: Amy Johnson Frykholm

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A Contemplative Biography

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Wild Woman

A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint

By: Amy Frykholm

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A Footnote, the Desert, and My Quest for an Elusive Saint

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Christian Understandings of the Future

The Historical Trajectory

By: Amy Frykholm

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Christian Understandings of the Future

The Historical Trajectory

By: Amy Frykholm

Throughout the two-thousand-year span of Christian history, believers in Jesus have sought to articulate their faith and their understanding of how God works in the world. How do we, as we examine the vast and varied output of those who came before us, understand the unity and the diversity of their thinking? How do we make sense of our own thought in light of theirs? The Christian Understandings series offers to help. In this crisp and engaging volume Amy Frykholm offers a tour through more than two millennia of Christian thought on the future. Starting with the contexts of the Hebrew Bible and moving forward, Frykholm outlines the enduring fascination believers have had with future events and the myriad ways they have articulated their beliefs about what the future holds. From the imperial contexts of the book of Revelation to the end times prophecy of Harold Camping, Frykholm presents a thoughtful and insightful tour.

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Fortress Press

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1506418929

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Michigan Modern

Design that Shaped America

By: Amy Arnold,Brian Conway

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Michigan Modern

Design that Shaped America

By: Amy Arnold,Brian Conway

Michigan Modern: Design That Shaped America is an impressive collection of important essays touching on all aspects of Michigan’s architecture and design heritage. The Great Lakes State has always been known for its contributions to twentieth-century manufacturing, but it’s only beginning to receive wide attention for its contributions to Modern design and architecture. Brian D. Conway, Michigan’s State Historic Preservation Officer, and Amy L. Arnold, project manager for Michigan Modern, have curated nearly thirty essays and interviews from a number of prominent architects, academics, architectural historians, journalists, and designers, including historian Alan Hess, designers Mira Nakashima, Ruth Adler Schnee, and Todd Oldham, and architect Gunnar Birkerts, describing Michigan’s contributions to Modern design in architecture, automobiles, furniture and education.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423644980

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Rapture Culture

Left Behind in Evangelical America

By: Amy Johnson Frykholm

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Rapture Culture

Left Behind in Evangelical America

By: Amy Johnson Frykholm

In the "twinkling of an eye" Jesus secretly returns to earth and gathers to him all believers. As they are taken to heaven, the world they leave behind is plunged into chaos. Cars and airplanes crash and people search in vain for loved ones. Plagues, famine, and suffering follow. The antichrist emerges to rule the world and to destroy those who oppose him. Finally, Christ comes again in glory, defeats the antichrist and reigns over the earth. This apocalyptic scenario is anticipated by millions of Americans. These millions have made the Left Behind series--novels that depict the rapture and apocalypse--perennial bestsellers, with over 40 million copies now in print. In Rapture Culture, Amy Johnson Frykholm explores this remarkable phenomenon, seeking to understand why American evangelicals find the idea of the rapture so compelling. What is the secret behind the remarkable popularity of the apocalyptic genre? One answer, she argues, is that the books provide a sense of identification and communal belonging that counters the "social atomization" that characterizes modern life. This also helps explain why they appeal to female readers, despite the deeply patriarchal worldview they promote. Tracing the evolution of the genre of rapture fiction, Frykholm notes that at one time such narratives expressed a sense of alienation from modern life and protest against the loss of tradition and the marginalization of conservative religious views. Now, however, evangelicalism's renewed popular appeal has rendered such themes obsolete. Left Behind evinces a new embrace of technology and consumer goods as tools for God's work, while retaining a protest against modernity's transformation of traditional family life. Drawing on extensive interviews with readers of the novels, Rapture Culture sheds light on a mindset that is little understood and far more common than many of us suppose.

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Oxford University Press

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0190289430

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Rapture Culture

Left Behind in Evangelical America

By: Amy Johnson Frykholm

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Left Behind in Evangelical America

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Postmodern Belief

American Literature and Religion since 1960

By: Amy Hungerford

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Postmodern Belief

American Literature and Religion since 1960

By: Amy Hungerford

How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.

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Princeton University Press

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1400834910

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The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace

American Conversions to Orthodox Christianity

By: Amy Slagle

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The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace

American Conversions to Orthodox Christianity

By: Amy Slagle

Like many Americans, the Eastern Orthodox converts in this study are participants in what scholars today refer to as the "spiritual marketplace" or quest culture of expanding religious diversity and individual choice-making that marks the post-World War II American religious landscape. In this highly readable ethnographic study, Slagle explores the ways in which converts, clerics, and lifelong church members use marketplace metaphors in describing and enacting their religious lives. Slagle conducted participant observation and formal semi-structured interviews in Orthodox churches in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Jackson, Mississippi. Known among Orthodox Christians as the "Holy Land" of North American Orthodoxy, Pittsburgh offers an important context for exploring the interplay of Orthodox Christianity with the mainstreams of American religious life. Slagle's second round of research in Jackson sheds light on the American Bible Belt where over the past thirty years the Orthodox Church in America has marshaled significant resources to build mission parishes. Relatively few ethnographic studies have examined Eastern Orthodox Christianity in the United States, and Slagle's book fills a significant gap. This lucidly written book is an ideal selection for courses in the sociology and anthropology of religion, contemporary Christianity, and religious change. Scholars of Orthodox Christianity, as well as clerical and lay people interested in Eastern Orthodoxy, will find this book to be of great appeal.

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Cornell University Press

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1609090284

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Christian Understandings of the Future

The Historical Trajectory

By: Amy Frykholm

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The Historical Trajectory

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Wild Woman

Wild Woman

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

High Hawk

High Hawk

High Hawk

High Hawk

Julian of Norwich

Julian of Norwich

Wild Woman

Wild Woman

Christian Understandings of the Future

Christian Understandings of the Future

Michigan Modern

Michigan Modern

Rapture Culture

Rapture Culture

Rapture Culture

Rapture Culture

Postmodern Belief

Postmodern Belief

The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace

The Eastern Church in the Spiritual Marketplace

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