Calvin Miller's Books

Life Is Mostly Edges

A Memoir

By: Calvin Miller

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One man’s backward glance at unexpected lessons, the beauty of relationship, and God’s mysterious guiding hand. Bestselling author and poet Calvin Miller turns his hand to the most moving story of all – his own. The reader is taken through a myriad of experiences of a young man coming of age in mid-20th century America. Following his life into college, seminary, a small local church and eventually to a new life as an author and professor, the memoir touches on those points that make all of us uniquely human and intensely vulnerable.

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HarperChristian + ORM

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1418573973

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O Shepherd, Where Art Thou?

By: Calvin Miller

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O Shepherd, Where Art Thou?

By: Calvin Miller

In this hilariously humbling fable about modern church culture, a master storyteller pokes fun at the RprofessionalizationS of doing the Lord's work.

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B&H Publishing Group

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0805440984

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9780805440980

Shade

By: Calvin Miller

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Shade

By: Calvin Miller

Well-drawn characters will delight and inspire readers with this thought-provoking message about loss and seeking God's comfort amid the hardships of life.

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0764223631

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The Singer Trilogy

By: Calvin Miller

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The Singer Trilogy

By: Calvin Miller

Through the story of the Singer, his Song and his battles with the World Hater, Calvin Miller has created an extraordinary retelling of a life unmatched in human history. Now you can find the complete, powerful tale of incarnation and redemption in one volume, with all three of Calvin Miller's books together: The Singer, The Song and The Finale.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830861831

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9780830861835

The Singer

A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict

By: Calvin Miller

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The Singer

A Classic Retelling of Cosmic Conflict

By: Calvin Miller

In this timeless classic now available in the IVP Signature Collection, Calvin Miller retells the story of Jesus through an allegorical poem about a Singer whose song could not be silenced. Since it was first published in 1975, The Singer has offered believers and seekers the world over a deeply personal encounter with the gospel.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830850759

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9780830850754

Once Upon a Tree

By: Calvin Miller

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Once Upon a Tree

By: Calvin Miller

If you think you have already seen the cross, heard its story, and know its meaning, this book will change your mind. It will do more than that; it will transform your life. Once upon a tree...there was a Savior. Have you seen the Cross?...Have you felt its splintered beams? Have you heard its call? Have you grasped its peculiar teachings of death and life and love and hope? Have you heard the man nailed against its rough grain call your name? Once in a great while, a writer paints a picture with words that leave you breathless. On rare occasions, an author captures the sights, the sounds, and the scandal of a premier historical event and impresses them upon your heart. Master teacher Calvin Miller has done all this and more in this signature book on the mysteries and meanings of the Cross of Christ.

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Simon and Schuster

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1451605471

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The Empowered Leader

10 Keys to Servant Leadership

By: Calvin Miller

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The Empowered Leader

10 Keys to Servant Leadership

By: Calvin Miller

God blessed King David as a leader only after David submitted himself to God's strength. In The Empowered Leader, Dr. Calvin Miller shows how following David's example can turn you into the leader you can be, the leader God wants you to be.

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B&H Publishing Group

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1433669420

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The Christ of Christmas

Readings for Advent

By: Calvin Miller

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The Christ of Christmas

Readings for Advent

By: Calvin Miller

This book of brief, everyday devotions for the month of December draws readers behind the scenes of Christmas events, allowing them to stay for as little or as long as they like.

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080544419X

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9780805444193

The Singer Bible Study

By: Calvin Miller

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The Singer Bible Study

By: Calvin Miller

The Singer has helped thousands of readers discover the life of Christ in a fresh way. Each of the eight easy-to-use studies in this companion guide features quotations from The Singer matched with Scripture passages, reflection questions, and application ideas that will engage your imagination and deepen your understanding.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830849254

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A Hunger for the Holy

Nuturing Intimacy with Christ

By: Calvin Miller

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A Hunger for the Holy

Nuturing Intimacy with Christ

By: Calvin Miller

Using the imagery of the psalms as a backdrop, author Calvin Miller explores our hunger for intimacy with our Holy God. Insisting that the pathway to God's holiness is through a journey into our own selves, Miller yet maintains that our end is not to know ourselves but to know Christ. Our hunger for the Holy leads us to a table for two in a quiet wilderness. Here, Miller says, we meet as "ardent lovers in the lonely desert of the human heart. There, he speaks as much as we do, and even when both of us say nothing, we are rapt in a welded oneness." In Miller's inimitable style, he graciously invites us to satisfy our hunger for the holiness of God as we meditate on the psalms and are challenged to know the God of the universe in a personal, intimate relationship.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439122911

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The Vanishing Evangelical

Saving the Church from Its Own Success by Restoring What Really Matters

By: Calvin Miller

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The Vanishing Evangelical

Saving the Church from Its Own Success by Restoring What Really Matters

By: Calvin Miller

Evangelicalism faces an uncertain future. In this book, written just before his death, Calvin Miller takes a critical and prophetic look at the movement he loved, believing we can only shape the future if we understand the present. American evangelicalism, he warns, has largely adapted to the culture and as a result, is waning in its vitality and influence. Rather than counting on some grand revival, Miller writes that revitalizing the heart of evangelical Christianity will instead happen one person at a time. The Vanishing Evangelical looks at the broad cultural influences that are shaping the whole movement, and Miller's sage counsel challenges the reader to confront these forces personally and take steps toward a personal, vital spirituality.

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Baker Books

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1441242295

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Celtic Devotions

A Guide to Morning and Evening Prayer

By: Calvin Miller

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Celtic Devotions

A Guide to Morning and Evening Prayer

By: Calvin Miller

Sunrise and sunset. Morning and evening. Waking and resting. The time between your rising and sleeping is new each day. Calvin Miller presents a morning and evening devotional with quotes from the Celts and personal reflections. Each day also uses a quote from Psalm 119, which was often read and quoted by the Celts.

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InterVarsity Press

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083086492X

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9780830864928

The Path of Celtic Prayer

An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy

By: Calvin Miller

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The Path of Celtic Prayer

An Ancient Way to Everyday Joy

By: Calvin Miller

Calvin Miller introduces six types of Celtic prayer that teach you how to pray out of the circumstances and uncertainties of your own life. With traditional examples of each type of prayer, the book also includes a historical and spiritual overview of Celtic spirituality.

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InterVarsity Press

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0830866752

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9780830866755

Love

By: Calvin Miller

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Love

By: Calvin Miller

Best-selling author Calvin Miller has written an in-depth, biblically based study on the Fruits of the Spirits (Galatians 5:22). This unique study guide can be used as a personal study or in a small group setting. Features include: Lesson overview of each 6-week study Questions for reflection Character studies Bonus parable study Questions for small group discussion

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Thomas Nelson Publishers

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1418528412

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The Self After Postmodernity

By: Calvin O. Schrag

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The Self After Postmodernity

By: Calvin O. Schrag

A portrait of the human self by way of a critical engagement with the proponents of postmodernity. It experiments with an innovative vocabulary so as to describe self-understanding and self-formation in its discursive, action-oriented, communal, and transcending dynamics.

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Yale University Press

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0300078765

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9780300078763

The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 6: 1857-1860

By: Calvin Fletcher

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The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 6: 1857-1860

By: Calvin Fletcher

Calvin Fletcher, born in Vermont in 1798, came to Indiana from Ohio in 1821, and in the next forty-five years made a fortune, raised eleven children, and was a pillar of the community. This pioneer Indianapolis lawyer, banker, and philanthropist kept a diary for most of his long life, and in it he recorded both the growth of his family and his community. Whether complaining, criticizing, observing shrewdly, or agonizing, Fletcher emerges as both a complex and unforgettable human being. Each of the set's nine volumes has a preface, chronology, and index. Volume nine includes a cumulative index.

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Indiana Historical Society

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0871950235

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9780871950239

The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

By: Calvin A. Brown,John C. Sakles,Nathan W. Mick,Jarrod M. Mosier,Darren A. Braude

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The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management

By: Calvin A. Brown,John C. Sakles,Nathan W. Mick,Jarrod M. Mosier,Darren A. Braude

Long recognized as the gold standard emergency airway management textbook, The Walls Manual of Emergency Airway Management, Sixth Edition, remains the most trusted reference on this challenging topic. This practical reference, edited by Drs. Calvin A. Brown III, John C. Sakles, Nathan W. Mick, Jarrod M. Mosier, and Darren A. Braude, is the foundation text for these nationally recognized programs: The Difficult Airway Course: EmergencyTM, The Difficult Airway Course: Critical CareTM, The Difficult Airway Course: EMSTM, and The Difficult Airway Course: Residency EditionTM. Its hands-on approach provides the concrete guidance you need to effectively respond wherever adult or pediatric airway emergencies may occur, including in and out of hospital settings, emergency departments, and urgent care centers.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197519070X

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9781975190705

Jackson, 1964

And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America

By: Calvin Trillin

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Jackson, 1964

And Other Dispatches from Fifty Years of Reporting on Race in America

By: Calvin Trillin

From bestselling author and beloved New Yorker writer Calvin Trillin, a deeply resonant, career-spanning collection of articles on race and racism, from the 1960s to the present In the early sixties, Calvin Trillin got his start as a journalist covering the Civil Rights Movement in the South. Over the next five decades of reporting, he often returned to scenes of racial tension. Now, for the first time, the best of Trillin’s pieces on race in America have been collected in one volume. In the title essay of Jackson, 1964, we experience Trillin’s riveting coverage of the pathbreaking voter registration drive known as the Mississippi Summer Project—coverage that includes an unforgettable airplane conversation between Martin Luther King, Jr., and a young white man sitting across the aisle. (“I’d like to be loved by everyone,” King tells him, “but we can’t always wait for love.”) In the years that follow, Trillin rides along with the National Guard units assigned to patrol black neighborhoods in Wilmington, Delaware; reports on the case of a black homeowner accused of manslaughter in the death of a white teenager in an overwhelmingly white Long Island suburb; and chronicles the remarkable fortunes of the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a black carnival krewe in New Orleans whose members parade on Mardi Gras in blackface. He takes on issues that are as relevant today as they were when he wrote about them. Excessive sentencing is examined in a 1970 piece about a black militant in Houston serving thirty years in prison for giving away one marijuana cigarette. The role of race in the use of deadly force by police is highlighted in a 1975 article about an African American shot by a white policeman in Seattle. Uniting all these pieces are Trillin’s unflinching eye and graceful prose. Jackson, 1964 is an indispensable account of a half-century of race and racism in America, through the lens of a master journalist and writer who was there to bear witness. Praise for Jackson, 1964 “Trillin’s elegant storytelling and keen observations sometimes churned my wrath about the glacial pace of progress. That’s because to me and millions of African-Americans, the topics of race and poverty—and their adverse impact on the mind and spirit—are, as Trillin acknowledges, not theoretical; they’re personal.”—Dorothy Butler Gilliam, The New York Times Book Review (Editor’s Choice) “These pieces . . . will continue to be read for the pleasure they deliver as well as for the pain they describe.”—The New York Times “With the diligent clarity, humane wit, polished prose and attention to pertinent detail that exemplify Trillin’s journalism at its best . . . Jackson, 1964 drives home a sobering realization: Even with signs of progress, racism in America is news that stays news.”—USA Today “These unsettling tales, elegantly written and wonderfully reported, are like black-and-white snapshots from the national photo album. They depict a society in flux but also stubbornly unmoved through the decades when it comes to many aspects of race relations. . . . The grace Trillin brings to his job makes his stories all the more poignant.”—The Christian Science Monitor “An exceptional collection [from] master essayist Trillin.”—Booklist (starred review)

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0399588264

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The Rise to Respectability

Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ

By: Calvin White

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The Rise to Respectability

Race, Religion, and the Church of God in Christ

By: Calvin White

The Rise to Respectability documents the history of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) and examines its cultural and religious impact on African Americans and on the history of the South. It explores the ways in which Charles Harrison Mason, the son of slaves and founder of COGIC, embraced a Pentecostal faith that celebrated the charismatic forms of religious expression that many blacks had come to view as outdated, unsophisticated, and embarrassing. While examining the intersection of race, religion, and class, The Rise to Respectability details how the denomination dealt with the stringent standard of bourgeois behavior imposed on churchgoers as they moved from southern rural areas into the urban centers in both the South and North. Rooted in the hardships of slavery and coming of age during Jim Crow, COGIC’s story is more than a religious debate. Rather, this book sees the history of the church as interwoven with the Great Migration, class tension, racial animosity, and the struggle for modernity—all representative parts of the African American experience.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557286841

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9781557286840

American Constitutional Law

Powers and Liberties

By: Calvin R. Massey,Brannon P. Denning

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American Constitutional Law

Powers and Liberties

By: Calvin R. Massey,Brannon P. Denning

American Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties, Sixth Edition provides a broad survey of the field without overwhelming students. The basics of constitutional theory are presented without getting mired in highly theoretical discussions, and cases are tightly edited to focus on the most important aspects, with additional cases on select topics condensed into narrative summaries. The book focuses on cases and expository text rather than extensive academic commentary, and introductory text provides direction to students as they read and analyze the materials that follow. Additionally, challenging hypotheticals are provided throughout the text for use as student self-assessments or to launch stimulating class discussions.This highly teachable book can be used for a one- or two-semester course and is easily adaptable to suit each professor’s preferences. New to the Sixth Edition: Updated through the Supreme Court’s 2017–2018 Term Excerpts of major cases including: Murphy v. NCAA, Trump v. Hawaii, Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, Fisher v. Texas, Matal v. Tam, Packingham v. North Carolina, National Institute of Family and Life Advocates v. Becerra, Trinity Lutheran Church v. Comer, and Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission Summaries or omissions of older or outdated cases to reduce length New questions and problems for added cases to promote self-assessment Professors and students will benefit from: Easy adaptation to a one- or two-semester course “Just-right” editing of major cases, with less important cases summarized in notes or narrative summary Even-handed presentation of cases so adopters don’t have to “teach against” the text Narrative introductions that provide students with context and organizational structure Annual Supplement

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Aspen Publishing

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1543810608

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All That Fall

A Thriller

By: Kris Calvin

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All That Fall

A Thriller

By: Kris Calvin

Emma Lawson must race against the clock to rescue a kidnapped child and stop a killer whose master plan only begins with murder. The body shot and killed in the early morning hours by the Sacramento River would have been an easy case for Detective Alibi Morning Sun to solve if only his prime suspect weren't already in jail. Across town, California's youngest lead government ethics investigator Emma Lawson is enjoying a day off to help her best friend, Kate, open a new business when amidst a hail of gunfire, Kate’s teen son, Luke, goes missing. Over a harrowing forty-eight hours, as Alibi gathers new evidence to determine the identity of the riverside killer and Emma desperately searches for 15-year old Luke, the two investigations collide. At the heart of both is a kidnapped three-year old girl and a diabolical plot with stakes Emma could never have imagined. Will Emma and Alibi be in time to bring the girl and teen to safety and to stop a calculating killer whose plan threatens all that Emma holds dear?

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Crooked Lane Books

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1643856898

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Killings

By: Calvin Trillin

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Killings

By: Calvin Trillin

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism “Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of sudden death. But Trillin is attracted less by violence or police procedure than by the way the fabric of people’s lives is suddenly exposed when someone comes to an untimely end. As Trillin says, Killings is “more about how Americans live than about how some of them die.” These stories, which originally appeared in The New Yorker between 1969 and 2010, are vivid portraits of lives cut short. An upstanding farmer in Iowa finds himself drastically changed by a woman he meets in a cocktail lounge. An eccentric old man in Eastern Kentucky is enraged by the presence of a documentary filmmaker. Two women move to a bucolic Virginia county to find peace, only to end up at war over a shared road. Mexican American families in California hand down a feud from generation to generation. A high-living criminal-defense lawyer in Miami acquires any number of enemies capable of killing him. Stark and compassionate, deeply observed and beautifully written, Killings is “that rarity, reportage as art” (William Geist, The New York Times Book Review). Praise for Killings “Riveting tales of murder and mayhem. . . . [Calvin] Trillin is a superb writer, with a magical ability to turn even the most mundane detail into spellbinding wonder. Armed with this wealth of material, he utterly shines. Every piece here is a gem.”—The Seattle Times “What Mr. Trillin does so well, what makes Killings literature, is the way he pictures the lives that were interrupted by the murders. Even the most ordinary life makes a terrible noise . . . when it’s broken off.”—Anatole Broyard, The New York Times “Fascinating, troubling . . . In each of these stories is the basis of a Dostoevskian novel.”—Edward Abbey, Chicago Sun-Times “The stories . . . are unforgettable. They leave us, finally, with the awareness of the unknowable opacity of the human heart.”—Bruce Colman, San Francisco Chronicle “[Trillin] writes brilliantly. . . . These stories still hold up, as classics.”—The Buffalo News “In his artful ability to conjure up a whole life and a whole world, Trillin comes as close to achieving the power of a Chekhov short story as can anyone whose material is so implacably tied to fact.”—Frederick Iseman, Harper’s Bazaar “I have a book for you true-crime addicts if you’re caught up on the podcast Serial, the cascade on TV of 48 Hours and Dateline NBC episodes. . . . It’s time to pick up Calvin Trillin’s Killings.”—The New York Times Book Review “Well-crafted and thoughtfully composed, lacking judgment and admonishment, these are a true piece of quality journalism, which clearly continues to captivate audiences.”—Library Journal “With telling detail and shrewd insights, [Calvin Trillin] masterfully evokes the places and personalities that hatched these grim episodes.”—Publishers Weekly

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0399591893

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The Moral Theology of Roger Williams

Christian Conviction and Public Ethics

By: James Calvin Davis

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The Moral Theology of Roger Williams

Christian Conviction and Public Ethics

By: James Calvin Davis

Roger Williams, New England troublemaker and founder of Rhode Island, is seldom included among the great figures in American Reformed theology. Yet Williams's arguments for religious liberty were deeply rooted in Puritan Calvinism. This book explores the "moral theology" that informed Williams's spirited defense of toleration, demonstrating how Reformed theology in Williams's hands allowed him to defend the integrity of religious convictions while also making the case for conversation and cooperation with moral citizens outside his circle of faith. The Columbia Series in Reformed Theology represents a joint commitment by Columbia Theological Seminary and Westminster John Knox Press to provide theological resources from the Reformed tradition for the church today. This series examines theological and ethical issues that confront church and society in our own particular time and place.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664227708

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The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 5: 1853-1856

By: Calvin Fletcher

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The Diary of Calvin Fletcher, Volume 5: 1853-1856

By: Calvin Fletcher

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Indiana Historical Society

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0871950227

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Bioethics in Singapore

The Ethical Microcosm

By: John Elliott,W. Calvin Ho,Sylvia S. N. Lim

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Bioethics in Singapore

The Ethical Microcosm

By: John Elliott,W. Calvin Ho,Sylvia S. N. Lim

This book provides an analysis of the ways in which the BAC has established an ethical framework for biomedical research in Singapore, following the launch of the Biomedical Sciences Initiative by the Singapore Government. The editors and authors have an intimate knowledge of the working of the BAC, and the focus of the book includes the ways in which international forces have influenced the form and substance of bioethics in Singapore. Together, the authors offer a comparative account of the institutionalisation of biomedical research ethics in Singapore, considered in the wider context of international regulatory efforts. The book reviews the work of the BAC by placing it within the broader cultural, social and political discourses that have emerged in relation to the life sciences since the turn of the 21st century. This book is not primarily intended to be a retrospect or an appraisal of the contribution of the BAC, though this is one aspect of it. Rather, the main intention is to make a substantive contribution to the rapidly emerging field of bioethics. Ethical discussions in the book include consideration of stem cell research and cloning, genetics and research with human participants, and focus on likely future developments as well as the past.Many of the contributors of the book have been personally involved in this work, and hence they write with an authoritative first-hand knowledge that scholars in bioethics and public policy may appreciate. As indicated above, the book also explains the way in which ethics and science ? international and local ? have interacted in a policy setting. Scholars and policy makers may find the Singaporean experience to be a valuable resource, as the approach has been to make the ethical governance of research in Singapore consistent with international best practice while observing the requirements of a properly localised application of universally accepted principles. In addition, at least three chapters (the first three chapters in particular) are accessible to the lay reader interested in the development of bioethics and biomedical sciences, both inside and outside Singapore, from 2000 (the year in which the BAC was established). Both scholars and interested lay readers are therefore likely to find this publication a valuable reference.

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World Scientific

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9814327115

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9789814327114

Sovereignty and Event

The Political in John D. Caputo's Radical Theology

By: Calvin D. Ullrich

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Sovereignty and Event

The Political in John D. Caputo's Radical Theology

By: Calvin D. Ullrich

In this study, Calvin D. Ullrich argues for the political significance of the philosopher-theologian John D. Caputo's radical theology. Against the backdrop of present debates, the author traces the notions of 'sovereignty and event' by drawing on the political theology of Carl Schmitt and Caputo's evolving engagement with postmodern thought; from its genesis in Martin Heidegger to its deeply involved association with Jacques Derrida. Calvin D. Ullrich shows that contrary to some misleading interpretations of his religious deconstruction, Caputo has always held nascent political concerns which culminate in his radical theology. Writing for scholars working in contemporary philosophy and theology, this book offers one of the first major in-depth analyses covering Caputo's writings of the last four decades, and seeks to defend their relevance for discussions responding to ongoing political-theological challenges.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161592301

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