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Flora of Tropical East Africa - Loranthaceae (1999)

By: R. M. Polhill,Delbert Wiens

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Flora of Tropical East Africa - Loranthaceae (1999)

By: R. M. Polhill,Delbert Wiens

The flora is prepared at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in close collaboration with East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University. Significant contributions are also made by specialists elsewhere. The flora is designed to a high academic standard and should be a useful resource reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in eastern Africa. Each family is published as a separate part.

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130

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CRC Press

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ISBN 10

9061913837

ISBN 13

9789061913832

A Meditation on Going Home

By: Delbert L. Wiens

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A Meditation on Going Home

By: Delbert L. Wiens

Delbert Wiens was born during the depression to an ethnic, German-speaking, Mennonite family. As an adult, he became the righteous older sibling who wanted, oddly, to identify with his elders. Returning home to Corn, Oklahoma, with a severe case of culture shock after living in Vietnam, he wrote New Wineskins for Old Wine to tell Mennonites they were succumbing to “evangelical” forms of “modernism.” Unfortunately, the relentlessness of his analysis convinced many that he had a “dangerous mind.” This book tells the story of his recovery of the wisdom of his elders. In response Wiens develops metaphors like concrete and abstract to clarify how civilizations evolve. He centers his attempt to tell stories that, like biblical narratives and parables, evoke traditional attitudes and lifestyles. Phrases like mutual aid and ethnic cliches like Gottesfurcht (honoring God) and Gelassenheit (letting go and letting God) are used to describe their qualities and virtues. The final chapters use a more abstract style to trace some of the positive and negative consequences of “progress.” This book circles around its center (chapters 4–9) that describes the faithfulness and character of his elders. May these meditations better evoke the desire to imitate them.

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269

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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ISBN 13

9798385200481

Stephen's Sermon and the Structure of Luke-Acts

By: Delbert Leroy Wiens

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Stephen's Sermon and the Structure of Luke-Acts

By: Delbert Leroy Wiens

In this insightful and thorough study, intended for serious students of the New Testament, Delbert Wiens analyses Stephen's Sermon in Acts 7, and points out not only that it is a basic outline of the gospel, the 'good news' which the disciples were to proclaim, but that its literary structure is paralleled by the structures of both Luke and Acts. Stephen argued that Israel's sacred history revealed the developmental stages of the Kingdom of God, which was completed with the event of the Christ. Luke and Acts present the life of Jesus and the Church in parallel stages. As Luke promised Theophilus (Luke 1:1-4), the significance of the deeds and words of Jesus are to be discovered in the structure of what Luke had written.

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