Answering the confusion on Marian Mediation Is it True to say that Mary is Coredemptrix, Mediatrix of all Graces and Advocate? The central theological issue of the last half-millenium and still the most hotly debated article of Catholic doctrine is that of Marian Coredemption. Dr. Miller, a retired London physician, sets the disputed points in perspectives and helps the non-professional to understand why the doctrine is true and eventually worthy of belief.
Though stressing that Flannery O'Connor was first and foremost a writer of fiction, John Desmond maintains in Risen Sons that her orthodox Catholic theology stands at the center of her vision, providing the metaphysical base from which the fiction evolved. Given this religious context, Desmond contends that O'Connor's stated view of fiction-writing as an "incarnational act" suggests a direct connection between the practice of fiction-writing and the Incarnation of Christ--the pivotal historic event which her fiction seeks to imitate and through which her vision is revealed. O'Connor's attempts to create images that would connect the Incarnation with fictional incarnation, Mystery with mystery, were not immediately realized in her early works. It was only with Wise Blood that she came to recognize Christian historical vision as her particular fictional subject and the analogical method as the appropriate fictional strategy. This discovery made possible the convergence of her metaphysics, historical vision, and artistic technique, providing the thematic and structural basis for the quality of "unique wholeness" that distinguishes all her works. Desmond suggests that O'Connor achieved the fullest development of her analogical vision and most complete identification of thought and technique in her novel The Violent Bear It Away. Her dramatic rendering of the route Tarwater takes before he can comprehend the transcendent, mysterious source of personality and the meaning of personhood in history parallels the actions of Christ, embodying O'Connor's complex and dramatic vision of the mind's engagement with history in all its ultimate extensions of meaning.
This is the story of Henry Shaw, an ordinary man who lived in the seventeen and eighteen hundreds and covers his life during the formative years of our nation. It is Henry’s chronicle for those who will follow him. Henry forms relationships with a variety of people. It starts when he and a young black slave named Oliver run away from Henry’s harsh uncle. Many people help and protect Henry. Although the main characters are fictitious, or composites of actual people, the historical events in which the characters are involved have been thoroughly researched. Historical figures such as Jefferson and Franklin appear in the story but are not major characters. The people in this story are not statesman, generals, or even war heroes. The revolutionaries in this story are the people who, sometimes by accident, make America possible.
A detailed and readable study of the rosary in its various forms has long been needed. Miller's book fills a real need for the many who wish to take their devotion and prayer lives to new depths, to understand the perennial importance of Christian meditation, and to understand more fully the tradition to which they belong.
What is modern in modern drama? What defines it, unmistakably, as being of our time? This quality is the subject of John Peter's inquiry. Vladimir's Carrot will provoke and stimulate readers who find themselves either lost or perfectly at home in "modern" culture.
This text seeks to overcome an imbalance in traditional consumer behaviour texts by incorporating biological, sociological and anthropological theories into the core of the work. The aim is to provide a challenging and interesting book which addresses important issues such as time, space and consumption; consuming needs and values, semiotics, identity, the body, eating disorders and drug-taking. The text seeks to adopt a neutral view of consuming behaviour rather than the more traditional adoption of the producers' perspective, and to look at the contemporary issues affecting consuming behaviour in today's world.
The legendary story of Tombstone and Wyatt Earp has an untold missing link...the nearby town of Charleston. A town known for its “diversified viciousness,” where the sounds of saloons filled with gambling tables and dance hall girls were sometimes mixed with celebratory gunfire in the streets. Learn of Wyatt Earp's siege of Charleston, as he searched for his brother, Virgil's, assailants. But the story of Charleston has far more depth and intrigue than just intermittent visits from Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Ike Clanton, and Curly Bill Brocius. It was home to the hard working men of Millville just across the San Pedro River, honest ranchers and cattle rustlers, storekeepers, gamblers, and outlaws. It was home base for smuggling American goods into Mexico.As one lawman wrote... “Charleston was a hangout for the riff-raff from Fort Huachuca, Bisbee, Tombstone, and other places where there were officers to see that they behaved themselves. In Charleston they were not molested [harassed]...Jim Burnett, the justice of the peace, and Jerry Barton, the constable... paid little attention to keeping law and order.” The industrial side of Charleston was Millville, where rich Tombstone Silver Ore was turned into bars of Bullion, briefly fueling Tombstone's economic rise to one of the great mining camps of the west. Fully sourced and footnoted with a great deal of previously unpublished primary sources, this is the first book published devoted to bringing this remarkable town to life. Much has been written of Tombstone's colorful days, but of the two locations, Charleston best fits the description of a truly wild west town, when the Arizona Territory was still far from being tamed and civilized. The complexities and contradictions of life in Charleston are summed up differently by its residents. But the town made an indelible impression upon many. “The only time in my life when I remember feeling cold sweat break out on my face from terror was when I was in Charleston... At that time, all [we] could hear was about this or that killing or shooting scrape and I lived in constant fear. In fact, I was afraid to cross the street after dark.” Historian John Rose now offers “Charleston and Millville, A.T. Hell on the San Pedro.”
This volume provides an exploration of some of the Bible's most affecting yet least studied Books and Psalms from the perspective of a sufferer from depression.
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