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A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook

A Companion to McBeth's Texas Baptists

By: Joseph Everett Early

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A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook

A Companion to McBeth's Texas Baptists

By: Joseph Everett Early

Annotation A companion volumn to Harry Leon McBeth's texas baptists. A definitive collection of primary sources in Texas Baptist history. A indispensable source of information for anything relating to Baptists in Texas.

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University of North Texas Press

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ISBN 10

1574411764

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9781574411768

A Texas Baptist Power Struggle

The Hayden Controversy

By: Joseph Everett Early

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A Texas Baptist Power Struggle

The Hayden Controversy

By: Joseph Everett Early

Annotation Tells how Samuel Augustus Hayden, almost destroyed the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT). In the final decades of the nineteenth century, Hayden caused such unrest among Texas Baptists, that he was expelled from the state body. He created the Baptist Missionary Association (BMA), which continued to fight perceived oppression by the BGCT.

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193

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University of North Texas Press

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1574411950

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9781574411959

Early Islamic Legal Theory

The Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʾī

By: Joseph Lowry

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Early Islamic Legal Theory

The Risāla of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʾī

By: Joseph Lowry

The Risāla of al-Shāfiʿī (d. 204/820), the earliest preserved work of Islamic legal theory, has been understood in previous scholarship as either the elaboration of a hierarchy of sources of law (Qurʾān, Sunna, consensus, and analogical reasoning) or an extended defense of the Sunna. Through a careful rereading of this celebrated text, this book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of the Risāla, in which Shāfiʿī formulated an all-encompassing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna. Topics covered include Shāfiʿī’s creative account of the law’s architectonics, hermeneutical techniques, legal epistemology, relationship to kalām, and the role of consensus (ijmāʿ).

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459

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BRILL

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9047423895

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Electing Our Bishops

How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders

By: Joseph O'Callaghan

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Electing Our Bishops

How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders

By: Joseph O'Callaghan

How does one become a bishop in the Catholic Church? Electing our Bishops: How the Catholic Church Should Choose Its Leaders explains how history, politics, and religious tradition converge to produce the episcopacy. The book gives an historical overview from the earliest times when bishops were elected by the clergy and people of the diocese to the present day where they are normally appointed by the pope. In light of the current clergy sexual abuse scandal, many distinguished theologians, canonists, and church historians have called for greater popular participation in the selection of bishops, and Electing our Bishops discusses ideas for new forms of election that involve both clergy and laity. This book is an important tool for Catholics who want to understand the history and process of the election of bishops as well as how the process might change in the future.

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209

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742577929

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The Might Have Been

A Novel

By: Joseph M. Schuster

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The Might Have Been

A Novel

By: Joseph M. Schuster

Hoping to achieve a lifelong goal when he is called up to the major leagues after ten years in the minors, Edward Everett Yates makes a risky play that results in a devastating injury and is unable to pursue a life without baseball as the years progress.

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354

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Random House Digital, Inc.

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0345530268

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9780345530264

Beyond Grief and Nothing

A Reading of Don DeLillo

By: Joseph Dewey

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Beyond Grief and Nothing

A Reading of Don DeLillo

By: Joseph Dewey

In the closing decade of the twentieth century, Don DeLillo emerged from the privileged status of a writer's writer to become by any measure - productivity, influence, scope, gravitas - the dominant novelist of fin-de-millennium America. Beginning in 1982 with The Names and continuing with White Noise and Underworld, DeLillo defined himself as a provocative, articulate anatomist of American culture. Dewey offers an astute assessment of this daunting yet important writer's four-decade cultural critique. Dewey finds DeLillo's concerns to be organized around three rubrics that mark the writer's own creative evolution: the love of the street, the embrace of the word, and the celebration of the soul. Dewey takes the reader through the novelist's hip avant-garde satires of the mid-1960s, his dense interrogations of the power of language and the spell of narrative in the 1980s and 1990s, and his recent efforts to transcend the immediate. Dewey explores DeLillo's fascination with Eastern philosophies, interest in Native American traditions, passion for jazz, and deep roots in Catholicism.

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196

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570036446

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Attack and Counterattack

The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842

By: Joseph Milton Nance

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Attack and Counterattack

The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842

By: Joseph Milton Nance

It is 1842—a dramatic year in the history of Texas-Mexican relations. After five years of uneasy peace, of futile negotiations, of border raids and temporary, unofficial truces, a series of military actions upsets the precarious balance between the two countries. Once more the Mexican Army marches on Texas soil; once more the frontier settlers strengthen their strongholds for defense or gather their belongings for flight. Twice San Antonio falls to Mexican generals; twice the Texans assemble armies for the invasion of Mexico. It is 1842—a year of attack and counterattack. This is the story that Joseph Milton Nance relates, with a definitiveness and immediacy which come from many years of meticulous research. The exciting story of 1842 is a story of emotions which had simmered through the long, insecure years and which now boil out in blustery threats and demands for vengeance. The Texans threaten to march beyond the Sierra Madres and raise their flag at Monterrey; the Mexicans promise to subdue this upstart Texas and to teach its treacherous inhabitants their place. With communications poor and imaginations fertile, rumors magnify chance banditry into military raids, military raids into full-scale invasions. Newspapers incite their readers with superdramatic, intoxicating accounts of the events. Texans and Mexicans alike respond with a kind of madness that has little or no method. Texas solicits volunteers, calls out troops, plans invasions, and assembles her armies, completely disregarding the fact that her treasury is practically empty—there is little money to buy guns. Meanwhile, in Mexico, where gold and silver are needed for other purposes, “invasions” of Texas are launched—but they are only brief forays more suitable for impressive publicity than for permanent gains. Still, the conflicts of threat and retaliation, so often futile, are frequently dignified by idealism, friendship, courage, and determination. Both Mexicans and Texans are fighting and dying for liberty, defending their homes against foreign invaders, establishing and maintaining friendships that cross racial and national boundaries, struggling with conflicting loyalties, and—all the while—striving to wrest a living for themselves and their families from the grudging frontier. Attack and Counterattack, continuing the account which was begun in After San Jacinto, tells from original sources the full story of Texas-Mexican relations from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande. These books examine in great detail and with careful accuracy a period of Texas history that had not heretofore been thoroughly studied and that had seldom been given unbiased treatment. The source materials compiled in the notes and bibliography—particularly the military reports, letters, diaries, contemporary newspapers, and broadsides—will be a valuable tool for any scholar who wishes to study this or related periods.

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University of Texas Press

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0292736215

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9780292736214

Modern Skepticism

By: Joseph Barker

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Modern Skepticism

By: Joseph Barker

Reproduction of the original: Modern Skepticism by Joseph Barker

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3752365765

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Modern Skepticism: A Life Story

By: Joseph Barker

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Modern Skepticism: A Life Story

By: Joseph Barker

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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336884086X

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Rounding the Bases

Baseball and Religion in America

By: Joseph L. Price

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Rounding the Bases

Baseball and Religion in America

By: Joseph L. Price

After identifying early conflicts between churches and baseball in the late-nineteenth century, Price examines the appropriation of baseball by the House of David, an early twentieth-century millennial Protestant community in southern Michigan. Turning then from historic intersections between baseball and religion, two chapters focus on the ways that baseball reelects religious myths. First, the omphalos myth about the origin and ordering of the world is reflected in the rituals and rules of the game. Then the myth of curses is explored in the culture of superstition that underlies the game. At the heart of the book is a sustained argument about how baseball functions as an American civil religion, affirming and sanctifying American identity, especially during periods of national crises such as wars and terrorist attacks. Building on this analysis of baseball as an America's civil religion, two chapters draw upon novels by W. P. Kinsella and David James Duncan to explore the sacramental potential of baseball and to align baseball with apocalyptic possibilities. The final chapter serves as a full confession, interpreting baseball affiliation stories as conversion narratives. In various ways

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Mercer University Press

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0865549990

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Book's by Joseph Everett Early

A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook

A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook

A Texas Baptist Power Struggle

A Texas Baptist Power Struggle

Early Islamic Legal Theory

Early Islamic Legal Theory

Electing Our Bishops

Electing Our Bishops

The Might Have Been

The Might Have Been

Beyond Grief and Nothing

Beyond Grief and Nothing

Attack and Counterattack

Attack and Counterattack

Modern Skepticism

Modern Skepticism

Modern Skepticism: A Life Story

Modern Skepticism: A Life Story

Rounding the Bases

Rounding the Bases

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