Maximus the Confessor (580-662) was a monk and theologian whose combustive historical era, committed doctrinal reflection, and loud and influential voice took him on a turbulent career of traveling and writing around the Mediterranean. Maximus was a spiritual teacher, an ascetic, a man in love with Scripture and with Christ, the Word at Scripture's heart. He was also a polemicist, a crafter of dogma, an embattled christologian, a premeditating rhetorician. In this study, Luke Steven picks up a spiritual and philosophical strand that binds together these two disparate sides of the man and his writings. Steven argues that throughout his oeuvre the Confessor positions imitation as the key to knowledge. This lasting epistemology characterizes his earlier ascetic and spiritual works, and in his later works it prominently defines his dogmatic christological method-that is, the means by which he communicates and persuades and brings people to understand and encounter Jesus Christ, the one with two natures, divine and human. This is a multifaceted study that offers a deep assessment of Maximus's forebears, new insight on the animating assumptions of his thought, and an unprecedented focus on the rhetoric and method of his christological writings.
What makes this commentary on Luke stand apart from others is that, from beginning to end, this is a literary analysis. Because it focuses solely on the gospel as it appears and not on its source or origin, this commentary richly and thoroughly explores just what Luke is saying and how he says it.
This book is designed to make Bible study manageable on even the tightest schedule. Tackling a book the size of Luke can be daunting. Many people avoid it altogether because "it's just too big!" This volume contains 24 lessons. Each chapter of Luke's gospel is broken down into short 5-minute outlines. These lessons can be used as daily devotions, as a guide for a small group study, or to introduce someone to the book of Luke for the first time. In each lesson you'll learn: - When the events of the chapter took place - The main characters - The location - An outline of the chapter - How the chapter fits into the big picture - Applications and take aways
A young woman named Deseray Underwood has been found dead, in her London lodgings, by her finance Samuel Mortimer. The body itself shows no signs of a struggle. Lestrade, baffled by the cause of death, summons the aid of Sherlock Holmes and his great powers of deduction. Holmes stumbles upon one single clue, a crystal blue bottle, which sends him and Watson on a wild chase through the streets of London in pursuit of answers to this young woman's sudden demise. A death that would make any benefactor very wealthy.
Ten Sins combines the love and hate, loss and rage, insanity and heartbreak of ten beings, each of them instantly connecting through their own tragic ironies and coincidences, proving war and a changing world inconsequential in comparison to the power of love and the lack thereof. It begins with Siful, who is a young man in love and at total odds with the world around him. Explore his every thought as he experiences heartbreak for the first time and tries to escape his fate by working for a mysterious man in a black suit. Truth reveals itself in its ugliest form as Siful grows more angry and bitter at the world. He is constantly and inevitably haunted and taunted by the girl he loves. He is caught in the middle of an uprising storm of change. Soon his love and vengeance give him the power to either save the world or change it.
Even the most well-known people have struggled to succeed! Find out what they learned and how they turned their failures into triumphs with this engaging and youthful guide on how to succeed long term. There is a lot of pressure in today’s society to succeed, but failing is a part of learning how to be a successful person. In his teaching career, Luke Reynolds saw the stress and anxiety his students suffered over grades, fitting in, and getting things right the first time. Fantastic Failures helps students learn that their mistakes and failures do not define their whole lives, but help them grow into their potential. Kids will love learning about some of the well-known people who failed before succeeding and will come to understand that failure is a large component of success. With stories from people like J. K. Rowling, Albert Einstein, Rosa Parks, Sonia Sotomayor, Vincent Van Gogh, Julia Child, Steven Spielberg, and Betsy Johnson, each profile proves that the greatest mistakes and flops can turn into something amazing. Intermixed throughout the fun profiles, Reynolds spotlights great inventors and scientists who discovered and created some of the most important medicines, devices, and concepts of all time, including lifesaving vaccines and medicines that were stumbled upon by mistake.
Holmes and Watson are at it again. They now face the second great challenge in Fullenkamp's Holmes Trilogy. Ancient ghost and legends return to haunt them at every turn. A must read--mystery, adventure and romance!
The saga continues. Five years have passed since Holmes's and Watson's adventure with the Ghost of the Flying Dutchman. But now the struggle between good and evil comes to a head as a most unexpected demon from the past forces them into the Search for Excalibur. The legendary sword of King Arthur has been missing since the affair of the Dutchman, and now the daring duo must find it. For, if they fail, it will mean certain death for the lady McBride. Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show is in the midst of their tour of England. And through a strange twist of fate, Annie Oakley, Frank Butler and Buffalo Bill Cody himself are swept up into the case to become Holmes's and Watson's most unlikely allies. The lovely Emily Cantaville-now Mrs. Watson-is back at Watson's side. And she, too, is drawn into the matter to help save her friend Mary McBride. The strange and somewhat mysterious Tyler Such, (the half-brother of their old nemesis James Moriarty) appears. And they have no choice but to include him in this most unusual and singular of quests. What are the mysterious monsters that stalk Hyde Park? Could there really be a werewolf of London?! Can an old gypsy woman from Holmes's past shed some light on the mystery? How could the quest for the Excalibur come to shake the very foundations of time itself? Is this Holmes's and Watson's last case together? All will be revealed in, Sherlock Holmes and The Search for Excalibur. It's Holmes and Watson at their best-during the worst-as you have never known them before!
This book is about experiences I've had in my dreams, on a personal note, and through association with friends and family. I tell of the high and low struggles of being appreciated in everyday life. Through these experiences I learn about the different type of friendship and what love is really about.
Hell has been unleashed into the world of men, we just don't know it yet. One man has unlocked the doors separating Earth from Hell, and now humanity will pay the ultimate price. Unless Jacob Hope can save them. The scars of the past rarely fade, but Jake has managed to heal many of his, knowing that to continue on his crusade he must enter the final battle as more than just a man, he needs to be a leader, a figurehead for all mankind. Having managed a surprise victory over the immortal Abaddon, Jake sets forth to thwart the plans of the Fallen. His search leads him through exotic locations in a hunt for vital information to aid him in the final battle. And yet information might prove to be his greatest enemy. Dragged into Hell, Jake is confronted by Satan, who reveals a secret which devastates all Jake holds to be true. As Jake begins to lose control of the ever-darkening power contained within him, his confidence frays and his search for answers becomes more and more desperate. The Lord of Hell has claimed him as his son: The Antichrist.
In this and every age, the church desperately needs prophecy. It needs the bold proclamation of God’s transforming vision to challenge its very human tendency toward expediency and self-interest — to jolt it into new insight and energy. For Luke Timothy Johnson, the New Testament books Luke and Acts provide that much-needed jolt to conventional norms. To read Luke-Acts as a literary unit, he says, is to uncover a startling prophetic vision of Jesus and the church — and an ongoing call for today’s church to embody and proclaim God’s vision for the world.
Shortlisted for the 2023 J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry Award • Winner of the 2021 Confederation Poets Prize • One of The Times' Best Poetry Books of 2022 • A CBC Best Poetry Book of 2022 • Nominated for the 2023 ReLit Award for Poetry "...a trans-mystical work of love and change..."—Ali Blythe, author of Hymnswitch The mystics who coined the phrase ‘the way of affirmation’ understood the apocalyptic nature of the word yes, the way it can lead out of one life and into another. Moving among the languages of Christian conversion, Classical metamorphosis, seasonal transformation, and gender transition, Luke Hathaway tells the story of the love that rewired his being, asking each of us to experience the transfiguration that can follow upon saying yes—with all one’s heart, with all one’s soul, with all one’s mind, with all one’s strength ... and with all one’s body, too.
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