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Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers

A Woman from Arkansas, a Priest from Haiti, a Generation Changed Through Education

By: Martha Abbey Miller

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Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers

A Woman from Arkansas, a Priest from Haiti, a Generation Changed Through Education

By: Martha Abbey Miller

Explorer Christopher Columbus discovered the tropical Caribbean island of Hispaniola in 1492. Its western third would become Haiti. After three hundred years of slavery and colonial rule, Haiti became the worlds first black republic. Over two hundred years later, Haitis children continue to search for hope as they grow up against a backdrop of poverty, unemployment, civil unrest, disease, disasters, hunger, and illiteracy. At age sixty, Frances Landers took her first mission trip . . . to Haiti. The children entranced her. But could she even dream of making a difference? Partnering with a tall, visionary Haitian priest, and stepping out in faith, she accomplished far more than she could possibly have dreamed. In 1981, Frances raised money for a small school in Haiti. Thirty-five years later, her Haiti Education Foundation educates thousands of children in dozens of schools in remote mountain villages. Environments of energy and expectation have replaced illiteracy and lethargy. Francess HEF has changed tens of thousands of lives in Haiti. And across the United States, too, as people experience the joy of helping others help themselves. The story of Frances Maschal Landers is nothing short of a miracle. Yet even miracles are burdened with struggle . . . progress against setbacks, the love of the Lord against the darkness of voodoo, the construction of schools against the destruction of an earthquake. Join Frances on her journey. You will emerge at the end, like she, personifying hope.

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WestBow Press

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1512749982

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Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks

The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim

By: Martha G. Newman

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Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks

The Sacramental Imagination of Engelhard of Langheim

By: Martha G. Newman

Around the year 1200, the Cistercian Engelhard of Langheim dedicated a collection of monastic stories to a community of religious women. Martha G. Newman explores how this largely unedited collection of tales about Cistercian monks illuminates the religiosity of Cistercian nuns. As did other Cistercian storytellers, Engelhard recorded the miracles and visions of the order's illustrious figures, but he wrote from Franconia, in modern Germany, rather than the Cistercian heartland. His extant texts reflect his interactions with non-Cistercian monasteries and with Langheim's patrons rather than celebrating Bernard of Clairvaux. Engelhard was conservative, interested in maintaining traditional Cistercian patterns of thought. Nonetheless, by offering to women a collection of narratives that explore the oral qualities of texts, the nature of sight, and the efficacy of sacraments, Engelhard articulated a distinctive response to the social and intellectual changes of his period. In analyzing Engelhard's stories, Newman uncovers an understudied monastic culture that resisted the growing emphasis on the priestly administration of the sacraments and the hardening of gender distinctions. Engelhard assumed that monks and nuns shared similar interests and concerns, and he addressed his audiences as if they occupied a space neither fully sacerdotal nor completely lay, neither scholastic nor unlearned, and neither solely male nor only female. His exemplary narratives depict the sacramental value of everyday objects and behaviors whose efficacy relied more on individual spiritual formation than on sacerdotal action. By encouraging nuns and monks to imagine connections between heaven and earth, Engelhard taught faith as a learned disposition. Newman's study demonstrates that scholastic questions about signs, sacraments, and sight emerged in a narrative form within late twelfth-century monastic communities.

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312

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812252586

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9780812252583

Population Health Analytics

By: Martha L. Sylvia,Ines Maria Vigil

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Population Health Analytics

By: Martha L. Sylvia,Ines Maria Vigil

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576

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284182479

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9781284182477

Earth First!

Environmental Apocalypse

By: Martha F. Lee

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Earth First!

Environmental Apocalypse

By: Martha F. Lee

In the summer of 1980, Dave Foreman, along with four conservationist colleagues, founded the millenarian movement Earth First!. A provocative counterculture that ultimately hoped for the fall of industrial civilization, the movement emerged in response to rapid commercial development of the American wilderness. “The earth should come first” was a doctrine that championed both biocentrism (an emphasis on maintaining the earth’s full complement of species) and biocentric equality (the belief that all species are equal). Martha Lee was successful in gaining extraordinary access to information about the movement, as well as interviews with its members. While following Earth First’s development and methods, she illustrates the inherent instability and the dangers associated with all millenarian movements. This book will be of interest to environmentalists and those interested in political science and sociology.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815603657

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9780815603658

Early Netherlandish Painting

By: National Gallery of Art (U.S.),John Oliver Hand,Martha Wolff

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Early Netherlandish Painting

By: National Gallery of Art (U.S.),John Oliver Hand,Martha Wolff

The volume contains entries for paintings in the National gallery that were produced in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries by artists from the Netherlands. The entries are arranged alphabetically by artist; a short biography and bibliography for each artist is followed by individual entries on the paintings, each in order of acquisition. The authors address traditional questions of attributes and iconography; in addition, they examine the social, economic, and religious context in which the individual work of art functioned. The volume is also probable the first museum catalogue to include the results of examination by infrared reflectography and dendrochronological analysis.

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Cambridge University Press

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0894680935

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9780894680939

An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, C. 1380-c. 1509

New York City, Columbia University-Union Theological

By: Martha W. Driver,Michael T. Orr

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An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, C. 1380-c. 1509

New York City, Columbia University-Union Theological

By: Martha W. Driver,Michael T. Orr

This is a new volume in a continuing series of publications listing and identifying all illustrations contained in English manuscripts from the time of Chaucer to Henry VIII. The present volume catalogues manuscripts in institutional collections in New York City, including the collections of the Morgan Library. The catalogue contains entries for 79 manuscripts and notes the subject matter of every illustration in each manuscript, from full-page miniatures and historiated initials to marginalia, added drawings and nota bene signs. A comprehensive index of pictorial subjects provides readers with complete references to the visual material with thematic groupings. The volume also includes a User's Guide, an extensive glossary of subjects and terms and indexes of authors/texts and manuscripts with coats of arms.

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Harvey Miller

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1905375220

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9781905375226

Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers

A Woman from Arkansas, a Priest from Haiti, a Generation Changed Through Education

By: Martha Abbey Miller

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A Woman from Arkansas, a Priest from Haiti, a Generation Changed Through Education

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Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers

Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers

Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks

Cistercian Stories for Nuns and Monks

Population Health Analytics

Population Health Analytics

Earth First!

Earth First!

Early Netherlandish Painting

Early Netherlandish Painting

An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, C. 1380-c. 1509

An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from the Time of Chaucer to Henry VIII, C. 1380-c. 1509

Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers

Hope Personified: Frances Maschal Landers

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