Every country has her own currency. Currency is the legal tender that helps you make purchase. Heaven has her own legal tender, and it is called faith. This book is a book that helps one know how to spiritually purchase and to command the impossible. This book is a must read for all, new converts as well as church leaders.
Every country has her own currency. Currency is the legal tender that helps you make purchase. Heaven has her own legal tender, and it is called faith. This book is a book that helps one know how to spiritually purchase and to command the impossible. This book is a must read for all, new converts as well as church leaders.
Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish -- Christian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the profound changes that have taken place in Christian thought. The book is divided into ten chapters, each of which features a main essay, written by a Jewish scholar, that explores the meaning of a set of Christian beliefs. Following the essay are responses from a second Jewish scholar and a Christian scholar. Designed to generate new conversations within the American Jewish community and between the Jewish and Christian communities, Christianity in Jewish Terms lays the foundation for better understanding. It was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2001.
Nach den 1997 erschienenen Studien zu Mystik und Theologie des rabbinischen Judentums liegt nun der zweite und letzte Band der Gesammelten Studien von Arnold Goldberg vor. Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeiten des ersten Bandes standen vornehmlich zentrale inhaltliche Fragen rabbinischer Mystik und Theologie. Die neunzehn hier vorgelegten, zwischen 1974 und 1990 entstandenen Untersuchungen verstehen die rabbinische Literatur vor allem als methodologische Herausforderung. Die spezifische Eigenart dieser Literatur als Traditionsliteratur (im Gegensatz zur Autorenliteratur) besteht darin, daß ihre 'Fragmente' oder 'Zitate' aus ihrem ursprünglichen Kontext gelöst wurden und von Redaktoren in neue Formen eingebettet und zu neuen literarischen Einheiten gestaltet wurden. Arnold Goldberg betrachtete daher die Entwicklung einer formanalytischen Methode als vorrangige Aufgabe. Dadurch erst wird die Erforschung der einzelnen Formen, ihrer ursprünglichen und eigentümlichen Funktionen als selbständige literarische Formen, und die Entstehung neuer Formen und sekundärer Funktionen durch die Komposition möglich. Erst von der Form her kann die Aussage in ihren Gesamtzusammenhängen und in ihrem Bezugssystem erschlossen werden. Folgerichtig legte Arnold Goldberg nach einer ersten Studie zu Form und Funktion des Ma'ase in der Mischna seinen programmatischen und wegweisenden Entwurf einer formanalytischen Methode für die Exegese der rabbinischen Traditionsliteratur vor, dem er in den Folgejahren zahlreiche Einzeluntersuchungen folgen ließ. Im Zentrum seines methodologischen Interesses stehen rabbinische Texte als Gegenstand der Schriftauslegung, was zum Beispiel in den Arbeiten Das schriftauslegende Gleichnis im Midrasch, Die Schrift der rabbinischen Schriftausleger oder seinen Studien zu den Kompositionsformen der rabbinischen Homilie deutlich wird.
This book, first published in 1997, examines the influence of angelology on the christology of the Apocalypse of John. In the Apocalypse, Jesus appears in glorious form reminiscent of angels in Jewish and Christian literature in the period between 200 BCE and 200 CE. Dr Carrell asks what significance this has for the christology of the Apocalypse. He concludes that by portraying Jesus in such a way that he has the form and function of an angel, and yet is also divine, the Apocalypse both upholds monotheism and at the same time provides a means for Jesus to be presented in visible, glorious form to his Church.
Corruption, as a social science, has been mystified and even ignored for many generations. Not many people would like to talk about this subject, openly and transparently. Now, it is becoming a subject of great concern, not only in the developing nations but also in the developed world. The subject has impacted so negatively in our social, economic and political life, that we can no longer keep quiet about it. Corruption is eroding the moral values of many nations and consigning many people to perpetual poverty and deprivation. To me this is a subject that is becoming more important and critical than even civics and geography in schools. It is a subject that touches and affects the morality of nations. I have a passionate concern, that, if we in Africa want to make Africa a better place to live in, then we must address this subject with the seriousness it deserves. Like any other social science, this subject should be introduced in our schools, and colleges, so that our young people, could be made acutely aware of the evils of this vice, and how it could be eradicated from our society. If this is done, our future generations will live in a much better society than we are today. There should also be programmes in place, organized by the civil society, and other agencies to educate the masses about the consequences of corruption in society. I do, however, appreciate that without available materials, my propositions could not be feasible. This book therefore, is intended to form a good source of Civic Education Material into Corruption in Africa and more specifically, in Kenya. The book has been written with those educational objectives, specifically in mind. It is the intention of this book to show that corruption poses a serious challenge in terms of the economic, political and social development in the AfricanContinent. Corruption undermines democratic institutions and good governance in the political landscape. It reduces accountability and negates representation and policymaking in the electoral process. It abrogates the rule of law in the judiciary. Corruption also encourages nepotism resulting into unequal provision of resources to the population in the public sector. The book further endeavours to show, that corruption undermines the legitimacy of government, and such democratic values as human rights, respect for therule of law, trust and tolerance. Corruption also does undermine economic development by advancing narrow and selfish economic policies and incompetence, in the delivery of services to the people. This book seeks to analyze, how corruption in public institutions, has squandered the national wealth, and impoverished the people. There is also a critical analysis on bureaucratic corruption, and how the public officers achieve their objectives, by diverting public investment away from social and people friendly projects, such as poverty reduction, education, health and housing, into capital projects, simply to attract bribes for individual benefits. The book examines institutional corruption in various departments of government, including the Police, Judiciary, Public Works, Immigration, Revenue Authority, Lands, Local Government and many other public institutions. The book also examines corruption in the public and private sectors, including public corporations, political banks, educational institutions and how the general public, have also contributed to the vice. The book further, examines corruption in other African countries, and makes, useful comparisons. It goes on to deal with measures that are being put in place,both in Kenya, and other African countries to fight corruption nationally, and internationally. The Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act, and the Public Servants Ethics Act that the Kenya Government, has put in place are discussed in some detail. The role of civil society and other organizations like Transparency International, and the media in the fight against corr
This book has been specifically designed to help guide students through the process of identifying, evaluating and applying evidence in nursing practice.
The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout the world not by television or even social media, but in short videos produced by the participants themselves and circulated anonymously on the internet. In The People Are Not An Image, Snowdon explores this radical shift in revolutionary self-representation, showing that the political consequences of these videos cannot be located without reference to their aesthetic form. Looking at videos from Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya, and Egypt, Snowdon attends closely to the circumstances of both their production and circulation, drawing on a wide range of historical and theoretical material, to discover what they can tell us about the potential for revolution in our time and the possibilities of video as a genuinely decentralized and vernacular medium.
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