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The Daēva Cult in the Gāthās

Autor: Amir Ahmadi

Número de Páginas: 353

Addressing the question of the origins of the Zoroastrian religion, this book argues that the intransigent opposition to the cult of the daēvas, the ancient Indo-Iranian gods, is the root of the development of the two central doctrines of Zoroastrianism: cosmic dualism and eschatology (fate of the soul after death and its passage to the other world). The daēva cult as it appears in the Gāthās, the oldest part of the Zoroastrian sacred text, the Avesta, had eschatological pretentions. The poet of the Gāthās condemns these as deception. The book critically examines various theories put forward since the 19th century to account for the condemnation of the daēvas. It then turns to the relevant Gāthic passages and analyzes them in detail in order to give a picture of the cult and the reasons for its repudiation. Finally, it examines materials from other sources, especially the Greek accounts of Iranian ritual lore (mainly) in the context of the mystery cults. Classical Greek writers consistently associate the nocturnal ceremony of the magi with the mysteries as belonging to the same religious-cultural category. This shows that Iranian religious lore included a nocturnal rite...

The Whole Works of Robert Leighton ...

Autor: Robert Leighton , James Aikman

Número de Páginas: 758

Systematic theology. [With] Index

Autor: Charles Hodge

Número de Páginas: 914

Christian Letters, of Mr Paul Bayne. Replenished with diuers Consolations, etc. (Holy Soliloquies. Or, a Holy helper in Gods building ... The third edition.) With an “Epistle Dedicatorie,” signed: Ez. Ch

Autor: Paul Baynes

Número de Páginas: 318

Heretical Fictions

Autor: Lawrence I. Berkove , Joseph Csicsila

Número de Páginas: 288

Challenging the prevailing belief that Mark Twain’s position on religion hovered somewhere between skepticism and outright heresy, Lawrence Berkove and Joseph Csicsila marshal biographical details of Twain’s life alongside close readings of his work to explore the religious faith of America’s most beloved writer and humorist. They conclude not only that religion was an important factor in Twain’s life but also that the popular conception of Twain as agnostic, atheist, or apostate is simply wrong. Heretical Fictions is the first full-length study to assess the importance of Twain’s heretical Calvinism as the foundation of his major works, bringing to light important thematic ties that connect the author’s early work to his high period and from there to his late work. Berkove and Csicsila set forth the main elements of Twain’s “countertheological” interpretation of Calvinism and analyze in detail the way it shapes five of his major books—Roughing It, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger—as well as some of his major short stories. The result is a...

The Eclectic Magazine

Número de Páginas: 888

The Works of R. Leighton. To which is Prefixed a Life of the Author, by J. Aikman

Autor: Robert Leighton (successively Bishop Of Dunblane And Archbishop Of Glasgow.)

Número de Páginas: 756

Hints and helps for teachers and parents [on Sunday schools].

Autor: John Green

Número de Páginas: 354

Easy Guide to the Bible

Autor: Sparknotes

Número de Páginas: 208

The Bible is one of the world's most important books. From the epic stories of the world's creation and Exodus in the Old Testament and the powerful New Testament tales of Jesus Christ, the Christian Messiah, the Bible has served for millennia as a rich font of material for much of the Western world's culture and philosophy. Inside the Easy Guide to the Bible, you will find expert advice to the Bible's many important themes and characters.

The Diamond Pocket Dictionary of the Holy Bible ... Selected and Arranged from Calmet, Brown, Newton, Hurd, Etc., by the Rev. W. G., Etc

Autor: William Gurney (m.a.)

Número de Páginas: 490

Bye-gones

Número de Páginas: 612

Annotations Upon the Holy Bible. Wherein the Sacred Text is Inserted, and Various Readings Annex'd, Together with the Parallel Scriptures. The More Difficult Terms in Each Yerse Explained. Seeming Contradictions Reconciled. Questiond and Doubts Resolved. And the Whole Text Opened

Autor: Matthew Poole

Número de Páginas: 1056

Dive Deeper

Autor: George Cotkin

Número de Páginas: 314

An easy-to-navigate guide to Herman Melville's epic American novel, Dive Deeper consists of 135 brief chapters, along with Etymology, Extracts, and Epilogue, each keyed to a phrase, issue, image, sensibility or notion in corresponding chapters of the original.

The Works of Robert Leighton ...

Autor: Robert Leighton

Número de Páginas: 760

Contemplations, Moral and Divine ...

Autor: Matthew Hale , George Charles

Número de Páginas: 1020

Technology Review

Número de Páginas: 1258

The Works of Robert Leighton, D. D., Archbishop of Glasgow

Autor: Robert Leighton (abp. Of Glasgow) , James Aikman

Número de Páginas: 758

The Whole Works of Robert Leighton, D.D. Archbishop of Glasgow to which is Prefixed a Life of the Author by James Aikman...

Autor: Robert Leighton

Número de Páginas: 756

My Life in Christ

Autor: Saint John (of Kronstadt)

Número de Páginas: 584

Works

Autor: Jonathan Edwards

Número de Páginas: 568

The Works of Jonathan Edwards

Autor: Jonathan Edwards , Tryon Edwards

Número de Páginas: 566

The Works of Jonathan Edwards, D.D.

Autor: Jonathan Edwards , Tryon Edwards

Número de Páginas: 570

A Common-Place-Book to the Holy Bible ... By John Locke ... Revised and improved ... by William Dodd

Número de Páginas: 462

The Select Works of the Late Rev. William Huntington

Autor: William Huntington

Número de Páginas: 662

The Poems of Shelley: Volume One

Autor: Geoffrey Matthews , Kelvin Everest

Número de Páginas: 642

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the first volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes supply the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse. The present volume includes the 'Esdaile' poems, which only entered the public domain in the 1950s, printed in chronological order and integrated with the rest of Shelley's early output, and Queen Mab, the first of Shelley’s major poems, together with its extensive prose notes. The seminal Alastor volume is placed in the detailed context of Shelley’s overall poetic development. The ‘Scrope Davies’ notebook, only discovered in 1976, furnishes two otherwise unknown sonnets as well as alternative versions of...

The Joker

Autor: Andrew Hudgins

Número de Páginas: 352

"Since Andrew Hudgins was a child, he was a compulsive joke teller, so when he sat down to write about jokes, he found that he was writing about himself--what jokes taught him and mistaught him, how they often delighted him but occasionally made him nervous with their delight in chaos and sometimes anger. Because Hudgins's father, a West Point graduate, served in the US Air Force, his family moved frequently; he learned to relate to other kids by telling jokes and watching how his classmates responded. And jokes opened him up to the serious, taboo subjects that his family didn't talk about openly--religion, race, sex, and death. Hudgins tells and analyzes the jokes that explore the contradictions in the Baptist religion he was brought up in, the jokes that told him what his parents would not tell him about sex, and the racist jokes that his uncle loved, his father hated, and his mother, caught in the middle, was ambivalent about. This book is both a memoir and a meditation on jokes and how they educated, delighted, and occasionally horrified him as he grew"--

Notes of Spiritual Retreats and Instructions

Autor: John Morris

Número de Páginas: 390

Essential Presidential Prayers and Texts

Autor: Daniel J. Merz

Número de Páginas: 354

Sermons from the Flemish, tr. by a Catholic priest. Vol. Latria

Número de Páginas: 424

The Treasury of David

Autor: Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Número de Páginas: 508

The Chosen Colossus of Evil

Autor: C A. Woytowich

Número de Páginas: 270

For all beings are the paths of fate carved, but for three dark elven children did the loss of their parents put their fates in clear unwanted view. Being murdered by a wizard in the body of a beastly Minatare, this brutal unscrupulous terror was bent on ruthless backlash to all in the realm for his own dark suffering past. Through the aging course of fifteen years, being both guided and protected by their new guardian uncle did the children's mission finally start. Forced for their own safety from all they knew they leave their home that was fashioned in a world under the world. Their clan was nothing more than a rebel shadow of their old race, driven into hiding from persecution and disloyalty of not willing to uphold the continuing evil traditions of their ancestral nature; and with struggles unseen they fight to emerge from the shadows to the surface realm, with a final goal to one day be again equal both in sociological weight and rank. Accomplishing such tasks held its risks; for the three on their endeavor discover the complications of sibling rivalry, loyalty and personal acceptance. Unexpectedly do they find trials of the body, mind and soul with allied companions along...