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Author | : Os Guinness |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2015-06-04 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830898506 |
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2016 Christianity Today Book of the Year in Apologetics/Evangelism One of Desiring God's Top 15 Books of 2015 Hearts Minds Bookstore's Best Books of 2015, Social Criticism and Cultural Engagement In our post-Christian context, public life has become markedly more secular and private life infinitely more diverse. Yet many Christians still rely on cookie-cutter approaches to evangelism and apologetics. Most of these methods assume that people are open, interested and needy for spiritual insight when increasingly most people are not. Our urgent need, then, is the capacity to persuade—to make a convincing case for the gospel to people who are not interested in it. In his magnum opus, Os Guinness offers a comprehensive presentation of the art and power of creative persuasion. Christians have often relied on proclaiming and preaching, protesting and picketing. But we are strikingly weak in persuasion—the ability to talk to people who are closed to what we are saying. Actual persuasion requires more than a one-size-fits-all approach. Guinness notes, "Jesus never spoke to two people the same way, and neither should we." Following the tradition of Erasmus, Pascal, G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, Malcolm Muggeridge and Peter Berger, Guinness demonstrates how apologetic persuasion requires both the rational and the imaginative. Persuasion is subversive, turning the tables on listeners' assumptions to surprise them with signals of transcendence and the credibility of the gospel. This book is the fruit of forty years of thinking, honed in countless talks and discussions at many of the leading universities and intellectual centers of the world. Discover afresh the persuasive power of Christian witness from one of the leading apologists and thinkers of our era.
Author | : Charles E. Schwarz |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2003-02-17 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0595268099 |
Download Murder Among Talking Fools And Other Mystery Short Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This second volume of hilarious, socially incorrect 'who done it' mystery short stories by Charles E. Schwarz is filled with unforgettable Dickensian characters and is a joy as the readers try to spot the villain. This is best illustrated by the title's story, Murder Among Talking Fools, where, in a bar, desperate lonely people engage in outrageous exaggerated fictions about themselves until one is shot. From first to last, the fast pace of these eight short stories never diminishes but keeps the reader page turning, laughing and guessing until the ending.
Author | : James Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1739 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Pierre Bayard |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 2010-08-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1596917148 |
Download How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading"-from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten-and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read-which became a favorite of readers everywhere in the hardcover edition-is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them.
Author | : Joan Silber |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0393088707 |
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A dazzling new collection of interconnected stories by the National Book Award finalist. When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber’s dazzling new story cycle tackle this question head-on. Vera, the shy, anarchist daughter of missionary parents, leaves her family for love and activism in New York. A generation later, her own doubting daughter insists on the truth of being of two minds, even in marriage. The adulterous son of a Florida hotel owner steals money from his family and departs for Paris, where he takes up with a young woman and finds himself outsmarted in turn. Fools ponders the circle of winners and losers, dupers and duped, and the price we pay for our beliefs. Fools is a luminous, intelligent, and rewarding work of fiction from the author for whom the Boston Globe said, "No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power."
Author | : Robert Trivers |
Publisher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-10-25 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0465027555 |
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Explores the author's theorized evolutionary basis for self-deception, which he says is tied to group conflict, courtship, neurophysiology, and immunology, but can be negated by awareness of it and its results.
Author | : Virgil Stokes |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1105448150 |
Download The Diagnosis and Treatment of Fools Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Every leader has difficult people! Fortunately, the Bible tells us how to deal with them. Speaking from the heart of a Pastor, Virgil opens the book of Proverbs and finds wisdom to deal with what Solomon called "fools." Learn how to recognize them and how to help them. If they refuse help, find out how to avoid wasting your valuable time. This one is a life saver to assist you in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Fools!
Author | : Jane Austen Society of North America |
Publisher | : University of Alberta |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2002-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780888643742 |
Download The Talk in Jane Austen Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Jane Austen's novels have been widely read and discussed, but one topic that is rarely studied is her use of speech. In this volume, writers from around the world consider Austen's sometimes playful, always witty and significant use of dialogue. Features contributions from Juliet McMaster, Isobel Grundy, Linda Bree, Gary Kelly, Jan Fergus, Jocelyn Harris, Kay Young and others.
Author | : Djamel Ouis |
Publisher | : Paragon Publishing |
Total Pages | : 872 |
Release | : 2020-01-17 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 178222582X |
Download Humorous Wit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Humorous Wit is a new compilation of quotations in their most humoristic form. There are over 15,000 of these taken from various parts of the world, with over 1,200 of them translated into English for the first time. This book features 5,000 authors from every corner of the globe, covering a period starting before classical antiquity, when man first started to record his thoughts, to modern times, enriching the cultural heritage. This does not in any way mean that the caveman was less humorous, but the richness of the environment we live in today and the variety of subject matter contribute considerably to a refined sense of humour. Moreover, considering that chimps and other primates also possess the ability to laugh, humour may have been around longer than the human race : )
Author | : Lee Roorda Schott |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 2019-09-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1532690452 |
Download The Fools' Manual Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An early reader of Foolish Church, a layperson, stood up in front of her church and said, “Every church person needs to read this, because we will learn a lot to help us as a church!” She grasped the point of the book: it’s about helping us do church differently. If you’re foolish enough to want to try what Lee shares in Foolish Church, this fools’ manual will help you do so. It offers book and Bible reflections for each chapter, along with practice suggestions that will help you and your church practice being more authentic, more relevant, and more open. You’ll be invited to connect with others, using the hashtag #foolishchurch on social media, so that we all might learn together. C’mon, all you church fools! We’ve got work to do.