The Fool of God
Author | : Louis Cochran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1959 |
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Author | : Louis Cochran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1959 |
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ISBN | : |
Author | : Louis Cochran |
Publisher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2002-10-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1592440797 |
Author | : Julien Green |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1987-09-02 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0060634642 |
This warm, richly detailed biography brings the beloved saint alive in all his human and profoundly spiritual dimensions.
Author | : Maarten Maartens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth-Anne Stewart |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781580510615 |
Richly written, Jesus the Holy Fool combines diverse images from religious traditions, world literature, Jungian archetype, and Scripture. Weaving the best theology and spirituality, Jesus the Holy Fool is a fresh and inviting Christology. The Scriptures tell us that religious leaders thought Jesus was "possessed," and his own family thought he was "crazy." In his open table fellowship, choice of followers, radical passion, and his death and resurrection, Jesus was willing to appear as a fool for the sake of God's reign. His teachings--especially the parables, paradoxes, and the beatitudes--advocate a way of life that is grounded in Holy Foolishness. Through an archetypal examination of the fool motif as it applies to Jesus in the Gospels, Jesus the Holy Fool develops the connections between holiness and folly. Offering new insights into Christology and exploring its practical pastoral ramifications, Jesus the Holy Fool presents Holy Foolishness as a paradigm for the Christian journey and as a new model of what it means for us to be church.
Author | : Hamlin Hill |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2010-04-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0226336476 |
After laughing their way through his classic and beloved depictions of nineteenth-century American life, few readers would suspect that Mark Twain’s last years were anything but happy and joyful. They would be wrong. Contrary to the myth perpetrated by his literary executors Twain ended his life as a frustrated writer plagued by paranoia. He suffered personal tragedies, got involved in questionable business ventures, and was a demanding and controlling father and husband. As Mark Twain: God’s Fool demonstrates, the difficult circumstances of Twain’s personal life make his humorous output all the more surprising and admirable. “Ham[lin] Hill remains among the smartest, most honest, and most humane of Twain scholars—and . . . God’s Fool parades those qualities on every page.” Jeff Steinbrink, Franklin & Marshall College “Fills a great, long-standing need for a thoroughly researched book about Mark Twain’s twilight years. . . . Splendidly, grippingly written and excellently documented. . . . Likely to be a standard work for as long as anyone can foresee.” Choice
Author | : Andrew Francis Klarmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark Slouka |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-04-13 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307789756 |
Born attached at the chest, Chang and Eng were considered a marvel, an omen, an act of God, evidence of His glory or proof of His wrath. Uniquely cursed, enslaved to one another for life, they were a joke of nature variously feared and abhorred, disturbing our most basic assumptions about the human condition. Mark Slouka’s dazzling achievement in God’s Fool is the ease and compassion with which he draws the story of one human being from this ghastly predicament. Looking beyond the twins’ physical connection, he imagines one man’s life of ordinary grace and suffering, longing and resistance, and the ties of love, as well as of blood, that bind and redeem us all. By any standard, theirs is a history of epic variety and drama. Their birth, to an illiterate fishmonger, sent midwives screaming from the room. Condemned to death, they survived to be brought, at the age of thirteen, to the Royal Palace in Bangkok for an audience with King Rama III. At seventeen, laboring as merchants on the Meklong River, they saw their world erased by a typhoon. Consigned for three hundred pounds to an opium trader by their mother, who was desperate to ensure their survival, they sailed for Europe. There they entertained kings and counselors in salons and drawing rooms from Brussels to Rome, and, in Paris, met the woman who would divide them as no surgeon ever could. When the culture that had lifted them up inevitably cast them down, they landed in the flophouses of London, where, penniless and starving, they were discovered by Phineas T. Barnum, who packed them off to America along with an assortment of bearded ladies and two-headed calves, albino beauties and dog boys, German midgets and twelve-fingered flute players. Leaving Barnum at the height of their fame to take a last stab at normal life, they settled in North Carolina, where, despite the tensions growing between them, they found, for a time, tranquillity as farmers and slave owners, marrying a pair of sisters and fathering, between them, twenty children. Their peace, however, would prove to be short-lived. As the Civil War drew closer, and their world began to tilt, they would first turn against each other and then, faced with a trial unlike any they had ever known, draw together once more. No longer young, they set off to find the war, and to save what could be saved. It would be there, on that very real battlefield, that Chang would enact his final, terrifying battle with fate. Sweeping and intimate, vibrant and austere, God’s Fool is a novel of soaring ambition and accomplishment from a fiercely gifted storyteller.
Author | : Todd Charles Wood |
Publisher | : Zondervan Academic |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2019-02-05 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0310595444 |
The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church. To some in the church, anyone who accepts the theory of evolution has rejected biblical teaching and is therefore thought of as a heretic. To many outside the church as well as a growing number of evangelicals, anyone who accepts the view that God created the earth in six days a few thousand years ago must be poorly educated and ignorant--a fool. Todd Wood and Darrel Falk know what it's like to be thought of, respectively, as a fool and a heretic. This book shares their pain in wearing those labels, but more important, provides a model for how faithful Christians can hold opposing views on deeply divisive issues yet grow deeper in their relationship to each other and to God.
Author | : Louis Cochran |
Publisher | : College PressPub Company |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1992-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780899002750 |