2010, ISBN: 9781563382406

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Gallimard, 2002. poche. Broché. 188 pages. En sept courts récits Le Clézio brosse le portrait d'une galerie de personnages d'ici et d'ailleurs de la grande ville moderne ou du désert. Avec Pervenche Eva Kalima Samaweyn il est question de la mort et de la peur de la solitude des doux rêves de l'enfance de l'amour de la liberté et des désillusions de la vie adulte du désir... Tous ces personnages ont en commun une même fragilité et une même difficulté à accepter les pesanteurs d'un monde violent où il arrive que l'on tue une prostituée sous le regard indifférent des passants que l'on vende une jeune fille contre un peu de drogue ou que les nomades bédouins soient dépossédés de leur trésor. Tous ces contes forment autant de fragments de vie d'éclairages sur des anonymes dont l'existence simple passe souvent inaperçue. Le Clézio illustre ainsi magnifiquement cette citation de Louisa M. Alcott dans Mrs Podger's Teapot : "La moitié de tout ce qui dans le monde est vraie beauté vertu ou romance a été mise au c?ur des gens simples cachée dans les corps ordinaires." Le Clézio est l'auteur de très nombreux récits où s'exprime la même quête de paix intérieure loin des fausses valeurs de la civilisation moderne : Le Procès-Verbal (prix Renaudot 1963) Désert Onitsha... --Nathalie Gouiffès paperback. Très Bon Etat., Gallimard, 2002, Gallimard, 2008. poche. Broché. 188 pages. En sept courts récits Le Clézio brosse le portrait d'une galerie de personnages d'ici et d'ailleurs de la grande ville moderne ou du désert. Avec Pervenche Eva Kalima Samaweyn il est question de la mort et de la peur de la solitude des doux rêves de l'enfance de l'amour de la liberté et des désillusions de la vie adulte du désir... Tous ces personnages ont en commun une même fragilité et une même difficulté à accepter les pesanteurs d'un monde violent où il arrive que l'on tue une prostituée sous le regard indifférent des passants que l'on vende une jeune fille contre un peu de drogue ou que les nomades bédouins soient dépossédés de leur trésor. Tous ces contes forment autant de fragments de vie d'éclairages sur des anonymes dont l'existence simple passe souvent inaperçue. Le Clézio illustre ainsi magnifiquement cette citation de Louisa M. Alcott dans Mrs Podger's Teapot : "La moitié de tout ce qui dans le monde est vraie beauté vertu ou romance a été mise au c?ur des gens simples cachée dans les corps ordinaires." Le Clézio est l'auteur de très nombreux récits où s'exprime la même quête de paix intérieure loin des fausses valeurs de la civilisation moderne : Le Procès-Verbal (prix Renaudot 1963) Désert Onitsha... --Nathalie Gouiffès paperback. Très Bon Etat., Gallimard, 2008, London: Vintage Books, 2010. Soft cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Synopsis: A powerful contemporary novel set in London from a master of literary fiction. London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Over seven days we follow the lives of seven major characters: a hedge fund manager trying to bring off the biggest trade of his career; a professional footballer recently arrived from Poland; a young lawyer with little work and too much time to speculate; a student who has been led astray by Islamist theory; a hack book-reviewer; a schoolboy hooked on skunk and reality TV; and a Tube train driver whose Circle Line train joins these and countless other lives together in a daily loop. With daring skill, the novel pieces together the complex patterns and crossings of modern urban life. Greed, the dehumanising effects of the electronic age and the fragmentation of society are some of the themes dealt with in this savagely humorous book. The writing on the wall appears in letters ten feet high, but the characters refuse to see it - and party on as though tomorrow is a dream. Sebastian Faulks probes not only the self-deceptions of this intensely realised group of people, but their hopes and loves as well. As the novel moves to its gripping climax, they are forced, one by one, to confront the true nature of the world they inhabit. About the Author: SEBASTIAN FAULKS was born and brought up in Newbury, Berkshire. He worked in journalism before starting to write books. He is best known for the French trilogy, The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong and Charlotte Gray and is also the author of a triple biography, The Fatal Englishman; a small book of literary parodies, Pistache; and the novels Human Traces and Engleby. He lives in London with his wife and their three children., Vintage Books, 2010, NY: Three Rivers Press, 2001. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good. Cover has edge wear some rubbing and dents. Text has previous owners name and highlighting. A Groundbreaking Interpretation of Prayer, Quantum Science, and Prophecy. Only one document was discovered completely intact among the 25,000 fragments of papyrus, parchment, and hammered copper known as the Dead Sea Scrolls: the Great Isaiah Scroll. Nearly one thousand years older than existing copies of the Old Testament's Book of Isaiah, the twenty-two-foot-long parchment was still rolled and sealed in its original earthen vase when it was discovered in 1946. The completeness of the Isaiah Scroll offers unprecedented insight into the power of an ancient mystery -- a lost mode of prayer -- that modern science is just beginning to understand. Displayed today in Jerusalem's Shrine of the Book Museum, the Great Isaiah Scroll is believed to be so precious by modern scholars that it's withdrawn into a vault beneath the building's floor in the event of a natural or man-made disaster. 0.5 x 7.8 x 5.1 inches, 304 pages, Three Rivers Press, 2001, Modern Library. Used - Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear., Modern Library, HarperSanFrancisco, 2005. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. New/New. B&W photos and maps. CONDITION: NEW 2005 HarperSanFrancisco hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first printing. B&W photos throughout. CONTENT: The archaeological find of the twentieth century was the astounding discovery by an Egyptian peasant in December 1945 of a large storage jar filled with ancient papyrus manuscripts. Painstakingly restored and translated, these fragments came to be known collectively as the Nag Hammadi library. Through them we glimpse a fascinating alternative perspective on Jesus and many of his earliest followers, including the influence of Gnosticism on their beliefs. "Gnosticism," a term alluding to special mystical knowledge, designates a series of religious movements that have existed since ancient times. This philosophy permeated Judaism, Greco-Roman religion, and what now appear to be different varieties of Christianity. Some of these alternative views, including Jesus's relationship to Mary Magdalene, have revolutionized biblical scholarship and were recently sensationalized by Dan Brown in his bestseller, The Da Vinci Code. The struggle to publish these ancient manuscripts has at times seemed like an ancient story of Egyptian magic -- filled with curses and drama. Included in these discoveries are several gospels of Jesus's life that never made it into the modern Christian Bible as well as a treasury of lost, esoteric wisdom that portrays a side of Christianity suppressed by the institutionalized church. Meyer provides an overview of all the texts and their contents, grouping the codices by their respective genres, schools of thought, or attributed author, and discussing their meaning and significance for us today. He also provides an appendix that for the first time offers a quick survey of all the texts of the Nag Hammadi library and the Berlin Gnostic Codex, summarizing the contents of each of the texts and offering select quotations to illustrate their character and style. The Gnostic Discoveries is the best available guide to the history and significance of the find at Nag Hammadi -- an amazing archaeological link to the founding of the largest religion in the world., HarperSanFrancisco, 2005, NY: Pocket Books, 1994. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Novel of South Carolina slave who escaped during Civil War. First printing., Pocket Books, 1994, Trinity Press International, 1998-06-01. Paperback. Very Good. Harrisburg, 1997; glossy paper covers; minimal shelf wear; 12mo, 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 85 pages., Trinity Press International, 1998-06-01

ISBN: 9781563382406

This book describes several aspects of contemporary culture that create both opportunities and threats to Christian mission. It offers insights and practices that the church today must embrace in order to live faithfully and witness effectively to the gospel. Following a presentation of the church's history in relation to Western culture, several chapters draw upon specific suggestions in Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue--that we live in a fragmented rather than a pluralistic world; how the church has compromised its faithfulness by accommodating the mainstream of morality; implications stemming from the collapse of the Enlightenment project; and the need for a new monasticism together with forms the life of the church must take to sustain a faithful witness in contemporary culture. Jonathan R. Wilson is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, and the author of Theology as Cultural Critique. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Religion,Inspiration>Christianity>Christianity, Bloomsbury Academic Core >1

1998, ISBN: 9781563382406

Trinity Press International, Taschenbuch, 96 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-06-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: unknown, 0.23 kg, Verkaufsrang: 7121904, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Christ & Gesellschaft, Christentum & Theologie, Religion & Glaube, Jüngerschaft, Christliches Leben, Religion & Esoterik, Genres, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Trinity Press International, 1998

1998, ISBN: 9781563382406

Trinity Press International, Taschenbuch, 96 Seiten, Publiziert: 1998-06-01T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, Hersteller-Nr.: unknown, 0.23 kg, Verkaufsrang: 7121904, Sozialwissenschaft, Kategorien, Bücher, Christ & Gesellschaft, Christentum & Theologie, Religion & Glaube, Jüngerschaft, Christliches Leben, Religion & Esoterik, Genres, Fremdsprachige Bücher, Trinity Press International, 1998

1998, ISBN: 9781563382406

Trinity Press International. New. 1998. First Edition. Softcover. 1563382407 . 85 pages including Bibliography. This is a NEW book from the Bangor Theological Seminary Bookstore; Christian Mission & Modern Culture; 0.28 x 7.27 x 4.75 Inches ., Trinity Press International, 1998