2002, ISBN: 9780515093193

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Doubleday Religion, March 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Floods of ink stain the pages of innumerable books on the search for the Jesus of history. As worthwhile a… More...

Doubleday Religion, March 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Floods of ink stain the pages of innumerable books on the search for the Jesus of history. As worthwhile as some of them have been, the momentous unspoken issue lying beneath the surface of these investigations has often been forgotten in the manipulation of minutiae: where is He now? Harold Fickett believes that He can be found in a number of ways, not least in the texture and impact of certain ''extraordinary lives'' of contemporary Christians, a few of whom he holds up before us in the pages of this book. Believing that certain patterns emerge from the life and ministry of Jesus, Fickett describes his contemporary examples in terms of Jesus the Wayfarer (a truck stop chaplain), the Healer (an eighty-year-old Catholic priest), Man of Prayer (an impoverished visionary of the Holy Family who works at a California McDonald's restaurant), Liberator (a husband and wife team in Southeast Asia rescuing girls from sexual slavery), Prophet (John Paul II), and Martyr (two Iranian evangelical preachers executed for their work), concluding with a discernment of the Living Christ in a community as a whole (an Orthodox cathedral in the Midwest). Fickett successfully combines several genres -- biography, biblical exegesis, journalism, fictional narrative technique -- to convey a vivid expression of the One Christ continuing His incarnate work in wonderfully diverse and immediate ways. First edition, first printing. Scuffing and fading to black covers, binding and text like new., Doubleday Religion, 3, New York. 1995. November 1995. Doubleday. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0385479530. 207 pages. hardcover. Jacket art from Bettmann Archive. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Nicholas Barber is a twenty-three-year-old priest who, fearing the wrath of the bishop for breaking his vows of chastity, takes up with a troupe of traveling players. Coming to a small town in the middle of winter, the troupe puts on their usual morality play but gets caught up in a drama of a different kind: a murder has taken place, and a mute-and-deaf girl stands condemned, awaiting execution. Seeing an opportunity to attract a larger audience than ever, the players go through the town collecting information about the murder, which they weave into their next performance. As they perform, the story takes on a life of its own. Soon they learn that their drama is far closer to the dangerous truth than they originally imagined - and they are summoned to perform for the local potentate, the powerful Lord de Guise, who has his own reasons to be interested in their version of events. Bringing fourteenth-century England to vibrant life, Barry Unsworth deftly shows us a time that is far off yet strangely familiar, where underneath medieval trappings lie the same corruption and moral dilemmas we face today. inventory #23992 ISBN: 0385479530., 0, London: Verso, 1997. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), minimal edgewear. 172 pp. This collection of essays by the Irish journalist (Irish Times) is drawn from his writings over two decades. Its portraits of people - talk-show hosts, priests, children, pop stars - and its reports of social and political upheaval, reveal a country still in search of itself, but more at ease with the complexities of its own make-up; a country whose buried memories, tourist myths and current contradictions might now be reworked to forge a truly modern Irish identity. Discusses how Ireland is a country constantly building and rebuilding its own identity, particularly in the 1990s. Ireland has changed to such an extent that it can now boast a greater 1996 per-capita GDP than the UK and a real place in the global economy., Verso, 1997, 0, New York, NY: JOVE BOOKS. Very Good Minus. 1988. First Paperback Edition. Soft Cover. 4 1/4" x 6 7/8" 051509319X PAPERBACK A priest, brutally crucified by the Vietcong, lies in a coma for year. Upon his death, he is canonized by the Pope. Nine hours later, he lives-and his message threatens to destroy the modern church. Wear at edges, spine creased, reading creases, a few creases on book, lightly rubbed. ., JOVE BOOKS, 1988, 3<

1988, ISBN: 9780515093193

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1988, ISBN: 9780515093193

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