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The Life of David as Reflected in His Psalms , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 328min
What a many-colored career that was which began amidst the pastoral solitudes of Bethlehem, and ended in the chamber where the dying ears heard the blare of the trumpets that announced the accession of Bathsheba's son! None of the great men of scripture pass through a course of so many changes as David; none of them touched human life at so many points; none of them were so tempered and polished by swift alternation of heat and cold, by such heavy blows and the friction of such rapid revolutions. These quick transitions of fortune, and this wide experience, are the many-colored threads from which the rich web of his psalms is woven. And while his life is singularly varied, his character is also singularly full and versatile. In this respect, too, he is most unlike the other leading figures of Old Testament history. Contrast him, for example, with the stern majesty of Moses or the unvarying tone in the gaunt strength of Elijah. These and the other mighty men in Israel are like the ruder instruments of music - the trumpet of Sinai, with its one prolonged note. David is like his own harp of many chords, through which the breath of God murmured, drawing forth wailing and rejoicing, the clear ring of triumphant trust, the low plaint of penitence, the blended harmonies of all devout emotions. (Adapted from the introduction) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Cochran Heath. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011413/bk_blak_011413_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Keeping Catherine Chaste (eBook, ePUB)
This is the story of a young woman who as she matures, begins to explore the wonderful sensations her body is capable of creating, however, soon feeling guilty, she tells her mother. Being religious to a fault, her parents soon have Catherine fitted with, and imprisoned in a truly limiting Anti-Temptation System. Next, she is sent off to the local parochial school for young ladies where she discovers that she is not alone in being imprisoned within the restricting undergarments. Catherine remains a prisoner of her 'System' but is eventually freed and allowed to date. Her long-frustrated desires boil to the surface and she soon falls victim to the suddenly available world of sensual pleasure, but it's a trap. Far too soon Catherine is forced into becoming a Nun in the Sisterhood Of Eternal Penitence and once she is delivered to the Convent, she is rapidly absorbed into a life long commitment to Poverty, Obedience, Chastity, Discipline and Silence while always being kept subject to constant electronic control. This is not the end for Catherine though, for The Church has very definite plans for the young women it holds in captivity. Eventually, she finds herself removed from human status and reduced to the level of an owned dairy animal .... a role she will never be permitted to escape from and one that she will endure for the remainder of her life.- Shop: buecher
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Thinking About Religion and Violence, Hörbuch, Digital, 743min
In a world where violence in the name of religion can impact so many other people's lives, it's critical to understand the intersection between religion and violence. What's required is not to see religion as inherently violent but to recognize that the violence associated with religious groups and communities is worth exploring and interrogating. In these 24 lectures, embark on a global, multidisciplinary investigation of religious violence. Delivered with honesty and sensitivity to the diversity of spiritual beliefs, these lectures examine the roots of this phenomenon and guide you toward more informed ways of thinking about it. You'll consider how faiths like Christianity, Islam, and Buddhism view concepts like human sacrifice, martyrdom, and penitence; the ways religious violence can be directed toward specific races and genders; concepts like heresy, witch hunting, and demonology; and more. You'll probe complex ideas and concepts that will help you fashion your own interpretations, such as "religion", "Other-ing", and "cult." And you'll burrow deep into both current issues relating to religious violence - as well as their historical and conceptual sources. Professor Bivins doesn't take a clinical or pessimistic approach to the material. Rather, he's an engaging on-screen presence with a fierce open-mindedness to the varieties of religious experience. He's also optimistic about what we can learn from a comprehensive study of religious violence. And at the individual level, it starts with approaching the topic in a way that's immersive, insightful, thorough, and important for our times. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio. Language: English. Narrator: Professor Jason C. Bivins, PhD. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/tcco/000991/bk_tcco_000991_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Backslider , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 832min
Recognized as a Mormon classic 20 years after its release, The Backslider features longstanding Christian conflicts played out in a scenic, sparsely populated area of Southern Utah. A young ranch hand, Frank Windham, conceives of God as an implacable enemy of human appetite. He is a dedicated sinner until family tragedy catapults him into an arcane form of penitence preached among frontier Mormons. He is saved by an epiphany that has proved controversial among readers, either interpreting it as an extreme impiety or celebrating it as a moving and entirely plausible rendering of a biblical theme in a Western setting.Frank comes into contact with a host of rural and urban characters. Of central importance is his Lutheran girlfriend, Marianne, whom Frank seduces, begrudgingly marries, and eventually loves. Frank’s extended family is just a generation removed from polygamy and still energized by old-time grudges and deprivations. Along the way, Frank encounters a closeted secular humanist, a polygamist prophet, a psychiatrist, a mason, government employees, college professors, lawyers, and entrepreneurs - all drawn with heightened realism reminiscent of Charles Dickens or the grotesque forms of William Faulkner and Flannery O’Connor.The story engages listeners as it alternates almost imperceptibly between Frank’s naive consciousness and the more informed awareness of its narrator. It can be listened to as a love story, a satiric comedy, or a dark and sobering study of self-mutilation. Shifting from one to another, it builds suspense and elicits complex emotions, among them a profound sense of compassion. More joyous than cynical, it sympathizes deeply with the plight of all of God’s backsliders. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Charles Kahlenberg. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/141883/bk_acx0_141883_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Begin with a Question (eBook, ePUB)
Begin with a Question explores how the life of faith is a continuous voyage, launched anew each bright day of the spirit or dark night of the soul. This is a book of contemplation and motion, a journey-often in stops and starts-toward the Divine, a pilgrimage paved with prayer, praise, pause, penitence, and (of course) questions. Urgent and universal, joyful or joyless, tinged with doubt or rinsed with hope, here are honest queries that probe, lift, and lead to discovery. Begin with a Question keeps us moving, seeking, reaching, lifting us out of ourselves to something beyond. Using a variety of fixed forms and free verse, the poet examines our relationship to the one who asks, "Who do you say that I am?" A book for seekers, doubters, and believers alike, these poems bring us face to face with anguish, anger, awe, and adoration. They give us permission not to demand answers, but to follow the questions that lead to the Alpha and Omega, to the I AM that keeps us spiraling along this twisting path toward God. Begin with a Question is published under Paraclete Press's Iron Pen imprint. In the book of Job, a suffering man pours out his anguish to his Maker. From the depths of his pain, he reveals a trust in God's goodness that is stronger than his despair, giving humanity some of the most beautiful and poetic verses of all time. Paraclete's Iron Pen imprint is inspired by this spirit of unvarnished honesty and tenacious hope.- Shop: buecher
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De Profundis and the First Stone , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 136min
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde and The First Stone by T. W. H. Crosland In 1895 Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years gaol with hard labour for offences “of gross indecency.” After spells in Newgate, Pentonville, and Wandsworth prisons, Wilde was transferred to Reading Gaol, where he completed the remainder of his sentence. Two major works were inspired during this period: The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which was prompted by the execution of another prisoner, Charles Thomas Wooldridge in 1896, and De Profundis, a lengthy letter to his former lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde was not allowed to send the letter by post, but was permitted to take it with him when discharged from prison. He gave the letter to Robert Ross, to be sent to Douglas, and departed for France, where he died three years later. Douglas later denied having received the letter. De Profundis was published posthumously in 1905 in an expurgated version which has been used for this recording. The original text, containing nearly 50,000 words, was severely edited by Robert Ross down to a length of just under 18,000 words, many of the emendations being references to the family of the Marquis of Queensberry. Although the complete text was presented at a court case in 1913, it was not published until 1962. In this rambling epistle Wilde reflects on suffering, forgiveness, and redemption. As a confessional text, it ranks with the Confessions of Saint Augustine as an examination of the nature of penitence, its origin and transformative effect. Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1865-1924) was a journalist and social commentator. He became an associate of Douglas, after the latter had converted to Catholicism as proof of his personal reformation. Crosland was extremely moralistic and missed no opportunity to pillory public figures whom he considered to be examples of moral depravity or hypocrisy. Among his targets was Oscar Wilde, whose contrit ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Denis Daly. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/mike/002337/bk_mike_002337_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Castizo , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 408min
Beneficio Duran is like the wild lava-capped mesa where he lived all but the last two years of his 83. They are both remnants of the past. Black Mesa survived eons of erosion by its hard basaltic cap - Beneficio survived by living with the pride and rough wisdom of los Castizos, his ancestors. On the mesa, he had been isolated from pressures and forces that were changing New Mexico and the other Hispanics living on and off the land grants.Beneficio discovered his wife, Maria, in the village of Cebolleta at the base of Black Mesa. Maria bore him Philip and then died while trying to deliver a girl child four years later. Beneficio's devotion to God and El Christo, coupled with the deep grief of Maria's death, caused him to embrace the penitence-oriented beliefs of "The Brotherhood of Blood and Light" (Penitente).Philip lived on the Mesa only until he started school in Cebolleta. There, he lived with his father's boyhood friend Emilio and Emilio's Indian wife, Rebecca. Philip Duran left the land grant for college and there discovered city life. He became a successful Hispanic businessman and married Carla, an Anglo. They have two teenaged children. Philip is a state senator and has ambitions toward being governor. His fear is that his sheepherder father will embarrass him politically with his land-grant ways and ancient Penitente beliefs. Philip has placed Beneficio in an Albuquerque rest home with the self-justification of "taking care of Papa".Castizo begins with Beneficio Duran cutting the branch end of the needled cholla plant in an arroyo near Albuquerque. He plans to tie the spiny branch to the leather thongs of his self-flagellation whip. Should Beneficio succeed in finding a Penitente brotherhood, he hopes to join them in their Good Friday and Easter rites. Beneficio feels that he needs the pain of self-flagellation and the subsequent healing to be at peace with his troubled spirit. Desperate to find a Penitente brothe ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Glenn Rasmussen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/138196/bk_acx0_138196_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems - Geoffrey Chaucer (eBook, ePUB)
THE object of this volume is to place before the general reader our two early poetic masterpieces - The Canterbury Tales and The Faerie Queen; to do so in a way that will render their "popular perusal" easy in a time of little leisure and unbounded temptations to intellectual languor; and, on the same conditions, to present a liberal and fairly representative selection from the less important and familiar poems of Chaucer and Spenser. There is, it may be said at the outset, peculiar advantage and propriety in placing the two poets side by side in the manner now attempted for the first time. Although two centuries divide them, yet Spenser is the direct and really the immediate successor to the poetical inheritance of Chaucer. Those two hundred years, eventful as they were, produced no poet at all worthy to take up the mantle that fell from Chaucer's shoulders; and Spenser does not need his affected archaisms, nor his frequent and reverent appeals to "Dan Geffrey," to vindicate for himself a place very close to his great predecessor in the literary history of England. If Chaucer is the "Well of English undefiled," Spenser is the broad and stately river that yet holds the tenure of its very life from the fountain far away in other and ruder scenes. The Canterbury Tales, so far as they are in verse, have been printed without any abridgement or designed change in the sense. But the two Tales in prose - Chaucer's Tale of Meliboeus, and the Parson's long Sermon on Penitence - have been contracted, so as to exclude thirty pages of unattractive prose, and to admit the same amount of interesting and characteristic poetry. The gaps thus made in the prose Tales, however, are supplied by careful outlines of the omitted matter, so that the reader need be at no loss to comprehend the whole scope and sequence of the original. With The Faerie Queen a bolder course has been pursued.- Shop: buecher
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