The Passion Of Christ is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Thomas Adams (1583–1652 was an English clergyman and reputed preacher. He was called "The Shakespeare of the Puritans" by Robert Southey; while he was a Calvinist in theology, he is not, however, accurately described as a Puritan. He was for a time at Willington, Bedfordshire, and his works may later have been read by John Bunyan.Much of the information about Adams comes from title-pages and dedicati...

En 1633, Adams publicó su obra más ambiciosa y erudita: «A Commentary or Exposition upon the Divine Second Epistle General Written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter» (Un comentario o exposición sobre la divina segunda epístola general escrita por el Thomas Adams: el Shakespeare en prosa de los puritanos 17 2_Pedro_1_Amazon.qxp_Sermones Spurgeon Q 26/3/26 18:46 Página 17 bienaventurado apóstol S. Pedro). Era un volumen enorme en folio de 1634 páginas, fruto de años de estudio intensivo. La o...

The Passion Of Christ is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by Thomas Adams (1583–1652 was an English clergyman and reputed preacher. He was called "The Shakespeare of the Puritans" by Robert Southey; while he was a Calvinist in theology, he is not, however, accurately described as a Puritan. He was for a time at Willington, Bedfordshire, and his works may later have been read by John Bunyan. Much of the information about Adams comes from title-pages and dedications in ...

En 1633, Adams publicó su obra más ambiciosa y erudita: «A Commentary or Exposition upon the Divine Second Epistle General Written by the Blessed Apostle St. Peter» (Un comentario o exposición sobre la divina segunda epístola general escrita por el Thomas Adams: el Shakespeare en prosa de los puritanos. Era un volumen enorme en folio de 1634 páginas, fruto de años de estudio intensivo. La obra estaba dedicada a Sir Henry Marten, juez del Alto Tribunal del Almirantazgo y decano del Tribunal...

The year is 1964 when a single mother and her two teenage sons move from New York to a small town next to a lake in the Catskill Mountains. Baseball plays a big role in this story, but is only mentioned in a small portion of this book. This book shares the adventures of these two teenagers and the emotions of a sixteen-year old that all of us have felt at one time or another. The youngest of the two boys falls in love when suddenly tragedy strikes his family. After years go bye he finds hi...

This book is a close examination of one of the longest enduring mysteries of the Great Lakes. On Tuesday December 7, 1909, the railroad car ferry Marquette & Bessemer No. 2. left Conneaut, Ohio, sailing into a brutal winter storm from which none would return. Over the next two days, accounts of the ship on both sides of the lake and widely scattered wreckage would add to the mystery. This book tells the story of that ship and crew and gives a glimpse into what life on a laker was like in 1...

This book is to inspire people to follow the greatest teacher to walk upon the face of the earth.

Enter a world of death and near-death that blurs the lines between fiction and reality in a way that will leave you stunned.It takes an obsessive mind to know one. And Daniel Clark knows the elusive killer he's been stalking. He's devoted every waking minute as a profiler to find the serial killer known only as Eve. He's pored over the crime scenes of sixteen young women who died mysterious deaths, all in underground basements or caverns. He's delved into ...

This book examines how tuition and student loans became an accepted part of college costs in the first half of the twentieth century. The author argues that college was largely free to nineteenth-century college students since local and religious communities, donors, and the state agreed to pay the tuition bill with the expectation that the students would serve society upon graduation. College education was essentially considered a public good. This arrangement ended after 1900. The increa...

Traditionelle Darstellungen der deutschen Geschichte gehen meist davon aus, die Deutschen seien besonders staatsorientiert. Diese Sichtweise verkennt, dass Deutschland um 1900 eine Weltmacht war, wenn es um das stifterische Engagement seiner Bürger ging: Stiftungen finanzierten öffentliche Museen, förderten die Wissenschaften, unterhielten Gymnasien wie Universitäten und stellten Sozialleistungen zur Verfügung. Dieses Buch, die erste umfassende Darstellung des Stiftungswesens in Deutschlan...

For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and interrelated nature of societies in the nineteenth and twentieth century.Responding to the burgeoning interest and number of courses in global and world history, Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World introdu...

Leslie Green is a leading figure in late-20th and early-21st century legal philosophy. He has made important contributions on topics as varied as legal positivism, political obligation, the limits of government, and the regulation of pornography. Green's work is marked by its striking originality and approachability, as well as his willingness to see questions in the philosophy of law as integrated with wider questions of moral, political, and social theory. Named after one of Professor Gr...