Dans cet ouvrage, Gérald West explore comment le dualisme des substances peut être repensé à l’aune des connaissances modernes. Il le replace dans le contexte d’un univers en expansion, conforme aux théories du Big Bang de Friedmann et Lemaître. Un monde où l’expansion naît des premières lois de la thermodynamique, transformées en électromagnétisme, et où le hasard se mêle à l’intervention de l’Esprit, grâce à une mémoire intellectuelle. Une réflexion qui mêle philosophie classique et scie...

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Guest and West's introduction to and concise commentary on Judges and Ruth. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.Rather than attempt a ...

This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides West, Jarick, and Grabbe's introduction to and concise commentary on Judith, Greek Esther, and Tobit. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers....

The Eeerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary compliments succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers.Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. C...

.The Sex Slave Murders True Crime Bundle: Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene GallegoFred & Rosemary WestLeonard Lake & Charles NgPaul Bernardo & Karla Homolka contains one full length bestselling true crime book and three true crime shorts.The Sex Slave Murders: The True Story of Serial Killers Gerald & Charlene Gallego chronicles the kidnapping, rape, sex slave fantasies, brutality, and serial murder of husband and wife Gerald and Charlene Gallego in California, Nevada, and Oregon, ...

This collection of essays explores the way individuals and communities navigate complicated spaces which have been dominated by econo-heteropatriarchal powers to find their voice and claim their space.Using concepts of space from development studies, the volume explores the power of biblical narratives for communities to navigate the complex and multifaceted intersections between gender, sexuality, ethnicity, and economics in the biblical text as well as within the...

With contributions from Anglican scholars from across the worldwide Anglican Communion, this volume reimagines the Anglican Communion as a polycentric and multivocal community serving God's mission.The Anglican Communion faces many challenges and opportunities as its primary demographic continues to shift to the Global South, and its English and Western cultural and ecclesiological hegemony is increasingly called into question. As a global family of churches, the A...

After World War II, Austria was occupied by Soviet, American, British, and French forces. This study provides the history of the treaty that was negotiated in order to end this occupation. In the Moscow Declaration of 1943, the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union had declared that Austria should be liberated from Nazi rule and reconstructed as an independent state. After the war, however, this goal was soon overshadowed by security and power considerations, and then by the Co...

It began with the breaking of the bread and became a movement.During a global Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Australian entrepreneur Philip Ryall and his wife Jennie invited more than sixty church leaders from various Christian backgrounds and denominations into their home.Like yeast leavening a loaf of bread, out of that meal grew a deepening inspiration for the book Dear Unity: Overdue Love Letters to Heal a Divided Church, a collection of t...

Resistance against unjust (wicked) cultures and imperial powers is at the heart of scripture. In many cases, the resistance is waged against external systems or the misappropriation of scriptural texts and traditions. In some cases, however, scripture resists oppressive cultures and powers that it also requires, certifies and protects. At other times, and in different settings, the minders of scripture speak against the abusive cultures and power systems that they inherited and whose benef...

An investigator who recovers stolen insured jewelry steps into a web of international deceit and murder in New York Times–bestselling author Gerald A. Browne's spellbinding tale set in New York City's world-renowned Diamond DistrictA woman steps out of a limousine on the Upper East Side, her jewels glittering brightly, and the doorman looks her over. A few phone calls later, the heist is planned. Thieves descend on the woman's home, planning to swipe the je...

Paul Pinwheel is now the crowned king of the far western lands of the Sea People of the Hidden Land. But things aren't that simple. The Dark Presence, demon ruler of the Empire of Gagoth and seeker of the domination of both worlds, has poisioned the mind of Paul's princess and prospective queen, Envallegond, by means of a foul device. Treachery and betrayal lurk in her very household and the demon is on the verge of obtaining the crystal, the key to the universe. Spies are everywhere and P...