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In Luke's writings, the Spirit does not form a quiet, private, or detached church but a people drawn into the public, embodied, and transformative work of God's reign. The Spirit and the Church in Luke-Acts gathers ten essays in theological interpretation exploring how the risen Christ and the Holy Spirit form a praying, discerning, witnessing, and hope-filled community. Written at the intersection of biblical scholarship and ecclesial ministry, the volume presents salvation not merely as ...

Greed and the Dark Powers in Luke-Acts invites readers into a fascinating exploration of how greed functions as a spiritual weapon wielded by oppressive powers. Blythe reveals how greed is not merely a personal sin but a force of systemic exploitation and spiritual corruption. Through vivid episodes, the book uncovers a cosmic struggle between the forces of good and evil, generosity and greed, liberation and oppression. Blythe’s compelling analysis calls contemporary readers and c...

Business Continuity Management: Building an Effective Incident Management PlanFew businesses can afford to shut down for an extended period oftime, regardless of the cause. If the past few years have taught usanything, it's that disaster can strike in any shape, at any time.Be prepared with the time-tested strategies in BusinessContinuity Management: Building an Effective Incident ManagementPlan and protect your employees while ensuring your companysurvives the unimaginable.

This publication engages a broad set of narratives, themes, and motifs in Luke-Acts, many of which are treated with social-scientific criticism employing various social, political, historical, and economic paradigms to generate fresh and robust readings of ancient texts. Moreover, most essays contained in this book offer remarkably unique engagements, providing students and scholars the opportunity to further expand the material to make vibrant contributions to their own research projects....

The parable of the good Samaritan is well-known, yet scholarship has not plumbed the depths of its meaning within its first-century Palestinian context. For the majority of Christian history, the parable has suffered either from extreme allegorical treatments or from unimaginative readings limiting the parable to a single-point example story of virtue. A creative reading employing social and historical methods generates a refreshing telling of the story, within Jesus's context, whereby eac...

A former rival and associate of Whitey Bulger tells all in this “profane, often brutal” true crime memoir about the inner workings of life in the Irish mob (The Boston Herald)After serving in Vietnam as a combat Marine, Irishman Pat Nee returned to the gang-filled streets of Boston. A member of the Mullen Gang since the age of 14, Nee rejoined the group to lead their fight against Whitey Bulger’s Killeen brothers. Years later, the two gangs merged to form ...

The meaning of ‘forgiveness’ and its role within restorative justice are highly contested. This book offers analysis from practical and academic perspectives within Christian theology, against a rich canvas of related concepts, including victimhood, sin, love, and vulnerability. Critical friends of restorative justice, the authors argue that forgiveness – whether as journey or act, unilateral or mutual, conditional or unconditional – is necessary to achieving a fully restorative resolution...

No engineering structure can be built on the ground or within it without the influence of geology being experienced by the engineer. Yet geology is an ancillary subject to students of engineering and it is therefore essential that their training is supported by a concise, reliable and usable text on geology and its relationship to engineering. In this book all the fundamental aspects of geology are described and explained, but within the limits thought suitable for engineers.It des...

Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed, and the explainers and the explained. This book explores the production of archaeological knowledge from a range of ethnographic p...

The Forces of Matter gathers Michael Faraday's celebrated lectures on the fundamental agencies by which the physical world is ordered: gravitation, cohesion, chemical affinity, heat, magnetism, and electricity. Written with the clarity of a master demonstrator, the book transforms experiment into narrative, moving from familiar objects to universal principles. Its style is plain yet elegant, pedagogical without condescension, and it belongs to the rich nineteenth-century tradition of publi...

This edition of Paradoor gives you the complete first chapter of Gaining Power by Cindy Hargreaves, this is the start of the second book in the Wrath’s Fury series. Isabelle Rose brings you the first part of her Creator book. Blythe Cooper brings you “You Asked For It”. Seanna Marie and C C Joie have worked together on Banishing Destruction. While Seanna Marie shares Family Secrets. C Michael Fraze enlightens you with A Deadly Pub Crawl, and, Country Song Chapter 1.

This Christmas open the door to the paranormal dimension and read one or all of our short stories.Blythe Cooper - NaughtyC Michael Fraze - Fae ChristmasC. C. Joie - Grace Gets A HusbandSeanna Marie - Bella Morte ChristmasCindy Hargreaves - The Gift Train