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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Many Bible study guides lead you to an initial emotional response to a text, but don't really get at the deeper details of the Bible. Academic studies ask the difficult intellectual questions, but too often fail to ask how these texts relate to your life.This study combines both ways of looking at the Bible. As a professor and pastor, Wes Bergen is able to look at the stories of Jesus' death spiritually and intellectually. Each chapter begins by connecting you to the gospels in a personal way. It then goes on to ask the kinds of questions that stimulate the mind to explore new ideas. The chapters conclude by bringing the two kinds of study together, as the best kind of study always does.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Modesty, the flower of manners, the honor of our bodies, the grace of the sexes, the integrity of the blood, the guarantee of our race, the basis of sanctity, the pre-indication of every good disposition; rare though it is, and not easily perfected, and scarce ever retained in perpetuity, will yet up to a certain point linger in the world, if nature shall have laid the preliminary groundwork of it, discipline persuaded to it, censorial rigor curbed its excesseson the hypothesis, that is, that every mental good quality is the result either of birth, or else of training, or else of external compulsion.But as the conquering power of things evil is on the increasewhich is the characteristic of the last timesthings good are now not allowed either to be born, so corrupted are the seminal principles; or to be trained, so deserted are studies; nor to be enforced, so disarmed are the laws. In fact, (the modesty) of which we are now beginning (to treat) is by this time grown so obsolete, that it is not the abjuration but the moderation of the appetites which modesty is believed to be; and he is held to be chaste enough who has not been too chaste. But let the world's modesty see to itself, together with the world itself: together with its inherent nature, if it was wont to originate in birth; its study, if in training; its servitude, if in compulsion: except that it had been even more unhappy if it had remained only to prove fruitless, in that it had not been in God's household that its activities had been exercised.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Wherein the truth of predestination and grace is defended against the semi-Pelagians, those people to wit, who by no means withdraw altogether from the Pelagian heresy, in that they contend that the beginning of salvation and of faith is of ourselves; so that in virtue, as it were, of this precedent merit, the other good gifts of God are attained. Augustin shows that not only the increase, but the very beginning also of faith is in God's gift. On this matter he does not disavow that he once thought differently, and that in some small works, written before his episcopate, he was in error, as in that exposition, which they object to him, of propositions from the epistle to the Romans. But he points out that he was subsequently convinced chiefly by this testimony, 'but what hast thou that thou hast not received ' which he proves is to be taken as a testimony concerning faith itself also. He says that faith is to be counted among other works, which the apostle denies anticipating God's grace when He says, 'not of works.' He declares that the hardness of the heart is taken away by grace, and that all come to Christ who are taught to come by the Father; but that those whom He teaches, He teaches in mercy, while those whom He teaches not, in judgment He teaches not.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The work constitutes an exposition of the several clauses of the so-called Apostles' Creed. The questions concerning the mutual relations of the three Persons in the Godhead are handled with greatest fullness; in connection with which, especially in the use made of the analogies of Being, Knowledge, and Love, and in the cautions thrown in against certain applications of these and other illustrations taken from things of human experience, we come across sentiments which are also repeated in the City of God, the books on the Trinity, and others of his doctrinal writings.The passage referred to in the Retractations is as follows: About the same period, in presence of the bishops, who gave me orders to that effect, and who were holding a plenary Council of the whole of Africa at Hippo-Regius, I delivered, as presbyter, a discussion on the subject of Faith and the Creed. This disputation, at the very pressing request of some of those who were on terms of more than usual intimacy and affection with us, I threw into the form of a book, in which the themes themselves are made the subjects of discourse, although not in a method involving the adoption of the particular connection of words which is given to the competentes to be committed to memory.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From the Retractations, Book II. Chap. 60. 'Then also I wrote a Book against Lying, the occasion of which work was this. In order to discover the Priscillianist heretics, who think it right to conceal their heresy not only by denial and lies, but even by perjury, it seemed to certain Catholics that they ought to pretend themselves Priscillianists, in order that they might penetrate their lurking places. In prohibition of which thing, I composed this book. It begins: Multa mihi legenda misisti.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Erasmus infers from the style and language of this piece, that it is not S. Augustin's, putting it in the same category with the treatises On Continence, On substance of Charity, On Faith of things invisible. The Benedictine editors acknowledge that it has peculiarities of style which are calculated to move suspicion; (especially the studied assonances and rhyming endings, e.g. 'cautior fuit iste in doloribus quam ille in nemoribus . . . consensit ille oblectamentis, non cessit ille tormentis,' chap. 12.); yet they feel themselves bound to retain it among the genuine works by Augustin's own testimony, who mentions both this piece and that On Continence in his Epistle to Darius, 231. chap. 7. [Vol. I. 584.] That it is not named in the Retractations is accounted for by the circumstance that it appears to have been delivered as a sermon, see chap. 1. and 3, and Augustin did not live to fulfill his intention of composing a further book of retractations on review of his popular discourses and letters. Ep. 224. chap. 2. In point of matter and doctrine this treatise has nothing contrary to or not in harmony with S. Augustin's known doctrine and sentiments.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Female habit carries with it a twofold ideadress and ornament. By 'dress' we mean what they call 'womanly gracing;' by 'ornament,' what it is suitable should be called 'womanly disgracing.' The former is accounted (to consist) in gold, and silver, and gems, and garments; the latter in care of the hair, and of the skin, and of those parts of the body which attract the eye. Against the one we lay the charge of ambition, against the other of prostitution; so that even from this early stage (of our discussion) you may look forward and see what, out of (all) these, is suitable, handmaid of God, to your discipline, inasmuch as you are assessed on different principles (from other women), those, namely, of humility and chastity.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The doctrine of Hermogenes has this taint of novelty. He is, in short, a man living in the world at the present time; by his very nature a heretic, and turbulent withal, who mistakes loquacity for eloquence, and supposes impudence to be firmness, and judges it to be the duty of a good conscience to speak ill of individuals. Moreover, he despises God's law in his painting, maintaining repeated marriages, alleges the law of God in defense of lust, and yet despises it in respect of his art. He falsifies by a twofold processwith his cautery and his pen. He is a thorough adulterer, both doctrinally and carnally, since he is rank indeed with the contagion of your marriage hacks, and has also failed in cleaving to the rule of faith as much as the apostle's own Hermogenes. However, never mind the man, when it is his doctrine which I question.He does not appear to acknowledge any other Christ as Lord, though he holds Him in a different way; but by this difference in his faith he really makes Him another being, nay, he takes from Him everything which is God, since he will not have it that He made all things of nothing. For, turning away from Christians to the philosophers, from the Church to the Academy and the Porch, he learned there from the Stoics how to place Matter (on the same level) with the Lord, just as if it too had existed ever both unborn and unmade, having no beginning at all nor end, out of which, according to him, the Lord afterwards created all things.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In Mathew 28:19-20 Jesus commands us to go and teach all nations 'to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.' One definition of 'observe' (Webster) is to 'conform one's actions to or to comply with'. One might interpret that to mean that we are to go out and teach people to 'do whatever it is that He commands' or, in effect, to 'follow His will' And surely if God intends for you do something for Him He will equip you with the talents necessary to accomplish it.And so it would seem that the first clue to a life full of meaning and purpose, to a life of joy and accomplishment, would lie in the special talents that He gave you. After that, His direction should be recognizable by the things that bring you happiness -- if you are following His will He will fill you with that joy and satisfaction.At least the first half of my life seems to have followed that path rather clearly. Very early I began to recognize certain special talents and capabilities, then He urged me along the way and strongly supported me when I was truly doing what it was He wanted me to do. And for me that early objective seemed to be, as a 'rocket scientist', to save the life of Neal Armstrong on the moon. The overall (wonderful) personal result -- a life full of meaning and purpose, of joy and accomplishment beyond my wildest dreams.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'I know there's something bigger.' Gabriel, the silver angelfish, is certain that there is more to life than the lush, watery world he shares with his friends. Although they doubt and challenge him, Gabriel maintains his belief. This heartfelt story captures the innocence and wonder of faith.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The character of the times in which we live is such as to call forth from us even this admonition, that we ought not to be astonished at the heresies (which abound) neither ought their existence to surprise us, for it was foretold that they should come to pass; nor the fact that they subvert the faith of some, for their final cause is, by affording a trial to faith, to give it also the opportunity of being 'approved.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Octavius, which is here translated, is a supposed argument between the heathen Cæcilius and the Christian Octaviusthe writer being requested to arbitrate between the disputants.Of the literary character of the dialogue, it is sufficient to quote the testimony of the late Dean Milman: 'Perhaps no late work, either Pagan or Christian, reminds us of the golden days of Latin prose so much as the Octavius of Minucius Felix.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Tertullian Defends, in all Essential Points, the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity, stating that Praxeas' beliefs are heresy:'In various ways has the devil rivalled and resisted the truth. Sometimes his aim has been to destroy the truth by defending it. He maintains that there is one only Lord, the Almighty Creator of the world, in order that out of this doctrine of the unity he may fabricate a heresy.'Praxeas was a Monarchian from Asia Minor. He believed in the unity of the Godhead and vehemently disagreed with any attempt at division of the personalities or personages of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in the Christian Church.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Ad Nationes (To the Nations) shows that the Roman actions taken against the early Christians are violations of justice. This is followed by a listing of Roman slanders against the Christians. Tertullian points out the hypocrisy, since Romans hardly conduct themselves in anything resembling moral behavior. The second book condemns and criticizes Roman religion and their deities in particular.'The hatred held by the heathen against the Christians is unjust, because based on culpable ignorance. One proof of that ignorance of yours, which condemns whilst it excuses your injustice, is at once apparent in the fact, that all who once shared in your ignorance and hatred (of the Christian religion), as soon as they have come to know it, leave off their hatred when they cease to be ignorant; nay more, they actually themselves become what they had hated, and take to hating what they had once been. Day after day, indeed, you groan over the increasing number of the Christians. Your constant cry is, that the state is beset (by us); that Christians are in your fields, in your camps, in your islands.'Tertullian 197 AD.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'It happened very recently a dispute was held between a Christian and a Jewish proselyte. Alternately with contentious cable they each spun out the day until evening. By the opposing din, moreover, of some partisans of the individuals, truth began to be overcast by a sort of cloud. It was therefore our pleasure that that which, owing to the confused noise of disputation, could be less fully elucidated point by point, should be more carefully looked into, and that the pen should determine, for reading purposes, the questions handled.'Tertullian.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The principal crime of the human race, the highest guilt charged upon the world, the whole procuring cause of judgment, is idolatry. For, although each single fault retains its own proper feature, although it is destined to judgment under its own proper name also, yet it is marked off under the general account of idolatry. Set aside names, examine works, the idolater is likewise a murderer. Do you inquire whom he has slain If it contributes ought to the aggravation of the indictment, no stranger nor personal enemy, but his own self. By what snares Those of his error. By what weapon The offense done to God. By how many blows As many as are his idolatries. He who affirms that the idolater perishes not, will affirm that the idolater has not committed murder. Further, you may recognize in the same crime adultery and fornication; for he who serves false gods is doubtless an adulterer of truth, because all falsehood is adultery. So, too, he is sunk in fornication. For who that is a fellow-worker with unclean spirits, does not stalk in general pollution and fornication And thus it is that the Holy Scriptures use the designation of fornication in their upbraiding of idolatry. The essence of fraud, I take it, is, that any should seize what is another's, or refuse to another his due; and, of course, fraud done toward man is a name of greatest crime. Well, but idolatry does fraud to God, by refusing to Him, and conferring on others, His honors; so that to fraud it also conjoins contumely. But if fraud, just as much as fornication and adultery, entails death, then, in these cases, equally with the former, idolatry stands unacquitted of the impeachment of murder. Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (Tertullian).

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The person to whom I had addressed the three books entitled De Peccatorum Meritis et Remissione, in which I carefully discussed also the baptism of infants, informed me, when acknowledging my communication, that he was much disturbed because I declared it to be possible that a man might be without sin, if he wanted not the will, by the help of God, although no man either had lived, was living, or would live in this life so perfect in righteousness. He asked how I could say that it was possible of which no example could be adduced. Owing to this inquiry on the part of this person, I wrote the treatise entitled De Spiritu et Littera, in which I considered at large the apostle's statement, 'The letter kills, but the spirit giveth life.' In this work, so far as God enabled me, I earnestly disputed with those who oppose that grace of God which justifies the servances of the Jews, who abstain from sundry meats and drinks in accordance with their ancient law, I mentioned the 'ceremonies of certain meats' [quarumdam escarum cerimoniæ]a phrase which, though not used in Holy Scriptures, seemed to me very convenient, because I remembered that cerimoniæ is tantamount to carimoniæ, as if from carere, to be without, and expresses the abstinence of the worshippers from certain things. If however, there is any other derivation of the word, which is inconsistent with the true religion, I meant no reference whatever to it; I confined my use to the sense above indicated. This work of mine begins thus: 'After reading the short treatise which I lately drew up for you, my beloved son Marcellinus,' etc.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Whatever noxious vapors, accordingly, exhaled from philosophy, obscure the clear and wholesome atmosphere of truth, it will be for Christians to clear away, both by shattering to pieces the arguments which are drawn from the principles of thingsI mean those of the philosophersand by opposing to them the maxims of heavenly wisdomthat is, such as are revealed by the Lord; in order that both the pitfalls wherewith philosophy captivates the heathen may be removed, and the means employed by heresy to shake the faith of Christians may be repressed. We have already decided one point in our controversy with Hermogenes, as we said at the beginning of this treatise, when we claimed the soul to be formed by the breathing of God, and not out of matter. We relied even there on the clear direction of the inspired statement which informs us how that 'the Lord God breathed on man's face the breath of life, so that man became a living soul'by that inspiration of God, of course. On this point, therefore, nothing further need be investigated or advanced by us. It has its own treatise, and its own heretic. I shall regard it as my introduction to the other branches of the subject.Tertullian.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Apology (Latin: Apologeticum or Apologeticus) is Tertullian's most famous work, consisting of apologetic and polemic; In this book Tertullian defends the Christian Church, demanding legal toleration and that Christians be treated as all other sects or religions of the Roman Empire. It is in this treatise that one finds the phrase: 'the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - On May 20th, 1927, a momentous event occurred in aviation history. A young, brave man, attempted to fly a dangerous flight that would break all known records at that time. If he succeeded, he would become world famous and a legend?that man was Charles Ginsberg. Instead, he flew four zany entertainers from New York to Burbank?or so he tried. This is the fantastic, tremendous, terrific?okay, let's just say, interesting story of the man who would become known as the 'Jewish Eagle'.Trying to get the Marx Brothers and Jack Benny to an important audition in Hollywood, Charles attempts the colossal challenge of getting four crazy people cross-country through storms, mountain passes, hallucinations and much more. In giving up his dream to become the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean, Charles instead gives some of the greatest entertainers of all time a chance to become famous.And after all, what is more important, some major personal achievement, or giving the world the opportunity to bust a gut.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Is the earth really just 6,000 years old, as many conservative Christians believe Or is it really 4,500,000,000 years old, as the vast majority of scientists believe It is a big difference. Almost a million times different! The purpose of this book is to assist pastors and other church leaders who may lack appropriate scientific qualifications to deal with that important question. The book is short and uses a Question/Discussion format to help readers think for themselves. Its balanced approach which appreciates both Biblical and scientific knowledge helps the reader see that the Genesis account is not speaking about a recent creation at all.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - If anyone will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus Christ spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life: and this we do not rashly venture to promise but gather it from the very words of the Lord Himself.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - After the death of his mother, the future First Family embraces the twelve-year old Buck as their own and happily provides all the love and care their old friend, the Virginia senator's son requires. Soon after his departure for Westpoint, Buck abruptly & inexplicably terminates contact with his ersatz family. The sexually matured young man falls hopelessly in love with Melanie, the future First Lady, and subjects himself to deliberate exile. As his father begs him to attend Trent and Melanie's inauguration as First Family, however, his secret is revealed to her. Melanie's task now is to master the circumstances without hurting any of the affected parties even as she discovers Buck's feelings are not without resonance in her heart.A European-style romance in the tradition of Bovary and Karenina, set in the American White House, this would-be adultery novel offers a return to the big moral questions concerning the passions and the battle between sacred duty and neighborly love.The novel revisits the grand narratives of the age of innocence as it updates them with reflections on the moral quandaries of contemporary existence.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Then follow four books which I wrote to Boniface, bishop of the Roman Church, in opposition to two letters of the Pelagians, because when they came into his hands he had sent them to me, finding in them a calumnious mention of my name. This work commences on this wise: 'I had indeed known you by the praise of your renowned fame.'.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Fifteen years after sending her college sweetheart off to Vietnam, Barbara Mayfield travels to a reunion of her Colorado alma mater, hoping that time has not run out for her. All she has are memories of Rick Jenkins, the California surfer boy who vagrantly stole her heart and left her tearfully standing at the station. Their adventures take them from the white slopes of the Rockies to the wild surf of the Pacific.But the war is not the only obstacle separating the couple. Their differing spiritual views often cause a rift in their relationship. Barbara must decide if she can forget the past and trust God enough for her futurewith or without Rick.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Brianna has longed for a life with more meaning and more purpose. What truly makes her soul come alive is music, but her life is full of laundry and dishes. One night her life is ripped apart by a fire in her village. With no family, no home, and no food, she must learn to survive on her own. But deep in her soul, anger is kindled against the Holy One for bringing so much pain into her life. Brianna sets off on an adventure that will ultimately bring her to the Hall of Minstrels, the heart of music in the kingdom, but all she ends up with is a pile of laundry and a stack of dishes.When life seems to have reached its dullest point and nothing really matters anymore, then the Holy One may pour destiny on our souls and overflow our lives with purpose and love. Then we realize that we don't have to know all of the answers to all of the questions, to know that the Holy One cares for us.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Young J.R. has become highly skilled at one of the world's oldest trades - printing - but what he desires to print is far from Gutenberg's Bible. With the help of a smart and lovely accomplice, J. R. creates outstanding duplicates of the US twenty dollar bill and it is real touch-and-feel money, not just digits on a computer screen. Much superior to what a digital copier can do, his high-tech printing press duplicates can pass all the conventional checks done at any cash register. His small-time operation is foolproof and exciting as they exchange his money for genuine currency. The pair go unnoticed as they carefully pass it together one bill at a time with no violence and no harm done to anyone on their cross country romantic spending sprees. While they quickly accumulate bundles of genuine currency, J.R. battles his conscience and his ego until it reaches a momentous breaking point?In Dog We Trust The Big Collapse chronicles the tripping dominoes that start with a loss of confidence in the foundation of the American economy -faith in cold hard cash - and ends up with a third-world type of survival of the fittest; a survival existence that uses gasoline, guns and gold for currency.What emerges is a sobering snapshot of a hi-tech society that is violently thrust backwards to confront its downward spiral all the way from the leaders at the top to the small-town folks struggling to keep a lid on their American Dream.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Tucked away between the pages of Nehemiah and Job is the intriguing story of Esther, a young orphan girl who suddenly finds herself in a beauty contest to become the next queen of Persia. It has all of the ingredients of a delightful fairy tale, yet reveals important truths from God's Word.What would the story of Esther look like today What relevant issues would Esther face in today's culture How would God use her for a time such as this Meet Estella, a modern-day Esther. Orphaned at a young age, she is taken in by a devoted uncle who raises her to love and trust the Lord. Her faith is challenged when she is uprooted from her high school mid-year to attend an elite, private school where she feels anything but welcome. As she is elevated to a prestigious position, she is met with envy and threats. Yet God is faithful. Estella's plight has not gone unnoticed. She is befriended by an unlikely ally who proves more than trustworthy.Then Estella realizes that all is not as it seems in this school. When she learns that Christians have been accused of intolerance and targeted for systematic removal, she is forced to make a choice: risk her future by revealing her faith or remain safely silent.Find how God uses her decision in ways she could never have imagined.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The wolves came that day. When he spotted the first one he knew what it was. He just didn't believe it. There were no wolves here! Then he saw two, then three, four. Gray Timber wolves. Big. All pacing him, single-file, watching him with fixed concentration. Then they lunged.How did he get into this mess Jim Goodman thought he was just sharing an opinion. It was just a guest editorial. It was just written for his local newspaper. Now he's in the middle of the fight of his life.Now his only daughter clings to the bridge railing, three hundred feet from the rocks below. The hideous beast between him and her can only be some demon-spawn creature. He must get past that creature. He must save his daughter. But he is no demon-fighting warrior! He's just an ordinary Christian! Even so, his own life, that of his family, even the nation's future is in his hands. But he's way out of his league!