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4 reviews
Joey Johnson

Winepress Publishing, 2003

The truth is sometimes hard to take
This book presents truths that needs to be faced by many families. Family Mess spans all social, economic, and ethinic borders. We are all children of sin and as such need to identify and acknowledge this presence of sin in our lives. Family Mess presents the origins of this sin, how this sin affects us and all of individuals in our lives including our children and all of those that we come in ...

The Primacy of Peter: Essays in Ecclesiology and the Early Church

4 reviews

St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1992

Primacy of the Pope: An Orthodox Perspective
As a recent convert from Roman Catholicism to Orthodoxy, I especially recommend this volume of essays, regarding the primacy of Peter, and, by extension, the primacy of the Pope, to any Roman Catholic interested in Orthodoxy. The essays are well researched and well balanced, and give the reader the Orthodox point of view regarding the claims of the Papacy, without resorting to polemics. I also ...

Patriarchs and prophets

6 reviews
Ellen Gould Harmon White

Remnant Publications, 1997

I cannot recommend it enough!
If you want help to understand the Bible better, then this book is phenomenal! It is written in such a clear manner that everyone can understand. It covered the first part of the Bible through David's time. I read the Bible as I was reading the book and found that it coincided with it. It opened my eyes to many of the events that happened during those times. Did you know that when Moses lead ...

St. Cyril of Alexandria: The Christological Controversy : Its History, Theology, and Texts

5 reviews
John Anthony McGuckin

St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 2004

Expert Cyril Scholar
One of McGuckin's goals in his scholarship has been to rehabilitate Cyril in contemporary scholarship. Many people (especially in Western Europe and America) have demonized Cyril and have overemphasized the role of power politics in the Council of Ephesus. McGuckin portrays Cyril much more sympathetically. As an Easterner, he looks at Cyril much more highly than those of the West and he is ...

Traditions about the Early Life of Abraham (Brigham Young University - Studies in the Book of Abraham)

4 reviews

Brigham Young University, 2001

Fascinating
This collection of primary texts from pagan, Jewish, Christian, and Islamic sources -- several translated for the very first time -- is absolutely wonderful. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it, and recommend it to anybody at all interested in Abraham, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, folklore, the ancient Near East, Jewish midrashic materials, Mormonism, etc., etc.

Historical Atlas Of The Jewish People, A: From the Time of the Patriarchs to the Present

16 reviews
Tel Aviv Books

Knopf, 1992

This atlas succeeds beautifully
Few of the world's peoples can boast of a history as long and as varied as that of the Jews, or one encompassing such a range of achievements and tragedy. It spans more than three millennia and has touched most parts of the globe. This text sets forth this history graphically-in nearly a thousand detailed and accurate maps, brilliantly reproduced drawings, photographs, and paintings; plus ...

Jacob's Pillar: Stone of Destiny

9 reviews
E. Raymond Capt

Artisan Publishers, 2005

FROM THE BOOK...
The Stone of Destiny traced -- presentation of the cumulative evidence which reveals the fate of the Bible's most famous stone. The scriptures are full of references to "stones", both literal and symbolic. One such stone is identified as the stone upon which the patriarch Jacob rested his head when he dreamed of the heavenly ladder. This stone has not received the attention it deserves from ...

Joseph Great Lives Series: Volume 3

11 reviews
Charles R. Swindoll

Thomas Nelson, 1998

"One of the two best on Joseph!"
Although my favorite Joseph book is 'With Joseph in the University of Adversity: the Mizraim Principles', by Dr. Parks, this one is a close second! If you want a pastor's heart in the telling of the story--this one is best! If you want sound principles for everyday life that you or a graduate can use, and really well-organized--go with Parks (if you can get your hands on a copy!). Swindoll does ...

Jacob & the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel's Story

5 reviews
Kenneth E. Bailey

InterVarsity Press, 2003

Drink deeply from Luke 15
There are portions of the Bible that are shockingly powerful and clear. One such portion is Luke 15 with the Parable of the Lost Sheep/Lost Coin/Lost Son. Bailey is as fine a commentator on this subject as you may find seeing how through this parable Jesus is retelling Israel's story and our own. Simply terrific (as are Bailey's other works!).

Joseph and His Brothers

19 reviews
Thomas Mann

Knopf, 1948

Challenging and Sublime
For all the great technological magic of our age we suffer the misfortune of living in a time where the depth of hyperbole rends the edge from language leaving us bereft when the time comes to describe something truly remarkable. Thus to say that John Woods' translation of Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers offers readers a gift of almost indescribable value may leave one wondering if I am ...

Athanasius

2 reviews

Taylor & Francis, 2007

Good introduction to Athanasius
St Athanasius was one of the earliest Church fathers, along with St Iranaeus and St Ignatius and St Clement of Rome. Athanasius was one of the key architects of incarnational theology, which argued for the first time that Jesus was not merely a man teaching wisdom or a divine being come to Earth, but was the human incarnation of God, the perfect fusion of divine and human in one person. ...

El Otono Del Patriarca / the Autumn of the Patriarch

3 reviews
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Debolsillo, 2003

Mother Of Stream of Consciousness Latin American Novels
Garcia-Marquez dictator combines within himself, the best and the worst, of the human being when invested with absolute power: from charity to corruption, benevolence to rape, fear of God to extreme cruelty. The (sparse) punctuation follows an almost strict fitting of the Poisson statistical distribution, page by page, and then amongst chapters, constituting this into both a textbook in ...

Jacob: The Fools God Chooses

2 reviews
DAVID ROPER

Discovery House Publishers, 2002

Hope for fools like Jacob!
This is another great book by David Roper. He is a gifted writer, encourager, teacher and minister. Describing the life of Jacob, and how God could continue to love him, with all Jacob's sneakiness, failures and human solutions is a great encouragement to me in my daily walk with Christ. What a wonderful description of why and how God can love us in all our repeated failures and sinfullness. ...

The Early Episcopal Career of Athanasius of Alexandria (Christianity and Judaism in Antiquity, Vol 6)

2 reviews
Duane Wade Hampton Arnold

University of Notre Dame Press, 1991

Excellent
This is well researched and written book. It starts by reviewing a modern critic of Athanasius, R.P. Hanson writing about the " misconduct" of Athanasius. Allegations of misconduct, blatant self-interest have been leveled at Athanasius. These allegations however, differ radically with many past and present writers who praised Athanasius conduct, e.g. J.H. Newman in 1890 described Athanasius as ...

Athanasius and Asceticism

2 reviews
David Brakke

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998

fascinating look at one of the most influential people of the 4th century
This book is a reworking of Brakke's doctoral dissertation. As such, it is steeped in scholarly detail. At the same time, it is very readable by ordinary people, because of the excitement with this Brakke presents his subject matter. Athanasius is little known to many people today, yet he was, by some estimations, the most influential person in the fourth century. Brakke's book focuses on ...

Poems for Patriarchs

3 reviews
Douglas W. Phillips

The Vision Forum, Inc., 2001

Wonderful.
This is a beautiful book. A collection of wonderful poems. It would make an excellent gift for any father. I cherish my copy.

The Last Trial: On the Legends and Lore of the Command to Abraham to Offer Isaac As a Sacrifice : The Akedah ...

3 reviews
Shalom Spiegel

Jewish Lights Publishing, 1993

Fascinating study of the Akedah (Binding of Isaac)
In this fascinating book, Spiegel traces rabbinic interpretations of the Akedah (the Binding of Isaac) from the earliest sources through the Middle Ages. He begins at the end, with the remarkable fact that during the Middle Ages, European Jews looked to Isaac as a martyr, the prototypical sacrifice and an inspiration to those Jews who killed themselves rather than convert to Christianity under ...

Abraham: Holding Fast to the Will of God (Getz, Gene a. Men of Character.)

2 reviews
Gene A. Getz

B&H Publishing Group, 1996

A Great Introduction to the Life of Abraham
"Abraham" is another installment in Gene Getz' Men of Character series on various male biblical figures. There are 12 chapters with the following titles: 1. God's Great Redemptive Plan 2. Following God Fully 3. Abraham's Plan "Goes South" 4. A Skeleton in the Closet 5. A Disastrous Decision 6. A Bout With Fear 7. A Pure Motive But a Wrong Method 8. Thirteen Silent Years (one of ...

PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS

3 reviews
Ellen Gould Harmon White

Pacific Pr Pub Assn, 2002

Tremendous insights into Biblical history.
This book is the first of a set of five books designed to be read as a companion reader to the Bible. Each chapter lists the corresponding Biblical passages. The remaining four books in the series are Prophets and Kings; Desire of Ages; Acts of the Apostles; The Great Controversy. The author is very readable and shows great insight and sensitivity to the whole plan of God in rescuing mankind from ...

Cosmic Grace, Humble Prayer: The Ecological Vision of the Green Patriarch Bartholomew I

2 reviews

Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2009

A call to prayer and stewardship
It is often the case in the West that the Orthodox Church is seen as otherworldly, detached from the concerns of the contemporary world. However, as this interesting book on the works of Patriarch Bartholomew I shows, this could not be further from the truth. Patriarch Bartholomew I, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople (one of the key positions of honour and spiritual authority in the ...

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