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Author: Melvin L. Farrell Publisher: ISBN: 9780879462475 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 116
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For many years this overview of the Bible, originally written by Sulpician Father Melvin Farrell, has provided countless readers with a solid overview of the basics of the Old and New Testaments. This completely new edition, revised by well-known biblical commentator Joseph McHugh, offers all the information of the original as well as numerous new insights of its own in a style and language accessible to all readers. Getting to Know the Bible leads readers through all the major books of the Bible, from Genesis through Revelation, explaining the importance and meaning of each book of the Scriptures. The authors carefully explain the relationship of each part to the whole, while maintaining the historical context of the different books and offering readers insights into some of the motivations behind the writers of the Bible. Relying on historical perspective and literary forms rather than a more fundamentalist approach, Getting to Know the Bible gives the Catholic perspective on Sacred Scripture. This celebrated summary of the Bible is ideal for individual or group study. Book jacket.
Author: James P. Byrd Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190697563 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 256
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Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. God Almighty, with all the powers of heaven, are on our side, Sherwood said, voicing a sacred justification for war that Americans would invoke repeatedly throughout the struggle for independence. In Sacred Scripture, Sacred War, James Byrd offers the first comprehensive analysis of how American revolutionaries defended their patriotic convictions through scripture. Byrd shows that the Bible was a key text of the American Revolution. Indeed, many colonists saw the Bible as primarily a book about war. They viewed God as not merely sanctioning violence but actively participating in combat, playing a decisive role on the battlefield. When war came, preachers and patriots alike turned to scripture not only for solace but for exhortations to fight. Such scripture helped amateur soldiers overcome their natural aversion to killing, conferred on those who died for the Revolution the halo of martyrdom, and gave Americans a sense of the divine providence of their cause. Many histories of the Revolution have noted the connection between religion and war, but Sacred Scripture, Sacred War is the first to provide a detailed analysis of specific biblical texts and how they were used, especially in making the patriotic case for war. Combing through more than 500 wartime sources, which include more than 17,000 biblical citations, Byrd shows precisely how the Bible shaped American war, and how war in turn shaped Americans' view of the Bible. Brilliantly researched and cogently argued, Sacred Scripture, Sacred War sheds new light on the American Revolution.
Author: John Macdevitt Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781497309524 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 280
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THE terminology of Latin has a fixed meaning, no longer subject to the ehanges incidental to a living tongue. Hence the unfolding of the Sacred Sciences in that language, according to the time-honoured practice of the Catholic Church, possesses advantages, so many and so obvious, that almost every Catholic work on the Introduction to Scripture is written in Latin. While, however, the Catholic Church uses in her liturgy, and legislation, the Latin tongue, which is one and the same for the Italian, and the Scandinavian, she is careful to expound her ritual and laws in the vernacular of every country. Acting in this spirit I have employed the English, a language which is now spoken by 80 or 100 millions throughout the world, in the hope that by aiding towards a wider knowledge of God's Written-word, the love of Catholics for it will be deepened, and that amongst non-Catholics, earnest minds may be led to see the truth about the Bible. I feel, too, that at a time when the age is embittered with angry controversy on the authority of Scripture, it is desirable to have a direct statement of Catholic teaching on this solemn question. It is right to add, in affectionate memory of my dear brother, the late Bishop of Raphoe, that in a few places I have drawn upon notes be bequeathed to me. I am also under obligations to the lamented Dr. Dixon, who, before his elevation to the Primatial See of Armagh, filled the chair of Scripture in Maynooth, and left an enduring record of his pro. found Biblical erudition, in his "General Introduction to the Sacred Scriptures," published in 1852. In conclusion, I hope this little book will help to foster tender associations in the many loving and generous hearts, who pass year after year out of these halls, away from home, to the holy work of keeping the faith active among the sons and daughters of Ireland in foreign countries."
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Author: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Author: Denis Farkasfalvy
Author: Joseph Dixon
Author: Melvin L. Farrell
Author: Joseph DIXON (R.C. Archbishop of Armagh.)
Author: Joseph Dixon
Author: James P. Byrd
Author: Joseph Dixon (apb of Armagh)
Author: John MacDevitt
Author: John Macdevitt