Author: George Bush (Professor of Hebrew, New York.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Anastasis; Or, The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body, Rationally and Scripturally Considered
Author: George Bush (Professor of Hebrew, New York.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 406
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Anastasis, Or, The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body, Rationally and Scripturally Considered ...
Author: George BushPublisher:
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Category : Resurrection
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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ANASTASIS
Author: GEORGE. BUSHPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033389171
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Anastasis
Author: George BushPublisher:
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Category : Future life
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Anastasis
Author: George BushPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334923456
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Excerpt from Anastasis: Or the Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body, Rationally and Scripturally Considered This we believe may be safely affirmed to be the prevailing impression and attitude of the Christian mind throughout the world, and we would by no means intimate that there is not a substantial truth involved in this view of the subject. There are doubtless certain great fundamental and para mount facts in revelation which lie open on its very face, and beyond which we cannot possibly anticipate any higher or ulterior disclosures. Who, for instance, could think for a moment of educing from the pages of revelation any truth to be set by the side of the sublime central fact of the atoning work of Jesus Christ in the matter of man's salva tion? This constitutes the very core of all inspired truth im parted by God to man, and neither time nor eternity will develop any thing to supersede or equal it. So, again, as to the great system of moral duties - the code of ethical precepts designed to govern the intercourse of men in their relations with each other - we have no reason to suppose it ever will or can be improved upon, or that any discoveries will ever be made that shall supersede, vacate, or alter its imperative claims. In whatever other 'department of re vealed truth we may look for advances to be made, we anti cipate none here. It will never be any more nor any less clearly our duty than it now is to love God with all our - hearts, and our neighbor as ourselves, and to do to others as we would that they should do to us. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Anastasis, Or, The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body
Author: Anastasis, Or, The Doctrine of the Resurrection of the Body
Author: George BushPublisher:
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Category : Resurrection
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Awaiting the Heavenly Country
Author: Mark S. SchantzPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801459257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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"Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to be killed. They understood that death awaited all who were born and prized the ability to face death with a spirit of calm resignation. They believed that a heavenly eternity of transcendent beauty awaited them beyond the grave. They knew that their heroic achievements would be cherished forever by posterity. They grasped that death itself might be seen as artistically fascinating and even beautiful."-from Awaiting the Heavenly Country How much loss can a nation bear? An America in which 620,000 men die at each other's hands in a war at home is almost inconceivable to us now, yet in 1861 American mothers proudly watched their sons, husbands, and fathers go off to war, knowing they would likely be killed. Today, the death of a soldier in Iraq can become headline news; during the Civil War, sometimes families did not learn of their loved ones' deaths until long after the fact. Did antebellum Americans hold their lives so lightly, or was death so familiar to them that it did not bear avoiding? In Awaiting the Heavenly Country, Mark S. Schantz argues that American attitudes and ideas about death helped facilitate the war's tremendous carnage. Asserting that nineteenth-century attitudes toward death were firmly in place before the war began rather than arising from a sense of resignation after the losses became apparent, Schantz has written a fascinating and chilling narrative of how a society understood death and reckoned the magnitude of destruction it was willing to tolerate. Schantz addresses topics such as the pervasiveness of death in the culture of antebellum America; theological discourse and debate on the nature of heaven and the afterlife; the rural cemetery movement and the inheritance of the Greek revival; death as a major topic in American poetry; African American notions of death, slavery, and citizenship; and a treatment of the art of death-including memorial lithographs, postmortem photography and Rembrandt Peale's major exhibition painting The Court of Death. Awaiting the Heavenly Country is essential reading for anyone wanting a deeper understanding of the Civil War and the ways in which antebellum Americans comprehended death and the unimaginable bloodshed on the horizon.
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