Author: Delia Falconer Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1760857831 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 243
Book Description
Winner of the 2022 Nib Literary Awards. Chosen as a 2021 ‘Book of the Year’ in The Age, Sydney Morning Herald and The Australian Book Review. The celebrated, Walkley Award-winning author on how global warming is changing not only our climate but our culture. Beautifully observed, brilliantly argued and deeply felt, these essays show that our emotions, our art, our relationships with the generations around us – all the delicate networks that make us who we are – have already been transformed. In Signs and Wonders, Falconer explores how it feels to live as a reader, a writer, a lover of nature and a mother of small children in an era of profound ecological change. Building on Falconer’s two acclaimed essays, ‘Signs and Wonders’ and the Walkley Award-winning ‘The Opposite of Glamour’, Signs and Wonders is a pioneering examination of how we are changing our culture, language and imaginations along with our climate. Is a mammoth emerging from the permafrost beautiful or terrifying? How is our imagination affected when something that used to be ordinary – like a car windscreen smeared with insects – becomes unimaginable? What can the disappearance of the paragraph from much contemporary writing tell us about what’s happening in the modern mind? Scientists write about a 'great acceleration' in human impact on the natural world. Signs and Wonders shows that we are also in a period of profound cultural acceleration, which is just as dynamic, strange, extreme and, sometimes, beautiful. Ranging from an ‘unnatural’ history of coal to the effect of a large fur seal turning up in the park below her apartment, this book is a searching and poetic examination of the ways we are thinking about how, and why, to live now. ‘Only the finest of writers can hope to convey the mercurial nature of the times we are living though: the sense of slippage; of terror and beauty. Falconer is such a writer. Signs and Wonders is an essential collection.’ Sophie Cunningham, author of City of Trees ‘Delia Falconer is one of the best writers working today, and in Signs and Wonders she demonstrates everything that makes her writing so necessary. Brave, beautiful, and breathtaking in its elegance and intelligence, it is, quite simply, a marvel.’ James Bradley ‘Scintillating. Delia Falconer is at the peak of her powers as a critic, and as an observer of the natural world. Signs and Wonders looks outward from Sydney, and from literature, to trace the contours of our environmental moment.’ Rebecca Giggs, author of Fathoms ‘Exquisite … From reflections on feeding birds, analyses of literary trends, to Falconer’s Covid and fire diaries, the essays are complex, ambitious, rewarding … Delia Falconer’s mesmerising Signs and Wonders helps us to process the disorienting complexity of living in this time of great beauty and loss.’ Jonica Newby, Australian Book Review
Author: Norman L. Geisler Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1592447341 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 183
Book Description
Some Christians claim to be able to heal the sick and even raise the dead. Some people applaud this, while others are skeptical. Are these healers using the power of God? Are they faking? Or is their power from Satan? And what about nonbelievers who also claim to perform wonders? Are they tricksters or agents of the occult? Can we believe their claims about past lives, seeing the future, UFO encounters, and spirit channeling? Norman L. Geisler takes a sane and solidly biblical look at miraculous healings and other amazing phenomena today. With penetrating insight, he constructs guidelines for judging whether any so-called miracle is truly from God or from the realm of the demonic. 'Signs and Wonders' also includes material on speaking in tongues and on the use of objects in faith healing. In addition, Geisler looks carefully at the clever trickery that charlatans use to dupe and swindle people. He shows that what often passes as supernatural can be explained as merely unusual. Here is a book for anyone who wonders about the power and the sincerity of those who claim to be wonder-workers.
Author: Maria Woodworth-Etter Publisher: Whitaker House ISBN: 160374343X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 470
Book Description
Maria Woodworth-Etter’s ministry is often called the most powerful of the modern era. As God used this yielded vessel, many dramatic healings of the incurably sick occurred. Broken bones were instantly mended, the lame walked, demons were cast out, and the dead were even raised to life. Included with the dozens of testimonies, she discusses… The fullness of the Holy Spirit Current displays of God’s power The power of faith How to be healed How to receive a miracle Both Maria and her audiences reported many visions they had of heaven, angels, the New Jerusalem, and forthcoming events, including earthquakes and wars, which subsequently occurred. Hundreds of thousands were saved through her ministry. On many occasions, she received supernatural protection against murderous enemies. Discover how God is willing and able to reveal Himself through Signs and Wonders in the lives of believers today.
Author: John Wimber Publisher: Gospel Light Publications ISBN: 9780830747962 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
The message of Power Evangelism has been embraced around the world, and the book that started it all has become a classic, with more than one million sold. In 2006, Christianity Today named it one of the 50 most significant Christian books to be published in the last 50 years. This revised and updated edition describes the releasing of God’s power through signs and wonders to refresh, renew, heal and equip His people. Drawing from the teaching of the New Testament and with illustrations from his own experience, Vineyard leader John Wimber persuades the reader to “yield control of our lives to the Holy Spirit.” Though Wimber died in 1997, his teaching continues to spread throughout the Vineyard movement, through the broader renewal movement and to Christians across the globe, even those who do not consider themselves Charismatic. Co-author Kevin Springer—also a Vineyard pastor—has found that in the years since its first publication, Power Evangelism has only grown, and the results continue to be explosive. This edition includes a chapter-by-chapter study guide and reflects changes Springer and other power evangelism practitioners have made in presentation—not in content—for readers in the new millennium.
Author: Ellen T. Armour Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231540949 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 492
Book Description
We are told modernity's end will destabilize familiar ways of knowing, doing, and being, but are these changes we should dread—or celebrate? Four significant events (and the iconic images that represent them) catalyze this question: the consecration of openly gay Episcopalian bishop Gene Robinson, the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison, the politicization of the death of Terri Schiavo, and the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina. Framed by an original appropriation of Michel Foucault, and drawing on resources in visual culture theory and the history of photography, Ellen T. Armour explores the anxieties, passions, and power dynamics bound up in the photographic representation and public reception of these events. Together, these phenomena expose modernity's benevolent and malevolent disruptions and reveal the systemic fractures and fissures that herald its end, for better and for worse. In response to these signs and wonders, Armour lays the groundwork for a theology and philosophy of life better suited to our (post)modern moment: one that owns up to the vulnerabilities that modernity sought to disavow and better enables us to navigate the ethical issues we now confront.
Author: Tama Starr Publisher: Currency ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 368
Book Description
"Coauthored by the third-generation owner of Artkraft Strauss, the century-old company that built most of Times Square's landmark displays," this book details the history of "spectaculars," the giant animated signs best exemplified in Times Square.
Author: Marie B. Woodworth-Etter Publisher: Harrison House Incorporated ISBN: 9780892741847 Category : Evangelists Languages : en Pages : 584
Book Description
Mrs. Etter shares the secrets of her ministry with unusual clarity. Her ministry is still considered by many Christians as the most powerful yet seen in the 20th Century. This book will transform the lives of believers today.
Author: Delia Falconer
Author: Norman L. Geisler
Author: Stephen D. Elliott
Author: Maria Woodworth-Etter
Author: C Hunter
Author: John Wimber
Author: Ellen T. Armour
Author: Tama Starr
Author: Marie B. Woodworth-Etter
Author: Jane Rumph