Search Results - "Divinity"

  1. 901

    Philosophy of religion : thinking about faith / by Evans, C. Stephen

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Concepts of God ; The theistic concept of God ; A case study : divine foreknowledge and human freedom ; The problem of religious language ; Natural theology ; Proofs of God's existence -- Classical arguments for God's existence. …”
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  2. 902

    Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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  3. 903

    Faithful transgressions in the American West six twentieth-century Mormon women's autobiographical acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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  4. 904

    Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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  5. 905

    Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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  6. 906

    Fama and Fiction in Vergil’s Aeneid / by Syson, Antonia Jane Reobone, 1973-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The seams of fiction in epic and novel -- What Turnus sees -- Classifying fama -- Chapter previews -- Monstrous fama -- Fama's tongues -- Jupiter's bargain -- Sinon's fama -- Matter out of place I: across the Styx -- Dirt and disorder -- Daedalean excesses -- Misenus and the substance of fama -- Putting Palinurus in his place -- This and that -- Memories of the harpy -- When "that" becomes "this" -- Recognizing divine authority -- Matter out of place II: Nisus and Euryalus -- Fama evaluated -- Dirty fighting -- The order of metamorphosis -- "Uidi ipse" -- Cybele and Jupiter's order -- Slithery changes -- Venus' fictions -- What Amata sees -- Reading for the novel -- How to do things with birds -- Rumors -- "Accipio agnoscoque deos" -- Juturna's fictional truth -- Afterword: swan song.…”
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  7. 907

    Faithful Transgressions In The American West : Six Twentieth-Century Mormon Women's Autobiographical Acts / by Bush, Laura L., 1963-

    Published 2004
    Table of Contents: “…Narrating optimism, faith, and divine intervention : Mary Ann Hafen, recollections of a handcart pioneer of 1860 : a woman's life on the Mormon frontier -- Defending and condemning a polygamous life : Annie Clark Tanner, a Mormon mother -- Truth telling about a temporal and a spiritual life : Juanita Brooks, quicksand and cactus : a memoir of the southern Mormon frontier -- Remedying race and religious prejudice : Wynetta Willis Martin, Black Mormon tells her story -- A home windswept with paradox : Terry Tempest Williams, refuge : an unnatural history of family and place -- Training to be a good Mormon girl while longing for fame : Phyllis Barber, how I got cultured : a Nevada memoir.…”
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  8. 908

    On the formal cause of substance metaphysical disputation XV / by Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617

    Published 2000
    Table of Contents: “…Whether there are substantial forms in material things -- In what way substantial forms can come to be in and from matter -- Whether matter temporally precedes form in every eduction of the substantial form -- Whether, when form is educed from matter, it comes to be as such (per se) -- Concerning the proper nature of the substantial form and the nature of its causality -- Concerning the nature of formal causality -- What the effect of the formal cause is -- Whether the substantial form is a true cause of matter and matter is its effect -- Whether the dependence of matter on form is so great that without form matter could not be -- Conserved even through the divine power, nor form without matter -- Whether there is only one formal cause for one substance -- On the metaphysical form, the matter that corresponds to it, and the causality it exercises.…”
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  9. 909

    Peckinpah today new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah /

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: times maybe, not them, the enduring value of Sam Peckinpah's films / Michael Bliss -- The deadly companions revisited / Garner Simmons -- Martyred slaves of time: age, regret, and transcendence in The wild bunch / Michael Bliss -- The ballad of divine retribution / Steven Lloyd -- From The siege of Trencher's farm to Straw dogs: the narrative brilliance of Sam Peckinpah / Michael Sragow -- The recutting of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: ethical problems in film restoration / Stephen Prince -- The authentic death and contentious afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: the several versions of Peckinpah's last western / Paul Seydor -- Human striving, human strife: Sam Peckinpah and the journey of the soul / Cordell Strug -- Peckinpah's last testament: The Osterman weekend / Tony Williams -- Dawn and dusk / Gérard Camy ; translated by Jean-Paul Gabert.…”
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  10. 910

    Peckinpah today new essays on the films of Sam Peckinpah /

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: times maybe, not them, the enduring value of Sam Peckinpah's films / Michael Bliss -- The deadly companions revisited / Garner Simmons -- Martyred slaves of time: age, regret, and transcendence in The wild bunch / Michael Bliss -- The ballad of divine retribution / Steven Lloyd -- From The siege of Trencher's farm to Straw dogs: the narrative brilliance of Sam Peckinpah / Michael Sragow -- The recutting of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: ethical problems in film restoration / Stephen Prince -- The authentic death and contentious afterlife of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid: the several versions of Peckinpah's last western / Paul Seydor -- Human striving, human strife: Sam Peckinpah and the journey of the soul / Cordell Strug -- Peckinpah's last testament: The Osterman weekend / Tony Williams -- Dawn and dusk / Gérard Camy ; translated by Jean-Paul Gabert.…”
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  11. 911

    Screen Genealogies : From Optical Device to Environmental Medium /

    Published 2020
    Table of Contents: “…Primal screens / Francesco Casetti -- 'Schutz und Schirm' : screening in German during early modern times / Rudiger Campe -- Face and screen : toward a genealogy of the media façade / Craig Buckley -- Sensing screens : from surface to situation / Nanna Verhoeff -- 'Taking the plunge' : the new immersive screens / Ariel Rogers -- The atmospheric screen : Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin / Antonio Somaini -- The fog medium : visualizing and engineering the atmosphere / Yuriko Furuhata -- The charge of a light barricade : optics and ballistics in the ambiguous being of screens / John Durham Peters -- Flat Bayreuth : a genealogy of opera as screened / Gundula Kreuzer -- Imaginary screens : the hyppnotic gesture and early film / Ruggero Eugeni -- Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the vertical screen / Noam M. Elcott.…”
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    On the formal cause of substance metaphysical disputation XV / by Suárez, Francisco, 1548-1617

    Published 2000
    Table of Contents: “…Whether there are substantial forms in material things -- In what way substantial forms can come to be in and from matter -- Whether matter temporally precedes form in every eduction of the substantial form -- Whether, when form is educed from matter, it comes to be as such (per se) -- Concerning the proper nature of the substantial form and the nature of its causality -- Concerning the nature of formal causality -- What the effect of the formal cause is -- Whether the substantial form is a true cause of matter and matter is its effect -- Whether the dependence of matter on form is so great that without form matter could not be -- Conserved even through the divine power, nor form without matter -- Whether there is only one formal cause for one substance -- On the metaphysical form, the matter that corresponds to it, and the causality it exercises.…”
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  13. 913

    Screen Genealogies : From Optical Device to Environmental Medium /

    Published 2020
    Table of Contents: “…Primal screens / Francesco Casetti -- 'Schutz und Schirm' : screening in German during early modern times / Rudiger Campe -- Face and screen : toward a genealogy of the media façade / Craig Buckley -- Sensing screens : from surface to situation / Nanna Verhoeff -- 'Taking the plunge' : the new immersive screens / Ariel Rogers -- The atmospheric screen : Turner, Hazlitt, Ruskin / Antonio Somaini -- The fog medium : visualizing and engineering the atmosphere / Yuriko Furuhata -- The charge of a light barricade : optics and ballistics in the ambiguous being of screens / John Durham Peters -- Flat Bayreuth : a genealogy of opera as screened / Gundula Kreuzer -- Imaginary screens : the hyppnotic gesture and early film / Ruggero Eugeni -- Material. Human. Divine. Notes on the vertical screen / Noam M. Elcott.…”
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  14. 914

    Acting for singers creating believable singing characters / by Ostwald, David, 1943-

    Published 2005
    Table of Contents: “…Believability : the territory and the tools. The divine marriage : combining believable acting with expressive singing -- To become or not to become : using yourself to create a believable character -- Playing in the moment : using improvisation to be believable -- Judgements and trust : improving your concentration -- Creating your character. …”
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  15. 915

    Politics of touch sense, movement, sovereignty / by Manning, Erin

    Published 2007
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction: atypical expressions and political inventions -- Bodies on the move-political recompositions -- Negotiating influence: touch and tango -- Gestural politics-touching the impenetrable-te toucher, toi-eventually tender-worlding touch -- Happy together: moving toward multiplicity -- Tango movements-tango friendships-multiple movements of desire-a last tango -- Erring toward experience: violence and touch -- Means without an end-violence-erring-divine violence-return to the garden -- Engenderings: gender, politics, individuation -- Touch-gender-symbiosis-interlude-individuation-politics -- Making sense of the incommensurable: experiencing democracy -- Expressions of the political-thick to think-shifting skinscapes-democracy- making sense of politics -- Sensing beyond security: what a body can do -- Do not touch-tactically untouchable-structurally insecure-of pacts and political becomings-posthuman prosthetics-a touch of insecurity.…”
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  16. 916

    Loneliness & lament a journey to receptivity / by Huntington, Patricia J.

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…-- Soft words for mother -- For what divine operation are we set up? -- Journey to the land where heart grows -- Pain and intimacy : the pause in bearing -- One step-- along the way -- A resonant chorus.…”
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  17. 917

    The boundaries of monotheism interdisciplinary explorations into the foundations of western monotheism /

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…: exploring the boundaries of monotheism : introduction / Anne-Marie Korte -- The boundaries of Israelite monotheism / Bob Becking -- The Divine Messiah : early Jewish monotheism and the New Testament / Patrick Chatelion Counet -- Monotheistic to a certain extent : the "good neighbours" of God in Ireland / Jacqueline Borsje -- The return of the gods : the clash between monotheism and polytheism in German romanticism / Bert Blans & Marcel Poorthuis -- The unity of God / René Munnik -- The whole of life : beyond the boundaries of monotheism? …”
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    Faith-based war from 9/11 to catastrophic success in Iraq / by Herbert, T. Walter (Thomas Walter), 1938-

    Published 2009
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Faith-based war -- Catastrophic success -- American blindspot -- Religious trauma -- America the beautiful -- Defending God's chosen -- City on a hill -- Alternative cities -- Amalek -- Limitless divine sanction -- Land of promise -- Wine of astonishment -- Rival traditions -- The fire of freedom -- The shining city as God -- Christian soldiers -- The president as mystic -- Drinking the Kool Aid -- Conquest as liberation -- Saddam as Hitler -- Unreal cities -- Avenging angel -- Saint George -- Christlike sacrifice -- The wrath of the Lamb -- Six-gun saviors -- Make-believe cowboys -- Messiahs on horseback -- Six-gun saviors in the White House -- Moral clarity and moral collapse -- Shock and awe -- Moral clarity in battle -- Dead certainty -- Shaken souls -- A theology of torture -- Advertising the dark side -- A theology of torture -- UnAmerican activities -- Coda: Hooded man.…”
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  19. 919

    Apocalyptic patterns in twentieth-century fiction by Leigh, David J.

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Lewis and Russell Hoban -- The ultimate union: person, community, and the divine in Doris Lessing's apocalyptic fiction -- The ultimate cosmos: a new heaven and a new earth in three science fiction writers: Arthur C. …”
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  20. 920

    Miracle discourse in the New Testament

    Published 2012
    Table of Contents: “…Watson -- Toward a socio-rhetorical taxonomy of divine intervention: miracle discourse in the Revelation to John / David A. …”
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