The Mackerel Plaza
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The Mackerel Plaza
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Author : Peter De Vries
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-10-21
The Mackerel Plaza written by Peter De Vries and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Fiction categories.
An irresistible comedy about faith, desire, and middle-class morality from the man described by Kingsley Amis as “the funniest serious writer to be found on either side of the Atlantic” Pity the poor reverend Andrew Mackerel of the People’s Liberal Church of Avalon, Connecticut. His is the first split-level church in America, a bastion of modern thought and sophisticated virtue, yet even his prosperous parishioners are not immune to the backsliding evangelism infecting other parts of the country. One misguided congregant wants to sing hymns to hospital patients. Another goes so far as to put up a billboard with the message “Jesus Saves” written in phosphorescent green-and-orange letters. How is Mackerel supposed to write sermons with a vulgarity like that staring him in the face? Worse yet, the recently widowed pastor has fallen in love with Molly Calico, a former actress turned city hall clerk, well before the church is ready to stop mourning Mackerel’s saintly wife. Plans are under way for a shopping mall and memorial plaza commemorating the dear departed, and Mackerel must go to ever-greater lengths to keep his new romance a secret and his new paramour happy. Meanwhile, it is becoming clear that his devoted sister-in-law, Hester, has plans of her own when it comes to the reverend’s matrimonial future. As Mackerel twists and turns to get what he wants and avoid what he does not, the plot of this rollicking portrait of suburban piety kicks into high—and hilarious—gear.
The Mackerel Plaza
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Author : Peter De Vries
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Mackerel Plaza written by Peter De Vries and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
The Analytic Theist
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Author : Alvin Plantinga
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 1998
The Analytic Theist written by Alvin Plantinga and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Philosophy categories.
This collection of essays and excerpts gives a comprehensive overview of Alvin Plantinga's seminal work as a Christian philosopher of religion.
The Suicide Of Christian Theology
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Author : John Warwick Montgomery
language : en
Publisher: New Reformation Publications
Release Date : 2018-01-26
The Suicide Of Christian Theology written by John Warwick Montgomery and has been published by New Reformation Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-26 with Religion categories.
A forceful, scholarly call to return to the solid ground of the ancient creeds of Christianity. Dr. Montgomery's incisive observations on Barth, Bultmann, Tillich, de Chardin, Pike and others may rankle some readers on occasion. But there can never be any question about the mental acumen he brings to bear upon his subject or the skill with which he pens his views. Montgomery is so obviously at home in the area of the theological, and so conversant with the convictions of his fellow theologians that he certainly must be reckoned with. Not content with only analyzing the suicide of theology, the author also gives a proposal for its resurrection.
This Life This World New Essays On Marilynne Robinson S Housekeeping Gilead And Home
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-09-29
This Life This World New Essays On Marilynne Robinson S Housekeeping Gilead And Home written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book explores the author’s award-winning novels while also engaging her non-fiction. As the first book devoted entirely to Robinson and to her diverse contributions to literature and scholarship, This Life, This World familiarizes readers with the major currents in her thought and moves scholarly dialogue into new theoretical directions. An interdisciplinary group, the contributors bring to their subject a diversity of perspectives—Romanticism, ecocriticism, medicine and literature, religion and literature, theology, American Studies, critical race theory, and feminist and gender studies—that reflects the amplitude and fecundity of Robinson’s art and thought. The book begins with an annotated timeline and concludes with a substantive written interview with Robinson wherein she reflects on her work and its reception. A tremendous resource for Robinson enthusiasts and for readers interested in the questions she raises in her fiction and non-fiction.
Outgrowing Church Second Edition
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Author : John Killinger
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-10-23
Outgrowing Church Second Edition written by John Killinger and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-23 with Religion categories.
Why are so many people drifting away from today's churches? John Killinger suggests that part of the problem is that they have personally outpaced the thinking and understanding of the church so that they no longer find it adequate as a social structure for the celebration of their faith. In their attempts to find Jesus and his teachings relevant within the new culture, they strike out on their own or adhere to para-Christian organizations that retain an allegiance to Jesus without the baggage of the traditional institution. Killinger, a former big-steeple minister and theologian, describes how he himself has been forced essentially to abandon the church in order to remain faithful to the beliefs and ideals that first drew him into it.
Comfort Me With Apples
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Author : Peter De Vries
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-10-21
Comfort Me With Apples written by Peter De Vries and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with Fiction categories.
A laugh-out-loud novel about teenage pretensions and adult delusions from an author whom the New York Times has called “a Balzac of the station wagon set” Chick Swallow and his best friend, Nickie Sherman, are teenage boulevardiers of Decency, Connecticut, devotees of Oscar Wilde who spend their evenings crafting perverse aphorisms in an ice-cream parlor. “There is only one thing worse than not having children,” opines Chick, “and that is having them.” Unrepentant aesthetes, someday soon they will be in Paris or New York, far removed from the mainstream. Then the unthinkable happens. Marriage. Family. Dinner parties. For Chick, a job at the local newspaper writing an advice column punctuated by blandly inspirational Pepigrams: “To turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones—pick up your feet.” For Nickie, an unlikely career in law enforcement. But just when it seems that their lives have settled down before they could even begin, Chick begins an affair with Mrs. Thicknesse, a newspaper music critic of ample girth and means, and a whole brouhaha breaks loose: blackmail, forgery, secret sleuthing, lawsuits. There is drama in suburbia after all, and Chick and Nickie are up to their necks in it. A wild, witty tale of friendship, marriage, and infidelity, Comfort Me with Apples is full of the brilliant wordplay and delicious ironies that made Peter de Vries “one of the best comic novelists that America has ever produced” (Commentary).
Encyclopedia Of American Humorists
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Author : Steven H. Gale
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
Encyclopedia Of American Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Humor categories.
First published in 1988, this book contains entries on famous American Humorists. Humor has been present in American literature, from the beginning, and has developed characteristics that reflect the American character, both regional and national. Although American literature was, in the past, treated as inferior to British literature, there has always been a large popular audience for the genre, which this book shows. The figures with entries in this encyclopedia not only amuse in their writing, but also aim to enlighten- setting out to expose the foibles and foolishness of society and the individuals who compose it. It is the manner in which these authors try to accomplish this end that determines whether they appear in the volume. Indeed, the book will demonstrate that the best humor has at its base, a ready understanding of human nature.
New Models Of Religious Understanding
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Author : Fiona Ellis
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018
New Models Of Religious Understanding written by Fiona Ellis and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Religion categories.
What does it mean to understand the world religiously? How is such understanding to be distinguished from scientific understanding? What does it have to do with religious practice, transfiguring love, and spiritual well-being? New Models of Religious Understanding investigates these questions to set a new and exciting agenda for philosophy of religion. Featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field, the volume cuts across the supposed divide between analytic and continental approaches to the subject and engages the interest of a broad range of philosophical and theological readers.
Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations
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Author : Susan Ratcliffe
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2006
Concise Oxford Dictionary Of Quotations written by Susan Ratcliffe and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Reference categories.
Provides coverage of literary and historical quotations. An easy-to-use keyword index traces quotations and their authors, while the appendix material, including Catchphrases, Film Lines, Official Advice, and Political Slogans, offers further topics of interest.