The Powers And The Persecuted
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The Powers And The Persecuted
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Author : Tommie Sjöberg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
The Powers And The Persecuted written by Tommie Sjöberg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Social Science categories.
The Politics Of Persecution
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Author : President Mitri Raheb
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-09
The Politics Of Persecution written by President Mitri Raheb and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09 with categories.
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century. The topic has experienced a resurgence in the last few years, especially during the Trump era. Middle Eastern Christians are often portrayed as a homogeneous, helpless group ever at the mercy of their Muslim enemies, a situation that only Western powers can remedy. The Politics of Persecution revisits this narrative with a critical eye. Mitri Raheb charts the plight of Christians in the Middle East from the invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799 to the so-called Arab Spring. The book analyzes the diverse socioeconomic and political factors that led to the diminishing role and numbers of Christians in Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan during the eras of Ottoman, French, and British Empires, through the eras of independence, Pan-Arabism, and Pan-Islamism, and into the current era of American empire. With an incisive exposé of the politics that lie behind alleged concerns for these persecuted Christians--and how the concept of persecution has been a tool of public diplomacy and international politics--Raheb reveals that Middle Eastern Christians have been repeatedly sacrificed on the altar of Western national interests. The West has been part of the problem for Middle Eastern Christianity and not part of the solution, from the massacre on Mount Lebanon to the rise of ISIS. The Politics of Persecution, written by a well-known Palestinian Christian theologian, provides an insider perspective on this contested region. Middle Eastern Christians survived successive empires by developing great elasticity in adjusting to changing contexts; they learned how to survive atrocities and how to resist creatively while maintaining a dynamic identity. In this light, Raheb casts the history of Middle Eastern Christians not so much as one of persecution but as one of resilience.
Persecution Persuasion And Power
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Author : James A. Kelhoffer
language : en
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Release Date : 2010
Persecution Persuasion And Power written by James A. Kelhoffer and has been published by Mohr Siebeck this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Bible categories.
James A. Kelhoffer examines an often overlooked aspect of New Testament constructions of legitimacy, namely the value of Christians' withstanding persecution as a means of corroborating their religious identity as Christ's followers. The introductory chapter defines the problem in interaction with sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's concept of cultural capital. Chapters 2-10 examine the depictions of persecuted Christians in the Pauline letters, First Peter, Hebrews, Revelation, the NT Gospels, and Acts. These exegetical analyses support the conclusion that assertions of standing, authority, and power claimed on the basis of persecution play a significant and heretofore under-appreciated role in much of the NT. It is also argued that depictions of persecution can have both positive implications for the persecuted and negative implications for the depicted persecutors in constructions of legitimation.An epilogue considers later examples of early Christian martyrs and confessors, as well as John Foxe's Book of Martyrs . The epilogue also addresses the ethical and hermeneutical problem of asserting the withstanding of persecution as a basis of legitimacy in ancient and modern contexts. This problem stems from the observation that, although the NT authors present their construals of withstanding persecution as a basis of legitimation as if they were self-evident, such assertions are actually the culmination of numerous presuppositions and are therefore open to dissenting viewpoints. Yet the NT authors do not acknowledge the possibility of competing interpretations, or that oppressed Christians could someday become oppressors. Accordingly, this exegetical study calls attention to an ethical and hermeneutical problem that the NT bequeaths to the modern interpreter, a problem inviting input from ethicists and other theologians.
A Roland For An Oliver
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Author : Mathew Carey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1826
A Roland For An Oliver written by Mathew Carey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1826 with Anti-Catholicism categories.
Peter Not An Initiate Was The Enemy Of Paul
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Author : Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
language : en
Publisher: Philaletheians UK
Release Date : 2018-04-03
Peter Not An Initiate Was The Enemy Of Paul written by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and has been published by Philaletheians UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Religion categories.
Peter and Paul are archetypes of two Opposing Powers in Christianity The Secret Doctrine preached by Jesus has been disfigured by the Fathers beyond recognition. What the Fathers fought for was not Truth, but their own interpretations and unwarranted assertions. From the early days of Marcion of Sinope, the primitive Church has been split into two opposing parties: one viewing Christianity as a Hebrew institution and law, a narrow faction and extension of Judaism; the other, striving to replace Mosaic law with universal compassion and true brotherhood. Peter was the representative of the former; Paul, of the latter. The mission of Jesus, according to Marcion, was to abrogate the Jewish “Lord,” who “was opposed to the God and Father of Jesus Christ as Matter is to Spirit, impurity to purity.” The Apostle of Circumcision made his mission to persecute the Apostle of the Gentiles. After denying the very existence of Simon Magus, the Roman Church merged his individuality entirely in that of Paul, whose Epistles were secretly as well as openly calumniated and opposed by Peter, and charged with containing “dysnoëtic learning.” Saul in the flesh was the function and parallel of Chr?stos. Paul freed from earthly obligations, the function and parallel of Jesus Chrestos becoming Christos in spirit. Unlike Jesus Chrestos, Paul revoked openly the Jewish law of circumcision. For Paul, Christ was not a person but an embodied ideal. Paul was a Nazar, a Chaldean Theurgist. He was a Master-Builder, an Adept in a Kabbalistic, Theurgic, and Masonic sense. That is why he was so persecuted and hated by Peter, John, and James. Whoever else might have built the Church of Rome it was not the Apostle of the Circumcision. The assertion that hen-hearted Peter suffered martyrdom at Rome is the greatest of all Patristic frauds. Scared at the accusation of the servant of the high priest, the apostle had thrice denied his master. The extraordinary forgeries of the Fathers have been plainly demonstrated by diligent research and the power of informed logic. Did you know that the first fifteen Christian bishops of Jerusalem, commencing with James and including Judas, were all circumcised Jews? Who was the Peter who invented a burning hell and threatened every one with it? Who promised miracles, but worked none? The controversy sparked by the death of Jesus, between the Petrine and the Pauline sects, was deplorable. What one did, the other vowed to undo. His “chair” was not apostolical either: it had been plagiarised from old initiatory rites. There were two chairs of the titular apostle at Rome. But the chair holder was conspicuous by his absence. Why? Because the real “Chair of Peter,” was sacred rather than apostolical: the “Fathers” had plagiarised a chair occupied by the Hierophant during initiations, when showing to the candidate the last revelation set in two tablets of stone. That was how Popes appointed themselves successors to the title of Peter. The Roman Church has attempted to connect the leader of the Apostles with the initiatory stone tablets or Petroma, and appointing him vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope. Thus, Popes have gained the right to call themselves successors to the title of Peter, but hardly successors to the doctrines of Jesus. While the old Aramaic Patar or Peter would connect master and disciple with the Secret Doctrine, any connection of the “Seat of Peter” with Petroma at the Supreme Initiation is far-fetched. Paul is the real founder of Christianity. Peter never had anything to do with the foundation of the Latin Church. Peter the Apostle and Petroma are miles apart. The former, represents matter and spiritual darkness; the latter, the Spirit of Christos within the heart of everyman. Peter never lost an occasion to contradict Paul without naming him, but indicating him so clearly that it was next to impossible to doubt whom he meant. Peter and Paul epitomise the two Opposing Forces of the Universe. It is doubtful whether either of these men were historical figures. This awful and ugly state of Christianity has been cunningly preserved from too close scrutiny by an array of formidable Church penances and anathemas, which kept the curious back under the false pretence of sacrilege and profanation of “divine mysteries”; millions have been butchered in the name of the God of Mercy. Paul had been converted, not to the Jesus of Nazareth, but to the Christos of the Gnostics. In his Epistles, he has been made to fulminate against the heretics but these heretics were actually Peter, James, and the other Apostles. The Christos of Paul is the same Christos who directs our occult movement. One who believes in Paul cannot believe in James, Peter, and John. For, what Paul preached, was preached by every other mystic philosopher. The author of the fourth evangel was not John, the friend and companion of Peter, whom he contradicts point-blank in chapter i, verse 18. Even the Romish monastery and nunnery are servile copies of similar religious houses in Thibet and Mongolia. One legacy of the Roman Church and seed of its own demise was the fabrication of an anthropomorphic god. Another, was the passports to heaven bearing an image of Peter holding the keys to paradise!
About Persecutors And Persecuted People
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Author : Roland Fakler
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2018-11-13
About Persecutors And Persecuted People written by Roland Fakler and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-13 with Political Science categories.
What is the reason why the so-called great people in history turned into persecutors when they gained power over people and why were they often persecuted, if they were looking for new ways of thinking, as artists, writers, painters, composers and founders of religions? Why have the great people in world history caused so much harm? Where is the problem? How can it be solved? These questions I want to answer in this book. The book wants to arrange easy readable fundamental history-knowledge, confirm this knowledge with quotations, show connections and come to conclusions. The whole misery of world history is actually due to the fact, that those who have decisively shaped this history, the rulers, dictators, ideologists and also the founders of religions, had not been great enough to do something truely good, i.e. they had not been great enough that one could come to them, that one would have wanted to have them. They do not appear liberating but rather oppressive. You had to have them ... and that's where the problem starts!
The Insanity Of God
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Author : Nik Ripken
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 2013
The Insanity Of God written by Nik Ripken and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An amazing story of a missionary couple's journey into the toughest places on earth is combined with stories about remarkable people of faith they encountered to challenge and inspire those curious about the sufficiency of God.
The Persecuted
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Author : Casey Chalk
language : en
Publisher: Sophia
Release Date : 2021-11-23
The Persecuted written by Casey Chalk and has been published by Sophia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-23 with Christians categories.
For 2,000 years, the persecution of Christians has taken place wherever the Church has been present -- essentially, in every corner of the world. More than 260 million Christians around the globe are facing some form of persecution right now, and that number continues to climb each year. The Persecuted is an astonishing book that tells the real-life stories of brave Christians who are suffering intimidation, oppression, and violence right now as they resolutely live out their Faith in Muslim lands. The author, Casey Chalk, shocked by what he saw as a journalist living overseas, presents with skill and sensitivity these riveting stories that he witnessed firsthand. This global tour of Christian persecution will take you from the slums of Karachi, where Islamic extremists harass and kill beleaguered Christians, to the bustling, exotic streets of Bangkok, where Christians hide in fear while awaiting adjudication of their refugee applications. You'll meet brave Christians who escaped Muslim persecution to make a new life in the Netherlands, and others who slipped away only to become trapped in Russia. Casey tells the stories of Christians who were tortured and, in some instances, killed in Muslim nations -- and then lays out a strategic plan for rescuing as many as possible from their plight. Chalk also addresses other fundamental issues, explaining why Islam's radicals feel they must declare war on Christianity and why they persist in enslaving the Christians in their midst. He also explains how they have managed to get away with this appalling conduct in the face of powerful international organizations--and the Catholic Church herself--spotlighting the persecution and calling for its end. These harrowing stories bring you face-to-face with fellow Christians enduring the ultimate test in distant lands. They will strengthen your faith and also prepare you for what may lie ahead here in the West if we fail to heed the advice given in this timely and important book.
A Journal
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Author : George Fox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1808
A Journal written by George Fox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1808 with categories.
Christian Persecutions
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Author : H. Craig
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-06-26
Christian Persecutions written by H. Craig and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Religion categories.
Excerpt from Christian Persecutions: Being a Historical Exposition of the Principal Catholic Events From the Christian Era to the Present Time Written From an Unprejudiced Standpoint In presenting this volume to the public the author has but one idea to advance and but one object to attain, and that, to destroy intolerance, bigotry and ignorance. By Intoleration we mean, not a prohibition of rights and opinions, but the religious inconsistency and prejudice that exists in the political and social life of individuals. It is the Intoleration of the mind, the heart, the conscience. By Bigotry, - that obstinate and unreasoning condition in which an individual views his own belief and opinions, and opposes with narrow-minded intolerance the beliefs of others. It is a hated opposition, without reason or common sense. By Ignorance, - that pitiable condition which listens to fanaticism, believes assertions, and analyzes nothing. It is the father of intoleration, bigotry, and superstition. It is the foundation of religious persecution, of idolatry, and of heresy. It breeds confusion, oppression, and persecution. From the first establishment of Christianity to the present day it has been one constant struggle against unbelief, against opposition, and against persecution. In the past there is a wonderful history of the sufferings, the trials, and the steadfastness of those who have been faithful to God, to Christ, and to his Holy Word. To write these histories is beyond the power of man. Hundreds of volumes have been issued and yet we have recorded only a part of the great work of Christianity, and the awful afflictions it has borne. But not once in all those two thousand years has the faith in Christ been lost or broken. While It has apparently met reverses, yet not once was there a defeat. 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.
