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Bishop Morley of Winchester 1598-1684 Politician, Benefactor, Pragmatist


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English | ISBN: 1906113270 | 2019 | 140 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book attempts to offer an authoritative account of the life and achievements of George Morley. Morley was for years a teacher at Christ Church Oxford, subsequently Dean of the College, then Bishop of Worcester and, finally, Bishop of Winchester. These appointments would, in themselves, have made him an important figure in the history of seventeenth century England; but Morley in fact played a huge part, far beyond the confines of the University of Oxford and the Dioceses of Worcester and Winchester, nationally, in the political and religious developments of his time. He played key roles in the restoration of the king in 1660 and in the subsequent attempts to achieve a settlement – the beginnings of the search for church unity – in the 1660s and 1670s, dying in the 1680s, just before Charles II himself.

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Defensive Measures The Poetry Of Niedecker, Bishop, Gluck, And Carson


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English | 2005 | ISBN: 0838756077 | PDF | pages: 144 | 0.6 mb
Much of our strongest poetry that learned its lessons from early modernism lives by its defensive measures, that is, by means of reversing, inverting, and challenging in covert ways a dominant perceptual mode. Defensive Measures explores strategies by which poets claim their distinctiveness, and argues that poetry is the one literary form that most insistently demands a defense. It demands a defense, it would seem, because it is perpetually in crisis – not only in regard to its utility and its aesthetic appeal (or the vigor of its renunciation of such an appeal), but in regard to its generic existence. Upton defines a generative conception of defense and examines in a new light the poetry of Lorine Niedecker, Elizabeth Bishop, Louise Gluck, and Anne Carson. In writing about Bishop. Upton puts this well-regarded poet in a new framework, aligning her work with that of three poets whose aesthetics might be viewed as antithetical to her own …

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The Bishop and the Butterfly Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CPTJYJWV | 2024 | 11 hours and 28 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 328 MB
Author: Michael Wolraich
Narrator: Kirsten Potter

Vivian Gordon went out before midnight in a velvet dress and mink coat. Her body turned up the next morning in a desolate Bronx park, a dirty clothesline wrapped around her neck. At her stylish Manhattan apartment, detectives discovered notebooks full of names-businessmen, socialites, gangsters. And something else-a letter from an anti-corruption commission established by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Led by the imperious Judge Samuel Seabury, the commission had uncovered a police conspiracy to frame women as prostitutes. Had Vivian Gordon been executed to bury her secrets? As FDR pressed the police to solve her murder, Judge Seabury pursued the trail of corruption to the top of Gotham’s powerful political machine-the infamous Tammany Hall.

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Resurrection Myth or Reality a bishop’s search for the origins of Christianity


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English | 2004 | pages: 352 | ISBN: 0060674296, 0060675462 | EPUB | 0,6 mb
Using approaches from the Hebrew interpretive tradition to discern the actual events surrounging Jesus’ death, Bishop Spong questions the hitorical validity of literal narrative concerned the Ressurection. He asserts that the resurrection story was born in an experience that opened the disciples’ eyes to the reality of God and the meaning of Jesus of Nazareth. Spong traces the Christian origins of anti-Semitism to the Church’s fabrication of the ultimate Jewish scapegoat, Judas Iscariot. He affirms the inclusiveness of the Christian message and emphasizes the necessity of mutual integrity and respect among Christians and Jews.

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Born of a Woman A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church


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English | 2004 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0060675233, 0060675136 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality.

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Born of a Woman A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church


Free Download John Shelby Spong, "Born of a Woman: A Bishop Rethinks the Virgin Birth and the Treatment of Women by a Male-Dominated Church"
English | 2004 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 0060675233, 0060675136 | EPUB | 0,9 mb
John Shelby Spong, bestselling author and Episcopal bishop of Newark, NJ, challenges the doctrine of the virgin birth, tracing its development in the early Christian church and revealing its legacy in our contemporary attitudes toward women and female sexuality.

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