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While he was well known for his lifelong fascination with the nature of religious experience, the colonial American pastor and theologian Jonathan Edwards is seldom associated with a specifically Trinitarian spirituality. This study explores the central connections Edwards drew between his doctrines of religious experience and the Trinity: the person and work of the Holy Spirit. Edwards envisioned the Spirit's inter-Trinitarian work as the aff...

From the Daytona 500 to driving on the beaches, Bike Week to Spring Break, Historic Photos of Daytona Beach is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?the Birthplace of Speed? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government,...

The Scottish Episcopal Church in the nineteenth century was dominated by High Churchmen. But by around 1820 Evangelical clergy began to take up posts within its fold, particularly in the major Scottish cities, holiday centers, and in places where wealthy patrons could supply funds necessary to sustain a church. The Evangelical newcomers reached a numerical peak from 1842 to 1854 when they accounted for around one in seven of all Episcopal cle...

But God Raised Him from the Dead" is the first comprehensive study of Jesus' resurrection in Luke-Acts. Through wide-sweeping research and detailed exegesis, Dr. Anderson supports the claim that the resurrection of Jesus is the focus of the message of salvation in Luke-Acts. The study situates Luke's resurrection theology within Jewish and Hellenistic conceptions of the afterlife, and addresses critical questions in Lukan studies, such as the ...

This study examines John's portrayal of Jesus as the fulfillment and replacement of the Temple. It also shows how a traditional conception of typology can be helpful for understanding the nature of the relationship between Jesus and the Temple. Interpreters often associate John 1:14, 1:51, 2:18-22, and 4:20-24 with Jesus' replacement of the Temple. Based on these texts, one can already begin to see that he fulfills and replaces the Temple in ...

Presents a systematic approach to the Christian liturgy as event rather than text, using tools made available by contemporary performance theory. Richard McCall bridges the work of performance scholarship and liturgical studies in a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary way.

These are the field diaries kept by the team of Russian merchant-explorers who traveled widely through northwest Mongolia in the summer of 1910. The expedition had been organized and funded by a group of Moscow merchants investigating opportunities for exporting goods to Mongolia in competition with Chinese domination of the local and regional market systems. The Russians were also charged with locating new sources of raw materials for Russian...

These are the field diaries kept by the team of Russian merchant-explorers who traveled widely through northwest Mongolia in the summer of 1910. The expedition had been organized and funded by a group of Moscow merchants investigating opportunities for exporting goods to Mongolia in competition with Chinese domination of the local and regional market systems. The Russians were also charged with locating new sources of raw materials for Russian...

Learn how to establish successful business relationships and winning contracts for both parties. Get a solid grounding in the acquisition process, learn the roles of key players, and discover the rules of the game. This practical book briefs you on key steps in contract formation, essential elements of a binding contract, principal objectives for buyers and sellers, and much, much more. Whether you're forming a contract for the first or fiftie...

Many buyers and sellers focus their efforts on getting the contract - and don't properly plan, staff, or supervise contract administration and closeout. This ActionPack book shows you how to prepare for the post-award phase so that you the maximize success of your contract. You'll get a firm grounding in contract administration - plus practical tools to help you avoid delays and cost overruns and improve performance and customer satisfaction.

Pricing is at the heart of every deal in government or business - but figuring out the right approach isn't easy. This ActionPack book gives you an overview of key estimating and pricing issues - and outlines a variety of approaches to cost estimating and pricing. Whether you're an entry-level or experienced professional, you'll learn invaluable new techniques for achieving the best pricing results.

Learn how you can apply this strategic method to boost flexibility and innovation in business arrangements. Find out how PBC is being used by government and industry leaders to motivate sellers to deliver products, services, and solutions that meet or exceed buyers' requirements. Discover how to apply performance standards, metrics, and other incentives for superior results. Become familiar with current techniques such as the performance work ...

Learn to use this proven-effective method to integrate cost, schedule, and technical performance. Get a briefing on essential terms, key objectives, benefits of EVM, best practices and how to implement them, regulations governing the use of EVM, and much, much more. If you're new to EVM, you'll get the basic understanding you need to apply techniques. If you're already familiar with EVM, you'll increase and strengthen your knowledge for greate...

The storytelling soon devolves into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the tales concern lovers, romantic conquests, and women's virtue -- objects of pride and power. The Heptameron is a book to delight, offend, and educate twentieth-century readers. Highly recommended.

Pemberton is a penniless Oxford graduate who takes on a job tutoring Morgan Moreen. As he spends more time with the brilliant eleven-year-old, he becomes very fond of him. Morgan's family, however, doesn't pay Pemberton for his tutoring, and what's worse, they don't pay their hotel bills either. Pemberton has to take another tutoring job to pay his bills. He must decide whether to save Morgan from his ill-fated family or leave Morgan in order ...

In his later work, Grey portrayed Mormonism more neutrally -- but here, in this book, those evil polyandering men are villains, plain and simple. Well, ewww -- there's a reason why the Mormons generally gave it up, and don't think being part of the union was really all there was to it. Really, gross! That said, here in Riders of the Purple Sage -- and in the sequel, The Rainbow Trail -- the Mormon men take it on the chin. They're heavies, here...

One of Zola's own favorites, Paris is a truly brilliant tale -- it shows us the city's underbelly, both figuratively and literally, for we see the enormous market (built in the 1850s) into which flowed great rivers of of food -- and from which flowed sewers of blood and putrefaction. This is a brilliant tale, and one as alive and memorable today as it was when Zola wrote it.

A LEGEND ON LEATHER WINGS! The Indians called it the Thunderbird, a winged monster so vast that the beating of its mighty pinions sounded like thunder. But this ancient beast is not to be held in the cage of mythology. Today, from all over the dusty U.S. / Mexican border come hair-raising stories of modern day encounters with winged monsters of immense size and terrifying appearance. Further field sightings of similar creatures are recorded fr...

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Real Power to the People describes a unique experiment in democracy that took place during 2004-2005. In this experiment, the government of British Columbia gave its citizens the power to take control of its electoral reform process and make a final decision. This new approach to electoral reform was implemented through a citizens' assembly of 160 randomly selected, nonpartisan British Columbians and a referendum. The citizens' assembly first ...