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Fairest Lord Jesus
Meditations on the Gospels for the Poor in Spirit and the Contrite Heart
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The Gospels portray Jesus as one who often sought solitude, whether for himself or in quietude before his Father. To do so he had to withdraw from both his disciples and others. Such moments enabled him to renew his inner strength, to find God's consolation for himself, as well as to imbue him with...
by Philippe Routier
Language: French
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Language: French
Release Date: August 19, 2009
Au début c’est une histoire presque banale. Celle d’un couple qui rêve d’une vie meilleure et se laisse séduire par les illusions du monde consumériste.
Bertrand travaille sur une plate-forme colis de la Poste. Ayant raté les divers concours de promotion interne, il n’a aucune chance...
by Philippe Routier
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2006
Language: French
Release Date: August 23, 2006
Dans la forêt de Retz, le passage à niveau 515 n'a ni barrière ni feu. Cette nuit-là, quand Manon Gerberoy traverse la voie ferrée, elle ne soupçonne pas le train lancé à 160 km/h. La collision est inévitable. La Peugeot est broyée, ses trois passagers sont morts : Manon, trente-deux ans,...
by Philippe Routier
Language: French
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Language: French
Release Date: April 2, 2008
Confortablement installé dans sa chambre funéraire, Jean-Robert Carouge attend la visite de ses proches. Il sait que sa femme ne viendra pas. Depuis longtemps elle a mis fin à leur aventure conjugale, en emmenant les enfants. Devenus adultes, Christa et Jean se sont éloignés de leur père, ce...
by Philippe Routier
Language: French
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Language: French
Release Date: January 11, 2012
Khadija a grandi dans la petite épicerie que tenaient ses parents à Puteaux. À la mort de sa mère, son père Tareq est reparti vivre au Maroc. À vingt ans, la jeune femme mène une vie simple et solitaire jusqu’au jour où elle rencontre Virgile, un garçon un peu frustre, mais sociable et...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2017
Close our eyes and most of us can recite the Lord's Prayer by heart. It is as familiar as childhood memories. In some church traditions, we say the prayer together nearly every week, as a community standing before God. We call on those so familiar words and the comfort and direction they offer. The...
The Day after Domesday
The Making of the Bishops’ Bible
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Though more than four hundred years have elapsed since the Bishops' Bible was first published in 1568, its story has never been adequately told. No book-length evaluation has been published, and no adequate bibliography is available for guidance in studying this least known of the Tudor-period Bibles....
An African Pentecostal Hermeneutics
A Distinctive Contribution to Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
The face of African Christianity is becoming Pentecostal. African Pentecostalism is a diverse movement, but its collective interest in baptism in the Spirit and the result of Pentecost in daily living binds it together. Pentecostals read the Bible with the expectation that the Spirit who inspired...
Interfaith Activism
Abraham Joshua Heschel and Religious Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2015
Abraham Joshua Heschel was the towering religious figure of American Jewry in the twentieth century. In Interfaith Activism, Harold Kasimow, who is known for his work on Heschel and on interfaith dialogue between Jews and members of other faiths, presents a selection of his essays on Heschel's thought....
African Catholicism and Hermeneutics of Culture
Essays in the Light of African Synod II
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
The study of Christianity in the non-Western world reveals a demographic shift in the center of Christianity from the Northern Hemisphere to the South. But the contradictory aspect of the massive African conversion to Christian faith is the grinding poverty level in Africa. This condition raises important...
The West and China in Africa
Civilization without Justice
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2015
The West and China in Africa: Civilization without Justice is an outcome of Dr. Alemayehu Mekonnen's personal intellectual struggle, life experience, and an attempt to understand Christ and his message within the cultural context of Africa. The intellectual struggle has to do with the paradoxical...
by Maurice Genevoix
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1976
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1976
La flamme olympique vient de s'éteindre : triomphe sur le stade, triomphe de la jeunesse, de l'amour, sous le ciel hellène, dans un monde peuplé de dieux. Ce monde grec, où notre civilisation trouve ses plus nobles origines, nous ne le voyons guère, d'ordinaire, que dans la froideur des musées....
Le Florentin
Le roman de Dante
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1985
À neuf ans, un jeune Florentin aperçoit une fillette de son âge : elle s'appelle Béatrice, lui, Dante Alighieri. Jamais il ne l'oubliera, et elle sera à l'origine d'une des grandes œuvres de la littérature mondiale. Les péripéties ne manquent pas dans la vie de Dante : en cette fin du XIIIe...
Mere Ecclesiology
Finding Your Place in the Church’s Mission
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
Too many churches limp along with no clear sense of mission. In Mere Ecclesiology: Finding Your Place in the Church's Mission, Dr. Crofford clarifies the purpose of God's people through the metaphor of spiritual respiration. "Breathing in" (worship and discipleship) leads to "breathing...