Parting

Parting
Author: Jennifer Sutton Holder,Jann Aldredge-Clanton
Publsiher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2009-11-30
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780807867693

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At times we may be called to be companions on a journey we would rather not take--the journey of a loved one toward the end of life. For those who choose to serve as close companions of terminally ill relatives or friends, Parting offers the collective wisdom of people from many cultures and faith traditions as a "travel guide" for meaningful companionship--helping someone toward a peaceful transition from this life. Sections of the book discuss how to cross the bridge from ordinary conversation to spiritual reflection; how to provide comforts for the body, mind, and soul; and how to care for yourself while concentrating on the needs of another. Transcending any specific religion or culture, this handbook addresses universal spiritual needs. Designed for easy reading by weary travelers, this practical, pocket-sized guide prepares the spiritual companion for an enriching experience, even on the journey toward life's end. It is an indispensable tool for family members and friends, hospice workers, religious leaders, counselors, and medical providers.

Jews and Christians Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE

Jews and Christians     Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE
Author: Jens Schröter,Benjamin A. Edsall,Joseph Verheyden
Publsiher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2021-08-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9783110742244

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The present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt University Berlin as part of a common project of the Australian Catholic University, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin. The aim is to discuss the relationships of “Jews” and “Christians” in the first two centuries CE against the background of recent debates which have called into question the image of “parting ways” for a description of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. One objection raised against this metaphor is that it accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. Another critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at historical developments which can hardly be grasped with such a metaphor. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians, Christian Jews etc. are more blurred than the image of “parting ways” allows. In light of these considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the cogency of the “parting of the ways”-model with a look at prominent early Christian writers and places and suggest more appropriate metaphors to describe the relationships of Jews and Christians in the early period.

The Parting of the Ways

The Parting of the Ways
Author: Stephen Spence
Publsiher: Peeters Publishers
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2004
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 9042913363

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This book seeks to inject into the general discussion of the "Parting of the Ways" of Judaism and Christianity the social realities of the separation of a particular Christian community and a particular Jewish community. By drawing upon the literary and the historical data available concerning the church in Rome, Spence seeks to discover when and how Christians came to see themselves as an identifiably distinct community. His findings will surprise those who see the "Parting of the Ways" as a slow process. He argues that although the "parting" was early, it was not without its complications. Drawing upon the work of Rodney Stark, a sociologist of religion, Spence suggests that within the church in Rome there was a struggle between those who saw the church as a Jewish sect and those who saw the church as a Roman cult - a struggle already underway when the Apostle Paul wrote Romans. This struggle, however, was not an even one, because it was the cultists, those for whom the church's primary social location was the pagans of Rome, who held the positions of power over the numerically smaller sectarians who sought to maintain the church's primary identity as a Jewish sect acceptable within the synagogues of Rome.

Parting Words

Parting Words
Author: Justin A. Sider
Publsiher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2018-11-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780813941837

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Valedictory addresses offer a way to conceptualize the relation of self to others, private to public, ephemeral to eternal. Whether deathbed pronouncements, political capitulations, or seafaring farewells, "parting words" played a crucial role in the social imagination of Victorian writing. In this compelling new book, Justin Sider traces these public addresses across a wide range of works, from poems by Byron, Tennyson, and Browning, to essays by Twain and Wilde, to novels by Dickens and Eliot. Ironically, while the Victorian era saw the loss of faith in a unitary national public, it asked poetry to address just such a public. Attending to the form, rather than the discursive content, of poets' engagement with public culture, Parting Words explains how the valedictory allowed Victorian poets to explore the ways their poems might be received by distant and anonymous readers in an emergent mass culture. Using a wide array of materials such as letters and reviews to describe the rapidly changing print culture in which poets were intervening, Sider shows how the growing diversification and destabilization of the Victorian reading public was countered by the demand for a public poetry. Characteristically, the speakers of Tennyson's "Ulysses" and Matthew Arnold's "Empedocles on Etna" imagine their farewells as simultaneous entrances into a public space where they and their readers, however distant, might yet meet. This new consciousness anticipated modernist poetry, which in turn used the valedictory to underscore the futility and alienation of such hopes.

Parting Vows

Parting Vows
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 12
Release: 1840
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: BSB:BSB11328639

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Parting Words

Parting Words
Author: Barbara C. Harris
Publsiher: Cowley Publications
Total Pages: 103
Release: 2003-08-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781461702405

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This collection captures the voice and the vision of a treasured preacher, pastor, and bishop. And so for these past thirteen-plus years, if there has been one watchword on my lips it has been, “Please be patient with me, 'cause God isn't through with me yet.” And God still is not finished with me. Nor is God through with any of us yet. So I pray that you will continue to go from strength to strength, in God's joyful service as you are reshaped, remolded, reequipped and re-empowered in the days and weeks and months and years ahead.

Parting Glass

Parting Glass
Author: Lisa J. Parker
Publsiher: Madville Publishing
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781956440171

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A toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home. This item is Returnable Additional Information BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American | General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Death, Grief, Loss - Poetry | Women Authors INGRAM Categories: - Topical | Death/Dying - Sex & Gender | Feminine - Topical | Women's Interest Physical Info: 0.21" H x 9.0" L x 6.0" W (0.3 lbs) 86 pages Carton Quantity: 82 Number of Units in Package: 1 Worth Considering Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. Review Quotes: As haunting as the Irish ballad for which it is named, The Parting Glass is a book of searing elegies and unforgettable odes to moments of joy shared in tranquil places. Whole worlds emerge and collide in these poems, experiences as rich as the black bread offered by the Ukrainian neighbor to the "Hillbilly Transplant" in New York City. Many of us from Appalachia will relate to her fish-out-of-water adventures and heartbreaks, missing family back home but also feeling the electric thrill of subway rides and all-night restaurants. Lisa J. Parker has created a deep and nuanced book that would have made the late Arthur Smith proud, and I cannot imagine a more worthy first entry for the poetry award named in his honor. I have felt tears welling in the corners of my eyes more than once when I come to the lines, "the surreality of that meager box / with its pewter top, your name punched into it." The Parting Glass offers enormous heart and soul in the face of unbearable grief, survivable only through a sense of belonging to a place and its people and by committing to words those memories that affirm what we have lost.-Jesse Graves, author of Merciful Days and Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place Lisa Parker possesses the perceptive eye of a photographer and the truth-telling, visionary voice of a poet. From the orange trumpet vines and sycamore trees of northern Virginia to the "crushed velvet walls" of the Metropolitan Opera, each precise, wondrous image in The Parting Glass transports the reader. As Parker shows us how to look at these beautiful, sometimes broken, sometimes aching landscapes, she tells an important story about the places we call home, the terrible weight of grief, and love-always love.-Carter Sickels, author of The Prettiest Star These are poems of loss, displacement, and deep grief, yet they are shot through with light, in particular the illumination that comes with beautiful writing. There is not one wasted word in this moving, intelligent, and timely collection of poems that stand perfectly on their own yet sing even louder as an entire gathering. The Parting Glass is a marvel of a book.-Silas House, New York Times bestselling author of Lark Ascending Publisher Marketing: The Parting Glass, like the old Irish song, is a toast to the places and people who make up the author's roots and base. However Appalachian at its root, it tells a universal story about what grounds and keeps us, even as we move in cities and circles far from home. At its core, this book brings the thread of downhome with its voices and song, to the cities and cultures the author moves through. The poems raise a glass to those still at the table and to those already gone, to homecomings and deployments, to the navigation of love and grief. Contributor Bio:Parker, Lisa J Lisa Parker is a native Virginian, a poet, musician, and photographer. Her first book, This Gone Place, won the 2010 ASA Weatherford Award and her work is widely published in literary journals and anthologies. Her photography has been on exhibit in NYC and published in several arts journals and anthologies. She has worked in the Department of Defense for nearly twenty years, worked as a first responder for 15 years, and currently serves as a crisis and disaster response volunteer with Team Rubicon. Some of her work may be found at www.wheatpark.com. Email other people about this product detail Separate multiple addresses with semicolons. Mail to: Copy me on this email: Subject: Message: SendReset Qty 1 Add to Quick Order View/Edit Cart Ships when available * DC On Hand On Order TN This is your PRIMARY Distribution Center 89 0 IN This is your SECONDARY Distribution Center 0 0

Rivers Parting

Rivers Parting
Author: Shirley Barker
Publsiher: Good Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-08-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: EAN:4066338049773

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This is a tale of two worlds: New Hampshire and the early 17th-century English settlers; Massachusetts and the extremely dogmatic souls from there. It is a tale of two lovers, John and Joan, and it is the tale of their son, Will, who travels back to London during the Plague. This engaging novel follows the fortunes of John and Joan and the tribulations caused by their strict 'neighbors' from New Hampshire and tells us about Will and a strange girl called Nan.