The Quest For The Inner Man

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This monumental 656-page biography is probably the fullest, most revealing account to date of Tchaikovsky's private life. Poznansky identifies the death of the composer's mother as a shattering experience for young Pyotr Ilyich, a source of deep existential melancholy. His hypersensitivity, forged by a child's feeling of paradise lost, would manifest in neurosis, insomnia and depressive fits marked by "a sense of insurmountable terror." A Yale University librarian, Poznansky explores the composer's obsessive fear of death, his idealized relationship with eccentric, free-thinking patron Nadezhda von Meck, the fiasco of his brief, unconsummated marriage, and his involvement in a homosexual subculture that simultaneously fascinated and repelled him. Drawing on Russian sources, the author refutes the theory that Tchaikovsky's death in 1893 at age 53 was a suicide forced upon him by a conspiracy of former classmates. "The story of a soul finding itself," this remarkable book casts only an indirect light on the relationship between Tchaikovsky's life and art, as the author omits extended discussion of the music. Photos.

We are swiftly moving into the final days of the end-time and it is alarming to hear people referring to our great nation as "A New Religious America." Patrick Henry stated, "It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation of America was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ." "In God We Trust" is our national motto. This motto was adopted due to the fact that Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation. ALL CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS, you are important, and your voice needs to be heard NOW in a world that has plunged into the dark night of sin. The Christian that wants to learn more with clarity and accuracy what the Bible says concerning the churches responsibility in the last days on Planet Earth and the Second Coming of Christ will appreciate this book. Dr. Ralph J. McIntyre, is a World War Two combat veteran who has witnessed first-hand some of the sacrifice that has been paid in protecting and preserving our great Christian nation, America. After his war days Ralph met and married his wife Frances in 1946. In 1953 their lives found new directions as they surrendered to a call of God. After a period of studies he was ordained into the ministry. He has founded two different churches, served on the district board of his organization eight years as presbyter, and one year as secretary/treasurer. In 1974 he was elected as pioneering superintendent of a newly formed district, a position he filled for 14 years. In May 1981 he graduated from Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, receiving the degree of Doctor of Ministry. Ralph and Frances have two grown children, four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

This book is about the human being in its entirety as present in the scripture to enable Christian believers to understand the work of salvation in Christ Jesus. Understandably it is a common knowledge that mankind consists of three components, which are spirit, soul and body, or spirit, mind, and body, but not many understand the spiritual implication of these components with regard to God's divine plan to rescue us from His wrath and destruction. Obviously we all understand what the body stands for, but not what the new testament writers refer to as the flesh; we may also have an idea of what the soul, mind, and spirit stands for but not what Jesus meant by the heart, or apostle Paul's teaching on the innerman, the inner person, or the inner being. Many may have settled for the conception of a person's ghost, trapped or entrapped somewhere in the galaxy yet lack the understating of God's creation of human being. The purpose of this book therefore is to examine this biblical facts regarding the inner man.

This autobiography was co-written with Robert Shackleton, so it has some information from a different perspective than the subject's own. Conwell, (1843 – 1925) was an American Baptist minister, orator, philanthropist, author, lawyer, and writer. He is best remembered as the founder and first president of Temple University in Philadelphia, as the Pastor of The Baptist Temple, and for his inspirational lecture, "Acres of Diamonds".

The subject matter of this book is so vast that it would be presumptuous to attempt to deal with comprehensively and it would be pre-posterous to pretend to a final solution to a set of ideasas comprehensive as these worldwiews. The author is aware that the contents of this comperative study may appear offensive to the followersof Sri Aurobindo. He tries to stimulate a fruitful dialogue and evaluates this dialogue in a sympathic manner when he refers to the intentions of both thinkers.

Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio and television, biography was not simply a genre of writing, says Scott Casper; it was the medium that allowed people to learn about public figures and peer into the lives of strangers. In this pioneering study, Casper examines how Americans wrote, published, and read biographies and how their conceptions of the genre changed over the course of a century. Campaign biographies, memoirs of pious women, patriotic narratives of eminent statesmen, "mug books" that collected the lives of ordinary midwestern farmers--all were labeled "biography," however disparate their contents and the contexts of their creation, publication, and dissemination. Analyzing debates over how these diverse biographies should be written and read, Casper reveals larger disputes over the meaning of character, the definition of American history, and the place of American literary practices in a transatlantic world of letters. As much a personal experience as a literary genre, biography helped Americans imagine their own lives as well as the ones about which they wrote and read.