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When God Spoke English

2011 Bibles
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Release : 2011
Genre : Bibles
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Book Synopsis When God Spoke English by : Adam Nicolson

Download or read book When God Spoke English written by Adam Nicolson. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, lively account of the making of the King James Bible. James VI of Scotland -- now James I of England -- came into his new kingdom in 1603. Trained almost from birth to manage rival political factions, he was determined not only to hold his throne, but to avoid the strife caused by religious groups that was bedevilling most European countries. He would hold his God-appointed position and unify his kingdom. Out of these circumstances, and involving the very people who were engaged in the bitterest controversies, a book of extraordinary grace and lasting literary appeal was created: the King James Bible. 47 scholars from Cambridge, Oxford and London translated the Bible, drawing from many previous versions, and created what many believe to be the greatest prose work ever written in English -- the product of a culture in a peculiarly conflicted era. This was the England of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Jonson and Bacon; but also of extremist Puritans, the Gunpowder plot, the Plague, of slum dwellings and crushing religious confines. Quite how this astonishing translation emerges is the central question of this book. Far more than Shakespeare, this Bible helped to create and shape the language. It is the origin of many of our most familiar phrases, and the foundations of the English-speaking world. It was a generous and deliberate decision to make the Bible available to the common man: not an immediate commercial success, but which later became a bestseller, and has remained one ever since. Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the early years of the first Stewart ruler, and the scholars who laboured for seven years to create the world's greatest book; immersing us in a world of ingratiating bishops, a fascinating monarch and London at a time unlike any other.

When God Spoke Greek

2013-08-15 Bibles
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Release : 2013-08-15
Genre : Bibles
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Book Synopsis When God Spoke Greek by : Timothy Michael Law

Download or read book When God Spoke Greek written by Timothy Michael Law. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most readers do not know about the Bible used almost universally by early Christians, or about how that Bible was birthed, how it grew to prominence, and how it differs from the one used as the basis for most modern translations. Although it was one of the most important events in the history of our civilization, the translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the third century BCE is an event almost unknown outside of academia. Timothy Michael Law offers the first book to make this topic accessible to a wider audience. Retrospectively, we can hardly imagine the history of Christian thought, and the history of Christianity itself, without the Old Testament. When the Emperor Constantine adopted the Christian faith, his fusion of the Church and the State ensured that the Christian worldview (which by this time had absorbed Jewish ideals that had come to them through the Greek translation) would leave an imprint on subsequent history. This book narrates in a fresh and exciting way the story of the Septuagint, the Greek Scriptures of the ancient Jewish Diaspora that became the first Christian Old Testament.

When God Spoke to Me

2010-01-01 Body, Mind & Spirit
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Release : 2010-01-01
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis When God Spoke to Me by : David Paul Doyle

Download or read book When God Spoke to Me written by David Paul Doyle. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever questioned whether your inspiration, insight, or sudden shift in experience was the result of divine guidance or communication? When God Spoke to Me is a collection of inspiring stories from ordinary people that shares the many ways God speaks to all of us in our lives. As these touching accounts demonstrate, hearing God's voice has the power to: Heal your emotional and physical wounds. Mend your relationships. Provide life-altering guidance and direction when you need it most. Instill within you a profound experience of peace, love, and awareness of your union with God. From these touching first-person accounts, you will discover: The many ways ordinary people just like you are touched by the voice of God. The dramatic effects that hearing God's voice can have in your life. How to recognize the ways you may already be hearing God's voice without knowing it. How to receive guidance, healing, and communication from God in new and life-changing ways. If you experience uncertainty, challenge, or pain in your life, When God Spoke to Me will give you hope, comfort, and the knowledge that you are not alone.

God Spoke to Me

2017-09-01 Body, Mind & Spirit
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Release : 2017-09-01
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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Book Synopsis God Spoke to Me by : Eileen Caddy

Download or read book God Spoke to Me written by Eileen Caddy. This book was released on 2017-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God’s still small voice “There is great joy in doing something on the spur of the moment. When you do this, you find true freedom of the Spirit. You will find a new joy and freedom, which I long for all My children to have. “Life is so simple. Keep it so. Let nothing weigh you down or depress you. All is very well. Live fully in the now. “Take no thought for the morrow. Enjoy to the full what is happening now. Keep your consciousness raised, your mind stayed on Me. See My perfection working in you and through you, all your needs have been met, for all I have is yours. “Let the words and the thoughts you have heard so many times become a part of your whole being, so that they are vibrating words which manifest in form and become reality.” The messages in this book ask us to have total faith in the process of living -- to trust God, the universe, spirit, love, or whatever we choose to call the divine source. They affirm that there is an inherent wisdom and intelligence in everything, which can be contacted by turning within. Each one of us can do this and find God’s still small voice for ourselves. Eileen Caddy (1917-2006) is known worldwide as one of the three founders of the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. The books that have flowed from her inspiration have drawn multitudes to the Findhorn community. In her own person, Eileen Caddy, divinely ordinary as she described herself, has pushed the limits of the ordinary person’s experience to the very borders of the kingdom of God.

God's Secretaries

2009-10-13 Biography & Autobiography
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Release : 2009-10-13
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis God's Secretaries by : Adam Nicolson

Download or read book God's Secretaries written by Adam Nicolson. This book was released on 2009-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK “This scrupulously elegant account of the creation of what four centuries of history has confirmed is the finest English-language work of all time, is entirely true to its subject: Adam Nicolson’s lapidary prose is masterly, his measured account both as readable as the curious demand and as dignified as the story deserves.” — Simon Winchester, author of Krakatoa In God's Secretaries, Adam Nicolson gives a fascinating and dramatic account of the era of the King James Bible and its translation, immersing us in an age whose greatest monument is not a painting or a building but a book. A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country had ever been, and the entire culture was drawn taut between these polarities. This was the world that created the King James Bible. It is the greatest work of English prose ever written, and it is no coincidence that the translation was made at the moment "Englishness," specifically the English language itself, had come into its first passionate maturity. The English of Jacobean England has a more encompassing idea of its own scope than any form of the language before or since. It drips with potency and sensitivity. The age, with all its conflicts, explains the book. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

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