Pruitt wilson (10 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mozart and Da Ponte's comedy of seduction and damnation, retold as a novel. A nobleman who has run out of everything but appetite spends one last day and night outrunning the dead: the catalogue of conquests, the country wedding he spoils, the masked ball, the cemetery where a statue answers him, and the lit supper room where the stone guest finally comes. Don Giovanni: An Overture slows the fastest of operas to the size of the people its hero runs over. Part of the Overture Series - operas told as novels, written to be read in the weeks before you go, or while the music plays. Paced to Gardiner's 1994 recording.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Between the first day of 1739 and the third of September, 1741, John Wesley became - almost against his will - the man posterity remembers: the field preacher who took the gospel to the colliers of Kingswood and the mobs of Moorfields and drew crowds no parish church could have held. Ten thousand at a hearing; a movement founded; the first preaching-house built; the first lay preachers set to work. The bare facts are the stuff of triumph.But the reader who comes for a triumph will find something stranger and truer. These two and a half years are shaped not by the revival's advance but by two subtractions - two partings, each with people Wesley loved, each over a doctrine. In the summer of 1740 he broke with the Moravians, the very Brethren who had brought him to faith, over the doctrine they called 'stillness'; in the spring of 1741 he broke with George Whitefield - the friend who had handed him the fields - over predestination, a breach he told Whitefield to his face would be 'open, and probably irreparable.' Reshaping Wesley's published Journal into continuous memoir - his own voice throughout, the date-stamps dissolved into narrative - this volume follows the whole arc: the lot cast at Fetter Lane, the first sermon in the open air, the colliers weeping at the pit-head, the two withdrawals, and an ending not on a height but on an unfinished letter and a signature. Methodism, it argues, defined itself in these years less by what it gathered than by what it refused.The third volume of the Wesley memoir series, following Aldersgate. Includes an editorial introduction on the two partings and the 1744 vantage from which Wesley told them, a cast of characters, a glossary of Wesley's theological vocabulary, and an appendix, The Quarrel, gathering the documents of the predestination breach - Wesley's own sermon on free grace and Whitefield's published letter answering it - so the reader who has felt the cost in the narrative may hear the theology in both men's own words.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Puccini's La Bohème, retold as a novel. Paris, the 1830s: a poet, a painter, a philosopher, and a musician share a freezing garret and almost no money - until a seamstress with a cough and a cold hand knocks on the door for a light. Across a single winter - a snuffed candle, a crowded café on Christmas Eve, a quarrel at a tollgate in the snow, and a return to the garret that is too late - La Bohème: An Overture gives the most beloved of operas the inwardness only a novel can hold: the youth you only know you had once it is over. Part of the Overture Series - operas told as novels, written to be read in the weeks before you go, or while the music plays. Paced to Karajan's 1972 recording.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Puccini's Tosca, retold as a novel. Rome, June 1800: a fervent, jealous opera singer; the painter she loves, who has hidden a fugitive in his chapel; and Baron Scarpia, the chief of police, who will trade the painter's life for a single night with her. Across one afternoon, one evening, and the dawn that follows - a church, a lamplit interrogation, a forged safe-conduct, and a leap from the parapet of the Castel Sant'Angelo - Tosca: An Overture gives the fastest and cruelest of melodramas the inwardness only a novel can hold. Part of the Overture Series - operas told as novels, written to be read in the weeks before you go, or while the music plays. Paced to Karajan's 1979 recording.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Jesus was not a fighter. So what could Brazilian jiu-jitsu - a grappling art built to control and submit an opponent - have to do with the life of Christ More than you'd think, once you stop looking for a fight. In BJJ and Jesus, pastor and jiu-jitsu practitioner Wilson Pruitt takes thirty paired techniques - the guard and the pass, the mount and the escape, the sweep and the tap - and turns each one toward the gospel across sixty short daily readings. This is not a 'fight the good fight' book. It's about what the mat teaches the body before the mind can argue: that the way down is the way up, that control is something to relinquish, and that the tap is not defeat but deliverance. Each day pairs a practitioner's-eye look at one position with one scripture and one concrete thing to do - on the mat, and off it. Together the sixty days descend, movement by movement, from the scramble for control into the one posture the soul most needs: surrender. For the Christian who trains, the trainee who's curious about faith, and anyone who has learned more about themselves from being swept and submitted than from any victory - here is a devotional that meets you where you actually are: tired, honest, and on the bottom, where the real lessons live. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain). About the author: Wilson Pruitt is a United Methodist pastor in Austin, Texas, who trains Brazilian jiu-jitsu in nearby Lakeway. He is the author of several books with Wroot Press.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Wagner's last and strangest work, retold as a novel you can hold in one hand. A wild young man wanders into a brotherhood of knights dying around a wound that will not close - and, knowing nothing, not even his own name, slowly becomes the one thing that can heal it. Grail and Spear, the sorcerer's garden and its long temptation, the road from a careless arrow to a single act of pity: Parsifal: An Overture gives the opera's mystery the room only a novel allows. Part of the Overture Series - operas told as novels, written to be read in the weeks before you go, or even while the music plays. Paced to Knappertsbusch's 1962 Bayreuth recording.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - John Wesley is preached every Sunday in tens of thousands of United Methodist congregations and read almost nowhere. The categorical vocabulary he forged - justification, sanctification, prevenient grace, the witness of the Spirit, the means of grace - survives in our prayers and our hymns. The sermons in which he actually taught that vocabulary do not. This book puts the spine of Wesley's pastoral theology back into the hands of the people for whom it was first preached: ordinary believers who want to know what their tradition actually teaches, in the words of the person who taught it. The sermons follow the order of salvation Wesley preached from his 1738 conversion to the end of his ministry - from the diagnostic of the almost-Christian, through justification and the new birth, into the witness of the Spirit and Christian perfection. Wesley's syntax has been opened up, his eighteenth-century vocabulary modernized, and his pulpit accumulations trimmed; his theology, his rhetorical edge, and his signature phrases are all here, in the places he placed them. Includes brief chapter summaries, a note on the editorial approach, the Charles Wesley hymn that originally closed the Christian Perfection sermon, and indexes of subjects and Scripture.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - For nineteen centuries, a Christian community has lived on the road between Gaza and Jerusalem - through the apostolic mission of the first Jewish believers, the pilgrim centuries of the Byzantine Holy Land, the long adjustment under the Covenant of ?Umar, Crusade and reconquest, the Ottoman centuries, the Mandate, the Nakba, and the war in Gaza today. The Church in Palestine tells that whole story for the first time in a single narrative, from the church of James in Jerusalem to the worshippers who took refuge inside St Porphyrius in the winter of 2023.Wilson Pruitt traces the community across thirty-three chapters and seven parts, drawing on the pilgrim narratives, patristic sources, Arabic Christian writers, Ottoman and Mandate-era records, and the reporting of the present war, with a full apparatus of endnotes and a bibliographical appendix pointing readers to further reading in each period.The book argues, without polemic, that the absence of this history has a cost: it is easier to treat Palestinian Christians as a people of recent and merely political interest when no one has told the story of how long they have actually been there. The Church in Palestine is written to close that gap. …