Author: Daisy L. Machado File Type: pdf Machado shows that, although there was a large Hispanic population in Texas during this period, the Christian Church failed to develop a significant presence in Hispanic communities. Much of this failure can be traced, she argues, to the notion of the frontier, which influenced and shaped both church policy and theology for Disciples ministering to the Hispanic community. The frontier ethos - with its focus on divine providence and election, ideas about a chosen race and virgin land, and understanding of the church as a socializing and Americanizing agent - provided an AngloAmerican prism through which Disciples saw themselves and others. The acceptance and implementation of these ideologies meant that while the Christian Church was taking its place as a member of the American Protestant establishment it was simultaneously failing in its work among Hispanics.--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Enda Walsh File Type: pdf The relationship between words and movement in Enda Walshs new play, in which two weirdly innocent men are trapped in an endless knockabout farce, is more seamless than any Irish dramatist since Beckett. Irish Times Mr. Walshs words in this case are there to feed the adrenaline rush of the event as a whole... you dont so much as see Ballyturk as you surrender to it. New York Times Delirious and captivatingthis is thrilling theatre, visceral and cerebral, hilarious and sad. Irish Examiner I thought we knew everything there was to know . . . The lives of two men unravel over the course of ninety minutes. Where are they? Who are they? What room is this, and what might be beyond the walls? Gut-wrenchingly funny and achingly sad, and featuring jaw-dropping moments of physical comedy, Ballyturk is an ambitious, profound and tender work from one of Irelands leading playwrights. One of our most innovative and beguiling writers, Enda Walsh is the author of five Edinburgh Fringe First Awardwinning plays, including The Walworth Farce and The New Electric Ballroom. His other plays include Penelope, misterman and the book for the Tony and Olivier Awardwinning musical Once. He also wrote the screenplay for Hunger, which won the Camera dOr at the Cannes Film Festival. **

Author: Roy Pascal File Type: pdf Originally published in 1960. Is there an art of autobiography? What are its origins and how has it come to acquire the form we know today? For what does the autobiographer seek, and why should it be so popular? This study suggests some of the answers to these questions. It takes the view that autobiography is one of the dominant and characteristic forms of literary self-expression and deserves examination for its own sake. This book outlines a definition of the form and traces its historical origins and development, analyses its truth and talks about what sort of self-knowledge it investigates.

Author: Philip G. Ziegler File Type: pdf How ought Christian faith and theology understand the concept of human immortality today? And what, if anything, might be distinctively Christian about such a concept? The contributors to this volume explore how our thinking about the prospect of human immortality is decisively determined by what we receive of the limitless life of the triune God of the gospel, and how our understanding of immortality is made concrete by the Christian hope in the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting. Debates about how best to understand the eternal life of God are directly significant to how we can imagine the promise of eternal life. While immortality is generally conceived to be a future qualification of human reality, theological approaches to the question of personal immortality must investigate the difference that the hope and promise of such eternal life makes in the living of present-day spiritual life as well as in our common moral and political existence. To understand immortality as an eschatological gift of God requires that we take account of it as a formative factor at the foundations of the Christian life.