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Charles Stanley, one of the most influential spiritual leaders
of our day, shares the key to personal and even world peace in "The
Gift of Forgiveness." as Stanley points out that no sin is so
shockingly evil it blocks God's forgiveness nor so trivial it
negates the need for God's mercy, he shares the specifics of how to
go about receiving and giving forgiveness.
"The Gift of Forgiveness" reflects the heart of Stanley's
teaching ministry. In this markedly helpful book, Stanley addresses
such questions as how to practise a life of forgiveness in all your
relationships and how to make forgiveness an ongoing, practical
experience in your life.
Previously published in hardcover (0840790724).
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered,
Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained
the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian
Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts
Orlando's love-stricken pursuit of "the fairest of her Sex,
Angelica" (in Milton's terms) through a fairyland that combines the
military valors of Charlemagne's knights and their famous horses
with the enchantments of King Arthur's court. Today it seems more
than ever appropriate to offer a new, unabridged edition of
Boiardo's Orlando Innamorato, the first Renaissance epic about the
common customs of, and the conflicts between, Christian Europe and
Islam. Having extensively revised his earlier translation for
general readers, Charles Ross has added headings and helpful
summaries to Boiardo's cantos. Tenses have been regularized, and
terms of gender and religion have been updated, but not so much as
to block the reader's encounter with how Boiardo once viewed the
world. Charles Stanley Ross has degrees from Harvard College and
the University of Chicago and teaches English and comparative
literature at Purdue University. "Neglect of Italian romances robs
us of a whole species of pleasure and narrows our very conception
of literature. It is as if a man left out Homer, or Elizabethan
drama, or the novel. For like these, the romantic epic of Italy is
one of the great trophies of the European genius: a genuine kind,
not to be replaced by any other, and illustrated by an extremely
copious and brilliant production. It is one of the successes, the
undisputed achievements." -C. S. Lewis
A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the
legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus-Polynices and
Eteocles-for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius
reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long before by
Aeschylus in his tragedy Seven against Thebes. Statius chose his
subject well: the Rome of his day, ruled by the emperor Domitian,
was not too distant from the civil wars that had threatened the
survival of the empire. Published in 92 A.D., the Thebaid was an
immediate success, and its fame grew in succeeding centuries. It
reached its peak of popularity in the later Middle Ages and
Renaissance, influencing Dante, Chaucer, and perhaps Shakespeare.
In recent times, however, it has received perhaps less attention
than it deserves, in large part because there has been no
accessible, dynamic translation of the work into English. Charles
Stanley Ross offers a compelling version of the Thebaid rendered
into forceful, modern English. Casting Statius's Latin hexameter
into a lively iambic pentameter more natural to the modern ear,
Ross frees the work from the archaic formality that has marred
previous translations. His translation reinvigorates the Thebaid as
a whole: its meditative first half and its violent second half; its
intimate portrayal of defeat and retribution, and the need to seek
justice at any cost. In a wide-ranging introduction, Ross provides
an overview of the poem: its composition, reception and legacy; its
major themes and literary influences; and its place in Statius'
life. And in a helpful series of notes, he offers background
information on the major characters and incidents.
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Sermons (Hardcover)
Charles Stanley Tayler
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R835
Discovery Miles 8 350
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Sermons (Paperback)
Charles Stanley Tayler
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R493
Discovery Miles 4 930
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Recent decades have witnessed diverse incarnations and bold
sequences of Shakespeare on screen and stage. Hollywood films and a
century of Asian readings of plays such as "Hamlet" and "Macbeth"
are now conjoining in cyberspace, making a world of difference to
how we experience Shakespeare. "Shakespeare in Hollywood, Asia, and
Cyberspace" shows readers how ideas of Asia operate in Shakespeare
performances and how Asian and Anglo-European forms of cultural
production combine to transcend the mode of inquiry that focuses on
fidelity. The result is a new creativity that finds expression in
different cultural and virtual locations, including recent films
and MMOGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Games). The papers in the
volume provide a background for these modern developments, showing
the history of how Shakespeare became a signifier against which
Asian and Western cultures defined--and continue to
define--themselves. Authors in the first part of the collection
examine culture and gender in Hollywood Shakespearean film and
complement the second part in which the history of Shakespearean
readings and stagings in China, Indonesia, Cambodia, Japan,
Okinawa, Taiwan, Malaya, Korea, and Hong Kong are discussed. Papers
in the third part of the volume analyze the transformation of the
idea of Shakespeare in cyberspace, a rapidly expanding world of new
rewritings of both Shakespeare and Asia. Together, the three
sections of this comparative study demonstrate how Asian cultures
and Shakespeare affect each other and how the combination of Asian
and Anglo-European modes of representation are determining the
future of how we see Shakespeare's plays.
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