By Kevin Lewis O'Neill

By David Walbert

Every year, thousands of holiday makers are attracted to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, to event first-hand the imperative pastoral--both as an get away from city existence and as a unprecedented chance to turn into immersed in heritage. the world has attracted viewers wanting to trap a glimpse of the exact non secular neighborhood of the outdated Order Amish, to understand the great thing about the farmland, to benefit from the ample and scrumptious nutrients of the Pennsylvania Dutch...and, so much lately, to buy on the area's outlet department shops. for almost 300 years, Lancaster county has been a version of agricultural prosperity, rooted within the family members farm. the agricultural personality of where continues to be Lancaster's essential vacationer charm, yet is at odds with its swiftly emerging inhabitants and the industrial and home progress that has introduced. it's the stress among rural culture, growth, and urbanization that lies on the middle of backyard Spot. David Walbert examines how 20th century American tradition has come to outline and relish rurality, and the way development and monetary growth can co-exist with renovation of the conventional methods of existence within the area. Will small farms fail in a tradition that has more and more come to worth productiveness over caliber of lifestyles? What impression will additional improvement have on keeping this region's personality? Can rurality and growth co-exist within the twenty first century? A brilliant portrayal of the land and other people, citizens and outsiders alike, backyard Spot narrates the background of this zone and considers the demanding situations Lancaster County and its humans face that allows you to safeguard their special position.

By Petrus of Ferrara Bonus

A Treatise about the Treasure and most useful Stone of the Philosophers. Or the tactic and method of this Divine artwork; With Observations Drawn from the Works of Arnoldus, Raymondus, Rhasis, Albertus, and Michael Scotus, First released via Janus Lacinius, the Calabrian, with a Copious Index. Epigrams of Pierius Roseus and Hippolytus Fantolius Delphicus; The Greeting of Janus Lacinius, the Calabrian Minorite Friar; Nuncupatory Discourse; shape and approach to Perfecting Base Metals, by way of Janus Lacinius; the recent Pearl of serious fee; The Epistle of Bonus; Extracts made via Lacinius from the Works of Arnoldus De Villa Nova; Epitome of the paintings of Raymondus Lullius; Extracts from the sunshine of lighting fixtures via Rhasis; Extracts from Albertus Magnus, S. Thomas, and different Sages; Curious research about the Nature of the sunlight and Moon, from Michael Scotus.

By Margaret Barker

Margaret Barker contributes a commonly Christian voice to modern theological debates at the surroundings. many of the matters we are facing this present day weren't those who confronted the early Christian group and so there are frequently no at once proper biblical teachings. Barker's start line is the query of what Jesus himself may have believed concerning the production? What might the early Church have believed concerning the production? She then exhibits how a lot of this trust is embedded, frequently unrecognised, within the New testomony and early Christian texts. It used to be what humans assumed because the norm, the worldview during which they lived and expressed their religion. Barker establishes the final ideas of a Christian view of construction. a few of what she says will exhibit how present instructing may were unusual to the 1st Christians, not only in software yet in simple rules.

By Thomas M. Spencer

By Pierre Grelot; Nicolas Darrical (tr.)

By Hugh Nibley

Considered via many to be a vintage in LDS literature, Abraham in Egypt is coming again to print in an enlarged variation released in organization with the basis for historic examine and Mormon reviews (FARMS). In 1968-1970, Hugh Nibley wrote a sequence of articles for the Improvement Era titled "A New examine the Pearl of significant Price." Brother Nibley requested that a few of these articles be made into chapters to be extra to Abraham in Egypt. this can be what constitutes the recent version; no alterations have been made to the unique chapters. For the articles, Nibley drew from many Jewish and rabbinical assets, whereas his paintings within the first version used to be in line with Egyptian material.

This e-book defends the e-book of Abraham opposed to the critics, exhibiting the similarities among historical resources and the booklet of Abraham. Nibley's examine unearths the spiritual message of the booklet of Abraham to the trendy international and the Church.

By Hugh Nibley

Dr. Hugh W. Nibley, professor emeritus of old scriptures at Brigham younger collage, gave the subsequent twenty-six lectures in an honors classification at the Pearl of serious rate. This classification used to be videotaped within the Maesar development in the course of wintry weather semester 1986 and the textual content used to be then transcribed and is integrated the following during this ebook.

By Edith L. Blumhofer

Hardcover: 464 pages
Publisher: Gospel Pub condo; First version variation (May 1989)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0882434578
ISBN-13: 978-0882434575
Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.7 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 kilos

By P. L. Gaus