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The Returning King: A Guide to the Book of Revelation.......2007-02-06
Practical, concise, and easy to read. Provides insight not usually found in this kind of book.
Short, Sweet & Refreshing book.......2006-03-01
This paperback on Revelation brings in a simple and refreshing perspective on Revelation. For example he suggests that children can understand Revelation...that we need to stop 'puzzling' over Revelation and enjoy the Panoramic pictures of this book. His 'down home' encouragement is exactly what this book is when laid side by side with Beale's NIGTC Commentary on Revelation. (The NIGTC is a technically dense work with many many references to all kinds of sources for each verse).
Dr. Beale (2004's E.T.S. President) recommends this book as part of his course recommended reading on Revelation at Wheaton. Of the 8 or so books he recommends, this one sports a number of great visual concepts that do empower bible teachers and pastors. As a pastor who is preaching through Revelation from the Greek text, I found his material helpful on the application side of things.
For example, on the four major views on Revelation Poythress supplies a great little visual diagram of how the four views look. Just the diagram alone can help many people understand the four different view (Preterist, Futurist, Historical, and Idealist) more than most commentaries would.
The weakness is that you will not have comments of substance on every question in Revelation. It's not meant to be an exhaustive commentary on Revelation.
Enjoy it. It's well written and worth owning a copy.
The Book of Revelation Made Slightly Less Difficult.......2003-07-30
A few years ago I heard a speaker who began his talk by saying that he loved the book of Revelation because it was so simple and clear and it so neatly summed up the teaching of the Bible. I laughed because everyone knows that the book of Revelation is anything but simple and clear. He said he was serious and he mentioned that he had studied Revelation under Vern Poythress at Westminster Seminary and he had made it seem clear and simple.
At the time this book had not been published but I was able to get some tapes by Poythress, and they taught what is written in this book. When the book came out I got it right away and I have to say that I was not disappointed in the tapes or in this book.
Poythress writes like a kindly, wise elder. I say he is kind because, though he takes a position on the interpretation of the book, he is gracious to those who disagree with him. One of the things I particularly liked about this book is his discussion of how to outline the book. He listed a few different ways that this could be outlined, but rather than attacking various positions he affirmed that the existence of these differing views should cause us to marvel at the greatness of God in the book. These things show that the book of Revelation is like a giant tapestry, with many colors and patterns weaving in and out. The book is so rich that one can never tire of admiring the beauties of God in it.
As to his position, Poythress says that the book follows the pattern of recapitulation - it describes the same historical events over and over again using different metaphors and pictures. So, rather than being a straight chronological description of the end time, the book of Revelation describes the second coming, and the events surrounding it, several times.
Poythress shows that the book of Revelation is actually comprised of several cycles of judgment. He gives the tools for understanding how to identify these cycles and in doing so makes Revelation slightly less difficult.
This is the place to start in understanding the book of Revelation.
Great Introduction to Revelation.......2002-11-28
The Returning King is a great introduction the book of Revelation. The first 50 pages or so contain high level discussions on the various views of Revelation (idealist, futurist, preterist, historicist) as well as other controversial aspects such as the millennium (premil, postmil, amil). This survey of all the major viewpoints alone is worth the price of the book. The rest of book is a high level discussion of the text. Poythress takes an idealist, amil view but provides a very fair discussion of all the other viewpoints.
It was written as an introduction and is very successful as such. It is not a thorough commentary of Revelation. If you have never studied Revelation this is a great place to start.
Concise Conservative Amil Overview of Revelation.......2001-03-02
Written by a first class scholar on biblical interpretation, The Returning King gives us more vintage Poythress. After many years of teaching this book for students at Westminster Theological Seminary (I was one of them), we now get the benefits in a form we can use in our own ministries and teaching! This book is a great, practical, and well-written introduction to the consecutive chapters of Revelation, suitable for pastors who want the basic themes, a Sunday School class, or college & seminary students. You will be able to grasp the main themes and contrasts and develop a sane appreciation for Revelation from a humble teacher who can appreciate other perspectives, yet still convince you of the value of his own interpretation. Of particular interest are Poythress's insights on how the dragon, beast, false prophet and harlot counterfeit & image the Trinity and the church respectively. This book will stimulate you to read and appreciate Revelation as a "picture book," not a confusing puzzle book. For a detailed verse by verse view in the same interpretive framework (recapitulationist/multiple fulfillment view of Revelation) see G.K. Beale's NIGTC The Book of Revelation at a thorough 1245 pages--a commentary which Poythress recommends in The Returning King.
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Breasts make sense in the human context of things........2001-02-19
After all, one should begin with a healthy appreciation of where the pleasure comes from--by design, it should be the breast. As a baby, one seeks it out as food source, as an adolescent, it signifies the change--in woman, the budding of breasts indicates ripening, in the male, noticing of breasts indicates a degree of sexual interest--breasts are, to play with Foucault's terminology, a signifier of signifiers. As a feminist, I should shudder at any thought leaning towards "Biology is destiny"--and yet, the breast argument wins me over, as I have two, and they have influenced my existence greatly. Insofar as they are responded to, and insofar as they, in fact, respond to the world around them, I must admit to their importance. Breasts are not, as some may have it, passive. Mine, in fact, are devilishly clever. At times, I let them enter a room before me, to act as a distraction. Wilson is on target in suggesting that breasts are important, and even more so in suggesting that the women who may be attached to them are important as well. In so far as we are mammals, we should offer thanks for the mammaries. Anything that provides food *and* entertainment for so many is certainly worth a book. And a look. Breasts should be a source of comfort--and yet, so many are uncomfortable with them--read this, and try to dig why. And maybe get a better picture of the maidens in Maidenforms while doing so.
Welcome to a Reality Check, RAW style..........1999-12-29
Greetings.
Once again Robert Anton Wilson scores a direct hit on the idiocy prevalent in western society. As a thelemic female I am enchanted with his wit, humor and superb usage of cynical observation. If you are an easily offended feminist, more than likely you will be irate after reading this attempt to look at social customs prevalent in modern life. I found some of his *explanations* totally hilarious, so I must not be in the overly sensitive bracket.
Considering the morbid fascination with female anatomy and the ludicrous *morality* assigned to viewing what in fact all adult females posess, (up to and including the legal sanctions in many places against seeing female nipples) the breast fixation idea becomes even funnier. His discussions reguarding cinema "sex-goddesses" and the approval/disapproval demonstrated by the Public (towards the late Marilyn Monroe for example) were compelling, and sadly, all too true.
Bob Wilson is definitely one of the kewler writers around; literate, interesting and intellectually satisfying. Even if you do not agree with everything he states, you have to admit his style is impeccable. I collect his works and proudly display them right next to Crowley, Kraig, Reguardie,and the assorted OTO/Magickal/Philosophical books I own. Thank you Amazon.com for making it easy to order and obtain cherished works, Bob Wilson is hard to find these days in the local bookstores. I agree with the Denver Post review which referred to Wilson as "...the Lenny Bruce of Philosophers". Satire remains one of the most definitive methods of social commentary, and Wilson excells in this genre.
RAW: Genius or Silly Person?.......1997-02-07
Robert Anton Wilson, as usual, tests the reader's view of reality.
I can't count the number of times I said, "Oi..." or "Please..."
or "Give me a break!" while reading this book. But then, as is
usual when I read RAW's books, I find myself thinking, "Jeeze,
what if he has a point?"
As a feminist, I was offended. As a Discordian philosopher, I was
stimulated. It would appear that Mr. Wilson has somehow managed to
trace every advance & atrocity committed in human history to the
attitude toward the human breast current at that time. Lunacy?
Perhaps not! His case is certainly clear and concise, if inane...
I recommend this book highly, however, I must warn the reader to
look twice, if not more times, at what he has written. There is
a message here we might be well advised to look at...
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Debra Dickerson pulls no punches in this electrifying manifesto. Outspoken journalist and author of the critically acclaimed memoir
An American Story, she challenges black Americans to stop obsessing about racism and start focusing on problems they can fix. The way out of the ghetto, she asserts, is to take a good, hard look in the mirror. Get angry, Dickerson says, but use that anger to fuel excellence and civic participation rather than crime or drug addiction. Drawing richly on black history and thought, as well as her own hard-won wisdom, she urges blacks to let go of the past and claim their full freedom. It’s only by shaping their own future, she argues, that blacks will finally abolish the myth of white superiority.
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The time has come.......2007-07-15
I am a white man, or whitefella as we call ourlselves in pur part of the world. My wife is Aborigingal Australian. Her first language is Warlpiri, her parents first saw whitefellas in their childhood. They are desert people. Their historical experience is vastly dfferent from that of Black Americans and much closer to the experience of Native Americans. However because they too are black and as a result of the international impact of the US Civil Rights Movement many of indigenous descent here identify with the politics and culture of Black America. My wife's people have very little political voice. It is blocked and filtered not only by the politically and economically dominant White Australia but even more so by the old style political activists of indigenous descent in our southern cities who have no knowledge of their culture and experience but presume to speak on their behalf. Ms Dickerson's book is for us brilliantly liberating. It is time for my wife's people to take freedom, which in legal and consititutional terms they already have, and act free. They are caught now in a cycle of self destruction and they will find their own way out with the support of the mainstream when they are given a chance to tell their own story, their own truth in their own way and take responsibilty for that story. Thank you Ms Dickerson, your book should be read by all who truly believe in the essential equality and dignity of our race, the human one that is, the insanity of racism in all its forms and the ability of all in the human family to take control of thier own destiny and win the good fight.
Excellent book .......2007-06-01
This is an interesting and at times uncomfortable discussion of the issues that minorities have to deal with in the United States. Deborah Dickerson is an intelligent, insightful masterful author who tackles these issues with grace and wisdom. A book well worth reading.
Superfluously Thick.......2007-02-17
Having read previous works on notions of blackness in America from historical figures W.E.B. DuBois, Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglas, sociologist William Julius Wilson, and activist Angela Y. Davis, I started from a perspective that Dickerson's work would be at the level of these noted authors. After getting through the introduction, however, I realized my mistake. The work is not a scholarly compilation of syllogistic conclusions. Rather, it is a work that Ms. Dickerson can confidently claim as her own. Assumptions are based upon false premises that lead readers to conclusive arguments derived from erroneous logic. The thickness in verbage that includes slangy tone is rather demeaning as one sloughs over Ms. Dickerson's opinions that come off first as xenocentric but later are diffused.
To the Point.......2006-02-23
This is one of many voices saying much of what needs to be said. Ms Dickerson makes good valid points about how we as a nation have been hoodwinked to beleive that we cannot get along better, how we seem to hurt when we try and help. The biggest point I think she made and she only touched the surface, is the fact that many in the present generation are not speaking up and telling those malcontents that they need to go home (J.J. and A.S, you can hear me, but then we don't expect you to read too much, sort of hard to read when you are chasing ambulances) how we spend too much time blaming and complaining rather than getting out and doing. How it is equated that being learned, intelligent, polite and outgoing are white traits. They are not the author reminds us, just like all of this athletic nonsense are black traits. There is only one America and one Africa, we need to do well here in order that they will do well there.
An interesting if problematic book.......2005-04-20
Debra Dickerson's book was an interesting and worthwhile read on the subject of race and the concept of "blackness." She is a fairly outspoken iconoclast who devotes much of the book to critiquing the attitudes and ideas of mainstream black leftist leadership, and she ridicules Afrocentrism mercilessly. This aspect of the book is why some black reviewers are so eager to denounce her as an "Uncle Tom." However, "The End of Blackness" is also notable for its strident attacks on what she claims to be the persistent racism of white people and their refusal to accept any more responsibility than they already have for the alleviation of Afro-American suffering.
Dickerson argues that whites are too quick to rationalize their contemptuous attitudes toward contemporary blacks, and that they are simply hanging on to their sense of privilege by claiming that the failures of the modern generation of black-Americans are largely the result of their own behavior. For example, she asserts that "the rich must argue that people are poor by choice rather than by policy." As an insight into human nature, this is undoubtedly true. Unfortunately for Dickerson's argument, it is equally true that the poor, for their part, must argue that their poverty is always due to other people's oppression rather than to their own irresponsibility and defective judgment. The loser of a competition must claim that the winner cheated, because facing the reality that he was out-competed is too humiliating to accept. I am not suggesting that we ought not to feel some compassion for the poor, but the fact remains that the fundamental aspects of human nature, including its narcissism and corruptibility, do not change much as one moves down the socioeconomic ladder, and it does not logically follow that the greatest harm is always caused by those who are wealthier. Having more money may give one greater opportunity to commit evil, but militant self-pity - the perception that victimhood is the central element of one's identity - is what gives a person the fanatical drive to do it.
None of this is to suggest that whites have no responsibility to black people. It is just that the nature of that responsibility may have changed as time has passed and the blacks with whom they come into contact are no longer people who have directly experienced the outrages their grandparents endured. When the things that held blacks down were concrete institutions enshrined in the law - slavery and segregation - then it was clearly the responsibility of whites to end these conditions. But if the things that hold blacks down today are primarily psychological, even if they represent the considerable detritus of past oppression, there may not be much that whites can do to help bring about this particular liberation. Whites who feel guilty about the long-term effects of what their distant ancestors did in the past may give blacks some short-term satisfaction, as well as the power to manipulate those same whites (and often cynically at that) by invoking that guilt in order to pressure them to satisfy some demand; but it will not actually liberate black people from the internal obstacles Dickerson argues are crippling them today.
The single most important responsibility whites have to blacks, if they are serious about treating the latter as equals, is to behave toward them no differently than they would behave toward their fellow whites. In no small measure this means being honest with blacks when we disagree with what they say, and even if we are scathingly contemptuous of what they say. We must abandon the condescension of the politically correct liberal who is paranoid in his concern not to say anything that blacks may not want to hear, for fear of being denounced as "racist." The liberal who is concerned not to be seen as racist is preoccupied primarily with himself rather than with the welfare of blacks. He substitutes the white supremacist's desire to oppress blacks with a similarly damaging desire to avoid them. Politically correct liberal race-talk is often deeply paternalistic and disingenuous. This is because its intent is all too often simply to pacify blacks by automatically agreeing with them whenever they lodge some grievance against society. It is fear of "militant black rage," rather than concern for real black social progress, underlying this liberal condescension. What makes it so destructive and morally bankrupt is that it amounts to little more than a way of saying to black people: "Nice-doggie, have a bone. Now please go away." One does not treat a person he supposedly regards as an equal in this infantilizing manner.
For all that, this does not mean that whites can NEVER agree with black people or be genuine in their acknowledgement that the latter's criticisms have validity, and it should never mean that whites regard their racial attitudes as beyond reproach simply because they do not descend to the level of Ku Klux Klansmen. It does mean that we must not allow ourselves to be bullied by the likes of those black-Americans who use the accusation of racism less as a means to offer helpful criticism of whites than as a means to rationalize their own racist hatreds and contemptible ignorance. Whites must respect the desire of black people to be morally and intellectually independent of us, while at the same time asserting our own intellectual independence from the often self-serving judgmentalism of blacks.
Dickerson expends much energy castigating whites for purportedly refusing to "contextualize" the often dysfunctional, not to say reprehensible, behavior of contemporary black people. With this we are brought back to the theme of "root causes" so familiar to anyone who has ever encountered the writings of almost any black leftist. Indeed, "root causes" may well be the black apologist's favorite two words in the entire English language. Bring up uncomfortable topics like black crime, welfare dependency and educational underachievement, and the black leftist will haul out his "root causes" theory with a metronomic regularity so perfect piano students could practice their Beethoven by it. In this respect, for all the ferocity with which some reviewers have denounced her as a self-hating "Uncle Tom," Dickerson comes across as a fairly typical racial guilt-monger of the Left - simplistic, often unfair, and more belligerent than perceptive.
The problem I have with her insistence on recalling the context of black people's behavior is not that she is wrong. She is, in fact, right, but she refuses to acknowledge the logical implications of her argument, namely, that if it is unfair to judge blacks too harshly, given that their behavior has root causes, then it is equally wrong to judge whites too harshly for exactly the same reason. All human beings are the end products of an historical chain reaction of events. All human behavior therefore has its root causes. For example, when a white person who was cruelly abused as a child joins a racist hate-group as an adult, we can likewise point to the root causes of his behavior. But do we excuse the misdeeds of white thugs simply because they ALSO have root causes? I should hope not. Why then must we look compassionately upon the brutally compassionless behavior of their black counterparts? What is so arrogant about Caucasian-Americans who express disdain for the drug-dealing ghetto thug, the super-absorbent welfare sponge who is cruelly inept in the raising of her children, and the tribalistic nincompoop who derides learning and literacy as forms of "acting white?" Root causes may help explain why some people behave odiously, but it does not exonerate them from their odiousness, whatever their race, for so much as a second. A miscreant is a miscreant. To insinuate, as Dickerson repeatedly does, that black miscreants cannot fairly be condemned as such because of certain "root causes" represents the kind of racial apologetics on an intellectual par with saying that if you call a dead skunk "Chanel No. 5," it won't smell bad anymore.
Nowhere is Dickerson more clueless to the implications of her "contextualism" arguments than in the way she treats the Founding Fathers. We are reminded that Thomas Jefferson was a slave master, as well as a founder of the Republic, and that he exploited Sally Hemings sexually. These are valid criticisms of Jefferson. He articulated powerful arguments against the morality of slavery but lacked the backbone to free his own slaves. He did not show the courage of his own convictions. On the other hand, this too has its context that no honest person can afford to sweep under the rug and still expect to be perceived as honest. That context was the 18th-century itself in which he lived, a time period when the practice of slavery was worldwide and morally uncontroversial to everyone except a handful of Western intellectuals, including - surprise, surprise - Thomas Jefferson. Thus, Jefferson may have lacked the courage of his convictions, but he was one of few people in the world back then who even had such convictions. Jefferson's written legacy gave powerful ammunition to Lincoln and others to build the kind of moral case against slavery that would eventually help bring that institution down. That is a truly great achievement for which Jefferson deserves honor. He does not deserve the malicious cheap shots of historically illiterate emotional retards who simply want a pretext to whack a famous Dead White Male like a pinata in order to get at the candied delusions that they are better people than he was. That sort of garbage may qualify as quintessential Afrocentric scholarship, but it ought not to arouse our respectful attention, given that the very term "Afrocentric scholarship," like "civilized barbarian" is a kind of sick joke.
In the end, though, and to be fair to Dickerson, I have to admit I still found this a worthwhile book. In spite of her criticisms of whites, she does not come across to me as the sort of bigoted, honky-bashing demagogue typical of Afro-American liberal leftists. She is by contrast a thoughtful and intelligent person, and whites should give her views a fair hearing, for although she sometimes seems too simplistic and unfair, her critique of whites is by no means entirely wrong. It is not too much, in my view, to ask whites to listen respectfully to our more civilized critics on the other side of the racial divide, and Dickerson is certainly a civilized critic. Furthermore, given the relentlessly vituperative nature of much Afro-American rhetoric on the subject of white people, Dickerson's ability to criticize whites without feeling the need to demonize them as inferior beings is rather refreshing.
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Europe and Latin America: Returning the Gaze
Peter Beardsell
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Images of Europe in Latin American cultures reveal a complex relationship, fluctuating between alienation from Europe and attraction to it, an affirmation of difference and an insistence on shared identity. The book examines versions of the Spanish conquest in accounts narrated by the invaded people. Its main emphasis, however, is on the 20th century. After analyzing modern treatments of the conquest in dance, theater, verse, and novels, it assesses attitudes towards Europe expressed in various forms during the 20th century and concludes with a study of ways in which Latin Americans have appropriated features of the European culture for their own advantage.
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Sometimes we turn away from God. Or we fail to love those around us. We even follow the gods of the world. Despite everything, God remains faithful, loving us and waiting for us to return to him. This is the story of Israel told in the book of Judges. As Donald Baker leads you to examine it for yourself, you may discover that it is your story as well.This revised LifeGuide Bible Study features additional questions for starting group discussions and for meeting God in personal reflection, together with expanded leader's notes and a "Now or Later" section in each study.
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The Unwelcome One: Returning Home from Auschwitz (Jewish Lives)
Hans Frankenthal ,
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One man's story of surviving a slave labor camp and returning to his small hometown in Germany, now bereft of all Jewish life.
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New Beginnings: A Guide for Adult Learners and Returning Students
Linda Simon
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Returning Cycles: Contexts for the Interpretation of Schubert's Impromptus and Last Sonatas (California Studies in Nineteenth Century Music)
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This compelling investigation of the later music of Franz Schubert explores the rich terrain of Schubert's impromptus and last piano sonatas. Drawing on the relationships between these pieces and Schubert's Winterreise song cycle, his earlier "Der Wanderer," the closely related "Unfinished" Symphony, and his story of exile and homecoming, "My Dream," Charles Fisk explains how Schubert's view of his own life may well have shaped his music in the years shortly before his death.
Fisk's intimate portrayal of Schubert is based on evidence from the composer's own hand, both verbal (song texts and his written words) and musical (vocal and instrumental). Noting extraordinary aspects of tonality, structure, and gestural content, Fisk argues that through his music Schubert sought to alleviate his apparent sense of exile and his anticipation of early death. Fisk supports this view through close analyses of the cyclic connections within and between the works he explores, finding in them complex musical narratives that attempt to come to terms with mortality, alienation, hope, and desire.
Fisk's knowledge of Schubert's life and music, together with his astute and imaginative attention to musical detail, helps him achieve one of the most difficult goals in music criticism: to capture and verbalize the human content of instrumental music.
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Study Skills for Adults Returning to School
Jerold W. Apps
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In Returning the Gaze Anna Everett revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. While much of the existing scholarship on blacks and the cinema focuses on image studies and stereotypical representations, this work excavates a wealth of early critical writing on the cinema by black cultural critics, academics, journalists, poets, writers, and film fans.
Culling black newspapers, magazines, scholarly and political journals, and monographs, Everett has produced an unparalleled investigation of black critical writing on the early cinema during the era of racial segregation in America. Correcting the notion that black critical interest in the cinema began and ended with the well-documented press campaign against D. W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, she discovers that as early as 1909 black newspapers produced celebratory discourses about the cinema as a much-needed corrective to the predominance of theatrical blackface minstrelsy. She shows how, even before the Birth of a Nation controversy, the black press succeeded in drawing attention to both the callous commercial exploitation of lynching footage and the varied work of black film entrepreneurs. The book also reveals a feast of film commentaries that were produced during the “roaring twenties” and the jazz age by such writers as W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as additional pieces that were written throughout the Depression and the pre– and post–war periods. Situating this wide-ranging and ideologically complex material in its myriad social, political, economic, and cultural contexts, Everett aims to resuscitate a historical tradition for contemporary black film literature and criticism.
Returning the Gaze will appeal to scholars and students of film, black and ethnic studies, American studies, cultural studies, literature, and journalism.
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