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Excerpt from Questions of Moral Theology From many sides there are indications that the gos pels of revolt are being found wanting by experience and that a reaction in favor of older and saner doc trines has set in. As an example of this movement we propose in this paper to take the doctrine of the just price of services and commodities. It will be sufficient for our purpose to indicate the salient fea tures of the revolt and the return to th...

Thomas Slater's latest novel is a non-stop ride of entertaining drama with suspenseful plot-twists and pulse-pounding action—from unholy corruption inside a church sanctuary to the insidious figures that lurk in the shadows of the dangerous city streets. A nonstop thrill ride of soul-searing drama and pulse-pounding suspense, Thomas Slater's latest novel takes you all the way to hell and back. Wisdom Jones has made a deal with the Devil: hi...

Show Stoppah is a brutal green-mile of injustice, walked by two women through domestic abuse, kidnapping, rape, slave trafficking, and contract killings, ending the journey by commandeering a radio station, home to a national show in an effort to share their stories about the atrocities suffered at the hands of two powerful men.Homeless at sixteen, Kimpa fell in love with aspiring writer Brody Ellis. Needing money, Brody becomes a pimp, and Ki...

The compelling sequel to No More Time-Outs finds Wisdom Jones accepting the terms of a deadly proposition from his old enemy: a life for a life.Wisdom Jones's mother needs a kidney and the only donor is one of his old enemies, Highnoon, who offers the organ for the chance to kill Wisdom. Jones accepts the proposition, but issues a stipulation of his own: he wants one week to intervene in the lives of his trifling family members and steer them ...

Im Feenreich Rosarien genießen Prinzessin Lillifee undihre Freunde den strahlenden Sommer. Doch einesNachts erscheint Lillifee im Traum das Einhorn Rosalieund bittet um Hilfe!Rosalie bittet Lillifee sich um ihr Baby Lucy zu kümmern. Als Lillifeeerwacht, entdeckt sie, dass Lucy auf magische Weise den Traum verlassenhat und quicklebendig auf ihrem Bett sitzt. Zuerst sind alle begeistert, denn wenn man das Horn eines Einhorns berührt, kann man si...

This is the most comprehensive study to date of the work of Milos Forman, best known for his Academy Award winning direction of "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and "Amadeus" (1984). The work begins with a brief biography that emphasizes the relationship for Forman's life to his philosophic and artistic development. The major portion of the work consists of a critical filmography with annotations based on the author's direct study, and...

Thomas Slater's latest novel is a non-stop ride of entertaining drama with suspenseful plot-twists and pulse-pounding action—from unholy corruption inside a church sanctuary to the insidious figures that lurk in the shadows of the dangerous city-streets.Wisdom Jones has made a deal with the Devil. Purchase price of a kidney: his life. But this Devil isn't the malicious spirit who's the total embodiment of evil: this one's human, the CEO of the...

bTitle:/b A New Compendium of Ancient History, Geography and Chronology, comparing the testimony and shewing the agreement between sacred and profane history.br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound ...

Excerpt from A Manual of Moral Theology for English-Speaking Countries, Vol. 2 The sacraments were instituted by Christ as so many channels or conduits by which he might convey to the souls of men the fruits of His passion and death. They are administered in His name and by His authority, and so Christ Himself is the principal minister Of the sacraments. However, He deigns to make use of men as His instruments for administering them, and it i...

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One of the most fascinating aspects of film studies is how it can explain more about the nature of closed societies. In Eastern Europe, artists, intellectuals, and entertainers are now free to create film outside the direct control of the state. This unique handbook convincingly shows how much film art was still being produced behind the Iron Curtain even during such repressive periods as those under Stalin and Brezhnev. Thomas J. Slater has c...

Excerpt from The Higher Hinduism in Relation to Christianity: Certain Aspects of Hindu Thought, From the Christian StandpointI take great pleasure in writing a few words of introduction to this important essay by my friend Rev. T. E. Slater, of the London Mission, Bangalore. The present work was submitted in 1899 to the Saxon Missionary Conference at Leipzig in response to an invitation for a 'missionary Prize Essay' on 'a presentation of the ...

Excerpt from Religion and Human Interests Primarily, religion has to do with man's duty towards his Creator. It prescribes the worship which is due to the Creator from the creature. However, this is not religion's only function. It sheds its benign influence on every department of human life. It is the keystone in the arch of human conduct, it keeps all other duties in their place, while explaining and enforcing them. I have attempted to brin...

Excerpt from Cases of Conscience, Vol. 1: For English-Speaking Countries Few, if any, of those for whom this book is intended will be disposed to deny the usefulness and necessity of Casuistry for the ecclesiastical student and the confessor. If the priest's work in the cure of souls and in the confessional is to be done fruitfully and if disastrous mistakes are to be prevented as far as possible, previous and solid training is absolutely nec...

Excerpt from A Short History of Moral Theology Ethics has a special place in the Christian religion. Lactantius, writing under the Emperor Constantine, points out this fundamental difference between paganism and the true religion. Pagan religion, he says, is concerned only with external rites and ceremonies performed in honor of the gods, it gives no precepts of righteousness and virtue, it does not form and cultivate men's characters.1 On th...

Excerpt from The Foundation of True Morality N the modern world, progress in the art and science of living has not kept pace with progress in the other arts and sciences. Man does not lead a better and a happier life than he used to do. There are many indications that human conduct is getting worse, and that men are more discontented, more miserable than they used to be. One means of moral progress would be to pro vide a sound and universally...

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