Gabriel and Shay are convinced that they can make their relationship work. Knowing that Shay is half-vampire, Gabriel thinks that his coven will embrace her as one of their own, but instead they view her as an abomination, a thing that doesn’t belong in either world. And they want her dead. Now Gabriel must make the ultimate decision - watch his love be killed by his coven or defy the people closest to him, the people he has spent centuries with to save her.
The shocking and affecting memoir from a gold-star widow searching for the truth behind her Green Beret husband's death, this book bears witness to the true sacrifices made by military families.
The book is at its most profound in sorting out the relation between violence and sacrifice. Altogether, this is a very moving and deep book--philosophically, anthropologically, and religiously.
For a detailed and inspired analysis of the persistence and transformation of native Mesoamerican pictorial traditions , see Donald Robertson's Mexican Manuscript Painting of the Early Colonial Period : The Metropolitan Schools ( New ...
I know she doesn't want my help, but she gets it anyway. I owe her that.When another disaster hits, I'm given the opportunity to make things right. I'm taking it. I'm willing to sacrifice it all.
When a Mayan girl in ninth-century Guatemala suspects that the High Priest sacrifices anyone who stands in the way of his power, she proves herself a hero.
Religious Transformations in Late Antiquity Susan Emanuel, Guy G. Stroumsa. contemplate the stars, gazing at them and calling on God in their ... I quote the translation by Gillian Clark (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000), 65.
The book is at its most profound in sorting out the relation between violence and sacrifice. Altogether, this is a very moving and deep book--philosophically, anthropologically, and religiously.
With the goal of Sufficient Sacrifice elevating the power of a father’s love for his child, the story poses the question of whether Simon’s influence has diminished over time or been compromised by the eroding push of a determined woman ...
... Pope Benedict XVI, in his 2007 Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis no. 70.28 For it shows that Augustine was beginning to do what Pope Benedict (and Catholic theology in general) is concerned to do: to connect ...
Sperber, Rethinking Symbolism , 83. 29. Asad, “Concept of Ritual.” 30. Victor Turner, The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967), 50 . 31. On this issue, see Klawans's useful discussion and ...