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  • Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft, By Dalene Joy Fisher
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    Resisting the Marriage Plot

    Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    by Dalene Joy Fisher

    "I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described."

    Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to thefact that fiction has long been employed by authors to cast a vision for social change. Less acknowledged, however, has been the role of the Christian ...

  • Isaiah 1–39, Edited by Jeff Fisher
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    Isaiah 1–39

    Old Testament Volume 10A

    Reformation Commentary on Scripture

    Edited by Jeffrey Fisher

    "And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, 'Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?'

    Then I said, 'Here I am! Send me.'"

    In his interpretation of Isaiah's vision of God and subsequent sending, the Anabaptist reformer Menno Simons perceived a pattern for all prophets, apostles, ministers, and preachers who are called and then sent out to spread the ...

  • Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft, By Dalene Joy Fisher Resisting the Marriage Plot: Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft, By Dalene Joy Fisher
    Ebook

    Resisting the Marriage Plot

    Faith and Female Agency in Austen, Brontë, Gaskell, and Wollstonecraft

    Studies in Theology and the Arts Series

    by Dalene Joy Fisher

    "I cannot suppose any situation more distressing than for a woman of sensibility with an improving mind to be bound to such a man as I have described."

    Mary Wollstonecraft's response to one of her early critics points to thefact that fiction has long been employed by authors to cast a vision for social change. Less acknowledged, however, has been the role of the Christian ...

  • The Message of 1 Timothy & Titus, By John Stott
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    The Message of 1 Timothy & Titus

    The Bible Speaks Today Series

    by John Stott

    In the letters to Timothy and Titus, as he nears the end of his life, Paul focuses on the idea of inheritance. The faithful, he writes, must guard and pass on the heritage of gospel truth for the next generation. Paul's clear commitment to the church as "the pillar and foundation of the truth" continues to challenge Christians in every era.

    In this revised Bible Speaks Today ...

  • 1 Timothy & Titus: Fighting the Good Fight, By John Stott
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    1 Timothy & Titus

    Fighting the Good Fight

    John Stott Bible Studies

    by John Stott
    With Lin Johnson

    Study Scripture with John Stott

    We live in a culture where the beliefs and preferences of the individual are given final authority. Paul's firm commitment to the church as "the pillar and foundation of the truth" stands against the current. His letters to Timothy and Titus call us to reestablish the core beliefs of Christianity and affirm our convictions about the gospel. ...

    Number of Studies: 12