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Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. (Books: dying for God's sins).
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Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God. By Jack Miles. Knopf, 352 pp., $26.00.
I ADMIRE MUCH about Jack Miles's new book, a sequel to his 1995 God: A Biography, which not only became a New York Times best seller but also won a Pulitzer Prize. Miles's exposition is often brilliant and insightful. His writing is elegant and disciplined, and his argument is fresh and provocative. Whether it is also fanciful and problematic, readers will have to decide.
In his first book, Miles provided a literary reading (in contrast to historical and theological readings) of the ...
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The legacy of John Amos Comenius.(Biography)
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
; John Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), born in 1592 at Uhersky Brod in eastern Moravia in the...strict discipline. From within this milieu of homeland and faith, John Comenius envisioned a daring kind of Christianity that sought to be...
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Facilitating the Integration of Culture and Vocabulary Learning: The Categorization and Use of Pictures in the Classroom
Magazine article from: Foreign Language Annals
; ...in the 17th century writings of John Amos Comenius,2 who stated that "words should...objects to which they refer" (Comenius, 1896, p. 356). That quote...1923 and then again in 1967 (Comenius, 1967). The same passage was...
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The Pedagogy of The Sun Also Rises.
Magazine article from: The Hemingway Review
; ...wrote the great Moravian educator and reformer John Amos Comenius almost four centuries ago. Comenius believed that teachers learn in the very act...Educators past and present agree with Comenius that teachers learn by teaching. The sixteenth...
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Interfacing Smual Hartlib. (seventeenth century archivist)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...Protestant theologian, John Dury, whose incessant...Protestant exile, Jan Amos Komensky (Comenius), were of the greatest...Hartlib probably knew of Comenius well before they began...common elements shared by Comenius and Hartlib. They both...
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Pupils' hopes are raised through European links
Newspaper article from: The Northern Echo
; ...pupils from schools in County Durham participating in the Comenius programme. The European Union-backed project takes its name from John Amos Comenius, who lived from 1592 to 1670 in what is now the Czech...
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Can there be Christianity without church?
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
; ...establishment religion, they followed in the train of John Amos Comenius and Anthony Norris Groves, whose stories also appear...are traceable to the influence of Groves's ideas. Comenius, 200 years earlier, lived out his life in the viciously...
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 "Morning Call (Allentown, PA)")
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Afghan fashions, band fun and a Czech award.
Newspaper article from: Morning Call (Allentown, PA)
; ...historical roots stem from the Czech Republic. Bishop John Amos Comenius, known as the "Father of Modern Education" and for whom the campus' Comenius Hall is named, was born in Moravia, which is now part...
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 "Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)")
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Visitors from Europe swop school notes.(News)
Newspaper article from: Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
; ...School as part of the European Comenius Project. That project, which...teacher, scientist and writer John Amos Comenius, who was one of the earliest champions...of Nuneaton and Bedworth, Cllr John Preedy. CAPTION(S): RB131007MAGG1...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...St Teresa of Avila, Carmelite nun, 1515; Johann Amos Comenius (Jan Amos Komensky), reformer, 1592; George I, King of Great...physiologist, 1892; Dame Flora Robson, actress, 1902; John Langstraw Austin, philosopher, 1911. Deaths: Publius...
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Wisdom-Centered Learning: Striking a New Paradigm for Education.
Magazine article from: School Administrator
; ...that the problems of educational reform have no known solution, at any price, despite centuries of thought, since John Amos Comenius wrote about reform in 1632. Second, I realized that the U.S. education system lacks positive feedback loops...
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