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Well-known as an international bestseller and award-winning film, The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles is magnificent entertainment. This virtuoso reading by Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons is storytelling at its best. Fowles' intricate portrait of Victorian relationships and love, brought to life by Irons' artistry, will haunt you long after the story ends. 2 cassettes.
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A for effort.......2006-10-13
This is ultimately a mock Vicotrian novel. Not that there's no place for that in the world of literature. Mock inventions are notable and necessary, and besides, no one knows what's going on in the mind of a writer. Why would one attempt artful imitation rather than writing the "real thing?" Fowles has produced a faux novel. Maybe he wants us to hearken back to the clash of modernism and romanticism. Maybe he wants to wax nostalgic about times when it seemed like there was a chance to counter the relentless increase in the slavery of souls as Marx calculated; when there was, at least, a hope that things might be made right in the world. So he wrote a "Romantic" Victorian romance; Charlotte Bronte did it best. An anti- romance,is there any other kind? Replete with feckless heros and heroines, and stereotyped "villains" caught up in the machinery of Victorian life--even as we still know it. He made sure to tell us things have not changed by inserting enough of his 20th century consciousness. The wheel was invented long ago, and it was and still is round; nothing but a miralce is going to change that.
Fowles' effort is estimably valuable, and his prose is swooning and artful,as well as a labored pastiche; although the book may not be many readers cup of tea. It is important that we relive the frustrations of life through art, regardless of the period of the production. Art holds the mirror to life, and the modernist novelists of the late Victorian era were pre-eminent in their patient use of language to paint nuances of human experience. The best of them were brilliant, and Fowles pays them homage,and wishes he was one of them. They captured their time for our instruction and delight, and they did a wonderful job. They were courageous,and roundly rejected by the public and literati of the times. So, in a sense, bravo to Fowles for worshipping at their altar; rehashing and championing their cause.
Why he wouldn't take it up to warp speed; things aren't, and won't be much different in the future;perhaps only worse, was his choice. He is obviously in love with the period, as much as he is in hate with it; no difference. He spins a timeless tale of frustration, denial, and human isolation and limitation. I haven't finished the book yet, but I know there won't be any redemption offered. Fowles's outright message making, his philosopic outpourings,better done by scholars,are nevertheless courageous, as well as repetitive and embarassing. It was done better by the dedicated philosophers of the times he writes about.
He tries hard to get it right, and he captures the essentialls of locked down life in any age;he is to be admired for that. Although I wish he would have stuck to his own age--maybe one could say, acted his own age (maybe he was just having a good time?). But he's dead now, and maybe he's smiling down on us, not sneering, but enjoying his own wonderful talent for language, thought and artifice; living off the ghosts of the genuine Victorian artists who lived what he has copied.
Human duality.......2006-09-18
I had not seen the movie of The French Lieutenant's Woman until recently, so I did not know what to expect from the novel. I thought it might be a romantic thriller set during one of the world wars and was surprised to read a book set in one of my favorite English periods, the Victorian, written from the perspective of the late 1960s.
The waning aristocracy is represented by Charles Smithson, dilettante and heir to his aging, unmarried uncle's wealth and title. His bride-to-be, Ernestina Freeman, heiress to the fortune her father has accumulated at his enormous London emporium, represents the rising, affluent middle class. While Charles and Tina seem to share the idealized Victorian view of marriage and family life, they are also keenly aware that their engagement is a legal contract that will benefit each of them in different ways. After Mr. Freeman's death, Charles will gain control over the family's money. For Tina, marriage means an entrée into the aristocracy, elevating her above being a mere "tradesman's daughter."
This is only one of many Victorian dualities that Fowles highlights; he is not subtle about his theme. Darwin's theory, as seen by the science dabbler Charles, is as harsh as practitioners of Christianity like Mrs. Poulteney. The advantage of evolution seems to be its lack of bias and judgment. Charles, unwilling or unable to adapt to a changing society in which money is coming to matter more than manners, is as much a victim of evolution as Sarah appears to be of the hypocritical morality of Mrs. Poulteney's religion.
Idealized Victorian life centered on the home and family. The poem that Ernestina reads to her contracted lover is about a sterile, lofty form of love devoid of real passion--and it promptly puts Charles to sleep. According to Fowles, it was believed that respectable women merely tolerated men's carnal desires, but did not share them. Ernestina "must not" think about such things, even though they are natural. Nature is to be controlled. She is shown mostly within the confines of her aunt's house or social settings. In contrast, Sarah Woodruff, the French lieutenant's woman, is first seen at the end of the seawall, in the wind, exposed symbolically to the world. Later, Charles discovers her "on that wild cliff meadow"; at some point, he "recalled very vividly how she had lain that day." Charles sees her in a way in which he will never see Ernestina; she is sleeping openly in a natural position which is, not surprisingly, sexually suggestive.
If the close-minded, tightly clothed Ernestina represents the Victorian marriage-and-family ideal, Sarah seems to represent the unspoken male ideal, at least for men like Charles--a natural woman, a woman of intelligence, of spirit and independence, who is not afraid to shun the ideal in favor of the real, to prefer passion to posturing. Her interactions with Charles make the "love" of Charles and Ernestina seem like the play-acting of children. Even with Sarah, however, Charles cannot escape the duality of his perceptions and desires. "He was at one and the same time Varguennes enjoying her and the man who sprang forward and struck him down; just as Sarah was to him both an innocent victim and a wild, abandoned woman."
While Ernestina sees herself in the perfect Victorian marriage--one in which love is pure, and carnal demands are submitted to primarily to produce the ideal family--Fowles shows some of the alternatives. There is the prostitute mother, for whom sex is a mechanical means to the end of supporting herself and her child. There is Mrs. Tomkins, intent on producing the rich heir to what would have been Charles's title and inheritance. There is Mary, and the servants and country girls like her, who see sex as a way to land a man but who also seem to enjoy it for its own sake. There is Mrs. Poulteney, whom one can never imagine experiencing love of any kind, pure or not. There is the sexualized Sarah, the French lieutenant's whore, whom Charles encounters in the wild, in a natural state unencumbered by social expectations. There is also the Sarah of one proposed ending, the sophisticate artist's assistant in London, committed to her single status and her freedom.
The narrator often intrudes into the story, deliberately undermining it. Just as the reader may be getting wrapped up in the odd, tension-filled relationship between Charles and Sarah, the narrator interjects a comment from contemporary times; words like "computer" clash with the old-fashioned stays of Mrs. Poulteney's dress and the limits of her mentality. While drawing us into the Victorian world, the narrator pulls us back with his ironic, detached commentary on what he wants us to understand is fiction if not fantasy. Charles and Sarah are no more real to a man of the 1960s than the mores of Victorian society.
While the Victorians may have feared the power of sex and desire, the narrator points out that we have succeeded where the Victorians did not of stripping sex of that power. He notes that, by his time, any relationship that is more than casual quickly becomes sexual. For Charles and Sarah, the tension is cumulative, building to a proportional climax. By the 1960s, Charles would simply have dumped Ernestina and gone to bed with Sarah as a matter of routine, transforming sex into as casual an activity as changing the sheets. It is instant impulse fulfillment, which is no more satisfying than ongoing denial without release.
The French Lieutenant's Woman is filled with philosophical, historical, religious, scientific, and literary references that alone make it a fascinating novel. They reveal the numerous and often conflicting ideas that made Queen Victoria's time, a time of evolution, so vibrant and complex. With its twists on the conventional novel and love story and its sweeping perspective, The French Lieutenant's Woman is a remarkable achievement in 20th-century literature.
Emperor has no clothes........2006-09-09
This is one of those books that appeal to the pretentious. The author is self-conscious and clever and has obviously written it with literary critics and English teachers and the sort of pseudo-intellectual that hangs out in New York cafes in mind. The actual story was the last thing on his mind and it shows--the whole thing is a pastiche with what plot there is used to parade his annoying characters (Camus or Satre heroes in Victorian dress) and to make annoying observations (all the last word in philosophy circa 1960 but really dull in 2006). Nothing could be more contrived than the alternate endings that one must pick from. The reader does not want to pick an ending, to be truthful, because the author has not made the reader CARE. I think I will continue reading actual Victorian novels, by the likes of Dickens, Trollope and Eliot rather than ever bothering to re-read this nonsense.
Sexually Charged .......2006-09-06
Rules versus liberation, religion versus Jesus, slavery versus freedom, death versus evolution, John Fowles pits these against each other in his sexually-charged The French Lieutenant's Woman. However, Fowles' book is not a romance, in the traditional sense, but is more a discussion about the author's rebellion against the process of writing a romance. When Charles Smithson discovers Sarah Woodruff sleeping in the Undercliff, he is unaware how much his life is going to change. He does not know that she will fuel his evolution from the historical, religious, and social stance on sexuality toward a life liberated and free of those same institutions.
His backward glance at Victorian England highlights the two-faced nature of sexuality. Men are allowed a few extra-contractual jaunts with women, while women are viewed as tarnished goods for those same sexual experiences. Religion, society, and the law have clearly lain down the rules detailing what is proper regarding sex. Fowles attempts to discuss the evolution that would be necessary for society to progress beyond this point. He seems to say that is someone was willing to go against the sexual morays of the time and could get people to follow him that he could lead the sexual (r)-evolution. It is interesting that the man who tries it in the novel is named Charles, as much attention is given to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. However, only the living can evolve, and the novel also seems to say that most people of Victorian times are dead, not willing to change, and not willing to live.
While he struggles between giving in to society's expectations or breaking away from his former self and the rules, Charles makes himself an outcast, much like Sarah is at the beginning of the novel. He has a sort of St. Paul on the road to Damascus experience, even though Fowles says he refuses to make the comparison between the two. Charles is a man fighting against history and social biology. While he clearly wants to enjoy the carnal pleasures of sex, he is wary of the consequences, acquiring a disease, becoming an outcast, and receiving social scrutiny. On the other hand, he underestimates the power of the social construct and the magnitude of the (r)-evolution he is attempting to effectuate, an example of which is shown in his apparent shock in response to the legal papers from Ernestina's father. He is a punch-drunk lover caught in an evolutionary trap that is teasing him to revolt against the foundations of history, a tough lot indeed.
Reviewed by Jonathan Stephens
French Lieutenants Women.......2006-02-23
A clearly read rendition of this novel. I would have preferred an unabridged version but was pleased with the quality of these tapes.
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Fowles tells a brilliant love story about the effects of Victorian English society on an individual's self-awareness and how that awareness dominates and distorts one's life, including relationships with other people.
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Fantastic.......2000-02-22
Fowles is under-rated. The French Lieutenant's Woman is insightful, thought-provoking, exciting and well-written. Should be read by all.
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Acts of Attention: Figure and Narrative in Postwar British Novels
Tamas Benyei
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Postwar British novels have rarely been read in the meticulous, theoretically informed way that seems to be reserved for the classics. The objective of these readings of five postwar British novels (Evelyn Waugh: 'Brideshead Revisited', John Fowles: 'The French Lieutenant's Woman', William Golding: 'Sea Trilogy', Jeanette Winterson: 'The Passion', Ian McEwan: 'The Innocent') is to turn to wellknown contemporary texts with exactly the kind of sustained attention that they are usually denied. Drawing upon the insights of various poststructuralist theories, the interpretations concentrate on the entanglements of figurativity and narrative in five very different texts. By identifying and exploring the narrative tropes of remembering, seduction, Bildung, desire and initiation, the readings offer new insights into the relationship between figure and narrative, and also reveal the perhaps unsuspected richness of these novels.
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Too smooth.......2007-06-29
Loved the magic but everything just went to smooth. Roberts usually has a bit more twists but i guess since it was a 3fer they had to fall in love fast.
Five Stars .......2007-04-28
Another great trilogy by Nora Roberts. This time the Donovan cousins Morgana, Sebastian and Anastasia who are best friends and witches. Each of them are very interesting and well written. Morgana runs a wicca store and meets Nash who wants to write books about witches. In Sebastian's story he uses his powers to assisst the police he's brought in by a desperate mother looking for her child and meets Mel, a private investigator who doesn't believe in magic or witches. The last story Anastasia mets Boone who moves in next door with his young scene stealer daughter Jessie. All three are wonderful stories that I've read a hundred times and will contiune to re-read.
The Donovan Legacy.......2004-01-07
I had read the Nora Roberts novel "Entranced" several years ago and always wanted to read the books for the other two Donovan cousins, but never got around to it. A few months ago I picked up this book (which has all three novels in it) and read straight through the entire thing in a few days!
The three stories are "Captivated," "Entranced," and "Charmed."
"Captivated" centers around the first Donovan cousin, Morgana. She is a witch who runs a wiccan type store in Monterey. Nash is a novelist who specializes in horror stories (like Steven King I guess) and he is planning to write a novel about witches, so he comes to meet Morgana since she is infamous in the area for being a witch. At first he doesn't believe her powers are real, but as the two continue getting to know each other and fall in love, he begins to believe. I love both the characters, Nash and Morgana. They are extremely well written and fun, I quickly became attached to them. Their story was fast-paced and easy to read, I found it thoroughly enjoyable!
"Entranced" is about the only male Donovan cousin, Sebastian. He has psychic powers and often uses them to help the police when they are stuck on a case. Mel is a private investigator searching for the kidnapped baby of one of her friends. She doesn't want Sebastian's help, but the distraught mother called him anyways. The two of them go on an intriguing journey to find the lost child, and in the process (of course) fall in love! This was my favorite of the three stories - I really became fond of Mel especially. Probably because she reminds me a lot of Eve Dallas, the main character of Nora Roberts' (aka J.D. Robb's) "In Death" novels. Again, the characters are fun, sympathic and enjoyable to read about. This book is more of an adventure than the other two, which made it all the more enjoyable to read. I've read it half a dozen times and I STILL love it. :)
"Charmed" is about the final Donovan cousin, Anastasia. Her extraordinary powers specialize in the healing arts. A widowed (I think, I can't remember) father, Boone, moves in next door to her with his young daughter, Jessie. Ana and Jessie get along extremely well and because of this Ana and Boone end up spending a lot of time together and fall in love. The big problem is, Boone doesn't know Anastasia has magical powers which ends up causing a rift between them when he finds out. Honestly, I thought this was the weakest of the three stories. It wasn't as interesting as the first two and while it was still good, it had the potential to be so much better. Even so, I really enjoyed the characters, especially Jessie who definitely stole the story.
All three books are fun, I really enjoy Nora Roberts trilogies. I get really attached to characters, so seeing them again in a new book is such a fun experience! I highly recommend this set, any Nora Roberts fan will enjoy these books.
Three of the Donovan books.......2003-09-05
"Captivated" is a nice basis for the story of the three Donovan cousins. Morgana's principles are admirable. I found myself giving her a few mental you-go-girls when she lost her temper. Nash's progression to belief was well-written and his trip to the castle in Ireland and his meeting with the family were amusing.
In "Entranced" I noticed shades of Eve Dallas and Rourke. I didn't think I was going to like this story but I was won over by the the love story and the development of the characters. Sebastian and Mel are an interesting couple.
"Charmed" was my favorite of the three stories. The best parts revolve around Boone's daughter Jessie. She stole the show. The stories within the story were lovely.
The supporting characters in this book are very endearing.
If you enjoy a twist of the paranormal, you'll enjoy this book.
Awesome-Thoroughly Pleased.......2003-08-11
Nora Roberts is one of my absolute favorite authors. I have collected all of her books, including the reprints becoming available, and The Donovan Legacy is one of my continuing favorites. It combines her amazing writing skills with the realm of the supernatural, giving it a unique flavor. Each storyline for each of the three cousins, Morgana, Sebastian, and Anastasia are original, yet intertwined with one another and fully charged with the power of their magic. The characters are fully, expertly developed, each displaying their own skill, and it is a book that I go back to time and time again if I am ever looking for romance and magic.
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3 books 1. Captivated 2. Entranced 3. Charmed and Enchanted
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the most captivating,entrancing&charming witch trilogy written!ms.roberts nails all elements of story telling in this wonderful trio of witch cousins!humor,excitement,intense heat and romance and fascinating paranormal family!
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Dirk Pitt, Clive Cussler's aging but still potent superhero, returns in the 16th adventure in this popular series about the director of special projects for the National Underwater Maritime Administration (NUMA). Pitt's NUMA survey ship happens to be in the vicinity when the world's newest and biggest cruise ship founders and sinks, giving Pitt the chance to stage the daring rescue of nearly 2,000 passengers. Among those who perish is a famous scientist whose revolutionary engines powered the ship to her watery grave; while Pitt is unable to save Dr. Egan, he rescues his beautiful daughter Kelly from the sea, and later from a murder attempt aboard the rescue vessel.
Pitt and his trusty pal Al Giordino track the sinking to the boardroom door of a multinational conglomerate called Cerberus, whose evil CEO has designs on the world's oil supply. He'll do anything to keep Egan's advanced engines and secret formula for frictionless oil off the market--even sabotage another vessel, this time a luxury passenger submarine. By the time our heroes have foiled the mastermind's nefarious plots, they've also uncovered the existence of a working submarine nearly a century before one actually existed--irrefutable proof of a Viking landing on the Hudson River--and the remains of the British sailor who inspired Jules Verne's Captain Nemo. A solid page-turner that even features a cameo appearance by the author himself, Valhalla Rising snaps, crackles, and pops with Cussler's usual brio. --Jane Adams
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"Lean, speedy and packing a wallop of a plot twist" was Publishers Weekly's verdict of Steve Martini's The Jury. Now Martini crafts yet another legal nail-biter featuring perennial favorite attorney Paul Madriani.
After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend the man, but to find out who killed his friend and why. Madriani is tortured by questions of conflict, his duty to a client who may have killed his friend, and the need to know the truth, wondering whether he himself had been marked for death only to have a friend die in his place. Soon he is drawn into a vortex of crime that spans the Americas.
As he searches for the killer, Madriani rides the crest of a dangerous wave of international drug deals and people who murder for money. Suddenly he realizes it is not heroin or cocaine that resulted in the murder of his friend, but a priceless piece of pre-Columbian art-something so dazzling in the information it holds as to be one of the treasures of the ages.
In a quest that takes Madriani from California to Mexico and the Guatemalan border, he discovers that while the motive to kill may be driven by distant, exotic, and ancient artifacts, the killer, like a serpent, lies much closer at hand.
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great details of planes and boats with Viking lore thrown in.......2007-09-30
It may be hard to admit enjoying books like this, but the historical aspects and the descriptions of aircraft and watercraft are amazing. This novel is the reason for my new interest in planes. I am able to recognize a Ford Tri-motor on sight, thanks to Clive and Dirk. The discussion of the Viking settlements in North America was accurate and presented in a thoroughly pleasing fashion. This knowledge actually helped me later reading Thor Heyerdahl books. Cussler tells and does not show. The characters, their mannerisms and the relations between them are not at all deep, but adequately move the story along. His descriptions of technology and nautical methods are very good, indeed. Cussler knows his stuff, though I'd rather hear Thor talk about boats and the sea. Nevertheless, this is a fast-paced, non-challenging book that is quite entertaining.
A good, exciting commuter book.......2007-08-02
This was my first Cussler book. Recommended by a friend, and to say the least, i was not disappointed.
I have since read "Blue Gold" and it also exceeded my expectations. These are not by any means brain stormers - they are fun to read action packed stories with just enough dialog to keep things going. I compare Clive's books to a movie that doesn't tax the brain or require 3 1/2 hours of your life. It is not "epic" or historically(but you can def tell he likes his planes and guns, accurate details) important, its just fun. That is enough in this case.
The price of oil in America.......2007-07-15
Cussler continues his streak of creative adventures that entertain. I enjoyed this one because of the Viking subplot and the idea of pre-Columbian visitors to the Americas. Cussler seems to get on another of his soapboxes with the main plot of oil consumption in America. His thoughts will only offend the rich oil companies and make the rest of us nod in agreement. Then out of the blue, Pit gets the surprise of his life ant the end of the book. I look forward to the next installment to see how this thread unfolds.
Best ever!.......2007-07-14
I have read nearly the entire Clive Cussler "Dirk Pitt" series so far and each 1 is as fun to read as the next. I watched the movie Sahara (1 of Clive Cussler books turned movie)which starred Matthew McConaughey and Steve Zahn. After seeing that I decided to read the book. I have not been disappointed in any of this series including Valhalla Rising. All I can say is that they are a fun fun adventure. Oh and anyone who says that the books are predictable - so what? All books have heros who defeat evil and barely live to tell about it.
NUMA at its best.......2007-06-27
Dirk and everyone else from NUMA captify and amaze you. I couldnt figure out how the crime was committed. As always, Clive kept me guessing until the end
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Valhalla Rising (Dirk Pitt Adventures)
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It is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster, but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him.
Before the next few weeks are over, Pitt will find himself confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend. And, at the end of it all, though many lives will be lost, and many saved, it is Pitt's own life that will be changed forever
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La Cueva De Los Vikingos/ Valhalla Rising (Best Seller)
Clive Cussler
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VALHALLA RISING
CUSSLER
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Valhalla Rising
Clive CUSSLER
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Valhalla Rising
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Valhalla Rising
Clive Cussler
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Excellent review of Lutheran Doctrine and Liturgy.......2007-07-23
This book is both informative and accessible. Preus does a good job explaining the conflicts between traditional Lutheran Christianity and contemporary Evangelical Protestantism. He can be a little repetitive at times, but that is due to the fact that in theology everything builds off of and refers back to what came before. Preus' discussion of vocation was also very helpful, as the contemporary views of discipleship often achieve nothing more than create stress-everything carries with it a significance that it just does not deserve. The emotional aspect of contemporary worship has also always bothered me. Preus does a great job illustrating the problems with basing one's faith off of transient sentiments. This book deserves a close reading and serious thought.
Best approach to true Lutheran Theology and Practice.......2006-11-10
This book gives real practical do's and don'ts to Lutheran Theology and Practice from a man who experienced all the do's and don'ts himself. I love the book for its boldness and I would recommend any Lutheran layman to read it and learn from it. Pastors can learn from it too.
Great book about why we worship the way we do as Lutherans.......2006-08-30
This is a book that helps the reader understand why we worship as Lutherans the way we do. It goes into great depths to understand the theology behind our actions as a church and yet is not too hard to understand. The author has a good way of putting things down on a layman's level.
The Fire and the Staff.......2006-08-04
A most excellent book and a must read for all Lutherans and those who are toying with the whole "church growth" movement. Rev. Preus is no-nonsense, hard hitting, confessional and orthodox while reaching out in love to those in error. If you are concerned that the church is losing its ancient orthodox and catholic roots and is becoming the "church of what's happening now", you need to read this book! Buy one for your pastor, he needs to read this as well. Promote the book in your church as a most excellent replacement for "The purpose driven life."
A book for our times.......2006-05-14
In his book, The Fire and the Staff: Lutheran Theology in Practice, Klemet Preus has provided the church an instant classic in pastoral theology. It is no exaggeration to say that a pastor can learn much that he needs to know to minister in the present American context from this single book, to say nothing of the potential of this book for catechizing our laity. If this book is read and taken to heart in our church, the impact will be palpable. In one omnibus volume Preus tackles the essential Lutheran teaching of the reciprocal relationship between doctrine and practice in light of the Reformation and its early controversies, American Lutheranism and its interaction with Revivalism and Evangelicalism, and the modern challenges of the Church Growth and Charismatic Movements.
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- The Ginger Tree
- The Grace That Keeps This World: A Novel
- The Grass Crown
- The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
- The Kitchen God's Wife
- The Lions of Lucerne
- The Map of Love: A Novel
- The Mark: The Beast Rules the World (Left Behind No. 8)
- The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
- The Myth of You and Me: A Novel
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