Tag: Dread

April 25, 2024

El Monstruo Dread and Redemption in Mexico City

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Free Download John Ross, "El Monstruo: Dread and Redemption in Mexico City"
English | 2009 | pages: 512 | ISBN: 1568584245 | EPUB | 1,0 mb
John Ross has been living in the old colonial quarter of Mexico City for the last three decades, a rebel journalist covering Mexico and the region from the bottom up. He is filled with a gnawing sense that his beloved Mexico City’s days as the most gargantuan, chaotic, crime-ridden, toxically contaminated urban stain in the western world are doomed, and the monster he has grown to know and love through a quarter century of reporting on its foibles and tragedies and blight will be globalized into one more McCity.

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January 14, 2024

Dread and Hope Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture

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Free Download Joshua Wise, "Dread and Hope: Christian Eschatology and Pop Culture "
English | ISBN: 1978708165 | 2022 | 174 pages | EPUB | 312 KB
Christianity was born in the midst of great expectation and fear about the world’s future. The existing Jewish paradigm of the coming Messiah, his antithesis, and the initiation of the coming age set the stage for Christian beliefs about the end of the current age. However, the unexpected death and resurrection of Jesus caused that paradigm to be reformed within the burgeoning Christian faith, reshaping hopes, and reworking old patterns.

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