Tag: Roots

Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609


Free Download Keith Stanglin, "Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation: The Context, Roots, and Shape of the Leiden Debate, 1603-1609"
English | 2007 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 9004156089 | PDF | 1,6 mb
Although scholarship has treated, on the one hand, some aspects of Jacobus Arminius’s theology, and on the other hand, the doctrine of assurance in the Reformed theologians of early Protestant orthodoxy, nevertheless proper attention has not yet been given to the intersection of these topics: Arminius’s doctrine of assurance. With special attention to previously neglected primary sources, this book offers stimulating insights into the academic context of Arminius, and, along with a comparative analysis of his colleagues at Leiden University, explores new horizons in his doctrines of salvation and assurance. Arminius’s search for true assurance of salvation emerges as a decisive factor in his famous dissent from Reformed theology.

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Old World Roots of the Cherokee How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America’s Largest Indian


Free Download Donald N. Yates, "Old World Roots of the Cherokee: How DNA, Ancient Alphabets and Religion Explain the Origins of America’s Largest Indian"
English | ISBN: 0786469560 | 2012 | 217 pages | EPUB | 10 MB
Most histories of the Cherokee nation focus on its encounters with Europeans, its conflicts with the U. S. government, and its expulsion from its lands during the Trail of Tears. This work, however, traces the origins of the Cherokee people to the third century B.C.E. and follows their migrations through the Americas to their homeland in the lower Appalachian Mountains. Using a combination of DNA analysis, historical research, and classical philology, it uncovers the Jewish and Eastern Mediterranean ancestry of the Cherokee and reveals that they originally spoke Greek before adopting the Iroquoian language of their Haudenosaunee allies while the two nations dwelt together in the Ohio Valley.

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Strictly Fantasy The Cultural Roots of Tabletop Role-Playing Games


Free Download Gerald Nachtwey, "Strictly Fantasy: The Cultural Roots of Tabletop Role-Playing Games "
English | ISBN: 1476675716 | 2021 | 199 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 11 MB
Role-playing games seemed to appear of nowhere in the early 1970s and have been a quiet but steady presence in American culture ever since. This new look at the hobby searches for the historical origins of role-playing games deep in the imaginative worlds of Western culture. It looks at the earliest fantasy stories from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, at the fans-both readers and writers-who wanted to bring them to life, at the Midwestern landscape and the middle-class households that were the hobby’s birthplace, and at the struggle to find meaning and identity amidst cultural conflicts that drove many people into these communities of play. This book also addresses race, religion, gender, fandom, and the place these games have within American capitalism. All the paths of this journey are connected by the very quality that has made fantasy role-playing so powerful: it binds the limitless imagination into a "strict" framework of rules. Far from being an accidental offshoot of marginalized fan communities, role-playing games’ ability to hold contradictions in dynamic, creative tension made them a necessary and central product of the twentieth century.

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