Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature explores the relationship of divine creativity, poetry, and ethics in William Langland's fourteenth-century dream vision. These concerns converge in the poem's rich vocabulary of kynde, the familiar Middle English word for nature, broadly construed. But in a remarkable coinage, Langland also uses kynde to name nature's creator, who appears as a character in Piers Plowman. The stakes of this representation could not be greater: by depicting God as Kynde, that is, under the guise of creation itself, Langland explores the capacity of nature and of language to bear the plenitude of the divine. In doing so, he advances a daring claim for the spiritual value of literary art, including his own searching form of theological poetry. This claim challenges recent critical attention to the poem's discourses of disability and failure and reveals the poem's place in a long and diverse tradition of medieval humanism that originates in the twelfth century and, indeed, points forward to celebrations of nature and natural capacity in later periods. By contextualizing Langland's poetics of kynde within contemporary literary, philosophical, legal, and theological discourses, Rebecca Davis offers a new literary history for Piers Plowman that opens up many of the poem's most perplexing interpretative problems.

Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature

Literature & Fiction

Davis, Rebecca

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

Comparative Politics

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Study Guide Statistics

Science & Math

Wadsworth Publishing

I originally got my start in insurance as a captive agent. It's amazing how much success a person can have in the insurance business, but nobody ever tells you about it. Insurance always seems like a person falls into it as a career and then stumbles on blindly. I had to figure out how to do this business, without a large upfront investment. So what did I do? I turned to Grassroots Marketing. I personally did not buy a lead during my first three years in business and have created a highly successful agency. This book is to help everyone else build a successful business using grassroots tips and tricks. These ideas have all proven to be successful in creating steady growth year over year.

101 Grassroots Marketing Tips And Tricks: Turning Grassroots Marketing into Epic Success

Business & Money

Insurance

Kannonball Insurance Solutions LLC

This is the long-awaited story of Alan Wilson, musical genius and co-founder of Canned Heat. Biographer Rebecca Davis journeys through his artistic innovations, tormented personal life, obsessive love of nature, and mysterious death. A key figure in the 1960s "blues revival", Wilson participated in the rediscovery of Son House, and wrote scholarly analyses of House and Robert Pete Williams. He went on to co-found pioneering blues-rock band Canned Heat, becoming an unlikely rock star. Known as "Blind Owl", he was responsible for the hit songs "Going Up the Country" and "On the Road Again".

Blind Owl Blues: The Mysterious Life and Death of Blues Legend Alan Wilson

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Blind Owl Blues

The man said he was a doctor . . . but he did something to little baby Fanny’s eyes that made her blind for the rest of her life. How could she find out about the world around her? How could she be happy? How could she learn? How could she love God? How could she forgive?Fanny Crosby was blind for more than ninety years . . . and she wrote over 8,000 hymns and gospel songs about her Savior.Potter's Wheel Books: showing children the Master Potter at workChristian biography for children ages 7-10

Fanny Crosby: Queen of Gospel Songs (Potter's Wheel Books)

Children's Books

Religions

Potter's Wheel Books

It was the 1930s, when records and record players were new. Joy lay sick in bed, wishing to get back to Honduras, where she had been a missionary. But while she recovered, the bright idea came to her to record some gospel stories and songs in Spanish. After one record came more and more and more, in one language after another. The organization Joy founded, now called Global Recordings, has recorded gospel stories in over six thousand languages around the world.Written for children, but in a style that adults can enjoy too, Joy Ridderhof: Voice Catcher Around the World, is a missionary book that will introduce readers to a whole new world of missions: catching voices of remote tribal people speaking the words of the gospel in their own language.

Joy Ridderhof: Voice Catcher Around the World (Potter's Wheel Books)

Biographies

Could it be that the one who is smiling at you as he hands you the offering plate is abusing his wife at home?What if your Sunday school teacher, who knows so much about the Bible, is abusing his family behind closed doors?Is it possible that one of the elders or even the pastor of your church is practicing an unholy charade? If the spouse of one of these abusers comes to you for help, would you even be able to recognize the signs? How will you understand the dynamics of this deceiving evil?Pastor and author Jeff Crippen presents Christ’s body with a work steeped in Scripture that lays before us a map of the abusive mind, the tactics of abuse, the effects abuse has on its victims, and the tragic way our churches have failed the victims of this sin. He issues a clarion call for those who love Christ to answer the call to love the oppressed and speak for the victims, as Proverbs 31:9 says: “Open your mouth, judge righteously, defend the rights of the poor and needy.”Together we can root out the wolves in the midst of the flock and unmask the domestic abuser in the church hiding in our pews.

Unholy Charade: Unmasking the Domestic Abuser in the Church

Religion & Spirituality

Crippen, Jeff

Christian Books & Bibles

Justice Keepers Publishing

When people weren’t looking, he stole money from them. He stole from his father, he stole from his teacher, he even stole from the pastor of his church.And he was studying to be a pastor himself.But one day George Mueller found out that the God he had been pretending to worship was real. His life changed completely. Now, instead of taking from others, he wanted to give to help others.And give . . . and give . . . and give. By the end of his life, George Mueller had given over a million dollars. But where did he get it?He didn’t steal the money. He didn’t work for the money. He didn’t ask anyone for the money. That is, he didn’t ask any people. He asked God. And God gave . . . and gave . . . and gave.George Mueller used that money to provide homes for over ten thousand orphans in his lifetime. All of England was changed because of this one man.

George Mueller: Pickpocket to Praying Provider (Potter's Wheel Books)

Does the Bible really teach that you're supposed to yield your rights? What's the right way to look at the issue of rights?Have you ever been accused of being bitter? Maybe you thought you really weren't, but how can you tell?Is that "root of bitterness" truly as insidious in your heart as some have suggested? How can you recognize it?If you "take up offenses" by trying to help someone who is being mistreated, are you really in danger of becoming the most bitter of people? Will you even be in danger of missing out on God's grace?Untwisting Scriptures that were used to tie you up, gag you, and tangle your mind untwists and presents the beautiful truth of God's Word, exposing sin where it needs to be revealed, and offering hope to those who most desperately need it.Scriptures can be untwisted. You can rise up from spiritual abuse and walk in the freedom of Christ.

Untwisting Scriptures: that were used to tie you up, gag you, and tangle your mind

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