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In The Dog Listener Jan Fennell shares her revolutionary insight into the canine world and its instinctive language that has enabled her to bring even the most delinquent of dogs to heel. This easy-to-follow guide draws on Jan's countless case histories of problem dogs—from biters and barkers to bicycle chasers—to show how you can bridge the language barrier that separates you from your dog.
This edition includes a new 30-Day Training Guide to further incorporate Jan's powerful method into every element of pet ownership, including:
- Understanding what it means to care for a dog
- Choosing the right dog for you
- Introducing your dog to its new home
- Overcoming separation anxiety
- Walking on a leash
- Dealing with behavioral problems
- Grooming
- And much more
Customer Reviews:
Best training book ever! .......2007-10-04
This book was reccomended to me by a friend when I bought my two puppies and I had them trained before they were 3 months old. You have to remember that the tecniques in this book are a way of life and you must continue to do them at all times. You get used to it and it becomes second nature and the outcome is very rewarding. Puppies can be very frustrating to train but by using this book, I am actually enjoying the energy of my pups and they are respecting me.
7 IMPROVEMENTS.......2007-09-19
Jan Fennell deserves high accolades for this book and 30-day training manual! I have 7 dogs and after 4 weeks, the change is very noticeable. I have largely achieved the behavior I want with 7 dogs inside the home and they are much improved in the back yard. Soon I will move on to the car and the world outside. Traditional dog training classes just didn't cut the mustard - there was little if no discussion on how to have your dog look to you as its leader. I so enjoyed Jan's informative, fast-reading, couldn't-put-it-down book that I am reading it a second time. It's almost as if she could read your mind as to problems and questions we owners have with our dogs and the frustration we are faced with not knowing how to solve them. I only wish more people in the U.S. knew about Jan like they do about Cesar Millan. Maybe her time is coming!
"Must have" for any dog owner!!.......2007-07-03
This book was recommended to me by my dog trainer, and I am so glad! I use this book so much - Jan really understands dogs. She has the solution to any training issue or behavioral difficulty you can think of. It's all about thinking like a dog, and trying to relate to them in order to understand and work with them more effectively. Training is so much easier and quicker when you apply her methods! And the dogs seem happier and more relaxed, just like she says! I would highly recommend this book to anyone who owns a dog, or is thinking about buying a dog!
Effective. Helps establish foundation for training your dog!.......2007-04-16
A must read for all dog owners. Helps you to establish leadership within your "pack" using her 4 basic principals. I used this book as a building block to understand my dogs and establish an "Alpha" position within my pack. Once this is established, it makes training a lot easier. Other good books for understanding your dogs are "Other End of the Leash" and "Power of Positive Dog Training". For basic training I recommend "Clicking with Your Dogs" and Karen Pyor's "Clicker Training for Dogs."
New perspective for me!.......2007-04-03
We are expecting a new puppy later this year and I've been educating myself on being a responsible and informed owner. We always had dogs, cats, lizards, rabbits and such growing up. I didn't think about it until I read this book but several of our dogs had, shall we say some interesting habits. Jan Fennell shares a little of the common history man shares with our beloved dogs, as well as what happens in a wolf pack in the wild. I have to say that my entire perspective regarding dogs behaviour and training have changed. Now, I see people walking their dogs or rather the dogs walking their human and I understand what their relationship is all about. I can't wait for our new puppy and so look forward to a happy and healthy life for her. If you want to know and love your dog on a whole new, healthier level this is a must read.
p.s. If you haven't already, please read up on a raw diet for your dog.
Book Description
Are you ready to face life’s tests?
God tests a man. Into the flow of everyday life He sends “pop quizzes”–those unexpected trials that show us what we’re made of; that reveal the true quality of our faith and character; that show our willingness to obey Him.
Every Man’s Challenge, part of the best-selling Every Man series, will prepare you to obey. It does take guts to stand firm in facing what life throws our way. We need courage to acknowledge our own weaknesses and to change. We need understanding in handling moral dilemmas and family crises. Thankfully, God has given us the strength we need. By His power we can “participate in the divine nature” and triumph over our sins and the temptations and corruption of the world.
The forty “exams” in this book, comprised of Scripture, stories, and reflective questions, will give you the necessary tools to draw closer to God and win life’s battles. Used in your devotional times or for personal reflection or group study, you’ll find strength to overcome sexual temptation, learn how to love your wife better, and gain increasing confidence to live as Christ did.
In the defining moments of your life, you can obey God and pass the tests that challenge every man.
Customer Reviews:
Worth Reading.......2007-01-06
I enjoyed this book. It has thought provoking questions at the end of the chapters that will test your mettle. The real question isn't how far you are willing to go; it is how real you are willing to be. If you are willing to be brutally honest this book will definitely challenge you. This is especially true if you are married as I found several of the chapters geared towards married men. It is still an excellent read, even for a single guy.
Provocative and Challenging!!.......2005-10-06
Having had this book for some time now, I'd usually read a chapter a day, and other times, a few chapters. That's how it's set up, but the authors provide a great deal to think about, and if you read the whole book in one sitting or two, the reader might miss some important points.
As it is, Arterburn and company has delivered what I'd considered a potentially explosive encourager to a man's walk with Christ. With many chapters dealing with intimacy, marriage, our walk with Christ, and temptation in its many forms, the questions at the end of each chapter are designed to provoke more than thought. More like action!!
It's a fine book and highly recommended!!!
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- Book #2 in this trilogy
- Very much enjoy Lucy Monroe....
- Ending Too Fast
- A True Romantic Story
- I Felt So Loved By Nitro
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Lucy Monroe
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They're the good guys fighting the bad guys. They'll get the job done—if the price is right and so is the cause. Meet three sexy men who individually are READY, WILLING, and ABLE to go the distance—and together, are unstoppable…
Josie McCall has been raised to be a soldier, and she could be the best—if she wanted it. Instead, she left her dad's mercenary school behind for a normal job in computers. But now that someone has torched the school and her dad is MIA from the hospital, Josie's going to use every bit of her merc training to find him and hunt down the culprits who took him. Josie knows a lot about explosives, hand-to-hand combat, and tracking. What she doesn't know about is sex. She has no idea what to do with the volcanic attraction she feels for her dad's new partner, Daniel Black Eagle. And that feels more dangerous than any bomb…
Daniel knows exactly what he'd like to do about that attraction. The brooding explosives expert can't get within five feet of Josie without wanting to touch, taste, and protect her—even if he's sure she would happily drop-kick him if she knew one sizzling moment of his fantasies. But he'll save it for later. Right now, he's got his hands full figuring out who set that bomb and took Josie's dad. Daniel's sure of one thing, though—he's not letting Josie McCall out of his sight for a single second. Convincing the cutest, most desirable trained soldier he's ever met that she needs a bodyguard isn't going to be easy. But if she'll let him, he'll show her he's willing to do whatever it takes to keep her safe, and along the way, he'll make her feel every inch a woman…
Customer Reviews:
Book #2 in this trilogy.......2007-06-05
I liked this book! It was not as good as book #1 (Ready), but it was okay. It starts right off, moves along, not too complicated, has romance, mystery, action, relationship issues and steam. I had to laugh at some of the "communication issues" the couple had to deal with. LOL For folks intrusted on understanding communication for combat, they sure didn't know how to communicate, but they learned. If you like this type of book, you won't be dissappointed. I'm reading book #3 now...
Very much enjoy Lucy Monroe...........2007-05-21
and I really like this series! I find a pleasure in her books because they are a good, solid romance read. They are not too heavy and filled with just angst and tragedy, they are not just fluff and Prada shoes, they are JUST RIGHT with just enough of both. There will be a good relationship building up. There will be great anticipation building to great sex scenes. There is always a great link to friends and outside relationships that are believable and important. There is right and wrong, and a believable and good ending. Plus I just love the links to other books. Since I'm a serial reader and proud of it :) and have been a reading junky since I learned how at 7, I always enjoy a way to make a book last, and I just love an author who knows how to spin one book into another!
I have read many a romance in my teens, moved into meatier subjects in my college years as I majored in English and worked towards a never gained masters, then side-tracked into mystery and espionage through my 20s and 30s. Just lately in my 40s I have started back into romance, and I have to say that I have found Lucy Monroe's to be some of my favorites and one of the one's that I love to go back and re-read because they are a consistently GREAT read.
Some of the romance's that I have read lately (not Ms Monroe's) have left me feeling confused and wondering what the heck was going on in the relationship. Some have left me cold during the sex scenes. Some have made me put the book aside half way through because I didn't care enough to finish it. With kids in the house and lots of stuff to do, I don't have a lot of time to waste reading a book I don't enjoy, and believe me, if it isn't working for me, I'm not going to plow through just because I started it.
But I've NEVER had that problem with one of Lucy's books. Hers are a consistent hit with me! I just love her stuff and they take me away from the unrelenting aggravation a 3 year old boy bent on destruction can dish out on a daily basis, and that's a rare gift, let me tell you!
Help me escape, Lucy Monroe!!
Ending Too Fast.......2007-05-14
I liked this book. I think the key to reading this trilogy is to read them apart from one another. I read the first book about 2 or 3 months ago. Then I read this one. A lot of people are complaining about this book being a lot like the first book, Ready. Well they are, but you'll enjoy them more if you put some time between them. I'm not going to go into the plot because so many already have. I just felt that the characters could have been explored more fully. I agree with a previous poster that Josie fell into bed too fast and too easily. I wanted her to stand up to him more and be the way her character is explained in the beginning. I'm tired of weak female characters that need a man to "save" them. It's crap. I thought the ending wrapped up way too fast and way too easy. The first one of the series was better. Let's hope that the final book in the trilogy is better. I'll get to in a month or so. I would recommend it as a good middle book in the trilogy.
A True Romantic Story.......2007-05-01
The hero, Daniel Black Eagle, can be classified as a knight in shining armor. He definitely comes across as the brooding, strong quiet type in this book. I liked the story and admired the hero, Daniel and the heroine, Josie McCall. Josie McCall was raised in a restrictive man's world. Her father owned a school that trained mercenary and taught them how to be first-rate soldiers. And he trained his daughter, Josie, just the same. She was taught how to fight and handle weapons, but never taught how to be a woman. This is where Daniel Black Eagle enters and he's just the man to open up her feminine side. Daniel does not see Josie as a soldier, but a very desirable woman and he wants her. He is very much willing to become her tutor in passion and so much more.
The story line is easy to follow and really entertaining. There's some suspense thrown in when the mercenary business is blown up and Josie's father is missing. Daniel is determined to find the culprits behind the explosion and be there for Josie to help find her father.
I gave it 4 out of 5 stars, because I did not quite believe the part about Josie McCall being a fierce soldier. She was a little too innocent for someone who was raised to be a strong capable soldier around a bunch of mercenary men. But I did like the story and thought it was beautifully told. The main characters were smart and passionate and the hero was strong, and very tender in how he related to Josie. Even though she could protect herself, he very much wanted to be her protector. It was a true love story.
I Felt So Loved By Nitro.......2007-02-21
I was so moved by his single-minded passion for one woman only. He was so loving and giving to her and possessive as well. It left me with a wonderful feeling and I continue to think about Nitro even after reading other books. The plot was a little too simple for me, but the feelings to and from Nitro made up for it. I enjoyed all three books in the trilogy, (Ready, Willing, And Able) but the third book a little less than the first two.
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In a work that is as authoritative as it is explosive, Goldhagen forces us to revisit and reconsider our understanding of the Holocaust and its perpetrators, demanding a fundamental revision in our thinking of the years between 1933-1945. Drawing principally on materials either unexplored or neglected by previous scholars, Goldhagen marshals new, disquieting primary evidence that explains why, when Hitler conceived of the "final solution" he was able to enlist vast numbers of willing Germans to carry it out. A book sure to provoke new discussion and intense debate.
Book Description
This groundbreaking international bestseller lays to rest many myths about the Holocaust: that Germans were ignorant of the mass destruction of Jews, that the killers were all SS men, and that those who slaughtered Jews did so reluctantly.
Hitler's Willing Executioners provides conclusive evidence that the extermination of European Jewry engaged the energies and enthusiasm of tens of thousands of ordinary Germans. Goldhagen reconstructs the climate of "eliminationist anti-Semitism" that made Hitler's pursuit of his genocidal goals possible and the radical persecution of the Jews during the 1930s popular. Drawing on a wealth of unused archival materials, principally the testimony of the killers themselves, Goldhagen takes us into the killing fields where Germans voluntarily hunted Jews like animals, tortured them wantonly, and then posed cheerfully for snapshots with their victims. From mobile killing units, to the camps, to the death marches, Goldhagen shows how ordinary Germans, nurtured in a society where Jews were seen as unalterable evil and dangerous, willingly followed their beliefs to their logical conclusion.
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Hitler's Willing Executioner's is an original, indeed brilliant contribution to the...literature on the Holocaust."--New York Review of Books
"The most important book ever published about the Holocaust...Eloquently written, meticulously documented, impassioned...A model of moral and scholarly integrity."--Philadelphia Inquirer
Customer Reviews:
the Hobo Philosopher.......2007-10-01
Wow! I am rather surprised at all these negative reviews here. I seem to be in the minority in valuing this book as a rather obvious extrapolation of what was the actual case. I felt that the author went out of his way to over document this book so that what he had to say could not be denied.
There may in fact be some references that are off somewhat in one small aspect or another, I wouldn't really know but there is much too much to be ignored or dismissed here.
What the author establishes is also more than consistent with the German historical record - there "distaste" for the Jews goes way, way back.
I found nothing in this book shocking or exaggerated based on my previous readings.
If these outraged reviewers here are trying to promote the notion that the German people were "unaware" of what was happening to the Jews in Germany, they are being more than ridiculous.
Don't waste your time - Disgraceful.......2007-09-26
As an avid reader of WW2 history I found this book to be biased, flawed and almost unreadable. I am no racist or Holocaust denier, and what the Nazis did to the Jews, Slavs and other minority groups was absolutely terrible. However, if one wishes to read well researched historical facts about the people who were responsible then don't bother with "Hitler's Willing Executioners". If the publisher had any sense of reality or fact they would have laughed Goldhagen out of their office. I could go on, but it really isn't worth my time - don't waste yours on this book.
One of the worst scholarly books ever written.......2007-05-15
I don't even have to give you my opinion. Goldhagen shows what a biased, vengeful and spiteful person he is with his flawed research and undocumented claims. This book is the reason why you should start checking the footnotes if you didn't before. You cannot take people's research for granted. Example: p. 166 footnote #13. Read that one in the back. He didn't have time to actually calculate how many people were actually perpetrators, he simply believes the number was gigantic! He says that word for word! HA! There are DOZENS of "facts" like this. Other whoppers: p. 339. Goldhagen here actually creates his own German fantasy about how Germans made love next to concentration camps and how disgusting that is, yet it is completely without proof and later turns out to be his own fictional description that he hopes will convince you of how terrible Germans are. I am not even German and I was offended.
Not the best.......2007-05-14
Buy "Ordinary Men: The Story of Police Battalion 101 and the Holocaust" first. That is a much better book - more readable, less cluttered, and overall just a better book.
But if you already have read "Police Battalion 101," or are just interested in this subject, then buy this book. While it is not the best, it is good. In other words, it is not a good stand-alone book, but in conjunction with other research, it is OK.
CONFIRMING THAT WE DON'T ALL "WANT THE SAME THING".......2007-03-06
This book certainly could have used a good editor to make it more readable and to make its thesis clearer amidst a sea of often repetitive and barely comprehensible academic verbiage. Nevertheless, its premise is a compelling one that deserves to be aired in this era of feel-good multiculturalism in which many people (in the U.S. anyway) assume that--a la the innocence of an Anne Frank--people all over are basically good, want the same thing, have the same values, etc. September 11 finally threw some cold water in the face of some one-worlders to understanding how much hatred there is, on totally irrational religious and political grounds, of one people toward another...and indeed Goldhagen's premise could probably be applied to other countries and cultures of today as much as he applied it to the Germans (and he could have applied it, too, to Poles and Austrians and, later, Russians as well!)
Book Description
Do you dare let Jesus take control of your life?
Predictability. Control. Safety. Comfort.
Jesus challenges God’s man to throw all those words out the window. Because, when it comes to your faith, all the energy spent eliminating risk from your life actually becomes a barrier to progress in your spiritual journey.
Jesus said, “If you try to keep your life for yourself you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake…you will find true life” (Mark 8:35). There really is no such thing as the “safe life” when you are committed to Christ–when you seek to become God’s man. Instead, Jesus personally challenges you to bet your life totally on him.
Risk is for men who are ready to go to the next level in their faith–and ready to say goodbye to playing it safe when it comes to radically trusting their Savior.
Look for the Risk Workbook–
a hands-on guide for personal or group study!
Customer Reviews:
Another step closer.......2007-09-04
This manuscript fell so much in line with some of my recent reviews.
How to gain a deeper appreciation of GOD in our daily walk, seeing GOD's direction in our decisions after we pray for "something" and RE-constructing a few sidesteps in the way we approach lifes valleys were just a few of Luck's objectives in this book.
Luck laid out an aggressive yet, thought provoking groundwork for us to follow as CHRISTian men each day.
Many of his instructions add enough weight to our conscience after we put the book down, to DRIVE us to pick it back up & go over it AGAIN the next day.
"RISK" should greatly inspire the reader; it certainly inspired me.
Answers to life's difficult dilemmas.......2006-07-10
A men's pastor at Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, and founder of Every Man Ministries, author Kenny Luck finds potent stories of men who have faced down their fears, defeated their foes, and risen to the challenge in myriad circumstances. Men will love this book, simply because Luck writes with a pulse on what matters to men most and shows them how to achieve their hearts' desires. Written at times in an offhandedly disarming way, Luck will draw in men from a diverse readership as he tells intriguing and beguiling stories of real men who've made mistakes, taken a beating, and then emerged stronger for the struggle.
As his title infers, life is a risk. So whether a man wants to engage or not in the hardships found at the workplace, in the home, or within his own heart, he will be forced to make a decision. Life doesn't allow anyone an "opt out" clause. Luck challenges men of faith to pour all they have (and want for the future) into Christ's strong, faithful and able hands. By not making choices that honor God on a moment-by-moment basis, Luck tells readers that they are choosing --- and their decisions are making an eternal impact for either good or evil. With their absence or presence, men ultimately decide what type of impact their individual lives will have on their spheres of influence --- no lightweight matter here.
According to Luck's definition of "risk," becoming a masculine, courageous man of God involves four key components. Foundationally, men must have an accurate picture of who God is: "...when our concept of Him is diminished, so is courage for Him." Next, men need to find their identity in Christ, as a son of God; only then are they willing to step out of comfort zones and be different, becoming the unique person God can use. Third, faithful men will sacrifice for Christ on the deepest personal and professional levels, understanding the privilege of this cost. Finally, Luck says that God's men will begin visionary kingdom-building for God, not themselves.
Each chapter discusses a similarly vital element of creating a life that God uses effectively. Luck opens every section with poignant stories followed by biblical entreaties to obey and honor God's commands. Some of the hot topics Luck forges through with admirable skill and enthusiasm are: becoming vulnerable enough to expose personal (private) Achilles' heels, developing a loyalty that is tenacious and persevering, using strength and energy for pursuing God with passion, and allowing God to recast a fresh vision for the future that includes professional and personal goals.
Young men and old, those new to the faith as well as seasoned followers, will find substantive resource and wise counsel. Luck's transparency and his willingness to treat subjects with a bold candor will be especially appealing to men who are seeking real answers to life's difficult dilemmas.
--- Reviewed by Michele Howe
Book Description
"I, without earning a penny, have to be the provider!" Thus Umm Ali sums up the nearly impossible challenge of her daily existence. Living in a poor neighborhood of Cairo, she has raised eight children with almost no help from her husband or the Egyptian government and through hardships from domestic violence to constant quarrels over material possessions.
Umm Ali's story is amazing not only for what it reveals about her resourcefulness but for the light it sheds on the resilience of Cairo's poor in the face of disastrous poverty. Like countless other poor people in Cairo, she has developed a personal buoyancy to cope with relentless economic need. It stems from a belief in the ability of people to shape their own destiny and helps explain why Cairo remains virtually free of the social ills—violent street crime and homelessness—that have eroded the lives of poor people in other major cities.
Unni Wikan first met Umm Ali and her family twenty-five years ago and has returned almost every year. She draws on her firsthand experience of their lives to create an intimate portrait of Cairo's back streets and the people who live there. Wikan's innovative approach to ethnographic writing reads like a novel that presents the experiences of Umm Ali's family and neighbors in their own words.
As Umm Ali recounts triumphs and defeats—from forming a savings club with neighbors to the gradual drifting away and eventual return of her husband—she unveils a deeply reflective attitude and her unwavering belief that she can improve her situation. Showing how Egyptian culture interprets poverty and family, this book attests to the capacity of an individual's self-worth to withstand incredible adversity.
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- Willing To Believe R.C. Sproul?
- Unbelievable
- Disappointing!
- Caveat emptor!
- THis is a great look at the Free Will controversy from the Historical perspective
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Willing to Believe: The Controversy over Free Will
R. C. Sproul
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What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall. In Willing to Believe, Sproul traces the free-will controversy from its formal beginning in the fifth century, with the writings of Augustine and Pelagius, to the present. Readers will gain understanding into the nuances separating the views of Protestants and Catholics, Calvinists and Arminians, and Reformed and Dispensationalists. This book, like Sproul's Faith Alone, is a major work on an essential evangelical tenet.
Customer Reviews:
Willing To Believe R.C. Sproul?.......2006-07-12
As an historical sketch of the age old theological debate, this was an exciting read for me when I began studying this subject. I have since earned an M.A. in Theological Studies and decided to read it again to see what I've learned. One thing is that, the controversy is not as important as it used to be. Second, I appreciate that Sproul provides prime source texts (from the historical figures themselves). There are so many actual quotes, and not only a couple lines spattered here or there but entire paragraphs from Turretin, Calvin, Luther, Finney, etc., it can almost be titled a reader. Thirdly, I appreciate the logic of Sproul's position and his professionalism. Calvinism is a very formative and logical system. It is utterly cohesive. Nietzsche understood this to be the same as he said (literally) that Christianity is a system, a whole of things; and when you pull a main concept out of it, nothing necessary remains. You will appreciate some of that when you read through Willing to Believe.
This book is still good after so many years and one thing that I see that I enjoy now more than before is that you don't have to dig through to Turretin or Luther or Pelagius to get a good sense of what they believed concerning this subject.
Unbelievable.......2006-06-20
Unbelievable:
This book was hard to stomach. I'm use to reading Protestant apologetic nonsense from those who don't claim to be theologians, but Willing to Believe is marketed as "a major work" by a guy who purports to be a "professional theologian," and yet the book is so filled with fiction that you really need to be ignorant of Christian theology to take it seriously. Someone gave Dr. Sproul a Ph.D; one would think he would at least attempt to be professional. Trying to align St. Augustine with Luther and Calvin, Dr. Sproul not only seriously distorts the teachings of the saint, but also the teachings of the Reformers. Anyone who has actually read St. Augustine, Luther, and Calvin knows that the Reformers were as far from St. Augustine as were Pelagius and Nestorius. Sadly, Dr. Sproul, Luther, and Calvin all seem to have missed St. Augustine's words in the Enchiridion; "Whosoever, therefore, says that to be a man is evil (the Reformed doctrine of man's total depravity), or that to be wicked is good (the Reformed doctrine that after justification man remains evil, as well as the Reformed doctrine of predestination to Hell prior to foreseen demerits), comes under that prophetic condemnation: Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil. For such a man finds fault with the works of God, that is, with man, and he praises the defect of man which is iniquity. Every being therefore, even though it be imperfect, is good so far as it is a being; so far as it is defective, it is evil" (Enchiridion 4.13). As regards St. Augustine's stance on the ability of man to cooperate with justifying grace, Dr. Sproul insists he denied it absolutely. Apparently he never read St. Augustine's sermon 11; "He who created you without your cooperation does not justify you without your cooperation. He who created you without you knowing, will not justify you without you knowing" (Sermon 11.13). As Dr. Sproul rightly points out, God creates the free act of the good within us. But our will is not passive as he insists. Such a view necessarily implies double predestination and the doctrine that God creates men for the sole purpose of evil, with Hell as their end - thus making God the author of evil. Dr. Sproul tries valiantly to wriggle out of this, but he cannot escape logic without lying. That is why he is forced into distorting the teachings of not only the Reformers, but of St. Augustine and the Catholic Church which has always insisted that God creates the free act of good within man, but in such a way that man's free will is not violated. Even man's ability and willingness to cooperate with God's grace is caused by God. Furthermore, even though God moves man to freely choose the good, he moves man to choose the good infallibly because due to his omniscience God is able to present to man the very grace God knows the man will not resist, even though the ability to do so remains within him. Dr. Sproul refuses to acknowledge that what the Council of Orange condemned in semi-Pelagianism was not man's ability to cooperate with God's grace, but man's ability to make a first movement toward God without God's special grace. When Dr. Sproul teaches that man is unable to cooperate with God in his justification, he makes God the author of evil and is teaching heresy, pure and simple. Anyone reading this book to get a better idea of the Christian doctrine of free-will and justification should beware that Dr. Sproul is not presenting anywhere near a true picture of the history.
Finally, Dr. Sproul presents the arguments of various Protestant theologians through the last four centuries attempting to show whether they conform to the doctrine of the Reformers. The depth of confusion and disagreement among Protestantism renews in me a thankful praise for the guidance of the Holy Spirit offered to the Catholic Church "until the end of the age."
Disappointing!.......2006-05-30
This book was a great disappointment to me. It falls so short of scholarly heights that it might as well have been written by a graduate student. Instead of setting forward a strong interpretation of ideas and of documents, Sproul merely lists theological views, mixing them with long quotations from very antiquated sources (i.e., page after page from Schaff Herzog Encyclopedia!!!). His work is not up to date, insofar as he does not refer to any contemporary work on the subject; it lacks a critical approach (to him anything that does not reflect Reformed theology is either bad or inadequate); and finally, it fails to reach a conclusion and to break any new ground whatsoever. In other words this book was a waste of my time. Having written a book on the subject myself, I seriously question his grasp of the Semi-pelagian controversy (in my view it was not about monergism or synergism in the work of regeneration, but about the chronological and hierarchical priority of grace over free will and about predestination). The following are the views discussed in his book:
-We are capable of obedience (Pelagius). No mention of Augustine's works; no reference to an up to date bibliography on Pelagius either.
-We are incapable of obedience (Augustine). No serious review of Augustine's main works on the topic of grace and free will.
-We are capable of cooperating (semi-Pelagianism). Cassian was not the abbot of Massilia (p.70); semi-Pelagians' main contention was NOT synergism (p.73). Trent and the recent Catechism of the Catholic Church follow semi-pelagianism because they talk about our cooperari. What book "on grace and freedom" did Prosper write in 432? What is Sproul talking about?
-We are in bondage to sin (Luther)
-We are voluntary slaves (Calvin)
-We are free to believe (Arminius)
-We are inclined to sin (Edwards)
-We are not depraved by nature (Charles Finney)
-We are able to believe (Lewis Chafer)
Caveat emptor!.......2006-01-05
Sproul appears to be using this book as a stalking horse to discredit "dispensationalists", but he makes this attempt not by arguing from Scripture, but by summarizing various authors to make some of them appear to be heretical. Anyone who can call Chafer an Arminian is breathtaking in their wrongheadnedness. In one case Sproul favorably summarizes some of Augustine's views as "The grace of God operates on the heart in such a way as to make the formerly unwilling sinner willing. The redeemed person chooses Christ because he wants to choose Christ". However, Sproul disapproves of Chafer who says something very similar, "An efficacious call to salvation, then, is a call which none ever finally resists (cf. Rom 8:30)....The divine invitation still is true that 'whosoever will may come.' However, it also is true that none will ever come apart from this divine call, and that the call is extended only to His elect." If you boil away all of the misleading summarization, Sproul's argument seems to boil down to, "which came first, faith or regeneration?". Sproul states that both happen at the same instant in time, but he is passionate that "logically" regeneration has to come before faith. That seems to be his main problem here. He attacks Dispensationalism, through Chafer, as if it were a statement on Soteriology, although this is not the prime concern of Dispensationalism. Dispensational thinkers do have a soteriological point of view, as should all theologians, but it is wrong to attack Dispensationalism for what it does not stand for, rather than attack it for what it does stand for. I suspect the real heart of Sproul's issue is that Dispensationalists see a distinction between Israel and the Church, believe in a pre-Tribulation rapture, and a real millennial kingdom, while most (all?) Reform theologians take a Covenant view. Dispensationalists will argue that if one takes a rigorous "literal" interpretation of Scripture then they will end up with a dispensational view of certain matters. Covenant theologians, (and most of the "reformed" theologians), do not take a "literal" view of Scripture when it comes to prophecy, and do combine Israel and the Church in their thinking. They read certain passages allegorically, and certain passages literally. Sproul's approach in this book belies his tendency to allegorize and spiritualize important passages because he largely makes his argument without reference to supporting Scripture. Chafer would not be caught dead doing such a thing. Further, Sproul in holding up Augustine, Luther, Calvin, et al, as the standards by which theologians should be judged is also deviating from a Biblical perspective. Wasn't it Luther who said "Sola Scriptura"? Didn't Calvin argue for the Bible as the final authority on all theological matters? To hold these men up as the standards for theological correctness violates what they themselves taught. Further, if you examine their writings it is not hard to find theological problems of their own. For example, both Luther and Calvin taught infant baptism. Does Sproul agree with this? It is noteworthy that in defending his view on infant baptism Calvin does not argue from Scripture per se, but argues by analogy, which Sproul does in his book. Let's get back to basics and determine our theology from Scripture, and not what somebody else said. The test is not whether we agree with this or that person, but whether what we say is in agreement with the Bible.
THis is a great look at the Free Will controversy from the Historical perspective.......2005-10-22
This is a great book looking at the debate between Calvinism and Arminianism. It takes you back when this controversy started in the 5th Century. It goes through all the major players in this controversy like Augustine, Luther, Calvin, Edwards, Finney, and Lewis Sperry Chafer ( Founder of Dallas Theogical Seminary). This book is great and Luther and Edwards do a greatjob in defending what is known today as Calvinism. If you want to know how this started and how this effects the church today. Read this book.
great job R.C. Sproul
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Customer Reviews:
good storytelling, creative artwork.......2000-10-24
This book gives a clear, rhyming explanation of the history of quilting in America and how it has changed. The artwork is a fun combination of real quilt photos and hand-drawn images. I bought this for *my mom* to read to her grandkids, in the hopes that it will open doors for her to talk about our own family's quilting history. Quilting was an important part of the history of American women and I'm delighted that this book keeps that history alive for kids today.
best quilting book ever.......2000-10-13
This is the best quilting book I have ever read. It explains how quilts are made so that kids and adults can actually understand it. There are pictures of real quilts inside, and I have seen some patterns that I can't wait to try. My kids love it too. This book was not only fun to read, but I actually learned helpfull stuff too. IT is a must read!
great way to share love of quilts........2000-09-17
I enjoyed sharing this book with several classes of Kdg - 3rd grade students. They sat still to listen to it, with breaks to look at my quilt examples. It's a good way to compare the old methods of quilting with the new. A nice cadence to the words. wonderful photos of real quilts mixed in with drawings. Many common quilt desings are named. My girls and I enjoy this book.
Great gift for kids and adults!.......1999-01-02
I am an avid quiltmaker, especially of children's quilts and doll quilts. This gem of a book is a great gift to accompany a quilt you make for anyone, especially kids. It is a great way to explain and share your passion for quilts and quiltmaking. The text is in rhyme and quite charming in and of itself -- but more important, the authors show-and-tell the history of quilting with very accruate facts and details. It tells the story of how quilts warm not only the body but also our souls! And if you a quiltmaker, watch out: the last line of the book will really get you....
Customer Reviews:
Disappointed.......2007-08-22
Next time, I will take the time to read the reviews. If you were standing there with Tom as he was talking, it might of made sense. But I wasn't so therefore it was vague and frustrating. I have a hunger for Natural ways versus old school and like to pass my books to others with the same heart. I can't even pass the book to someone else. Maybe it was Milly's first book?
5 STARS FOR CONTENT, MINUS 2 FOR EDITING=3 STARS.......2007-08-11
Let's agree, first off, on one important thing: riding horses is not the same as riding motorcycles or four-wheelers. Many of the people I know who ride expect to get on a horse--any horse--and control it as they would a machine. Every horse the same. Every signal with the reins nothing more than steering with handle bars. Right?
Wrong! The essence of Dorrance's book, TRUE UNITY, is really quite simple: horses are individuals, complete with personalities as varied as their human counterparts and realizing this fact is the beginning of finding the unity that Dorrance espouses.
TRUE UNITY, like the process of achieving it with a horse, is not easy. It's easily one of the most complex books I have ever read. I found that I had to read and reread sections several times in order to get the gist of Dorrance's lessons. I had to act as if Dorrance was in the room with me, explaining his experiences and I had to listen as carefully as I could and "feel" his ideas. In the end, I found that the content was exceptional and the fact remains that dealing with horses is an exercise in shared feelings between two individuals--the rider and the horse.
Some have noted that this book doesn't follow enough of a lock-step process to handling horses. What they seem to have wanted was an owners manual for horses. Step 1: Find a horse. Step 2: Climb aboard. Step 3: Ride and ride and ride. Step 4: Put horse away. Again, Dorrance makes it clear that this book was never meant to be a set of steps to take with guaranteed results. Those who feel otherwise should stick to machines.
I have to take exception, though, with the editing. The job of an editor, being one myself, is to help communicate the meaning of the writer as concisely and as clearly as possible. Given this fact, Milly Hunt Porter, the editor here falls flat on her face and the readability problems with this book, such as they are, arise, in my opinion, from Ms. Porter's ineptitude as a communicator. It becomes readily apparent that Ms. Porter was nothing more in the process than a glorified secretary, taking down, verbatim, Dorrance's sometimes rambling reminiscences about handling horses. It's apparent that she didn't take time, as she should have, to ask clarifying questions and then communicate her findings to the reader. As my title indicates, I don't blame Dorrance; I blame Porter.
Handle this one with care. If your expecting a well-written, flowing, easy read you will be sorely disappointed.
For me, now that Tom Dorrance is gone, I wanted, whether clear or not, to read his thoughts about getting into the heads of horses and, in the end, the read was well worth it.
THE HORSEMAN
True Unity hard to read but worth it.......2007-06-01
I liked this book because Dorrance tries to explain how a horse thinks. This is not an easy task and he gives lots of examples of this. Horses think in pictures. It all comes down to that. If we can see them doing what we want consistently, then it can happen. It's all about understanding the horse. Not an easy book to read but worth taking the time to try and understand what a true horseman is telling us.
Not a Step-By-Step Book.......2006-08-09
This is not a how-to book and Tom Dorrance said up front that it was not. This is the next step in the journey and I can see how it would be a disappointment for those that are looking for the equine version of mapquest to get where Tom's going to go.
He does repeat himself several times, but based on several of the reviews for apparently obvious reasons. The senses are unique to each person based on their backgrounds and their beliefs. The feel between myself and my horse and how we get there is not going to be the same journey as my friend and her horse.
This book was designed for the person who is ready to take their equine relationship to the next level.
Communicating with Horses.......2006-07-13
Excellent book,has implications to human life as well as to horses. A very practical guide on relationships.
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Book Description
WRITER AND EDUCATOR Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the unexpected. This collection can be read as a memoir of unfolding curiosity, for it brings together essays and occasional pieces, many of them previously unpublished or unknown to readers who know the author only from her books, written in the course of an unconventional career.
Bateson’s professional life was interrupted repeatedly. She responded by refocusing her curiosity — by being willing to learn. The connections and echoes between the entries in her book are as intriguing as the contrasts in style and subject matter. The work is grounded in cultural anthropology but shaped by the observation that, in a world of rapid change and encounters with strangers, individuals can no longer depend on following traditionally defined paths.
Willing to Learn is arranged thematically. One section includes a sampling of writings about Bateson’s parents, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. The longest section focuses primarily on the contemporary United States and deals with life stages and gender. Bateson argues that because women’s lives have changed most radically, women are pioneers of emerging patterns that will affect everyone. Another section deals with belief systems, conflict, and change, especially in the Middle East, and the final section with different ways of knowing. Bateson is a singular thinker whose work enriches lives by bringing fresh, original ideas to subjects that affect all of our lives. Willing to Learn is at once an articulation of and an enduring testament to the artistic creation Bateson has produced pursuing her own life’s work.
Customer Reviews:
What a treat..........2005-03-15
What a treat to find this hardbound collection of the work of Mary Catherine Bateson. Her prose is eloquent. Her ideas are rich and diverse. Her thinking is open, creative and, at the same time, intensely logical. There are selections from some of her best read books, but she also presents some of her hard-to-find material which merits inclusion. Her very interesting life provides the backdrop, but it's how she processes and weaves her observations and experiences into her work that makes these pieces so very illuminating to me. A must for collectors of the writing of the best thinkers of our time.
Books:
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
- The Gregg Reference Manual
- The House of Dies Drear
- The Hundred Languages of Children: The Reggio Emilia Approach Advanced Reflections, Second Edition
- The Hunt: A Novel
- The Key to The Name of the Rose: Including Translations of All Non-English Passages (Ann Arbor Paperbacks)
- The Last Gentleman: A Novel
- The Maiden King: The Reunion of Masculine and Feminine
- The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits: Murder Mysteries from the Age of Bright Young Things
- The Master Cleanser
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