Jonathan Black
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From the very beginning, the Lord's Supper has stood at the heart of Christian worship. But over the years we've turned it into a monthly ritual squeezed in between "real" worship. If Jesus lives in us, and the Holy Spirit is poured out on us, why do we need to eat bread and drink wine? Does it really matter?
It does matter-and it's life-changing, says leading Pentecostal theologian Jonathan Black. With warmth and depth, he explores not only the...
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After a divorce and an early retirement from newspaper reporting, Hank Fowler's life is back on track he has a girlfriend, steady freelance work, a teaching job that is, until he gets a call from his old pal Chris Beckwith. Beckwith, his college roommate and a former drug-addict turned motivational speaker, is found dead not too long after. Following up on Chris's sudden death, Hank begins to unravel a series of gruesome murders, all involving motivational...
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This book explores the metaphors used in public and media communication to ask how language shapes our moral reasoning about the global coronavirus crisis. The author offers insights into the metaphors, metonyms, allegories and symbols of the global crisis and examines how they have contributed to policy formation and communication. Combining metaphor theory with moral foundations theory, he places metaphors in their historical contexts, and then...
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How were social media posts, scripted speeches, traditional news media and political cartoons used and understood during the Brexit campaign? What phrases and metaphors were key during and after the 2016 Brexit referendum? How far did the Remain and Leave campaigns rely on metaphor to engage with supporters in communicating their political positions? These questions, and many others, can be answered only through a systematic analysis of the actual...