Bøger af Eric Sandberg

Have you been called to ministry? Have you served the Church long enough to wonder at times what God could have been thinking when He called you in the first place? Are there days when you think you must have heard Him wrong? Do the costs and demands of ministry leave you exhausted and empty? Perhaps you are training for a job as a pastor, a Christian counselor, a Bible teacher, or some other leadership role in the Church. You need to know something going in: ministry is a minefield. Fifteen hundred pastors burn out, drop out, or fall out of ministry every month. No doubt, you've already taken into account that you will be overworked and underpaid. Often you will be over-scrutinized and under-appreciated. Then there are the lethal hazards you will face. Chronic fatigue is just one of them. There's also relationship erosion, spiritual anemia, toxic expectations, and moral compromise.There is so much more to this life than fulfilling a job description, even a ministry job description. God did not call you to a profession. He calls you every day to dive the depths of His all-consuming, transforming, re-creating love. God does not need your ministry; He can raise up pastors and counselors and teachers from stones. What He is calling you to is deeper than any career: Consummate oneness with Him. Are you, like the Disciples, prepared to leave all and follow? Could you give up your vision for ministry, or a Church career if it meant truly knowing the One who loves you, and drawing ever closer to Him? It is possible, of course, to navigate the minefield and remain healthy and balanced in ministry. Deep Calling explains in a practical, no-punches-pulled manner how to establish intimacy, authenticity, and true community in ministry, and how to root your identity deeply and securely in the person and purposes of Jesus Christ. Then, come what may - success or failure in ministry, fulfillment or discontentment, peace or persecution, whether your career soars or crashes and burns - who you are and what you know to be true about yourself will not change.If your ministry leaves little or no sand in the glass for intimacy, authenticity, and community, then it's possible that being good at your Church job has replaced your Deep Calling.It's not the same thing, you know.

While focusing on her mystery fiction, this companion offers a full view of all aspects of Dorothy L. Sayers' career. Its more than 200 entries examine her major works, characters, and themes. They discuss key areas of interest and controversy and link her work to trends in literary history and contemporary literary scholarship.

Virginia Woolf has for many years been seen as a key participant in British literary modernism. Following a period of relative critical neglect following her tragic death in 1941, her body of work has earned her recognition as a groundbreaking feminist thinker, a perceptive literary critic, a formidably creative diarist and correspondent, and as one of the twentieth century s leading essayists. Most notably, her experimental fiction, from her first novel The Voyage Out to the posthumously published Between the Acts, has grown in both popularity and critical renown. All of her work remains in print, and novels such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Jacob s Room are regularly read and discussed both inside and outside the academy. Few modernist writers indeed, few writers of any period have had such a pronounced and lasting impact on literary culture. There has been, and continues to be, an enormous amount of critical and scholarly work done on almost all aspects of Woolf s writing and life. Monographs, journal articles, and collections of essays dedicated to Woolf s writing appear every year alongside scholarly and popular biographies, and there is an annual international conference dedicated solely to her work. Yet amidst this veritable inundation of exegetical energy, this tremendous and ever-growing body of scholarly work on Woolf, there is one curious omission. While Woolf was both in theory and practice fascinated by questions of character and characterization, scholarship has not generally been directed towards this field. This may be due to both general theoretical discomfort with the critical category of character, and to a sense that Woolf s work in particular may not respond well to such interpretations. However, Woolf was very much an experimenter in character, and readings that minimize or ignore this interest miss an important facet of her work. This book offers the first full-length reading of Virginia Woolf s career-long experimentation in character. It examines her early journalism, from her short reviews of contemporary literature to more substantial essays on Gissing and Dostoyevsky, for indications of her engagement with questions of characterization, and links this interest to her later fictional writings. In The Voyage Out she establishes a continuum of levels of characterization, a key element of which is the Theophrastan type, an alternative form of characterization that corresponds to a way of knowing real people, while in Jacob s Room she seeks to represent an elusive essence that may exist outside of the structuring forms of social life, and which is accessible through speculative identification. Mrs Dalloway explores the shaping of character through social pressure, and To the Lighthouse proposes a simplified version of character as an ethically acceptable way of relating to other people. A similar notion is picked up in The Waves, in which a limited character, or form of caricature, is proposed as a possible solution to the problems of characterization. In Between the Acts, many of these themes reappear as Woolf simultaneously situates her characters more firmly than ever in a comprehensible physical and social context, and explores areas where language and rationality fail. Virginia Woolf: Experiments in Character is an important book for Woolf studies in particular, modernism studies more generally, and literature collections.