Bøger af Wayne Hudson

A Word From Pop is a book written to children ages five through fifty-five with complete instructions on how to live life. Written from a Christian perspective, various scriptures from the Holy Bible are used to validate what is being taught. It is written in a folksy, easy-to-read style that resonates with readers of all ages. Each chapter is a topic that has proven to be a mine field for children and adults alike. These include: Friends, Romance, Career, Character, Emotions, Ministry, Happiness, Patriotism, Your Value, Perspective, Communication, Wisdom, Compassion, Toys, Recreation, Travel, Loneliness, Mercy, Faith, Ministry, Past, Action, Negativity, and Love. This is a book that should remain on shelves as a reference throughout the life of every reader

The Fiddle / A fictional look at a factual place: HEAVEN Christian author and speaker, Wayne Hudson has successfully crafted a two-dimensional story that will surely become a classic! Every individual who will ever live has an ultimate appointment with eternity. Concerning this, Hudson writes: "Eternity is a gigantic exclamation point placed at the end of every life. Once there, the die has been cast; the choice has been made." The Fiddle tells the story of Caleb Thomas, a 78-year-old devout Christian, hospitalized with pneumonia and longing for heaven. But there is one other mission that he feels compelled to accomplish. He must see his prodigal son one last time and deliver a message of hope. It is the same that his own grandfather shared with him on the night of his death 52 years earlier. This incredible story is based upon many events from the life of the author and his family. It tells a story of a shared love between a grandfather and grandson that would endure throughout eternity. The Fiddle also unveils the ever-present battles that are being constantly waged between God's angelic army and Satan's demons. Meanwhile, most of humanity is oblivious, attempting to explain both their adversities and blessings as coincidences. This book is peppered with biblical footnotes that validate much of what has been written. The truth of the Word of God is credited as the final authority and ultimate guide for our short journey through this life. The Fiddle is a book that you will always remember and one that you will want to share with those whom you love. It is also a wonderful source of hope for those who may have given up on life. Enjoy your own brief look behind the veil and into the splendors of Paradise! This book will change how you look at this life as well as the one to come.

Deploying a distinctive disaggregative approach to the study of 'religion', this volume shows that spiritual movements with extensive counterfactual beliefs have been much more creative than one might expect. Specifically, Wayne Hudson explores the creativity of six spiritual movements: the Bahá'ís, a Persian movement; Soka Gakkai, a Japanese movement; Ananda Marga and the Brahma Kumaris, two reformed Hindu movements; and two controversial American churches, The Church Universal and Triumphant and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Most of these movements have counterintuitive features that have led Western scholars making Enlightenment assumptions to dismiss them as irrational and/or inconsequential. However, this book reveals that these movements have responded to modernity in ways that are creative and practical, resulting in a wide range of social, educational and cultural initiatives. Building on research surrounding the ways in which spiritual movements engage in cultural productions, this book takes the international research in a new direction by exploring the utopian intentionality such cultural productions reveal.

The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.

Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.

A collection of essays, which suggest that concepts from Western political theory are compatible with a liberal interpretation of Islamic universals and that such universals can form the basis for a contemporary approach to the protection of human rights and the articulation of a modern Islamic civil society.

This volume is the outcome of a symposium on Asian civil society and a conference on justice and governance held at Griffith University during 2001. The contributors offer new perspectives on the nature and definition of Asian civil society.