Matera: 14 books
Preaching Romans
Proclaiming God's Saving Grace
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
Although Paul's letter to the Romans is the most theologically charged writing of the New Testament, it is rarely preached from Catholic pulpits. Perhaps some of the Pauline themes? Redemption and sanctification, justification and reconciliation, resurrection and parousia? seem too daunting for homiletic...
Resurrection
The Origin and Goal of the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
At the heart of the Christian message stands the proclamation of the resurrection: the good news that God raised Jesus from the dead. In Resurrection: The Origin and Goal of the Christian Life, Frank Matera explains why the resurrection was so important to the early church and why it remains important...
Gods Saving Grace
A Pauline Theology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Distinguished biblical scholar Frank Matera here views the theology of the Pauline letters through the lens of the saving grace that Paul experienced at his call and conversion. Focusing on Christology, soteriology, theology, anthropology, ecclesiology, ethics, and eschatology, Matera explores both...
Explore Like a PIRATE
Engage, Enrich, and Elevate Your Learners with Gamification and Game-inspired Course Design
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2015
Are you ready to transform your classroom into an experiential world that flourishes on collaboration and creativity? Then set sail with classroom game designer and educator Michael Matera as he reveals the possibilities and power of game-based learning. In eXPlore Like a Pirate, Matera serves as...
The Sermon on the Mount
The Perfect Measure of the Christian Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Saint Augustine once described the Sermon on the Mount as "the perfect measure of the Christian life." Taking his cue from Augustine, Frank Matera provides an exposition of the sermon for contemporary readers who wish to use the sermon as the standard by which they live their lives every...
by Dary Matera
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2010
The history, the hunts, the captures -- and the criminals still at large
In 1950, the FBI officially instituted its now-legendary list of the "Ten Most Wanted Fugitives" as a means of alerting the public and enlisting their aid in the apprehension of notorious felons. Over the years,...
by Frank J. Matera, Mikeal Parsons, Charles Talbert
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
In this fresh and readable addition to the Paideia series, well-respected New Testament scholar Frank Matera examines cultural context and theological meaning in Romans. Paideia commentaries explore how New Testament texts form Christian readers by
• attending to the ancient narrative and...
The Global 1930s
The international decade
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Decentering the traditional narrative of American breadlines, Soviet show trials and German fascists, The Global 1930s takes a truly international approach to exploring this turbulent decade. Though nationalism was prevalent throughout this period, Matera and Kent contend that the 1930s are better...
Mashups
Concepts, Models and Architectures
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2014
Mashups have emerged as an innovative software trend that re-interprets existing Web building blocks and leverages the composition of individual components in novel, value-adding ways. Additional appeal also derives from their potential to turn non-programmers into developers.
Daniel and Matera...
Black London
The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
This vibrant history of London in the twentieth century reveals the city as a key site in the development of black internationalism and anticolonialism. Marc Matera shows the significant contributions of people of African descent to London’s rich social and cultural history, masterfully weaving...
Taming the Beast
Charles Manson's Life Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 1999
Edward George understand Charles Manson as few others ever will. Former prison counselor to the messianic killer, George enraged Manson as an agent of the state's criminal justice system, listened to him as a trusted confessor, spoke for him as an erstwhile press agent-and-almost-connected with him...
The Women's War of 1929
Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.
Spirituality of Saint Paul, The
A Call to Imitation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Recognizing that we can’t actually imitate Christ, St. Paul calls us to use him as a model and imitate him in his conformity to the paschal mystery.
by Salito Gelsomina, Matera Pierluigi (a cura di)
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Amministrazione di sostegno. Interdizione. Inabilitazione.
Queste le declinazioni degli strumenti di protezione dell’incapace, all’indomani dell’entrata in vigore, nel nostro ordinamento, della legge n. 6/2004.
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