Stanley Cook: 4 books

Stanley Cook (19221991) was much admired in his lifetime but never achieved the popular audience and critical reputation his work deserved. Cook went his own way, sanguine about the fashions of the poetry establishment, and quietly writing some of the most readable, intelligent and vividly achieved poems of our time.

How can the church be a healing force in the world? In this longtime bestseller, now revised and updated, authors Jerry Cook and Stanley C. Baldwin suggest that it is only when believers admit their own brokenness that they can love, accept, and forgive those who are hurting around them and put out...

THE RELIGION OF ANCIENT PALESTINE IN THE SECOND MILLENNIUM B.C. In the Light of Archæology and the Inscriptions By STANLEY A. COOK, M.A. EX-FELLOW, AND LECTURER IN HEBREW AND SYRIAC, GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE; AUTHOR OF 'A GLOSSARY OF THE ARAMAIC INSCRIPTIONS,'...

This edition features a linked Table of Contents and Index CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTORY II. SACRED SITES III. SACRED OBJECTS IV. SACRED RITES AND PRACTICES V. THE WORLD OF SPIRITS VI. THE GODS VII. THE PANTHEON VIII. CONTEMPORARY THOUGHT PRINCIPAL SOURCES AND WORKS OF REFERENCE CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE INDEX