Regarding his theology, I warmed to it immediately. He has this jokey, old-fashioned tone, making him at times sound like your smart-but-prone-to-punning great uncle (using adjectives like “rockem-sockem,” for instance, while talking about the judgment of the Almighty also very fond of the form "Yes, Virginia," when answering a eschatological question). Capon tells it straight but always with a liberal dose of wit. Here, there is no pandering, no ideological oversimplification, no fussy stories meant to force tears. On the purely stylistic level, Capon writes with immense intelligence, literary skill, and pitch-perfect humor, setting him light years ahead of the popular Christian authors I’ve read. My church’s clergy are constantly raving about and quoting Capon (namely for his perpetual message of the enduring grace of God), and at a recent conference, I decided it was time to give him a whirl, and I bought this large, dense book, in which Capon unpacks the parables of Jesus. But I am now pleased to announce that I have found the swaggering antidote to stuffy, badly written theology for laypeople: Robert Farrar Capon. The modern, popular Christian theology books were always either too moralistic or too simpering for my taste. In the past few years, I have lost interest in reading more Christian theology than I already have.
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How do you get to the true utopian land of Zzyzx if you don't even know how to say it? Why is there an ever escalating war about which state has the biggest ball of twine? What, or who, is the Hollow Earth Society, and how many mystery spots are really located in this country? There's even a handy list of all kinds of events and festivals happening throughout the year that makes your wildest hometown fair look very, very normal. 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There is way too much content to describe in a review, of course (and stuff which the choir already knows), so I just want to hit a high point or two. It was, in effect, 'New Age when New Age wasn't cool.' (A recommended companion volume to this and a must-read among Seth aficionados is "The Nature of Personal Reality," 1974, also channelled by Jane Roberts.) Well, given all of that: I found this book to be an engrossing examination of how extraordinarily fluid and filled with unseen possibilities life is. Indeed, one can see how much New Age thought can have originated in its pages. Given the fact that the channeling sessions from which this book was written took place in 1970-71, this book has already been regarded as a kind of modern classic on the subject. Obviously the immortality of the soul, the concept of reincarnation, parallel dimensions, and the elasticity of time and space are all fundamental premises for this kind of thing, so I will neither explain nor defend them. Let us hypothetically 'go there' for a while and see what happens. I am - in this reality - choosing to accept it, and that decision makes a huge difference in the way I now regard my thoughts and my experiences. 'Seth Speaks: The Eternal Validity of the Soul' is, at face value, a channelled work. For this review I admit that I am torn between preaching to the choir, holding the book at skeptic's length, and becoming a New Age apologist. These times are an estimation, not a guarantee. These delivery times are the maximum delivery periods that a purchase can take to reach our customers. 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Terence Frederick Venables was born in Dagenham on 6 January 1943, the only child of Fred and Myrtle Venables. As the England national team manager from 1994 to 1996, he reached the semi-finals of the 1996 European Championships, and managed Australia from 1997 to 1998. He also managed Middlesbrough and Leeds United. He guided Tottenham Hotspur to FA Cup victory in 1991. With Barcelona, he won La Liga in 1985 and reached the 1986 European Cup Final. He reached the 1982 FA Cup Final with Queens Park Rangers and won the Second Division in 1983. During the 1960s and '70s, he played for various clubs including Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur and Queens Park Rangers, and gained two caps for England.Īs a club manager, Venables won the Second Division championship with Crystal Palace in 1979. Terence Frederick Venables (born 6 January 1943), often referred to as El Tel, is an English former football player and manager, and an author. *Club domestic league appearances and goals |