Bøger af Michael White

Imagined by one of the world's foremost Newton scholars, this fictionalized conversation presents the essential biography of one of the greatest scientific minds of all time

Rithöfundarins, ljóðskáldsins, textafræðingsins og fræðimannsins J. R. R. Tolkien (1892-1973), sem þekktastur er fyrir tímamótaverk sitt, Hringadróttinssögu, sem hvert mannsbarn ætti að þekkja. En hún gekk í endurnýjun lífdaga er Peter Jackson kvikmyndaði hinn magnaða heim Tolkiens um aldamótin síðustu.Farið er yfir ótrúlegt ævihlaup Tolkiens, allt frá uppvaxtarárum hans í Englandi og S-Afríku. Tilhugalíf skáldsins og hinn ógnvænlega tíma í skotgröfum heimsstyrjaldarinnar fyrri. White greinir einnig frá þeirri yfirburðarþekkingu sem Tolkien bjó yfir og fjallað er um hvernig Íslendingasögurnar og norræn goðafræði hafði áhrif á sköpun hans. Einstök saga um einstakan mann sem oft er nefndur faðir fantasíunnar.Efnafræðikennarinn Michael White var afkastamikill höfundur. En gaf hann út 35 verk áður en hann lést árið 2018. Skrifaði hann bæði skáldsögur og fræðirit, meðal annars ævisögur og má þá helst nefna; Isaac Newton, Leonardo, Tolkien og C. S. Lewis. En ásamt fræðmanninum John Gribbin skrifaði hann einnig um Darwin, Einstein og Stephen Hawking. Fyrsta skáldsaga White, Equinox, kom út árið 2006 og hefur síðan þá verið þýdd yfir á 35 tungumál.

Unknown to all but a few, Newton was a practicing alchemist who dabbled with the occult, a tortured, obsessive character who searched for an understanding of the universe by whatever means possible. Sympathetic yet balanced, Michael White's Isaac Newton offers a revelatory picture of Newton as a genius who stood at the point in history where magic ended and science began.

Michael White and Tom Corcoran sparked a firestorm in 2013 with their first book, Rebuilt, the story of how they brought their parish back to life. In Rebuilding Your Message, the award-winning authors now share their carefully honed communication practices to help priests, staff, volunteers, and parishioners better proclaim the irresistible and life-changing Gospel of Jesus Christ at every level. A parish doesn't just communicate its mission from the pulpit. Teaching and preaching also happen in classes and small groups, in bulletins, on the church website and social media, and through volunteers who welcome visitors through its doors. In Rebuilding Your Message, Michael White and Tom Corcoranauthors of the bestselling books Rebuilt and Tools for Rebuildingshare dozens of strategies to help Catholic parishes establish and sustain excellent communications. White and Corcoran believe that every parishioner should be engaged in communicating the Good News of Jesus Christ. The authors push Catholics beyond the status quo with practical help for creating a welcoming church, practicing homilies, and preparing lessons, as well as more complex strategies such as developing a message series that connects all forms of communication to both the liturgical year and the seasons of the local community.

The path from Jesus to Christianity is not as straight as we might think. Now, for the first time, L. Michael White, one of the world''s foremost scholars on the origins of Christianity, provides the complete, astonishing story of how Christianity grew from the personal vision of a humble Jewish peasant living in a remote province of the Roman Empire into the largest organized religion in the world.Many take for granted that the New Testament is a single book representing God''s coherent, unwavering word on Jesus and his church. A closer reading reveals not one story, but many. The New Testament is a collection of books -- the result of a variety of influences on a number of faithful but very human visionaries, preachers, and storytellers. The texts contain a wealth of biographies, histories, novels, letters, sermons, hymns, church manuals, and apocalypses, providing a spectrum of views of Jesus, his message, and his movement.Given this diversity of people, stories, and drastically different points of view, how did Christianity ever become what we know it as today? White draws on the most current scholarship to bring alive these ancient people and their debates, showing in depth how their stories were formed into what the world has come to know as the New Testament.Rather than reading the New Testament straight through in its traditional order -- Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, and so on -- White takes a historical approach, looking at the individual books in the sequence in which they were actually written. He explores what these books divulge about the disagreements, shared values, and unifying mission of the earliest Christian communities. White digs through layers of archaeological excavations, sifts through buried fragments of largely unknown texts, and examines historical sources to discover what we can know of Jesus and his early followers.It is this early, hidden history that shaped Christianity as it grew from an errant, messianic movement to a state religion and then into a world religion that has lasted for over two thousand years. White shows how the early debates spurred the evolution of Christianity as we know it. He delves into the arguments over how to understand Jesus as both human and divine, the role of women in the church, the diversity of beliefs among Christian communities, the Gnostic influences, and the political disputes that raged over which books would ultimately be included in the New Testament. Complete with illustrations, photos, charts, and maps, From Jesus to Christianity presents the fullest picture yet of the beginnings of what became the most popular religion on earth. 

Fr. Michael White and Tom Corcoran know that the fundamental work of the Church is to evangelizeto introduce people to Christ and make them disciples. Still, they're the first to admit: ';the difficulty comes when we reach down into the details and get to work.' In their barn-burning first book, Rebuilt, White and Corcoran shared their story and vision of building better Catholic parishes. Now, in their eagerly anticipated second book, Tools for Rebuilding, they lay out seventy-five proven tactics for getting the job done. In Tools for Rebuilding: 75 Really, Really Practical Ways to Make Your Parish Better, White and Corcoran share seventy-five foundational tactics that helped to rejuvenate their parish. Their candid, hands-on advice gives a clear way forwardone that will make church matter to the people in the pews and that anyone working in parish ministry can implement.Principles/tactics include:Get the Right People on the BusChristmas Is Over, So Throw Out the Dead PoinsettiasStop Advertising (Other People's Stuff) in Your BulletinDon't Let the Insiders Take All the Good SeatsJust Because It's Slow Doesn't Mean It's HolyWhen It Comes to First Communion, Just SurrenderFunerals Are Scud MissilesPreach the AnnouncementsStart Getting Rid of FundraisersEverything Takes Longer (Than You Think)Pastor, It's Not All About YouStop Trying to Make People Go to Church and Make Church Matter

This volume critically examines the Rawlsian ideal of a supposedly neutral political theory as a justification for contemporary constitutional democracies.