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... of prophecy, and yet many questions remain unanswered. As for the general public, here for the most part there seems to be a general confusion. Most people cannot tell an Isaiah from a Jeremiah or an Amos from a Hosea. The New York Public Library/Art Resource, NY What defines a prophet? Is it a moral...

... into a book or hears words of Torah, if one only sees or hears one or two things, and especially if someone only wants to hear a nice idea or “drosh” — one only hears the “limbs” and misses the teacher’s wholeness, and doesn’t encounter the prophecy within the words. He goes on to give the practical...

... championed the spiritual movements and persons that affirm the sacredness of Creation and unite mysticism with prophecy. In his latest book Fox explores the life of Thomas Merton, the influential 20th-century contemplative, writer, poet, and activist who did much to put Christianity in dialogue...

.... The Allegheny Mountains were revealed to him as § the eastern wall of the New Jerusalem of Biblical prophecy—literally. He saw the American West i as the promised Holy City, eastern finance interests as infidels...

... is a young woman giving birth to a son. “And she will call his name ‘God is with us’ ” (7:14). Most importantly, this child will choose between good and evil. Most commentaries suggest that the prophecy, in its context, is simply referring to the next Davidic prince, who, unlike the wicked Ahaz, would...

... people” and “Assyria the work of my hands” is so unrealistic from a political perspective that it seems more like wishful thinking than prophecy. It’s hard to reconcile this vision with the current situation where Egypt and Jordan are the only Muslim nations that recognize Israel’s legal right to exist...

.... If we were Chinese We would say “Have a sweet and pungent year,” If we were on a diet We would say “Have a sweet and low year” But then “sweet and low” is worse Than sweet and high. So let’s go back and stay happily In our low- keyed time Where prophecies and visions and miracles Are fed...

... object.” Underlying this poetry was her father’s Hasidic tradition of the Shechinah, the indwelling presence of the Divine in all creation. The response to her perception of this “sacramental mystery” was praise, which Levertov called “the irresistible impulse of the soul” in her essay “Poetry, Prophecy...

... are anti-Palestinian in their desire to see the while explaining w hy three o f his GOP opponents fulfillment of what they believe to be biblical prophecies. Please note that lack the m ilita ry experience to oppose it U ntil an overwhelming majority of us believe that God loves the Palestinian...

... IN TH E WORLD, they do not think only about the present or the future but also feel the past. They move through SJerusalem with Abraham and Isaac, with David and Hizkiyahu, and their lips mutter the prophecies of Isaiah and Jeremiah. They see the new arrivals from Russia, Ethiopia...

... for presidential discourse that will give the Sarah PalinsRobert Inchaustiof the world is the second author thoughtso/The Ignorant before Perfection they presume of Ordinary to run People, for nationalSubversive office. Orthodoxy, ■ Thomas Merton’s American Prophecy, and Spitwad...

.... the last prophetess, must discover the future, in the wicked descendants of But in Zornberg’s expert hands, the new meaning for prophecy. After her, Ephraim and Menasseh. Something of Bible is brought back to life. There are no the world of prophecy and miracles those descendants is already...

... words, land mines exploding, love and hate. press the stranger: remember that you were strangers in the land I don't want to fulfill my parents' prophecy that life is war. of Egypt.” A Jewish state that has been unwilling...

... them. Fatalism creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure and it is radically at odds with the Jewish prophetic tradition which faced extreme moral and spiritual failures but which always maintained the possibility of moral autonomy individually and collectively, transformation, healing...

..., already established as a fifth column in our own countries, seeking to replace our democracy and rights with the barbaric shariah law. Learning about Islam from the internet has become like learning about love from a porn site. What began as a kind of farce has become a self-fulfilling prophecy...

... to remember and join that cloud of witnesses of all faiths who have spent their lives in the beautiful struggle. May it be so! I think that his prophecy has come true. We are a frightened people. Our chronic anxiety impacts our capacity to solve the problems that create it. This is where the Lutheran...

... will not be taken during the term of this premiership. It is this fire of prophecy—the compulsion to bend (in fact, to render straight) the course of history—that transform ed Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Ariel Sharon, and Yitzhak Rabin, all of whom were once viewed...

... riter whose work Segal set of futures. ■ book of Ecclesiastes and of its w riter) is recovers, th e vehicle for a running cri­ an Israelite, while Lam entations, Psalm tique of God. To describe how this cri­ Jack M iles is D istinguished Professor o f Eng­ 44, and kindred passages in prophecy...

.... It is this fire of prophecy—the compulsion to bend (in fact, to render straight) the course of history—that transform ed Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Ariel Sharon, and Yitzhak Rabin, all of whom were once viewed as implacable hawks and immutable hardliners. In each case, the personal...

..., pragmatic, issue-oriented prophecy has hardened us into parts and their partiality. Pragmatic organizing made us worry about what we weren’t doing while managing by objective what we were doing. Occupy—with its glance at all issues, deep enough to see their roots—has radicalized us. Radical...