No Argument for God: Going Beyond Reason in Conversations About Faith
(Religion is irrational! New atheists trumpet the claim lo...)
Religion is irrational! New atheists trumpet the claim loudly, so much so that it's become a sort of conventional wisdom. Professing your faith in God sounds increasingly like a confession of intellectual feebleness. Belief in God sounds as cute and quaint as it does pointless. John Wilkinson contends that the irrationality of faith is its greatest asset, because rationalism itself sets artificial limits on all that we've seen--which itself is hinting at something greater that can't be seen. In No Argument for God he turns the tables on the cult of reason, showing that it limits conversation to what happened, when what we really want is the why behind it. We settle for investigation when what we need is revelation--the answer to all our longings. Read this book and break though the gridlock of apologetic arguments to a life-giving encounter with the God who satisfies our minds and seeks our good.
"Israel My Glory," or Israel's Mission, and Missions to Israel (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from "Israel My Glory," Or Israel's Mission, and ...)
Excerpt from "Israel My Glory," Or Israel's Mission, and Missions to Israel
For all the warm interest taken in israel MY glory by Christians of various denominations in various countries we are truly grateful to them and to the Lord. That interest is specially gratifying as indicating a growing desire to know the mind and purpose of God about the Jew, as revealed in the Holy Scriptures, and an increasing disposition amongst Christians to respond to the claims of that people to whom the Church owes everything, and through whom the world will yet be blessed.
The book is full of Scripture, and treated as the Word of God, so that we trust God may be pleased to use it to strengthen faith in the Bible as the Word of God, as well as to further the spiritual interests of Israel.
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(Schedule of Unrest selects from John Wilkinson's collecti...)
Schedule of Unrest selects from John Wilkinson's collections of poetry published from 1974 to 2008. A growing readership is seeking ways into an impassioned and beautiful body of writing. The unfamiliarity of its surfaces and soundscapes have too long delayed its appreciation. This book, selected by a scholar of Wilkinson's work, will further enlarge his readership, as well as providing a convenient resource for teachers. In one volume, both Wilkinson's troubled internal lyric and the breadth of his social and political engagements are well represented.
Narrative of a Blockade Runner (Collector's Library of the Civil War)
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The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by John Wilkinson is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of John Wilkinson then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection.
Jerusalem Pilgrimage, 10991185 (Hakluyt Society, Second Series)
(In the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem many pilgrims came to J...)
In the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem many pilgrims came to Jerusalem. The translations in this book are of seventeen western accounts of pilgrimage, written between 1099 and 1185, and there are two additional accounts from eastern pilgrims, Abbot Daniel from Russia and John Phocas from Antioch. As a whole this collection shows the gradually developing way in which western Christians understood the Holy Places. Some early pilgrims depended on authorities, many of whom by 1099 were out-of-date. They tried to deliver the truth about the Holy Places and to be reticent about their own reactions. But the pilgrims who appear later in the collections made their own archaeological judgements, and were more free about their own reactions. Pilgrimage after 1099 was altered by the fact that by their victory over Jerusalem the Dome of the Rock fell into the Crusader's hands. Otherwise the differences of practice between eastern and western pilgrims were slight. Thus eastern pilgrims visited the Greek and western pilgrims the Latin monasteries. Western pilgrims had a different idea of the location of Emmaus, and before 1185 a western Way of the Cross was beginning to take shape. These were slight differences, and in general all Christian pilgrims, whether from east or west, visited the same Holy Places as they had during the preceding period. Most of the works in this collection were translated into English a century ago by the Palestine Pilgrim's Text Society. But these texts were produced separately as pamphlets, and lacked a general introduction. In this book therefore the texts are retranslated, sometimes from more accurate texts. In introducing the texts some valuable new evidence from archaeology has been used and enabled a new assessment of their dates.
(Ghost Nets is the first US collection by John Wilkinson. ...)
Ghost Nets is the first US collection by John Wilkinson. Ranging from brief lyrics to elaborately-structured long poems, the collection displays the intense musicality, syntactical intricacy and affective power characteristic of his poetry. But the political, social and economic crises of the period in the US shape Wilkinsons writing in new ways, more vulnerable and more evidently responsive to others vulnerability.
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson was an English industrialist who pioneered the manufacture of cast iron and the use of cast-iron goods during the Industrial Revolution.
Background
John Wilkinson was born in Little Clifton, Bridgefoot, Cumberland (now part of Cumbria), the eldest son of Isaac Wilkinson and Mary Johnson. Isaac was then the potfounder at the blast furnace there, one of the first to use coke instead of charcoal, which was pioneered by Abraham Darby.
Career
His father had risen from day labourer to be overlooker in an iron furnace, A box-iron, patented by his father, but said to have been invented by the son, helping laundresses to gratify the frilled taste of the dandies of the day, was the beginning of their fortunes.
This they made at Blackbarrow, near Furness. When he was about twenty, John moved to Staffordshire, and built, at Bilston, the first furnace there, and, after many experiments, succeeded in utilizing coal instead of wood-charcoal in puddling and smelting.
The father, who now had works at Bersham, near Chester, was again joined by his son, who constructed a new boring machine, of an accuracy heretofore unequalled.
James Watt found that the work of this machine exactly filled his requirements for his "fire-engine" for cylinders bored with greater precision.
Wilkinson, who now owned the Bersham works, resolved to start the manufacture of wrought iron at Broseleyon a larger scale, and the first engine made by Boulton and Watt was for him to blow'the bellows there. Heretofore bellows were worked by a water wheel or, when power failed, by horses. His neighbours in the business, who were contemplating installing Newcomen engines, waited to see how his would turn out.
Great care was taken in all its parts, and Watt himself set it up early in 1776. Its success made the reputation of Boulton and Watt in the Midland counties. Wilkinson now found he had the power alike for the nicest and the most stupendous operations.
The steam cylinder suggested to him the plan of producing blast now in use. He was near coal; he surrounded himself w'ith capable men, whom he fully trusted; he made a good article, and soon obtained large orders and prospered.
In 1786 he was making pounders, howitzers, swivels, mortars and shells for government. The difficulty of getting barges to carry his war material down the Severn led him, in 1787, to construct the first iron barge-creating a wonderful sensation among owners and builders. YVilkinson taught tbf- French the art of boring cannon from the solid, and cast all the tubes, cylinders and iron work required for the Paris water-works, the most formidable undertaking of the day.
He also erected the first steam engine in France, in connexion with these works. Wilkinson is said to have anticipated by many years the introduction of the hot blast for furnaces, but the leathern pipes, then used, scorched, and it was not a success. His were the first coal-cutting machines. He proposed and cast the first iron bridge.
It connected Broseley and Madeley, across the Severn, and its span of 100 ft. 6 in. wras considered a triumphal wonder. Wilkinson was now a man of great means and greater influence. He issued tokens of copper, bearing his likeness and on the reverse a forge and tools of the trade, silver coins for 36. 6d. , and also pound notes, as other tradesmen of that day did. He never wrote a letter without using the word iron, indeed he was iron- mad, and provided by will that he should be buried in an iron coffin, preferably in his garden at Castle Head, near Lindal.
Wilkinson was twice married without issue. John married Ann Maudsley in 1759. Her family was wealthy and her dowry helped to pay for a share in the New Willey Company. After the death of Ann, his second marriage, when he was 35, was to Mary Lee, whose money helped him to buy out his partners. When he was in his seventies, his mistress Mary Ann Lewis, a maid at his estate in Brymbo Hall, gave birth to his only children, a boy and two girls.
His very large property was frittered away during a lawsuit brought by a nephew against the illegitimate children whom he had named as his heirs. It was carried from various courts in the kingdom to the House of Lords and then to the Court of Chancery. Here Lord Eldon decided for the defendants, thus reversing all previous decisions taken upon the law of the case.