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The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
Alvarez was the author of many non-fiction books. His renowned study of suicide, The Savage God , gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath. He also wrote on divorce ( Life After Marriage ), dreams ( Night ), and the oil industry ( Offshore ), as well as his hobbies of poker ( The Biggest Game In Town ) and mountaineering ( Feeding ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
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[3] By defining what God or the divine is we limit the unlimited. As Saint Augustine wrote, similarly, "if you can grasp [God], it isn’t God." [4] A cataphatic way to express God would be that God is love. The apophatic way would be to state that God is not hate (although such description can be accused of the same dualism).
The book was honored in 2001 with the National Book Award for Nonfiction [2] and the Lambda Literary Award for autobiography or memoir. In 2002 it was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. [3] In 2019, the memoir was ranked 23rd on The Guardian 's list of the 100 best books of the 21st century. [4]
Some psychiatrists, religious scholars and writers explain that, according to the gospels, Jesus's family (Mark 3:21), [4] some followers (John 7:20, [5] see also John 11:41–53), [6] and contemporaries, at various points in time, regarded him as delusional, possessed by demons, or insane.
Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud is a book written by Philip Yancey and published by Zondervan in 1988. [1] It is one of Yancey's early bestsellers . [ 2 ] Library Journal reviewer Elise Chase called the book "extraordinarily empathetic and persuasive; highly recommended". [ 3 ]