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The ultimate three minutes : the story of two great human watersheds-their preparation and their coinciding / William Cumming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cummings, William, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Salvation--Christianity.
- Salvation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (279 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Eastbourne, England : Sussex Academic Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The title of this book borrows from two distinguished scientists: Steven Weinberg describes the developments of the first three minutes of the universe following the explosion of the "Big Bang" 13.8 billion years ago; Paul Davis describes the final subsidence of the universe into entropy and heat death. The Ultimate Three Minutes: The Story of Two Great Human Watersheds-Their Preparation and Their Coinciding provides a humanitarian parallel. The title embodies a value judgement, namely the need of the human race for redemption, and the achievement of that redemption by Jesus Christ, the Anoint
- Contents:
- ""Front Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword by the Rt. Revd. Nicholas Reade""; ""List of Maps and Genealogy""; ""Introduction""; ""1 The Dancing Floor""; ""2 The Dancing Years""; ""3 The Century of the Crescent Quiescent (900�801 BC)""; ""4 The Century of the First European Miracle (800�701 BC)""; ""5 The Century of the Fall of Assyria (700�601 BC)""; ""6 The Century of the Tightening World (600�501 BC)""; ""7 An Underestimated Contribution (546�538 BC)""; ""8 The Century of the Second European Miracle (500�401 BC)""
- ""9 The Century of Farewell to the Aegean (400�301 BC)""""10 The Century of the Intermeshing (300�201 BC)""; ""11 The Century of Creaks, Cracks and Contradictions (200�101 BC)""; ""12 The “Century� of Accelerating Discontents (100�50 BC)""; ""13 Thirteen Centuries of Song (1,370�103 BC)""; ""Chapters 14�32 (A)�(S) The “Long� First Century AD (50 BC�AD 120)""; ""14 (A) The “Decade� of the Assassination of Julius Caesar""; ""15 (B) The “Decade� of the Second Triumvirate (43�30 BC)""
- ""16 (C) The First Decade of Augustus: The Restoration of the Republic (30�21 BC)""""17 (D) The Second Decade of Augustus: The Ascendancy of Augustus (20�11 BC)""; ""18 (E) The Third Decade of Augustus: The Splendid Isolation of Augustus (10�1 BC)""; ""19 (F) Augustus and Providence (63 BC�AD 14)""; ""20 (G) The Fourth Decade of Augustus:The Disillusionment of Augustus (AD 1�10)""; ""21 (H) The Decade in the Wake of Augustus (AD 11�20)""; ""22 (I) The Decade of the Disillusionment of Tiberius (AD 21�30)""; ""23 (J) The Decade of Tiberius and Caligula (AD 31�40)""
- ""24 (K) The Decade of Claudius and the Council of Jerusalem (AD 41�50)""""25 (L) The Decade of the Rise and Fall of Agrippina the Younger (AD 51�60)""; ""26 (M) The Decade of Nero and theYear of the Four Emperors (AD 61�70)""; ""27 (N) The Decade of Vespasian (AD 71�80)""; ""28 (O) The Decade of Titus and Domitian (AD 81�90)""; ""29 (P) The Decade of Domitian, Nerva and Trajan (AD 91�100)""; ""30 (Q) “Where Can I Get a Drink?� (AD 91�100)""; ""31 (R) The Decade of Trajan (AD 101�110)""; ""32 (S) The Decade of Trajan and Hadrian (AD 111�120)""
- ""33 The “Century� of the Two Watersheds (50 BC�AD 120)""""34 The Century of the Climax of the Ancient World (AD 101�200)""; ""35 The Century of the Superannuation of Rome (AD 201�300)""; ""36 The Century of Kaleidoscopic Mutation (AD 301�400)""; ""37 The Century of Diverging Destinies, AD 401�500 (A) The East""; ""38 The Century of Diverging Destinies, AD 401�500 (B) The West""; ""39 The Northern Frontier (10,000 BC�AD 500)""; ""40 The Ultimate Three Minutes (Passover AD 33)""; ""41 The Parable of the Target""; ""42 The Parable of the Doppler Shift""; ""Epilogue""
- ""Back Cover""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78284-270-5
- OCLC:
- 916911111
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