Bøger af Frances Newman

What does the Bible REALLY say about hell? It depends on who you ask! There are many interpretations of what the Bible says, from traditionalism to universalism. During my young adult life, I began to question some of the sermons I was hearing. How could God be a loving God when I felt if I told a lie, He would strike me with lightning, or worse. Let me be your Virgil as in Dante's Inferno and guide you through all the different interpretations of hell. Then I challenge you to make your own decisions and learn what I believe after my research. Rev. Dr. Frances Mae Newman is the pastor of Bear Creek United Methodist Church in Lucasville, Ohio and Alma United Methodist Church in Alma, Ohio. She is a graduate of Global Grace Seminary in Texas and Newburgh Theological Seminary in Indiana. She is the mother of a son who lives in Florida and a daughter who lives next door, and a grandson who lives in Columbus, Ohio. Her hobbies are crocheting and reading, and now it seems, writing. She was inspired to write this book while writing her dissertation for her PhD in Biblical Studies and the fact that there were so many ideas of what hell would be like. Read the book and then decide for yourself.

When it first appeared in 1926, The Hard-Boiled Virgin was hailed by novelist James Branch Cabell as "the most brilliant, the most candid, the most civilized, and most profound book yet written by any American woman". It is a semiautobiographical novel about Atlantan Katharine Faraday, who, after numerous anguishing relations with men, chooses a career and independence over marriage and motherhood. Though somewhat avant garde, with its impressionistic air, absence of dialogue, and evocations of Virginia Woolf, The Hard-Boiled Virgin posed enough of a threat to middle class attitudes toward women to be banned in Boston. Intending her novel to undermine the white, tradition-bound, upper-class Atlanta society into which she was born, Frances Newman commented that she discovered that she "was going to write a novel about a girl who began by believing every thing her family and her teachers said to her, and who ended by disbelieving most of those things".