Paradox and Virtue - Mannoia Jr., V. James
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Most of us work hard to resolve the never ending "either/or" dilemmas of our lives. But what if a central lesson for all people was to learn instead to embrace many of these paradoxes? In this book, a university president speaks to his students using everyday events from the campus and his personal life urging them to pursue the deep moral virtues that comprise our character; patience, trust, hope, grace, vision and more. To do this he tells them to consider many points of view, choose passionately, but continue openly humble. As a lifetime follower of Jesus, the author exhorts his students…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Most of us work hard to resolve the never ending "either/or" dilemmas of our lives. But what if a central lesson for all people was to learn instead to embrace many of these paradoxes? In this book, a university president speaks to his students using everyday events from the campus and his personal life urging them to pursue the deep moral virtues that comprise our character; patience, trust, hope, grace, vision and more. To do this he tells them to consider many points of view, choose passionately, but continue openly humble. As a lifetime follower of Jesus, the author exhorts his students and his readers to remember that now we see through a glass darkly, but one day face to face.
Autorenporträt
Rev. Dr. Jim Mannoia is well known to the thousands of students passing through Greenville University in the first decade of this century. As president, his regular chapel and convocation talks, combined current and campus events with the challenging events of his personal life woven into his passionate philosophy of Christian liberating arts education. The talks were about life, and bridged many worlds. He was a "missionary kid" in Brazil, trained in laser physics at M.I.T., drove taxis in Boston, worked with drug addicts in Hillbrow, South Africa, shifted to metaphysics for a Ph.D., taught physics in Pennsylvania, then philosophy for 15 years at Westmont College. For two years he was professor at the University of Zimbabwe. Finally, as he puts it, he "went over to the dark side," becoming first the Academic Vice-President at Houghton College and eventually President at Greenville. After retirement, he consulted around the world including in Iraq, South Africa, and for the government of Rwanda. He lives in Santa Barbara, California.