Bücher von Gregory S Athnos

Every story in catacomb art is a tale of deliverance, a tale of the powerlessness of death and the certainty of the resurrection. Looking back through fifteen hundred years of Christian art, it appears the crucifixion of Jesus holds the highest place. We haven't looked back far enough. Go back to the first three centuries after Jesus walked among us. Walk the dark corridors of those subterranean burial chambers of the persecuted Christians. There we find a much different theology at work: a theology with resurrection hope and power at the center. If catacomb art were all we had of Christian theology and practice from the first three centuries AD--no Scriptures--we would have no choice but to conclude that the first message of the Christian faith was the Easter gospel.

Eat in Harmony is not a cookbook. The author, a musician/conductor/lecturer, leads the reader on a journey through fascinating adventures that made his life unique and rewarding. More than an autobiography of his career as a university music professor, it touches chance meetings, history, philosophy, works of art, influential composers, revelations, and philosophy. Compelling topics like the following: "Almost murdered in a deserted underground city in Turkey", "Sibelius in a vegetable garden", "A life changing baseball accident", "Vaht gut qvestions did you ask t'day?", "1989 in Poland and Hungary: Cathedral, Crucifix, and Congregation", "Olga, Dimitri, Smolny: Soviet Union 1965, Russia 1993", "What I learned from Beethoven and a piece of wood", "What I see in the mud and scum of things", "Medieval France meets Country Western", "Mendelssohn on a bus", "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem", "On stage with the Wagners in Bayreuth", "Bach, the man who made all the wrong decisions", and many more. Throughout the book the author takes an alternate path in a series of Reflections that have formed his view of art from a Christian perspective. It also includes comments from students, colleagues, and music critics that reflect on the influence the author had on their lives. Gregory S. Athnos, author of two award-winning books, is a retired professor of music from North Park University in Chicago. His choirs performed across the United States, Canada, China, and Europe. He was guest conductor of the Pushkin Chamber Orchestra and the Estonian State Symphony in the first performances of Handel's 'Messiah' since the Bolshevik Revolution. His university classrooms were filled. Students called his lectures on music, the arts, and culture 'lessons in life'. His unique approach to the arts has garnered invitations to speak in colleges, seminaries, churches, art museums, retirement communities, Road Scholar programs, and con