In His Own Image

Lewis Brown

ISBN 10: 1524531413 / ISBN 13: 9781524531416

Published by Xlibris Aug 2016, 2016

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Neuware - Stan was strongly influenced by his Southern Christian upbringing. Under the pressures of family and career, he attempts to simplify his life by taking a job teaching at a small college in Tifton, Georgia. He needs Tifton to provide that stereotypical small town lifestyle that he had always believed to exist, even though he had never observed it. As that illusion and his marriage both evaporate, he begins to realize that there is a discrepancy between his Southern Christian values and how his keen senses perceive reality. A young Stan is polite with strong religious values. As he grows older, he turns from religion and becomes a bitter, cold man. The book opens with a devastated Stan at the funeral of his former student, Cleave. Cleave has committed suicide, but his motivation is a mystery that is slowly revealed as the story progresses through unlikely international connections to Tifton and Cleave's even more unlikely connection to the September 11, 2001, attack on New York and Washington DC. Cleave's death further changes Stan's perspective of the world and causes him to question all previous conclusions about human interactions and human interactions with God. In His Own Image is about the commonality of human nature, despite the wide diversity of human cultures. Through a fictional story built around real historical events, In His Own Image shows how individuals are molded by their birth cultures, but eventually have the opportunity to break from human influence and see the world in a new way. In His Own Image is not about religion itself, and no ultimate religious conclusions are presented. Instead, it deals with how religion shapes our perception of reality. The reader is challenged to distinguish that part of their religion that was created by man from that which comes from God.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In His Own Image
• Publisher: Xlibris Aug 2016
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1524531413
• ISBN 13: 9781524531416
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 10D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 10 millimeters depth
• Weight: 318 grams

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Synopsis

Stan was strongly influenced by his Southern Christian upbringing. Under the pressures of family and career, he attempts to simplify his life by taking a job teaching at a small college in Tifton, Georgia. He needs Tifton to provide that stereotypical small town lifestyle that he had always believed to exist, even though he had never observed it. As that illusion and his marriage both evaporate, he begins to realize that there is a discrepancy between his Southern Christian values and how his keen senses perceive reality. A young Stan is polite with strong religious values. As he grows older, he turns from religion and becomes a bitter, cold man. 
The book opens with a devastated Stan at the funeral of his former student, Cleave. Cleave has committed suicide, but his motivation is a mystery that is slowly revealed as the story progresses through unlikely international connections to Tifton and Cleave’s even more unlikely connection to the September 11, 2001, attack on New York and Washington DC. Cleave’s death further changes Stan’s perspective of the world and causes him to question all previous conclusions about human interactions and human interactions with God. 
In His Own Image is about the commonality of human nature, despite the wide diversity of human cultures. Through a fictional story built around real historical events, In His Own Image shows how individuals are molded by their birth cultures, but eventually have the opportunity to break from human influence and see the world in a new way. 
In His Own Image is not about religion itself, and no ultimate religious conclusions are presented. Instead, it deals with how religion shapes our perception of reality. The reader is challenged to distinguish that part of their religion that was created by man from that which comes from God.