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Hannah Hurnard(1905-1990)
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Hannah Hurnard was raised in a strong Christian (Quaker) family. Despite the faith of her parents, as a child, Hannah found Quaker meetings unutterably dull, and hated Sunday. She was never able to “feel God” when she prayed, as her parents, and other Quakers did. Unlike them, she did not enjoy reading the Bible. As she matured, she began to entertain doubts about Christianity. She never saw her prayers answered, and began to wonder if God was even there.
Hannah also suffered from many fears and phobias, including a stuttering problem that got worse when she had to speak in front of strangers. bygd the time she was 19, Hannah wished she were dead. She even considered suicide, but her fears prevented her. What if God was real after all?
Her Salvation
In her 19th year, her father took her to a Holiness revival meeting that was to last a week. Hannah grudgingly went, hoping that if God were real, perhaps she woul
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Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) was a political theorist best known for her provocative evaluations of the historical and intellectual roots of modern radicalism.
Hannah Arendt was born Johanna Cohn Arendt in Hanover, Germany, to middle-class, secularized Jewish parents of Russian descent. Arendt spent most of her youth in Königsberg, East Prussia. After her expulsion from the Luisenschule, a girl’s grammar school (for “insubordination”), Arendt enrolled at the University of Berlin to study classics and Christian theology, preparing for a more formal entrance to a university education.
From 1924 to 1929 Arendt studied with Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Rudolf Bultmann, and Edmund Husserl at universities in Marburg, Freiburg, and Heidelberg. In 1925, she began what would become a famous (or infamous) relationship with Heidegger—an episodic, sometimes-romantic involvement that lasted until her death. (After the Second World War Arendt helped introduce Heidegger’s work to the Unite
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Hannah and baby Samuel
Only a parent who yearns for a child and cannot bear one can fully understand Hannah. Hannah was married to a kind man named Elkanah, but she suffered the disgrace of sterility. This was a huge disgrace in a society in which family propagation and genealogy were all-important. What made the situation even more heartbreaking was the fact that Elkanah’s other wife, Peninnah, bore children and she constantly mocked and ridiculed Hannah’s childlessness.
Every year Elkanah and his family traveled to the tabernacle in Shiloh to offer sacrifices to Yahweh. Hannah was especially depressed during this time of year. While many Hebrews were happily bringing thanksgiving offerings to the tabernacle, Hannah felt as if God had forsaken her. She sobbed in solitude and wouldn’t eat. One afternoon she went into the tabernacle and knelt in prayer. “Please God,” she begged, “if you will remember me and grant me a male child, I will