Download or read book Advent and Psychic Birth written by Mariann Burke and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a wholly unique work, the author examines the liturgy, myths and Jungian implications of Advent and reveals it as a summons to our personal rebirth
Download or read book Advent and Psychic Birth written by Mariann Burke and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian season of Advent, covering the span of about four weeks prior to Christmas, is rich with religious and psychological significance. In the darkest, shortest days of the year, people turn their thoughts to rebirth and the creation of new light. It is a time for psychic birth guiding us toward wider consciousness and a heightened experience of life. This yearning in human beings goes back to the primal roots of civilization. The prayers and liturgies of the Advent season echo the myths of winter solstice festivals and the ancient desire of people to return to the nurturing chaos of unformed matter. Advent prayers parallel the efforts of alchemists who strove to turn base metal into higher and more noble elements. Advent expresses a fundamental longing for transformation.
Download or read book A Child Is Born written by J. Barrie Shepherd and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of inspiring prayers and meditations for the Advent and Christmas season. Daily prayers for morning and evening devotion are followed by a space in which the reader in encouraged to write his or her own prayers, meditations, reflections, and insights.
Download or read book Meditations for Advent Christmas INCARNATION BIRTH and INFANCY of JESUS CHRIST written by Saint Alphonsus of Liguori and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saint Alphonsus of Liguori (Italy, 1696-1787), priest and doctor of the Church, is considered one of the greatest masters of the spiritual life, and for him all men are called to salvation, and the means are available for everyone that wants to reach perfection in Christ. St. Alphonsus wrote this Meditations for Advent-Christmas "INCARNATION, BIRTH AND INFANCY OF JESUS CHRIST" in 1750 but his ailments and many obligations did not allow him to publish it until the year 1758. These meditations are based on scriptures on the incarnation, infancy and birth of Jesus Christ. They reflect the great love of the author towards God and his son reflected in the work of the incarnation and redemption of mankind. It is a magnificent reading to meditate and it is also a good companion on the path of spiritual growth at any time of the year but especially for the time of Advent and Christmas. It will surely help to enter and live the true spirit of the birth of the Savior.
Download or read book The Womb of Advent written by Mark Francisco Bozzuti-Jones and published by Church Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with scripture readings and prayers, this book offers four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary. Mark Bozzutti-Jones offers a unique perspective on the season of Advent. He provides four weeks of meditations that focus on the growth of Jesus in the womb of Mary as he approaches the day of his birth, learns his mother's voice, responds to the presence of light and dark, and begins to position himself for birth. What does this teach us about our own spiritual journey through Advent? Waiting and preparation is essential to the Christian life. By reflecting on our own birth experiences and Jesus' own progress through the womb, Christians can learn how to remain intimate with God, how to approach the light, and how to get ready for new birth in Christ. The Womb of Advent guides the reader through each day with a mantra, scripture reading, and questions to focus our meditation. Each session ends with a spiritual exercise.
Download or read book Meditations for Advent written by Vassilios Papavassiliou and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the popular Meditations for Great Lent takes us through the hymnography, scripture readings, and iconography for the forty days leading up to the Nativity of Christ, showing how a full understanding of the Incarnation can enrich our spiritual lives.
Download or read book A Radiant Birth written by Leslie Leyland Fields and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Christian literary writers of the Chrysostom Society reflect on Advent and Christmastide as a bright and meaningful season of anticipation and glory. Through forty-two readings from the first Sunday of Advent through Epiphany, contributors prepare us in watchful waiting for the coming of Jesus.
Download or read book The Advent written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Birth to Psychic Life written by Albert Ciccone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on rich clinical experience and on theory from numerous psychoanalytical works, this book explores and analyzes the emergence and development of the psychic life. Birth to Psychic Life explores the genesis of the psychic apparatus, reconstructs the development of subjectivity, with its ups and downs in babies as in all subjects, and studies the relationship between mental states at the dawn of psychic life and those characteristic of psychopathology. The book refers to Freudian, Kleinian and post-Kleinian works, proposing articulations between the different theoretical models. The referenced works’ contributions to the understanding of early psychic disorders, as well as to the implications of infantile psychic suffering in adulthood, are essential. The authors identify the three psychic constellations, recognized by many, that accompany the psychic birth and suggest new more adequate names in view of current works on subjectivity: the auto-sensual position, the symbiotic position and the depressive position. Many other new and original proposals are developed by the authors. Providing tools to think about the processes of psychic growth, this book will be of interest to all psychoanalysts and psychotherapists working with infants and interested in the impact of early psychic development throughout life.
Download or read book The Meaning is in the Waiting written by Paula Gooder and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in a series of books commissioned in consultation with John Sentamu. It can be described as "The Archbishop of York's Advent book". Its theme is overtly an Advent one, yet subsequent books will range over other biblical and seasonal topics.Paula Gooder provides a profoundly biblical guide to the season of Advent and we explore its central theme of waiting (something we are not good at in our modern culture) in the company of the biblical characters who feature prominently in the lectionary readings for the season: Abraham and Sarah who waited for a child, Isaiah and the prophets who waited for judgement and redemption, John the Baptist whose role was to wait in the wilderness until the prophecies he foretold were realised, Mary whose waiting began in pregnancy and continued as she stood at the foot of the cross. Arranged for daily reading, this offers an exquisite meditation on the spirituality of waiting - the active doing of nothing - as a way of enhancing our lives and bringing us closer to God.
Download or read book Spiritual Birthline written by Stephen E. Smallman and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2006 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen E. Smallman describes the process of new birth and what is common in all authentic conversion experiences--genuine faith in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. Spiritual Birthline testifies to new birth in all kinds of people, in all sorts of circumstances. It is helpful to those with a budding curiosity in God as well as to people interested in relational evangelism.
Download or read book Advent written by Nathan Brown and published by . This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God Sent a Baby Daily Advent Reflections on Progeny Promises and the Plan of Redemption written by Laura N. Sweet and published by AuthorLoyalty. This book was released on 2021-10-07 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God sent a baby. It is an often-repeated pattern in the Bible―early intimations of the birth of God's own Son―the final word of God to his people. When people called upon God for justice, deliverance, healing, and restoration, God sent a baby. Many of these babies foreshadowed the life and ministry of Jesus Christ―a picture, on a human scale, of the baby who would come one day to rescue and save us all. While these babies grew up to be men who were limited in their power and their righteousness, they hint at the holy and all-powerful Son of God. Babies like Seth, Isaac, Moses, Samuel, Solomon, and John anticipated the coming of the Savior, Jesus Christ. They foretold something of his ministry and his kingdom. This advent devotional is all about the babies―wonderful gifts from the Father! And it's all about the birth of the baby who came to deliver us all: Jesus, our blessed redeemer! December 1 through December 25, each daily advent reading is followed by reflection questions and ample room to journal a personal response.
Download or read book A Coming Christ in Advent written by Raymond Edward Brown and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Brown reflects here not only on those annunciations of Jesus' forthcoming birth in the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, but also on the beautiful canticles, the Magnificat and the Benedictus, and on the origins of Jesus as given in the first words of the New Testament.
Download or read book She Changes Everything written by Lucy Reid and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-12-12 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One woman's search for authentic Christian faith and theology.
Download or read book Reconceptualising Conversion written by Zeba A. Crook and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Studie nimmt die bisherige Diskussion der Konversion in der Antike neu auf durch eine Verknüpfung von klassischen, epigraphischen und biblischen Quellen mit einer sozialwissenschaftlichen Methodologie. Der Autor hinterfragt dabei die bisher vorausgesetzte psychologische Kontinuität zwischen antiken und modernen Menschen und bietet statt dessen ein Modell, welches an den Denkvoraussetzungen der Antike selbst gebildet wurde. Die griechisch-römischen und mediterranen Religionen und Philosophien - also auch das hellenistische Judentum und das Christentum - orientierten sich an den Modellen von Patronat und Loyalität. Das Verständnis der antiken Konversion muss also hier ansetzen. In diesem Zusammenhang wird auch die "Bekehrung" des Paulus neu gedeutet.
Download or read book The Rabbi the Goddess and Jung written by Naomi Ruth Lowinsky and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sanctuary for the soul—In The Rabbi, the Goddess, and Jung, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky shows us how to create a sacred space by cultivating one’s inner life. Admitting that this is not an easy practice in our hectic, fearful times, she demonstrates how the word from within orients—whether it comes as gift or disturbance, guest or ghost, riddle or revelation. It may force a confrontation with one’s worst fears. It may visit in nightmare images, such as the enormous spider with hairy legs and eight baleful eyes that appeared in a dream, come to warn, it would seem, of the perils facing human nature and Mother Nature. It is essential, especially in difficult times, to make space for what the Kabbalah calls “the beyond that lies within”—the still small voice of the Self, the long view of the wisdom traditions. In this collection of poetic, visionary essays, Lowinsky tells stories of the Lady Tree who showed up when she was six, and has wandered in and out of her life, revealing her Goddess nature. Active imagination enables her to work out unfinished business with ancestors including her father and Jung. Dreams introduce her to her spirit guides, and to a dancing rabbi who insists she study Kabbalah. And that scary spider turns out to be Grandmother Spider, a creator goddess who has the power, if we recognize Her, to help us reweave our relationship with earth.
