Download or read book The words and will of God written by Francis E. Peters and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sample Text

Download or read book Divine Utterances written by Katherine J. Hagedorn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2001-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Divine Utterances, Katherine J. Hagedorn explores the enduring cultural and spiritual power of the music of Afro-Cuban Santería and the process by which it has been transformed for a secular audience. She focuses on the integral connections between sacred music performances and the dramatizations of theatrical troupes, especially the state-sponsored Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba, and examines the complex relationships involving race, politics, and religion in Cuba. The music that Hagedorn describes is rooted in Afro-Cuban religious tradition and today pervades a secular performances that can produce a trance in audience members in the same way as a traditional religious ceremony. Hagedorn's analysis is deeply informed by her experiences in Cuba as a woman, scholar, and apprentice batá drummer. She argues that constructions of race and gender, the politics of pre- and post-Revolutionary Cuba, the economics of tourism, and contemporary practices within Santería have contributed to a blurring of boundaries betwen the sacred and the folkloric. As both modes now vie for primacy in Cuba's burgeoning tourist trade, what had once been the music of a marginalized group is now a cultural expression of national pride. The compact disc that accompanies the book includes examples of twenty songs to the orichas, or Afro-Cuban deities, performed by prominent musicians, including Lázaro Ros, Francisco Aguabella, Alberto Villarreal, and Zenaida Armenteros.

Download or read book Words written by Ernst van den Hemel and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are—how they exist—in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book looks at words in their performative and material specificity. The contributions in the volume develop the insight that our implicit assumptions about what language does guide the way we understand and experience religious phenomena. They also explore the possibility that insights about the particular status of religious utterances may in turn influence the way we think about words in our language.

Download or read book The Sacred Now written by Mark Elber and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Now presents a contemporary Jewish spiritual philosophy that is founded in both the Jewish tradition and a commitment to contemporary culture. It synthesizes the sensibilities of Kabbalah, philosophy, and secular spirituality. While the great timeless questions that humanity has asked itself remain unchanged, humanity’s responses to these questions evolve over time. As society changes and our knowledge of the universe changes, our spiritual and religious life naturally must also evolve if we intend to remain engaged in the world around us. The Sacred Now examines the state of Jewish spirituality today, proposing orientations and practices geared toward cultivating consciousness of the Divine. It discusses the relationship of spirituality and religion, examines the functions of both structure and freedom in developing a lifestyle with a strong spiritual focus, while remaining cognizant that it is the practice more than the theory that ultimately matters.

Download or read book Revelation in Divine Religions written by Ebrahim Amini and published by Rafed Books. This book was released on with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Oracles of God Or the Words of Men written by Curtis Pillsbury and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why don't people believe the Bible like they used to? Do Christians themselves truly believe the Bible? Is the Word part true, part superstition? Is it fair to claim that the Bible is superior to other sacred writings? Curtis Pillsbury has encountered these controversial questions and more and has set out to answer them using biblical proof and personal experiences. If you have ever questioned Christianity, fear not. Curtis himself has battled similar doubts and has spent over twenty years disproving the myths. You will never again wonder, is the Bible The Oracles of God or the Words of Men? In a day in which postmodernism and humanism seek to dissolve absolute truth, Curtis Pillsbury has given us a tool to create a Christian worldview. The Oracles of God or the Words of Men? is a tool to combat New Age mumbo-jumbo and establish God's Word as an anchor for transformation and productivity. Curtis's work will help you wade through the minutia of philosophies combating real truth. Read this book as a key to your freedom. —Ron McIntosh, President of Ron McIntosh Ministries, Executive Director of Victory Bible Institute The Oracles of God or the Words of Men? will help secure for you a strong foundation in the Word of God and will strengthen your faith in the fact that God's Word is your final authority. With this revelation you can stand in the midst of any trial or temptation. This book will keep you in love with Jesus and his Word. —Terry Nance, author of God's Armorbearers

Download or read book Hebrews and Divine Speech written by Jonathan I. Griffiths and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theme of divine speech appears at the opening of the Hebrews (1.1-2) and recurs throughout the book, often in contexts suggesting connections to other areas of scholarly interest (christology, soteriology, cosmology, and the writer's understanding of the nature of his discourse). Griffiths begins with a consideration of the genre and structure of Hebrews (offering a new structural outline), concluding that Hebrews constitutes the earliest extant complete Christian sermon and consists of a series of Scriptural expositions. Griffiths then turns to consider Hebrews' theology of divine speech through an exegetical analysis of eight key passages (with particular attention to the writer's use of the terms logos and rhema), and finds that, for the writer, God's speech is the means by which the place of divine rest is accessed, and is supremely expressed in the person of his Son. Griffiths concludes that the writer presents his sermon as communicating the divine word and effecting an encounter between his hearers and the God who speaks. Analysis of the exegetical data shows that Hebrews presents God's word, which finds full expression in the incarnate Christ, as the central means by which salvation is made available and the place of divine rest is accessed. The study finds that the terms logos and rhema are used with a high degree of consistency to signify forms of divine speech, logos usually signifying verbal revelation (and three times specifically identifying the author's own discourse) and rhema typically signifying non-verbal revelation in the cosmos. The investigation leads to the ultimate conclusion that the author believes that, through his discourse, he himself communicates that divine word and effects an encounter between his hearers and the God who speaks.

Download or read book Creating States written by Angela Esterhammer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the language of visionary poetry, making use of the principles of speech-act philosophy to analyze the creative properties of utterance from the Bible to the work of Milton and Blake.

Download or read book Expository Dictionary of Bible Words written by Stephen D. Renn and published by Hendrickson Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary replacement for the classic "Vine's Expository Dictionary," this newly written reference book covers the key vocabulary of the Bible with an integrated coverage of the Old Testament and New Testament words. Students of the Bible will be able to uncover the meaning of the original biblical text whether or not they have a working knowledge of Hebrew or Greek. Each English word entry includes the Hebrew or Greek for that word and explains its nuances and variations in meaning. It is coded to Strong's numbering and is a valuable resource for students, pastors, or the layperson interested in word studies.

Download or read book The anchor or Some of God s words of hope in the Old Testament With The haven or Some of Christ s words of peace in the New Testament by the author of Morning and night watches written by John Ross MacDuff and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The anchor of hope or Some of God s words of hope in the Old Testamment Followed by The haven of peace or Some of Christ s words of peace in the New Testament Hymns By the author of Morning night watches written by John Ross MacDuff and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Philosophy and Language in the Islamic World written by Nadja Germann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is language? How did it originate and how does it work? What is its relation to thought and, beyond thought, to reality? Questions like these have been at the center of lively debate ever since the rise of scholarly activities in the Islamic world during the 8th/9th century. However, in contrast to contemporary philosophy, they were not tackled by scholars adhering to only one specific discipline. Rather, they were addressed across multiple fields and domains, no less by linguists, legal theorists, and theologians than by Aristotelian philosophers. In response to the different challenges faced by these disciplines, highly sophisticated and more specialized areas emerged, comparable to what nowadays would be referred to as semantics, pragmatics, and hermeneutics, to name but a few – fields of research that are pursued to this day and still flourish in some of the traditional schools. Philosophy of language, thus, has been a major theme throughout Islamic intellectual culture in general; a theme which, probably due to its trans-disciplinary nature, has largely been neglected by modern research. This book brings together for the first time experts from the various fields involved, in order to explore the riches of this tradition and make them accessible to a broader public interested both in philosophy and the history of ideas more generally.

Download or read book Paul and the Hermeneutics of Faith written by Francis Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scholars from both Christian and Jewish backgrounds have tried to rethink the relationship between earliest Christianity and its Jewish milieu; and Paul has emerged as a central figure in this debate. Francis Watson contributes to this scholarly discussion by seeing Paul and his Jewish contemporaries as, above all, readers of scripture. However different the conclusions they draw, they all endeavour to make sense of the same normative scriptural texts - in the belief that, as they interpret the scriptural texts, the texts will themselves interpret and illuminate the world of contemporary experience. In that sense, Paul and his contemporaries are standing on common ground. Far from relativizing their differences, however, it is this common ground that makes such differences possible. In this new edition Watson provides a comprehensive new introduction entitled 'A Response to My Critics' in which he directly engages with the critics of the previous edition. There is a substantial new Preface and two new Appendices, and the text has been fully revised throughout.

Download or read book Praise Israel for Wisdom and Instruction written by Benjamin Givens Wright and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together fifteen articles representing the major thrusts of Prof. Wright's work over the last decade. They focus on three interrelated themes in the study of Early Judaism. (1) Translation. Several essays treat Jewish translation strategies as well as some of the social frameworks within which translation took place. (2) Social Location. The effort to locate texts in their social landscapes has helped to break down many traditional scholarly categories. Especially pertinent are the ways that wisdom and apocalyptic relate to each other, and he explores how specific wisdom and apocalyptic texts relate. (3) Transmission of Tradition. Several articles focus on how traditional material was shaped and framed in order to ensure its successful transmission to subsequent generations.

Download or read book Baha u llah in His Own Words written by Peter Terry and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Baháâuâlláh (1817-1892), founder of the modern religion called the Baháâà Faith by its adherents.

Download or read book Hearing the Voice of God written by Mordecai Schreiber and published by Jason Aronson, Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-04-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hearing the Voice of God: In Search of Prophecy, Mordecai Schreiber examines the roots of the prophetic tradition in Judaism and demonstrates how it has influenced the prophets of later religions, how its tenets have been replicated by major social and political figures of recent centuries, and how it ultimately has the power to define each person’s understanding of his or her responsibilities as a member of the human race. This is an important text for anyone who wishes to understand the Jewish prophetic tradition that has informed the development of today’s world religions and societal laws.

Download or read book Authoritative Scriptures in Ancient Judaism written by Mladen Popović and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many scholars of the Second Temple period have replaced the concept of canonization by that of canonical process. Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been crucial for this new direction. Based on this new evidence taxonomic terms like biblical, nonbiblical or parabiblical seem anachronistic for the period before 70 C.E. The notion of authoritative Scriptures plays an important part in the new paradigm of canonical process, but it has not yet been sufficiently reflected upon and is in need of clarification. Why were some texts more authoritative than others? For whom and in what contexts were texts authoritative? And what are our criteria to determine to what extent a text was authoritative? In short, what do we mean by “authoritative”? This volume focuses on specific texts or corpora of texts, and approaches the notion of authoritative Scriptures from sociological, cultural and literary perspectives.