Download or read book God and the Poetic Ego written by Anthony Hirst and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Greek Bible and the services of the Orthodox Church have proved a rich source of language for many poets of modern Greece, and perhaps for none more than for Kostis Palamas, Angelos Sikelianos and Odysseas Elytis, whose overlapping careers span the period 1876-1996. A blurring of the boundaries between Orthodoxy and 'Greekness' (hellênikotêta, which all three poets celebrate) has often led critics to assume from the Christian borrowings in the poetry the Christian allegiance of the poets. Through detailed analyses of selected poems, focusing on their relation to Biblical and liturgical source texts, this book questions whether the work of these poets is compatible with Christianity at all. It asks whether a Christ who is assimilated, along with the Virgin Mary, into the ancient Greek pantheon, or presented as a symbol of Beauty, or as object of the erotic desire of the women of the Gospels is still within the realm of Orthodoxy. Above all it asks whether, when the poetic ego appropriates to itself words which in their original context belong to Christ or Jehovah, there is any room left for the divine, or whether the poet has not in fact elbowed God off the stage altogether.
Download or read book The Meaning of God written by Doris Kessler and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Millenia, mankind has searched for a God, a Creator, a loving Source, the Life force where it all started. Many organized religions and faiths were trying their best to show a way, to show a path back to Love. Yet still today, humankind faces a world of war, violence, suffering and pain, a world of disconnection from that loving Source. What is God or Source, and where can we find it? This question has inspired the author, and in this book, Doris is sharing the finding of her own way to reconnect with this loving Source within that lives inherently in all of us, no matter what skin color, race or religion we are. Along with the poetry of her Ally Rumi, Doris’ easy to follow book guides the reader lovingly home to ones own divinity, sharing not only her experiences, but also using Rumi’s mystical understanding of God, and where God, or Source, can be found in the end. Since all is One and One is all, Doris explains the meaning of God/Source on all different aspects of Life, inspiring the reader to go deep within to that sacred place where God resides within all of us and in all of Life.
Download or read book God and the Poets written by David Daiches and published by Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God and I Exploring the Connections Between God Self and Ego written by Philip St. Romain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-11-28 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we use the terms "God," "Self" and "Ego"? To what experiences do these terms point? What are the relationships between them? This book by Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min., goes beyond semantics to provide an experiential approach to understanding "God," "Self" and "Ego." It also situates this understanding in an anthropology that will be agreeable to most psychologists and Christian spiritual directors. Different "zones of intimacy" between God, Self and Ego are identified, each with differing requirements. Questions for reflection and discussion conclude each chapter, along with several suggested spiritual exercises.
Download or read book God Self and Ego written by Philip St. Romain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-04-22 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean by the terms God, Self and Ego? The answer depends on one's view of human nature and its relationship to the divine. Using the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas to qualify his terms, author Philip St. Romain describes different possible relationships between God, Self and Ego, and the disciplines to support these.
Download or read book The Poetic Heart of God written by Sophia Nicole Barrett-Benton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a must read!!! Dont let the word poetry fool you! This book is inspiring, encouraging, empowering, life-changing, powerful, profound, prophetic poetry that points to Christ. This is not your average book of poems. These words are God-inspired! You must be careful how you speak over your life and who you allow to speak into your life! Words live! Words have the ability to create, produce, form and construct. The words in this book does that and more! They give life to lifeless situations! Words can also destroy, demolish, tear down, remove and eliminateultimately death can occur because of spoken words! How many of you need some things to die out of your life like sickness, disease, pain, and turmoil? There is absolutely no way you can read this book and the Words not come alive in your spirit! To read this book is to be healed, to be restored, to be revived, to be delivered, to be set free from strongholds and addictions! This book will create fresh vision for your life, birth new revelation in your spirit, and produce fruit in your life that will remain! This book was written to create new spiritual levels in your life. It will inspire you to transform your mind to think like Christ, remove your stony heart and refashion you a heart of flesh! The words in this book are anointed by God and will destroy, completely demolish the works and ploys of satan, pull down strongholds and generations curses in your life will be removed as well as barriers that try to hinder your progress in God! To read this book you will experience Gods supernatural power in your life! These words bring about a change, a spiritual birthing; they will transform your life even as you read them! This book is full of the Word of God! It will challenge you to re-evaluate your life and make positive, life-long changes that will cause you to rise to new spiritual heights! This book prepares you for your next radical move, your next shift, your next supernatural blessing! The words in this book are anointed to bring about conviction that provokes a God-fearing change, awaken the spirit in you, deposit faith and build your confidence in God! It is time for the body of Christ to rule, subdue, have dominion, take over territory and walk in total VICTORY!
Download or read book The Poetic Theology of Love written by Thomas Hyde and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that current criticism tends to take the mythology of love either too innocently or too skeptically and therefore distorts the complex roles played by the god of love in longer narrative poems and discursive works of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Download or read book The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W B Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos written by Anastasia Psoni and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-19 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernism, as a powerful movement, saw the literary and artistic traditions, as well as pure science, starting to evolve radically, creating a crisis, even chaos, in culture and society. Within this chaos, myth offered an ordered picture of that world employing symbolic and poetic images. Both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos embraced myth and symbols because they liberate imagination and raise human consciousness, bringing together humans and the cosmos. Being opposed to the rigidity of scientific materialism that inhibits spiritual development, the two poets were waiting for a new age and a new religion, expecting that they, themselves, would inspire their community and usher in the change. In their longing for a new age, archaeology was a magnetic field for Yeats and Sikelianos, as it was for many writers and thinkers. After Sir Arthur Evans’s discovery of the Minoan Civilization where women appeared so peacefully prominent, the dream of re-creating a gynocentric mythology was no longer a fantasy. In Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the feminine figure appears in various forms and, like in a drama, it plays different roles. Significantly, a gynocentric mythology permeates the work of the two poets and this mythology is of pivotal importance in their poetry, their poetics and even in their life as the intensity of their creative desire brought to them female personalities to inspire and guide them. Indeed, in Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the image of the feminine holds a place within a historical context taking the reader into a larger social, political and religious space.
Download or read book Survival Is a Style written by Christian Wiman and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named as a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Literary Supplement Survival Is a Style, Christian Wiman’s first collection of new poems in six years, may be his best book yet. His many readers will recognize the musical and formal variety, the voice that can be tender and funny, credibly mystical and savagely skeptical. But there are many new notes in this collection as well, including a moving elegy to the poet’s father, sharp observations and distillations of modern American life, and rangy poems that merge and juxtapose different modes of speech and thought. The cumulative effect is extraordinary. Reading Survival Is a Style, one has the sense one is encountering work that will become a permanent part of American literature.
Download or read book Poems about God written by John Crowe Ransom and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Existentia Hermeneutica written by Andrzej Wiercinski and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existentia hermeneutica is phronetic existence with the aim of cultivating practical wisdom in human life: It comes from life, influences life, and transforms life. Understanding what is happening in life requires reaching the hermeneutic truth, which is the truth of understanding. The experience of hermeneutic truth calls for personal commitment and existential response, and, thus, expresses the hermeneutic moral imperative. Referring to Heidegger’s phenomenological analytics of Dasein, Gadamer emphasizes that understanding is not only one of the human capabilities, but a way of Dasein’s being-in-the-world.
Download or read book Literatures of War written by Eve Patten and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The most terrible disaster that one group of human beings can inflict on another is war. Wars cause misery on an indescribable scale. Yet we go on doing it to one another, generation after generation. Why? Warfare is a recurrent and universal characteristic of human existence. The mythologies of practically all peoples abound in wars and the superhuman deeds of warriors, and pre-literate communities apparently delighted in the recital of stories about battles. Since our species became literate a mere 5,000 years ago, written history has mostly been the history of wars. Thousands who knew war evidently sickened of it and dreamt of lasting peace, expressing their vision in literature and art, in philosophy and religion. They imagined Utopias freed of martial ambition and bloodshed which harked back to the Golden Age of classical antiquity, to the Christian vision of a paradise lost, and to the Arcadia of Greek and Latin poetry, so richly celebrated in the canvases of Claude and Poussin. All these things bear eloquent testimony to the human longing for peace, but they have not triumphed over our dreadfully powerful propensity to war.” —from the Introduction by Anthony Stevens In this multi-disciplinary collection of essays on the manifestations of war in poetry, fiction, drama, music and documentaries, scholars and practitioners from an international context describe the transformation of the war experience into chronicles of hope and despair, from Herodotus up to the present day.
Download or read book Language between God and the Poets written by Alexander Key and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the Arabic eleventh-century, scholars were intensely preoccupied with the way that language generated truth and beauty. Their work in poetics, logic, theology, and lexicography defined the intellectual space between God and the poets. In Language Between God and the Poets, Alexander Key argues that ar-Raghib al-Isfahani, Ibn Furak, Ibn Sina (Avicenna), and Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani shared a conceptual vocabulary based on the words ma‘na and haqiqah. They used this vocabulary to build theories of language, mind, and reality that answered perennial questions: how to structure language and reference, how to describe God, how to construct logical arguments, and how to explain poetic affect.
Download or read book Jesus in the Theology of Rowan Williams written by Brett Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brett Gray traces the portrayal of Christ that emerges throughout Williams' diverse writings, including in his engagements with literature and philosophy. What emerges is a vision of Jesus that grows from the roots of the Christian tradition, but is pronounced in a contemporary idiom and sensitive to modern concerns. Although attentive to the broad sweep of the Christian tradition, Williams' Christology is also seen in this book to be a particular British artefact, shaped in dialogue with thinkers such as Donald MacKinnon and Gillian Rose. What is ultimately brought to the surface in this work is the profoundly hopeful, if frequently under-pronounced, eschatology underlying Williams' Christology. Jesus is the “last word”, changing creation's possibilities and summoning it into an endless and vivifying journey.
Download or read book The Middle English Lyric and Short Poem written by Rosemary Greentree and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2001 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Bibliography assembles annotation of collections and criticism of lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and rhymes of everyday life. The Middle English lyrics and short poems form a varied group that ranges over most aspects of life to include lyrics of religious and secular love, carols and songs, and mundane rhymes of everyday life. Thus there are expressionsof devotion, ethereal or earthly, theological expositions, and knowledge needed for life. The poems are disparate and generally anonymous, and their survival owes much to chance. The bibliography assembles neutral annotation of collections and criticism of the works, arranged chronologically to show the course of criticism and the growing appreciation of these poems and all they can tell us. The introduction considers these matters, problems of definitionof the genre, and the isolable lyrics, and seeks to reconcile some first impressions of the poems, as disparate and slight, with the rewards of close study. ROSEMARY GREENTREE is currently Visiting Research Fellow, Dept of English, University of Adelaide.
Download or read book The Invisible God written by John J. Brugaletta and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to being entertaining, these poems pose questions for Christians, whether new converts or seasoned believers. In many cases they can function as a checklist for the depth of one's faith.
Download or read book Poetic Encounters with God written by Andrea Turnboe and published by Winepress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-02-15 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poetry explores God’s unfathomable love for us and the exhilarating relationship we can have with Him.
