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Book Inward Apocalypse

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anna Elisabeth Howard
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2022-07-14
  • ISBN : 1666735817
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Inward Apocalypse written by Anna Elisabeth Howard and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-14 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I wish I could still believe in God, but I can’t be a Christian anymore because of ______” Fill-in-the-blank with racism, misogyny, homophobia, toxic capitalism, and so on. I’ve had this conversation with different people almost word-for-word over and over. White American Christianity has so defined God that many people cannot separate God from the toxic theology they were taught. But this isn’t the God I see in the Bible. The Bible shows us a God meeting people where they are and nudging them towards justice and total thriving for all: shalom. The Bible details arcs of justice and societal reform. If we understand how radical those arcs were in the context of the day, we can extend them forward into the future and figure out how to work for justice, total thriving, and societal reformation in our day. I grew up in that first world view. Come along, and I’ll tell you the story of how I escaped, and I’ll show you a theology that I believe paints a more accurate picture: a faith for the common good where everyone thrives and no one is left out.

Book Apocalyptic Geographies

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  • Author : Jerome Tharaud
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-10-13
  • ISBN : 0691200106
  • Pages : 358 pages

Download or read book Apocalyptic Geographies written by Jerome Tharaud and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evangelical Space. Thomas Cole and the Landscape of Evangelical Print -- Abolitionist Mediascapes: The American Anti-Slavery Society and the Sacred Geography of Emancipation -- The Human Medium: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the New-York Evangelist -- Geographies of the Secular. Pilgrimage to the 'Secular Center': Tourism and the Calvinist Novel -- Cosmic Modernity: Henry David Thoreau, the Missionary Memoir, and the Heathen Within -- The Sensational Republic: Catholic Conspiracy and the Battle for the Great West -- Epilogue.

Book Mysterious Apocalypse

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  • Author : Arthur W. Wainwright
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2001-03-13
  • ISBN : 1579106242
  • Pages : 295 pages

Download or read book Mysterious Apocalypse written by Arthur W. Wainwright and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No part of the Bible is more controversial than the book of Revelation, or, as it is often called, the Apocalypse. For eighteen hundred years it has given rise to conflicting interpretations, and in the late twentieth century it is as controversial as ever.

Book Imagining Apocalypse

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  • Author : NA NA
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-04-30
  • ISBN : 1137076577
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Imagining Apocalypse written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment. Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age. In particular the essays explore the issue of whether modern apocalypse is seen as an ending or a beginning, considered under its political, ethnic and gendered aspects. Among the writers covered are H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and such contemporary figures as Michael Moorcock, J. G. Ballard and Storm Constantine.

Book John Woolman and the Government of Christ

Download or read book John Woolman and the Government of Christ written by Jon R. Kershner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the United States. Woolman's antislavery position was only one essential piece of his comprehensive theological vision for colonial American society. Drawing on Woolman's entire body of writing, Jon R. Kershner reveals that the theological and spiritual underpinnings of Woolman's alternative vision for the British Atlantic world were nothing less than a direct, spiritual christocracy on earth, what Woolman referred to as "the Government of Christ." Kershner argues that Woolman's theology is best understood as apocalyptic-centered on a supernatural revelation of Christ's immediate presence governing all aspects of human affairs, and envisaging the impending victory of God's reign over apostasy. John Woolman and the Government of Christ explores the theological reasoning behind Woolman's critique of the burgeoning trans-Atlantic economy, slavery, and British imperial conflicts, and fundamentally reinterprets 18th-century Quakerism by demonstrating the continuing influence of early Quaker apocalypticism.

Book The Apocalypse within

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  • Author : Alastair Hamilton
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Apocalypse within written by Alastair Hamilton and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Healing from Visionary Psychosis

Download or read book Healing from Visionary Psychosis written by Marie de la Maare and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-01-24 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary Psychosis or Spiritual and Psychological Emergence have next to their beauty also very painful aspects often leaving the emergent person deeply traumatized. This book is a personal account of a 50 year old woman and artist on her way of healing from her trauma from the negative aspects of her emergence, her movement back into life. The book is intended as inspiration for all those healing from the traumas of their psychosis, especially from Visionary Psychosis. In addition the book includes excerpts from earlier writings of Marie, giving an in depth look at the inside of emergence. The book concludes with visions for a more humane practice with emergent human beings. This book is insightful and a gentle and pensive inspiration to all those recovering from a Spiritual and Psychological Emergence, finding their way back into life whilst understanding their personal stories. This book is resilience building.

Book Thoreau s Ecstatic Witness

Download or read book Thoreau s Ecstatic Witness written by Alan D. Hodder and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was continuously fed by deeper spiritual currents. But scholars have since focused almost exclusively on Thoreau’s literary, political, and scientific contributions. This book offers the first in-depth study of Thoreau’s religious thought and experience. In it Alan D. Hodder recovers the lost spiritual dimension of the writer’s life, revealing a deeply religious man who, despite his rejection of organized religion, possessed a rich inner life, characterized by a sort of personal, experiential, nature-centered, and eclectic spirituality that finds wider expression in America today. At the heart of Thoreau’s life were episodes of exhilaration in nature that he commonly referred to as his ecstasies. Hodder explores these representations of ecstasy throughout Thoreau’s writings—from the riverside reflections of his first book through Walden and the later journals, when he conceived his journal writing as a spiritual discipline in itself and a kind of forum in which to cultivate experiences of contemplative non-attachment. In doing so, Hodder restores to our understanding the deeper spiritual dimension of Thoreau’s life to which his writings everywhere bear witness.

Book The New Leviathans

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  • Author : John Gray
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 2023-11-07
  • ISBN : 0374609748
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book The New Leviathans written by John Gray and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions. Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities. In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of near apoplectic triumphalism in the West: a genuine belief that a rational, liberal, well-managed future now awaited humankind and that tyranny, nationalism, and unreason lay in the past. Since then, so many terrible events have occurred and so many poisonous ideas have flourished, and yet our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations that will somehow dissolve. Hobbes would not be so confident. Filled with fascinating and challenging observations, The New Leviathans is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly. As a species we always seem to be struggling to face the reality of base and delusive human instincts. Might a more self-aware, realistic, and disabused ethics help us?

Book South American Journals

Download or read book South American Journals written by Allen Ginsberg and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America When Allen Ginsberg went to South America in 1960, ostensibly to attend a literary conference, he had a different kind of trip in mind. This would be another experience in the Beat poet’s journey deep into the realm of consciousness, the inward travel explored to exhilarating effect in his writing—whether in the poetry that had already earned him international acclaim or in the idiosyncratic journals that raised self-documentation to a new form of art. In his South American Journals, covering a tumultuous six months, Ginsberg describes his travels through Chile and Peru, his visit to Machu Picchu, and his search for a source for ayahuasca, or yagé, a mind-expanding drug recommended by his friend William S. Burroughs, another writer well traveled in altered states of consciousness. Far from quotidian diary entries, Ginsberg’s observations in these pages, interspersed with poetry, dream notations, and musings about spirituality, amount to a critical chapter in the poet’s informal autobiography. Writing more during these six months than in any of his other journals, Ginsberg summons great ferment. In his distinctive accounts of all that he encounters, elevating travel writing to lyrical expression; in an abundance of poems published here for the first time, in both first drafts and polished forms; in his reports of fascinating conversations; and, in particular, in detailed passages that delve into inner recesses of his consciousness, Ginsberg recreates a journey like no other, one that reflects the workings of one of the best minds of his generation in the world of his own making and in its mysterious, immutable counterpart in the South American landscape.

Book Consolations  Or Leaves from the Tree of Life

Download or read book Consolations Or Leaves from the Tree of Life written by John Cumming and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Apocalypse Within

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  • Author : Alastair Hamilton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Apocalypse Within written by Alastair Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sublime

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  • Author : Harold Bloom
  • Publisher : Infobase Publishing
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 1604134437
  • Pages : 315 pages

Download or read book The Sublime written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sublime in literature is described as the sense of awe that is evoked in the presence of great power and grandeur in nature or in art. In this engaging new volume, the role of the sublime is discussed in ""Emma"", ""Ode to the West Wind"", ""Song of Myself"", and many other works. Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, each book in the new Bloom's ""Literary Themes"" series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.

Book The Rites of Assent

Download or read book The Rites of Assent written by Sacvan Bercovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic, cross-cultural approach, The Rites of Assent traces the meanings and purposes of "America" back to the colonial typology of mission, and specifically (in chapters on Puritan rhetoric, Cotton Mather, Jonathan Edwards, and the movement from Revival to Revolution) to the legacy of early New England.

Book Early Quakers and their Theological Thought

Download or read book Early Quakers and their Theological Thought written by Stephen W. Angell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-08 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.

Book The Reformation of the Heart

Download or read book The Reformation of the Heart written by SARAH. APETREI and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the seventeenth-century English Revolution. Examining published works and previously unexplored archival material, Sarah Apetrei shows the transformative role that women played in religious reform during the period.

Book The Apocalypse Within

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  • Author : Vincent Justino DiTizio
  • Publisher : Pleasant Word
  • Release : 2010-11-17
  • ISBN : 9781414118512
  • Pages : 188 pages

Download or read book The Apocalypse Within written by Vincent Justino DiTizio and published by Pleasant Word. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early interpretation of the Revelation has the whole book happening inside of us as Christ destroys our sinful nature. The Revelation can become the most powerful book for our daily Christian life. Includes practical methods from the earliest Christians.