Download or read book Loosening the Roots of Compassion written by Ellen Bradshaw Aitken and published by Cowley Publications. This book was released on 2006-02-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is Holy Week and Eastertide reading to which you will return time and again. Here is real nourishment for body, mind, and soul, and for the remaking of the world. Ellen Bradshaw Aitken’s meditations will “help you to send forth deep roots from your life into scripture and into the contemplation of Jesus’ risen life. . . . Take what you need to help you pray your life and to discern new pathways of the resurrection in yourself and in the world around you—to loosen the roots of compassion within your heart.” These meditations sing that “the resurrection is somehow at work everywhere,” building in us a new creation. Beautifully written, deeply considered, they invite us to tilt and turn the scriptural text as though it were a hologram—and then to do the same with our lives in light of those texts.
Download or read book Imagining the Fetus written by Vanessa R Sasson and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In contemporary Western culture, the word "fetus" introduces either a political subject or a literal, medicalized entity. Neither of these frameworks does justice to the vast array of religious literature and oral traditions from cultures around the world in which the fetus emerges as a powerful symbol or metaphor. This volume presents essays that explore the depiction of the fetus in the world's major religious traditions, finding some striking commonalities as well as intriguing differences. Among the themes that emerge is the tendency to conceive of the fetus as somehow independent of the mother's body — as in the case of the Buddha, who is described as inhabiting a palace while gestating in the womb. On the other hand, the fetus can also symbolically represent profound human needs and emotions, such as the universal experience of vulnerability. The authors note how the advent of the fetal sonogram has transformed how people everywhere imagine the unborn today, giving rise to a narrow range of decidedly literal questions about personhood, gender, and disability.
Download or read book Living Into Hope written by Joan B. Campbell and published by SkyLight Paths Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspires and challenges us to live life fully--not carefully or cautiously, but wholly engaged with the world and with the messiness of humanity--and dares us to claim our freedom to care, to risk and to step out into the unknown and live as people of hope.
Download or read book Hebrews in Contexts written by Gabriella Gelardini and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars of Hebrews have repeatedly echoed the almost proverbial saying that the book appears to its reader as a "Melchizedekian being without genealogy". For such scholars the aphorism identified prominent traits of Hebrews, its enigma, its otherness, its marginality. Although Franz Overbeck might unintentionally have stimulated such correlations, they do not represent what his dictum originally meant. Writing during the high noon of historicism in 1880, Overbeck lamented a lack of historical context, one that he had deduced on the basis of flawed presuppositions of the ideological frameworks prevalent of his time. His assertion made an impact, and consequently Hebrews was not only "othered" within New Testament scholarship, its context was neglected and by some, even judged as irrelevant altogether. Understandably, the neglect created a deficit keenly felt by more recent scholarship, which has developed a particular interest in Hebrews’ contexts. Hebrews in Contexts, edited by Gabriella Gelardini and Harold W. Attridge, is an expression of this interest. It gathers authors who explore extensively on Hebrews’ relations to other early traditions and texts (Jewish, Hellenistic, and Roman) in order to map Hebrews’ historical, cultural, and religious identity in greater, and perhaps surprising detail.
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Roots of Transformation written by Robin Stockitt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-19 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The call towards transformation lies at the heart of the Christian message. It is a call to create something beautiful that bears all the hallmarks of the kingdom of heaven. The journey towards transformation however is a demanding one, requiring us to engage in a process of negotiation with a number of key issues. These issues cluster around the themes of Narrative, Permission, Discomfort, Culture, Language, Other, and Silence. This book explores these themes in the company of brave individuals who have shared their own stories as well as some significant thinkers who have already left their mark on our world.
Download or read book Utopia written by Thomas More and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-03 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Download or read book Thirty Sermons on the Prophecies of Jonah Amos the First Five Chapters of Hosea written by William Drake (M.A., Lecturer of St. John's, Coventry.) and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Four Seasons of the Heart written by Cynthia J. Morton and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2016-08-08 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within this quartet of books that I have titled The Four Seasons of The Heart, I will share the deepest pivotal parts of my journey as a recovering alcoholic/addict and survivor of childhood abuse with you. One day at a time, I have lived clean and sober consistently since 1995. However, allowing myself to emotionally grow by not just giving but also receiving love and to genuinely feel deserving of my life’s hard-earned rewards, has presented many challenges. Please allow me as we journey through these pages together to suggest ways that we can heal our heart, dust off our doubt, intercept self-sabotage and invest in self-respect.
Download or read book Leyden Studies in Sinology written by Wilt Lukas Idema and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1981 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spurgeon s Sermons Volume 06 1860 written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Spurgeon was one of the most evangelical and puritan of protestant minister's in the 19th century. In the sixth volume of these series of sermons: these charismatic and inspiring sermons are enough to encourage, convict and inspire anyone who seeks a closer and more intimate relationship with God.
Download or read book The Politics of Compassion and Transformation written by Dick W. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our time, we require a religion, ethics, and politics adequate to confront the global crises we face. In our scientific era of "progress," we might expect to look with confidence to the "scientific" disciplines of political science, sociology, and economics to solve the problems of our civilization. We might also look to the older disciplines of religion and ethics to determine our values and to tell us what we ought to do. But the sad truth is that the dominant paradigms, methods, and conclusions of the social sciences and humanities are inadequate to this task. We need a new "politics of compassion and transformation."
Download or read book Sacred Unions written by Thomas E. Breidental and published by Cowley Publications. This book was released on 2006-06-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sacred Unions is a book about true love. By true love—or romance—the author refers to sexual passion that deepens into the permanent union of two persons in heart, body, and mind. The book is therefore addressed to all true lovers: straight or gay, deep into the adventure of a shared life or just contemplating it, or emerging out of a failed attempt. Lifelong union, Breidenthal asserts, is of central importance in all circumstances; and it remains a viable option for all of us, no matter who we are or what our story is.
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Download or read book Jewels of the Middle Way written by James B. Apple and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jewels of the Middle Way documents an important tradition of Madhyamaka and provides insight into both the late Indian Buddhist blend of Madhyamaka and tantra and the Kadampa school founded by the Indian Buddhist master Atisa. This book presents a detailed contextualization of the Madhyamaka (Middle Way) school in India and Tibet, along with translations of several texts in the Bka’ gdams gsung ’bum (Collected Works of the Kadampas), recently recovered Tibetan manuscripts that are attributed to Atisa and Kadampa commentators. These translations cohere around Atisa’s Madhyamaka view of the two realities and his understanding of the practice and the nature of the awakening mind. The book is organized in three parts based on the chronology of Atisa’s teaching of Madhyamaka in India and Tibet: (1) Lineage Masters, the Mind of Awakening, and the Middle Way; (2) Articulating the Two Realities; and (3) How Madhyamikas Meditate. Each part focuses on a specific text, or set of texts, specifically related to Atisa’s Middle Way. The authorship and date of composition for each work is discussed along with an outline of the work’s textual sources followed by an analysis of the content.
Download or read book Mantra Manual written by Som Ranchan and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mantra Manual Explains Mantra Not Only From The Viewpoint Of Traditional, Scriptural Formulations, But Also From Depth Psychological Perspectives To Make The Subject Relevant To Our Times. It Gives Twelve Mantras, Along With Their Meanings, In One Chapter. However, Over-Elucidation Of The Mantras Has Been Avoided To Provide Space For Personal Meanings Created By The Mantrin As They Life Experiences. The Mantra Manual Devotes A Chapter To The Mantra'S Effect On One'S Bhavas That Alters They Very Grammar Of Relationships And Bestows Superior, Introspective Insights Into The Business, In Depth And Details, The Implication Of Sadhana In The Context Of Dharma, Artha, Kama And Moksha. The Mantra Manual Also Focusses On The Onstacles In The Sadhana And Suggest Ways On How To Remove Them Through Dealogue Exercises.
