Download or read book Love s Confusions written by C. D. C. Reeve and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love's confusions are legion. We promise to love, but we cannot love at will. Love God, we're commanded, but we cannot love on command. And given the vicissitudes of self-love, even if we could love our neighbors as we love ourselves, would it be a good thing to do so? These are a few of the paradoxes that typically lead philosophers to oversimplify love--and that draw C. D. C. Reeve to explore it in all its complexity, searching for the lessons to be found within love's confusions. Ranging from Plato, who wrote so eloquently on the subject, to writers as diverse as Shakespeare, Proust, Forster, Beckett, Huxley, Lawrence, and Larkin, Reeve brings the vast resources of Western literature and philosophy to bear on the question of love. As he explores the origins of Western thought on the subject, he also turns to the origins of individual experience--the relationship of mother and child, the template of all possible permutations of love--and to the views of such theorists as Freud, Melanie Klein, and Carol Gilligan. At the same time, he uses the story of the prototypical absent father, Odysseus, to demonstrate the importance of reconciling a desire for tenderness with a desire for strength if we are to make the most of love's potentials. Looking at love in light of the classical world and Christianity, and in its complex relationship with pornography, violence, sadomasochism, fantasy, sentimentality, and jealousy, Reeve invites us to think more broadly about love, and to find the confusions that inevitably result to be creative rather than disturbing.
Download or read book The Evolution of Confusion written by Meiner and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Loves Confusion and a Combination of Ourselves written by Toddy Hoare and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overcoming Confusion written by Rick Joyner and published by Morningstar Publications Inc.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confusion—it is one of the most devastating enemies of truth and human achievement, crippling even the most brilliant. What constitutes a world of confusion and what is the key to overcoming it? Written with straightforward and biblical wisdom, Overcoming Confusion cuts through confusion’s deceptive fog. This book will help you discern its many sources and symptoms while giving you the tools to live with clarity and purpose every day.
Download or read book OVERCOMING DEPRESSION AND SPIRIT OF CONFUSION written by Betty Mephors and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overcoming depression and Spirit of confusion is a tried and true formula of escape from the demons causing those infirmities as well as a triumphant song secret on the journey after healing takes place. This book also takes you through a journey of extraordinary unexpected spiritual awakening in the end and you will never be the same after reading this book. No other book on depression has this potent combination of spiritual medicinal regiment to deliver from either or both depression and or confusion.
Download or read book Artist in Confusion written by and published by Hemkunt Press. This book was released on with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Following Chaucer written by Lynn Staley and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Chaucer: Offices of the Active Life explores three representative figures—the royal woman, the poet, and the merchant—in relation to the concept of “office,” which Cicero linked to the health of the republic, but Chaucer to that of the common good. Not usually conjoined to the term “office,” these three figures, situated in the active life, were not firmly mapped onto the body politic, which was used to figure a relational and ordered social body ruled by the king, the head. These figures are points of entry into a set of questions rooted in Chaucer’s understanding of his cultural and historical past and in his keen appraisal of the social dynamics of his own time that also reverberate in the centuries after Chaucer’s death. Following Chaucer does not trace influence but uses Chaucer’s likely reading, circumstances, and literary and social affiliations as guides to understanding his poetry, within the context of late medieval English culture and the reshaping of the concept of these particular offices that suited the needs of a future whose dynamics he anticipated. His understanding of the importance of the Ciceronian concept of office within the active life, his profound cultural awareness, and his probing of the foundations of social change provide him with a keen sense of the persistent tensions and inconsistencies that are fundamental to his poetry.
Download or read book The Confusion of Languages written by Siobhan Fallon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone, about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.S. expat community of the Middle East during the rise of the Arab Spring. Both Cassie Hugo and Margaret Brickshaw dutifully followed their soldier husbands to the U.S. embassy in Jordan, but that’s about all the women have in common. After two years, Cassie’s become an expert on the rules, but newly arrived Margaret sees only her chance to explore. So when a fender-bender sends Margaret to the local police station, Cassie reluctantly agrees to watch Margaret’s toddler son. But as the hours pass, Cassie’s boredom and frustration turn to fear: Why isn’t Margaret answering her phone, and why is it taking so long to sort out a routine accident? Snooping around Margaret’s apartment, Cassie begins to question not only her friend’s whereabouts but also her own role in Margaret’s disappearance. With achingly honest prose and riveting characters, The Confusion of Languages plunges readers into a shattering collision between two women and two worlds, affirming Siobhan Fallon as a powerful voice in American fiction and a storyteller not to be missed. “A gripping, cleverly plotted novel with surprising bite.”—Phil Klay “Mesmerizing and devastating....Two military wives must explore a modern-day, cultural labyrinth in this insatiable read.”—Sarah McCoy
Download or read book Lesbians in East Asia written by Diana Khor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the courageous, vibrant similarities and differences of lesbians in East Asia How are same-sex relationships similar or different in the cultures of East Asia? “Lesbians” in East Asia: Diversity, Identities, and Resistance is a unique examination of research and vital issues involving lesbians and lesbianism in East Asia, using perspectives by academics and activists who typically are rarely published in English. Contributing experts from Hong Kong, mainland China, Japan, and Korea discuss a variety of topics, including solidarity and conflicts between lesbians and feminists, identities and identity politics, lesbian lives and families, and representation in mainstream culture. Asia, because of its inherent language and cultural differences from Western society, is a location of a vast unrealized fount of knowledge about same-sex relationships and the societies in which they interact. “Lesbians” in East Asia: Diversity, Identities, and Resistance begins to fill this gap in knowledge, going beyond “East-West” divisions by gathering in one volume studies in Asia lesbian/queer studies of both the West and Asia. The text’s emphasis is on points of connection and cooperation across the cultures within Asia and between this region and other areas of the world. Diverse viewpoints and research on lesbians in China, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan are presented showing issues and concerns that may be different—and often are very similar—to regions beyond those borders. Topics in “Lesbians” in East Asia: Diversity, Identities, and Resistance include: lesbian rights and feminism in Korea emotional damage suffered in family, work, and school contexts, including self-denial analysis of Internet exchanges in China, highlighting those feeling that they should maintain a low profile and others showing disdain toward the lesbian lifestyle gender inequality and discrimination and their effects on self-sufficiency the effects of expectations of marriage or remaining single on economics, legal standpoints, and in school ignorance and intolerance in Korean and Japanese societies identity politics conflicts of ideas between lesbians and feminists and much more! “Lesbians” in East Asia: Diversity, Identities, and Resistance is important, illuminating reading for academics and students in women’s studies, gender studies, queer/sexuality studies, East Asian studies, and activists in feminist movements.
Download or read book Incidence Of Love Demystified And Decoded written by Santosh Jha and published by Santosh Jha. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Million questions in love, about love – How to be sure, I am in love? What does it feel to be in love? Is this true love? Does she/he love me or love me not? What exactly is love? How to be an ideal lover, how to love the best possible way…? All 3Ms – Mystery, Marvel and Magic about love that create 3Cs – Confusion, Conflict and Chaos, now demystified. It is easy, simple, honest and impacting. New millennium; time to Unlearn archaic and populist Perceptions about the celebration of life-living called Love. Contemporary and factually logical Knowledge offers singular answer to millions of questions about Love. This book Deciphers and Decodes everything the idea and reality of Love can take in, to stand you as Empowered-Endowed Lover. Wisdom is Wellness. Let it sink in. What sinks, stays.
Download or read book If You Have Confusion and Emptiness in Your Heart Seek the Light of the Truth II written by Rev. Paul C. Jong and published by Hephzibah Publishing House. This book was released on with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS 1. How to Pray According to the Lord’s Prayer (Matthew 6:5-15) 2. By What Kind of Faith Can We Receive the Remission of Sins Now? (Leviticus 1:1-9) 3. How Has Jesus, the Son of God, Saved Us from the Sins of This World? (Romans 3:25-31) 4. Salvation Fulfilled According to God’s Will (Matthew 11:25-30) 5. Has the Lord Truly Given Us the Remission of Sins and Resurrection? (John 11:1-42) 6. Receive God, Who Is the Word (John 1:1-18) 7. The Lord Wants Us to Be the People of Faith Like Joseph of Arimathea (Luke 23:50-56) 8. The Lord Has Cleansed Our Hearts (John 2:13-22) 9. The Lord Who Became the Sin Offering of Atonement (Isaiah 53:7-12) 10. God’s Providence That Saves Us from Our Sins (Jeremiah 31:31-34) 11. Which Gospel Should We Believe in to Reach Spiritual Maturity? (Exodus 32:25-29) This book explains how much the Nicene Creed, produced at the Council of Nicaea in Late Antiquity, has had a bad influence on Christians today. In this age, in order to meet the truth of being born again, you must study a little more. And you need to know more deeply about the creed of faith that you have believed so far. Now you must find in this book the meaning of Jesus’ baptism by John the Baptist that was omitted from the Nicene Creed. So, it should be an opportunity to receive true salvation and peace in your heart. Now you will discover the true value of the gospel of the water and the Spirit in the baptism that Jesus received. You will come to know more deeply and clearly how the Word of the baptism Jesus received from John the Baptist has affected your soul and you will therefore give glory to God by faith. The New Life Mission https://www.bjnewlife.org
Download or read book Still Sovereign written by Thomas R. Schreiner and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2000-03-01 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between divine sovereignty and the human will is a topic of perennial theological dispute and one that is gaining increased attention among contemporary evangelicals. In Still Sovereign, thirteen scholars write to defend the classical view of God's sovereignty. According to the editors, "Ours is a culture in which the tendency is to exalt what is human and diminish what is divine. Even in evangelical circles, we find increasingly attractive a view of God in which God is one of us, as it were, a partner in the unfolding drama of life. . . . In contrast, the vision of God affirmed in these pages is of one who reigns supreme over all, whose purposes are accomplished without fail, and who directs the course of human affairs, including the central drama of saving a people for the honor of his name, all with perfect holiness and matchless grace." The fourteen chapters of Still Sovereign (originally part of the two-volume, The Grace of God, the Bondage of the Will) are divided into three parts. Part 1 offers fresh exegesis of the biblical texts that bear most directly on the doctrines of election, foreknowledge, and perseverance of the saints. Part 2 explores theological and philosophical issues related to effectual calling, prevenient grace, assurance of salvation, and the nature of God's love. The final section applies the doctrines of election and divine sovereignty to Christian living, prayers, evangelism, and preaching.
Download or read book Identity Confusion of the Gender Type The Way Out written by Arthur (Art) Woods and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2023-03-24 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the Book Identity Confusion of the Gender Type “The Way Out” tells Art Woods’ story of being sexually violated in his youth, and how it brought about gender confusion. Woods shares his insight from a Christian and Biblical perspective on how to gain redemption and transformation without condemnation through Jesus Christ. About the Author Art and wife Debbie of 35 years have a blended family of 3 adult children with extended families. They live in rural North Dakota. Art enjoys the outdoors, gardening and watching various sports; together they raise thoroughbred horses. His background was in Social Work and hers in Nursing. Art & Debbie work together in deliverance and inner healing ministry. Woods felt the call of God shortly after he accepted Jesus as his Savior as a grown man. He identifies as a Born-Again, Spirit-Filled Christian. The Woods have pastored several churches/fellowships since 2000 in Colorado and North Dakota.
Download or read book The Conclusion of My Confusion written by Chantel Philogene and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confusion of The One written by Lawrence T. and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Clear Confusion written by Valerio Carbone and published by Babelcube Inc.. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halfway between a surreal fairy tale and the classic comedy of errors, the “true” story of C., a seventeen-year-old girl who woke up one morning divided into two people. Recurring events and situations, intertwining between small twists, marked page after page by an ironic and fast rhythm. Like that each C. comes to life, splitting in turn into unlimited combinations, each apt to seek completeness without knowing how to renounce her own characteristic choices. A post-modern version of the fable of infinite plurality of worlds.
Download or read book Tales from the Soft Underbelly of Confusion written by Peter A. Barbieri and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007-09-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it mean to have a personality that is slightly skewed? I am not speaking of one that throughout its "earthly" tenure exhibits qualities of excess, be they psychosomatic, anal, psychotic, delusional, or narcissistic; I am speaking of a personality that on occasion, given the depth of emotional entrapment, takes matters to the edge of predictable behavior and beyond, thus shedding light upon the darkness lurking there. Although these qualities might, at times, apply to some or all of the main characters here, they primarily serve as the necessary, yet "impure", ingredients for the alchemist's journey; and as such, they point out the twists and turns of hints and allusions, the oddness of the plots, and, of course, the suggestion of larger, more intangible issues. In Tales from the Soft Underbelly of Confusion, character impurities-and our rigorous attempt to sublimate and repress them-are subtle reminders of the cosmic hoop through which we jump to keep our world ordered and "sane".
