Download or read book Miracles and Metaphors written by Abū al-Faḍl Gulpāyigānī and published by Kalimat Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Miracles Messages Metaphors written by Norm Carroll and published by BookPros, LLC. This book was released on 2010 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Miracles, Messages and Metaphors, Norm Carroll goes beyond the literal to embrace an interpretation of the Bible that is based on the meaning intended by the sacred author. Carroll probes for us crucial biblical characters and themes to draw spiritual significance from their historical context. Christ becomes an indwelling fulfillment of one's powerful possibilities in love and in truth as lived by Jesus of Nazareth. Truly, this wisdom will help us to solve society's and our own personal struggles and will empower us on our daily journey to Christ.Biblical wisdom, when understood according to the sacred authors' intentions, provides that spiritual insight for which every human heart yearns. Additionally, it sows seeds of solutions for today's seemingly insoluble societal problems. Jesus remains the central bearer of this wisdom and seeks humanity's turning from personal despair, militarism, and unrestrained upward mobility to his wise and invincible truths. This book explores his wisdom with its precious and indispensable treasure.
Download or read book Metaphorical Stories for Child Therapy written by Pat Pernicano and published by Jason Aronson. This book was released on 2010-04-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphorical Stories for Child Therapy: Of Magic and Miracles is a book of creative, memorable metaphorical stories for use in a variety of child treatments, including play therapy, cognitive behavioral interventions, narrative therapy, hypnotherapy, and expressive therapy. The author translates central child therapy issues into metaphorical stories designed to reduce client defensiveness and provide an 'aha' that springboards the client toward insight and change.
Download or read book Divine Logic and Transcendental Metaphor written by Martin Pettet and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a commentary, guide and companion to A Course in Miracles
Download or read book Religion as Metaphor written by David Tacey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biblical stories are metaphorical. They may have been accepted as factual hundreds of years ago, but today they cannot be taken literally. Some students in religious schools even recoil from the "fairy tales" of religion, believing them to be mockeries of their intelligence. David Tacey argues that biblical language should not be read as history, and it was never intended as literal description. At best it is metaphorical, but he does not deny these stories have spiritual meaning. Religion as Metaphor argues that despite what tradition tells us, if we "believe" religious language, we miss religion's spiritual meaning. Tacey argues that religious language was not designed to be historical reporting, but rather to resonate in the soul and direct us toward transcendent realities. Its impact was intended to be closer to poetry than theology. The book uses specific examples to make its case: Jesus, the Virgin Birth, the Kingdom of God, the Apocalypse, Satan, and the Resurrection. Tacey shows that, with the aid of contemporary thought and depth psychology, we can re-read religious stories as metaphors of the spirit and the interior life. Moving beyond literal thinking will save religion from itself.
Download or read book The Source of Miracles written by Kathleen McGowan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-09 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes how to draw on the power of the Lord's Prayer by learning seven lessons that it teaches--faith, surrender, service, abundance, forgiveness, obstacles, and love--in a book that also includes meditations and affirmations.
Download or read book Mining the Metaphors written by John Rosenberger and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2021-09-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dad liked figures of speech. "Any female dog can have pups," my father told me when my parents divorced, which made me a real son of a bitch. The Bible metaphors should consolidate into one big picture. Each one by itself will fail to reveal the gospel truth. The unified picture was unveiled to humanity for the first time, in the first century. It was then that God began to live with His people without regard to nationality or location. This mystery was revealed two millennia ago. It united the people of God; who are called: the church, the temple, the bride, the nation, the holy city, the human body with Christ as head, the household of God and the children of God. It was then that God's people were about to receive the kingdom and rule in the millennium with Christ. So what happened? What's the literal truth? How can we make sense of it all? We even restarted our calendar to signify the dawning of this new creation. Which brings us to the most contentious church topic to date; eschatology. Obviously eschatology verses contain plenty of hard to nail down word pictures. If they were all scientific snapshots, we would all see eye to eye. The requirement to be born again in order to see the kingdom is a graphic illustration that Nicodemus analyzed scientifically. He could not enter back into his mother's womb and be born again could he? And newborns can't see anything anyway. Are we supposed to just throw up our hands and say, "With God all things are possible". After all, a miracle by definition defies science and God is the God of miracles, therefore we can and should take everything scientifically, just like Nicodemus did. Isn't God primarily concerned with science as the way to rule creation with Him? Or should we search for the intended truth behind the figures of speech? Being born by the Holy Spirit was not covered in biology 101. Hyperbole is like hyperrealism whereas a metaphor is an abstraction. A parable is then an extended metaphor and a story is an extended parable. But a story can be real, hyperreal or abstract and still convey a rational truth. It doesn't always have to be a scientific fact or historical story to convey a cognitive truth. The undeveloped mind of a child deals only in the concrete facts of the matter. A child is not born with innate ideas from which he can develop principles. He or she must first of all be introduced to certain hard facts based on the world around him, by the people who raise him. Appreciating the arts comes with maturity. Jesus expected adults to be able to think abstractly and He expected children to have great faith in those adults. When He told the woman at the well that He could give her water that caused her to never thirst again, she noticed that Jesus didn't even have a bucket and the well was deep. When He said tear this temple down and I will rebuild it in three days, they thought He meant the concrete temple of the Holy Spirit, but He meant the body of Christ.
Download or read book Higher RMPS Religious Philosophical Questions Second Edition written by Joe Walker and published by Hodder Gibson. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: RMPS First Teaching: August 2018 First Exam: June 2019 The only resource for RMPS Religious and Philosophical Questions at Higher level, written by a bestselling author and expert in the field. Completely updated for the 2018 SQA specification. This book provides comprehensive coverage of the newly designed CFE Higher in Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies. It is also ideal for students across Scotland studying key topic areas in Religious and Philosophical Questions as part of the broad general education and the senior phase of RME. - Offers a lively, accessible and engaging style with appropriate humour that reflects real-life situations and moral issues - Highlights the importance of dealing with varieties of belief within religious traditions - Deals with up-to-date contemporary and topical issues in a highly sensitive and informative manner
Download or read book Miraculous written by Kevin Charles Belmonte and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kevin Belmonte provides learned insight into the profoundly important history of miracles. Miraculous is a richly researched text of wondrous things that have taken place from ancient times to the present.
Download or read book On Metaphoring written by Wu and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphor familiarizes things strange with things familiar to enrich old things with things newly made familiar. Thus metaphor is an effective intercultural highway without shared thinking-way, for each culture is a specific thinking-way. This volume shows such intercultural communication.
Download or read book Metaphor in Culture written by Zoltán Kövecses and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-02-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To what extent and in what ways is metaphorical thought relevant to an understanding of culture and society? More specifically: can the cognitive linguistic view of metaphor simultaneously explain both universality and diversity in metaphorical thought? Cognitive linguists have done important work on universal aspects of metaphor, but they have paid much less attention to why metaphors vary both interculturally and intraculturally as extensively as they do. In this book, Zoltán Kövecses proposes a new theory of metaphor variation. First, he identifies the major dimension of metaphor variation, that is, those social and cultural boundaries that signal discontinuities in human experience. Second, he describes which components, or aspects of conceptual metaphor are involved in metaphor variation, and how they are involved. Third, he isolates the main causes of metaphor variation. Fourth Professor Kövecses addresses the issue to the degree of cultural coherence in the interplay among conceptual metaphors, embodiment, and causes of metaphor variation.
Download or read book Dictionary of Biblical Imagery written by Leland Ryken and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference work explores the images, symbols, motifs, metaphors, figures of speech, and literary patterns found in the Bible. With over 800 articles by over 100 expert contributors, this is an inviting, enlightening and indispensable companion to the reading, study, contemplation and enjoyment of the Bible.
Download or read book Jesus of Hollywood written by Adele Reinhartz and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the advent of the cinema, Jesus has frequently appeared in our movie houses and on our television screens. Indeed, it may well be that more people worldwide know about Jesus and his life story from the movies than from any other medium. Indeed, Jesus' story has been adapted dozens of times throughout the history of commercial cinema, from the 1912 silent From the Manger to the Cross to Mel Gibson's 2004 The Passion of the Christ. No doubt there are more to come. Drawing on a broad range of movies, biblical scholar Adele Reinhartz traces the way in which Jesus of Nazareth has become Jesus of Hollywood. She argues that Jesus films both reflect and influence cultural perceptions of Jesus and the other figures in his story. She focuses on the cinematic interpretation of Jesus' relationships with the key people in his life: his family, his friends, and his foes. She examines how these films address theological issues, such as Jesus' identity as both human and divine, political issues, such as the role of the individual in society and the possibility of freedom under political oppression, social issues, such as gender roles and hierarchies, and personal issues, such as the nature of friendship and human sexuality. Reinhartz's study of Jesus' celluloid incarnations shows how Jesus movies reshape the past in the image of the present. Despite society's profound interest in Jesus as a religious and historical figure, Jesus movies are fascinating not as history but as mirrors of the concerns, anxieties, and values of our own era. As the story of Jesus continues to capture the imagination of filmmakers and moviegoers, he remains as significant a cultural figure today as he was 2000 years ago.
Download or read book States of Violence written by Fernando Coronil and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the often unrecognized violent foundations of modern nations
Download or read book Heroes of the Age written by David B. Edwards and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwards contends that Afghanistan's troubles derive less from foreign forces and the ideological divisions between groups than they do from the moral incoherence of Afghanistan itself.
Download or read book The Kinship of Nature written by Bliss Carman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Miraculous Element in the Gospels written by Alexander Balmain Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
