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 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 Higher RMPS Religious Philosophical Questions written by Joe Walker and published by Hodder Gibson. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Modern Studies First Teaching: September 2014 First Exam: June 2015 The only resource for Religious and Philosophical Questions at Higher level, written by a bestselling author and expert in the field. 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 practical manner
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 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 275 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 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 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 Miraculous Element in the Gospels written by Alexander Balmain Bruce and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Advancing Towards an Understanding written by Robert L. K. Mazibuko and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The prerequisite for being a Bah is to attempt to live a life that is in accordance with the teachings of that faith. In the human condition, one must have a logical explanation for a principle that lends itself to being lived. This is an attempt at stating thoughts in relation to an exalted theme in terms of what one might perceive, given that one has to have logic to the effort of endeavoring to live the ideal. These explanations are not conclusive and may apply for a certain period and a certain kind of person, and they constitute the writers desire to extend his belief to that which can actually be practiced. Spirituality is not imaginary thought but a practicality. The writer acknowledges that the Creator gave us minds to investigate phenomena because they are understandable and did not createpardon the expressionfor the mere purpose of confusing the minds. It is a perception and a belief that He wants us to know and worship Him. As He is eternal, we must strive to advance eternally toward a fuller understanding of all lessons, admitting that we are human and can do only what is humanly possible at any time.
Download or read book Thou Art That written by Joseph Campbell and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thou Art That is a compilation of previously uncollected essays and lectures by Joseph Campbell that focus on the Judeo-Christian tradition. Campbell explores common religious symbols, reexamining and reinterpreting them in the context of his remarkable knowledge of world mythology.Campbell believed that society often confuses the literal and metaphorical interpretations of religious stories and symbols. In this collection, he eloquently reestablishes these symbols as a means to enhance spiritual understanding and mystical revelation. With characteristic verve, he ranges from rich storytelling to insightful comparative scholarship. Included is editor Eugene Kennedy's classic interview with Campbell in the New York Times Magazine, which originally brought the scholar to the attention of the public.
Download or read book Saints and Their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul written by Raymond Van Dam and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-12 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saints' cults, with their focus on miraculous healings and pilgrimages, were not only a distinctive feature of Christian religion in fifth-and sixth-century Gaul but also a vital force in political and social life. Here Raymond Van Dam uses accounts of miracles performed by SS. Martin, Julian, and Hilary to provide a vivid and comprehensive depiction of some of the most influential saints' cults. Viewed within the context of ongoing tensions between paganism and Christianity and between Frankish kings and bishops, these cults tell much about the struggle for authority, the forming of communities, and the concept of sin and redemption in late Roman Gaul. Van Dam begins by describing the origins of the three cults, and discusses the career of Bishop Gregory of Tours, who benefited from the support of various patron saints and in turn promoted their cults. He then treats the political and religious dimensions of healing miracles--including their relation to Catholic theology and their use by bishops to challenge royal authority--and of pilgrimages to saints' shrines. The miracle stories, collected mainly by Gregory of Tours, appear in their first complete English translations.
Download or read book The Age of Miracles written by Karen Thompson Walker and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY People ∙ O: The Oprah Magazine ∙ Financial Times ∙ Kansas City Star ∙ BookPage ∙ Kirkus Reviews ∙ Publishers Weekly ∙ Booklist NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A stunner.”—Justin Cronin “It’s never the disasters you see coming that finally come to pass—it’s the ones you don’t expect at all,” says Julia, in this spellbinding novel of catastrophe and survival by a superb new writer. Luminous, suspenseful, unforgettable, The Age of Miracles tells the haunting and beautiful story of Julia and her family as they struggle to live in a time of extraordinary change. On an ordinary Saturday in a California suburb, Julia awakes to discover that something has happened to the rotation of the earth. The days and nights are growing longer and longer; gravity is affected; the birds, the tides, human behavior, and cosmic rhythms are thrown into disarray. In a world that seems filled with danger and loss, Julia also must face surprising developments in herself, and in her personal world—divisions widening between her parents, strange behavior by her friends, the pain and vulnerability of first love, a growing sense of isolation, and a surprising, rebellious new strength. With crystalline prose and the indelible magic of a born storyteller, Karen Thompson Walker gives us a breathtaking portrait of people finding ways to go on in an ever-evolving world. “Gripping drama . . . flawlessly written; it could be the most assured debut by an American writer since Jennifer Egan’s Emerald City.”—The Denver Post “Pure magnificence.”—Nathan Englander “Provides solace with its wisdom, compassion, and elegance.”—Curtis Sittenfeld “Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Look for special features inside. Join the Circle for author chats and more.
Download or read book The Grace New Testament written by David Kreiling and published by David Kreiling. This book was released on 2021-07-23 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Free grace means anyone can receive eternal life the moment they believe Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God. This assures the new believer of an everlasting personal relationship with Jesus Christ (who died on the cross as payment for sin and then overcame death by resurrection). In this new relationship, Jesus delivers the believer, an heir among the family of New Testament church believers, through highs and lows to eternal rewards in the Kingdom of God. This is the simple, plain meaning of New Testament authors. The Holy Spirit helps the believer walk down paths to glorify the Father; from revealed truths to spiritual gifts. Believing in ‘The Great News of Free Grace’ will set you free from certain death for an irrevocable relationship with Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Experience personal communion with the Messiah. Unify life in the person of the Christ. Unify the church in relationship with the Christ. Set the stage for the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ. Fulfill the Great Commission! Spread the Word. Perhaps a 2nd Reformation, based on the plain meaning of the New Testament, goes viral tomorrow? Read Mr. Kreiling's topical books that copy passages from THE GRACE NEW TESTAMENT. Enjoy ONE STEP to eternal life and JESUS RICH on money and wealth. Look to the The Grace New Testament: Basic Version for simple formatting. Today, wonderful authors like Max Lucado, Dave Anderson, Charles Ryrie, Charlie Bing, Charles Stanley, Charles Ryrie (Ryrie Study Bible), Tony Evans (Study Bible), Creflo Dollar, Andrew Farley and Andrew Wommack keep the fire of free grace evangelism lit. Others; like David Jeremiah, Amanda Grace, David Platt, Sid Roth, Joel Osteen, Franklin Graham, Robert Morris, Rick Warren, Jack Deere, Ed Young, Beth Moore, TD Jakes, Joyce Meyer, Tim Keller, Jack Graham and radio host June Hunt, along with Baptist ministers like Kerry Shook, Matt Chandler and many, many others evangelize to the glory of God. Reformed luminaries like John MacArthur, John Piper and RC Sproul, plus recent insightful New Testament translations like NT Wright’s Kingdom New Testament, Hal Taussig’s New New Testament and David Bentley Hart’s translation interpret the text quite differently from THE GRACE NEW TESTAMENT. And bibles like the NIV, NET, ESV, NRSV, The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament, Phillips New Testament in Modern English and the Passion New Testament Translation possess amazing qualities. The HCSB, NASB, NKJV and Good News Holy Bible add precision and clarity to the evangelical message. The Message by Eugene Peterson brilliantly adjusted interpretative assumptions to forge a biblical-literary paraphrase analogous to David Kreiling's biblical-science paraphrase, THE QUANTUM NEW TESTAMENT: PARAPHRASE. Compare these respected authors, books, messages and translations, along with so many others to THE GRACE NEW TESTAMENT.
Download or read book The Source of Miracles written by Kathleen McGowan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-11-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The real secret to happiness and abundance has been hiding in plain sight, and you already know it by heart. New York Times bestselling author Kathleen McGowan’s transformative new book unlocks the hidden power of the Lord’s Prayer in seven simple steps. In this brilliant handbook, Kathleen McGowan reveals the true secret to a joyous and fulfilling life: using the Lord’s Prayer to create real and lasting change in the soul. Each chapter in The Source of Miracles is a guide to one of the seven steps in the process, corresponding to a primary teaching of the prayer: FAITH: Understand that you are part of God’s plan SURRENDER: Find the ultimate liberation and peace SERVICE: Create heaven on earth through your own good works ABUNDANCE: Attract joy and fulfillment through gratitude FORGIVENESS: Release anger and resentment OVERCOMING OBSTACLES: Know that you can master temptation LOVE: Tap into the greatest power of all Featuring meditations, affirmations, and other activities designed to help readers work through life’s challenges.
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.
