Download or read book Passionate Embrace written by Elisabeth Gerle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestant ethics has often been associated with work and duty, excluding sensuality, sexuality and other pleasures. In an age of body worship as well as body loathing, Elisabeth Gerle explores new paths, embarking on a conversation with Martin Luther in dialogue with contemporary theologians on attitudes towards desire, ethics and politics. She draws on Eros theology to challenge traditional Lutheran stereotypes, such as the dichotomies between different forms of love, as well as between spirit and body. Gerle argues that Luther’s spiritual breakthrough, where grace and gifts of creation became central, provides new meaning to sex and desire as well as to work, body and ordinary life. Women are seen in a new light – as companions, autonomous ethical agents, part of the priesthood of all. This had revolutionary consequences in Europe at the time, and it represents a challenge to contemporary theologies with a nostalgic appetite for austerity, asceticism and female submission. Luther’s erotic and genderfluid language is a healthy challenge to oppressive political structures centred on greed, profit and competition. A revised Scandinavian creation theology and a deep sense of the incarnational mystery are resources for contemporary theology and ethics.

Download or read book Passionate Embrace written by Sandra Vander Schaaf and published by Clements Publishing Group Inc.. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Passionate Embrace: Faith, Flesh, Tango " is a story of desire, intimacy, and transformation, set in the sumptuous world of Argentine Tango. Sandra Vander Schaaf shares the provocative tale of an unexpected love affair with the world's most sensual dance, and an equally unexpected experience of spiritual renewal on the dance floor. This is a vivid, eloquent, honest glimpse of Christian faith and doubt and the exquisite relationship between body and soul. "Captivating, credible, totally without cliches." - Eugene Peterson, author of "The Message and Telling It Slant" "Vander Schaaf daringly compares learning to dance tango with learning to pray; each is a movement of faith. That this venture into physical intimacy was the means of grace that led her to greater spiritual intimacy with God is the refreshing surprise of this striking and moving account of renewal." - Luci Shaw, author of "Breath for the Bones" and "Adventure of Ascent" “Refreshingly different . . . A very honest and brave book . . . . . . intoxicating.” – Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun

Download or read book Passionate Embrace written by Elisabeth Gerle and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luther, passion, and sensualism? In an age of body worship as well as body loathing, Elisabeth Gerle explores new paths. Protestant ethics has often been associated with work and duty, excluding sensuality, sexuality, and other pleasures. Gerle embarks on a conversation with Martin Luther in dialogue with contemporary theologians on attitudes toward body, sensuality, desire, sexuality, life, and politics. She draws on Eros theology to challenge traditional Lutheran stereotypes, such as the dichotomies between different forms of love, as well as between spirit and body. Gerle argues that Luther's spiritual breakthrough, where grace and gifts of creation became central, provides new meaning to sex and desire as well as to work, body, and ordinary life. Women are seen in new light--as companions, autonomous ethical agents, part of the priesthood of all. This had revolutionary consequences in medieval Europe, and it represents a challenge to contemporary theologies with a nostalgic appetite for austerity, asceticism, and female submission. Luther's erotic and gender-fluid language is a healthy challenge to oppressive political structures centered on greed, profit, and competition. A revised Scandinavian creation theology and a deep sense of the incarnational mystery are resources for contemporary theology and ethics.

Download or read book Gandhi s Passion written by Stanley Wolpert and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrates the life and work of India's "Great Soul," focusing on his non-violent struggle to end British imperial domination of India, and offering insight into why modern India has rejected Gandhi's nonviolent idealogies and joined the nuclear arms race.

Download or read book Passion written by Tessa Vidal and published by Lovebird Press. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Passion. I feel it coming off of you in heated waves. Now lift your bow and play these notes using that damned passion to bring out what this piece needs.” After years of struggling, Lilith Crane finally lands a job as a cellist with a major orchestra. To say she is thrilled is an understatement. Everything is coming up roses, until the sexy new conductor, Bella Lombardi, takes a personal interest in her. Normally, she’d be excited by the attention, but every time they’re together, Lilith can’t tell if the conductor wants to help her professionally, or desires something more intimate. Bella Lombardi’s career is flying high now that she’s the musical director of a prominent orchestra. Better yet, there’s a new cellist she can’t take her eyes off. But after a failed romance and family drama, she has sworn off women forever. She can’t deny the heat building between her and Lilith, but the only way to move forward with her desires involves acknowledging a secret she’s kept hidden for years. Passion is the first book in the Playing For Her duet. It’s the story of an insanely talented genius who appears to have it all, but realizes she has nothing without the woman she loves by her side. If you love the works of Jea Hawkins, Hildred Billings, Harper Bliss, or Clare Lydon, this is an excellent choice for you.

Download or read book The Passionate Year written by James Hilton and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book I Dare You written by Joyce Meyer and published by FaithWords. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joyce Meyer explains that a life without purpose is a life not worth living. We all need a reason to get up everyday. We all need to reach for something beyond ourselves. Over the centuries, millions of people have asked, "What am I here for? What is my purpose?" We are born; we live; and we die. We cannot do anything about being born or dying, but we can do a lot about how we live. Download the free Joyce Meyer author app.

Download or read book Bodies Inhabiting the World written by Derek R. Nelson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-11-20 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home offers a multidimensional investigation of how houses, bodies, communities and the whole universe may be conceived and refigured as places where we belong—where we are at home in God’s creation. In this way, revisiting the tradition of Scandinavian creation theology provides profound resources to make theological affirmations of God’s omnipresence in the human condition we all share. The emergence here of an exciting new theological program can be recognized—beyond the limitations of other contemporary agendas' cul-de-sacs, blind spots and diffidence. What it is to have a home is a universal question closely connected to what it means to be human and to live a good, flourishing, life. But the negative experiences of homelessness, broken homes, statelessness and alienation always lurk in the background of the universal quest to find one's home in the world. This book contains fourteen essays exploring the dynamics of the human experience of finding, losing and finding again a home.

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Download or read book Passion s Embrace written by Cassie Edwards and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Historicals 90s. This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passion's Embrace by Cassie Edwards released on Jan 25, 1990 is available now for purchase.

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Download or read book The Magic in My Beating Heart written by Maria Johnsen and published by Maria Johnsen. This book was released on 2024-01-12 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Magic in My Beating Heart" is my ode to the ineffable, an attempt to capture the elusive beauty of love in all its complexities, presented as a collection of short stories in poetic form. It's an invitation to dance with the words, immerse yourself in the ebb and flow of emotions, and discover the magic within your own beating heart. May these poetic tales of love, these short stories in verse, ignite introspection, rekindle memories, and inspire a renewed appreciation for the transformative power of love in all its poetic glory. I hope you enjoy reading these poems.

Download or read book Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence written by Emma Willis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and gender-based violence—and illustrate how it might effectively resist violence through reconfiguring representation. Case studies, which include Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present and Fairview, Ella Hickson’s The Writer and Tim Crouch’s The Author, provide a range of practice-based perspectives on the question of whether theatre is capable of accounting for and expressing the complexities of structural and interpersonal violence as both lived in the body and borne out in society. The book will appeal to scholars and artists working in the areas of violence, theatre and ethics, witnessing, memory and trauma, spectatorship and contemporary dramaturgy, as well as to those interested in both the doubts and dreams we have about the role of theatre in the twenty-first century.

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Download or read book Embracing the World written by Ori Z. Soltes and published by Tughra Books. This book was released on 2013-08-07 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not a comprehensive study of Rumi and Gülen, but it seeks to explore the places where the thought of the one is echoed in the thinking of the other, either overtly or indirectly—and to note ways in which the opposite is true: that Gülen diverges from Rumi. The book is also seeking to suggest some of the larger contexts in which the thinking of both resides. Given the wide-ranging aspects of their respective writings, it should not be surprising if, minimally, we can find important foundation stones in both philosophy and theology in the edifices that they each construct.

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