Download or read book The Joy of Religion written by Ariel Glucklich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a psychological and historical approach, the book describes the ways that religions deepen and prolong feelings of wellbeing.

Download or read book The Pleasures of Religion written by Henry Forster Burder and published by . This book was released on 182? with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lectures on the Pleasures of Religion written by Henry Forster BURDER and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pleasures of Religion written by Henry Forster Burder and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pleasures of Religion written by Henry Forster Burder and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lectures on the Pleasures of Religion written by Henry Forster BURDER and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pleasures of Religion written by Oliver Prescott Hiller and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Joy of Religion written by Ariel Glucklich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condemn sensory pleasures and the desire for objects of pleasure. In this book, Ariel Glucklich resolves this apparent contradiction by showing how religious practices that instill self-control and discipline transform one type of pleasure into the pleasures of mastery and play. Using historical data and psychological analysis, he details how the rituals, mystical practices, moral teachings, and sacred texts of the world's religions act as psychological instruments that induce well-being. Glucklich also shows that in promoting joy and pleasure, religion also strengthens social bonds and enhances an individual's pursuit of meaning.

Download or read book The Pleasures of Religion a Poem with Other Poems written by Thomas Oliver PRESCOTT (afterwards HILLER (Oliver Prescott)) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pleasantness of a Religious Life Opened and Proved written by Matthew Henry and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pleasures of Religion and Other Poems written by Oliver Prescott Hiller and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Pleasures of Religion A Poem 1832 written by Susan Linn De Witt and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Download or read book The Pleasures of God written by John Piper and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia

Download or read book The Pleasures of Religion with Other Poems written by Hugh Stowell (Rector of Christ Church, Salford.) and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rural Christian Or the Pleasures of Religion An Allegorical Poem To which are Added Sylvan Letters Or the Benefits of Retirement By a Young Gentleman written by CHRISTIAN. and published by . This book was released on 1772 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pleasures Evermore written by Sam Storms and published by Tyndale House. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know how to enjoy friends and family, good food, and good times, but do you enjoy being a Christian? Author Sam Storms presents a fresh and liberating perspective on why a relationship with God is not only possible but also irresistibly pleasurable. Once you discover that God delights in your company, your desire for Him will only be satisfied by drawing closer to His unquenchable love through a life of passionate service.

Download or read book Religion for Atheists written by Alain De Botton and published by Signal. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a deeply moving meditation on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. Alain de Botton was brought up in a committedly atheistic household, and though he was powerfully swayed by his parents' views, he underwent, in his mid-twenties, a crisis of faithlessness. His feelings of doubt about atheism had their origins in listening to Bach's cantatas, were further developed in the presence of certain Bellini Madonnas, and became overwhelming with an introduction to Zen architecture. However, it was not until his father's death -- buried under a Hebrew headstone in a Jewish cemetery because he had intriguingly omitted to make more secular arrangements -- that Alain began to face the full degree of his ambivalence regarding the views of religion that he had dutifully accepted. Why are we presented with the curious choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle and effective rituals and practices for which there is no equivalent in secular society? Why do we bristle at the mention of the word "morality"? Flee from the idea that art should be uplifting, or have an ethical purpose? Why don't we build temples? What mechanisms do we have for expressing gratitude? The challenge that de Botton addresses in his book: how to separate ideas and practices from the religious institutions that have laid claim to them. In Religion for Atheists is an argument to free our soul-related needs from the particular influence of religions, even if it is, paradoxically, the study of religion that will allow us to rediscover and rearticulate those needs.