Download or read book The Idea of Perfection in Christian Theology written by R. Newton Flew and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-03-02 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of historical Christian teaching relating to the perfection of the soul. It begins with the New Testament, and with the recorded teaching of Christ, which contemplated for his disciples Òa life lived on the level of miracle.Ó The rest of the book is concerned to trace the history of this idea of perfection in the history of the historic church, first in the writings of St. Paul and St. John, then in the Fathers, in the ideal of Monastic life, through Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to the Reformation, to St. Francis de Sales, FŽnelon, Law, the Quakers and the Methodists, and on to the present day.

Download or read book Freemasonry its Symbolism Religious Nature and Law of Perfection written by Chalmers I. Paton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Download or read book 5 Paths to Perfection written by Swami Vivekananda and published by Naveena C K. This book was released on with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Paths to Perfection is a comprehensive collection of Swami Vivekananda's teachings on Raja Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Jnana Yoga and Practical Vedanta. These 5 paths can be taken by the seekers of Truth to arrive at perfection.

Download or read book The Idea of Perfection written by Paul Valéry and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look into the monumental work of Paul Valéry, one of the major French literary figures of the twentieth century. Heir to Mallarmé and the symbolists, godfather to the modernists, Paul Valéry was a poet with thousands of readers and few followers, great resonance and little echo. Along with Rilke and Eliot, he stands as a bridge between the tradition of the nineteenth century and the novelty of the twentieth. His reputation as a poet rests on three slim volumes published in a span of only ten years. Yet these poems, it turns out, are inseparable from another, much vaster intellectual and artistic enterprise: the Notebooks. Behind the published works, behind the uneventful life of the almost forgotten and then exceedingly famous poet, there hides another story, a private life of the mind, that has its record in 28,000 pages of notes revealed in their entirety only after his death. Their existence had been hinted at, evoked in rumors and literary asides; but once made public it took years for their significance to be fully appreciated. It turned out that the prose fragments published in Valéry’s lifetime were not the after-the-fact musings of an accomplished poet, nor his occasional sketchbook, nor excerpts from his private journal. They were a disfigured glimpse of a vast and fragmentary “exercise of thought,” a restless intellectual quest as unguided and yet as persistent, as rigorous, and as uncontainable as the sea that is so often their subject. The Idea of Perfection shows both sides of Valéry: the craftsman of sublimely refined verse, and the fervent investigator of the limits of human intellect and expression. It intersperses his three essential poetic works—Album of Early Verse, The Young Fate, and Charms—with incisive selections from the Notebooks and finishes with the prose poem “The Angel.” Masterfully translated by Nathaniel Rudavsky-Brody, with careful attention to form and a natural yet metrical contemporary poetic voice, The Idea of Perfection breathes new life into poems that are among the most beautiful in the French language and the most influential of the twentieth century.

Download or read book Light on the path to spiritual perfection Additional Articles VIII written by Ray del Sole and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the genuine spiritual seeker: Collection of universal spiritual topics, techniques, questions & answers in 21 books derived from more than 25 years of spiritual practice. Additional Articles VIII - table of contents: The five tathagatas / will and self-determination / realizing new qualities / silence Ð the door to God / working with Akasha / the church and the pagans / science and religion / health treatments / motivation / the back chakras / reason and intuition / the golden goose / the hermaphrodite / and much moreÉ.

Download or read book Modern Painters written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Revelation of the Tree of Life the Theology of Divine Perfection written by Angelina Galassi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of ""The Revelation of the Tree of Life: The Theology of Divine Perfection"" is to show Christians and non-Christians a brief presentation of the fuller sense ""sensus plenior"" of God's revelation that began with the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden and ended in the Triumph of the Cross. The procedure of comparing parallel subjects, the principle of the repetition method, the study of God's perfection, and God's sworn testimonies to man were the methods employed in the composition of this exposition. The Revelation of the Tree of Life takes in the whole work of God's Divine revelation (the Old and New Testaments) and interprets them in context and according to Apostolic tradition. The mystery of the Tree of Life once thought impenetrable to human knowledge will be unveiled. The unveiling of the Tree of Life will reveal God's deeper salvific plan for mankind, which is directly connected with the Institution of the Holy Eucharist. For the Tree of the Cross is the Tree of Life.

Download or read book An Impartial Enquiry Into the Existence and Nature of God written by Colliber and published by . This book was released on 1735 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Liberalism Without Perfection written by Jonathan Quong and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism without Perfection offers an introduction to the debate between liberal perfectionism and political liberalism. This book is a new account and defence of Rawlsian political liberalism, one of the most discussed, but widely misunderstood and criticized theories in contemporary political theory.

Download or read book Pt 1 2 of general principles and of truth written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Pursuit of Perfection written by Seth M. Simisi and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuit of Perfection explores the significance of the perfection motif in the Epistle to the Hebrews. It addresses the controversial interpretation of teleios ("perfection") in Hebrews where this notion is so central to the argument of the book. The investigation examines the meaning of perfection in an attempt to discover its significance on Hebrews theology. The need for the study is the lack of adequate treatment of the subject in the last three decades. The discussion focuses on the precise meaning to be attached to the notion of perfection and its significance for Hebrews interpretation. Through an exploration of major interpretative approaches to the notion of perfection, and its usages in classical world, Second Temple Judaism, and New Testament literature, especially Hebrews. The author argues that the notion of perfection has an eschatological significance and is linked to better provisions of the new covenant, which guarantee believers' salvation and eternal inheritance. The author sums up his argument that the call to pursue the goal of perfection is a call for commitment to the gospel message as Christians of all ages follow the example of the Christ, the one who endured suffering of the cross and its despised shame in order to bring many followers to their future eternal glory.

Download or read book Maximal God written by Yujin Nagasawa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yujin Nagasawa presents a new, stronger version of perfect being theism, the conception of God as the greatest possible being. Although perfect being theism is the most common form of monotheism in the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition its truth has been disputed by philosophers and theologians for centuries. Nagasawa proposes a new, game-changing defence of perfect being theism by developing what he calls the 'maximal concept of God'. Perfect being theists typically maintain that God is an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent being; according to Nagasawa, God should be understood rather as a being that has the maximal consistent set of knowledge, power, and benevolence. Nagasawa argues that once we accept the maximal concept we can establish perfect being theism on two grounds. First, we can refute nearly all existing arguments against perfect being theism simultaneously. Second, we can construct a novel, strengthened version of the modal ontological argument for perfect being theism. Nagasawa concludes that the maximal concept grants us a unified defence of perfect being theism that is highly effective and economical.

Download or read book The Politics of Perfection written by Kimberly Hurd Hale and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film provides an exploration of the relationship between modern technological progress and classical liberalism. Each chapter provides a detailed analysis of a film or novel, including Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Ridley Scott’s Prometheus, Michael Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go, and Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. These works of fiction are examined through the lens of political thinkers ranging from Plato to Hannah Arendt. The compatibility of classical liberalism and technology is questioned, using fiction as a window into Western society’s views on politics, economics, religion, technology, and the family. This project explores the intersection between human nature and creation, particularly artificial intelligence and genetic engineering, using works of literature and film to access cultural concerns. Each of the works featured asks a question about the relationship between technology and creation. Technology also allows humanity to create new types of life in the forms of artificial intelligence and genetically engineered beings. This book studies works of literature and film as evidence of the contemporary unease with the progress of technology and its effect on the political realm.

Download or read book Light on the Path to Spiritual Perfection Book IX written by Ray del Sole and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the genuine spiritual seeker: Collection of universal spiritual topics, techniques, questions & answers in nine books derived from more than 16 years of spiritual practice. Book IX - table of contents: The spirit of unity and the spirit of separation / Jesus, the Quabbalist / Working with the Kundalini Shakti / Karma and fate / Bon Buddhism / Aspects of Mastership / Symbolism of the cross / Saturation and liberty / Merging with God and gods / Improving life / Religion, spiritual traditions and Bardon / Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas / And much more....

Download or read book pt 1 2 Of general principles and Of truth 5th ed written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Study of Man and the Way to Health written by Jirah Dewey Buck and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Light on the path to spiritual perfection Book IV written by Ray del Sole and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05-02 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the genuine spiritual seeker: Collection of universal spiritual topics, techniques, questions & answers in seven books derived from more than 16 years of spiritual practice. Book IV - table of contents: The world today - a critical view / A masterkey to wisdom / God - the divine self / Quabbalah training / The way of realization / Three paths / Meditation techniques for balancing / Training diary / Spiritual assistance / 462 - ritual / Self-defense / Guidance / Astral development / Astral senses / Introspection / Perfect concentration / Forcing chakras / Spiritual attitude / Transformation / And much more...