Download or read book Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues Volume Two written by Fr Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ARE YOU ADVANCING IN YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE? Translated from the original Spanish by Fr. Joseph Rickaby, SJ, this book is a tool to help you progress further in your spiritual life. As Jesus exhorted, "You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," and as holy Church teaches, we cannot see Him face-to-face until we, ourselves, are also perfect. We are made in God's image for an incredibly sublime destiny -eternity with our perfect heavenly Father. Starting now... These three volumes present in a clear manner what constitutes perfection, and how to grow in it by the cultivation of the virtues. It is very specific and, by the grace of God, you will gain an immensely profitable understanding of this subject so that you may run in the way of God, heart overflowing with the inexpressible delights of Love. Fr. Alphonsus Rodriguez, born in 1546 (when the Jesuits were elite troops in the battle for the salvation of souls), was a priest of exemplary virtue. In the Society he was entrusted for many years with the high responsibility of care of souls, and exhorting the brethren. The present volumes are the fruit of those labors. From the author: I reflected that it is a practice very much recommended by saints, to read something every day that may promote our spiritual advancement. This being the principal design of the following work, I have laid before you, as clearly and briefly as I was able, such things as are more essential, that it may be useful to all persons in general who aspire to Christian perfection. These will serve as a mirror wherein, if we daily view ourselves, we shall be enabled to correct our imperfections and decorate our souls as will render them most pleasing to the eyes of His Divine Majesty. I call it Practice because things are treated in such a manner as may render the practice very easy. PRACTICE OF PERFECTION AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUES THREE VOLUME SET ISBNs: PAPERBACK: Volume One: 978-1-945275-81-4 Volume Two: 978-1-945275-82-1 Volume Three: 978-1-945275-83-8 HARDBACK: Volume One: 978-1-945275-78-4 Volume Two: 978-1-945275-79-1 Volume Three: 978-1-945275-80-7

Download or read book The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection written by Alfonso Rodríguez and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues written by Alfonso Rodríguez and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Selections Volume II written by Frances De Sales and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Part II of the Treatise: ""Treatise on the Love of God"", an authoritative work which reflects perfectly the mind and heart of Francis de Sales as a great genius and a great saint. It contains twelve books. The first four give us a history, or rather explain the theory, of Divine love, its birth in the soul, its growth, its perfection, and its decay and annihilation; the fifth book shows that this love is twofold - the love of complacency and the love of benevolence; the sixth and seventh treat of affective love, which is practiced in prayer; the eight and ninth deal with effective love, that is, conformity to the will of God, and submission to His good pleasure. The last three resume what has preceded and teach how to apply practically the lessons taught therein.

Download or read book The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection written by Alfonso Rodríguez and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Spiritual Life written by Robert Fabing and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of this work is to unfold the meaning of the spiritual life and the meaning of emotional suffering in order to speak to those who see no meaning in their pain and by this to provide the reality of a healing effect," writes Robert Fabing. To this end, the author examines the spiritual life, "movement toward God," and its meaning, positing emotionality as its essential ingredient. To know God is to know ourselves, completely, inside and out, journeying to the dark recesses of our unconscious, the seat of emotional and psychological strife, and ascending to the light of consciousness with the help of reflective prayer and insight that leads to healing, union with God, and "holiness." In short, the spiritual life is an emotional journey toward self-knowledge in the company of God. Complete with spiritual and psychological resources, explications of the problems and stages of the spiritual journey, and end chapter questions and bibliographies, as well as an overall bibliography at the end of the book, the author provides a comforting, inspirational, and well-considered guide for individual or group sojourners working through, and seeking meaning from, the pain of the spiritual quest.

Download or read book Practices of Belief Volume 2 Selected Essays written by Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-11 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together Nicholas Wolterstorff's essays on epistemology written between 1983 and 2008.

Download or read book The Collected Works of Witness Lee 1994 1997 volume 2 written by Witness Lee and published by Living Stream Ministry. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1994-1997, volume 2, contains messages given by Brother Witness Lee from November 4, 1994, through November 13, 1995. During the entire period of 1994 until his death in 1997, Brother Lee ministered in Anaheim, California. The contents of this volume are divided into thirteen sections, as follows: 1. Four messages given on November 4 through 6, 1994. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Revival of the God-man Living. 2. A message given on November 18, 1994. This message is included in this volume under the title Fellowship with Serving Saints in the Living Stream Ministry Office. 3. Five messages given on November 25 through 27, 1994. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Practical Way to Live a Life according to the High Peak of the Divine Revelation in the Holy Scriptures and are included in this volume under the same title. One of the messages was divided into two chapters. 4. A message given on December 31, 1994. This message was previously published, being included at the end of the softbound Life-study of 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther, and is included in this volume under the title The Eschatology of the Church according to the Divine Revelation of the Scriptures. 5. Four talks given on January 3, 1995. These talks are included in this volume under the title Talks with a Seeking One. 6. Two messages given on January 16 and November 13, 1995. These messages are included in this volume under the title Fellowship with Co-workers and Elders. 7. Three messages given on January 22, April 23, and September 13, 1995. These messages are included in this volume under the title Church Meetings in Anaheim. 8. Six messages given on February 3 through 5, 1995. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Issue of the Union of the Consummated Spirit of the Triune God and the Regenerated Spirit of the Believers and are included in this volume under the same title. 9. Two messages given on February 27 and 28, 1995. These messages are included in this volume under the title The Intrinsic Revelation of the Bible. 10. Five messages given on April 11 through 13, 1995. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The Governing and Controlling Vision in the Bible and are included in this volume under the same title. 11. Six messages given on April 26 through June 7, 1995. These messages were previously published in a book entitled Crystallization-study of the Epistle of James and are included in this volume under the same title. One of the messages was divided into two chapters. 12. A message given on May 21, 1995. This message is included in this volume under the title Crucial Aspects of God's New Testament Economy Missed in Today's Christianity. 13. Six messages given on May 26 through 29, 1995. These messages were previously published in a book entitled The God-men and are included in this volume under the same title.

Download or read book A Plain Account of Christian Perfection written by John Wesley and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Plain Account of Christian Perfection by John Wesley is about the theory of perfection according to Christian theology. Excerpt: "1. WHAT I purpose in the following pages is, to give a plain and distinct account of the steps by which I was led, during the course of many years, to embrace the doctrine of Christian Perfection. This I owe to the serious part of mankind; those who desire to know all the truth as it is in Jesus. And these only are concerned with questions of this kind. To these I would nakedly declare the thing as it is, endeavoring all along to show, from one period to another, both what I thought, and why I thought so."

Download or read book Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues Volume One written by Fr Alphonsus Rodriguez SJ and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ARE YOU ADVANCING IN YOUR SPIRITUAL LIFE? Translated from the original Spanish by Fr. Joseph Rickaby, SJ, this book is a tool to help you progress further in your spiritual life. As Jesus exhorted, "You must be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect," and as holy Church teaches, we cannot see Him face-to-face until we, ourselves, are also perfect. We are made in God's image for an incredibly sublime destiny -eternity with our perfect heavenly Father. Starting now... These three volumes present in a clear manner what constitutes perfection, and how to grow in it by the cultivation of the virtues. It is very specific and, by the grace of God, you will gain an immensely profitable understanding of this subject so that you may run in the way of God, heart overflowing with the inexpressible delights of Love. Fr. Alphonsus Rodriguez, born in 1546 (when the Jesuits were elite troops in the battle for the salvation of souls), was a priest of exemplary virtue. In the Society he was entrusted for many years with the high responsibility of care of souls, and exhorting the brethren. The present volumes are the fruit of those labors. From the author: I reflected that it is a practice very much recommended by saints, to read something every day that may promote our spiritual advancement. This being the principal design of the following work, I have laid before you, as clearly and briefly as I was able, such things as are more essential, that it may be useful to all persons in general who aspire to Christian perfection. These will serve as a mirror wherein, if we daily view ourselves, we shall be enabled to correct our imperfections and decorate our souls as will render them most pleasing to the eyes of His Divine Majesty. I call it Practice because things are treated in such a manner as may render the practice very easy. PRACTICE OF PERFECTION AND CHRISTIAN VIRTUES THREE VOLUME SET ISBNs: PAPERBACK: Volume One: 978-1-945275-81-4 Volume Two: 978-1-945275-82-1 Volume Three: 978-1-945275-83-8 HARDBACK: Volume One: 978-1-945275-78-4 Volume Two: 978-1-945275-79-1 Volume Three: 978-1-945275-80-7

Download or read book The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings Volume 2 Practice written by Ellen Muehlberger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Edition of Early Christian Writings provides definitive anthology of early Christian texts, from c.100 to 650 CE. Its six volumes reflect the cultural, intellectual and linguistic diversity of early Christianity and are organized thematically on the topics of God, practice, Christ, community, reading and creation. The series expands the pool of source material to include not only Greek and Latin writings, but also Syriac and Coptic texts. Additionally, the series rejects a theologically normative view by juxtaposing texts that were important in antiquity but later deemed 'heretical', with orthodox texts. The translations are accompanied by introductions, notes, suggestions for further reading and scriptural indices. The second volume is focused on the topic of practice, including texts on education, advice, forming communities and instructing congregations. It will be an invaluable resource for students, academic researchers in early Christian studies, history of Christianity, theology, religious studies and late antique Roman history.

Download or read book The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection Vol 2 of 3 Classic Reprint written by Alphonsus Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection, Vol. 2 of 3 Though this work is composed principally for religious, yet it is very useful to all Christians; and this second part, in particular, is so disposed, as to be of very great advantage to all secular persons who desire to give themselves entirely to God's service. For their first duty is to subdue their hearts by mortifying their passions, by subjecting their senses, (especially their tongue, ) and by humbling themselves before God, in order that those virtues and good works which they have planted in their souls, may spring up and bring forth such fruit as should be expected. It is for this reason that I treat first of mortification, then of modesty and silence, and afterwards of humility; which are the virtues a Christian ought chiefly practise in the beginning of his conversion. And because the Holy Ghost would have those that enter into God's service, remain in fear, and prepare themselves for temptation, I therefore speak in the fourth treatise, of the profit and advantage of temptations, and point out the means of overcoming them. In the fifth and sixth treatises, I show the obstacles that occur in the paths of virtue, and of how great advantage it is to walk always in these paths with joy and liberty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Memoirs of an Ordinary Pastor written by D. A. Carson and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D. A. Carson's father was a pioneering church-planter and pastor in Quebec. But still, an ordinary pastor-except that he ministered during the decades that brought French Canada from the brutal challenges of persecution and imprisonment for Baptist ministers to spectacular growth and revival in the 1970s. It is a story, and an era, that few in the English-speaking world know anything about. But through Tom Carson's journals and written prayers, and the narrative and historical background supplied by his son, readers will be given a firsthand account of not only this trying time in North American church history, but of one pastor's life and times, dreams and disappointments. With words that will ring true for every person who has devoted themselves to the Lord's work, this unique book serves to remind readers that though the sacrifices of serving God are great, the sweetness of living a faithful, obedient life is greater still.

Download or read book The School of Christian Perfection written by Saint Alphonsus de Liguori and published by Aeterna Press. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is made up of choice selections from the various ascetical writings of the Saint. The order of virtues considered is that followed by the spiritual sons of St. Alphonsus in the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer. For each month of the year is assigned a particular virtue to which they are to devote their especial attention. This is a practice highly recommended by the masters of the spiritual life, and is fraught with the happiest results. It is hoped that the faithful will derive spiritual profit and pleasure from this course in “The School of Christian Perfection.” Aeterna Press

Download or read book Further Reflections on the Journey to the Omega Point written by Tom Reidy and published by TOM REIDY. This book was released on with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Further Reflections on the Journey to the Omega Point is a sequel to my previous book, Reflections on the Journey to the Omega Point. It is a further collection of my reflections on various subjects based on insights I have gained over 71 years of living. They follow no particular pattern or sequence and at times may be repetitious but some things are worth repeating since they contain valuable lessons and wisdom that come to all of us over a lifetime of living. This book is written from a Roman Catholic viewpoint but it has something for people of all Faiths. One disclaimer: These are strictly my observations and opinions; right or wrong, these are my personal conclusions on the topics discussed

Download or read book The Development of Ethics Volume 2 written by Terence Irwin and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Development of Ethics is a selective historical and critical study of moral philosophy in the Socratic tradition, with special attention to Aristotelian naturalism. It discusses the main topics of moral philosophy as they have developed historically, including: the human good, human nature, justice, friendship, and morality; the methods of moral inquiry; the virtues and their connexions; will, freedom, and responsibility; reason and emotion; relativism, subjectivism, and realism; the theological aspect of morality. This volume examines early modern moral philosophy from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. Volume 3 will continue the story up to Rawls's Theory of Justice. The present volume begins with Suarez's interpretation of Scholastic moral philosophy, and examines seventeenth- and eighteenth- century responses to the Scholastic outlook, to see how far they constitute a distinctively different conception of moral philosophy. The treatments of natural law by Grotius, Hobbes, Cumberland, and Pufendorf are treated in some detail. Disputes about moral facts, moral judgments, and moral motivation, are traced through Cudworth, Clarke, Balguy, Hutcheson, Hume, Price, and Reid. Butler's defence of a naturalist account of morality is examined and compared with the Aristotelian and Scholastic views discussed in Volume 1. The volume ends with a survey of the persistence of voluntarism in English moral philosophy, and a brief discussion of the contrasts and connexions between Rousseau and earlier views on natural law. The emphasis of the book is not purely descriptive, narrative, or exegetical, but also philosophical. Irwin discusses the comparative merits of different views, the difficulties that they raise, and how some of the difficulties might be resolved. The book tries to present the leading moral philosophers of the past as participants in a rational discussion that is still being carried on, and tries to help the reader to participate in this discussion.

Download or read book Introducing Christian Theologies Volume Two written by Victor I. Ezigbo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should Christianity's theological face remain largely European and North American in the twenty-first century in the wake of the expansion of Christianity in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America? The question about the "theological face" of Christianity cannot be ignored. For too long African, Asian, and Latin American theologians have been left out of mainstream theological discussions. Few standard textbooks on Christian theology acknowledge the unique contributions theologians from these continents have made to global Christianity. Introducing Christian Theologies: Voices from Global Christian Communities is a two-volume textbook that alters the predominantly European and North American "theological face" of Christianity by interacting with voices of Christian communities from across the globe. Introducing Christian Theologies explores the works of key theologians from around the world, highlighting their unique contributions to Christian theology and doctrine.