Download or read book Some Exponents of Mystical Religion written by Rufus M. Jones and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The chapters of this book were given as a course of Lectures on the Modern Era Lectureship Foundation, at the University of Southern California, in April, 1929. The opening chapter is a fresh attempt to reinterpret the nature and significance of mystical experience. It carries on and aims to clarify my position in this field of religion. The other chapters are in the main historical illustrations through great personalities of the meaning and value of the mystical approach to God. It is believed that each chapter adds something further to the interpretation of mystical experience given in the first chapter, so that the book is essentially one coherent whole. - From the Introduction
Download or read book Mysticism written by Winfried Corduan and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism is a controversial topic that all too frequently receives one-sided coverage. On the one hand there are many enthusiasts who are willing to defend mysticism at almost any cost, including sacrificing logical and theological integrity. On the other hand there are philosophers and theologians who see mysticism as not much more than an evil to be stamped out. This book takes a careful look at the philosophical and theological questions involved and attempts to locate a modest place for mysticism within a genuine evangelical framework. Questions addressed in this book include such matters as: Is mysticism a perennial philosophy that appears in different guises but is always the same underneath? Can we argue for an objective reality behind all mystical experience? How can we understand the fact that mystics talk about something that they say is beyond language? How has mysticism shown up in various Christian traditions? Can we reconcile mysticism with the New Testament? The conclusion of this book is based on an understanding of mysticism as an unmediated link to an absolute. In that sense there is a form of mysticism taught in the New Testament, but it is a mysticism that does not require ecstatic experience and does not constitute a separate source of revelation. Nevertheless, this New Testament mysticism describes an integral part of biblical spirituality.
Download or read book Everyday Mysticism written by Eddie Ensley and published by Twenty-Third Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Deacon Eddie Ensley shows that mysticism isn't just for monastics and contemplatives. It's for each person, every day of their lives, every time they open their hearts to God. Mysticism, he says, is a simple and profound treasure, available to all of us.
Download or read book Howard Thurman s Philosophical Mysticism written by Anthony Sean Neal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-01-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Philosophy and African American Philosophers have played a central role in understanding and also shaping what it means to be black in America. Some of their conclusions were reactions to the mistreatment they received from the majority population, but other of their conclusions were extensions and/or novel positions taken with a view through past perceptual lenses. Yet, with the mass exodus of black students from HBCU’s after the civil rights era, many of the important figures and their inquiries have been little or poorly studied. The significance of this work is found in its attempt to grapple with one such seminal figure, his memory of his ancestors, and the education he received from Morehouse College (in the Atlanta University Center), all of which formed the roots of the ideas he later produced. Howard Thurman, former Dean of Marsh Chapel at Boston University, and mentor to figures such as Martin Luther King, Jr., left quite a large ideological footprint; however, just as others of his milieu, his ideas have been largely overlooked. Thurman’s deep-rooted knowledge of black culture, particularly black religious ideas as they existed during the period of African enslavement in the United States and as they were exhibited in the Negro Spirituals, shaped his thinking and allowed him to produce a body of work grounded in the musings and traditions of his ancestors. This volume investigates, forms an analysis, and even critiques Thurman’s work such that others can benefit from the profundity of his thoughts while also taking note of their relevance for today’s philosophers concerned with humanity.
Download or read book Rufus Jones 1863 1948 written by Claus Bernet and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rufus Jones (1863-1948) helped organize the Quäkerspeisung (Quaker feeding effort), saving millions from starvation after the First World War. In Germany he is best known for having travelled to Berlin to seek a personal meeting with Hitler after the Kristallnacht in 1938. And, at the conclusion of a long life devoted to service, it was largely due to Jones that the American Friends Service Committee was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. But Jones was also the quintessential «American scholar», seeking to harmonize theory and practice. He was a pivotal figure of the 20th century who stayed in close touch with authors and statesmen the world over. He earned a reputation as a modern mystic and an active pacifist, and was regarded as the moral conscience of his era. His scholarship encompassed education and pedagogy, philosophical questions, church and Quaker history, as well as the political issues of the day. Jones dealt with such issues as justice, democracy, and child-rearing. His ideas are still alive today and still arouse controversy. He was particularly anxious to avoid the cultivation of an elite, pleading instead for individual growth and personality development. Over the course of his life, he was awarded twelve academic titles, taught at numerous universities, delivered countless lectures, and was one of the first theologians to recognise the significance of radio and to make full use of it. To this day Rufus Jones is still honored as a «seer», «Protestant mystic», and even as a «Master Quaker» and «Quaker Giant». It is time also to take a critical look at these honors.
Download or read book Studies in Mystical Religion written by Rufus M. Jones and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Majesty and Meekness written by John Braisted Carman and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book With Christ Today in Paradise written by Kenneth L. Thrasher and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the "ontological indwelling of God" as the basis and ground of the soul, the author expounds its capacity for spiritual experience, which he describes metaphorically as "being with Christ in paradise." Aspects of mystical experience are briefly discussed, an extended description of the author's own experience is presented, and practical suggestions are offered to the reader for his or her own spiritual enrichment.
Download or read book Naming Infinity written by Loren Graham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.
Download or read book So Long Walt Whitman s Poetry of Death written by Harold Aspiz and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a close reading of Leaves of Grass, its constituent poems, particularly Song of Myself and Whitman's prose and letters, Aspiz charts how the poet's exuberant celebration of life is a consequence of his central concern: the ever presence of death and the prospect of an afterlife.
Download or read book Hours with the mystics a contribution to the history of religious opinion revised by the author written by Robert Alfred Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mysticism a study in the nature and development of man s spiritual consciousness written by Evelyn Underhill and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1930-01-01 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Philosophies of Religion written by Henry Nelson Wieman and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reasons and Faiths written by Ninian Smart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is Volume VII of seven in the Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy series. It presents an investigation of religious discourse, Christian and non-Christian, originally published in 1958. The aim is to describe the nature of religious doctrines and concepts, including Buddhism and Hinduism.
Download or read book Mysticism Its Meaning and Message written by Georgia Elma Harkness and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how mysticism can be distinguished from religion in general, and how its main types can be known. The author explores the biblical roots of Christian mysticism in the Gospel of John and in the Christ-mysticism which pervades Paul's letters. The author also interprets some of the great Christian devotional and mystical writers. These include the early and medieval mystics (St. Augustine, St. Bernard, and St. Francis), the Spanish mystics (Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa, and John of the Cross), the emergence of Protestant piety (Martin Luther, John Calvin, Jacob Boehme, Lancelot Andrewes, George Fox, William Law, and the Wesleys), and twentieth century mystics (Frank Laubach, Kagawa, Teilhard de Chardin, and Dag Hammarskjöld). The author also surveys more contemporary neo-mysticism, including the pseudo mysticism of the occult, the drug culture, Vedanta and Yoga, Zen Buddhism, celebration, the Jesus movement, and speaking in tongues.
Download or read book Some Modern Non intellectual Approaches to God written by Sister Agnes Theresa McAuliffe and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
