Download or read book Stripping the Veil written by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Protestant nuns and mixed-confessional convents are an unexpected anomaly in early modern Germany. According to sixteenth-century evangelical reformers' theological positions outlined in their publications and reform-minded rulers' institutional efforts, monastic life in Protestant regions should have ended by the mid-sixteenth century. Instead, many convent congregations exhibiting elements of traditional and evangelical practices in Protestant regions survived into the seventeenth century and beyond. How did these convents survive? What is a Protestant nun? How many convent congregations came to house nuns with diverse belief systems and devotional practices, and how did they live and worship together? These questions lead to surprising answers. Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backdrop of changing political and confessional circumstances in Protestant regions. It also demonstrates how incremental shifts in practice and belief led to the emergence of a complex, often locally constructed, devotional life. This continued presence of nuns and the survival of convents in Protestant cities and territories of the German-speaking parts of the Holy Roman Empire is evidence of a more complex lived experience of religious reform, devotional practice, and confessional accommodation than traditional histories of early modern Christianity would indicate. The internal differences and the emerging confessional hybridity, blending, and fluidity also serve as a caution about designating a nun or groups of nuns as Lutheran, Catholic, or Reformed, or even more broadly as Protestant or Catholic during the sixteenth century.
Download or read book Stripping the Veil written by Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stripping the Veil explores the daily existence, ritual practices, and individual actions of nuns in surviving convents over time against the backdrop of changing political and confessional circumstances in Protestant regions of sixteenth-century Germany.
Download or read book Fixing the Liturgy written by Claire Taylor Jones and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Woman Remove Thy Veil written by Barbara Cassada and published by Tome Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facing head-on the controversies of women's roles in ministry, Cassada, herself a full-time minister, challenges the long held traditional theologies hat have kept women from entering into the fullness of their calling.
Download or read book Sacred Space Sacred Thread written by John W. Welch and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The insightful studies contained in this book will be of significant value to anyone interested in experiencing more deeply the intersections between materiality and spirituality. Part 1 introduces readers into Egyptian, Israelite, Christian, and Hindu temples, shrines, or sanctuaries. Part 2 helps readers understand how items of colored fabrics, clothing, robes, and veils, convey ritual meanings. Part 3 reports two panel discussions that exemplify the pathway of fruitful conversation. Matter and spirit might seem to some to be polar opposites. But as these studies by distinguished and diverse scholars demonstrate, spiritual experiences are constructively defined and refined within the coordinates of place and time. Sacred space, as well as sacred cloth, define borders, but not necessarily boundaries, between the sacred and the profane. These material coordinates physically enclose and also spiritually disclose. They both symbolize and synergize, as they encompass and expansively inspire. These original and enjoyable presentations will help all readers to hold tenaciously to the tenets and also the tensions inherent in physical spiritual experiences.
Download or read book Present and Future of Biblical Studies written by Tat-siong Benny Liew and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the journal Biblical Interpretation, a diverse group of innovative scholars come together in this collection of essays to examine and evaluate the present and future of biblical studies as an academic discipline.
Download or read book DeepLight written by Susan Creighton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DeepLight: A Memoir of the Soul is a rich narrative of a contemporary woman’s spiritual quest. Within the context of her extensive study of religious and mystical traditions, and her experiences as a woman, a monastic, and an Episcopal priest, Susan Creighton weaves a spiral tapestry of memories, journal entries, and poetry. Her search for an authentic practice of contemplative prayer led across cultural, historical, and religious boundaries, but is most significantly shaped and enriched by the teachings of mystics like St. John of the Cross and the ancient tradition of Orthodox ascetical theology and spiritual practice. Now living under vows as an anchorite, her memoir shares with the reader ways in which the Jesus Prayer and other spiritual practices lead to deeper contemplative prayer as well as helping us develop greater discrimination and compassion for ourselves and others.
Download or read book The New Testament as True Fiction written by Douglas Templeton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-11-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original, provocative and thoughtful series of readings of the New Testament and extra-biblical texts. Making forays into literary criticism, philosophy, and theology, Templeton draws upon a rich diversity of sources. He proposes that we read the New Testament not as history (true or false) - in what is still the dominant hermeneutic - but rather as "true fiction".
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Download or read book Reinterpreting Revelation and Tradition written by John Pawlikowski and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary exploration into the mutual validity of the Jewish and Christian covenants. The contributors gathered here address such topics as shared texts, the rabbinical response to emerging Christianity, and apocalyptic and mystical texts.
Download or read book Stripping Gypsy written by Noralee Frankel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this new biography of Gypsy Rose Lee, Noralee Frankel draws on archival sources to strip bare the myths created by Gypsy herself and to tell the real story. Although Lee published an autobiography that has sold steadily, this will be the first biography of her. Frankel combines politics with twentieth century popular culture"--Provided by publisher.
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Download or read book Borges and Dante written by Humberto Núñez-Faraco and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctorate--University College, London, 2001).
Download or read book Dry Place written by Patricia L. Price and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscape is the space of negotiation between human beings and the physical world, and rarely are the negotiations more complex and subtle than those conducted through the desert landscape along the Mexico-U.S. border. Patricia L. Price views the shaping of the landscape on and around the border through various narratives that have sought to establish claims to these dry lands. Most prominent are the accounts of Anglo-American expansionism and Manifest Destiny juxtaposed with the Chicano nationalist tale of Aztlan in the twentieth century, all constituting collective, contending claims to the U.S. Southwest. Demonstrating how stories can become vehicles for reshaping places and identities, Price considers characters old and new who inhabit the contemporary borderlands between Mexico and the United States-ranging from longstanding manifestations of good and evil in the figures of the Virgin of Guadalupe and the Devil to a collection of lay saints embodying current concerns. Dry Place weaves together theoretical insights with field-based inquiry, autobiography, and creative writing to arrive at a textured understanding of the bordered landscape of late modern subjectivity. Patricia L. Price is associate professor of geography in the Department of International Relations at Florida International University in Miami.
Download or read book A Companion to the Song of Songs in the History of Spirituality written by Timothy Robinson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the history of one of the most important biblical texts in the history of Christian spirituality while exploring original pathways for research.
Download or read book The Light of Reason written by Gloria Excelsior and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whenever there is pain and sorrow, wealth is hidden from reality. Whenever there is confusion, disregard, unworthiness, there is a lurking fear that has not been uncovered. These shadows cover the essence of self. These shadows withdraw the self to a place of denial where the veil thickens, condenses and becomes a dense cloud full of misrepresentations. This, dear ones, is the challenge that is to be faced for all who are moved to choice: Denial or freedom. Freedom is the strength of self. Freedom is held with love and light. Freedom is within the arms of the Lord who carries this burden into the light of reason. Do you see my dears? Do you see the love that you have? Do you see the image of who you are? You are the image of the Lord Thy God. You are this light that shines through thy countenance of beauty. You are all of that and more! Gloria Excelsior
