Download or read book The concept of the Vanishing Soul in Francis of Assisi s time and in the context of the church today written by Arokiam John and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-07-13 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diskussionsbeitrag / Streitschrift aus dem Jahr 2017 im Fachbereich Theologie - Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In this write-up, our aim is two-fold: on the one hand, pointing out the existing divergent views of the human person in Francis’ time, based on his writings, to present his view of the human person, and on the other, to explore its relevance, giving a Franciscan response to the discussion about the "Vanishing Soul" in the context of the Church of our time. Francis of Assisi viewed the human person always in relation to the Triune God. From his writings, we come to know that he considered the human person as an Image of the Son of God, a view in a stark contrast to many contemporary moderate and absolute dualistic views. These perspectives, borrowing from the pagan sources, held to the belief of the human person as a so-called "Vanishing Body". As in Francis’ time, today there are different views of the human person which treat body and soul separately and/or as one and the same reality, thus paving the way for the monistic concept of the human person and the acceptance of the theory of the so-called "Vanishing Soul". Today, the approaches of neuroscience and physicalists challenge the traditional religious and Christian way of understanding and speaking of the soul and consider them in general as promoters and supporters of dualistic views of what a human person is.

Download or read book The Soul Her Sorrows and Her Aspirations An Essay Towards the Natural History of the Soul as the True Basis of Theology written by Francis William Newman and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sunrise of the Soul written by Gerard Thomas Straub and published by Paraclete Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sunrise of the Soul is the fruit of the last 24 years of an unexpected new life and a journey of transformation that took Gerry Straub from the glamour of Hollywood to the horror of the worst slums on earth. Straub’s journey began in an empty church in Rome during a moment of grace in which the hard shell of his ardent atheism was penetrated by a spark of light, allowing him to see that God was real and loved him just as he was. Eventually, Straub felt God telling him to stop filming the poor and to go live among the poor. He now lives in a crowded slum in Haiti where he operates a home of hope and healing for 69 abandoned kids, 24 of whom are still in diapers. Straub says his journey is far from over and will never be finished. As Karl Rahner reminded us, “In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we ultimately learn that here, in this life, all symphonies must remain unfinished.” Living in a home with 69 kids in Haiti means that the stillness and silence needed for contemplation are virtually nonexistent. After more than four years of intense work in Haiti, Gerry began to commit himself to the rejuvenating power of authentic solitude in order to turn his attention to his own inner spiritual poverty. In the silent predawn darkness of each Haitian morning he waits, reflects, and prays. This book emerged slowly from those many lonely hours of silence.

Download or read book Francis of Assisi s Canticle of the Creatures written by Paul Marshall Allen and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1996 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis' love of the natural world and its creatures has inspired generations. His Canticle of the Creatures explores the organic relationships between the elements as an expression of the Divine. In their profound exploration of this hymn to the universe, the authors examine the brief but fascinating life of Francis and show how The Canticle of the Creatures can be used as a spiritual tool in today's meditative practices. They also look at the canticle and its relationship to the spiritual hierarchies described by Dionysius; the ninefold path; the sublime music of Bach and Beethoven; the work of Rudolf Steiner; and Kabbalah.

Download or read book The Mirror of Perfection written by Saint Francis (of Assisi) and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Man who was Nobody written by Antony Linneweber and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Poverty and Joy written by William J. Short and published by Traditions of Christian Spirit. This book was released on 1999 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the roots of the order and persistent themes such as incarnation, suffering, poverty, peace and creation.

Download or read book The Mysticism of St Francis of Assisi written by Daniel Howard Sinclair Nicholson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul written by Bede Jarrett and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul is a venerable religious text dealing with the holy spirit and the presence of god that contains the following excerpt: In English-speaking countries the Church has been at a disadvantage in the way in which she has had to expound her doctrine, for she has been forced for many years to limit her attention just to those parts of her teaching wherein the Protestant bodies parted company from her. Without any desire to stir up barren controversy, she has naturally in self-defence been at pains most precisely to define those portions of her gospel most likely to be misunderstood. This has resulted, unfortunately, in her leaving in the background the other mysteries of faith, often richer in themselves, more helpful to her children. Now, however, that she is becoming more able to realize herself to the modern world, an opportunity opens for explaining hidden doctrines, of which the value to the Catholic in the development of his inner life is considerable.

Download or read book The Dreams of St Francis of Assisi written by David Bona and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the dreams of St. Francis of Assisi from the perspective of depth psychology. St. Francis's charismatic and simple approach to life has transformed him into an archetype who speaks to all who seek the path of spirituality and individuation. His dreams, and the process that they reveal, speak not only of him but of us as well. This study utilizes a hermeneutical investigation which suggests that there is an archetypal basis underlying St. Francis's dreams. Particular attention is given to the first two dreams of St. Francis, which have come to be known as the dreams of conversion. Seeing them for the first time through the lens of psychology can aid us in our understanding of human nature while enhancing the study of both spirituality and psychology. This study situates St. Francis's dreams of conversion within the historical and psychological context of dream theory. The dream is defined and explained historically from the ancient Greeks, through the Bible and the Early Church Fathers, to modern theorists of dream interpretation, especially Freud, Jung, and Hillman. Recent physiological dream research is presented to challenge and extend the meaning of dream interpretation. Significant aspects of Francis's life are presented as well as the socio-cultural milieu in which they occurred. The primary early biographies which contained his dreams are compared and explained. Special attention is given to interpreting St. Francis's dreams using the approach developed by Carl Gustav Jung. It is hoped that analysis of St. Francis's dreams will reveal dimensions of his psychological process that will inspire and aid both those who are spiritual seekers and those who guide them.

Download or read book Consoling Thoughts of St Francis de Sales On Eternity written by St Francis De Sales and published by Consoling Thoughts of St. Fran. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Consoling Thoughts on Eternity, St. Francis de Sales, the beloved Doctor of the Church, speaks to us of the Christian manner in which we should mourn those whom we have lost. Taken mostly from the letters of the saint, this masterful work gives us the consolation he offered to parents on the deaths of their sons, to a lady on the death of her father, a wife on the death of her husband, and others mourning their loved ones. Throughout he gives reason to hope, and explains how much the thought of Heaven should console us, and how agreeable it will be to parents and friends to meet again and converse together in Heaven. Readers of Consoling Thoughts on Eternity will experience firsthand why St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) is known to history as the Gentle Saint. St. Francis was Bishop of Geneva and a tireless preacher, who yet made time to correspond with numerous souls who wrote him for his insight and guidance. His Consoling Thoughts are compiled from these letters as well as from his other spiritual works.

Download or read book Eager to Love written by O.F.M., Richard Rohr and published by Hodder Paperbacks. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis of Assisi, one of the most beloved of all saints, was at once very traditional and entirely revolutionary in the ways of holiness. As a standing paradox, he both stood barefoot on the earth and yet touched the heavens; he was grounded in the church and yet instinctively moved toward the cosmos; he lived happily inside the visible and tangible, and yet both suffered and rejoiced in the invisible. Rohr places the tradition as first practiced by Francis, and subsequently by others, within a context for the uninitiated audience. This is not a historical accounting, but rather a perspective about how the alternative orthodoxy can deepen spiritual life for anyone, whether Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, secular, or spiritual seeker. EAGER TO LOVE is grounded in the Gospels, the prophets, a broad blend of psychology and theology, and in literature and art, to continue to communicate through all the sources that articulate specific alternative ways of understanding God with us.

Download or read book On the Soul and Its Origin written by St. Augustine of Hippo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The occasion of these four books was furnished by a young man named Vincentius Victor, a native of Mauritania C�sariensis, a convert to the catholic Church from the Rogatian faction (which split off from the Donatist schism, and inhabited that part of Mauritania which lay around Cartenna). This Victor, they say, had previously so high an opinion of the Vincentius who succeeded Rogatus as the head of the before-mentioned faction, that he adopted his name as his own. Happening to meet with a certain work of Augustin's, in which the writer acknowledged himself to be incapable of saying whether all souls were propagated from Adam's soul simply, or whether every man severally had his soul given to him by God, even as Adam himself had, without propagation, although he declared, for all that, his conviction that the soul was in its nature spirit, not body, Victor was equally offended with both statements: he wondered that so great a man as Augustin did not unhesitatingly teach what one ought to hold concerning the origin of the soul, especially as he thought its propagation probable; and also that he did state with so great assurance the nature of the soul to be incorporeal. He accordingly published two books written to one Peter, a presbyter of Spain, against Augustin on this subject, containing some conceits of the Pelagian heretics, and other things even worse than these.

Download or read book The Soul in the Unseen World written by R. E. Hutton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Soul in the Unseen World: An Inquiry Into the Doctrine of the Intermediate State Starting, therefore, with some brief introductory chapters on the doctrine of the soul, I have endeavoured to trace in the Bible, the Fathers, the Liturgies, and the writings of the theologians, what was commonly believed as to the life of the soul in its intermediate, disembodied state. I have tried to avoid the pitfall of interpreting these documents so as to make them harmonise with my own beliefs. My aim has been to state as fairly and truthfully as I can what the teaching in each part of the Church of Christ has been at various times. The Church as a whole has defined very little as to the after-life, and hence we come across a great variety of opinions on many points. Persons who wish. 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 Life of St Francis of Assisi written by Paul Sabatier and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Abiding Presence of the Holy Ghost in the Soul written by and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-06 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In English-speaking countries the Church has been at a disadvantage in the way in which she has had to expound her doctrine, for she has been forced for many years to limit her attention just to those parts of her teaching wherein the Protestant bodies parted company from her. Without any desire to stir up barren controversy, she has naturally in self-defence been at pains most precisely to define those portions of her gospel most likely to be misunderstood. This has resulted, unfortunately, in her leaving in the background the other mysteries of faith, often richer in themselves, more helpful to her children. Now, however, that she is becoming more able to realize herself to the modern world, an opportunity opens for explaining hidden doctrines, of which the value to the Catholic in the development of his inner life is considerable.It is to further this development that these meditations have been drawn up, since hardly anything can render us more sensible of our worth and Christian dignity than does the teaching of Our Lord on the indwelling of the Spirit of God.

Download or read book Francis of Assisi written by Saint Francis (of Assisi) and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: