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Book The Other Journal  Body

    Book Details:
  • Author : The Other Journal
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 1625647832
  • Pages : 143 pages

Download or read book The Other Journal Body written by The Other Journal and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FEATURING: Barbara Brown Taylor Philip C. Kolin Amy Frykholm Joyce Polance PLUS: The Enduring World of Dr. Schultz: James Baldwin, Django Unchained, and the Crisis of Whiteness Painlove Soulful Resistance: Theological Body Knowledge on Tennessee's Death Row This Cursed Womb The Problem of Gay Friendship AND MORE . .

Book Christian Flesh

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul J Griffiths
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2018-09-25
  • ISBN : 1503606759
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Christian Flesh written by Paul J Griffiths and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] brilliant and provocative work . . . demonstrating the centrality of the flesh to the mysteries and doctrines of the Christian faith.” —Carol Zaleski, Smith College A sustained and systematic theological reflection on the idea that being a Christian is, first and last, a matter of the flesh, Christian Flesh shows us what being a Christian means for fleshly existence. Depicting and analyzing what the Christian tradition has to say about the flesh of Christians in relation to that of Christ, the book shows that some kinds of fleshly activity conform well to being a Christian, while others are in tension with it. But to lead a Christian life is to be unconstrained by ordinary ethical norms. Arguing that no particular case of fleshly activity is forbidden, Paul J. Griffiths illustrates his message through extended case studies of what it is for Christians to eat, to clothe themselves, and to engage in physical intimacy. “In this trenchant and careful theological treatment of our embodiment, Paul Griffiths puts the stress exactly where it should be put––on the possibility of transfigured touch. By focusing on the varieties of touch, he is able to untangle several unfortunate arguments between liberals and conservatives in a most refreshing way.” —John Milbank, University of Nottingham “Very few theologians can boast a comparable combination of profound questioning and precise reasoning. This is a book worthy of the most serious reflection, debate, and admiration.” —David Bentley Hart, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study “Supremely lucid and beautifully austere.” —Evan Sandsmark, Modern Theology “A model of well-reasoned, stimulating and enduring theology.” —R. David Nelson, International Journal of Systematic Theology

Book Motherhood

    Book Details:
  • Author : Natalie Carnes
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 1503612317
  • Pages : 194 pages

Download or read book Motherhood written by Natalie Carnes and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A meditation on the conversions, betrayals, and divine revelations of motherhood. What if Augustine's Confessions had been written not by a man, but by a mother? How might her tales of desire, temptation, and transformation differ from his? In this memoir, Natalie Carnes describes giving birth to a daughter and beginning a story of conversion strikingly unlike Augustine's—even as his journey becomes a surprising companion to her own. The challenges Carnes recounts will be familiar to many parents. She wonders what and how much she should ask her daughter to suffer in resisting racism, patriarchy, and injustice. She wrestles with an impulse to compel her child to flourish, and reflects on what this desire reveals about human freedom. She negotiates the conflicting demands of a religiously divided home, a working motherhood, and a variety of social expectations, and traces the hopes and anxieties such negotiations expose. The demands of motherhood continually open for her new modes of reflection about deep Christian commitments and age-old human questions. Addressing first her child and then her God, Carnes narrates how a child she once held within her body grows increasingly separate, provoking painful but generative change. Having given birth, she finds that she herself is reborn.

Book God  Sexuality  and the Self

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  • Author : Sarah Coakley
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2013-08-29
  • ISBN : 110743369X
  • Pages : 389 pages

Download or read book God Sexuality and the Self written by Sarah Coakley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: God, Sexuality and the Self is a new venture in systematic theology. Sarah Coakley invites the reader to re-conceive the relation of sexual desire and the desire for God and - through the lens of prayer practice - to chart the intrinsic connection of this relation to a theology of the Trinity. The goal is to integrate the demanding ascetical undertaking of prayer with the recovery of lost and neglected materials from the tradition and thus to reanimate doctrinal reflection both imaginatively and spiritually. What emerges is a vision of human longing for the triune God which is both edgy and compelling: Coakley's théologie totale questions standard shibboleths on 'sexuality' and 'gender' and thereby suggests a way beyond current destructive impasses in the churches. The book is clearly and accessibly written and will be of great interest to all scholars and students of theology.

Book Body for Life Success Journal

Download or read book Body for Life Success Journal written by Bill Phillips and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New from #1 New York Times bestselling author Bill Phillips comes Body–for–Life Success Journal. With over three million copies sold and after more than three years on bestseller lists, Body–for–Life is still going strong. People everywhere are discovering that they too have the power to change their body, their mindset, their life. They are discovering that when they make a change, they make a difference –– they become an inspiration to others, a positive example of living a healthy style of life. And now, with this new Success Journal, becoming a Body–for–Life success story is within reach for everyone. More than just a typical log book, this complete Success Journal guides you, day by day, step by step, through the entire 12–week Program. Bill Phillips designed this book to help you stay focused and inspired. Through its pages, he will be with you every step of the way and so will other people who have successfully completed the Program. Each and every day they will support you, encourage you, and help you complete the Program in championship style. When you finish this Success Journal, it will document your success story. However, the real reward will be your new, transformed body and your clear, empowered mindset.

Book Baseball as a Road to God

Download or read book Baseball as a Road to God written by John Sexton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The president of New York University offers a love letter to America’s most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality. For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Yet Sexton argues that one is actually a pathway to the other. Baseball as a Road to God is about touching that something that lies beyond logical understanding. Sexton illuminates the surprisingly large number of mutual concepts shared between baseball and religion: faith, doubt, conversion, miracles, and even sacredness among many others. Structured like a game and filled with riveting accounts of baseball’s most historic moments, Baseball as Road to God will enthrall baseball fans whatever their religious beliefs may be. In thought-provoking, beautifully rendered prose, Sexton elegantly demonstrates that baseball is more than a game, or even a national pastime: It can be a road to enlightenment.

Book Food and Faith

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  • Author : Norman Wirzba
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-05-23
  • ISBN : 0521195500
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book Food and Faith written by Norman Wirzba and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive theological framework for assessing the significance of eating, demonstrating that eating is of profound economic, moral and theological significance.

Book Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly

Download or read book Notes Toward a Performative Theory of Assembly written by Judith Butler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Butler elucidates the dynamics of public assembly under prevailing economic and political conditions. Understanding assemblies as plural forms of performative action, she extends her theory of performativity to show why precarity—destruction of the conditions of livability—is a galvanizing force and theme in today’s highly visible protests.

Book Spirit and Trauma

    Book Details:
  • Author : Shelly Rambo
  • Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
  • Release : 2010-01-01
  • ISBN : 0664235034
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Spirit and Trauma written by Shelly Rambo and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rambo draws on contemporary studies in trauma to rethink a central claim of the Christian faith: that new life arises from death. Reexamining the narrative of the death and resurrection of Jesus from the middle day-liturgically named as Holy Saturday-she seeks a theology that addresses the experience of living in the aftermath of trauma. Through a reinterpretation of "remaining" in the Johannine Gospel, she proposes a new theology of the Spirit that challenges traditional conceptions of redemption. Offered, in its place, is a vision of the Spirit's witness from within the depths of human suffering to the persistence of divine love.

Book A History of My Brief Body

Download or read book A History of My Brief Body written by Billy-Ray Belcourt and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy-Ray Belcourt's collection of personal essays opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile Cree Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contradictions: a legacy of colonial violence and the joy that flourishes in spite of it, first loves and first loves lost, sexual exploration and intimacy, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and a way to grieve. What emerges is not only a profound meditation on memory, gender, anger, shame and ecstasy, but also the outline of a way forward. With startling honesty, and in a voice distinctly and assuredly his own, Belcourt situates his life experiences within a constellation of seminal queer texts, among which this book is sure to earn its place. Eye-opening, intensely emotional and excessively quotable, A History of My Brief Body demonstrates over and over again the power of words to both devastate and console us.

Book Write for Life

Download or read book Write for Life written by Sheppard B. Kominars and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing the facts discovered by research on the healing benefits of writing into the daily perspective of self-discovery, this self-paced book offers a life-long adventure into living healthier and having more fun doing it.

Book No Body s Perfect Journal

Download or read book No Body s Perfect Journal written by Kimberly Kirberger and published by Scholastic Paperbacks. This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This helpful journal, from the co-author of the best-selling CHICKEN SOUP FOR THE TEENAGE SOUL books, is meant to be used as a companion to LOVING YOUR BODY / LOVING YOURSELF. Inspired by the issues discussed in LOVING YOUR BODY / LOVING YOURSELF, this journal gives teens the opportunity to explore their own feelings about their bodies, themselves, and other related topics in a unique, personal way. Author Kimberly Kirberger provides commentary, questions, and suggested writing activities to help girls use the journal to work toward loving their bodies and themselves. Body image is the #1 issue among preteen and teen girls. This journal is specifically designed to help them express and work through their feelings on this powerful, important topic.

Book Yoga Journal

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2006-06
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 140 pages

Download or read book Yoga Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 30 years, Yoga Journal has been helping readers achieve the balance and well-being they seek in their everyday lives. With every issue,Yoga Journal strives to inform and empower readers to make lifestyle choices that are healthy for their bodies and minds. We are dedicated to providing in-depth, thoughtful editorial on topics such as yoga, food, nutrition, fitness, wellness, travel, and fashion and beauty.

Book The Other Journal  Prayer

    Book Details:
  • Author : The Other Journal
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2013-04-25
  • ISBN : 1620329840
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book The Other Journal Prayer written by The Other Journal and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing embodies the mystery of faith quite like prayer. Although sometimes an elusive practice that may baffle and confuse, prayer is not otherworldly, for it is in prayer, in talking and listening to our infinite, loving creator, that we truly find our way in this world. In the twenty-first issue of The Other Journal, contributors consider the transformative mystery of prayer in all its questions and practicalities. They carefully think through intercessory prayer and prayerful political theology and what it means to commune with God and one another. They dance, laugh, and pray like fools. The issue features essays and reviews by Emmanuel Katongole, Erin Lane, Timothy McGee, L. Roger Owens, Andrew Prevot, Carl Raschke, and Lauren Smelser White; interviews by Kate Rae Davis, Ashleigh Elser, Jen Grabarczyk, and SueJeanne Koh with Sarah Coakley, Peter Ochs, Dominique Ovalle, and Richard Twiss; and fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Mary M. Brown, Kate Rae Davis, Denise Frame Harlan, Katie Manning, Tania Moore, Jillena Rose, Nicholas Samaras, and Robert Vander Lugt.

Book The Body of God

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sallie McFague
  • Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishing
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book The Body of God written by Sallie McFague and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A very distinctive and important new option for Christian theology. McFague proposes in a clear and challenging way a theological program based on what she calls 'the organic model' for conceiving God.

Book The Canadian Municipal Journal

Download or read book The Canadian Municipal Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Body Image Planner

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Oliver
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-02-23
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book The Body Image Planner written by Karen Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-23 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 90 Days to Love the Body You Have Right Now Does the way you feel about your body stop you enjoying parts of your life? Do you criticise your own own body when you see it in the mirror or catch in from different angles in shop windows? Have you ever cried in a changing room when shopping for new jeans? Do you shudder at the idea of wearing swimwear on holiday or to the local pool? Have you ever edited or cropped photos of yourself before sharing them or tried to avoid having your photo taken at all? Do you crash diet before you go on holidays or to a wedding? Social media is awash with influencers telling us to love our bodies but many of us are wondering how on earth we're meant to like, or even accept our bodies, when we're being told from all angles that something isn't right about them and needs to be changed. Whether it's thigh gaps, body hair, 'mum tums', visible abs, buns of steel, or any other part of our body society decides to pick apart. This 90-day body image planner is designed to help you move from a place of hating your body, to a place of respecting and accepting your body, while also recognising that you are so much more than your appearance. By the end of the 90 days, your body image will no longer hold you back from the parts of life you've been missing out on. This 90-day planner is split into three sections of daily journal prompts: 1. Body Neutrality - Shifting your focus away from your physical appearance and onto the other parts of what makes you, you. 2. Body Acceptance - Learning how to show your body respect and compassion and reach a place of peaceful acceptance with it. 3. Body Confidence - Reaching the stage where we don't let our appearance or, more accurately, the thoughts we have about our appearance, hold us back from enjoying the life we want. Each section starts with coaching exercises and has 30 days of daily planner pages. The daily planner pages are tailored to the goals of each section and all the daily planner pages have space for recording your mood and gratitude journaling. Logging your mood each day is useful for highlighting the link between your body image and your mood. For example, when we're happy about something, we may be less focused on our bodies, and our body image can impact our mood, we may feel sad, anxious or withdrawn on days where we feel low about our bodies. A daily gratitude practice can help interrupt the seemingly never-ending stream of anxious thinking when our stress levels are too high (known as ruminating). The simple act of taking 1 minute each day to write down three things you're grateful for (even small things like the weather, or someone letting you out of a busy junction) can really improve your mood, help put negative events into perspective and remind you that life does have beauty in it, even in depths of the toughest of times. About the Author Karen Lynne Oliver, BA, MA, is the founder of Beyond The Bathroom Scale®, a hub of self-help resources to aid with recovery from disordered eating and body image. Beyond The Bathroom Scale® was awarded 'Most Innovative Digital Health Business, UK' in 2020 by Acquisition International. A former Social Worker, Karen holds a bachelor's degree in Sociology, specialising in health and society and a master's degree in Social Work. She has trained in counselling skills and psychotherapy-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and Motivational Interviewing (MI). Karen has previously written HuffPost UK and has been featured in The Metro, Cambridge Independent and Cosmopolitan Magazine.