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Book Transfiguring Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivier Clément
  • Publisher : New City Press
  • Release : 2019-02-07
  • ISBN : 1565486811
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Transfiguring Time written by Olivier Clément and published by New City Press. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clément's Transfiguring Time is an early work, written when he was 37. It carries all the excitement of his fresh encounter with Orthodoxy and the Fathers of the Christian Church. He draws on his deep study of Hinduism, Buddhism and Indian myths to differentiate the understanding of time and eternity in archaic religions, in Hinduism and in Buddhism, from the Christian and specifically Orthodox understanding of time and eternity. This new translation – the first one in English - wants to bring Clément's early work to a new generation of readers.

Book Transfiguring medievalism

Download or read book Transfiguring medievalism written by Cary Howie and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfiguring medievalism combines medieval literature, modern poetry and theology to explore how bodies, including literary bodies, can become apparent to the attentive eye as more than they first appear. Transfiguration, traditionally understood as the revelation of divinity in community, becomes a figure for those splendors, mundane and divine, that await within the read, lived and loved world. Bringing together medieval sources with modern lyric medievalism, the book argues for the porousness of time and flesh, not only through the accustomed cadences of scholarly argumentation but also through its own moments of poetic reflection. In this way, Augustine, Cassian, Bernard of Clairvaux, Dante, Boccaccio and the heroes of Old French narrative, no more or less than their modern lyric counterparts, come to light in new and newly complicated ways.

Book How to Inhabit Time

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  • Author : James K. A. Smith
  • Publisher : Brazos Press
  • Release : 2022-09-20
  • ISBN : 149343862X
  • Pages : 195 pages

Download or read book How to Inhabit Time written by James K. A. Smith and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ★ Publishers Weekly starred review "This incisive and eloquent volume will expand readers' minds."--Publishers Weekly Many Christians are disconnected from the past or imagine they are "above" history, immune to it, as if self-starters from clean slates in every generation. They suffer from a lack of awareness of time and the effects of history--both personal and collective--and thus are naive about current issues and fixated on the end times. Popular speaker and award-winning author James K. A. Smith shows that awakening to the spiritual significance of time is crucial for orienting faith in the 21st century. He encourages us to cultivate the spiritual discipline of memento tempori, a temporal awareness of the Spirit's presence--indebted to a past, oriented toward the future, and faithful in the present. To gain spiritual appreciation for our mortality. To synchronize our heart-clocks with the tempo of the Spirit, which changes in the different seasons of life. Integrating popular culture, biblical exposition, and meditation, Smith provides insights for pastoring, counseling, spiritual formation, politics, and public life.

Book Transfiguring Luther

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  • Author : Vitor Westhelle
  • Publisher : James Clarke & Company
  • Release : 2017-02-23
  • ISBN : 0227906314
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Transfiguring Luther written by Vitor Westhelle and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luther's theology has inspired many since 1517 when he nailed his ninety-five theses to the door of the Castle Church. It was the trigger for the Reformation, a change in the very fabric of Christianity that is still studied extensively to this day.Much of this work however has been conducted from either a European or North American perspective. With Lutheranism becoming more and more common in the southern hemisphere, new interpretations of Luther's theology are needed for these emergent and different contexts. In Transfiguring Luther, Vitor Westhelle offers a reading of Luther and his legacy that goes beyond the traditional geopolitics of Luther research, exploring realities where the Reformer's reception and the latent promise of his theology receive unsuspected appraisal. Westhelle provides both a revisitation of the past and an invitation to a new orientation. By establishing a texture rather than a rigid actuality, Westhelle allows the reader to reach their own conclusions about these seldom examined aspects of Luther's theology.

Book Preservation and Protest

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  • Author : Ryan Patrick McLaughlin
  • Publisher : Fortress Press
  • Release : 2014-11-01
  • ISBN : 145148948X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Preservation and Protest written by Ryan Patrick McLaughlin and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-11-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preservation and Protest proposes a novel taxonomy of four paradigms of nonhuman theological ethics by exploring the intersection of tensions between value terms and teleological terms. McLaughlin systematically develops the paradigm of cosmocentric transfiguration, arguing that the entire cosmos shares in the eschatological hope of a harmonious participation in God’s triune life. With this paradigm, McLaughlin offers an alternative to anthropocentric and conservationist paradigms within the Christian tradition, an alternative that affirms both scientific claims about natural history and the theological hope for eschatological redemption.

Book Praying in Time

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  • Author : Vassa Larin
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2023-03-06
  • ISBN : 166675983X
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Praying in Time written by Vassa Larin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-06 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that a major problem of our twenty-four-seven internet age is that people increasingly lack "purpose" and "meaning" in their lives. And the most influential people of our day, the tech geniuses and self-help gurus, seem convinced that "we" are the ones who are to create this purpose or meaning for ourselves, just as we invent new technologies and self-help programs. In this context, Sister Vassa Larin invites the Christian reader to rediscover a handy instrument from the toolbox of ancient Christian tradition, which can fill our every hour and every day with faith-based meaning and purpose: the practice of praying and "commemorating" every weekday and every time of day, according to the traditioned, liturgical meaning of each day and hour. Combining engaging theological explanations with practical prayer tips, Sister Vassa offers a simple and flexible way of living this prayer tradition, so it is sustainable even amidst a busy schedule.

Book A World Transfigured

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  • Author : Philip Sheldrake
  • Publisher : Liturgical Press
  • Release : 2022-12-26
  • ISBN : 0814685374
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book A World Transfigured written by Philip Sheldrake and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2023 Catholic Media Association First Place Award, Mysticism In A World Transfigured: The Mystical Journey, Philip Sheldrake demonstrates the importance of the mystical dimension of religious belief and practice. Using the words of the great theologian, Karl Rahner, Sheldrake makes the case that the Christian of the future will be either a mystic or nothing at all. In our contemporary world, this judgment applies equally to other religions as well. After chapters on the meaning of “mysticism” and the connection between mysticism and beliefs, Sheldrake describes important dimensions of mystical writings, illustrated by a range of examples. These are “Love and Desire,” “Knowing and Unknowing,” “Wonder and Beauty,” “Mysticism and Everyday Practice,” and “The Mystic as Radical Prophet.” Finally, the book briefly explores why mysticism fascinates so many people in our modern times.

Book Historical Destiny and National Socialism in Heidegger s Being and Time

Download or read book Historical Destiny and National Socialism in Heidegger s Being and Time written by Johannes Fritsche and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1999-06-24 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fritsche's book, which is closely researched, carefully argued, and philologically rigorous, will become an indispensable point of reference for further debates on Heidegger's ambiguous political and ethical legacy."—Richard Wolin, author of The Politics of Being "Unquestionably, Fritsche has a highly unusual command of the Heideggerian idiom, which he uses to very good effect."—Tom Rockmore, author of On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy

Book Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth Century Japan

Download or read book Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth Century Japan written by James Welker and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan: Feminists, Lesbians, and Girls' Comics Artists and Fans examines three dynamic and overlapping communities of women and adolescent girls who challenged Japanese gender and sexual norms in the 1970s and 1980s. These spheres encompassed activists in the ūman ribu (women’s liberation) movement, members of the rezubian (lesbian) community, and artists and readers of queer shōjo manga (girls’ comics). Individually and collectively, they found the normative understanding of the category “women” untenable and worked to redefine and expand its meaning by transfiguring ideas, images, and practices selectively appropriated from the “West.” They did so, however, while remaining firmly fixed on the local. Thus, for many, this ostensibly Western focus was not a turn away from Japan but integral to their understanding of being a woman within Japan. Following broad historical overviews of the ūman ribu, rezubian, and queer shōjo manga spheres, the book takes a deeper look through the lenses of terminology, translation, and travel to offer a window onto how acts of transfiguration reshaped what it meant to be a woman in Japan. The work draws on a vast archive that encompasses early twentieth-century dictionaries, sexology texts, and literature; postwar women’s and men’s magazines and pornography; translated feminist and lesbian texts; comics and animation; and newsletters, fanzines, and other heretofore largely unexamined ephemera. The volume’s characterization of the era is also greatly enriched by interviews with more than sixty individuals. Transfiguring Women in Late Twentieth-Century Japan demonstrates that the transfiguration of Western culture into something locally meaningful had tangible effects beyond newly (re)created texts, practices, images, and ideas within the ūman ribu, rezubian, and queer shōjo manga communities. The individuals and groups involved were themselves transformed. More broadly, their efforts forged new understandings of “women” in Japan, creating space for a greater number of public roles not bound to being a mother or a wife, as well as a greater diversity of gender and sexual expression that reached far beyond the Japanese border.

Book Looking East in Winter

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  • Author : Rowan Williams
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2021-06-24
  • ISBN : 1472989236
  • Pages : 273 pages

Download or read book Looking East in Winter written by Rowan Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world. In this new book, Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury and a noted scholar of Eastern Christianity, introduces us to some aspects and personalities of the Orthodox Christian world, from the desert contemplatives of the fourth century to philosophers, novelists and activists of the modern era, that suggest where we might look for fresh light and warmth. He shows how this rich and diverse world opens up new ways of thinking about spirit and body, prayer and action, worship and social transformation, which go beyond the polarisations we take for granted. Taking in the world of the great spiritual anthology, the Philokalia, and the explorations of Russian thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, discussing the witness of figures like Maria Skobtsova, murdered in a German concentration camp for her defence of Jewish refugees, and the challenging theologies of modern Greek thinkers like John Zizioulas and Christos Yannaras, Rowan Williams opens the door to a 'climate and landscape of our humanity that can indeed be warmed and transfigured'. This is an original and illuminating vision of a Christian world still none too familiar to Western believers and even to students of theology, showing how the deep-rooted themes of Eastern Christian thought can prompt new perspectives on our contemporary crises of imagination and hope.

Book Theological Metaphysics

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  • Author : Ray C. Robles
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2023-11-16
  • ISBN : 0567713792
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Theological Metaphysics written by Ray C. Robles and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insofar as Christian theology aims to make truthful claims about the nature of reality, it is necessarily involved in the enterprise of metaphysics. Pentecostals, precisely as Christians, are thus obliged to participate. Through this study it becomes evident that pentecostals aim to participate in the metaphysical discipline in the same way they theologize - that is, informed by the norms, practices, and speech acts that constitute their spirituality. This book aims to construct a Christian metaphysics that is at once attuned to pentecostal spirituality/theology and informed by the classical tradition of Christian metaphysics. Ultimately, this work offers a constructive and critical engagement with pentecostal spirituality, and with pentecostal theology via the larger ecumenical, creedal, and dogmatic metaphysical tradition. Thus, this book is explicitly and intentionally limited to understand metaphysics in conversation with the historical Christian tradition, and to understand a pentecostal vision of it.

Book A Guide to Magical Creatures Around Your Home

Download or read book A Guide to Magical Creatures Around Your Home written by Darren Fink and published by . This book was released on 2020-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RECOVER WHAT TRAUMA HAS STOLEN FROM YOUR CHILD Children from traumatic backgrounds (including foster and adoptive children) have often been asked to give up pretend, play, and childhood in order to survive in an adult world. This is unfortunate as we tend to learn crucial lessons about the world and ourselves within the confines of childhood play. While children might be removed from the cause of chronic trauma, the concept of play will not come naturally for them. This book (along with the complimentary parent activity guide) will help you and your child to discover a world of pretend where your child can also conquer issues in relationship.

Book Transfiguring Capitalism

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Atherton
  • Publisher : Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0334028310
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Transfiguring Capitalism written by John Atherton and published by Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd. This book was released on 2008 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses key problems in contemporary life, and raises important questions about our growing awareness of the limits of contemporary ways of living with modern economies and modern religion. This book explores possible alternatives to such capitalism.

Book Mediumship Scrying   Transfiguration for Beginners

Download or read book Mediumship Scrying Transfiguration for Beginners written by Diana Palm and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2017-08-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock Your Spiritual Sight and Experience the Spirit World Everyone can gain the ability to see spirits and communicate with loved ones in the spirit world, whether you're a medium or not. Mediumship Scrying & Transfiguration for Beginners shows how to develop skills for mediumship, scrying, séances, transfiguration, clearing your space, and protecting yourself from harm. Designed for everyone from psychics to everyday people who are curious about spirituality and the afterlife, this book will help you see past life images, ghosts, and loved ones in spirit. There's a great deal of comfort in knowing that life continues after death. This book will show you how to gain first-hand experiences of the other side, whether its seeing spirits manifest in a crystal ball, in a transfiguration, or through any number of different physical materials. With step-by-step instructions and explanations of tools and techniques, author Diana Palm will show you that the gift of psychic sight is available to everyone.

Book Transfiguring a Theologia Crucis through James Cone

Download or read book Transfiguring a Theologia Crucis through James Cone written by Brach S. Jennings and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2023-10-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Irish Poetry under the Union  1801   1924

Download or read book Irish Poetry under the Union 1801 1924 written by Matthew Campbell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Irish poetry in English, from the union of Ireland and Great Britain in 1801 to the Irish Free State in 1921 and beyond. It offers both a literary history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry and a way of reading it for scholars of Irish studies as well as Romantic and Victorian literature.

Book Screening Statues

    Book Details:
  • Author : Steven Jacobs
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2018-04-30
  • ISBN : 147441091X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Screening Statues written by Steven Jacobs and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynamic, scholarly engagement with Susanne Bier's work