Download or read book Sensual Faith written by Lyvonne Briggs and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation for women to discover a healthier approach to spirituality and sexuality that centers pleasure rather than shame, from body- and sex-positive preacher and author Lyvonne Briggs “Home is not an address. Home is where you feel safe. And your body is aching to be your home.” How you view your body and your sexuality is informed and strengthened by spiritual practices, but how many of us can say that religion has drawn us closer to our bodies? That’s because worship spaces that are intended to be spiritual safe houses have not historically been welcoming to our bodies, forcing us to leave our flesh at the door. This ideological amputation is at best a disservice and at worst a sin. The remedy? Radical self-hospitality. In Sensual Faith, Lyvonne Briggs charts a path for us to practice spiritual wellness that aligns and harmonizes our bodies with pleasure and sexuality. By centering the rich traditions of ancient West African spirituality, Sensual Faith offers a radically inclusive model of companioning one’s self. Filled with wellness rituals, journal prompts, affirmations, and practices, Sensual Faith shows us how to celebrate our bodies as our very homes. “Pleasure is your birthright,” writes Briggs, so whether it’s accepting your flesh, nurturing your intuition, learning the language of consent, or sumptuous self-care, let radical self-hospitality guide you to healthy sexuality.
Download or read book A Sensual Faith written by Ian Price and published by Wood Lake Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This five-session group study explores each of the five senses as a doorway to deepening our faith and encountering God. Use it for a midweek group or a week-long focused study. Touch God through a hug from a friend, hear God in the laughter of a child, breathe in God through the aroma of the salty sea, see God in the wings of a butterfly, taste God in the texture of bread. Simple experiential exercises and activities inspire participants to reflect on God, life, biblical passages, and themselves. Features: Outlines five sessions for group study; Leader notes list materials needed for whole program; Flexibility allows group to tailor program to suit needs of participants.
Download or read book Sensual Religion written by Graham Harvey and published by Religion and the Senses. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensual Religion demonstrates the value of paying attention to the senses and materials in lived religion and also leads the way for improved studies of religion as sensuality. Each of the five senses - vision, hearing, taste, touch and smell - will be covered by two chapters, the first historical and the second contemporary. The historical discussions focus on the sensuality of religion in ancient Greece, Samaria, Rome and Byzantium -- including reflections on their value for understanding other historical and contemporary contexts. Chapters with a contemporary focus engage with Chinese, African-Brazilian, Sikh, First Nations and Métis, and Spanish Catholic religious lives and activities. Beyond the rich case studies, each chapter offers perspectives and arguments about better ways of approaching lived, material and performative religion -- or sensual religion. Historical and ethnographic critical and methodological expertise is presented in ways that will inspire and enable readers to apply, refine and improve on their practice of the study of religions. In particular, our intention is to foreground the senses and sensuality as a critical issue in understanding religion and to radically improve multi- and inter-disciplinary research and teaching about the lived realities of religious people in this sensual world.
Download or read book Essays on Religion and Human Rights written by David Little and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by David Little addresses human rights in relation to the historical settings in which its language was drafted and adopted. Featuring five original essays, Little articulates his view that fascist practices before and during World War II vivified the wrongfulness of deliberately inflicting severe pain, injury, and destruction for self-serving purposes and that the human rights corpus, developed in response, was designed to outlaw all practices of arbitrary force. He contends that while there must be an accountable human rights standard, it should guarantee latitude for the expression and practice of beliefs, consistent with outlawing arbitrary force. Little details the theoretical grounds of the relationship between religion and human rights, and concludes with essays on US policy and the restraint of force in regard to terrorism. With a foreword by John Kelsay, this book is a capstone of the work of this influential writer on religion, philosophy, and law.
Download or read book The Sensual God written by Aviad M. Kleinberg and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Old Testament, God wrestles with a man (and loses). In the Talmud, God wriggles his toes to make thunder and takes human form to shave the king of Assyria. In the New Testament, God is made flesh and dwells among humans. For religious thinkers trained in Greek philosophy and its deep distaste for matter, sacred scripture can be distressing. A philosophically respectable God should be untainted by sensuality, yet the God of sacred texts is often embarrassingly sensual. Setting experts' minds at ease was neither easy nor simple, and often faith and logic were stretched to their limits. Focusing on examples from both Christian and Jewish sources, from the Bible to sources from the Late Middle Ages, Aviad Kleinberg examines the way Christian and Jewish philosophers, exegetes, and theologians attempted to reconcile God's supposed ineffability with numerous biblical and postbiblical accounts of seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and even tasting the almighty. The conceptual entanglements ensnaring religious thinkers, and the strange, ingenious solutions they used to extricate themselves, tell us something profound about human needs and divine attributes, about faith, hope, and cognitive dissonance.
Download or read book Arcana Coelestia written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arcana C lestia written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gospel According to John Translated from the Original Greek and Illustrated by Extracts from the Theological Writings of that Eminent Servant of the Lord the Hon Emanuel Swedenborg Together with Notes and Observations of the Translator Annexed to Each Chapter written by John Clowes and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swedenborg and the Doctrines of the New Church written by Rudolph Leonhard Tafel and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Theological Works Index to The heavenly arcana written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swedenborg s Works Index Arcana written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg Vol III written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swedenborg experienced dreams and visions in which he was appointed by the Lord to write a heavenly doctrine to reform Christianity. He claimed that the Lord had opened his eyes, so that he could freely visit heaven and hell and talk with angels, demons, and other spirits. His best known book is 'Heaven and Hell.' The destruction of the world is not meant by the day of the last judgment. Those who have not known the spiritual sense of the Word, have understood that everything in the visible world will be destroyed in the day of the Last Judgment; for it is said, that heaven and earth are then to perish, and that God will create a New Heaven and a New Earth. Here are all three of his 'Last Judgment' books, 'Last Judgment,' 'Last Judgment Continued,' and 'Last Judgment Posthumous.'
Download or read book The Works of the Reverend William Law M A written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The spirit of prayer The way to divine knowledge being several dialogues between Humanus Academicus Rusticus and Theophilus written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of the Reverend William Law written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Arcana Coelestia written by Emanuel Swedenborg and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-10 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. The Heavenly Mysteries contained in the Holy scriptures, or word of the lord, unfolded, in an exposition of genesis and exodus. Together with a relation of wonderful things seen in the world od spirits and in the heaven of angels. In twelve volumes.
Download or read book The Intellectual repository for the New Church July Sept 1817 Continued as The Intellectual repository and New Jerusalem magazine Enlarged ser vol 1 28 written by New Church gen. confer and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
