Download or read book Demons and the Making of the Monk written by David BRAKKE and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this finely written study of demonology and Christian spirituality in fourth- and fifth-century Egypt, David Brakke examines how the conception of the monk as a holy and virtuous being was shaped by the combative encounter with demons. Drawing on biographies of exceptional monks, collections of monastic sayings and stories, letters from ascetic teachers to their disciples, sermons, and community rules, Brakke crafts a compelling picture of the embattled religious celibate.
Download or read book Safely Home written by Randy Alcorn and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-29 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is this the day I die? Li Quan asks himself this question daily, knowing that he might be killed for practicing his faith. American businessman Ben Fielding has no idea what his brilliant former college roommate is facing in China. He expects his old friend has fulfilled his dream of becoming a university professor. But when they are reunited in China after twenty years, both men are shocked at what they discover about each other. Thrown together in an hour of encroaching darkness, both must make choices that will determine not only the destinies of two men, but two families, two nations, and two worlds.
Download or read book The Karma Book written by Khoa Dang and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-17 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is a reflection of the Buddha's most vital lesson during his entire teaching lifetime, Karma. This book was created with the main purpose to give my readers the true meaning of Karma. This book is a combination of fantasy and reality, it allows my readers to understand a little bit more about Buddhism especially Karma. I created this book in the hope that I can change the views of the entire world toward Buddhism. This book is another new idea that can bring many cultures together and an attempt to create unity and peace between different religions.This story is simply a metaphor for Karma. This story is a tale within a tale narrated by a Buddhist monk, his purpose to construct this fantasy was to help his people visualize Karma better. The story was mainly about a man who had to travel into a dark forest full of danger to run away from the violence of his warlord, but on the way into the wood, he lost his wife and the old man must find her. Going through the forest to seek his wife, the man faced all kinds of dangers, but with the help of a god and the guidance of a Bodhisattva, he was able to surpass all the threats.
Download or read book The Demon Spirit written by R. A. Salvatore and published by Gollancz. This book was released on 1999 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corona may have been saved from the horrible power of the demon dactyl, but not all is safe... Pony and Elbryan face continued peril from the corrupt church as well as the remnants of demonic servants that roam the land. Are they still empowered by the destroyed dactyl, or are they drawing strength from an even more sinister source? Collecting all three issues of R.A. Salvatore's The DemonWars Volume II into one book.
Download or read book Talking Back written by Evagrius Of Pontus and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the monks of the Egyptian desert fight against the demons that attacked them with tempting thoughts? How could Christians resist the thoughts of gluttony, fornication, or pride that assailed them and obstructed their contemplation of God? According to Evagrius of Pontus (345 '399), one of the greatest spiritual directors of ancient monasticism, the monk should talk back to demons with relevant passages from the Bible. His book Talking Back (Antirrhêtikos) lists over 500 thoughts or circumstances in which the demon-fighting monk might find himself, along with the biblical passages with which the monk should respond. It became one of the most popular books among the ascetics of Late Antiquity and the Byzantine East, but until now the entire text had not been translated into English. From Talking Back we gain a better understanding of Evagrius's eight primary demons: gluttony, fornication, love of money, sadness, anger, listlessness, vainglory, and pride. We can explore a central aspect of early monastic spirituality, and we get a glimpse of the temptations and anxieties that the first desert monks faced. David Brakke is professor and chair of the Department of Religious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences of Indiana University. He studied ancient Christianity at Harvard Divinity School and Yale University. Brakke is the author of Athanasius and Asceticism and Demons and the Making of the Monk: Spiritual Combat in Early Christianity, and he edits the Journal of Early Christian Studies.
Download or read book The demon of Sicily written by Edward Montague and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Noonday Devil written by Jean-Charles Nault and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2015-11-11 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word “sloth”, however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaning Abbot Nault says that acedia is the most oppressive of demons. Although its name harkens back to antiquity and the Middle Ages, and seems to have been largely forgotten, acedia is experienced by countless modern people who describe their condition as depression, melancholy, burn-out, or even mid-life crisis. He begins his study of acedia by tracing the wisdom of the Church on the subject from the Desert Fathers to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He shows how acedia afflicts persons in all states of life— priests, religious, and married or single laymen. He details not only the symptoms and effects of acedia, but also remedies for it.
Download or read book The Monk written by Matthew Gregory Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hermes Explains written by Peter Forshaw and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few fields of academic research are surrounded by so many misunderstandings and misconceptions as the study of Western esotericism. For twenty years now, the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (University of Amsterdam) has been at the forefront of international scholarship in this domain. This anniversary volume seeks to make the modern study of Western esotericism more widely known beyond specialist circles, while addressing a range of misconceptions, biases, and prejudices that still tend to surround it. Thirty major scholars in the field respond to questions about a wide range of unfamiliar ideas, traditions, practices, problems, and personalities that are central to the field. By challenging many taken-for-granted assumptions about religion, science, philosophy, and the arts, this volume demonstrates why the modern study of esotericism leads us to reconsider much that we thought we knew about the story of Western culture.
Download or read book The Monk and the Demon written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advancing the understanding of the major transformations that have fashioned the contemporary art scene in China, this work plays a key role in the recognition of Chinese art, grasping its evolution and mapping its new developments.
Download or read book The Monk written by Matthew Gregory Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Monk is a tale of ambition, murder, and incest. The struggle between maintaining monastic vows and fulfilling personal ambitions leads its main character, the monk Ambrosio, to temptation and the breaking of his vows.
Download or read book Harvard Oriental Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddhism in Translations written by Henry Clarke Warren and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Demon catching Master written by Wang WenJie and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 803 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demon Resisting Master was a strange profession that was rarely known. In addition to the cultivation of mysterious spells, they had inherited the "Devil's Note" from generation to generation, which added a touch of mysteriousness to the profession: In the book, there were sealed all kinds of strange and bizarre demons and monsters, there were all kinds of women who could call the wind and summon the rain, and there were also eccentric and eccentric women who could bite their throats to preside. The ten ancient divine tools that had been lost for a hundred years, the mysterious quarrels between the Four Great Families, the Demon Master's ultimate mission was to catch all the demons in the atlas? Or could it be that there was an unspeakable secret behind it? Now, I will take you on a legendary path to behead demons and devils, and see how the employees will use demons to deal with humans and demons, and reach the pinnacle of life!
Download or read book Embodying Xuanzang written by Benjamin Brose and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Xuanzang (600/602-664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmission and translation of hundreds of Buddhist texts, and his training of a generation of masters in China, Korea, and Japan, Xuanzang's life and legacy are the stuff of legend. In the centuries after his death, stories of his epic adventures and extraordinary accomplishments circulated in texts, images, songs, and plays. These mythic accounts recast the erudite pilgrim, translator, and court cleric as a magical monk who traveled not between China and India but between heaven and earth. Beset by bloodthirsty demons, this deified version of Xuanzang navigates the perilous paths of the netherworld to reach a pure land in the west. His purpose is to acquire a cache of sacred scriptures with the power to safeguard the living and deliver the dead. Along the way, he is guided and protected by a mischievous monkey, a lazy pig, a demonic monk, and a dragon horse. This imaginative and compelling tale received its fullest and most influential treatment in the famous sixteenth-century novel Journey to the West. In this engaging exploration of the confluence of myth, narrative, and ritual, Benjamin Brose uncovers the hidden histories of Xuanzang's many afterlives. Beginning in the eleventh century and continuing to the present day, devotees have summoned Xuanzang and his band of misfit pilgrims to perform exorcisms, guide the spirits of the dead, and possess the bodies of insurgents. Embodying Xuanzang traces the postmortem travels of China's greatest pilgrim and reveals the narrative and performative roots of China's best-known novel"--
Download or read book Behold the Woman written by Thomas Everett Harré and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life in the Middle Ages Selected Translated Annotated by written by George Gordon Coulton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1928 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
