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.

Download or read book Desire and the Divine written by Kathaleen E. Amende and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the works and lives of late 20th-century southern women writers (Rosemary Daniell, Connie May Fowler, Lee Smith, Sheri Reynolds, Dorothy Allison, and Valerie Martin) to show how conservative Christian ideals of femininity shaped notions of religion, sexuality, and power, and how they and their characters grappled with opposing cultural expectations.

Download or read book The Economy of Desire The Church and Postmodern Culture written by Daniel M. Jr. Bell and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this addition to the award-winning Church and Postmodern Culture series, respected theologian Daniel Bell compares and contrasts capitalism and Christianity, showing how Christianity provides resources for faithfully navigating the postmodern global economy. Bell approaches capitalism and Christianity as alternative visions of humanity, God, and the good life. Considering faith and economics in terms of how desire is shaped, he casts the conflict as one between different disciplines of desire. He engages the work of two important postmodern philosophers, Deleuze and Foucault, to illuminate the nature of the postmodern world that the church currently inhabits. Bell then considers how the global economy deforms desire in a manner that distorts human relations with God and one another. In contrast, he presents Christianity and the tradition of the works of mercy as a way beyond capitalism and socialism, beyond philanthropy and welfare. Christianity heals desire, renewing human relations and enabling communion with God.

Download or read book Desire Violence and Divinity in Modern Southern Fiction written by Gary M. Ciuba and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Gary M. Ciuba examines how four of the South's most probing writers of twentieth-century fiction -- Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, and Walker Percy -- expose the roots of violence in southern culture. Ciuba draws on the paradigm of mimetic violence developed by cultural and literary critic René Girard, who maintains that individual human nature is shaped by the desire to imitate a model. Mimetic desire may lead in turn to rivalry, cruelty, and ultimately community-sanctioned -- and sometimes ritually sanctified -- victimization of those deemed outcasts. Ciuba offers an impressively broad intellectual discussion that gives universal cultural meaning to the southern experience of desire, violence, and divinity with which these four authors wrestled and out of which they wrote. In a comprehensive analysis of Porter's semiautobiographical Miranda stories, Ciuba focuses on the prescribed role of women that Miranda imitates and ultimately escapes. O'Connor's The Violent Bear It Away reveals three characters whose scandalous animosity caused by religious rivalry leads to the unbearable stumbling block of violence. McCarthy's protagonist in Child of God, Lester Ballard, appears as the culmination of a long tradition of the sacred violence of southern religion, twisted into his own bloody faith. And Percy's The Thanatos Syndrome brings Ciuba's discussion back to the victim, in Tom Moore's renunciation of a society in which scapegoating threatens to become the foundation of a new social regime. From nostalgia for the old order to visions of a utopian tomorrow, these authors have imagined the interrelationship of desire, antagonism, and religion throughout southern history. Ciuba's insights offer new ways of reading Porter, O'Connor, McCarthy, and Percy as well as their contemporaries who inhabited the same culture of violence -- violence desired, dreaded, denied, and deified.

Download or read book The Desire of Ages written by Ellen G. White and published by Bytes 4 the Heart. This book was released on 1898 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CrossCurrents God The God of Unmet Desire written by Zisl and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts pandemic testimony and "autotheology," God, The God of Unmet Desire is a record of the author's quest to find God during the lonely peak of the first COVID-19 pandemic winter. At the heart of this special issue of CrossCurrents, lies a set of meditations on the daily, traditional Jewish weekday morning liturgy. They fiercely and feelingly explore that pandemic winter's themes of grief, sensuality, and surrender, and our dire need for old and new wisdoms to help us move into collective responsibility for our broken world. To do so, the work weaves together sources as various as the Babylonian Talmud, 20th century feminist science fiction, and 21st century African diasporic poetry. The writings range in length and style from a few lines of prose to a half-dozen lines of poetry to a full-length essay. This work is explicitly feminist, leftist, and non-Zionist. It playfully but sincerely demonstrates Jewish liturgical traditions' possibilities and limitations as resources for personal and political liberation and accountability. God, The God of Unmet Desire also explores the author's own gender and sexuality. It takes a tone that oscillates from sincerely pious to playfully kinky. The work is designed to be accessible to a wider audience while drawing from deep, Jewish roots. Religious-curious and religious-affiliated progressive-minded people of all backgrounds will be drawn to Zisl's creative and critical writing. God, The God of Unmet Desire will appeal to anyone who wishes to integrate liberatory models of collective social change with traditional insights about God and spiritual belonging—mediated by the wisdom of an imperfectly human sacred liturgy developed over the last two millennia.

Download or read book The Thirst of God written by Wendy Farley and published by Presbyterian Publishing Corp. This book was released on 2015-09-04 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "There is a rich tradition of wonderful women and other contemplatives who are great resources for thinking differently about Christianity. They emphasized divine love, human compassion, and the radical possibilities of contemplative practices. They were not afraid to criticize the church and indeed thought of their challenge as crucial to their faith. We do not have to lose faith with the beautiful wisdom of this story of intimate and compassionate love, dwelling among us and within us, if we do not want to." —from the acknowledgments and note to readers To those seeking a more open, progressive approach to Christian faith, the Christian past can sometimes seem like a desert, an empty space devoid of encouragement or example. Yet in the latter years of the Middle Ages a quiet flowering of a more accessible, positive approach to Christian belief took place among a group of female mystics, those who emphasized an immediate, nonhierarchical experience of the divine. In this enlightening volume, Wendy Farley eloquently brings the work of three female mystics—Marguerite Porete, Mechthild of Magdeburg, and Julian of Norwich—into creative conversation with contemporary Christian life and thought. From alternatives to the standard, violent understandings of the atonement, to new forms of contemplation and prayer, these figures offer us relevant insights through a theology centered on God's love and compassion. Farley demonstrates how these women can help to refresh and expand our awareness of the depth of divine love that encompasses all creation and dwells in the cavern of every human heart.

Download or read book Treatise on the Love of God written by Saint Francis of Sales and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 605 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Divinity Of Wisdom written by Increase Divine-Wisdom and published by Sui Generis Publishing. This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally, a book that indispensably explores major subjects all in one space is now within your grasp! From homosexuality, abortion, feminism, atheism, creationism, religious freedom, down to the age of our Universe and the true nature of heaven and hell. "The Divinity of Wisdom" is a relatively vast and essential resource that holds deep measurable spiritual mysteries alongside classic and engaging intellectual expressions. Have we been enslaved by our desire to be free? Are we nearing the last age of Christianity? Are men and women truly equal? How long have we been around? Discover the true age of our planet and Universe. A scriptural revelation of Jesus' word on "divinely acceptable sexual practices" have finally been revealed after being concealed for thousands of years. Discover the origin and destiny of human sexuality. Find out why Jesus Christ never said that He was only way to God; and in accordance with scriptures. Discover the true nature of heaven and hell like you've never known before! Explore the spiritual composition of your existence. Discover why we exist: Why and how we are not alone in the Universe. Discover the original design of parenting. Discover a foremost reason why marriages fail. Discover the spiritual origin of “transgenderism”. Dig into the mystery of time and space. Discover the Origin of life. Discover the spiritual status of abortion and homosexuality. Discover the real reason why human beings are capable of death. Discover irrefutable proofs of the existence and activities of God like never before and in a way that shakes the foundation of atheism to its core! Find out why heaven is empty at the moment according to scriptures. All these and lot's more are questions and subjects that have been drilled down to their essence in "The Divinity Of Wisdom". An excellently written and well researched book that many have been longing for. In this eBook, some of the deepest meanings and questions of your life will be answered with unequaled clarity and dexterity. And in a way that is almost guaranteed to affect your life, awareness, understandings, and worldviews like never before. This eBook also features: An essential and well formatted references to ensure an optimal and well informed reading experience. An interactive and well detailed table of contents that ensures a user friendly experience plus a quick navigation to all carefully determined relevant segments of the digital publication.

Download or read book Lovecrazylove written by Maggie Monro and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book represents a radical and new approach to life and living. Wealth, glowing health, happiness and the Love Supreme are the birthright of all beings. If this is not your experience of life, know now that you do have the ability to make fundamental changes that will allow you to live the life you were intended to live. In our attempts to improve our lives many of us read countless articles, books and magazines and attend all kinds of weird and wonderful events. The truth is that precious few of us experience a changed life as a result. The reason for this is because a fundamental law of life is missed. In reading this book you will discover this crucial building block upon which a divine life must be built. You are a spiritual being having a material experience. It is essential you experience spiritual power in order to attain the abundance of the material world to its farthest extent. In this way you will know the bliss and ecstasy of a spirit and soul in harmony with its material being. If you read this book and do as it says you cannot fail to transform your way of life and living forever.

Download or read book Matter and Desire written by Andreas Weber and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2017 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nautilus Award Gold Medal Winner, Ecology & Environment In Matter and Desire, internationally renowned biologist and philosopher Andreas Weber rewrites ecology as a tender practice of forging relationships, of yearning for connections, and of expressing these desires through our bodies. Being alive is an erotic process--constantly transforming the self through contact with others, desiring ever more life. In clever and surprising ways, Weber recognizes that love--the impulse to establish connections, to intermingle, to weave our existence poetically together with that of other beings--is a foundational principle of reality. The fact that we disregard this principle lies at the core of a global crisis of meaning that plays out in the avalanche of species loss and in our belief that the world is a dead mechanism controlled through economic efficiency. Although rooted in scientific observation, Matter and Desire becomes a tender philosophy for the Anthropocene, a "poetic materialism," that closes the gap between mind and matter. Ultimately, Weber discovers, in order to save life on Earth--and our own meaningful existence as human beings--we must learn to love.

Download or read book Isaac Abravanel written by J. B. Trend and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-09 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1937, this book contains six essays on the teaching and thought of Isaac ben Judah Abravanel. The authors explain key points such as the Iberian background to Abravanel's work, his differences with other philosophers of his age, and the influence of his son, Leone Ebreo, on the Renaissance.

Download or read book Bhagavad Gita written by A. Parthasarathy and published by A. Parthasarathy. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 755 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gita brings to light the negative and positive tendencies that lie within. They represent your higher aspiration and lower desire. Lord Krishna directs you to conquer desire and regain the supreme Self. The state of Godhood. The book comprises the text, transliteration, word-meaning, translation and commentary. A unique contribution is the topic-wise division of each chapter. It helps capture the thought-flow and message in the text.

Download or read book Desire Faith and the Darkness of God written by Eric Bugyis and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of religious and cultural diversity, some doubt whether Christian faith remains possible today. Critics claim that religion is irrational and violent, and the loudest defenders of Christianity are equally strident. In response, Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of Denys Turner explores the uncertainty essential to Christian commitment; it suggests that faith is moved by a desire for that which cannot be known. This approach is inspired by the tradition of Christian apophatic theology, which argues that language cannot capture divine transcendence. From this perspective, contemporary debates over God’s existence represent a dead end: if God is not simply another object in the world, then faith begins not in abstract certainty but in a love that exceeds the limits of knowledge. The essays engage classic Christian thought alongside literary and philosophical sources ranging from Pseudo-Dionysius and Dante to Karl Marx and Jacques Derrida. Building on the work of Denys Turner, they indicate that the boundary between atheism and Christian thought is productively blurry. Instead of settling the stale dispute over whether religion is rationally justified, their work suggests instead that Christian life is an ethical and political practice impassioned by a God who transcends understanding.

Download or read book Desire written by Per Bjørnar Grande and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desire can take many forms. Hegel related desire to acceptance, Nietzsche to power, and Freud to the erotic. In novels and plays by Gustave Flaubert, Marcel Proust, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Arthur Miller and music by Lana Del Rey, desire operates in a complex, slippery way that eludes philosophical and psychoanalytic attempts to pin it down. These and other great works of literature corroborate René Girard’s understanding of desire as taking shape “according to the other’s desire.” The mimetic approach frees desire from the preconceptions of both subject- and object-oriented psychologies and puts literary criticism in touch with the concrete substance of fictional narratives. Drawing on both modern masterpieces and iconic works of contemporary pop culture, Per Bjørnar Grande sketches a Girardian phenomenology of desire, one that sheds new light on the frustrating and repetitive nature of human relations in a world of vanishing taboos.

Download or read book Nothingness and Desire written by James W. Heisig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London University’s School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide. Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, Heisig undertakes what he calls a “philosophical antiphony.” Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, Heisig tries to join the choir on both sides of the antiphony to relate the questions at hand to larger problems that press on the human community. He argues that as problems like the technological devastation of the natural world, the shrinking of elected governance through the expanding powers of financial institutions, and the expropriation of alternate cultures of health and education spread freely through traditional civilizations across the world, religious and philosophical responses can no longer afford to remain territorial in outlook. Although the lectures often stress the importance of practice, their principal preoccupation is with seeing the things of life more clearly. Heisig explains: “By that I mean not just looking more closely at objects that come into my line of view from day to day, but seeing them as mirrors in which I can see myself reflected. Things do not just reveal parts of the world to me; they also tell me something of how I see what I see, and who it is that does the seeing. To listen to what things have to say to me, I need to break with the habit of thinking simply that it is I who mirror inside of myself the world outside and process what I have captured to make my way through life. Only when this habit has been broken will I be able to start seeing through the reflections, to scrape the tain off the mirror, as it were, so that it becomes a window to the things of life as they are, with only a pale reflection of myself left on the pane. Everything seen through the looking glass, myself included, becomes an image on which reality has stamped itself. This, I am persuaded, is the closest we can come to a ground for thinking reasonably and acting as true-to-life as we can.”

Download or read book Ante Nicene Fathers Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to A D 325 Volume 2 written by Alexander Roberts and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Schaff’s classic work colloquially known as Early Church Fathers, is an invaluable resource filled with the primary documents, and early theological building blocks for the Christian Church. Comprised of 38 volumes it is broken into three parts, the Ante-Nicene Fathers, and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First and Second Series.