Author: Dennis Stilwell
Publisher: Dennis Leroy Stilwell
ISBN: 0983317410
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Love's Sacrifice and the Ordeal to Become Human
Author: Dennis Stilwell
Publisher: Dennis Leroy Stilwell
ISBN: 0983317410
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher: Dennis Leroy Stilwell
ISBN: 0983317410
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Human Sacrifice in Jewish and Christian Tradition
Author: Karin Finsterbusch
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904740940X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice in the Israelite-Jewish and Christian cultures, while the Ancient Near East and ancient Greece are not excluded. The second part of the volume, on medieval and modern times, discusses human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian traditions as well as the debates about euthanasia and death penalty in the Western world.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 904740940X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This volume asks to which extent ancient practices and traditions of human sacrifice are reflected in medieval and modern Judeo-Christian times. The first part of the volume, on antiquity, focuses on rituals of human sacrifice and polemics against it, as well as on transformations of human sacrifice in the Israelite-Jewish and Christian cultures, while the Ancient Near East and ancient Greece are not excluded. The second part of the volume, on medieval and modern times, discusses human sacrifice in Jewish and Christian traditions as well as the debates about euthanasia and death penalty in the Western world.
Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice:Penguin Specials
Author: Nam Le
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742535798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's writing and sense of self are both deeply changed. Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity, from Nam Le's multi-award-winning collection The Boat. 'A tight and densely emotional journey that sucked me in and contained as much power as the lengthy title.' Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
ISBN: 1742535798
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
A young Vietnamese-Australian named Nam, in his final year at the famed Iowa Writers' Workshop, is trying to find his voice on the page. When his father, a man with a painful past, comes to visit, Nam's writing and sense of self are both deeply changed. Love and Honour and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice is a deeply moving story of identity, family and the wellsprings of creativity, from Nam Le's multi-award-winning collection The Boat. 'A tight and densely emotional journey that sucked me in and contained as much power as the lengthy title.' Killings, the Kill Your Darlings blog
The Third Testament-Spirit of Truth
Author: T. R. Ross
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411625722
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Did I not promise, that all knowledge would be restored to its original truth? Christ's prophecy has been fulfilled. The following words have become absolute reality: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth." (John 16, 12-13). This book of my teachings has been formed from the lessons of love and charity and dictated to you through human understanding. Since ancient times I have entrusted to you my teachings, through my envoys, my emissaries, my interpreters, and you have used it to create myths and traditions. But you will not fulfill your purpose unless you meditate and study this lesson with respect and love. Truly I say to you that he who meditates and analyzes the teachings of my Book, with a true desire to elevate his knowledge, will acquire the light for his spirit and he will feel Me nearer to him.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1411625722
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
Did I not promise, that all knowledge would be restored to its original truth? Christ's prophecy has been fulfilled. The following words have become absolute reality: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth is come, he will guide you into all truth." (John 16, 12-13). This book of my teachings has been formed from the lessons of love and charity and dictated to you through human understanding. Since ancient times I have entrusted to you my teachings, through my envoys, my emissaries, my interpreters, and you have used it to create myths and traditions. But you will not fulfill your purpose unless you meditate and study this lesson with respect and love. Truly I say to you that he who meditates and analyzes the teachings of my Book, with a true desire to elevate his knowledge, will acquire the light for his spirit and he will feel Me nearer to him.
The Quest for a Common Humanity
Author: Katell Berthelot
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211128
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The worldview that all human beings belong to one big family has, in the history of religions, never been taken for granted. Moreover, human rights are a modern notion that should not be projected back onto the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, from the Hellenistic period onwards one encounters the idea of human duties towards not only parents, neighbours and fellow citizens but to all human beings. This volume explores the development of this idea from Antiquity to the present time focussing on the "other" as "neighbour, enemy, and infidel", on the interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham ́s sacrifice and on ancient and modern ethical and legal implications of the concept of human dignity.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004211128
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
The worldview that all human beings belong to one big family has, in the history of religions, never been taken for granted. Moreover, human rights are a modern notion that should not be projected back onto the sacred texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. However, from the Hellenistic period onwards one encounters the idea of human duties towards not only parents, neighbours and fellow citizens but to all human beings. This volume explores the development of this idea from Antiquity to the present time focussing on the "other" as "neighbour, enemy, and infidel", on the interpretation of the Biblical story of Abraham ́s sacrifice and on ancient and modern ethical and legal implications of the concept of human dignity.
Love's Sacrifice and the Ordeal to Become Human
Author: Dennis Leroy Stilwell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983317401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This is the first memoir to be published by a long-time devotee of the great Spiritual Master, Adi Da, who died in November of 2008.In 1975 Dennis Leroy saw the film "A Difficult Man." On the spot he knew he had found his Spiritual Master. His next thirty years were filled with lessons--rarely told--in spirituality, humanity, and love."Love's Sacrifice and the Ordeal to Become Human" is the extraordinary story of the relationship between Master and devotee; of the Master's instruction in the highest Spiritual Teaching of non-dualism and the devotee's struggle to bring that instruction into life. It is a story about the breaking down of religious idealism and the rise of the spiritual reality; and about human loss and human growth."Love's Sacrifice" is a powerful recounting of heartbreak, mystery, miracles, and truth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983317401
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
This is the first memoir to be published by a long-time devotee of the great Spiritual Master, Adi Da, who died in November of 2008.In 1975 Dennis Leroy saw the film "A Difficult Man." On the spot he knew he had found his Spiritual Master. His next thirty years were filled with lessons--rarely told--in spirituality, humanity, and love."Love's Sacrifice and the Ordeal to Become Human" is the extraordinary story of the relationship between Master and devotee; of the Master's instruction in the highest Spiritual Teaching of non-dualism and the devotee's struggle to bring that instruction into life. It is a story about the breaking down of religious idealism and the rise of the spiritual reality; and about human loss and human growth."Love's Sacrifice" is a powerful recounting of heartbreak, mystery, miracles, and truth.
The Paradox of Hope
Author: Justin D. Klassen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162189357X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In contemporary public discourse, the supposedly comprehensive explanatory power of reason is used to justify a thoroughgoing suspicion of religion. In recent decades, the critiques of postmodernism have generated a different kind of suspicion by construing history as a process that is too arbitrary to be narrated--either by modern reason or by religion. In light of these developments, a question arises regarding the appropriate theological response to such forms of suspicion, both of which threaten not just religion but our sense of human agency as such. Does the retrieval of a meaningful religious subjectivity in a climate of suspicion demand a renewed emphasis upon theology's rhetorical persuasiveness, as Radical Orthodoxy has recently proposed? Or does identifying the believing subject with theology's "grammar" fail to attend to some of the challenges posed by such suspicion? The Paradox of Hope answers these questions in an original and provocative way by clarifying the complex relationship between post-secular theology and the work of Soren Kierkegaard. Ultimately, Klassen argues that Kierkegaard's influence is crucial, albeit obscured, in current post-secular theological imperatives, and that the Dane's eschewal of persuasion in favor of hope's inexplicable resolve provides a more adequate response to the nihilism of contemporary suspicion than do the rhetorical proposals currently on offer. In light of this argument, The Paradox of Hope also rehabilitates some of the voices typically excluded by contemporary theology's rhetoric, including those of Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas.
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 162189357X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
In contemporary public discourse, the supposedly comprehensive explanatory power of reason is used to justify a thoroughgoing suspicion of religion. In recent decades, the critiques of postmodernism have generated a different kind of suspicion by construing history as a process that is too arbitrary to be narrated--either by modern reason or by religion. In light of these developments, a question arises regarding the appropriate theological response to such forms of suspicion, both of which threaten not just religion but our sense of human agency as such. Does the retrieval of a meaningful religious subjectivity in a climate of suspicion demand a renewed emphasis upon theology's rhetorical persuasiveness, as Radical Orthodoxy has recently proposed? Or does identifying the believing subject with theology's "grammar" fail to attend to some of the challenges posed by such suspicion? The Paradox of Hope answers these questions in an original and provocative way by clarifying the complex relationship between post-secular theology and the work of Soren Kierkegaard. Ultimately, Klassen argues that Kierkegaard's influence is crucial, albeit obscured, in current post-secular theological imperatives, and that the Dane's eschewal of persuasion in favor of hope's inexplicable resolve provides a more adequate response to the nihilism of contemporary suspicion than do the rhetorical proposals currently on offer. In light of this argument, The Paradox of Hope also rehabilitates some of the voices typically excluded by contemporary theology's rhetoric, including those of Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas.
Mate to Mate
Author: Tallula K. Sharkey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Lost Sons
Author: Michael Sadgrove
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281069522
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Stories in the Books of Genesis and Exodus tell of fathers whose sons are 'lost' to them through 'deaths' of various kinds. One is murdered. Another is abandoned. A third is supplanted. A fourth is betrayed. A fifth is taken for sacrifice. A sixth is forgotten about. A seventh is secreted away. Only one of these is lost through physical death; the others 'die' symbolically. But in their different ways all these sons are lost to their fathers, some for a time, some forever. And all of them develop the theme with which the biblical narrative begins: God's first son Adam who, by becoming 'lost' to his Creator, sets in train God's long search for humanity . . . The book culminates with a chapter on Jesus: God's son lost and found.
Publisher: SPCK
ISBN: 0281069522
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Stories in the Books of Genesis and Exodus tell of fathers whose sons are 'lost' to them through 'deaths' of various kinds. One is murdered. Another is abandoned. A third is supplanted. A fourth is betrayed. A fifth is taken for sacrifice. A sixth is forgotten about. A seventh is secreted away. Only one of these is lost through physical death; the others 'die' symbolically. But in their different ways all these sons are lost to their fathers, some for a time, some forever. And all of them develop the theme with which the biblical narrative begins: God's first son Adam who, by becoming 'lost' to his Creator, sets in train God's long search for humanity . . . The book culminates with a chapter on Jesus: God's son lost and found.
Uses of Comparative Mythology
Author: Kenneth L. Golden
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317943198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these 'stories' in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317943198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This collection, first published in 1992, offers critical-interpretive essays on various aspects of the work of Joseph Campbell (1904-1987), one of a very few international experts on myth. Joseph Campbell examines myths and mythologies from a comparative point of view, and he stresses those similarities among myths the world over as they suggest an existing, transcendent unity of all humankind. His interpretations foster an openness, even a generous appreciation of, all myths; and he attempts to generate a broad, sympathetic understanding of the role of these 'stories' in human history, in our present-day lives, and in the possibilities of our future.