Author: John-Mark Miravalle
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1622827139
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 130
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What we moderns have forgotten, the ancients knew well: true beauty heals the soul, draws us to God, and yields lasting happiness. Rich with the wisdom of Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, and St. John Paul II, these pages unpack perennial truths about beauty and rivet them into your soul, opening the eyes of your understanding to the beauty all around us. Offering an abundance of accessible examples, author John Mark Miravalle demonstrates that beauty is neither in the eye of the beholder, nor for the cultivated, the dreamer, or the “hopeless romantic” alone. On the contrary, the ability to understand, recognize, and delight in beauty readies all souls for heaven — and makes it easier for us to get there. From these pages, you'll learn: Why beauty is not just a matter of opinion. The virtues we need to perceive beauty and to enjoy it. How to determine whether an artwork is truly beautiful. The respective roles of reason and emotion in appreciating beauty. How the beauty of nature testifies to God's existence . . . while rejection of God obscures nature's beauty. With the help of these pages, you'll receive fresh eyes to marvel again (or for the first time) at the beauty of nature, music, art, architecture, and, most importantly, the beauty of God, the fountainhead and exemplar of all things on earth that are beautiful.
Author: Lady Sherry Lynn Kemp
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450058485
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Lord am I going the way you want me to go? Is this my husband? Is this my wife? Can I have this moment of pleasure? What will be my next step Lord? What is my calling? Lord will you bless my finances? These are just some of the questions that many Christians have today. In this book you will discover the questions that many have asked before you, “Lord what is your Divine Will for my life?” You will also be able to see the difference between your permissive will, and God’s perfect plan for you. As this book will stand as an instrument to help guide you in the direction that God has pre planned for your life from the foundation of the world. Sit back and dare to see, Are you in HIS DIVINE WILL?
Author: Kin Yip Louie
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1610972430
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 247
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The seventeenth-century Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards has become popular again in contemporary theological discussion. Central to Edwards' theology is his concept of beauty. Delattre wrote the standard work on this topic half a century ago. However, Delattre approaches Edwards mainly as a philosopher, and he does not address how Edwards employs the concept of beauty to explain and defend traditional Reformed doctrines. Recent writings by McClymond, Holmes, and others have shown that defending the Reformed tradition is a fundamental concern of Edwards. This work reveals how Edwards, starting with the common notion that beauty means the appropriate proportional relationship, develops a theological aesthetic that contributes to a rational understanding of major doctrines such as the Trinity, Christology, and eschatology. It shows that Edwards is both an innovative speculative theologian and a staunch defender of Reformed orthodoxy.
Author: Hannah Opliger
Publisher: Discovery House
ISBN: 1640703403
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Celebrate God’s presence with all five senses by going on an experiential journey throughout Thanksgiving, Christmas, and into the New Year! Explore 50 Scripture-based devotions with prompts and practices that help recenter your relationships on the newborn King amid the busyness of the season. Enjoy beloved holiday traditions while reconnecting to the God who is in all with your whole mind, body, and soul.
Author: CAConrad
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 193351759X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242
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"This mechanistic world…has required me to FIND MY BODY to FIND MY PLANET in order to find my poetry."—CAConrad
Author: Father Henry C. Schmid
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1450062571
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Pastors Sandal Path relates my envisioning of God in nature. I was privileged to grow up with my sister and five brothers on a farm where our parents instilled in us the presence of God in our daily lives, as well as in the majesty of Gods nature. My early schooling took place in a one-room country school where our fantastic teacher incorporated the beauty of God and nature in the classroom and on field trips. In the upper grades, the Dominican sisters assisted my parents in laying a solid faith foundation. After graduation, I entered St. Mary of the Lake Seminary Mundelein where my faith was deepened, my love of Jesus increased, and Gods presence in nature more keenly perceived. I hope my perceptions of God in nature will help the reader to encounter God in their ordinary experiences of life.
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Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 398
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1052
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Author: Karmen MacKendrick
Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 0823294560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 135
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Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions—those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a human-centered theology and point to a very anthropomorphic God. Taking them seriously seems to ignore the material turn in the humanities entirely, with the same sort of willful ignorance that some of our politicians show in declaring that their myths count as facts, or that the point of the rest of the world is to further human consumption. But it is possible, Karmen MacKendrick shows, to read these figures through a particular tradition that emerges from the Hebrew Bible, the tradition of Wisdom as a creative force. Wisdom texts are common across the ancient Near East. As the idea of creative Wisdom develops from antiquity into the middle ages, it gathers philosophical influences from a range of philosophical traditions. This exuberantly promiscuous impurity—intellectual, artistic, and theological—generates new interpretive possibilities. In these interpretations, each human-like figure opens up onto the world''s matter, as an interdependent part of it, and matter is thoroughly mixed with divinity. Such mythic readings complement our factual, scientific understanding of the material world, to engage wider kinds of knowing and affective attention—particularly Wisdom''s combination of care and delight.
Author: Bible Christians
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Languages : en
Pages : 600
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