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Author : Audrey Carlan
Publisher : Waterhouse Press
ISBN 13 : 1943893748
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Divine Desire written by Audrey Carlan and published by Waterhouse Press. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael John Cusick
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0849947235
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)
Download or read book Surfing for God written by Michael John Cusick and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Every man who knocks on the door of a brothel is knocking for God." - G. K. Chesterton What if lust for porn is really a search for true passion? In a world where there are 68 million searches for pornography every day and where over 70 percent of Christian men report viewing porn in the last year, it's no surprise that more and more men struggle with an addiction to this false fantasy. Common wisdom says if they just had more willpower or more faith, their fight would be over. Is the answer really that simple? According to the counselor and ministry leader Michael John Cusick, the answer is no--but the big truth may be much more freeing.Backed by scripture, Cusick uses examples from his own life and from his twenty years of counseling experience to show us how the pursuit of empty pleasure is really a search for our heart's deepest desire--and the real key to to resistance is discovering and embracing the joy we truly want. Cusick's insights help readers understand how porn struggles begin, what to do to prevent them, and most importantly, how to overcome the compulsion once it begins. In the end, this powerful book shows us all how the barrier built by porn addiction can become a bridge to abundant life.
Author : Jordan Wessling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192593730
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Love Divine written by Jordan Wessling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Divine provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans. While the associated theological territory is vast, the objective is to contend for a unified paradigm regarding fundamental issues pertaining to the God of love who deigns to share His life of love with any human willing to receive it. Realizing this objective includes clarifying and defending specific conclusions concerning how the doctrine of divine love should be approached, what God's love is, what role love plays in motivating God's creation and subsequent governance of humans, how God's love of humans factors into His emotional life, which humans it is that God loves in a saving manner, what the punitive wrath of God is and how it relates to God's love for humans, and how it might be possible for God to share the intra-trinitarian life of love with human beings. As the book unfolds, the chapters interlock and build upon one another in the effort to trace nodal issues related to God's love as it begins in Him and then spills out in the creation, redemption, and glorification of humanity—a kind of exitus-reditus structure that is driven by the unyielding love of God.
Author : Lindsay Ellis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250274559
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Truth of the Divine written by Lindsay Ellis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: USA TODAY BESTSELLER Truth of the Divine is the latest alternate-history first-contact novel in the Noumena series from the instant New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times bestselling author Lindsay Ellis. The human race is at a crossroads; we know that we are not alone, but details about the alien presence on Earth are still being withheld from the public. As the political climate grows more unstable, the world is forced to consider the ramifications of granting human rights to nonhuman persons. How do you define “person” in the first place? Cora Sabino not only serves as the full-time communication intermediary between the alien entity Ampersand and his government chaperones but also shares a mysterious bond with him that is both painful and intimate in ways neither of them could have anticipated. Despite this, Ampersand is still keen on keeping secrets, even from Cora, which backfires on them both when investigative journalist Kaveh Mazandarani, a close colleague of Cora’s unscrupulous estranged father, witnesses far more of Ampersand’s machinations than anyone was meant to see. Since Cora has no choice but to trust Kaveh, the two must work together to prove to a fearful world that intelligent, conscious beings should be considered persons, no matter how horrifying, powerful, or malicious they may seem. Making this case is hard enough when the public doesn’t know what it’s dealing with—and it will only become harder when a mysterious flash illuminates the sky, marking the arrival of an agent of chaos that will light an already-unstable world on fire. With a voice completely her own, Lindsay Ellis deepens her realistic exploration of the reality of a planet faced with the presence of extraterrestrial intelligence, probing the essential questions of humanity and decency, and the boundaries of the human mind. While asking the question of what constitutes a “person,” Ellis also examines what makes a monster.
Author : Jeff B. Pool
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556354657
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Volume Two written by Jeff B. Pool and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the second volume of a three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering: God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, vol. 2, Evil and Divine Suffering. The larger study focuses its inquiry into the testimonies to divine suffering themselves, seeking to allow the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely, then to discover and elucidate the internal logic or rationality of this family of testimonies, rather than defending these attestations against the dominant claims of classical Christian theism that have historically sought to eliminate such language altogether from Christian discourse about the nature and life of God. This second volume of studies proceeds on the basis of the presuppositions of this symbol, those implicit attestations that provide the conditions of possibility for divine suffering-that which constitutes divine vulnerability with respect to creation-as identified and examined in the first volume of this project: an understanding of God through the primary metaphor of love (God is love); and an understanding of the human as created in the image of God, with a life (though finite) analogous to the divine life-the imago Dei as love. The second volume then investigates the first two divine wounds or modes of divine suffering to which the larger family of testimonies to divine suffering normally attest: (1) divine grief, suffering because of betrayal by the beloved human or human sin; and (2) divine self-sacrifice, suffering for the beloved human in its bondage to sin or misery, to establish the possibility of redemption and reconciliation. Each divine wound, thus, constitutes a response to a creaturely occasion. The suffering in each divine wound also occurs in two stages: a passive stage and an active stage. In divine grief, God suffers because of human sin, betrayal of the divine lover by the beloved human: divine sorrow as the passive stage of divine grief; and divine anguish as the active stage of divine grief. In divine self-sacrifice, God suffers in response to the misery or bondage of the beloved human's infidelity: divine travail (focused on the divine incarnation in Jesus of Nazareth) as the active stage of divine self-sacrifice; and divine agony (focused on divine suffering in the crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth) as the passive stage of divine self-sacrifice.
Author : Herbert N. G. Newlyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Relationship Between the Mystical and the Sensible Worlds written by Herbert N. G. Newlyn and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nathaniel Berman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900438619X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar written by Nathaniel Berman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divine and Demonic in the Poetic Mythology of the Zohar offers a new interpretation of the Kabbalistic “Other Side,” exploring the intimacies and antagonisms of divine and demonic, and showing how the Zoharic literature contributes to thinking about alterity generally.
Author : Wendy Farley
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
ISBN 13 : 0664259863
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (642 download)
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.
Author : Jeff B. Pool
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556354649
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)
Download or read book God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Volume One written by Jeff B. Pool and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the first volume of a three-volume study of Christian testimonies to divine suffering: God's Wounds: Hermeneutic of the Christian Symbol of Divine Suffering, Divine Vulnerability and Creation. This study first develops an approach to interpreting the contested claims about the suffering of God. Thus, the larger study focuses its inquiry into the testimonies to divine suffering themselves, seeking to allow the voices that attest to divine suffering to speak freely, to discover and elucidate the internal logic or rationality of this family of testimonies, rather than defending these attestations against the dominant claims of classical Christian theism that have historically sought to eliminate such language altogether from Christian discourse about the nature and life of God. Through this approach this volume of studies into the Christian symbol of divine suffering then investigates the two major presuppositions that the larger family of testimonies to divine suffering normally hold: an understanding of God through the primary metaphor of love (God is love); and an understanding of the human as created in the image of God, with a life (though finite) analogous to the divine life--the imago Dei as love. When fully elaborated, these presuppositions reveal the conditions of possibility for divine suffering and divine vulnerability with respect to creation.
Author : A. H. Almaas
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 0834829134
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (348 download)
Download or read book The Power of Divine Eros written by A. H. Almaas and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two innovative spiritual teachers show how to use desire and passion—eros—as a gateway to realizing our fullest potential What do desire and passion have to do with our spiritual journey? According to A. H. Almaas and Karen Johnson, they are an essential part of it. Conventional wisdom cautions that desire and passion are opposed to the spiritual path—that engaging in desire will take you more into the world, into egoic life. And for most people, that is exactly what happens. We naturally tend to experience wanting in a self-centered way. The Power of Divine Eros challenges the view that the divine and the erotic are separate. When we open to the energy, aliveness, spontaneity, and zest of erotic love, we will find it inseparable from the realm of the holy and sacred. When this is understood, desire and passion become a gateway to wholeness and to realizing our full potential. Through guided exercises, the authors reveal how our relationships become opportunities on the spiritual journey to express ourselves authentically, to relate with openness, and to discover dynamic inner realms with another person. Through embodying the energy of eros, each of us can learn to be fully real and alive in all of our interactions.
Author : Donald E. Weiner Ph.D.
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664180265
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Awakening as a Human*Divine Being written by Donald E. Weiner Ph.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, we incorporate wisdom from Zoroastrianism on the angels of transformation and the Archangel of the Earth; from Ibn 'Arabi on the barzakh (the interface between manifestation and subtle reality), creative imagination, and the human-divine relationship; from Hazrat Inayat Khan, Pir Vilayat, and Pir Zia on contemporary Sufi teachings which state that every desire begins with a divine impulse and that the purpose of spirituality is awakening of divinity in life; as well as from realizations from the authors' meditations, inspirations, and spiritual dialogues which form the basis what they call the Gabrielite Work. Everyone has the potential to awaken to their existence in multiple realms of reality, and to contribute in a unique way from the fullness of their being to the never ending human-divine co-creative process.
Author : Kimberly Ann Coots
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9781450282468
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (824 download)
Download or read book Divine Worth written by Kimberly Ann Coots and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-02-21 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance Praise for Divine Worth: Divine Worth is a powerful guide to discovering that self worth is unconditional and found within (not gained through seeking and acquiring stuff outside of you). The insights and exercises that Kimberly shares have the potential to transform unworthiness conditioning and inspire true joy and fulfillment. JAMES TWYMAN, best-selling author I recommend Kimberlys book, Divine Worth, to anyone who desires to make positive life changes and accomplish their goals. The insights and exercises in this book will inspire you to live a more empowered life! BRONSON ARROYO, Major League Baseball pitcher Divine Worth is a powerful guide to discovering that self worth is unconditional and found within (not gained through seeking and acquiring stuff outside of you). The insights and exercises that Kimberly shares have the potential to transform unworthiness conditioning and inspire true joy and fulfillment. JAMES TWYMAN, best-selling author If you have ever doubted your true worth, read this book, and you will never doubt it again! With a step-by-step guide to uncovering your blocks, Kimberly Coots beautifully prepares the way for you to embrace your authentic self and connect to your divine purpose so that you create the life you truly deserve. Written with clarity, grace and a big heart, this book is a valuable tool on your path to joy and fulfillment. AMODA MAA JEEVAN, best-selling author and spiritual teacher This book is a godsend. Kim walks and breathes her work. The detail in her writing shows how to find a new path of abundance with joy. Thank you Kim for taking the time to articulate a clear road map to places we all need to find within. SHANDA SUMPTER, founder of HeartCore Women Divine Worth is a gem! Filled with inspiring wisdom from the heart, Kimberly gently guides you on a journey of self discovery, helping you embrace the beauty of who you are. What greater gift can we receive than learning to be our authentic selves and expressing our full potential? SASKIA ROELL, best-selling author, transformational life and courage coach Are you holding back from pursuing what you want and living your true potential? Do you feel stuck in doubt, worry or negative self-talk? Do you create distractions in your life to avoid feeling unfulfilled? Are you denying your true desires? Feelings of unworthiness are a leading reason why people experience these issues. Author and life coach Kimberly Ann Coots can help you connect with a greater sense of confidence, purpose and self worth. Divine Worth shows you how to transform the unworthiness mindset that may be sabotaging your happiness. You can learn how to break the bonds of unworthiness and experience greater self-worth; meaningful life purpose; more joy and fulfillment; connection with self and life; healthier, happier relationships; and greater abundance. Discover how to be your authentic self and live with purpose, passion and prosperity. The more than twenty-five practical exercises, tools and insights in this book will guide you in transforming self-limiting thoughts and beliefs, and empower you to create greater joy and fulfillment in your life.
Author : Brian Simmons
Publisher : BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC
ISBN 13 : 1424555531
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (245 download)
Download or read book The Divine Romance written by Brian Simmons and published by BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Encounter God’s Delight in You! The Holy Spirit wants to wash you in the refreshing grace that streams every day from God’s presence. Listen to God’s life-giving words—words that heal and draw you into greater intimacy with Jesus. Be moved by his voice, stirred by his Spirit, and thrilled by these messages of love. Open your soul to the whispers of God so that you hear him whisper his message of love to you!
Author : Jasmuheen
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1409252744
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Divine Radiance - on the Road with the Masters of Magic written by Jasmuheen and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-01-04 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jasmuheen's sixteenth book, 'DIVINE RADIANCE : On the Road with the Masters of Magic', describes her life with, and the modern day teachings of, these amazing beings. She writes: Somehow in the course of my life I have been blessed with both witnessing and experiencing pure Divine Radiance. When the Radiance reveals Itself we are captured by Its Splendor as we intuitively recognize Its power. It has taken me decades to discover how when Its illumination enters our energy field, our bodies become irradiated by a laser beam of such perfect sustenance that all our appetites are fulfilled. This book is my attempt to describe Its delights.
Author : Svyatoslav Dubyanskiy
Publisher : Svyatoslav Dubyanskiy
ISBN 13 : 5532920311
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Sathya Sai Baba. Supernatural Experiences and Divine Transformation. Book Two written by Svyatoslav Dubyanskiy and published by Svyatoslav Dubyanskiy. This book was released on 2015-05-09 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before you is a book about the life and philosophy of the great Indian mystic and miracle worker Sathya Sai Baba. He was a spiritual mentor, philosopher, public figure and the most significant miracle worker of our time. Sai Baba preached the unity of all religions, taught meditation practices, and his blessings healed and changed people's lives. For me, Sathya Sai Baba is a divine teacher who helped at all levels of human existence, from the highest spiritual realizations to the most everyday problems related to health, family life, and creativity. All issues that were important to people were also important to him.
Author : William Law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book An earnest and serious answer to Dr. Trapp's Discourse of the folly, sin, and danger of being written by William Law and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kathaleen E. Amende
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080715038X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
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 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking study, Kathaleen E. Amende considers the works and lives of late-twentieth-century southern women writers to explore how conservative Christian ideals of femininity shaped notions of religion, sexuality, and power in the South. Drawing from the work of authors like Rosemary Daniell and Connie May Fowler, whose characters—like the authors themselves—grow up believing that Jesus should be a girl's first "boyfriend," Amende demonstrates many ways in which these writers commingled the sexual and the sacred. Amende also looks at the writings of Lee Smith, Sheri Reynolds, Dorothy Allison, and Valerie Martin and discusses how southern women authors and their characters grappled with opposing cultural expectations. Often in their work, characters mingle spiritual devotion and carnal love, allowing for salvation despite rejecting traditional roles or behaviors. In Martin's A Recent Martyr, novitiate Claire disavows southern norms of femininity—courtship, marriage, and motherhood—but submits to Jesus as she would to a husband. In Reynolds's Rapture of Canaan, teenage protagonist Ninah Huff imagines that her out-of-wedlock child is the offspring of Christ because of her conviction that Jesus was present during the sexual act that produced him. This tie between sexuality and religion afforded women movement between the two, but any attempt to separate them into compartmentalized spaces, as Amende shows, produces negative consequences—from pain and mental illness to an inability to connect with others. Ultimately, women have to find a way to unite the realms of the body and of faith in order to achieve spiritual and romantic fulfillment. As in Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, where, for the protagonist, gospel music includes both the intensity of violent fantasies along with a spiritual yearning, it is only when the erotic and the spiritual coexist that women achieve full self-realization. Grounded in southern cultural and gender studies and informed by historical, religious, and devotional literature, Amende's timely and accessible book offers one the first studies to view the intersection of sexuality and Christianity in southern contexts.
