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Early Christian Discernment of Spirits

Author : Elisabeth Hense
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643907524
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Early Christian Discernment of Spirits written by Elisabeth Hense and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a comparative analysis, this book argues that early notions of 'discernment of spirits' are not superior to later ones. Discernment of spirits is not a matter of an apostolically fixed ideal that should be traditionally cleaved to, but, above all, is a continual re-shaping and restructuring of this tradition. Christians were not expected to imitate the discernment of others, but rather were encouraged to make judgments for themselves. Dr. Elisabeth Hense is Assistant Professor for Spiritual Theology at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL).

The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment (Foreword by John MacArthur)

Author : Tim Challies
Publisher : Crossway
ISBN 13 : 1433520524
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (335 download)

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Download or read book The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment (Foreword by John MacArthur) written by Tim Challies and published by Crossway. This book was released on 2007-12-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiritual discernment is good for more than just making monumental decisions according to God's will. It is an essential, day-to-day activity that allows thoughtful Christians to separate the truth of God from error and to distinguish right from wrong in all kinds of settings and situations. It is also a skill-something that any person can develop and improve, especially with the guidance in this book. Written by a leading evangelical blogger, The Discipline of Spiritual Discernment is an uplifting, scripturally grounded work that explains the need for discernment, its challenges, and the steps that will cultivate it. Author Tim Challies does not do the discerning for readers; he simply shows them how to practically apply scriptural tools, principles, and wisdom so that their conclusions about everything-people, teachings, decisions, media, and organizations-will be consistent with God's Word.

Manresa

Author : Saint Ignatius (of Loyola)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manresa written by Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discerning God's Will Together

Author : Danny E. Morris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 156699506X
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Discerning God's Will Together written by Danny E. Morris and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible study, research, and fieldwork merge in this book of practical principles for decision making by spiritual discernment. The step-by-step approach can be used to help any size group learn a new way to make decisions--a way that is interactive, spiritual, and rooted in faith practices and community. Small groups, committees, church boards, church leaders at all levels, and seminary professors will find this book valuable. This is a revised and updated version of the book, originally published in 1997. This new version inclused revised and updated material, as well as a new introduction by Charles Olsen.

The Gifts of the Spirit

Author : Derek Prince
Publisher : Whitaker House
ISBN 13 : 160374200X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Gifts of the Spirit written by Derek Prince and published by Whitaker House. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Powerful Gifts Available to You Everybeliever has been given at least one supernatural gift of the Holy Spirit. Do you know which you have and how to operate in it? Internationally renowned Bible teacher Derek Prince explains that any believer who is not manifesting gifts of the Spirit is living far below the level of God’s provision for his life. Prince reveals how to: Minister to others through the gifts Discern the counterfeit Witness through spiritual gifts Stir up the gift within you One of our greatest necessities in the church today is to demonstrate through the power of the Spirit that Jesus is alive and that His gospel is true. The world needs to see the manifestation of the presence of God. Believers need the ministry of the body of Christ through spiritual gifts. The Gifts of the Spirit reveals how we can fulfill both of these needs—practically and powerfully.

Listening to the Spirit

Author :
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 9780827221536
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Listening to the Spirit written by and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Believe Not Every Spirit

Author : Moshe Sluhovsky
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226762955
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Believe Not Every Spirit written by Moshe Sluhovsky and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1400 through 1700, the number of reports of demonic possessions among European women was extraordinarily high. During the same period, a new type of mysticism—popular with women—emerged that greatly affected the risk of possession and, as a result, the practice of exorcism. Many feared that in moments of rapture, women, who had surrendered their souls to divine love, were not experiencing the work of angels, but rather the ravages of demons in disguise. So how then, asks Moshe Sluhovsky, were practitioners of exorcism to distinguish demonic from divine possessions? Drawing on unexplored accounts of mystical schools and spiritual techniques, testimonies of the possessed, and exorcism manuals, Believe Not Every Spirit examines how early modern Europeans dealt with this dilemma. The personal experiences of practitioners, Sluhovsky shows, trumped theological knowledge. Worried that this could lead to a rejection of Catholic rituals, the church reshaped the meaning and practices of exorcism, transforming this healing rite into a means of spiritual interrogation. In its efforts to distinguish between good and evil, the church developed important new explanatory frameworks for the relations between body and soul, interiority and exteriority, and the natural and supernatural.

Discerning Spirits

Author : Nancy Mandeville Caciola
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501702173
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Discerning Spirits written by Nancy Mandeville Caciola and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-25 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit. This process of discrimination, known as the discernment of spirits, was central to the religious culture of Western Europe between 1200 and 1500.Since the outward manifestations of benign and malign possession were indistinguishable, a highly ambiguous set of bodily features and behaviors were carefully scrutinized by observers. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the most intense exemplars of lay spirituality were women, and the "fragile sex" was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the devil. Assessments of women's spirit possessions often oscillated between divine and demonic interpretations. Ultimately, although a few late medieval women visionaries achieved the prestige of canonization, many more were accused of possession by demons.Caciola analyzes a broad array of sources from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts, to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms.

Pursuing God's Will Together

Author : Ruth Haley Barton
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830869786
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Pursuing God's Will Together written by Ruth Haley Barton and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logos Book of the Year Meetings can sap our energy, rupture community and thoroughly demoralize us. They can go on forever with no resolution. Or they can rush along without consensus just to "get through the agenda." What if there was another way? Church boards and other Christian leadership teams have long relied on models adapted from the business world. Ruth Haley Barton, president of the Transforming Center, helps teams transition to a much more suitable model—the spiritual community that discerns God's will together. In these pages you will discover personal and group practices that will lead you into a new way of experiencing community and listening to God together.

Made for a Mission

Author : David A. Posthuma
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 1604770155
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Made for a Mission written by David A. Posthuma and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked yourself: "Why am I here?" Made for a Mission offers a biblical informed, strategic method to help you answer this all-important question. "Ever wonder what it was like to have been on the ground floor with Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com or Pierre Omidyar of eBay.com? Wonder no longer. Join Dave Posthuma and hold on -- the future of the church is forming right before your eyes and under your feet." Leonard Sweet, Author and Futurist "Dave Posthuma and E-Church Essentials share my passion to train and inspire leaders to live authentic lives of great impact. Rarely do you meet someone as passionate about the church with the technological genius of Dave..Pay attention to what he is doing and access his outrageous resource. It will help you as you both grow and organize your church." Dan Webster, Author and Founder of Authentic Leadership

How to Discern Spirits

Author : Virgil Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780947348021
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book How to Discern Spirits written by Virgil Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to See the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Demons

Author : Gordon James Klingenschmitt
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1630870870
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book How to See the Holy Spirit, Angels, and Demons written by Gordon James Klingenschmitt and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12-01 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are God, angels, and demons really invisible? Or can the spirits be seen with human eyes, through the lens of Church Ethics? The gift of discerning of spirits is indispensible to the study of church ethics. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), wrote two sets of Rules for Discerning of Spirits in his Spiritual Exercises in the early 1500s. He taught how the church can receive from God the gift to see otherwise invisible angels, demons, and the Holy Spirit. Ignatius' views were influenced by John Cassian, Jacobus de Voragine, Ludolph of Saxony, and Thomas a Kempis. Ignatius' Rules are exegeted in dialogue with contemporary scholars Karl Rahner, Hugo Rahner, Piet Penning de Vries, Jules Toner, and Timothy Gallagher, and applied to one study of ecclesial ethics in the narrative theology of Samuel Wells. A four-step Ignatian "pneumato-ethical method" is developed, which any analyst can follow to see the spirits, by consolation/desolation, consent, manifestation, and pneumato-ethics. This method revolutionizes how we study ecclesiology, soteriology, missiology/world religions, liturgy, worship, Eucharist, hermeneutics, homiletics, pastoral counseling, church history, and politics. The spirits are not invisible at all. They can be clearly discerned through the lens of ecclesial ethics.

Discernment of the Spirit and of Spirits

Author : Casiano Floristán Samanes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discernment of the Spirit and of Spirits written by Casiano Floristán Samanes and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Crossroad book." Includes bibliographical references.

Faith's Checkbook (Sea Harp Timeless series)

Author : Charles H. Spurgeon
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0768471621
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (684 download)

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Download or read book Faith's Checkbook (Sea Harp Timeless series) written by Charles H. Spurgeon and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout Scripture, God promises the impossible to those who believe. For many Christians, the promises of God have lost their power. Deemed as irrelevant or simply misunderstood, God's promises—of triumph, abundance, redemption, and countless blessings—are often ignored, forgotten, and seemingly unfulfilled. However, for Charles H. Spurgeon, God’s promises were timeless. In fact, they seemed to grow in power and hope over the course of his life. In Faith’s Checkbook, Spurgeon shares his personal experience testing and proving Scripture’s promises and his ongoing discovery of a relentlessly good, kind and faithful God. He urges believers to treat God’s promises as they would a check—to receive them, endorse them and actively "cash them in." Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892), renowned 19th century Baptist preacher, is best known for his 1866 publication Morning and Evening. Over 20 years later, Spurgeon wrote Faith’s Checkbook, a yearlong devotional that inspires believers to see and experience God’s goodness. Written near the end of his life, in the depths of a season marked by incredible loneliness, spiritual controversies and health complications, Faith’s Checkbook is full of honest, heartfelt and mature hope. Spurgeon’s breathtaking sincerity and provoking thoughts will encourage believers to: Study and engage God’s promises throughout Scripture Expect these promises to be fulfilled in their daily life Participate by receiving God’s promises and praying for their fulfillment Glimpse God’s boundless goodness and faithfulness Discover a renewed, child-like trust in Him In Faith’s Checkbook, the reader will encounter God’s outstretched hand—through promises of provision, wisdom, fruitfulness, presence and much more—and be invited to respond with hopeful anticipation.

Discernment of Spirits Marriage

Author : Fr. Timothy Gallagher
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1644133482
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (441 download)

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Download or read book Discernment of Spirits Marriage written by Fr. Timothy Gallagher and published by Sophia Institute Press. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To navigate the inevitable ups and downs of our spiritual lives, countless souls have found comfort and guidance in St. Ignatius of Loyola��s Rules for Discernment. For the past forty years, popular retreat master and author Fr. Timothy Gallagher has been at the forefront of making St. Ignatius��s Rules understandable and applicable to hundreds of thousands of Catholics seeking greater sensitivity to the "movements�� of th

The Spirit of Early Christian Thought

Author : Robert Louis Wilken
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127561
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Early Christian Thought written by Robert Louis Wilken and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the problems afflicting American education are the result of a critical shortage of qualified teachers in the classrooms. The teacher crisis is surprisingly resistant to reforms and is getting worse. This analysis of the causes underlying the crisis seeks to offer concrete, affordable proposals for effective reform. Vivian Troen and Katherine Boles, two experienced classroom teachers and education consultants, argue that because teachers are recruited from a pool of underqualified candidates, given inadequate preparation, and dropped into a culture of isolation without mentoring, support, or incentives for excellence, they are programmed to fail. Half quit within their first five years. Troen and Boles offer an alternative, a model of reform they call the Millennium School, which changes the way teachers work and improves the quality of their teaching. When teaching becomes a real profession, they contend, more academically able people will be drawn into it, colleges will be forced to improve the quality of their education, and better-prepared teachers will enter the classroom and improve the profession.

God's Voice Within

Author : Mark E. Thibodeaux
Publisher : Loyola Press
ISBN 13 : 082943304X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book God's Voice Within written by Mark E. Thibodeaux and published by Loyola Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of us do not trust our own thoughts, feelings, and desires when it comes to discerning God’s will. Instead we look outside ourselves to determine what God wants from and for us. In God’s Voice Within, spiritual director Mark E. Thibodeaux, SJ, shows us how to use Ignatian discernment to access our own spiritual intuition and understand that the most trustworthy wisdom of all comes not from outside sources, but from God working through us. God’s Voice Within is intended for people who know that there is more to the spiritual life than they are currently experiencing and are ready to take the next step in their walk of faith by making effective discernment—specifically Ignatian discernment—a daily practice. Ultimately, God’s Voice Within teaches us to discern what is at the root of our actions and emotions, which in turn allows us to respond to God’s promptings inside us rather than unconsciously reacting to life around us.