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Book Synopsis Creative Church Handbook by : J. Scott McElroy
Download or read book Creative Church Handbook written by J. Scott McElroy and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the future is creative, is it any wonder that sometimes the church seems stuck in the past? Now is the time for the church to reclaim its role as a center of creativity. Among your members are artists, musicians and other creatives whose gifts can enhance your worship, inform your theology and impact your community. Christian arts advocate J. Scott McElroy gives a comprehensive vision and manual for unleashing creativity in your congregation so you can connect with the more visual, aural, participatory and expressive generation that is rising up within the church today. In this handbook you'll find clear direction for: Mobilizing and managing artists and other creatives in your congregation Establishing structures and parameters for arts ministry Leading and supporting staff and church members in creative changes Enhancing the worship service Adding creative elements to your sermons Engaging the broader community Activate your church in every avenue of worship with this practical guide for arts ministry.
Book Synopsis A textbook for a pregnant woman. Everything you need to know when carrying a child. by : O.Nashchubskiy
Download or read book A textbook for a pregnant woman. Everything you need to know when carrying a child. written by O.Nashchubskiy and published by Oleg Nashchubskiy. This book was released on with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is nothing more magical in this world than the moment when life begins its new story. This is the moment when a small miracle awakens in the arms of mother and father, and the whole world reveals its miracles in new colors. Like the pages of a magic book, the life of a pregnant woman is filled with mysteries and surprises. Every moment is a chapter, every movement is an art, and the beating of a small heart is a magic that cannot be described in words. This book is the key to this magical book of life. She invites you on a journey full of mystery and wonder, into a world where the smallest touches become the most important. This is a journey into the world of motherhood and fatherhood, where every day is a new chapter, every minute is an encounter with magic. Here you will find stories about how dreams and hopes are born, about how love and happiness are born. This book is a colorful picture of life, where every color, every note is part of this magical symphony. Let's open the first page of this magical book together and go on an incredible journey, where every moment is filled with the magic of a New Life. In this world, where every step leads to a new beginning, and every beginning carries with it the eternal circle of life, conceiving a child is one of the most magical and mysterious moments. It is like a quiet whisper of nature, a promise of new life, gently emerging in the secret depths of existence. This act of creating new life is the moment when love transcends the visible and becomes a force that can change the world. Conceiving a child is not just a biological process, it is an act of love and hope. This is the moment when two hearts work together to create a miracle, giving the world a new soul. This is the beginning of a journey full of excitement, joy, sometimes fear and uncertainty, but always full of love. And then comes the moment of birth - a solemn and magical event when new life meets the light for the first time. This is the moment when time stops, and the entire universe seems concentrated in this small creature that lies so helplessly in the arms of its mother. The birth of a child is the fulfillment of the meaning of life, the embodiment of love and hope that were inherent at the moment of conception. With this event comes a new responsibility - responsibility for a new life, for this little miracle, which now depends on its parents. This is a responsibility not only for the physical well-being of the child, but also for his emotional and spiritual development. Parents become the first teachers, the first mentors and the first support in this world for their child. And, of course, with the birth of a child comes incredible love - love that knows no boundaries, knows no fatigue and knows no fear. This is love that is stronger than anything in the world, love that is capable of the greatest sacrifices and deeds. This is love that stays with parents for life, grows and develops with the child. Conceiving and giving birth to a child are not just natural stages of life, they are sacred acts full of deep meaning and grandeur. They remind us of the miracle of life, the power of love and how important it is to cherish every moment spent with our children. This is a journey that changes us, makes us better, wiser and happier. In a world where every breath and every step carries the invisible magic of the beginning, the psychological education of a child, starting from the moment of conception and especially in the first year of life, is one of the most significant and subtle threads with which we, adults, weave the fabric of the future. From the moment of conception, when new life barely begins to pulsate in the womb, it already absorbs the essence of the surrounding world through the senses of the mother. The emotional state, thoughts, sensations of the mother become the first colors with which she, perhaps unknown, paints the first images in the mind of her child. Love, calm and harmony surrounding the mother become the basis for the development of a sense of security in the child. When a baby is born, his psychological development takes on a new round. Every touch, every look, every word of the parents is imprinted in the child’s tender memory, forming his ideas about the world, about himself and about those who surround him. In the first year of life, when the baby cannot yet speak, he actively learns to understand the world through emotions and tactile sensations. This is the time when the foundation of trust in the world is laid through the warmth of hands, the tenderness of hugs and the confidence that parents are always there. Mom’s smile, dad’s gentle voice, their calmness and confidence are transmitted to the baby, giving him a feeling of security and anticipation of good things. The importance of psychological education during this period cannot be overestimated. This is the time when the foundations of self-esteem, adaptability, and first social skills are laid. Parents are the first teachers and mentors through whom the child learns to understand himself and others, learns to feel and express his emotions. The love and attention, respect and understanding that a child receives in the first year of his life become the cornerstone of his psychological health and well-being for the rest of his life. This is the foundation on which all his future relationships, his self-confidence and his ability to face difficulties will be built. Thus, psychological education begins long before the first word, the first step, it begins with the first heartbeat in the womb and continues with every moment of the first year of life. It is a mysterious and majestic task to fill this world with love, raising a new soul that will one day make it a better place.
Book Synopsis Boost Your Child's Creativity: Teach Yourself by : Victoria Wilson
Download or read book Boost Your Child's Creativity: Teach Yourself written by Victoria Wilson and published by Teach Yourself. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every parent wants their child to achieve their full potential. Whatever your child's interest or inclincation, from art to music, sport to cookery, this book contains hundreds of practical and proven suggestions that will help them not only to develop certain skills, but also to feel socially and mentally confident. Designed for all ages from birth to preschool, the everyday activities, games, tasks and exercises in this easy to follow book will really help your young child to get the best possible head start. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the authors' many years of experience. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of your child's creative development. THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts. TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it.
Download or read book The Way to Love written by Matt Boswell and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Love people.” An oft-proclaimed rallying cry for Christians, but what does it look like, in practice, to love? We may believe that love is “the greatest” (1 Cor 13:13). Love may be our destination. But do we know how to get there? This book addresses essential questions about the Christian life. What is a true, compelling, and helpful Christian understanding of love? What is spiritual growth supposed to do to us or for us (or for others, through us)? How can we speak of grace and personal initiative in one theological vision? How do we go beyond a spirituality that is either too privatized and insular or too activist without the undergirding character needed to sustain such activism? How do we ensure love is not simply a principle we hold or a slogan we applaud but a powerful force that perpetually grows in us and ripples out to others in concrete, transformative ways? This book is a guide to love. Drawing on virtue ethics, psychology, theology, and spirituality, it offers a love-centered, hopeful vision of the Christian spiritual life. The story in which God invites us to live is about a journey of love, toward love. Is this your story?
Book Synopsis The Way of Jesus Christ by : Jürgen Moltmann
Download or read book The Way of Jesus Christ written by Jürgen Moltmann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1995-08-21 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Way of Jesus Christ discusses the following topics: 1. The symbol of the way embodies the aspect of process and brings out christology's alignment towards its goal. This symbol can comprehend Christ's way from his birth in the Spirit and his baptism in the Spirit to his self-surrender on Golgotha. It also makes it possible to understand the path of Christ as the way leading from his resurrection to his parousia-the way he takes in the Spirit to Israel, to the nations, and into the breadth and depth of the cosmos. 2. The symbol of the way makes us aware that every human christology is historically conditioned and limited. Every human christology is a 'christology of the way, ' not yet a 'christology of the home country, ' a christology of faith, not yet a christology of sight. So christology is no more than the beginning of eschatology; and eschatology, as the Christian faith understands it, is always the consummation of christology. 3. Finally, but not least important: every way is an invitation. A way is something to be followed. 'The way of Jesus Christ' is not merely a christological category. It is an ethical category too. Anyone who enters upon Christ's way will discover who Jesus really is; and anyone who really believes in Jesus and the Christ of God will follow him along the way he himself took. Christology and christopraxis find one another in the full and completed knowledge of Christ. This christology links dogmatics and ethics in closer detail than in the previous volumes.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship by : Christina Ellen Shalley
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship written by Christina Ellen Shalley and published by Oxford Library of Psychology. This book was released on 2015 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creativity can be viewed as the first stage of the overall innovation process, an important dimension of the entrepreneurship and new venture creation processes, and as such, it is considered to be a cornerstone of organizational competitiveness in this global, knowledge-based economy. Research on creativity has increasingly become multilevel, with most work conducted at the individual or team level of analysis. At the same time, there is a large body of research being conducted at the organizational level of analysis on innovation, and there has been a significant amount of entrepreneurship research at the individual level, with an increasing focus on organizational entrepreneurship. However, these three research streams have developed independently, and there has been very little knowledge transfer between the three areas. Because entrepreneurship is often said to be a process that is required to convert innovation into business ventures that will deliver benefits to stakeholders, it is typically driven by an individual or small group of individuals. Creativity research, innovation research, and entrepreneurship research have the potential to inform each other, enriching our knowledge of each area, particularly with regard to the cognitive processes and behaviors that are most effective. This Handbook includes contributions from the leading scholars in these three research areas, who integrate contemporary research findings on organizational creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship and provide fruitful new research directions."
Book Synopsis Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood by : Susan Hogan
Download or read book Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood written by Susan Hogan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood explores the use of arts in relation to infertility, pregnancy, childbirth and new parenthood. It is the first book to bring all these subjects together into one accessible volume with an international perspective. The book looks at the role of the arts in health with respect to the pregnancy journey, from conception to new parenthood. It introduces readers to the ways in which art is being used with women who are experiencing different stages of childbearing – who may be unable to conceive and are struggling with infertility treatment, or who experience miscarriage and loss, a traumatic birth, or grief over the loss of a baby. It also elucidates how art-making offers a means for women to express and understand their changed sense of self-identity and sexuality as a result of pregnancy and motherhood. The book has an international compass and is essential reading for arts therapy trainees and arts in health courses and will also be of interest to other health professionals and artists.
Book Synopsis Samuel Beckett by : Lawrence E. Harvey
Download or read book Samuel Beckett written by Lawrence E. Harvey and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making available for the first time the entire known corpus of Beckett's poetry and extensive excerpts from the early unpublished prose, the author's study of Beckett's poetry and criticism provides the opening chapter in the story of the evolution of a formidable talent. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis Beckett's Dedalus by : Peter J. Murphy
Download or read book Beckett's Dedalus written by Peter J. Murphy and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given that the Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) was personally acquainted with the modernist master James Joyce, and even helped research and promote Finnegans Wake, it should come as no surprise that Beckett was greatly influenced by Joyce's own work. However, much analysis of Beckett's work tends to argue that he forged his own artistic identity in opposition to Joyce, seeking and eventually finding styles and methods unoccupied by his "mentor." Beckett's Dedalus is a comprehensive reassessment of this line of criticism and traces the nature and extent of Joyce's influence in more complex, contestatory, and complementary ways throughout all of Beckett's major fiction. Paying close attention to the extensive network of allusions Beckett derived from Joyce's writing, P.J. Murphy reveals how Beckett consistently echoed and engaged in dialogue with Joyce's works, especially A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and, in particular, its protagonist Stephen Dedalus. This study proposes that the relationship between the two writers was a complex life-giving and art-building dialogue concerned with aesthetic theories, depictions of reality, and the artistic integrity needed to carry out these critical investigations. emBeckett's Dedalus is a fascinating study of the literary influence one generation has on the next. It will change the way we consider the relationship between two of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Indwelling the Forsaken Other by : J. Matthew Bonzo
Download or read book Indwelling the Forsaken Other written by J. Matthew Bonzo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indwelling the Forsaken Other is a critical reading of Jurgen Moltmann's ethics of discipleship. While Moltmann's notable turn to the inner life of the Trinity as a source for his reflections on the life of the church is influential, it is not without problems. The call emerging from Moltmann's reflection upon Trinitarian life--to copy God in our relationships--may offer some general direction for our actions; however, it also raises several questions. Two important questions for this work are, In what way are we to copy God? and What conditions make it possible to copy God? Moltmann's answers to these questions are insufficient, and consequently he fails to protect the difference between Creator and creation in his analogia relationis. As a result, the ethical direction of Moltmann's work seems to be increasingly muddied and, at best, paradoxical.
Download or read book Theology as Hope written by Ryan A. Neal and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hope is the leitmotiv of Jurgen Moltmann's theology. Not merely one aspect of his project, hope is the whole of it, the supreme doctrine interpenetrating all others. Indeed, hope is his method. The present study is both historical and developmental while also being analytical and interrogative. This chronological exploration seeks to show the nature, composition, and development of Moltmann's doctrine of hope, as the distinctive doctrine of his theology, implicating all others. Part I establishes Moltmann's doctrine of hope as grounded in God's faithfulness in the cross and resurrection. Part II investigates major doctrines in his project in light of this ground. This design seeks to take advantage of the chronological approach while also integrating the best elements of a topical approach.
Download or read book Jrgen Moltmann written by Jürgen Moltmann and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-08-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jrgen Moltmann's life and work have marked the history of theology after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated theologian of our time. His systematic work thrives on the cutting edge of Christian theology in the twenty-first century, challenging and stimulating a whole generation of theologians to work at theology in different and more comprehensive ways. Margaret Kohl, a translator of many of Moltmann's volumes, has chosen representative samples of Moltmann's theological writings from eight of the volumes published by Fortress Press and has written brief prefaces to each of the selections. Moltmann scholar Richard Bauckham provides an extended Introduction.
Book Synopsis Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications by : Vinit Kumar Gunjan
Download or read book Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications written by Vinit Kumar Gunjan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book includes the original, peer reviewed research articles from the 2nd International Conference on Cybernetics, Cognition and Machine Learning Applications (ICCCMLA 2020), held in August, 2020 at Goa, India. It covers the latest research trends or developments in areas of data science, artificial intelligence, neural networks, cognitive science and machine learning applications, cyber physical systems and cybernetics.
Book Synopsis God's Sabbath with Creation by : James W. Skillen
Download or read book God's Sabbath with Creation written by James W. Skillen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biblical story is about more than sin and salvation. It is about the creator’s purposes and the fulfillment of those purposes in the climactic revelation of God’s glory in Sabbath with creation. Christ Jesus is the Alpha and the Omega, the one through whom all things are created and all things are fulfilled. We are creatures made in God’s image, called to develop and govern the earth in service to God. The exercise of human responsibility in this age plays a major part in the revelation of God’s glory. Every vocation matters for creation’s seventh-day fulfillment: family, friendships, worship, civic responsibility, and our work in every sphere of life. The Son of God became one with us. He died for sinners while they still rebelled, and he was raised to life as the last Adam—the life-giving Spirit of the age to come. Christ is reconciling all things to God, including all that belongs to the responsibility of God’s sixth-day royal priesthood. That is why God’s promise in Christ is that those who die in the Lord will rest from their labors and their deeds will follow them.
Book Synopsis Mission and the Coming of God by : Tim Chester
Download or read book Mission and the Coming of God written by Tim Chester and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the eschatological future impinge on the present? Is the kingdom of God present outside the confession of Christ in movements towards social justice? Is Christian hope a stimulus to social involvement or an alternative? And how does the present impinge on the eschatological future? What is the relationship between our actions now and the new creation? Is there eschatological continuity between the two? J. rgen Moltmann, one of our most influential contemporary theologians, has had much to say both on eschatology and its relationship to mission. This book explores his thought along with evangelical responses to it. Eschatology has been central to evangelical debates about social involvement ever since the Laussanne Congress in 1974. The book examines how evangelicals themselves have related hope and mission. The book highlights the important contribution Moltmann has made while offering a critique of his thought from an evangelical perspective. In so doing, it touches on pertinent issues for evangelical missiology. The conclusion takes John Calvin as a starting point, proposing ean eschatology of the crossi which offers a critique of the over-realized eschatologies in liberation theology and triumphalistic forms of evangelicalism. iThis is a work of major importance, engaging with crucial themes and leading Christian thinkers. A must read for all reaective evangelicals. Tim Chesteris work is always good, but this is the best yet.i- Martyn Atkins Principal, Cliff College, Calver, UK Despite the attention of Moltmann and despite intra-evangelical debate on the nature of mission over the last three decades, the task of bringing Moltmann and evangelicalism into dialogue has remained on the table for some time. Tim Chester takes up the agenda. His combination of practical experience in mission and theological ability, equip him well for this task and the result is a study which brings academic reasoning to bear on Christian thought about eschatology and its vital connection with the missionary responsibility of the church. It rewards our careful attention.- Stephen Williams Professor of Systemic Theology at Union Theological College, Belfast iEschatology in relation to mission is often reduced to plans for Ohishingi the Great Commission as soon as possible, or to lurid end-time scenarios that feed our fantasy more than they fuel biblical mission. So it is refreshing to have this wide-ranging, in depth study of the theme that engages with one of the most well-known theologians of biblical hope, J, rgen Moltmann, alongside a number of renowned evangelical scholars, yet stays rooted in the text and vision of the Bible itself. This is searching theology in the service of biblical missiono as all theology ultimately should be.- Chris Wright International Director, Langham Partnership International
Book Synopsis The Transformative Church by : Patrick Oden
Download or read book The Transformative Church written by Patrick Oden and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the course of his theological career, Jürgen Moltmann has been interested in the ecclesial and societal consequences of systematic theology and what each doctrine means for our life in this world. The Transformative Church explores these concerns in Moltmann’s major texts and highlighting themes relevant for a transformative ecclesiology. Patrick Oden constructs a substantive transformative ecclesiology embedded in this world: we are to become in the church who we are to be in this world, whole in Christ so as to be a messianic people in any context.
Book Synopsis Pauline Politics by : Daniel Oudshoorn
Download or read book Pauline Politics written by Daniel Oudshoorn and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pauline Epistles have been claimed as a useful ally by parties across the political spectrum. Neoconservatives claim that Paul and his coworkers were law-abiding, authority-honoring, devoutly religious people oriented around their respect for hard work, private property, and family values. Liberals claim that the Pauline faction was devoted to the celebration of diversity, internally transcending social markers of status, and the embrace of peace. Radicals claim that Paul was a leader within an anti-imperial revolutionary movement sweeping across the eastern portion of the Roman Empire. However, it is rare for these (and still other!) parties to engage in dialogue with each other because each party tends to operate with presuppositions that make open engagement difficult. Pauline Politics examines the main positions taken in relation to Paul and politics and then engages in a thorough examination of the underlying arguments used to argue that this-or-that position is more or less plausible. Underlying arguments tend to relate to two things: first, positions on the socioeconomic status of Paul, his coworkers, and other early Jesus loyalists; and second, positions on Pauline eschatology. This volume will comprehensively explore these matters.
