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Author : Jonathan Varsell Smith
Publisher : Jasper Smith
ISBN 13 : 9780970688842
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Innercourse: Christian Erotic Poetry written by Jonathan Varsell Smith and published by Jasper Smith. This book was released on 2007 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. R. Swardson
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781479341610
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book Today's Sex and Yesterday's Poetry written by H. R. Swardson and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great poets of the past, we find in this book, deliver more wisdom about love and marriage than anyone writing today: Christian love without any Puritan undertow, love closer to the Romans than to the Victorians, love still represented by Eros — what Spenser and Milton and Herrick show us on the way to deeper and deeper insights into both Christianity and love. With the wit and profundity of a seasoned university teacher Swardson treats inhibition, animality, spirituality, the higher eroticism, seduction, fornication, guilt, the double standard, purity, male chastity, gender equality, spontaneity, anonymity, cynicism, and idealism. He explores courtly love, the concept of the soul, the vocabulary of sin, same-sex marriage, post coital depression, the Playboy philosophy, and YMCA culture. He exposes the "missionary-position" slander and defines "the Christian lover." He gives advice on how to rise above culture and your own DNA. All from points in the poems. Addressed to young people.
Author : Jennifer Wright Knust
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062010824
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Unprotected Texts written by Jennifer Wright Knust and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-01-25 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An explosive, fascinating book that reveals how the Bible cannot be used as a rulebook when it comes to sex. A terrific read by a top scholar.” —Bart Ehrman, author of Misquoting Jesus Boston University’s cutting-edge religion scholar Jennifer Wright Knust reveals the Bible’s contradictory messages about sex in this thoughtful, riveting, and timely reexploration of the letter of the gospels. In the tradition of Bart Erhman’s Jesus Interrupted and John Shelby Spong’s Sins of Scripture, Knust’s Unprotected Texts liberates us from the pervasive moralizing—the fickle dos and don’ts—so often dictated by religious demagogues. Knust’s powerful reading offers a return to the scripture, away from the mere slogans to which it is so often reduced.
Author : Mary Ann Mayo
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1592441351
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book A Christian Guide to Sexual Counseling written by Mary Ann Mayo and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2003-01-17 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual counseling is not a task that pastors and general Christian counselors usually consider theirs. If one is to venture into the field, he or she must have a solid foundation of reliable information - both physiological and psychological - and confidence that caring intervention will make a difference. This book has been written to provide reliable information and also building a basis of confidence for Christian counselors. 'A Christian Guide to Sexual Counseling' offers counselors procedures for helping couples with sexual problems by first exploring the ambivalent messages that church and culture have conveyed about sexuality. Because the primary sex organ of both the male and the female is the mind, attitudes and concepts must be scrutinized, weighed, and approved or disapproved. As the author so forcefully maintains, sexual counseling will always be trying to repair distortions if sound sex education does not become a priority for the church. Many contemporary Christians are wary of sex therapy because of the notoriety of charlatans and pop sex psychologists. But faddish theories do not comprise the basis for the mainstream of sex therapy. There are sound biological and psychological bases for sexual counseling. And Christian spirituality is not - or should not be - disjoined from treatment of sexual problems. So Mayo brings body, mind, and spirit together in her assessment of the common problems and the appropriate treatments. The book includes discussions of the following areas: -- attitudes of the church toward sexuality -- the responsibility of Christian leaders to offer positive teaching -- normal sexual functioning -- common sexual problems in a marriage -- the role and possible outcomes of sexual counseling -- female problems -- male problems -- special concerns for singles -- premarital education
Author : Jan Den Boeft
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004099395
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (993 download)
Download or read book Early Christian poetry written by Jan Den Boeft and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1993 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of papers focuses on the literary art of early Christian poetry in Syriac, Greek and Latin. It discusses both the techniques of this art and its theoretical foundation in the Christian use of classical literary traditions.
Author : Herbert J. Miles
Publisher : Zondervan
ISBN 13 : 0310292212
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Sexual Happiness in Marriage, Revised Edition written by Herbert J. Miles and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 1987-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sexual Happiness in Marriage is for those who are missing the fulfillment God intended marriage to provide and who are unaware of the true joy and love that can be achieved through understanding basic sexual principles. In this frank, honest, discussion of the role of sex in marriage, Dr. Herbert J. Miles thoroughly and carefully examines attitudes and techniques essential to sexual compatibility. Those who read it and follow its suggestions will be able to analyze and correct sexual problems in their marriages. Topics include: - sexual expectations - first sexual experiences - sexual adjustment - contraceptives - sexual problems - keeping marriage fresh and exciting.
Author : Harvey D. Egan
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814680038
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition written by Harvey D. Egan and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called in a special way to listen to God's whispers, the mystics amplify not only what it means to be baptized into the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ 'and to having the Trinity living in them 'but also what is deepest in the human spirit. Mystics experience themselves as an infinite question to which only God is the answer; as an immense longing that only Love can quench; as a nothing in the face of the No-Thing. They are God's fools, troubadours 'the great artists and poets of the interior life whose learned ignorance" articulates the art of loving God, neighbor, self, the Church, and the world. In Soundings in the Christian Mystical Tradition Harvey Egan draws on fifty years of reading and teaching the mystics to sketch the varieties and passion of the mystical life across more than two millennia. Through their stories and words Egan reveals that all were conscious of the paradox of human identity 'supremely and unsurpassably manifested in the God-Man 'that the genuinely human is disclosed only through surrender to God and that the search for God cannot bypass the genuinely human.
Author : Susan Gubar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253323651
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (236 download)
Download or read book For Adult Users Only written by Susan Gubar and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ..". sophisticated, provocative, and thoroughly documented.... Strongly recommended... " -- Choice ..". a welcome addition to the literature on this contentious issue." -- Journal of Communication "This book does an excellent job of portraying the complexity of the legal and philosophical debates among women about the status and effects of pornography, and it is an important interdisciplinary scholarly contribution for that reason." -- Signs In an attempt to advance our society's debate on pornography beyond the current political and legal stalemate, these essays examine explicit portrayals of violence in pornography from multidisciplinary perspectives: history, literary criticism, religious studies, ethics, political science, film studies, law, and psychology.
Author : Patrick Cheney
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405169540
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry written by Patrick Cheney and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-05-06 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Sixteenth-Century Poetry combines close readings of individual poems with a critical consideration of the historical context in which they were written. Informative and original, this book has been carefully designed to enable readers to understand, enjoy, and be inspired by sixteenth-century poetry. Close reading of a wide variety of sixteenth-century poems, canonical and non-canonical, by men and by women, from print and manuscript culture, across the major literary modes and genres Poems read within their historical context, with reference to five major cultural revolutions: Renaissance humanism, the Reformation, the modern nation-state, companionate marriage, and the scientific revolution Offers in-depth discussion of Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Isabella Whitney, Gascoigne, Philip Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Mary Sidney Herbert, Donne, and Shakespeare Presents a separate study of all five of Shakespeare’s major poems - Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, 'The Phoenix and Turtle,' the Sonnets, and A Lover's Complaint- in the context of his dramatic career Discusses major works of literary criticism by Plato, Aristotle, Horace, Longinus, Philip Sidney, George Puttenham, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Helen Vendler
Author : Clay Daniel
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838752487
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Death in Milton's Poetry written by Clay Daniel and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From his earliest verses (the Latin verses written at Cambridge) to his first original English poem (the Infant ode), to his masterpiece (Lycidas) and its sad echo (Epitaphium Damonis), through his mature trilogy (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes), Milton repeatedly seeks to explain why people die. Though Milton frequently changed his mind on important subjects, his fundamental view of death did not change. Milton throughout his life insists that death, both physical and spiritual, is caused by sin. In attempting to understand the significance of this belief, Death in Milton's Poetry will suggest some major re-evaluations of old assumptions." "This book is divided into two parts. The first part contains examples of death that support Milton's belief that death is caused by sin. The second part contains poems that focus on deaths that appear to violate this belief. Since Milton illustrates his belief in his mature works, Part 1 includes Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. As the pattern of death emerges in these poems, the reader is able to see that Paradise Regained is as much about the death of Satan as it is about the life of Jesus and that Milton's drama focuses on an unregenerate Samson whose tragedy is his inability ever to reconcile with God." "The poems examined in Part 2 explain deaths that appear to violate Milton's, belief. In vindicating Milton's view of death, the Latin funeral elegies and "On the Death of a Fair Infant Dying of a Cough" form a pattern that culminates in Lycidas. Recognizing this pattern in Lycidas is indispensible to understanding the radical statement of Epitaphium Damonis, a poem that records Milton's temporary disillusionment with Christianity." "In addition to new insights into the individual poems, two patterns are highlighted. In Milton's earlier poems, readers usually have seen classicism as complementing Christianity. When Milton turns to death, however, he opposes classicism to Christianity, contrasting (except in the case of Epitaphium Damonis) the limited pagan gods of classicism with the providence of an omnipotent God. This antagonism is reinforced by another pattern that emerges in the poems. Though all sins tend to death, some sins are more fatal than others. In much of Milton's poetry, perhaps the most consistently fatal of sins was lust; and Milton frequently represents this lust as a characteristic of classicism."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Carolyn H. Heggen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597525723
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Sexual Abuse in Christian Homes and Churches written by Carolyn H. Heggen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-02-10 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ÐAs my father abused me he quoted Bible verses to show how bad I was. ÐEach Sunday I'd go to church with my family and hear that God loved me and was watching over me. Then we'd go home and I'd get abused again and wonder why God didn't protect me from these people who went to church. --anonymous survivors This book by a psychotherapist specializing in sexual abuse confronts harsh realities. But Dr. Heggen also offers hope that confronting broken sexuality will bring healing--for survivors of abuse, for perpetrators, for the church.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900448518X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Representations of the Divine in Arabic Poetry written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Islam the fascination for “the word” is as vigorous as in Judaism and in Christianity, but an extra dimension is, that the revealed text, the Koran, is considered to be verbatim the word of the Almighty Himself, thereby providing the Arabic language with just an extra quality. No wonder that throughout Islamic history the study of the word, the Koran, the prophet’s utterances and the interpretation of both, has become the main axis of knowledge and education. As a consequence the intellectuals – and also the poets in Islamic culture - were thoroughly familiar with religious terms and the phraseology of a language which was highly estimated because of the divine origin with which it was associated. No wonder therefore, that allusions to religious texts can be found throughout Arabic literature, both classical and modern. The subject of this volume is the representation of the divine in Arabic poetry, be it the experience of the divine as expressed by poets or the use of imagery coined by religion.
Author : Mary Oliver
Publisher : Gardners Books
ISBN 13 : 9781852246280
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (462 download)
Download or read book Wild Geese written by Mary Oliver and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Oliver is one of America's best-loved poets, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her luminous poetry celebrates nature and beauty, love and the spirit, silence and wonder, extending the visionary American tradition of Whitman, Emerson, Frost and Emily Dickinson. Her extraordinary poetry is nourished by her intimate knowledge and minute daily observation of the New England coast, its woods and ponds, its birds and animals, plants and trees.
Author : Arthur L. Clements
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791499286
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Poetry of Contemplation written by Arthur L. Clements and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1990-06-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic and thorough study of mysticism or contemplation in these three seventeenth-century poets and in three modern writers. It not only clarifies the very confused issue of mysticism in seventeenth-century poetry but also connects seventeenth-century poets with modern literature and science through the contemplative tradition; from the Bible and Plato and Church fathers and important mystics of the Middle Ages through Renaissance and modern contemplatives. The transformative and redemptive power of contemplative poetry or "holy writing" (regardless of genre or discipline) is prominent throughout the book, and the relevance, indeed the vital necessity, of such poetry and of the living contemplative tradition to our apocalyptic modern world is discussed in the last chapter. In this chapter, attention is given to modern science, especially to the new physics, and to philosophical and mystical writings of eminent scientists.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136498176
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (364 download)
Download or read book The Stubborn Structure written by Northrop Frye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more specific studies of literary works in roughly historical sequence. One of the essays is Frye’s own elucidation of the development of his critical premises out of his early concern with the poetry of William Blake. Taken together, the essays offer a continuous and coherent argument, making a whole that is entirely equal to the sum of its parts.
Author : James Hughes Reho
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 162055562X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Tantric Jesus written by James Hughes Reho and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the history and modern practice of transformative Christianity • Reveals the original tantric wisdom of Jesus and the early Church and its resonance with the tantric yogas of India and Tibet • Explains how tantric Christianity views the human body as the primary “temple” of the Holy and erotic energy as the signature of indwelling Divine Presence • Provides step-by-step instructions for a series of Christian tantric practices, including a partnered sexual practice, mantra and energy work, eye gazing, and work with icons Unbeknownst to many, the original Christian spirituality as practiced in the early church and by Jesus himself was a tantric spirituality. In the West, Tantra often evokes images of arcane rituals or acrobatic sexual positions, while in reality Tantra is a holistic transformative path of life, love, and being--grounded in practice. Offering a new understanding of Jesus as guru and master of left-handed Tantra, James Reho, an Episcopal priest and tantric initiate, reframes the Christian story and restores to modern Christianity the tantric wisdom practices that were edited out of church tradition and forgotten over the centuries. He explains how tantric Christianity views the human body as the primary “temple” of the Holy, with erotic energy as the signature of Divine Presence within. Rev. Reho reveals the similarities of the earliest Christian practices to the tantric yogas of India and Tibet and explores the role of Kundalini and the chakras. He details how to work with mantras, icons, and pranayama breathing exercises, as well as with gazing as a spiritual practice. Informed by the insights of ancient texts and early masters of Christian spirituality, the author provides step-by-step instructions on how to practice Christian tantric sex with a life-partner of the opposite or same sex. Rev. Reho reveals how these heart-opening practices are rooted in eros, the life of deep desire, expressive of God’s grace within us, and are still alive in monastic practices in the Christian East. Integrating his personal spiritual experiences, years of study of ancient Christian mysticism, and an expertise in yoga and tantra, the author shows how we can re-engage the original truths of the early church to affirm the body as a holy vehicle and to utilize the energy of the erotic to achieve ecstatic union with the Divine.
Author : Wilma Bailey
Publisher : MennoMedia, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0836199782
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Lamentations, Song of Songs written by Wilma Bailey and published by MennoMedia, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-02-09 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lamentations, Song of Songs by Wilma Ann Bailey and Christina Bucher covers the full emotional register of biblical literature: from the anguished sorrow songs of ancient Israel to the passionate, lyric poems of lovers. Wilma Bailey plumbs the interpretive depths of Lamentations, including questions about authorship, images of God, and depiction of a community’s response to exile and its development of an identity in the wake of catastrophe. Christina Bucher then offers multiple perspectives on the Song of Songs and its imagery, characters, and allegorical and literal interpretations by readers and communities across the centuries. Both scholars build sturdy theological scaffolding to help lay readers, pastors, and scholars understand and apply the wisdom contained by these Hebrew writings of desire and exile, love and lament. Volume 27 in the BCBC series About Believers Church Bible Commentary Series Accessible to lay readers, useful in preaching and pastoral care, helpful for Bible study groups and Sunday school teachers, and academically sound, the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series foregrounds an Anabaptist reading of Scripture. Published for all who seek more fully to understand the original message of Scripture and its meaning for today, the series is based on the conviction that God is still speaking to all who will listen, and that the Holy Spirit makes the Word a living and authoritative guide for all who want to know and do God’s will.
