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Download or read book Moses, Mount Sinai and Early Christian Mystics with Ann Conway-Jones written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Conway -Jones
Publisher : Wise Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Moses, Mount Sinai and Early Christian Mystics written by Ann Conway -Jones and published by Wise Studies. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moses’ encounter with God on the summit of Mount Sinai, as told in the biblical book of Exodus, contains a number of peculiarities and paradoxes. Early Christian mystics seized on these as clues to the spiritual understanding of Moses’ experiences, and as guides to the practice of contemplation. In this course we will examine five moments in Moses’ ascent of Mount Sinai: his entry into the darkness; the elders’ vision of the sapphire pavement; the pattern of the tabernacle revealed; God’s placing of Moses into the cleft of the rock; and Moses’ shining face. We will explore how these intriguing passages inspired four early Christian writers – Gregory of Nyssa, Evagrius of Pontus, Pseudo-Macarius and Dionysius the Areopagite – as they reflected on such topics as the unknowability of God and the state of a mind at prayer. In doing so, we will discover the influence of scripture on the development of the Christian mystical tradition. Session 1: The Darkness of Unknowing (Exodus 20.18-21) “[Moses] breaks free … away from what sees and is seen and he plunges into the truly mysterious darkness of unknowing. Here, renouncing all that the mind may conceive, wrapped entirely in the intangible and the invisible, he belongs completely to him who is beyond everything.” (Dionysius) Session 2: Divine Blue (Exodus 24.9-11) “When the mind has put off the old self and shall put on the one born of grace, then it will see its own state in the time of prayer resembling sapphire or the colour of heaven; this state scripture calls the place of God that was seen by the elders on Mount Sinai.” (Evagrius of Pontus) Session 3: The Heavenly Tabernacle (Exodus 25 – 28) “Moses was educated beforehand by a type in the mystery of the tabernacle which encloses everything. This would be Christ, ‘the power of God and the wisdom of God’, which in its own nature is not made by hands, yet allows itself to be physically fashioned when this tabernacle needs to be pitched among us, so that, in a certain way, the same is both unfashioned and fashioned: uncreated in pre-existence, but becoming created in accordance with this material composition.” (Gregory of Nyssa) Session 4: The Cleft in the Rock (Exodus 33:11-23) “This truly is the vision of God: never to be satisfied in the desire to see him. But one must always, by looking at what he can see, rekindle his desire to see more. Thus, no limit would interrupt growth in the ascent to God, since no limit to the Good can be found nor is the increasing of desire for the Good brought to an end because it is satisfied.” (Gregory of Nyssa) Session 5: Transformation (Exodus 34:29-35) “For blessed Moses provided us with a certain type through the glory of the Spirit which covered his countenance upon which no one could look with steadfast gaze. This type anticipates how in the resurrection of the just the bodies of the saints will be glorified with a glory which even now the souls of the saintly and faithful people are deemed worthy to possess within, in the indwelling of the inner person.” (Pseudo-Macarius)
Author : Ann Conway-Jones
Publisher : Oxford Early Christian Studies
ISBN 13 : 0198715390
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Gregory of Nyssa's Tabernacle Imagery in Its Jewish and Christian Contexts written by Ann Conway-Jones and published by Oxford Early Christian Studies. This book was released on 2014 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intergrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Greogry of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2. 170-201. Previous scholarship has often focused on Gregory's interpretation of the darkness on Mount Sinai as divine incomprehensibility. However, true to Exodus, Gregory continues with Moses's vision of the tabernacle "not made with hands" received within that darkness. This innovative methodology of heuristic comparison doesn't strive to prove influence, but to use heavenly ascent textsas a foil, in order to shed new light on Gregory's imagery. Ann Conway-Jones presents a well-rounded, nuanced understanding of Gregory's exegesis, in which mysticism, theology, and politics are intertwined. Heavenly ascent texts use descriptions of religious experience to claim authoritative knowledge. For Gregory, the high point of Moses's ascent into the darkness of Mount Sinai is the mystery of Christian doctrine. The heavenly tabernacle is a type of the heavenly Christ. This mystery is beyond intellectual comprehension, it can only be grasped by faith; and only the select few, destined for positions of responsibility, should even attempt to do so.
Author : Bogdan Gabriel Bucur
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004386114
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Scripture Re-envisioned: Christophanic Exegesis and the Making of a Christian Bible written by Bogdan Gabriel Bucur and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scripture Re-envisioned Bogdan B. Bucur discusses the exegesis of biblical theophanies as an essential “ingredient” for the gradual crystallization of a distinct Christian exegesis, doctrine, liturgy, and spirituality during the first millennium CE.
Author : David T. Runia
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1628374470
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Studia Philonica Annual XXXIV, 2022 written by David T. Runia and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2022-12-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 BCE to circa 50 CE).
Author : Ashley Cocksworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567682226
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Ashley Cocksworth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central to the Christian life is the practice of prayer. But what, theologically speaking, is going on when we pray? What does prayer have to do with religious belief and action? Does prayer make a difference? Prayer: A Guide for the Perplexed addresses these and other key questions regarding the Christian theology of prayer. Beginning with Evagrius of Ponticus's 'On Prayer', Ashley Cocksworth finds in this early document a profound expression of the 'integrity' of the experience of prayer and theological thought. Seeking throughout to integrate systematic theology and the spirituality of prayer, individual chapters explore the meaning of some of the core doctrines of lived Christian faith – the Trinity, creation, providence, and the Christian life – as they relate to the practice of prayer. Complete with an annotated bibliography of sources on prayer to promote further reading, this volume appeals to academics and general readers alike.
Author : Miles R. Jones
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781539166412
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (664 download)
Download or read book The Writing of God written by Miles R. Jones and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Writing of God presents proof of the seminal event of the Old Testament, when God handed down to Moses the word and the "writing of God" (Exodus 32:16), known as the Sinai Covenant. It presents never before seen new evidence of the Exodus, inscriptions from Sinai. The location of the real Mount Sinai has been long debated. Scripture states it to be in Midian in Arabia where researchers have found stunning archeological evidence of the events of the Exodus, including the inscriptions from the base of Mount Sinai. The translation of these inscriptions reveal an incredible secret of the Bible. The "writing of God" written by "the finger of God" (Exodus 31:18) is the first alphabetic writing! The evidence taken from the latest linguistic and archaeological science reveals the origin of the alphabet, the context of writing in the ancient world of 2nd millennium BC, and the importance of the Old Testament as an historically accurate source. The accumulation of all the evidence of the Exodus from scriptural, historical, linguistic and archaeological sources is detailed in The Writing of God. The Sinai Covenant is an educational covenant calling believers to read, write, and "diligently" educate their children. The Writing of God documents the 'call from Sinai' - the spiritual clarion for today's home-schoolers.
Author : George Brooke
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047443470
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Significance of Sinai written by George Brooke and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume disclose how Sinai, its location, the scriptural narratives about it, and the content of the revelation received there, are variously read by Deuteronomy, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Paul, Josephus, rabbinic literature, art and philosophy.
Author : James Bentley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Mount Sinai written by James Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon Huntzinger
Publisher : Gateway Press
ISBN 13 : 9781945529382
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Sinai in the Sanctuary written by Jon Huntzinger and published by Gateway Press. This book was released on 2017-12-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience the presence of God like Moses did on Mount Sinai. God is very close. His voice is clearer than you think. People search for who they are and why they are here. We hunger for God's voice, but don't know how to hear Him. We are willing to worship at a distance, but are we willing to ascend to His presence? Through Christ, the mountain has come to us. Jon Huntzinger traces the biblical and theological thread of God's encounter with His people at Mt. Sinai. Sinai is the place where God speaks His Word and reveals His ways. It's in fire and thunder, a still small voice, and a gentle wind. Sinai will forever change you. God has come down-are we willing to go up?
Author : Miles R. Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (875 download)
Download or read book The Writing of God written by Miles R. Jones and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeffrey J. Niehaus
Publisher : Paternoster
ISBN 13 : 9780853646495
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (464 download)
Download or read book God at Sinai written by Jeffrey J. Niehaus and published by Paternoster. This book was released on 1995 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phillip Rousseau
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813231914
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)
Download or read book The Christian Moses written by Phillip Rousseau and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Phillip Rousseau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813231921
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Christian Moses written by Phillip Rousseau and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As it developed an increasingly distinctive character of its own during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was constantly forced to reassess and adapt its relationship with the Jewish tradition. The process involved a number of preoccupations and challenges: the status of biblical and parabiblical texts (several of them already debatable in Jewish eyes), the nature and purposes of God, patterns of prayer (both personal and liturgical), ritual practices, ethical norms, the acquisition and exercise of religious authority, and the presentation of a religious "face" to the very different culture that surrounded and in many ways dominated both Christians and Jews. The essays in this volume were developed within that broad field of inquiry, and indeed make their contribution to it. For, among the many issues already mentioned, there was also that of persons. What was Christianity to do, not just with Adam or Noah, say, but with Abraham, David and Solomon, the great prophetic figures of Jewish history-and, of course, with Moses? As we move, chapter by chapter, across the early Christian centuries, we see Moses gradually changing in Christian eyes, and at the hands of Christian exegetes and theologians, until he becomes the philosopher par excellence, the forerunner of Plato, the archetype of the lawgiver, the model shepherd of the people of God-yet all on the basis of a scriptural record that Jews would still have been able to recognize.
Author : Marvin A. Sweeney
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467458732
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Jewish Mysticism written by Marvin A. Sweeney and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of how the divine presence is understood and interacts within the world have been around since the time of the biblical prophets. The Jewish mystical tradition conceives God as active, just, powerful, and present while allowing for divine limitation so as to understand the relationship between G-d and the Jewish people in their history. Jewish Mysticism surveys Jewish visionary and mystical experience from biblical and ancient Near Eastern times through the modern period and the emergence of modern Hasidism. Marvin Sweeney provides a comprehensive treatment of one of the most dynamic fields of Jewish studies in the twenty-first century, providing an accessible overview of texts and interpretative issues. Sweeney begins with the biblical period, which most treatments of Jewish mysticism avoid, and includes chapters on the ancient Near East, the Pentateuch, the Former Prophets and Psalms, the Latter Prophets, Jewish Apocalyptic, the Heikhalot Literature, the Sefer Yetzirah and early Kabbalistic Literature, the Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah and the Shabbetean Movement, and the Hasidic Movement. Placing Jewish apocalyptic literature into the larger development of ancient Jewish visionary and mystical experience, Sweeney fills gaps left by the important but outdated work of others in the field. Ideal for the scholar, student, or general reader, Jewish Mysticism provides readers with a fresh understanding of the particular challenges, problems, needs, and perspectives of Judaism throughout its history.
Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108676472
Total Pages : 875 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Christian Platonism written by Alexander J. B. Hampton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 875 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both cases the fundamental importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Written by an international team of scholars, this landmark volume examines the history of Christian Platonism from antiquity to the present day, covers key concepts, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.
Author : W. Paul Williamson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004438181
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Conjectures and Controversy in the Study of Fundamentalism written by W. Paul Williamson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conjectures and Controversy in the Study of Fundamentalism, W. Paul Williamson reviews sociohistorical accounts of fundamentalism and provides an analysis of their popular, though questionable, conceptions that have uncritically dominated empirical research in the field of psychology.
