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Ravished by Beauty

Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199831688
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Ravished by Beauty written by Belden C. Lane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this novel exploration of Reformed spirituality, Belden C. Lane uncovers a "green theology" that celebrates a community of jubilant creatures of all languages and species. Lane reveals an ecologically sensitive Calvin who spoke of himself as ''ravished'' by the earth's beauty. He speaks of Puritans who fostered a ''lusty'' spirituality in which Christ figured as a lover who encouraged meditation on the wonders of creation. He presents a Jonathan Edwards who urged a sensuous ''enjoyment'' of God's beauty as the only real way of knowing God. Lane argues for the ''double irony'' of Reformed spirituality, showing that Calvinists who often seem prudish and proper are in fact a people of passionate desire. Similarly, Reformed Christians who appear totally focused on divine transcendence turn out at times to be closet nature mystics, exulting in God's glory everywhere. Lane also demonstrates, however, that a spirituality of desire can be derailed, ending in sexual excess and pantheism. Ecologically, holy longing can be redirected from a contemplation of God's splendor in the earth's beauty to a craving for land itself, resulting in disastrous misuse of its resources. Between the major chapters of the book are engaging personal essays drawn from the author's own love of nature as a Reformed Christian, and providing a thoughtful discussion of contemporary issues of species diversity and the honoring of an earth community.

Ravished by Beauty

Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199755080
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Ravished by Beauty written by Belden C. Lane and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belden Lane weaves autobiographical essays that illuminate his own experience of nature into a "green theology" drawn from the unexpected resources of Reformed Christian spirituality. He offers a surprising new portrait of the Reformed tradition, revealing a Calvin who spoke of himself as "ravished" by the earth's beauty and a Jonathan Edwards who urged a sensuous enjoyment of God's beauty as the only real way of knowing God. Lane explores the apparent paradox of Reformed spirituality, arguing that Calvinists who may seem prudish are in fact a people of passionate desire.

Ravished

Author : Amanda Quick
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0307575683
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Ravished written by Amanda Quick and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2009-12-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the cozy confines of a tiny seaside village to the glittering crush of the a fashionable London soiree comes an enthralling tale of a thoroughly mismatched couple . . . poised to discover the rapture of love. There was no doubt about it. What Miss Harriet Pomeroy needed was a man. Someone powerful and clever who could help her rout the unscrupulous thieves who were using her beloved caves to hide their loot. But when Harriet summoned Gideon Westbrook, Viscount St. Justin, to her aid, she could not know that she was summoning the devil himself. . . . Dubbed the Beast of Blackthorne Hall for his scarred face and lecherous past, Gideon was strong and fierce and notoriously menacing. Yet Harriet could not find it in her heart to fear him. For in his tawny gaze she sensed a savage pain she longed to soothe . . . and a searing passion she yearned to answer. Now, caught up in the Beast’s clutches, Harriet must find a way to win his heart–and evade the deadly trap of a scheming villain who would see them parted for all time.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

Author : Libba Bray
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0731814908
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Great and Terrible Beauty written by Libba Bray and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1895, and after the death of her mother, 16-year-old Gemma Doyle is shipped off from the life she knows in India to Spence, a proper boarding school in England. Lonely, guilt-ridden, and prone to visions of the future that have an uncomfortable habit of coming true, Gemma's reception there is a chilly one. To make things worse, she's being followed by a mysterious young Indian man, a man sent to watch her. But why? What is her destiny? And what will her entanglement with Spence's most powerful girls - and their foray into the spiritual world - lead to?

The Great Conversation

Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190842679
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Great Conversation written by Belden C. Lane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of climate change, species loss, and vast environmental destruction, Belden C. Lane's spiritually centered environmentalism suggests that we must look to teachers in nature to understand how to save ourselves. Pairing anecdotes of personal encounters with nature with the teachings of spiritual leaders from a range of religious traditions, this book invites us to participate once more in the great conversation among all creatures and the earth itself.

The Second Commandment

Author : Joey R. Peyton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666788228
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book The Second Commandment written by Joey R. Peyton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2024-02-07 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an increasingly broken world filled with hate and violence, God’s plan from the beginning was to save and restore the world to the glory for which he had created it. This simple plan has not changed with the evolution of sin, time, or man’s rejection of his creator. Rather, God’s simple twofold plan of redemption included both a commandment to love the creator with all one’s heart, mind, soul, and strength, and a commandment to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. Neither commandment stands in isolation, for one cannot fully love others without a consuming love for God, and neither can one completely love God without a love for the neighbor created by God. The answer to hate is love; the answer to war is love; the answer to violence is love; and the answer to all of societal disfunction is love. The answer is not a commandment to like God and others, because one only likes others because of likeness. Rather, love is a choice. A choice to love what you don’t like. A choice to love what you don’t understand. A choice to love until the God you love sets everything right in eternity.

Enslave

Author : Cathy Yardley
Publisher : Avon Red
ISBN 13 : 9780062265579
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Enslave written by Cathy Yardley and published by Avon Red. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With Enslave, author Cathy Yardley updates the famous “Beauty and the Beast” story, giving it a distinctly adult, deliciously erotic treatment. Having previously reimagined “Sleeping Beauty” (Ravish) and “Snow White” (Crave), Yardley now completes the trilogy, cementing her reputation as one of the hottest stars of literary erotica with a steamy and sensation bedtime tale that would make the Brothers Grimm blush. Some fairy tales are definitely not for children!

The Solace of Fierce Landscapes

Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019976042X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The Solace of Fierce Landscapes written by Belden C. Lane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-02-26 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mother's long struggle with Alzheimer's and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. "There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within." It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Lane shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego, teach us to ignore the inessential in our own lives, and enable us to transcend the "false self" that is ever-obsessed with managing impressions. Drawing upon the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhardt, Simone Weil, Edward Abbey, and many other Christian and non-Christian writers, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might "make some desert" in our lives. Written with vivid intelligence, narrative ease, and a gracefulness that is itself a comfort, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes gives us not only a description but a "performance" of an ancient and increasingly relevant spiritual tradition.

The Ravished Bride

Author : Sheila O'Hallion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780671703851
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Ravished Bride written by Sheila O'Hallion and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful new romance from the author of The Captured Heart. At the tender age of 20, Princess Margaret Drummond is the fairest maid in all Christendom. But the headstrong beauty will not be a pawn in a heartless royal game and, when she's betrothed to an elderly monarch, Margaret's only hope lies in escape--and in the arms of the renegade rebel Jamie MacDonel.

Backpacking with the Saints

Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199927812
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book Backpacking with the Saints written by Belden C. Lane and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014-11-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carrying only basic camping equipment and a collection of the world's great spiritual writings, Belden C. Lane embarks on solitary spiritual treks through the Ozarks and across the American Southwest. For companions, he has only such teachers as Rumi, John of the Cross, Hildegard of Bingen, Dag Hammarskjöld, and Thomas Merton, and as he walks, he engages their writings with the natural wonders he encounters--Bell Mountain Wilderness with Søren Kierkegaard, Moonshine Hollow with Thich Nhat Hanh--demonstrating how being alone in the wild opens a rare view onto one's interior landscape, and how the saints' writings reveal the divine in nature. The discipline of backpacking, Lane shows, is a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Just as the wilderness offered revelations to the early Desert Christians, backpacking hones crucial spiritual skills: paying attention, traveling light, practicing silence, and exercising wonder. Lane engages the practice not only with a wide range of spiritual writings--Celtic, Catholic, Protestant, Buddhist, Hindu, and Sufi Muslim--but with the fascination of other lovers of the backcountry, from John Muir and Ed Abbey to Bill Plotkin and Cheryl Strayed. In this intimate and down-to-earth narrative, backpacking is shown to be a spiritual practice that allows the discovery of God amidst the beauty and unexpected terrors of nature. Adoration, Lane suggests, is the most appropriate human response to what we cannot explain, but have nonetheless learned to love. An enchanting narrative for Christians of all denominations, Backpacking with the Saints is an inspiring exploration of how solitude, simplicity, and mindfulness are illuminated and encouraged by the discipline of backcountry wandering, and of how the wilderness itself becomes a way of knowing-an ecology of the soul.

Ravished

Author : Virginia Henley
Publisher : Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781587243974
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Ravished written by Virginia Henley and published by Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised for creating "the best in romantic fiction"( Rendezvous ), New York Times bestselling author Virginia Henley returns to nineteenth-century London in a scandalous love story that burns with the heat of forbidden passion on every page.... Ravished All her life, flame-haired Alexandra Sheffield has been expected to marry the wealthy Lord Christopher Hatton-a man whose title and inheritance make Alex the envy of all London. But desperate for a life filled with adventure and passion, she is in no hurry to marry the spoiled aristocrat. Instead, she is consumed with longing for another man-Lord Hatton's devastatingly dangerous twin brother, Nicholas. Ravished All his life, Nick Hatton has had his pick of beautiful women, but he's also had enough sense never to hazard his heart. That is, until his irresponsible brother gambles away his inheritance and plans to refill his pockets by marrying spirited young Alex. Driven by a fierce need to protect her, Nick will risk anything to prevent his brother's scheming seduction. But when the girl he sets out to save becomes the glorious woman he longs to ravish, he must force himself to resist her wild beauty and reckless flirtation-before his desires erupt in a single, scorching moment that can never be undone. Ravished

Ravishing the Heiress

Author : Sherry Thomas
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101569042
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Ravishing the Heiress written by Sherry Thomas and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millicent understands the terms of her arranged marriage all too well. She gets to be a Countess by marrying an impoverished Earl. And in return, the Earl Fitzhugh receives the benefit of her vast wealth, saving his family from bankruptcy. Because of her youth, they have agreed to wait eight years before consummating the marriage--and then, only to beget an heir. After which, they will lead separate lives. It is a most sensible arrangement. Except for one little thing. Somehow Millie has fallen head over heels in love with her husband. Her husband, who has become her very best friend, but nothing more...Her husband, who plans to reunite with his childhood sweetheart, the beautiful and newly widowed Isabella, as soon as he has honored the pact with his wife... As the hour they truly become husband-and-wife draws near, both Millie and Fitzhugh must face the truth in their hearts. Has their pact bred only a great friendship--or has it, without either of them quite noticing, given rise to a great love?

Inherit the Holy Mountain

Author : Mark Stoll
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019023086X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Inherit the Holy Mountain written by Mark Stoll and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inherit the Holy Mountain puts religion at the center of the history of American environmentalism rather than at its margins, demonstrating how religion provided environmentalists with content, direction, and tone for the environmental causes they espoused.

Ravished by the Rake

Author : Louise Allen
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 0373296762
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Ravished by the Rake written by Louise Allen and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Vivacious lady Perdita Brooke prides herself on her social poise ... except when faced with devastatingly dashing Alistair Lyndon. The dreamy young man Dita once knew is now a hardened rake, who clearly does not remember their passionate night together ... however much it's emblazoned on her memory! Now Dita has the perfect opportunity to remind Alistair of their sizzling chemistry. But soon she is in over her head. Provoking him is supposed to be a deliciously wicked game, with her holding all the cards -- until Alistair reveals the ace up his sleeve!"--Publisher.

Billionaire's Ravished Hotwife

Author : Thomas Roberts
Publisher : Boruma Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0463372646
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (633 download)

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Download or read book Billionaire's Ravished Hotwife written by Thomas Roberts and published by Boruma Publishing. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?Have you ever heard the term hotwife?? his wife asked?beginning an adventure that turned the well-meaning billionaire into an eager cuckold and his wife into a ruthless gang?s captive. It wasn?t Tania?s fault that she couldn?t resist black men, and it wasn?t Tim?s fault that he loved to watch! But neither of them had any idea just what they were starting?or how it would end! ~~~~~ PG Excerpt ~~~~~ ?What if I wanted you to flirt with them a lot? What if I wanted you to ?go on a date? with William?? Tania stepped back. ?I couldn?t go on a date with him. What if he tried something? What if he kissed me or tried to touch me?? ?You?ve been kissed before, you?ve even been touched before,? I said. ?Come to it, you?ve had sex with other men before. It didn?t change you.? ?You want me to be a hotwife, don?t you?? she challenged me as she sat and squeezed me. ?Ouch.? She had a hell of a grip. ?I?m not sure I actually want you to have sex with another man. I want to know how it feels, for both of us, if you go out with someone else. You just have to tell me everything that happens and how you feel about it.? ?You want me to go on a date with William and flirt with him, maybe even let him kiss me, but not sleep with him. Do I have that right?? ?Then come back and tell me everything. Better yet, send me text updates too,? I said, getting excited. ?That?s it, send me texts so I can feel like I?m part of the date.? I was getting more excited, and Tania could see the excitement on my face. ?What if I let him touch me, like, upstairs, maybe?? Tania was holding her herself and pinching her own nipple. ?What if I liked it when he touched me and kissed me? What if it turned me on?? I didn?t tell her that I?d seen him touch her the night before. I was becoming even more thrilled. ?Oh crap,? I said. ?Why does that turn me on? What?s wrong with me?? Tania smiled as she continued to stroke me while holding her breast. ?I think a lot of men have the same fantasy. You?re just a strong enough man to admit it and maybe do something about it.? She dropped her breast and took her hand back. ?I?ll do it, but I have some conditions too. After all, if I?m going to satisfy part of your fantasy, you can do something for me.? ?Okay, I guess that?s fair. What are your conditions?? Tania stood, looking at me, making no attempt to cover her nudity. ?We can?t have sex until after my date, starting now,? she said as I looked at her in surprise. ?You can?t play with yourself either, and that includes when I?m out on my ?date.?? ?Why?? I asked. ?Why would you want that??

Reformed Spirituality

Author : Howard L. Rice
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664252304
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Reformed Spirituality written by Howard L. Rice and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rice makes a concerted effort to point us toward new and exciting avenues of spiritual growth and development. I find the book provocative, stimulating, and challenging".---Ben Campbell Johnson, Peachtree Professor of Evangelism and Church Growth, Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia

Enchanted Islands

Author : Mary D. Sheriff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022648324X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Enchanted Islands written by Mary D. Sheriff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Enchanted Islands, renowned art historian Mary D. Sheriff explores the legendary, fictional, and real islands that filled the French imagination during the ancien regime as they appeared in royal ballets and festivals, epic literature, paintings, engravings, book illustrations, and other objects. Some of the islands were mythical and found in the most popular literary texts of the day—islands featured prominently, for instance, in Ariosto’s Orlando furioso,Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata, and Fénelon’s, Telemachus. Other islands—real ones, such as Tahiti and St. Domingue—the French learned about from the writings of travelers and colonists. All of them were imagined to be the home of enchantresses who used magic to conquer heroes by promising sensual and sexual pleasure. As Sheriff shows, the theme of the enchanted island was put to many uses. Kings deployed enchanted-island mythology to strengthen monarchical authority, as Louis XIV did in his famous Versailles festival Les Plaisirs de l’île enchantée. Writers such as Fénelon used it to tell morality tales that taught virtue, duty, and the need for male strength to triumph over female weakness and seduction. Yet at the same time, artists like Boucher painted enchanted islands to portray art’s purpose as the giving of pleasure. In all these ways and more, Sheriff demonstrates for the first time the centrality of enchanted islands to ancient regime culture in a book that will enchant all readers interested in the art, literature, and history of the time.