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The Texture of the Divine

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253110874
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book The Texture of the Divine written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between philosophy, mysticism, and literature. Each of the texts is an initiatory tale, recounting a journey through the ascending layers of the universe. These narratives culminate in the imaginative apprehension of God, in which the traveler gazes into the divine presence. The tales are beautiful and poetic literary works as well as probing philosophical treatises on how the individual can know the unknowable. In this groundbreaking work, Hughes reveals the literary, initiatory, ritualistic, and mystical dimensions of medieval Neoplatonism. The Texture of the Divine also includes the first complete English translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz.

Disciplining the Divine

Author : Paul Fletcher
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478254
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Disciplining the Divine written by Paul Fletcher and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disciplining the Divine offers the first comprehensive treatment of the Social Model of the Trinity, exploring its central place within much theological discourse of the past half century, including its relation to wider cultural and political concerns. The book highlights the manner in which theologians have attempted to make the doctrine of God relevant to modern issues and outlooks and it charts the conditions that have necessitated such a reconfiguration of theological analysis. While interrogatory in tone and intent, Disciplining the Divine nevertheless provides a critical reconstruction of a Christian theology and practice which might be undertaken within the political and cultural contexts of the new millennium.

My Divine Natural Hair

Author : Shelia Burlock
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506494013
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book My Divine Natural Hair written by Shelia Burlock and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting and authentic, My Divine Natural Hair helps Black women embrace the God-created beauty of natural hair through inspirational readings and salon chair guidance on how to heal, consistently care for, and grow their coils.

Divine Influence Or, The Operation of the Holy Spirit Traced from the Creation of Man to the Consummation of All Things

Author : Thomas Tregenna BIDDULPH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Divine Influence Or, The Operation of the Holy Spirit Traced from the Creation of Man to the Consummation of All Things written by Thomas Tregenna BIDDULPH and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring the Texture of Texts

Author : Vernon K. Robbins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563381836
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Texture of Texts written by Vernon K. Robbins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Vernon K. Robbins provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the text we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow studies and exercises dealing with specific textural features: inner texture, intertexture, social and cultural texture, ideological texture, and sacred texture.

Clothes Encounters of the Divine Kind

Author : Diane Donato
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1452518858
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (525 download)

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Download or read book Clothes Encounters of the Divine Kind written by Diane Donato and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothes Encounters of the Divine Kind is a recapitulation of the author's life from early childhood to the present time and the role that her passions for fashion and healing played in her own spiritual awakening. While it seems like an autobiography, in truth, it is an invitation for the reader to take that tumble down the rabbit hole and dare to wear the clothing of their dreams while learning about and experiencing the wonderful healing benefits of clothing & colors. An added benefit is that it is jam packed with ideas for dressing to express rather than the old dress for success paradigm. Hop on the Peace Train to experience true Freedom

Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought

Author : Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030294226
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought written by Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination.

A Theology of Divine Vulnerability

Author : Peter Hooton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666955825
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book A Theology of Divine Vulnerability written by Peter Hooton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light understands confidence in the idea of God to rest largely on three claims. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universe—for the fact that there is anything at all. The second is that God’s own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by the presence of evil in the world. And the third is that God knows we are here and shares fully, somehow, in the joys and pains of transient life. Peter Hooton considers these claims on the whole sympathetically. He prefers—to traditional Christian views of God’s omnipotence—a more nuanced understanding of God’s power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible than impassible, and the Christian’s relationship with God as essentially a compassionate participation in the reality signified by the crucified and risen Christ.

Words of Truth for the Saints of God. First (-fourth) Series. Second edition

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Words of Truth for the Saints of God. First (-fourth) Series. Second edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Divine Impassibility

Author : Richard E. Creel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597522732
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Divine Impassibility written by Richard E. Creel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Richard Creel sets forth a thesis that offers a third way to approach divine impassibility. Defining impassibility as imperviousness to causal influence from external factors, Creel sketches a path between Aquinas and Hartshorne, by asserting that once this definition is accepted, one must still distinguish the various respects in which God is or is not impassible. Virtually no one would dispute that the divine nature is impassible. God will never cease to be God, no matter what happens in creation. With respect to the divine knowledge and will, however, there are conflicting views. Creel claims that God's will is impassible because God knows everything that can be accomplished by divine power. Yet, unlike Aquinas, Creel believes that God has this knowledge in virtue of a 'plenum' of possibilities eternally coexistent with the divine being. The absolute is not simply God, but rather God plus the 'plenum'. Creel suggests that God's knowledge is passible with respect to the contingent future actions of creatures. God knows these actions, therefore, not in their presentiality from all eternity, as Aquinas would hold, but only as they happen and become actual. God's will, however, remains immediately impassible because the divine will is ordered to possibilities, not actualities. God never has to wait until after we do something in order to decide his response to it. He has eternally decided his response to all that we might do. Ultimately God's feelings remain impassible, no matter what concrete decisions human beings make, because the basic intent of the divine plan for us is always achieved: we exercise our freedom to choose for or against God. God is impassible with respect to the divine nature, divine will, and divine feelings; but God is passible with respect to the divine knowledge of future contingent events.

Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam

Author : William A. Graham
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110803593
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Divine Word and Prophetic Word in Early Islam written by William A. Graham and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010-10-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The series Religion and Society (RS) contributes to the exploration of religions as social systems – both in Western and non-Western societies; in particular, it examines religions in their differentiation from, and intersection with, other cultural systems, such as art, economy, law and politics. Due attention is given to paradigmatic case or comparative studies that exhibit a clear theoretical orientation with the empirical and historical data of religion and such aspects of religion as ritual, the religious imagination, constructions of tradition, iconography, or media. In addition, the formation of religious communities, their construction of identity, and their relation to society and the wider public are key issues of this series.

Divine Discourse

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107393450
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Divine Discourse written by Nicholas Wolterstorff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prominent in the canonical texts and traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is the claim that God speaks. Nicholas Wolterstorff argues that contemporary speech-action theory, when appropriately expanded, offers us a fascinating way of interpreting this claim and showing its intelligibility. He develops an innovative theory of double-hermeneutics - along the way opposing the current near-consensus led by Ricoeur and Derrida that there is something wrong-headed about interpreting a text to find out what its author said. Wolterstorff argues that at least some of us are entitled to believe that God has spoken. Philosophers have never before, in any sustained fashion, reflected on these matters, mainly because they have mistakenly treated speech as revelation.

Divine Providence in Philo of Alexandria

Author : Peter Frick
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161471414
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Divine Providence in Philo of Alexandria written by Peter Frick and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 1999 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his study Peter Frick starts with the examination of the theocentric structure of Philo's thought as outlined in the important passage De Opificio Mundi 171-2 where Philo correlates the idea of providence with his concept of God and the theory of creation. On this basis, any adequate understanding of providence in Philo must begin with the correlation between the formal aspects of the Philonic concept of God, especially the idea of God's transcendence, and Philo's conceptualization of the idea of providence in light of these formal aspects. In particular, the issue is how Philo can predicate that God is provident in nature, although God cannot be apprehended in his essence. Moreover, Philo explains the immanence of God in the cosmos in terms of the Logos and the divine powers, one of which he specifically characterizes as the providential power. Both the aspects of divine transcendence and immanence cohere in Philo's theory of creation. He conceives of the role of providence in cosmological matters as being responsible for the design, administration and continuous existence of the created universe. Two further issues, the questions of astral fatalism and theodicy, are critically important for a thorough understanding of Philo's conception of divine providence. Philo rejects the assumption implied in astral fatalism that the stars are transcendent divinities and thus have causal powers over human affairs. And he rejects astral fatalism because it renders absurd the notion of moral responsibility. Concerning the question of theodicy, Philo proceeds from the Platonic premise that God is not the cause for evil in any way. For him, the existence of moral evil exonerates God and his providence as the cause for evil and anchors the blame in the person.

Disturbing Divine Behavior

Author : Eric A. Seibert
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 145140770X
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Disturbing Divine Behavior written by Eric A. Seibert and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should we understand biblical texts where God is depicted as acting irrationally, violently, or destructively? If we distance ourselves from disturbing portrayals of God, how should we understand the authority of Scripture? How does the often wrathful God portrayed in the Old Testament relate to the God of love proclaimed in the New Testament? Is that contrast even accurate? Disturbing Divine Behavior addresses these perennially vexing questions for the student of the Bible. Eric A. Seibert calls for an engaged and discerning reading of the Old Testament that distinguishes the particular literary and theological goals achieved through narrative characterizations of God from the rich understanding of the divine to which the Old Testament as a whole points. Providing illuminating reflections on theological reading as well, this book will be a welcome resource for any readers who puzzle over disturbing representations of God in the Bible.

The Greek Atomists and Epicurus

Author : Cyril Bailey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Atomists and Epicurus written by Cyril Bailey and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the development of atomism in Greece.

The Christian's friend, papers for the comfort and edification of the children of God

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Christian's friend, papers for the comfort and edification of the children of God written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Revelation of St. John the Divine - Volume 2

Author : Herb Fitch
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1467076244
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Revelation of St. John the Divine - Volume 2 written by Herb Fitch and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-11-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second book of two volumes which completes Herb Fitch's interpretation on The Revelation of St. John the Divine. It was transcribed word for word from the tapes of classes 14 through 25 of the Revelation Seminar he gave in 1970. Over the centuries, John's Revelation was in plain sight, yet, not understood, and the reason is because only the Christ Mind in man can reveal the Truth of Being. Not until the year 1970, did a man (who also experienced the Mind which was in Christ Jesus), sit still in meditation over many months, until, at last, the entire message of the Revelation was revealed once again. That man was Herb Fitch. For those of you who have learned to make that contact with Spirit within, this book will now take you further on the Spiritual path. This book will show you how to let that Spirit take over your life. In other words, it will help you to die out of humanhood and be a transparency for Christ; bringing to you an actual awareness of your own Christhood. It is suggested that you find a quiet place and read only one chapter at a time, until Something calls to you from these pages. Then, put these writings down, and walk away, find a place and sit down to meditate on what has stirred you within. I can tell you with a certainty born of experience that you can walk in another Dimension, right here, and right now, a Kingdom, an inner Temple, not made with hands, incomprehensible to the human mind. It is the Dimension in which your Eternal Self walks. It is the Kingdom in which your Spiritual identity resides. It is an inner Presence, the Spirit, closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet, and it must take over your entire living experience, both within and without. Only then will you be obeying the message, You must be born of the Spirit.