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Download or read book The Torah Sutras written by Eric Maroney and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an inspired mix of non-fiction, fiction, and poetry, The Torah Sutras presents Judaism through a distinctly Chinese spiritual lens. Any actual writings of early Jewish communities in China have been lost, so this book fills in that space by imagining an account of Chinese "lost books" of the Torah. Structured as an English translation of these fictional Chinese writings, the Torah Sutras tells the story of the Exodus from Egypt with a Chinese voice, from the points of view of Moses, Aaron and Miriam. The book threads a careful line that reformulates some of Judaism's primary assumptions by recasting them into Daoist, Buddhist, and Confucian forms. This is a book for those who wish to stretch their spiritual muscles- to move beyond what they think they know of God and the Jewish religion and tradition, and move into new and unexpected territory.
Download or read book The Kosher Sutras written by Marcus Freed and published by . This book was released on 2018-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Kosher Sutras: a Yogi's Guide to the Torah by : Marcus Freed
Download or read book The Kosher Sutras: a Yogi's Guide to the Torah written by Marcus Freed and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kosher Sutras is the world's only yogic commentary to the Torah, a week-by-week guide that helps you access the Torah readings through yoga and meditation. The Kosher Sutras is a yogic-meditative-Kabbalistic journey to help reveal the connections between your body and soul through Jewish wisdom and yoga practice. The teachings help calm your mind, strengthen your body and invigorate your soul. Marcus J Freed's eloquent and amusing writing makes it accessible to both beginners and experts, and provide access points whether you are a beginner or an expert. Freed draws down Rabbinic and Talmudic teachings from throughout the ages and reflects upon through the wisdom of yogic sages, and in doing so takes ancient ideas and shows you how to apply them today so that you can positively transform every aspect of your life, including the mind-body connection, experiencing God in your body, physical exercise, relationships, business and career.
Book Synopsis The Festive Sutras by : Marcus J. Freed
Download or read book The Festive Sutras written by Marcus J. Freed and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we experience Jewish festivals & Shabbat through our body? The Festive Sutras contains a series of essays and practices to help get an experience of God within your body. Using the tools of torah wisdom and yoga postures, the reader is given very practical techniques to use physicality as a gateway to spirituality. The Festive Sutras is three-books-inone. The Festive Sutras, concerned with the Jewish festival cycle, The Shabbat Sutras - A Yogi's guide to the Jewish Sabbath, and Ethics of the Yogis - a Jewish commentary on the classic Yoga Sutras.
Book Synopsis What Is Scripture? by : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Download or read book What Is Scripture? written by Wilfred Cantwell Smith and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.C. Smith's vastly erudite work asks how it is that certain texts have so seeped in to human life-in a rich, complex, and powerful way-as to be deemed sacred. Examining the history and use of scripture in the world's major religious traditions, he shows how and why scripture continues to carry momentous and at time appalling power in human affairs.
Book Synopsis Liberating the Bible by : Thomas Calnan Sorenson
Download or read book Liberating the Bible written by Thomas Calnan Sorenson and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating the Bible offers readers a handbook to help them make their way through a front-to-back exploration of the riches contained in the Bible. Thomas Calnan Sorenson blends scholarship with a down-to-earth presentation in a survey of the Bible that uncovers the basics of its many books and reveals the persuasive power of its messages to nurture faith, expand understanding, and deepen connections to God. Liberating the Bible organizes its guidance into three parts. In Approaching the Bible, eleven stops on the tour investigate the basics of the Bible, its status in the church, methods for reading and interpreting it, and the grounding of its claims. The second part, The Old Testament, groups the books of this testament and covers over sixteen stops. Each of the stops delves into a book or cluster of books, examining historical background, organization, key passages, and distinctive themes and messages. The third part, The New Testament, provides similar guidance while making eleven stops along the way. If you are one of the millions who have a Bible--or several--on your nightstand, but find yourself confused or intimidated by its size and scope, then this guidebook offers its companionship. It promises to serve as a seasoned and knowledgeable resource to consult as you make your trip through the Bible. It will help you find a deeper faith and stronger ties to God through the Bibles powerful witness.
Book Synopsis Understanding the Bible as a Scripture in History, Culture, and Religion by : James W. Watts
Download or read book Understanding the Bible as a Scripture in History, Culture, and Religion written by James W. Watts and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: UNDERSTANDING THE BIBLE AS A SCRIPTURE IN HISTORY, CULTURE, AND RELIGION The Bible is a popular subject of study and research, yet biblical studies gives little attention to the reason for its popularity: its religious role as a scripture. Understanding the Bible as a Scripture in History, Culture, and Religion integrates the history of the religious interpretation and ritual uses of biblical books into a survey of their rhetoric, composition, and theology in their ancient contexts. Emphasizing insights from comparative studies of different religious scriptures, it combines discussion of the Bible’s origins with its cultural history into a coherent understanding of its past and present function as a scripture. A prominent expert on biblical rhetoric and the ritualization of books, James W. Watts describes how Jews and Christians ritualize the Bible by interpreting it, by expressing it in recitations, music, art, and film, and by venerating the physical scroll and book. The first two sections of the book are organized around the Torah and the Gospels—which have been the focus of Jewish and Christian ritualization of scriptures from ancient to modern times—and treat the history of other biblical books in relation to these two central blocks of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament. In addition to analyzing the semantic contents of all the Bible’s books as persuasive rhetoric, Watts describes their ritualization in the iconic and expressive dimensions in the centuries since they began to function as a scripture, as well as in their origins in ancient Judaism and Christianity. The third section on the cultural history and scriptural function of modern bibles concludes by discussing their influence today and the controversies they have fueled about history, science, race, and gender. Innovative and insightful, Understanding the Bible as a Scripture in History, Culture, and Religion is a groundbreaking introduction to the study of the Bible as a scripture, and an ideal textbook for courses in biblical studies and comparative scripture studies.
Book Synopsis Scriptures and the Guidance of Language by : Steven G. Smith
Download or read book Scriptures and the Guidance of Language written by Steven G. Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Steven G. Smith focuses on the guidance function in language and scripture and evaluates the assumptions and ideals of scriptural religion in global perspective. He brings to language studies a new pragmatic emphasis on the shared modeling of life-in-the-world by communicators constantly depending on each other's guidance. Using concepts of axiality and axialization derived from Jaspers' description of the 'Axial Age', he shows the essential role of scripture in the historical progress of communicative action. This volume clarifies the formative power of scriptures in religions of the 'world religion' type and brings scripture into philosophy of religion as a major cross-cultural category of study, thereby helping philosophy of religion find a needed cross-cultural footing.
Book Synopsis The People, the Torah, the God by : Jerome Yehuda Gellman
Download or read book The People, the Torah, the God written by Jerome Yehuda Gellman and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the author’s commitment to neo-traditional constructive Jewish theology, this book is a sequel to Gellman’s trilogy of constructive Jewish theology with Academic Studies Press. The book treats three topics which revise and clarify the author’s views in light of critics and further thought. The book includes a new concept of the Jews as God’s Chosen People for our times; a reply to an argument for the reliability of Torah history; and an approach, not a solution, to the problem of evil for troubled believers and want to be believers.
Book Synopsis Truth, Spirituality and Contemporary Issues by : Richard Beck
Download or read book Truth, Spirituality and Contemporary Issues written by Richard Beck and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title covers many of the key topics taught in classrooms today.
Book Synopsis The Kabbalah Sutras by : Marcus J. Freed
Download or read book The Kabbalah Sutras written by Marcus J. Freed and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kabbalah Sutras: A Guide to 'Counting the Omer' through Meditation, Physical Exercise, Yoga, Business & Career.Kabbalah has never been taught through the body - until now. We are hungry for a deeper meaning in life, thirsty for Higher wisdom and ready to step into our fullest potential. But how? Our lives can feel fragmented, not-quite-what-we'd-hoped-for and many of us are carrying a deeper sense of frustration. In The Kabbalah Sutras, Marcus J Freed presents a system which infuses ancient Kabbalistic wisdom with modern physical meditation in a way that you can apply directly to your everyday life - at home, play and at work. Using the ancient wisdom we can dissolve obstacles and create the life we love. This book contains 49 practical lessons that can be applied through meditation, yoga, physical gym workouts and throughout the entire day.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible by : Samuel E. Balentine
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible written by Samuel E. Balentine and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-16 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ritual has a primal connection to the idea that a transcendent order - numinous and mysterious, supranatural and elusive, divine and wholly other - gives meaning and purpose to life. The construction of rites and rituals enables humans to conceive and apprehend this transcendent order, to symbolize it and interact with it, to postulate its truths in the face of contradicting realities and to repair them when they have been breached or diminished. This Handbook provides a compendium of the information essential for constructing a comprehensive and integrated account of ritual and worship in the ancient world. Its focus on ritual and worship from the perspective of biblical studies, as opposed to religious studies, highlights that the world of ritual and worship was a topic of central concern for the people of the Ancient Near East, including the world of the Bible. Given the scarcity of the material in the Bible itself, the authors in this collection use materials from the ancient Near East to provide a larger context for the practices of the biblical world, giving due attention to historical, anthropological, and social scientific methods that inform the context of biblical worship. The specifics of ritual and worship life-the sacred spaces, times, and actors in worship-are examined in detail, with essays covering both the divine and human aspects of the sacred dimension. The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible considers several underlying concepts of ritual practice and closes with a theological outlook on worship and ritual from a variety of perspectives, demonstrating a fruitful exchange between biblical studies, ritual theory, and social science research.
Book Synopsis Embracing Epistemic Humility by : Donald Borchert
Download or read book Embracing Epistemic Humility written by Donald Borchert and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triumphalists see their world view as the ultimate repository of spiritual truth: all other world views are inferior and their adherents need to be converted forcefully, or silenced, or destroyed to prevent their cancerous views from metastasizing. Triumphalism has infected too many of the adherents in the Abrahamic religious traditions, and must be neutralized by the growth of epistemic humility using a tactic like the five step strategy suggested in this book.
Book Synopsis Rethinking Scripture by : Miriam Levering
Download or read book Rethinking Scripture written by Miriam Levering and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the nature of texts, this book explains how scriptures function within religions. Topics covered include the oral dimensions of scripture, canon formation, a study of the word in Hindu life, and the role of text in Buddhism.
Download or read book Probing the Sutras written by Guy Gibbon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compact summary like Probing the Sutras has been sorely needed for some time, as more and more Westerners have dipped into meditation without any understanding of its predominantly Buddhist scriptural underpinning. This concise, well-informed introduction to the history and contents of eleven seminal Buddhist sutras also provides suggestions for reflection, meditation, and practical applications related to the key teachings of each scripture. Readers of Probing the Sutras will be able to develop a framework for understanding Buddhist doctrines—and see the unique pearls of wisdom contained within each sutra.
Author :Christopher J. H. Wright Publisher :Oxford University Press, USA ISBN 13 :9780199148394 Total Pages :182 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (483 download)
Book Synopsis God and Morality by : Christopher J. H. Wright
Download or read book God and Morality written by Christopher J. H. Wright and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of a series of three books to be produced over the next year that are ideal for AQA Religious Studies Specification B Full and Short Course GCSE Modules.
Download or read book Gay Believers written by Emily Sanna and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, organized religion has been one of the main forces of prejudice and rejection of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. But the fact is, not all religious traditions are unfriendly to LGBT people, and some old ways of reading the Bible are being re-examined in new and welcoming ways. While many LGBT people struggle with the conflicts of being both religious and gay, many others are finding support and inclusion in religious communities that have entered the twenty-first century committed to the full inclusion of LGBT people. Learn about how the world's major religious traditions—Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism—view homosexuality, and how faithful LGBT people within these traditions deal with the issues they face. Examine some of the reasons why some religious groups continue to condemn homosexuality and reject LGBT people. And discover that many religions have always had a place for gay and lesbian people in their communities, and how others are working hard to create that place.
