GOD AS AN OLD BEARDED WHITE GUY IN THE SKY
GOD AS AN OLD BEARDED WHITE GUY IN THE SKY

Author: Norm Daploom Ann Awnimuscz

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-10-06

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1304515826

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What's modern Christianity got to do with Christ? His meaning, his WORD (of God) accomplishes so little compared to the self-sanctification assumed by so many. "I'll live forever in Heaven because Jesus is my personal savior". With Biblical referencing, this book reveals the extent that images and icons have become idols. Religious art is an aspect of ascendent man, such a creative creation. But the substantive representations (statures, etc.) usurp the spiritual and conceptual essence of what religion, especially Christianity, should be. God is a "guy in the sky?" Bible says God's invisible!! As for Jesus? What if we took away the handsome (almost Nordic) guy-image? What if no crucifix, even plain cross? Would the born-agains really reveal much that's Christ-like? Beyond extensive Biblical-based critique, I've included excerpts from my other writings that concern various aspects of religion. Also material written by others.

Doing Theology in the Age of Trump
Doing Theology in the Age of Trump

Author: Dr. Jeffrey W. Robbins

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1532608888

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This book is a work of theological resistance. It is not so much about the presidency of Donald Trump as it is about what his popularity and rise to power reveal about the state of Christianity and the moral character of the evangelical Right in the United States today. More specifically, it is about the threat of white Christian nationalism, which is the particular form that the nationalist populist movement of Trumpism has adopted for itself. The contributors are all fellows from the Westar Institute's academic seminar on God and the Human Future, and include many of the leading figures in theology and Continental philosophy of religion. This volume provides a form of theopolitical resistance based on intersectionality. The authors recognize how the various forms of oppression interrelate to contribute to a vast, dynamic, and seeming impenetrable network of systemic injustice and marginalization. These essays demonstrate that politics need not be played as a zero-sum game with a winner-take-all mentality, and that a critical theology is as urgently needed and as relevant now as ever.

African Origins of Monotheism
African Origins of Monotheism

Author: Gwinyai H. Muzorewa

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2014-10-29

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 1620323109

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African Origins of Monotheism recasts an African knowledge of God in a new and original way. It aims to recapture concepts of God as originally reflected upon by pristine African religious thinkers. Muzorewa is seeking after the traditional African understandings of the Divine, which trace their origins back before the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Monotheism, he maintains, is the ancient view of God, ubiquitous across the continent of Africa; indeed, monotheism comes "out of Africa." The book challenges the way that the idea of God has been manipulated by Eurocentric agendas, by colonizers, enslavers, and empire builders, all of whom were using God-talk to achieve their own personal ends. In African thinking, the God concept is guided by a sense of the presence of the all-pervasive and omnipresent God, which has instilled in the people a sense of respect for life at all costs. Thus, respect is not based on a commandment or on fear but on a propensity for affinity.

God in the Dark
God in the Dark

Author: Susan R. Pitchford

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2011-04-01

Total Pages: 205

ISBN-13: 0814639429

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Contemporary Christianity is afflicted with two problems: First, our spiritual life is often bland and lukewarm. Distracted and fragmented by our lives, and malnourished on conventional piety, we feel out of touch with the God described in the Bible as a consuming fire." Second, we don't know how to make sense of suffering, especially the pain of spiritual darkness and aridity. The answer to both of these problems is passion. In God in the Dark, Susan Pitchford explores the two faces of passion:desire, the mutual attraction between the soul and God; and suffering, especially our confusion and grief when we find ourselves in dark places. We often misinterpret times of darkness, assuming we've fabled and God has abandoned us. Pitchford suggests that darkness is not a place of abandonment but a place of intimacy and a special call to a deeper relationship with the God who desires us. Once we understand this, we will not have to fear the dark, and when the night closes in around us, we can experience it as an embrace.

Weaving the Visions
Weaving the Visions

Author: Judith Plaskow

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 1989-03-08

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 0060613831

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Key writings in feminist spirituality drawing on the great diversity of women's experience.

21st Century Wicca
21st Century Wicca

Author: Jennifer Hunter

Publisher: Citadel Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780806518879

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From the basics of wicca practice to lessons in the practicalities of magic.

my dreams . . . A PSCHOANALYST'S NIGHTMARE
my dreams . . . A PSCHOANALYST'S NIGHTMARE

Author: appleton schneider

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-04-07

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 1300914513

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my dreams surely defy any school of analysis. Rather than sexual or archetypal revelations, what I dream seems proof that the unconscious is more like a landfill ("dump") of experience. And the dream picks from the piles of the past -- and even, perhaps, future . . . .

Stumbling Toward God
Stumbling Toward God

Author: Margaret D. McGee

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 9781880913550

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Stumbling Toward God traces a woman's spiritual search with an unusual twist-from a self-proclaimed atheist who prays, to unorthodox membership in two radically different churches, the Unitarian and Episcopal. This book is an honest, satisfying read for anyone questioning or seeking a spiritual path. A reading group guide is also included.

Mysteries of Ancient South America
Mysteries of Ancient South America

Author: Harold T. Wilkins

Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780932813268

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The reprint of Wilkin's classic book on the megaliths and mysteries of South America. This book predates Wilkin's book Secret Cities of Old South America published in 1952. Mysteries of Ancient South America was first published in 1947 and is considered a classic book of its kind. With diagrams, photographs and maps, Wilkins digs into old manuscripts and books to bring us some truly amazing stories of South America: a bizarre subterranean tunnel system; lost cities in the remote border jungles of Brazil; legends of Atlantis in South America; cataclysmic changes that shaped South America; and other strange stories from one of the world's greatest researchers.

God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...
God Is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu...

Author: Carlton Pearson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-03-30

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1416585044

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The author of The Gospel of Inclusion continues to rouse organized religion as he raises controversial issues and provides enlightening answers to the deepest questions about God and faith. What is God? Where is God? Who is the one true God? Questions such as these have driven a thousand human struggles, through war, terrorism, and oppression. Humanity has responded by branching off into multiple religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam—each one pitted against the other. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In God Is Not a Christian, nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu . . . , the provocative and acclaimed Bishop Carlton Pearson follows up on his celebrated first book, The Gospel of Inclusion, to tackle these questions and many more, exploring new ideas about God and faith and putting forth the stunning assertion that God belongs to no particular religion but is an ever-loving presence available to all. For these beliefs, Bishop Pearson lost his thriving Pentecostal ministry but was catapulted instead into a greater pulpit. His readership has grown through appearances on national television and an extensive speaking schedule. With the world in the midst of a holy war, there is no better time for the wisdom of Bishop Pearson to reach a global audience. Bishop Pearson’s many loyal fans, along with new readers, will surely welcome this provocative and eye-opening exploration of a deeper faith, one that goes far beyond any fundamentalist way of thinking, be it Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, etc. Simply put, Bishop Pearson dares to tell the truth so many others are too afraid to face.