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Author: Andrew Burnham
Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 262
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHas a well-meant policy of making the language and style of worship more accessible resulted in a loss of the sense of mystery - and has this accelerated the decline? This title explores the wider Catholic and Orthodox traditions where nothing like the reforms that have happened within Anglicanism have taken place.
Author: J.R. Briggs
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2020-09-08
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 0310102146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe widening of political, racial, generational, and religious differences leads too often to an "us vs. them" mentality. The Sacred Overlap communicates a refreshing vision that embraces tension and shows us how to live in radical love and faithfulness between the extremes that isolate and divide people. The gospels display how Jesus was committed to crossing the either/or waters of the cultural and societal wars of his day. His miracles and parables often broke or ignored religious and political lines that seemed all important. He comforted the disturbed and disturbed the comfortable. Using Jesus' example, J. R. Briggs offers a fresh and relevant understanding of evangelism and discipleship in our present time of extreme polarization. Without sacrificing biblical integrity, The Sacred Overlap is a joyful exploration of the complexity of life in the peace of Christ. With careful discernment, Briggs: Shares creative ways to engage with God's mission of ministering to those who are intrigued by Jesus but turned off by church. Explores what it means to be joyful in the midst of heart-wrenching pain and earthly suffering. Models what it means to maintain a posture of convicted civility which emphasizes both grace and truth. The Sacred Overlap helps readers see how Christians are called to live with their feet firmly planted in two different worlds—in both heaven and earth—living naturally with both the sacred and the ordinary. Only then can a Christian be a faithful witness and disciple of Jesus.
Author: Deirdre Johnson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-03-26
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0429915950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about the function of falling in love in the course of therapy itself. This book has a much broader aim. The author, a Jungian analyst and psychotherapy trainer, uses her teaching and clinical experience to illuminate the whole range of this near universal human experience. How, and why, does falling in love affect us so profoundly? How can it enhance who we are, or must it ultimately fade without lasting value? The author argues that the many valuable studies by psychoanalysts, relational psychologists, anthropologists, neuroscientists, and philosophers have all made valuable contributions, and uses these to highlight and explore the many values and dangers inherent in passionate love. However, she claims that a more holistic approach is required to show how these various accounts can be seen as complementary rather than competing, and can be accommodated within an overarching view of the integration of the human being in its heights and depths.
Author: Sarah Jane Boss
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-07-01
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 1441188274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and devotion and become the subject of serious theological study and work. For too long Mary was an icon for the repression of women by a male dominated Church, but now Mary is seen as a vital theological symbol, a symbol of true femininity and true humanity which the Church and the modern world needs urgently. Jung has argued that the Definition of the Doctrine of the Assumption was the most important religious event since the Reformation: the feminine principle has been absorbed into the Godhead. Yet amongst some modern Catholics, as well as most Protestant Christians, the Virgin Mary is still seen as someone who has a very small part to play in the drama of salvation and creation. In Mary, Sarah Jane Boss seeks to correct this view. She argues that Christian theology should conceive of the created order, both physical and spiritual, as sacred in the highest degree, and that this understanding is already implicit in traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion. Far from being peripheral this understanding of Mary is central to Christian doctrine. It must underlie any attempt to answer the fundamental ethical questions of our age, namely that of the extent to which human beings are entitled to intervene in the natural order.
Author: Charles Voysey
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anthony DeStefano
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2016-08-30
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0736955100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSoon after his popular A Travel Guide to Heaven was published, bestselling author Anthony DeStefano recognized that children also have many questions about heaven. In celebration of the tenth anniversary of that book, Anthony wrote this fun-filled, action story about a little boy named Joey who gets to take a whirlwind tour of heaven with his guardian angel, Gabby. Artist Erwin Madrid’s stunning illustrations bring the story to life, showing heaven to be a place where everyone is happy, the animals all get along, and God’s glory is more amazing than anything Joey had ever seen in his whole life. This long-awaited children’s edition will quickly become a favorite for the reader and the child alike. Imagine the comfort and peace children will experience when they hear about this incredible place God has prepared for them.
Author: Jonathan Parnell
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 1535959266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou cannot make it without God’s mercy. Do we just need God’s grace in dark and shameful moments? Are prayers for mercy only for those times when we really mess up? Jonathan Parnell says we need God’s mercy all the time. In fact, contrary to many church cultures, Parnell shows that asking God for mercy should be as regular as asking God for our daily bread. There’s no doubt that David was in a terrible predicament when he first prayed the words of Psalm 51. It was a dark and shameful moment in the Bible, and one so dark and shameful it seldom feels relevant to us today. But David’s most desperate prayer is really a prayer for all of us—and not just for our worst moments, but for our every moment. In these pages, you'll discover: how to pray a daily, memorable prayer derived from Psalm 51 how to practice daily repentance and soul care how to pursue God and experience his joy in the Christian life This is God’s mercy, and it’s Mercy for Today.
Author: Charles Voysey
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Published: 1871
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Margaret D. Kamitsuka
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2023-10-17
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1506492649
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe afterlife continues to influence Christian faith and is a concern during fragile moments of reproductive loss. However, a doctrine of resurrection that speaks to death in the womb has yet to be considered. Ignoring fetal death began early in Christian history. The church has struggled for settled meaning regarding issues of personhood in the womb and whether unbaptized infants are saved. Believers today deserve to know the basis for a Christian hope of heaven. They deserve a nontoxic eschatology that sustains an embodied sense of self, which is fractured by the experience of reproductive loss. They deserve to know whether assenting to the resurrection of the body--including unborn bodies--requires them to sacrifice their reproductive self-determination. The dominant Christian narrative of postmortem survival hinges on the concept of an immaterial soul that continues after death. However, the soul's apparently contented communing with God during its interim existence makes a final bodily resurrection superfluous. A soul-based approach to postmortem survival may save souls, but it does not resurrect bodies. If one can secure the plausibility of the resurrection of unborn bodies whose personhood is in doubt, then one dispenses with ensouled personhood as a requirement of resurrection. Christian materialist thought provides a metaphysical alternative to soul-based resurrection. A materialist approach to resurrection echoes the apostle Paul's powerful seed metaphor in 1 Corinthians 15. Medieval Christianity embraced metaphors of sprouting grain and budding plants. Returning to these images carries promise for rethinking resurrection in ways not dependent on an immaterial soul. Modern minds are more inclined to think of persons not as souls in bodies but as bodies that emerge into being, evolutionarily and gestationally. Philosophical theories of emergence are capturing the attention of Christian thinkers. This book's budding-emergence approach to the resurrection aims to speak concretely to the reality of death, including the death of unborn beings.
Author: James T Kelly
Publisher: Skerry Books Limited
Published:
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1910599174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of Branwell Brontë has been plagued by misconceptions, lies, and misunderstandings for decades. This incredible new volume seeks to set the record straight. This book collects the following ebooks into a single volume, along with exclusive content! The Biography of Branwell Brontë Find out why Branwell doomed himself to anonymity by writing under a different name. Discover the truth about his alleged affair with a married woman. Learn whether he was the secret author of Wuthering Heights. Put aside the myths and the misconceptions and find out who Branwell really was. The Poems of Branwell Brontë All of Branwell's published poems are included in this volume, as well as some of his unpublished work, along with a critical analysis that will reveal how Branwell positioned himself as the 'Problem Poet' by exploring and subverting the tropes established by the great poets that went before him. The Letters of Branwell Brontë Branwell Brontë in his own words. For the first time, the letters of Branwell Brontë are collected together. So often quoted out of context, now you can see for yourself just . A superb resource for any student or scholar! And, exclusively to this collection, you can also read 'and the weary are at rest', Branwell's attempt to write a novel of his own! This book was previously published as "Who is Branwell Brontë?"
