Inhabiting Love

Inhabiting Love

Author: Solomons Abu

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2020-12-31

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1990922503

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In this second collection, following his debut A Season of Tenderness and Dread (published by Botsotso in 2018), Abu Bakr Solomons continues his exploration of the unfolding social and political milieu -worlds in transition - both locally and globally; the threats and compelling beauty which coexist in these complex human tragedies and triumphs so that the past and the present intersect in the psyches and consciousness of individuals and delivery of social movements. Love always forms an integral element in these engagements of upheaval and healing. Ultimately, the poems assert that the manifestation of love, in its various forms, personal, romantic or patriotic, is more than a mere outpouring of sentiments, for love spawns a context - a habitat - in which individuals battle to converge or combat in order to define their purpose.


Love

Love

Author: Simon May

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 0190884835

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What is love's real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all? In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of home in a world that we supremely value. He sees love as motivated by a promise of "ontological rootedness," rather than, as two thousand years of tradition variously asserts, by beauty or goodness, by a search for wholeness, by virtue, by sexual or reproductive desire, by compassion or altruism or empathy, or, in one of today's dominant views, by no qualities at all of the loved one. After arguing that such founding Western myths as the Odyssey and Abraham's call by God to Canaan in the Bible powerfully exemplify his new conception of love, May goes on to re-examine the relation of love to beauty, sex, and goodness in the light of this conception, offering among other things a novel theory of beauty--and suggesting, against Plato, that we can love others for their ugliness (while also seeing them as beautiful). Finally, he proposes that, in the Western world, romantic love is gradually giving way to parental love as the most valued form of love: namely, the love without which one's life is not deemed complete or truly flourishing. May explains why childhood has become sacred and excellence in parenting a paramount ideal--as well as a litmus test of society's moral health. In doing so, he argues that the child is the first genuinely "modern" supreme object of love: the first to fully reflect what Nietzsche called "the death of God."


Singing Reconciliation: Inhabiting the Moral Life According to Colossians 3:16

Singing Reconciliation: Inhabiting the Moral Life According to Colossians 3:16

Author: Amy Whisenand Krall

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2023-10-30

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9004682538

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The letter to the Colossians contains a series of moral instructions in Colossians 3:12-17 and includes the admonition to "sing" among them. This study considers how music-making (specifically singing) supports moral formation according to the letter to the Colossians. Studies in ethnomusicology, anthropology of the voice, and music psychology offer useful frameworks for conceptualizing how a social practice like music-making forms participants into a community and shapes how they know themselves, their community, and the world. With the aid of these frameworks, we find that the singing in Colossians 3:16, as a corporate, vocal practice of music-making, enables the members of the church community to inhabit the story of reconciliation found in the Christ Hymn (Col 1:15-20).


Inhabiting the Earth

Inhabiting the Earth

Author: Martin Locret-Collet

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1538159155

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Over the last several decades, scholars and practitioners have progressively acknowledged that we cannot consider cities as the place where nature stops anymore, resulting in urban environments being increasingly appreciated and theorized as hybrids between nature and culture, entities made of socio-ecological processes in constant transformation. Spanning the fields of political ecology, environmental studies, and sociology, this new direction in urban theory emerged in concert with global concern for sustainability and environmental justice. This volume explores the notion that connecting with nature holds the key to a more progressive and liberatory politics.


The Home of Jesus

The Home of Jesus

Author: Philip E. Dotson

Publisher: FriesenPress

Published: 2024-04-16

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1039163505

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A creative yet biblically-based examination of the person and life of Jesus Christ, The Home of Jesus: A Conversational Tour journeys through Jesus’ earthly home—from the entrance gate, onto the front porch, into and through the rooms in the home, and exiting onto a pathway for life’s travels. Readers are led to reflect upon the historicity of Jesus, the birth of Jesus, the deity of Jesus, and the love and incarnate nature of Jesus. Did He exist in history? Does He exist today? Will He exist in the future? Along the way the author holds an engaging and thought-provoking “conversation” with readers, making this a unique and meaningful reading experience. Phil Dotson, a skillful tour guide, challenges readers to form their own beliefs based on their examination of the evidence for Christ, without total reliance on others to tell them what to believe. Readers are asked to challenge their own beliefs as well as the beliefs of others: to include the author’s. Accompanying readers on the tour are the voices of other authors, poets, and even hymn writers, including John Bunyan, L.M. Montgomery, and John Milton, adding to the rich narrative of the journey. The first in a series, this intriguing book will appeal to believers and nonbelievers alike. An excellent addition to personal and church libraries!


A New Republic of the Heart

A New Republic of the Heart

Author: Terry Patten

Publisher: North Atlantic Books

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 417

ISBN-13: 1623170486

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A vision to address our environment, economy, politics, culture, and to catalyze the radical whole-system change we need now Recasting current problems as emergent opportunities, Terry Patten offers creative responses, practices, and conscious conversations for tackling the profound inner and outer work we must do to build an integral future. In practical and personal terms, he discusses how we can all become active agents of a transformation of human civilization and why that is necessary to our continued survival. Patten's narrative focuses on two aspects of existence--our dynamic but fractured and threatened world, and our underlying wholeness and unity. Only by honoring both of these realities simultaneously can we make sustainable changes in ourselves, our communities, our body politic, and our planetary life-support system. A New Republic of the Heart provides a comprehensive understanding and inspiring vision for "being the change" in a way that can address the most intractable problems of our time. Patten shows how we can come together in our communities for conversations that matter and describes new communities, enterprises, and forms of dialogue that integrate both inner personal growth work with outer awareness, activism, and service.


Leading with Love

Leading with Love

Author: Elaine A. Robinson

Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13: 1506488285

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The first principle of ministry leadership is love: love that emerges from life rooted in God. Healthy leadership requires a spirituality that enlivens us to move beyond rigid, dualistic frameworks. Robinson provides practical tools for cultivating spiritual practices that lead ministers into the world as agents of faith, hope, love, and justice.


Practical Theology in Progress

Practical Theology in Progress

Author: Nigel Rooms

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-06-29

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0429789262

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Practical Theology has emerged as an important discipline in recent decades, making a major contribution both in the academy and amongst reflective practitioners on the ground. The Journal Practical Theology celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2018 and this book presents ten journal articles chosen from over 180 that were published in that period. Reflecting on the progress the discipline has made and indicating some future directions in the field, the book is a ‘showcase’ of examples of good practical theology utilising a wide range of methodologies and written by an interesting cross-section of authors from a variety of backgrounds. This is a book which answers the question ‘what is practical theology?’ with real live examples that are accessible, readable and engaging.


Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

Author: Jason Peters

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2010-06-11

Total Pages: 364

ISBN-13: 0813192579

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A portrait of one of America's most profound and honest thinkers, this book combines biographical sketches, personal accounts, literary criticism, and social commentary to illuminate Berry as he is: a complex man of place and community with a depth of domestic, intellectual, filial, and fraternal attributes.


Sovereign Love

Sovereign Love

Author: Dené Logan, MFT

Publisher: Sounds True

Published: 2024-05-28

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 164963224X

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From couples therapist Dené Logan comes a new perspective on understanding our inner masculine and feminine energetics as the key to experiencing fulfillment in our partnerships. Does something feel off about your intimate relationships? If you haven’t been able to pin down exactly what, you aren’t alone. While attempting to connect the dots of her own experience to the patterns she observes within the relationships of her clients, couples therapist Dené Logan came to a vital understanding in the search for relational fulfillment: the answer often lies in the inherent interplay of the masculine and feminine energy that everyone possesses. Both masculine and feminine polarities are present in every person and relationship. When we’re out of touch with the energetics within ourselves and those around us, it can create an internal struggle and sense of disharmony in our partnerships. “Understanding these dynamics is the key to ending the unspoken war of the sexes that plays out far too often in our relationships,” Logan says. Thankfully, we have the power to work with these polarities, first within ourselves, and then within our relationships. In Sovereign Love, Logan helps us understand how to integrate masculine and feminine energetics so we can move away from the codependent, transactional views of what relationships “should” be, toward an interdependent, mutually balanced state where both partners are present, self-aware, and strong in Self. Here you’ll discover: • What energetics you’ve been operating from and why • The polarities that are being created in your partnerships • How to take personal responsibility for shifting your own energy to a more integrated place Logan shares revelations and techniques to support you in experiencing the wholehearted, satiating kind of love that is rooted in self-awareness and interdependence. “By unpacking the historical, cultural, and highly individual reasons why we love the way we do,” she explains, “we can understand our motivations and consciously choose to love in a way that serves our growth, our values, and our personal sovereignty.”