The Spiritual Language of Art: Medieval Christian Themes in Writings on Art of the Italian Renaissance
The Spiritual Language of Art: Medieval Christian Themes in Writings on Art of the Italian Renaissance

Author: Steven F.H. Stowell

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-11-13

Total Pages: 418

ISBN-13: 9004283927

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Analyzing the literature on art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spiritual experiences during the Italian Renaissance. Though scholarly research on these writings has predominantly focused on the influence of classical literature, this study reveals that Renaissance authors consistently discussed art using terms, concepts and metaphors derived from spiritual literature. By examining these texts in the light of medieval sources, greater insight is gained on the spiritual nature of the artist’s process and the reception of art. Offering a close re-readings of many important writers (Alberti, Leonardo, Vasari, etc.), this study deepens our understanding of attitudes toward art and spirituality in the Italian Renaissance.

Seeking Spiritual Beauty
Seeking Spiritual Beauty

Author: Sheila Keckler Butt

Publisher: Publishing Designs Incorporated

Published: 2022-09-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780929540269

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"In our microwave society that manufactures designer babies, most young women are more efficient at the computer than at home. Seeking Spiritual Beauty is a book of courage and power for women who are not satisfied with the world's standard of spirituality."--Cover

Living the Spirit-Formed Life
Living the Spirit-Formed Life

Author: Jack Hayford

Publisher: Chosen Books

Published: 2017-08-01

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 144123117X

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New Look for Landmark Teaching on Living the Spirit-Empowered Life In our instant-gratification culture, we consume a fleeting, shallow diet of media, relationships, entertainment, and spirituality. Our souls go hungry, longing for a fuller, more satisfying life. Bestselling author and beloved pastor Jack Hayford shows, in what has become a modern-day classic, how we can feed our deepest places with the sustaining Bread of Life. With warmth and wisdom, he reveals how we can link our souls to timeless practices and principles set forth in Scripture. He invites you to rediscover the power and blessing of these spiritual disciplines--of true Spirit-fullness. Even more, he shows how these spiritual disciplines are relevant for today and how we can practice them in our quick-paced, surface-level culture. When we take time to fast and pray, worship daily, feed on God's Word, and more, we fully enter the rich adventure of becoming an effective disciple of Christ--ensuring that our souls will never go hungry.

The Secret Language of the Soul
The Secret Language of the Soul

Author: Jane Hope

Publisher: Chronicle Books

Published: 1997-11

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780811818612

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This latest in the Secret Language series is an inspiring survey of faith and ritual through the ages, from Native American vision quests to chakras, avatar, and archangels. Original and ancient artworks depict some of the most profound and compelling images ever devised. This richly illustrated volume is an inviting universal guide to the realm of the divine. Over 200 full-color illustrations.

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Author: Leslie Marmon Silko

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-04-30

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1439128324

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Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is a collection of twenty-two powerful and indispensable essays on Native American life, written by one of America's foremost literary voices. Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable—there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths—a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.

The Beauty of Spiritual Language
The Beauty of Spiritual Language

Author: Jack W. Hayford

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781945529429

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Jack Hayford's approach to speaking in tongues doesn't fit the stereotype. Revised and expanded with new content. People often think speaking in tongues is either gibberish or emotional exuberance. They think it is strange, dramatic, or sometimes excessive. Even among Spirit-filled communities, there is disagreement over the importance of tongues. Pastor Jack makes a persuasive case for accepting tongues as a normal part of a Christian's experience. In sensible, biblical terms he reaches across denominational lines to explain this intimate encounter with the heart of God. This revised and expanded edition includes fourteen never-before published lessons from Pastor Jack.

The Language of Sycamores
The Language of Sycamores

Author: Lisa Wingate

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2005-01-04

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1101210206

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Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from life-immersing herself in a high-powered job-until the day the company downsizes her out of a job and the doctor tells her that she may have cancer. It's a double blow that sends Karen on a search for herself in the last place she ever thought to look: Grandma Rose's old farm. As Karen's hectic schedule falls away, she opens up to the unexpected. In the quiet of the Missouri Ozarks, she hears the soft, secret language of the sycamore trees, and discovers answers and a joy to make her life complete.

The Language of Heaven
The Language of Heaven

Author: Sam Storms

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 1629996076

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Few other issues have separated the church more than the issue of tongues. Sam Storms focuses on this controversial subject with his signature insights to theology and the gifts of the spirit. What does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? Storms seeks to bring balance to this subject in The Language of Heaven as he wrestles with this s...

What's Your God Language?
What's Your God Language?

Author: Myra Perrine

Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1414313225

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In What's Your God Language? Myra Perrine describes nine types of spiritual temperaments and suggests disciplines and faith expressions that fit best with each unique temperament (or blend of temperaments). Drawing on her doctoral research that built on the work of Gary Thomas and others, Perrine calls readers to stop fighting the way God wired them and to experience a deeper intimacy with Christ by embracing their unique “spiritual circuitry.” Features: In-depth analysis of nine categories of spiritual temperaments Spiritual temperament assessment tool for assessing one's individual temperament Biblically supported and thoroughly researched Written in a friendly, anecdotal style Foreword by Gary Thomas Web site with additional intermediate and advanced exercises The 9 Languages: The Activist The Asetic The Caregiver The Contemplative The Enthusiast The Intellectual The Naturalist The Sensate The Traditionalist

The Beauty of the Lord
The Beauty of the Lord

Author: Jonathan King

Publisher: Lexham Press

Published: 2018-05-30

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 1683590597

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Why is God's beauty often absent from our theology? Rarely do theologians take up the theme of God's beauty—even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of the Lord. In The Beauty of the Lord, Jonathan King restores aesthetics as not merely a valid lens for theological reflection, but an essential one. Jesus, our incarnate Redeemer, displays the Triune God's beauty in his actions and person, from creation to final consummation. How can and should theology better reflect this unveiled beauty? The Beauty of the Lord is a renewal of a truly aesthetic theology and a properly theological aesthetics.