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Author: Wayne Edward Oates
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780664240288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes eight common personality disorders, presents Biblical guidelines for dealing with difficult people, and explains how Christian faith can help their real personalities to emerge.
Author: Frederick Grosse
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-07-16
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1317957687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn today's rapidly changing society, the rules you learned as a child may no longer apply, causing you to experience restlessness and confusion. The Eight Masks of Men: A Practical Guide in Spiritual Growth for Men of the Christian Faith will encourage you to come out from behind your mask of solitude and loneliness--one of man's most obtrusive masks--and reach out for help and community. By answering questions commonly asked by men of various religious and personal backgrounds, this book will help you tune into your feelings, innermost thoughts, and that void you feel inside. As you become consciously aware of how the eight masks are a part of your being, you will recognize the true gift beneath each one.The Eight Masks of Men is the first book to combine historical, theological, and sociological perspectives with a practical approach for personal growth. To help you divest yourself of your inhibitions and experience inner harmony, it blends personal stories, humorous anecdotes, biblical research, and clinical information. The eight masks that men wear and what they hide that author Rev. Dr. Frederick G. Grosse explores include: mask: loneliness; hides: desire for community mask: rage and anger; hide: pain and hurt mask: compulsion; hides: desire for love mask: performance; hides: desire for acceptance mask: control; hides: desire for friendship mask: producing; hides: desire to just “be” mask: competition; hides: desire for humility mask: institutional religion; hides: desire for spiritual growth Don't let tragedy or desperation strike before you commit to building a healthier relationship with yourself, the people important to you, and God. Men who feel out of touch with their spiritual sides, retreat and spiritual direction leaders, pastoral counselors, chaplains, marriage and family counselors, and members of the clergy will find in The Eight Masks of Men the inspiration and insight they need to guide themselves and one another to a season of union with God.
Author: G. Peter Fleck
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnitarian Universalist minister G. Peter Fleck explores the role of reason and science, limits on the concept of progress, the lure of other (Eastern) religious traditions, the influence of the Judeo-Christian heritage, and the ways we can interpret that heritage to build our own spiritual home.
Author: Mark Briggs
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 0768424011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSo writes author Mark Briggs as he light-heartedly addresses serious "cow" issues in our lives. Behind the Mask of Religious Traditions exposes the ugliness of dead rituals and reveals the beauty of true, living worship. Removing the masks will: Expose the sacred cows in your life. Create a passion for true worship. Identify the Father as the Shepherd. Guide you through the Sacred Cow Prevention Process. As you destroy the religious cows in your life, you will find yourself grazing with the Shepherd in lush green pastures beside a refreshing flowing stream of living water. Book jacket.
Author: Jefferson Bethke
Publisher: HarperChristian + ORM
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1400205409
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbandon dead, dry, religious rule-keeping and embrace the promise of being truly known and deeply loved. Jefferson Bethke burst into the cultural conversation with a passionate, provocative poem titled "Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus." The 4-minute video became an overnight sensation, with 7 million YouTube views in its first 48 hours (and 23+ million in a year). Bethke's message clearly struck a chord with believers and nonbelievers alike, triggering an avalanche of responses running the gamut from encouraged to enraged. In his New York Times bestseller Jesus > Religion, Bethke unpacks similar contrasts that he drew in the poem--highlighting the difference between teeth gritting and grace, law and love, performance and peace, despair, and hope. With refreshing candor, he delves into the motivation behind his message, beginning with the unvarnished tale of his own plunge from the pinnacle of a works-based, fake-smile existence that sapped his strength and led him down a path of destructive behavior. Along the way, Bethke gives you the tools you need to: Humbly and prayerfully open your mind Understand Jesus for all that he is View the church from a brand-new perspective Bethke is quick to acknowledge that he's not a pastor or theologian, but simply an ordinary, twenty-something who cried out for a life greater than the one for which he had settled. On this journey, Bethke discovered the real Jesus, who beckoned him with love beyond the props of false religion. Praise for Jesus > Religion: "Jeff's book will make you stop and listen to a voice in your heart that may have been drowned out by the noise of religion. Listen to that voice, then follow it--right to the feet of Jesus." --Bob Goff, author of New York Times bestsellers Love Does and Everybody, Always "The book you hold in your hands is Donald Miller's Blue Like Jazz meets C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity meets Augustine's Confessions. This book is going to awaken an entire generation to Jesus and His grace." --Derwin L. Gray, lead pastor of Transformation Church, author of Limitless Life: Breaking Free from the Labels That Hold You Back
Author: William Robert
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-02-14
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 0226816907
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In Unbridled, scholar of religion William Robert uses Peter Shaffer's enigmatic 1973 play Equus, about a boy passionately devoted to horses, to think about and teach religion. For Robert, a play like Equus tangles together text, performance, practice, embodiment, and reception. Studying a play involves us in playing different roles, as ourselves and others, and those roles, as well as the imaginative work they require, are critical to the study of religion. By approaching Equus with the reader, Robert transforms standard approaches to the study of religion, engaging with key themes including ritual, sacrifice, worship, power, desire, violence, and sexuality, as well as major thinkers such as Marx, Freud, Nietzsche, and contemporary theorists such as J. Z. Smith and Judith Butler. As Robert shows, the way themes and theories play out in Equus challenges us to imagine the study of religion anew through open questioning, contrasting perspectives, and alternative modes of interpretation and appreciation"--
Author: Jack Snyder
Publisher:
Published: 2019-04-11
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9781513626437
DOWNLOAD EBOOK#1 International Bestseller in 4 Categories on Amazon in the US and CA.Including Religious Biblical Fiction, Middle Eastern Literature, and Christian New Testament Commentaries in the US as well as Christian Fiction in CA. Discover the story of biblical events that ushers in the end of times and how Jesus Christ returns again to save us all from our own demise. As Rachel Williams, a renowned television journalist, covers the signing of a historical peace accord in Jerusalem, a terrorist strike levels several of the Holy Land's most ancient, sacred sites - sites important to Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike. As international tensions rise due to the incident, Rachel finds a long-forgotten email she received months earlier foretelling these events - an email she dismissed because it came from a man whom she considered a "religious nut." When Rachel locates the sender, he gives her a Bible containing handwritten notes deciphering the Book of Revelation. After another terrorist attack occurs - one written about in the man's notes - Rachel embarks on an adventure of spiritual discovery that leads to unraveling the greatest mystery of all time: The rise of the Antichrist and the return of Jesus to Earth, and how she, an agnostic, plays a significant role in the Biblical End Times and the Battle of Armageddon. The story in this book was inspired by scripture, characters, places and events from the Bible as they relate to the End Times and Armageddon. All other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author's imagination, and any resemblance to actual events, places, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Author: Eugene C. Rollins
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1438997132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a social role the concept of the persona is useful in allowing an individual to move in and out of relationships without being too vulnerable. A persona can be the oil to ease potential social friction. A persona provides for some predictability of relationship, but wearing a mask may become a sub-personality preventing us from embracing our true spiritual identity.
Author: Ryan P. Burge
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2023-05-16
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1506488250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, Second Edition, Ryan P. Burge details a comprehensive picture of an increasingly significant group--Americans who say they have no religious affiliation. The growth of the nones in American society has been dramatic. In 1972, just 5 percent of Americans claimed "no religion" on the General Social Survey. In 2018, that number rose to 23.7 percent, making the nones as numerous as both evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics. Every indication is that the nones will be the largest religious group in the United States in the next decade. Burge illustrates his precise but accessible descriptions with charts and graphs drawn from more than a dozen carefully curated datasets, some tracking changes in American religion over a long period of time, others large enough to allow a statistical deep dive on subgroups such as atheists or agnostics. Burge also draws on data that tracks how individuals move in and out of religion over time, helping readers to understand what type of people become nones and what factors lead an individual to return to religion. This second edition includes substantial updates with new chapters and current statistical and demographic information. The Nones gives readers a nuanced, accurate, and meaningful picture of the growing number of Americans who say that they have no religious affiliation. Burge explains how this rise happened, who the nones are, and what they mean for the future of American religion.
Author: Paul S. Loeb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-11-07
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 110842225X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned scholars explore and discuss Nietzsche's desire to challenge the very conception of philosophy, and his methods of doing so.
