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Author: Paul S. Pope
Publisher: Crestwick Books
Published: 2004-02-23
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780965527538
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough 25 selected Bible passages, the author reveals the impact these readings have had on his life and how they can enrich anyone's life. Following each passage and related commentary is a life-enrichment axiom that will help readers make better choices for joyous living.
Author: Paul Moser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1316516024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores, with a compelling method, the distinctiveness of Jesus' role as God's filial inquirer of those who inquire of him.
Author: John Gwyn Griffiths
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9789004092310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theme of divine judgement has often been treated, but usually with a concentration on one it its two main aspects: either that which is seen in the present life and in history or that which is believed to occur only after death. This new study seeks to combine the two aspects. It also tries to cover the whole spectrum of the ancient religions. Special attention is given to Israel, Greece, and Egypt. Israel's neighbours are also considered, and there are discussions of Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism. In several areas, notably in Egypt and Israel, it is shown that punishment in this life is sometimes presented as a fate that man brings upon himself rather than as one imposed by God, though always against a moral background derived from religion. The origins of judgement after death in the Judaeo-Christian tradition are examined in some detail and elements are traced to Egyptian, Zoroastrian, and Judaic sources.
Author: Paul Moser
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2021-06-24
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1009033050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book, Paul Moser explores Jesus' role as God's filial inquirer and clarifies a method of inquiry regarding Jesus, one that offers a compelling explanation regarding his experiential impact and his audience's response. Moser's method values the roles of history and moral/religious experience in inquiry about him, and it saves inquirers from distorting biases in their inquiry. His study illuminates Jesus' puzzling features, including his challenging question for inquirers of him (Who do you say I am?), his distinctive experience of God as father, his reference to himself as 'the son of man', his attitude toward his suffering and death, his unique role in the kingdom of God, and his understanding of his allegedly miraculous signs and of his parables and good news. The book also makes sense of evidence for the reality and the main purpose of Jesus.
Author: Erwin Raphael McManus
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2002-11-03
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1418513865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this inspiring book, Erwin McManus uses the biblical account of Israel's war with the Philistines (1 Samuel 13 and 14) and the characters of Saul and Jonathan to demonstrate the difference between living a life of purpose and adventure, and living one of apathy and missed opportunity. In the midst of a less-than-hopeful battle, Saul-who should have been leading-rested beneath a pomegranate tree as Jonathan seized the divine moment that would impact the future of Israel. Through this story McManus artfully illustrates the eight characteristics of an adventurer's heart, what he calls "the Jonathan factor." Using powerful examples from his own life and ministry, along with fresh biblical teaching, McManus asserts that God crafts divine moments specific to each of us-priceless opportunities for us to actively engage in God's big-picture plan. Apathy and apprehension prevent us from being all we are meant to be for God's kingdom. But by developing the characteristics McManus outlines, Christians can move from mundane to miraculous living.
Author: Collin Cornell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-01-31
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 1009079514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe aggression of the biblical God is notorious. The phrase 'Old Testament God' conjures up images of jealousy and wrath, smiting and judging. But is it only an accident that this god became capital-G God, the unique creator and sustainer of three world religions? Or is there a more substantive connection between monotheism and divine aggression? This Element proposes exactly this causal connection. In three case studies, it showcases ways that literarily treating one god alone as god amplifies divine destructiveness. This happens according to two dynamics: God absorbs the destructive power of other divine beings-and God monopolizes divinity such that other beings, even special ones like God's beloved king or the people of God, are rendered vulnerable to divine aggression. The Element also attends to the literary contexts and counterbalances within which the Hebrew Bible imagines divine aggression.
Author: David Seal
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-06-13
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 0761869263
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo humans have a special capacity designed to foster experiences of God? What role do specific bodily actions or emotions play in the cultivation of a divine experience? Prayer as Divine Experience in 4 Ezra and John’s Apocalypse: Emotion, Empathy, and Engagement with God explores these questions in a systematic study of the emotions in two apocalyptic texts. The book of 4 Ezra, an ancient Jewish apocalypse, and the book of Revelation, an ancient Christian Apocalypse written by John, are examined with a focus on the emotional language of the prayers and prayer preludes contained in this literature. Both texts were composed in the first-century of the Common Era, a time when most people exposed to literature heard the content as it was recited. The emotive language in these writings could potentially arouse similar emotions in the readers or hearers of these texts, allowing the person to have access to the divine experiences, which are described by the seer in 4 Ezra and are expressed by the angelic choir in John’s Apocalypse. Prior to examining the prayers, Prayer as Divine Experience will describe the neurological processes that cause a person to mirror the emotions expressed by another individual, thereby prompting an imitation of the experience that is perceived.
Author: Satya Pal Ruhela
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9788175330214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a comprehensive and uptodate research review of all the significant writings and research contributions of Sai Devotee-writers, and scholars of Religion, philosphers, sociologists, psychologists and psychiatrists, educationists, management scientists,physical scientists and medical scientists who have come closer to Baba and studied his unique divine personality as Avatar, his teachings, his miracles, his charisma, his global activities and his enchanting and soothing utopia for the distressed mankind.
Author: Richard Igiri
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2017-05-18
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1524678716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDivine Psychology of the Revolution of Biafra is a Poetic Fantasy of Biafra, which poeticizes upon the divine-concept Biafra, and solicits its redemption from the non-status of a Military Ambition of the Old Order. The Divine Psychology thus poeticizes upon Biafra renewed and updated in its divine status as a Democratic Aspiration of the New Order. The Poetic Fantasy of Biafra is given in a structured poetic style employing rhymes and contrasts. Thematically, Volume One pursues Cessation of the Iniquity of Man and its EvilCaptivity as retained in the Old Order Experience; while Volume Two issues Foundation of the Dignity of Man and its CivilLiberty as obtained in the New Order Existence.
Author: Jennifer A Quigley
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 030025816X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA nuanced narrative about the intersections of religious and economic life in early Christianity The divine was an active participant in the economic spheres of the ancient Mediterranean world. Evidence demonstrates that gods and goddesses were represented as owning goods, holding accounts, and producing wealth through the mediation of religious and civic officials. This book argues that early Christ-followers also used financial language to articulate and imagine their relationship to the divine. Theo-economics—intertwined theological and economic logics in which divine and human beings regularly transact with one another—permeate the letters of Paul and other texts connected with Pauline communities. Unlike other studies, which treat the ancient economy and religion separately, Divine Accounting takes seriously the overlapping of themes such as poverty, labor, social status, suffering, cosmology, and eschatology in material evidence from the ancient Mediterranean and early Christian texts.
