Original Dwelling Place
Original Dwelling Place

Author: Robert Aitken

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 1997-06-01

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1887178414

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In this collection of twenty-three essays, Robert Aitken retraces the origins of American Zen Buddhism and provides readings of influential texts. Reflecting on death, on marriage, and on Zen practice, Aitken always points out the path to pleasure in the everyday dewdrop world. There is a fine art to presenting complex ideas with simplicity and insight in a manner that both shepherds and inspires. Robert Aitken's Original Dwelling Place: Zen Buddhist Essays succeeds in doing just this, offering twenty-three essays from Americas senior Zen roshi and author of the bestselling, groundbreaking primer Taking the Path of Zen. Just as Taking the Path of Zen is the definitive handbook for Zen practice, the essays gathered in Original Dwelling Place are essential for the light they shed on Aitken Roshi's own journey and the effect he has had on American Zen Buddhism. Gathered here are essays about the Zen texts Aitken has studied with avidity and close attention throughout the years; texts that were early and lasting influences.

Original Dwelling Place
Original Dwelling Place

Author: Robert Aitken

Publisher: Counterpoint LLC

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13:

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Just as Taking the Path of Zen is the definitive handbook for Zen practice, the essays gathered in Original Dwelling Place are essential for the light they shed on Aitken Roshi's own journey and the effect he has had on American Zen Buddhism. Gathered here are essays about the Zen texts Aitken has studied with avidity and close attention throughout the years, texts that were early and lasting influences. In an opening section entitled "Ancestors", Aitken pays homage to the masters who influenced his own development and Zen Buddhism generally. In other meditations, Robert Aitken writes on political revolution and matters of ethics. He helps illuminate the proper use of money, power, and sexual love in a modern world that is often tainted by materialism and decadence. He reflects on death, on marriage, and on Zen practice, always pointing out the path to pleasure in the everyday "dewdrop" world.

Dwelling in the Household of God
Dwelling in the Household of God

Author: Mary L. Coloe

Publisher: Liturgical Press

Published: 2017-07-27

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 0814683770

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In her remarkable first book, God Dwells With Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel, Mary L. Coloe, P.B.V.M., explored the profound insight of John's Gospel expressed in Jesus ' invitation to his disciples: Make your home in me, as I make mine in you (John 15:4). For the gospel's author and audience, the dwelling of God among humans was, above al, the Jerusalem Temple. The gospel traces how 'after the trauma of the destruction of the Temple 'the Johannine community came to expand and deepen its knowledge of God's dwelling among humans, finding it now in the person of Jesus and in the community of believers. Dwelling in the Household of God moves us from seeing God's dwelling place as the Temple to seeing God's dwelling place within the community of believers. The starting point now is an image in John 14:2: my Father's house, which is given its Old Testament meaning of my father's household. Our awareness thus moves, like that of the first Christians, from understanding My father's house as the Temple (John 2:16) to My Father's Household as a community of believers drawn into Jesus ' own divine filiation. Coloe invites us to re-read the gospel from the post-Easter perspective of those who have become brothers and sisters of Jesus and living Temples of God's presence. What emerges is nothing less than a profound mysticism of the mutual indwelling of God and believers. Mary Coloe, PBVM, DTh, holds a joint teaching position at the Australian Catholic University and St Paul's Seminary, Brisbane. Her publications include numerous articles and God Dwells With Us: Temple Symbolism in the Fourth Gospel (Liturgical Press, 2001).

The Life of Jesus
The Life of Jesus

Author: David Friedrich Strauss

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2024-01-03

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 3375178557

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1856.

The Life of Jesus Critically Examined
The Life of Jesus Critically Examined

Author: David Friedrich Strauss

Publisher:

Published: 1860

Total Pages: 470

ISBN-13:

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David Friedrich Strauss's Das Leben Jesu kritisch bearbeitet (1835) brought about a new dawn in Biblical criticism by applying the 'myth theory' to the life of Jesus. Strauss treated the Gospel narrative like any other historical work, and denied all supernatural elements in the Gospels. Das Leben Jesu created an overnight sensation and Strauss became embroiled in fierce controversy. This earliest English version of 1846 was translated by the novelist George Eliot, and was her first published book.

History of the Old Covenant: Israel in the desert of Sinai : Halt at Marah and Elim ; Halt in the desert of sin ; Halt at Rephidim ; Geographical survey of the road to Rephidim and the country round Sinai ; Preparations for giving the law and concluding the covenant ; Promulgation of the fundamental law ; The Sinaitic covenant ; Orders for the erection of a sanctuary ; The worship of the calf ; Negotiations for a renewal of the broken covenant ; Erection of the sanctuary ; The law of the sacrifice and the institution of the Levitical priesthood ; Continuation and conclusion of the Sinaitic legislation ; Preparations for leaving Sinai
History of the Old Covenant: Israel in the desert of Sinai : Halt at Marah and Elim ; Halt in the desert of sin ; Halt at Rephidim ; Geographical survey of the road to Rephidim and the country round Sinai ; Preparations for giving the law and concluding the covenant ; Promulgation of the fundamental law ; The Sinaitic covenant ; Orders for the erection of a sanctuary ; The worship of the calf ; Negotiations for a renewal of the broken covenant ; Erection of the sanctuary ; The law of the sacrifice and the institution of the Levitical priesthood ; Continuation and conclusion of the Sinaitic legislation ; Preparations for leaving Sinai

Author: Johann Heinrich Kurtz

Publisher:

Published: 1859

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13:

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Building and Dwelling
Building and Dwelling

Author: Richard Sennett

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2023-08-22

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0300274769

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A reflection on the past and present of city life, and a bold proposal for its future “Constantly stimulating ideas from a veteran of urban thinking.”—Jonathan Meades, The Guardian In this sweeping work, the preeminent sociologist Richard Sennett traces the anguished relation between how cities are built and how people live in them, from ancient Athens to twenty-first-century Shanghai. He shows how Paris, Barcelona, and New York City assumed their modern forms; rethinks the reputations of Jane Jacobs, Lewis Mumford, and others; and takes us on a tour of emblematic contemporary locations, from the backstreets of Medellín, Colombia, to Google headquarters in Manhattan. Through it all, Sennett laments that the “closed city”—segregated, regimented, and controlled—has spread from the Global North to the exploding urban centers of the Global South. He argues instead for a flexible and dynamic “open city,” one that provides a better quality of life, that can adapt to climate change and challenge economic stagnation and racial separation. With arguments that speak directly to our moment—a time when more humans live in urban spaces than ever before—Sennett forms a bold and original vision for the future of cities.