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Author: W. Jardine Grisbrooke
Publisher: RSM Press
Published: 1982-03
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780913836927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis charismatic Russian pastor brought mental, physical and spiritual healing to thousands during the late 19th and early 20th century. Selected passages focus on the purpose and manner of prayer, sin and forgiveness, spiritual life and spiritual warfare, and the last things.
Author: Ioann (Kronshtadtskīĭ, otet︠s︡)
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 230
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ivan Il'ich Sergiev
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ivan Ilyitch Sergieff
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Fanning
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-06-29
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1134590970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom divine visions to self-tortures, some strange mystical experiences have shaped the Christian tradition as we know it. Full of colourful detail, Mystics of the Christian Tradition examines the mystical experiences that have determined the history of Christianity over two thousand years, and reveals the often sexual nature of these encounters with the divine. In this fascinating account, Fanning reveals how God's direct revelation to St Francis of Assisi led to his living with lepers and kissing their sores, and describes the mystical life of Margery Kempe who 'took weeping to new decibel levels'. Through presenting the lives of almost a hundred mystics, this broad survey invites us to consider what it means to be a mystic and to explore how people such as Joan of Arc had their lives determined by divine visions. Mystics of the Christian Tradition is a comprehensive guide to discovering what mysticism means and who the mystics of the Christian tradition actually were.
Author: of Kronstadt John
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 242
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cheslyn Jones
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986-12-11
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 0199770735
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten by contributors representing the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Free Church, and Orthodox traditions, this collection examines the nature and form of individual Christian devotion throughout the centuries.
Author: Edward Rommen
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2017-07-18
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1498293158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIf the divine liturgy really is as beautiful as we claim, wouldn’t more people attend? Wouldn’t the church grow? Driven by our desire for growth, we count, we analyze, we make charts, and we strategize, but often with few discernible results. That is probably the result of focusing on secondary aspects of church life. As we know, the very existence of a church is a gift of God’s presence and not the result of any particular actions taken by human beings. For that reason, church is primarily about being something rather than doing or achieving something. So the growth of the church is not reflected in ever-increasing numbers, dollars, and activities, but rather in steadily growing conformity to the divine ideal. So in order to evaluate ecclesial growth, we will first have to ask what the church is supposed to be. One answer to that question is captured in the four marks of the church given in the creed: Oneness, Holiness, Catholicity, and Apostolicity. These four characteristics serve as a matrix or framework within which we can focus on the primary aspects of ecclesial being and help it grow and become what it was intended to be.
Author: Amir Azarvan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1498224059
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Faith means making a virtue out of not thinking. . . . And those who preach faith, and enable and elevate it are intellectual slaveholders, keeping mankind in a bondage to fantasy and nonsense that has spawned and justified so much lunacy and destruction." -- Bill Maher Many seem unaware that contemporary critiques of Christianity are relevant mostly to its modern offshoots (whose followers have to some extent earned Bill Maher's unflattering caricatures). To its detriment, Christianity is increasingly identified in people's minds with these more recent expressions. As a result, a growing number of people are turning away from Christianity and, indeed, religious faith altogether. Drawing from an eclectic group of theologians, clergy members, monastics, and lay scholars, this edited volume re-introduces Christianity to a modern audience. It presents a more authentic, experiential side of Christianity to the religious skeptic; a side that eschews blind faith, legalism, and judgment; a side that is rarely given a hearing in the ongoing debate with today's skeptics. Re-Introducing Christianity is also directed at modern Christians, and refutes their most frequently expressed criticisms of what the contributors boldly, but humbly, call the Apostolic Faith.
Author: Ernest Evgenevich Guliaev
Publisher: Hansebooks
Published: 2017-06-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783337164584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy Life in Christ is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1897. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.
