What Is the Name?
What Is the Name?

Author: William Phillips Hall

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-24

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9780331864564

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Excerpt from What Is "the Name"?: Or "the Mystery of God" Revealed This book has been plainly written, so that it might be easily and clearly understood by the most humble and technically unlearned reader and student of the Bible. In a few instances, a direct translation Of words from the Greek text has been made, with a view to the most accurate translation of the original in the light Of the context. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

All the Names of the Lord
All the Names of the Lord

Author: Valentina Izmirlieva

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0226388727

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Christians face a conundrum when it comes to naming God, for if God is unnamable, as theologians maintain, he can also be called by every name. His proper name is thus an open-ended, all-encompassing list, a mystery the Church embraces in its rhetoric, but which many Christians have found difficult to accept. To explore this conflict, Valentina Izmirlieva examines two lists of God’s names: one from The Divine Names, the classic treatise by Pseudo-Dionysius, and the other from The 72 Names of the Lord, an amulet whose history binds together Kabbalah and Christianity, Jews and Slavs, Palestine, Provence, and the Balkans. This unexpected juxtaposition of a theological treatise and a magical amulet allows Izmirlieva to reveal lists’ rhetorical potential to create order and to function as both tools of knowledge and of power. Despite the two different visions of order represented by each list, Izmirlieva finds that their uses in Christian practice point to a complementary relationship between the existential need for God’s protection and the metaphysical desire to submit to his infinite majesty—a compelling claim sure to provoke discussion among scholars in many fields.

Yahweh-Elohim
Yahweh-Elohim

Author: E. J. Lasius

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-20

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9780331530537

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Excerpt from Yahweh-Elohim: The Memorial Name Expositions concerning this name, in all the beauty and accuracy, which a deep knowledge of the original languages, and the law and the testi mony could give, are contained in the writings of Dr. Thomas. To his valuable aid, we are indebted, for the true light of the Scriptures, concerning this glorious name yahweh-elohim. In his Pha nerosis, we find these words: The Memorial Name, exhibited in Moses' writings, is not Simply a word of four letters, given to an abstraction, as men give names to their children: but a name memorial of a future manifestation of the Eternal Spirit: which manifestation will not be of One, through One only: but of one in and through ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands: that the Name covers them all; and consequently, the thousands of thousands are but One Yahweh (p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Whole Mystery of Christ
The Whole Mystery of Christ

Author: Jordan Daniel Wood

Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess

Published: 2022-10-15

Total Pages: 495

ISBN-13: 0268203466

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A thoroughgoing examination of Maximus Confessor’s singular theological vision through the prism of Christ’s cosmic and historical Incarnation. Jordan Daniel Wood changes the trajectory of patristic scholarship with this comprehensive historical and systematic study of one of the most creative and profound thinkers of the patristic era: Maximus Confessor (560–662 CE). Wood's panoramic vantage on Maximus’s thought emulates the theological depth of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Cosmic Liturgy while also serving as a corrective to that classic text. Maximus's theological vision may be summed up in his enigmatic assertion that “the Word of God, very God, wills always and in all things to actualize the mystery of his Incarnation.” The Whole Mystery of Christ sets out to explicate this claim. Attentive to the various contexts in which Maximus thought and wrote—including the wisdom of earlier church fathers, conciliar developments in Christological and Trinitarian doctrine, monastic and ascetic ways of life, and prominent contemporary philosophical traditions—the book explores the relations between God’s act of creation and the Word’s historical Incarnation, between the analogy of being and Christology, and between history and the Fall, in addition to treating such topics as grace, deification, theological predication, and the ontology of nature versus personhood. Perhaps uniquely among Christian thinkers, Wood argues, Maximus envisions creatio ex nihilo as creatio ex Deo in the event of the Word’s kenosis: the mystery of Christ is the revealed identity of the Word’s historical and cosmic Incarnation. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of patristics, historical theology, systematic theology, and Byzantine studies.

The Unfolding Mystery of the Divine Name
The Unfolding Mystery of the Divine Name

Author: Michael P. Knowles

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2012-08-24

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 0830863915

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When Moses asked God to show him his glory, the Lord passed before him and proclaimed his name. And from that name cascaded a promise of grace and love, compassion and faithfulness, forgiveness and slowness to anger. The story is told in Exodus 34:5-7, but the resonant name reverberates through the corridors of Scripture. Michael Knowles teases out the rich dimensions and implications of this name by listening carefully to Exodus 34 and its biblical echoes. He particularly tunes his ear to the spiritual meditations of later sages. In tracing the unfolding mystery of the divine name throughout the span of Israel's story, he finds it startlingly resolved in the God of Sinai becoming present in our midst. The manifold name of God has long captivated those who trace their spiritual ancestry to Abraham, whether they are Jewish, Christian or Muslim. This book brings this spiritual quest into dialogue with Scripture and tradition, and invites us to experience this God of the eternal name.