Where Prayer Flourishes
Where Prayer Flourishes

Author: Thomas Merton

Publisher: Canterbury Press

Published: 2018-05-31

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 178622061X

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Thomas Merton is one of the most influential spiritual figures of the twentieth century. A Trappist monk, he was also a bestselling writer whose works are regarded as spiritual classics. Originally published under the title The Climate of Monastic Prayer, Where Prayer Flourishes is his final work. It is full of accessible and practical teaching for anyone that wants to explore prayer to its full dimensions. Merton argues that prayer flourishes best in the desert. Here, he shows how to find the desert in the midst of the busy world. Where Prayer Flourishes will open a treasury of teaching about prayer to a wider audience.

Training the Body
Training the Body

Author: David Torevell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-12

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 100058867X

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This is the first book to examine the body in training in the context of religion, sport and wider physical culture, offering important insight into the performative, social, cultural and gendered aspects of somatic discipline and exercise. The book presents a series of fascinating thematic and case-study led chapters from around the world, examining topics including the martial discipline and symbolism of artistic gymnastics; religious interpretations of body vulnerability in the context of marathons; the religious language of corporeal training in sport and martial arts. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives, from sport, religion, history and philosophy, the book explores the often contested and sometimes over-zealous application of training in both sport and religion and the ways in which this can cause harm to athletes or adherents. This is fascinating reading for any advanced student or researcher with an interest in the body, physical cultural studies, the ethics and philosophy of sport, the sociology of sport, religious studies, Asian studies or philosophy.

Desire and Mental Health in Christianity and the Arts
Desire and Mental Health in Christianity and the Arts

Author: David Torevell

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-08-21

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1000930769

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This book considers the connection between the world of mental health in the twenty-first century and the traditional concept of desire in Christianity and the Arts. It draws parallels between the desire for rest from anxiety among mental health sufferers with the longing for peace and happiness in Religion and the Arts. The author presents Biblical, philosophical and theological insights alongside artistic ones, arguing that desire for rest remains at the heart of spiritual living as well as mental health recovery. The chapters draw from historical and contemporary voices, including Plato, Augustine of Hippo, Julian of Norwich, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Simone Weil, Samuel Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Jean-Louis Chrétien, Eric Varden and others. The study demonstrates why longing continues to fascinate and grip individuals, creative endeavour and society at large, not least in the development of the understanding of mental health. It is valuable for scholars and advanced students of Christian theology and those interested in spirituality and the arts in particular.

The Dwelling
The Dwelling

Author: Antoinette Kingsley

Publisher: Booktango

Published: 2014-05-12

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 146894701X

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The Dwelling place of God is a place where every believer should yearn and long for each waking day because God will lead you on the journey of love like you have never experienced before. That’s why his throne room is a place of abiding intimately with him holding back nothing because God is longing for a relationship with his children.

Through a Glass Darkly
Through a Glass Darkly

Author: Holly Faith Nelson

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2011-01-19

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 1554582067

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Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and the unspeakable, between experience and language, between body and spirit, between the immanent and the transcendent, and between the human and the divine. The twenty-five essays in Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory, written by international scholars working in the fields of literary criticism, philosophy, and history, address the ways in which literature and theory have engaged with these three concepts and related concerns. The contributors analyze literary and theoretical texts from the medieval period to the postmodern age, from the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, and Herbert to those of Endô Shûsaku, Alice Munro, Annie Dillard, Emmanuel Levinas, and Slavoj Žižek. This book will be of particular interest to scholars of religion and literature, philosophy and literature, aesthetic theory, and trauma studies.

A Theology of the Holy Spirit
A Theology of the Holy Spirit

Author: Frederick Dale Bruner

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 1997-12-03

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1725207273

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Bruner has been both thorough and fair, and has written a book that combines scholarly research with constructive commentary on the life and mission of the contemporary Church.

From His Lips on Fasting
From His Lips on Fasting

Author: Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Publisher: ZTF Books Online

Published:

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13:

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What does it mean to fast in a way that brings real spiritual breakthrough? In From His Lips on Fasting, Professor Zacharias Tanee Fomum delves into fasting as a powerful spiritual discipline, revealing how it can separate you from sin and bring you into a place of divine power and purpose. This book guides you through the different types of fasts, the impact of fasting, and how it prepares believers for spiritual battles. Fomum speaks directly to the heart of every believer, emphasizing that fasting is not about self-deprivation but about positioning oneself for an encounter with God. He shares testimonies of individuals and churches transformed by fasting and explains the critical role fasting plays in revival and spiritual growth. If you’re ready to experience God’s power in a new way, From His Lips on Fasting will inspire you to make fasting a vital part of your spiritual journey.