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Human Wholeness
A Spirituality of Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2015
Imagine a rope braided out of seven strands of twine, forming a circle so that even the ends of the rope are woven together. That is an image of human wholeness. This book proposes seven aspects to human wholeness: intellectual, psychological, emotional, physical, sexual, spiritual, and aesthetic....
Fruit of the Vine
A Biblical Spirituality of Wine
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Fruit of the Vine: A Biblical Spirituality of Wine is designed to help the reader grow in spirituality through reflecting on biblical vineyard stores, wine making, and wine as a metaphor for life. A spirituality of wine--categorized as a spirit--connects the spirit in wine to the universal spirit...
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2015
Mary, the mother of Jesus, is known in the Catholic Church as Our Lady of Grace, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Lourdes, Our Lady of the Rosary, Our Mother of Perpetual Help, and more. Her various titles describe her various functions...
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed
A Guide through Paschal Mystery Spirituality: Mystical Theology in The Roman Missal
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Christ Our Passover Has Been Sacrificed examines the paschal mystery as it is presented throughout the liturgical year in The Roman Missal. After offering an in-depth definition of the paschal mystery the author guides the reader through Lent, Holy Week, Easter, Pentecost, and more, mining the riches...
From Contemplation to Action
The Spiritual Process of Divine Discernment Using Elijah and Elisha as Models
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2018
Contemplation is a spiritual process involving long, thoughtful, steady, serious, and attentive consideration or observation in order to achieve closer unity with God and to discover and understand God's will for the contemplative. Contemplation gives rise to activity, and activity, in turn, gives...
The Doctrine of Atonement
From Luther to Forde
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Post-Enlightenment theology has frequently rejected the historic Christian doctrine of substitutionary atonement. For theologians standing in the tradition of the Lutheran Confessions, rejection of substitutionary atonement is particularly problematic because it endangers the unconditional nature...
The Self-Donation of God
A Contemporary Lutheran approach to Christ and His Benefits
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
In The Self-Donation of God, Jack Kilcrease argues that the speech-act of promise is always an act of self-donation. A person who unilaterally promises to another is bound to take a particular series of actions to fulfill that promise. Being that creation is grounded in God's promising speech, the...
Aquinas
God and Action, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
This exploration of Thomas Aquinas's philosophical theology, decidedly "unorthodox" at the time of its original publication, had the good fortune to be employed extensively--notably at Yale and Cambridge--by my eminent colleagues George Lindbeck and Nicholas Lash. It essayed a "non-foundational"...
L'Exigence de la liberté
Amnesty International
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1980
1916, la révolution irlandaise agonise. À Paris où il vit en exil, Sean Mac Bride, âgé de 12 ans, apprend l'exécution de son père, un des leaders de l'insurrection, fusillé par les Anglais. Avec sa mère, fabuleux personnage surnommé la Jeanne d'Arc irlandaise et qui est l'égérie de l'écrivain...
The Nature of the Will in the Writings of Calvin and Arminius
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017
Looking for deeper insights into an age-old debate on the question of the issue of free will in the theology of Calvin and Arminius? You've come to the right place. When the general question, "does man have a free will?" is directed to John Calvin and James Arminius, the received and oft-repeated...
Family Crucible
The Influence of Family Dynamics in the Life and Ministry of John Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This book explores the life and ministry of John Wesley from the perspective of Murray Bowen's Extended Family Systems Theory and to a lesser extent from Alfred Adler's concept of family constellation. Throughout the book, the author uses concepts drawn from these theories to explore significant historical...
by Serge Rezvani
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Language: French
Release Date: January 1, 1993
Ces Repentirs du peintre viennent aujourd’hui s’ajouter à la suite de mes écrits autobiographiques tels : Le Testament amoureux, Les Variations sur les jours et les nuits, J’avais un ami, L’anti-portrait ovale et dans une certaine mesure Phénix. Cycle que je développe parallèlement à...
by Serge Rezvani
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1978
Language: French
Release Date: December 31, 1978
Le canard du doute est fait d'autant de chapitres que d'histoires qui se croisent, coïncident ou ne se touchent parfois que par un détail. Les mêmes thèmes les traversent : essentiellement, celui de l'adolescence abandonnée et de la faillite des adultes. Le monde des adultes est peuplé de vieux...
by Kamel Daoud
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: October 3, 2018
« Je suis un “Arabe” invité à passer une nuit dans le musée Picasso à Paris, un octobre au ciel mauvais pour le Méditerranéen que je suis. Une nuit, seul, en enfant gâté mais en témoin d’une confrontation possible, désirée, concoctée. J’appréhendais l’ennui cependant, ou l’impuissance.
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