Adventures In Religious Life

Author : Swami Yatiswarananda
Publisher : Sri Ramakrishna Math(vedantaebooks.org)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Adventures In Religious Life by Swami Yatiswarananda Pdf

This book is a collection of lectures delivered in Bangalore and Philadelphia by Swami Yatiswarananda, a disciple of Swami Brahmananda and the Vice-president of the Ramakrishna Order. The lectures were published in the magazines The Vedanta Kesari, Prabuddha Bharata, Vedanta and the West, and Vedanta for East and West. The lectures extensively deal with pursuing religious life, overcoming obstacles in religious life, achieving inner peace and harmony, and attaining religious experience. Spiritual seekers can derive the much-needed inspiration and succour from these invaluable lectures.

Author : Albert DiIanni
Publisher : Saint Pauls/Alba House
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0818907169

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Religious Life as Adventure by Albert DiIanni Pdf

"Are religious congregations where God intended them to be when Vatican II invited them to change thirty some years ago? This is the question explored in some detail by one who has been in a unique to study the matter from a global as well as an American point of view for an extended number of years. What is the relationship of religion to religious life, the effect of modernity on the structures of the consecrated state, the practice of the three vows in a secular contect, the role of commitment, prayer and leadership? What about the need for vision? And where are new vocations coming from? ... Those looking for answers as well as analysis will find food for thought in this volume which is ultimately a manual of hope about religious life as adventure." [Back cover].

Author : Swami Yatiswaranda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1982-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0874814987

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Adventures in Religious Life by Swami Yatiswaranda Pdf

Author : Jane Christmas
Publisher : Greystone Books
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781553658009

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And Then There Were Nuns by Jane Christmas Pdf

“The best kind of memoir, revealing, refreshing, and reflective enough to make readers turn many of the questions on themselves.” —Booklist (starred review) With humor and opinions aplenty, a woman embarks on an unconventional quest to see if she is meant to be a nun. Just as Jane Christmas decides to enter a convent in mid-life to find out whether she is “nun material,” her long-term partner Colin, suddenly springs a marriage proposal on her. Determined not to let her monastic dreams be sidelined, Christmas puts her engagement on hold and embarks on an extraordinary year-long adventure to four convents—one in Canada and three in the UK. In these communities of cloistered nuns and monks, she shares—and at times chafes and rails against—the silent, simple existence she has sought all of her life. Christmas takes this spiritual quest seriously, but her story is full of the candid insights, humorous social faux pas, profane outbursts, and epiphanies that make her books so relatable and popular. And Then There Were Nuns offers a seldom-seen look inside modern cloistered life, and it is sure to ruffle more than a few starched collars among the ecclesiastical set. “A lovely, heartfelt tale. Get thee to a bookstore and buy it.” —A. J. Jacobs, New York Times bestselling author of The Year of Living Biblically “In fluid and often playful prose, she introduces women and men (she spent a week at a monastery on the Isle of Wight) who have devoted their lives to prayer, including a skydiving 90-year-old nun.” —Maclean’s

Author : Robert P. Vande Kappelle
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725263901

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Adventures in Spirituality by Robert P. Vande Kappelle Pdf

Contrary to popular culture, the goal of life is not happiness, but meaning. Those who seek happiness by trying to avoid or finesse conflict, suffering, doubt, and change will find life increasingly superficial. Feeling good is a flawed measure of life, but living meaningfully is transformative, for then one is living a developmental rather than a regressive agenda. The ego does whatever it can to make itself comfortable, whereas spirituality is about wholeness. Adventures in Spirituality represents the culmination of Dr. Vande Kappelle's forty-year teaching career, incorporating in one volume his views on topics as varied as theology, Christology, biblical interpretation, spirituality, ethics, world religions, religion and science, faith and reason, and church history. Reared in Costa Rica, the son of missionary parents, Dr. Vande Kappelle describes his journey from belief to faith as a transition from precritical to postcritical understanding, from evangelical Christianity to what he calls "alternative orthodoxy." Narrating the shift from first- to second-half-of-life experience, he introduces readers to core principles that shaped his values, thinking, and way of life. Useful for individual or group study, Adventures in Spirituality encourages readers to take risks with their lives and faith, affirming that this is how one grows spiritually.

Author : Dan Kimball
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310313786

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Adventures in Churchland by Dan Kimball Pdf

Would Jesus Attend Church Today? Among the top ten trends that are changing American life, Time magazine recently listed a rising dissatisfaction with organized religion. Though many people today like Jesus, they are growing tired of traditional religious institutions. Even those who follow Jesus aren't so sure they always like what Christianity and the church represent. For many years, Dan Kimball would have agreed, until an encounter with a small group of Jesus followers started him on a journey that challenged him to rethink everything he had ever assumed about the church. In Adventures in Churchland, Dan invites you to join him as he uncovers what the Bible really says about the church and reminds us that it's more than just an institution; it's a beautiful mess of broken people learning to follow Jesus together. As you journey with Dan, you'll begin to see the church as Jesus intended it to be: a community of forgiven misfits coming together to serve the world around them with passion, creativity, innovation, and grace. "If you don’t like the church, or if you’re thinking about leaving, please read this book first. Dan’s stories will make you laugh, make you think, and make you appreciate the church like never before." – Mark Batterson, author of The Circle Maker "Dan encourages us to break through the tension and messiness that church communities inevitably encounter to experience the beauty of being in community and sharing God's infinite love with others." – Zach Lind, drummer, Jimmy Eat World "I am so glad that my friend Dan has written this book, because there is a lot of confusion out there about Jesus and the church." – Wanda Jackson, Queen of Rockabilly and member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781684483327

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Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World by Daniel Defoe Pdf

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.

Author : Kevin O'Brien
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829435788

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The Ignatian Adventure by Kevin O'Brien Pdf

Updated and Includes a New Preface from the Author Embark on the spiritual ADVENTURE of a lifetime. There's no better guide than St. Ignatius of Loyola for people who want to enliven their faith, discover their purpose, and make better decisions in their life. In this revised edition of The Ignatian Adventure, Kevin O'Brien, SJ, offers a unique way of experiencing the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius in daily life. With O'Brien as our navigator, we adventure through 32 weeks of prayer and meditations that draw us into a deeper encounter with God. What sets this book apart from other Ignatian retreats is how O'Brien incorporates the timeless counsel of wisdom figures throughout the ages and personal stories about living the Exercises in everyday life. O'Brien makes it easy to see how these teachings intersect with the real world. The Ignatian Adventure is an ideal resource for spiritual directors. Its user-friendly style also makes it the perfect book for anyone seeking a better understanding of Ignatian spirituality and a richer prayer life.

Author : Lawrence Cada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Monastic and religious life
ISBN : 0816404259

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Shaping the Coming Age of Religious Life by Lawrence Cada Pdf

Author : Norman Vincent Peale
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781504023214

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The Positive Power of Jesus Christ by Norman Vincent Peale Pdf

Inspiring stories of the transformative power of the Savior’s love in today’s world from the bestselling author of The Power of Positive Thinking. One of the most inspirational and influential spiritual leaders of the 20th century, minister and bestselling author Norman Vincent Peale transformed the lives of millions worldwide with his groundbreaking book, The Power of Positive Thinking. In The Positive Power of Jesus Christ, the revered pastor of the world-famous Marble Collegiate Church proclaims his unshakable faith in Christ the Savior with inspiring stories of healing and hope, of the ways in which his life and the lives of others were profoundly touched by the holy hand of God’s Son. In this beautiful, everlasting work, Dr. Peale contends that, “positive thinking really means a faith attitude . . . [and] only faith can turn the life around.” In sharing these thrilling true accounts of people from all walks of life who have experienced the positive saving power of Christ—including his own powerful witnessing of the Savior’s work—Peale offers a humble tribute to our blessed Lord, demonstrating the many ways in which His love can truly change the world.

Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781451416046

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Adventures in the Spirit by Philip Clayton Pdf

In Adventures in the Spirit, respected and influential theologian Philip Clayton argues that two major intellectual movements of our day-panentheism and emergence-are converging and that together they offer exciting new vistas for theological reflection. On the one hand, over the last decades many theologians have been re-conceiving the God-world relation panentheistically, affirming a radical indwelling of God within the world and the world within God. On the other hand, scientists have begun to abandon the reductionist ideology that characterized much of the modern period, with a new emphasis on emergence. Their study of how new, novel structures and entities arise throughout the evolutionary process yields a much more open-ended, holistic vision of reality, Clayton argues.

Author : A Compilation
Publisher : Sri Ramakrishna Math
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Swami Yatiswarananda As We Knew Him-Volume 2 by A Compilation Pdf

‘As I grow older’, said Swami Vivekananda, ‘I find that I look more and more for greatness in little things. I want to know what a great man eats and wears, and how he speaks to his servants [and so on].’ This book presents an intimate picture of Revered Swami Yatiswarananda Maharaj, one such spiritually great man in the Order of Monks founded by Swami Vivekananda—the Ramakrishna Order (popularly known as Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission). This volume does this by putting together the reminiscences of monks, initiated lay devotees or even casual visitors or people who heard his lectures as well as some of the personal letters and instructions he wrote or gave and other related material.

Author : Stefan Waidelich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798598197394

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The Adventures of Clara and Anton by Stefan Waidelich Pdf

Dark days have fallen upon the once magnificent kingdom of Eden. In the midst of the chaos, a girl called Clara, abandoned by her family, grows up among wild robbers. When the little misfit meets a boy in the woods, she has no idea of the fabulous adventure she is about to embark on - an adventure that will transform not only her, but the entire kingdom. Are you ready to join Clara and Anton on their dangerous journey? "A world as exciting as Narnia or Middle Earth, full of wonders, evil robbers and dragons, into which one inevitably dives while reading."Luise Esau "Impressive, fascinating, captivating! A heartwarming fairy tale."Daniel Huber Stefan Waidelich unleashes heart-pounding literary pleasure with his debut children's fantasy book. From the musician of the European band Normal Generation, known from radio and television, comes a breathtaking, deeply moving story about the value of life, the joy of finding oneself, and the strength and magic with which love empowers us.For children five years and up. Click on "Buy now" and enter the wonderful world of Clara and Anton.

Author : Horace Banner
Publisher : Christian Focus
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1857926277

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Rain Forest Adventures by Horace Banner Pdf

Discover what it's like to actually live in the rain forest. Experience the exciting and dangerous life of a pioneer missionary in South America.

Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780520315228

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British Autobiographies by William Matthews Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.