City Of Desires A Place For God

Author : Reinder Ruard Ganzevoort,Rein Brouwer,Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783643903075

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City of Desires - a Place for God? by Reinder Ruard Ganzevoort,Rein Brouwer,Bonnie J. Miller-McLemore Pdf

Originating at the 2011 conference of the International Academy of Practical Theology in Amsterdam, this volume explores the practical theological significance of desire. Although desire is central to many issues in practical theology and related disciplines, it is only rarely discussed under its own name. Three introductory chapters locate desire in concrete practices in the city and discuss the phenomenology, theology, and ethics of desire. Subsequent sections are organized around embodying desire, culturing desire, and transforming desire. The chapters include various kinds of desire, such as sexuality, consumerism, and spirituality. Perspectives from different contexts and religious traditions are offered in this rich and thought-provoking book. (Series: International Practical Theology - Vol. 16)

Author : Adam Trettel
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Emotions
ISBN : 3506792539

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Desires in Paradise by Adam Trettel Pdf

For Augustine, the pre-Fall Paradise was a life of tranquil love and joy. The post-Fall world is marked by loss of control over our bodies and emotions. But whatexactly happened in the Fall, and why? How does desire relate to man's disobedience, and is there any sense in which we can recover what Adam and Eve havelost?In treating City 14 as an integral whole, this study explores Augustine's critiquesof the Manichean and Platonist positions that the body is bad or evil, and discusseshis biblical doctrine of emotions in light of the two-cities theme. The entirestudy concerns topics germane to the paradisal situation: the theme of the PrimalFall and the will being 'spontaneous', the exploration of the disobedience ofthe genitals in all forms of sex, including married life, and the workings of Adamand Eve's hypothetical sexual experience in the pre-Fall world.

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433544293

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When I Don't Desire God by John Piper Pdf

Author : Carolyn Weber
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780830843848

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Sex and the City of God by Carolyn Weber Pdf

When Carolyn Weber moved to Oxford University to study, she didn't expect to find God there. But she did. As she grappled with her newest and most important relationship, she also found that there was another invitation: to think bigger about love. In this book we follow Weber through courtship and into marriage and parenthood. Now a literature professor, Weber reflects on her relationship with a sometimes-absent father and how that has shaped her. Through her personal story, as well as spiritual, theological, and literary reflection, Sex and the City of God explores what life looks like when we choose to love God first.

Author : Cynthia Egbujo
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781645699378

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The God That Desires Relationship and Fellowship by Cynthia Egbujo Pdf

Many Christians are unaware of the true nature of God and what he desires from humanity. The Lord loves the people he made so much that he desires their fellowship and oneness. The church have failed in exalting the true personality of the Holy Spirit and sometimes spend so much time preaching about the devil who is already a defeated foe. The Spirit of Christ, who is the bridegroom of believers, desires to fellowship with his bride, but how can this truly happen if many Christians lack the true knowledge of the Spirit of Jesus? This book gives a detailed experience of a true relationship with the Holy Spirit in a way that is rarely described today and provides a clear picture of how to enjoy fellowship with the Spirit of Jesus through spending time in his wonderful presence. It is a joyful experience to be loved by the Lord and truly experience that love not only spiritually but physically. Let all the brides of Christ say, "Come Lord, Jesus!"

Author : F C Gardiner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004627086

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The Pilgrimage of Desire by F C Gardiner Pdf

Author : Oliver O'Donovan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521665167

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The Desire of the Nations by Oliver O'Donovan Pdf

A new treatment of political theology - politically constructive and receptive to Christian tradition.

Author : Ellen G. White
Publisher : Bytes 4 the Heart
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Seventh-Day Adventists
ISBN : UVA:X030804230

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The Desire of Ages by Ellen G. White Pdf

Author : Philip Sheldrake
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780814647172

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Befriending Our Desires by Philip Sheldrake Pdf

Befriending Our Desires portrays the intimate connection between desire and the spiritual journey. Philip Sheldrake explores the role of desire in relation to God, prayer, sexuality, making choices, and responding to change.

Author : E. G. White
Publisher : Remnant Publications
Page : 943 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781629130002

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The Desire of Ages by E. G. White Pdf

More than six billion of us live on this planet now—growing rapidly toward seven billion. We’re separated by many differences: sex, race, religion, language, customs, and geography. Nevertheless, we also have some things in common. We breathe the same air. We all bleed the same red blood. We all need food, rest, and shelter. Oh, yes, we have one other thing familiar to each one of us—we all want happiness. Happiness—an elusive, sort of nebulous something that every one of us spends a lifetime pursuing. Some of us try to find it in things. We think that if only we could be rich, we’d be happy. When we’re rich, we have money. Money buys things, and things make us happy. Or do they? Others of us try to find happiness in becoming well-known—maybe even famous. If the masses adore us, surely, then we would be happy, right? Or maybe we look for happiness in being powerful and important, in plunging headlong into pleasure-seeking and entertainment, or in trying to find someone else who can make us happy. We want happiness. We crave it—all of us. Through all ages of history, we have desired it. Nevertheless, this inexpressible desire of all ages cannot be found in things, in fame, in power, in pleasure-seeking. It can be found only in a Person, and you can probably guess who that Person is. This book is His story. In Him is the end of your quest for happiness.

Author : Travis Wright
Publisher : Travis Wright
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615672977

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Spark*: A Dialogue About Creativity and God's Burning Desire to Light the World Through the Human Heart by Travis Wright Pdf

SPARK* is a dialogue about creativity. But this is not about creativity in the external sense of brainstorming or coming up with new ideas. It’s a discussion around the internal experience of creativity and what it means to be a creator. The fulfillment of creative inspiration is more of a reflex, a necessity, in the face of the internal friction and angst that exists within us, pressing us ever deeper into ourselves in our need to explore and expose what it is that is stirring inside us. The revelations of these urges pour themselves out through limitless mediums. This is not about mediums either. In our expressions of creativity there exists an experience much more profound than simply finding resolution. Creativity (and the outward acts of creation it demands) is full of fear and vulnerability. Creative resolution demands a terrifying, yet unavoidable, openness of the heart — a trust that there is purpose in the risk. This exposing of what lies within us leaves us naked before an unforgiving world. The humility of creation is so real, so overwhelming, it often brings us to our knees. Yet interwoven within this visceral, emotional experience of creativity is the reality of the soul that we have been created in the image of a Creator who is ever beckoning us. And the more we open ourselves to the depths of what it means to be a creator, the more we seem to find of Him — and in this intimacy, we begin to see how just as His creation speaks of His heart, our creativity does too.

Author : Samo Skralovnik
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793652881

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The Meaning and Interpretation of Desire in the Bible by Samo Skralovnik Pdf

The term desire in the Hebrew Bible covers a wide range of human longings, emotions, and cravings. The direct and explicit term of desire is nevertheless limited to only two roots found in the Decalogue—the verb forms of the lexical roots חמד and אוה, which reflect not only the dynamics of desire occurring in human beings, but also in God. With an comprehensive semantic analysis and an overview of the synonyms and antonyms, the author shows that the verb form of the lexical root אוה denotes a variety of needs related to human existence including aspiration for God while the verb form of the lexical root חמד denotes the desire to acquire material wealth and possessions beyond basic needs. All the findings are compared on two levels—in relation to human beings (objects and people) and in relation to God—and ultimately serve for the interpretation of the roots in both versions of the Decalogue (Exod 20:17 and Deut 5:21) to resolve questions concerning the meaning of the desire in Tenth Commandment and substantiate whether the answers to life’s questions provided by the Bible correspond to modern society.

Author : Mark J. Boone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793612038

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Augustine’s Preaching and the Healing of Desire in the Enarrationes in Psalmos by Mark J. Boone Pdf

In Augustine’s Preaching and the Healing of Desire in the Enarrationes in Psalmos, Mark J. Boone shows how Augustine expressed a Platonically informed yet distinctively Christian theology of desire, focused on the unity of Christ and the church, in these remarkable sermons and commentaries on the Psalms.

Author : James Sallis
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781930997677

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A City Equal to My Desire by James Sallis Pdf

From crimes of heart and crimes of violence, A CITY EQUAL TO MY DESIRE effortlessly guides you through the narrows of human existence in all its forms. In this selection of new stories, James Sallis, author of the acclaimed Lew Griffin series of detective novels, both entertains and engages the mind with stories that will linger in memory long after they've been experienced. "Sallis wants to take your experience of the world, mutate it to the edge of recognition, and then deliver it back before your eyes like a coin pulled from behind your earlobe. And in this way, he makes you see and feel, all over again, the meaning, the beauty-and, pointedly sometimes, the horror-of being human." Jack O'Connell from his introduction

Author : John Piper
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433537226

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Does God Desire All to Be Saved? by John Piper Pdf

Are There Two Wills in God? Divine Election and God's Desire for All to Be Saved In this short, theological essay, John Piper builds a scriptural case that God's unconditional election unto salvation is compatible with God's genuine desire and offer for all to be saved. Helping us to make sense of this seemingly paradoxical relationship, Piper wisely holds both truths in tension as he explores the Bible's teaching on this challenging topic, graciously responds to those who disagree, and motivates us to passionately proclaim the free offer of the gospel to all people.