Demonic Foes

Author : Everest Media,
Publisher : Everest Media LLC
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28T22:59:00Z
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781669393894

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Summary of Richard Gallagher, M.D.'s Demonic Foes by Everest Media, Pdf

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 I was raised in the suburbs of New York City, and I was instilled with a deep Yankee skepticism towards the idea of a devil or demonic possession. I learned in school an American pride and patriotism, and I was later to reflect that I had an easy dismissal of Old World habits and beliefs. #2 I became fascinated with psychosomatic medicine, the vagaries of our complex immune system, and the enormous power of our brains upon the state of our physiology. I filed away the incident in my mind, and when I returned home, I planned on going to medical school. #3 The case of Loudun, France, in which several Ursuline nuns claimed to be possessed by demons, was a sensation. It remains controversial today. To draw the same simple conclusion as Lhermitte, one would need to discount a good deal of the contemporary records. #4 I became interested in the mysterious psychic phenomena, and I decided to study them scientifically. I was not interested in the hostility I might receive from my colleagues for studying this topic.

Author : Richard Gallagher, M.D.
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062876461

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Demonic Foes by Richard Gallagher, M.D. Pdf

The world’s leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession delves into the hidden world of exorcisms and his own transformation from cynic to believer over the course of his twenty-five-year career. Successful New York psychiatrist Richard Gallagher was skeptical yet intrigued when a hard-nosed, no-nonsense Catholic priest asked him to examine a woman for a possible exorcism. Meeting her, Gallagher was astonished. The woman’s behavior defied logic. In an instant, she could pinpoint a person’s secret weaknesses. She knew how individuals she’d never known had died, including Gallagher’s own mother, who passed away after a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. She spoke fluently in multiple languages, including Latin—but only when she was in a trance. This was not psychosis, Gallagher concluded. It was, in his scientific estimation, what could only be describe as paranormal ability. The woman wasn’t mentally disturbed—she was possessed. This remarkable case was the first of many that Gallagher would encounter. Sought after today by leaders of all faiths—ministers, priests, rabbis and imams, Gallagher has spent a quarter-century studying demonic activity and exorcisms throughout history and has witnessed more cases than any other psychiatrist in the world today. In this eerie and enthralling book, Gallagher chronicles his most famous cases for the first time, including: A professional who claimed her spiritualist mother had “assigned” her a spirit who “turned on her.” A petite woman—”90 pounds soaking wet”—who threw a 200-pound Lutheran deacon across the room to the horror of onlookers in a church hall; And “Julia,” the so-called Satanic queen and self-described witch, who exhibited “the most harrowing” case, a “once-in-a-century” possession. Going beyond horror movies and novels, Demonic Foes takes you deep into this hidden world, sharing in full details of these true-life tales of demonic possession.

Author : Hazel Johannessen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198787242

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The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea by Hazel Johannessen Pdf

"The Demonic in the Political Thought of Eusebius of Caesarea" explores how Eusebius of Caesarea's ideas about demons interacted with and helped to shape his thought on other topics, particularly political topics. Hazel Johannessen builds on and complements recent work on early Christian and early modern demonology. Eusebius' political thought has long drawn the attention of scholars who have identified in some of his works the foundations of later Byzantine theories of kingship. However, Eusebius' political thought has not previously been examined in the light of his views on demons. Moreover, despite frequent references to demons throughout many of Eusebius' works, there has been no comprehensive study of Eusebius' views on demons, until now, as expressed throughout a range of his works. The originality of this study lies both in an initial examination of Eusebius' views on demons and their place in his cosmology, and in the application of the insights derived from this to consideration of his political thought. As a result of this new perspective, Johannessen challenges scholars' traditional characterization of Eusebius as a triumphal optimist. Instead, she draws attention to his concerns about a continuing demonic threat, capable of disrupting humankind's salvation, and presents Eusebius as a more cautious figure than the one familiar to late antique scholarship. - back of book

Author : Travis W. Proctor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780197581162

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Demonic Bodies and the Dark Ecologies of Early Christian Culture by Travis W. Proctor Pdf

"Drawing insights from gender studies and the environmental humanities, Demonic Bodies analyzes how ancient Christians constructed the Christian body through its relations to demonic adversaries. Case studies on New Testament texts, early Christian church fathers, and "Gnostic" writings trace how early followers of Jesus construed the demonic body in diverse and sometimes contradictory ways, as both embodied and bodiless, "fattened" and ethereal, heavenly and earthbound. Across this diversity of portrayals, however, demons consistently functiond as personfications of "deviant" bodily practices such as "magical" rituals, immoral sexual acts, gluttony, and "pagan" religious practices. This demonization served an exclusionary function whereby Christian writers marginalized fringe Christian groups by linking their ritual activities to demonic modes of (dis)embodiment. Demonic Bodies demonstrates, therefore, that the formation of early Christian cultures was part of the shaping of broader Christian "ecosystems," which in turn informed Christian experiences of their own embodiment and community"--

Author : Dr. Denise Perry Abrams
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512751352

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Private Enemy by Dr. Denise Perry Abrams Pdf

So There you have it what the battle is over, Satan if allowed control will intentionally and unrelentingly bring about your death but by you own hands, (suicide), as he did Adam in the beginning. The bible says Satan was a murderer in the beginning. However, Adam was accountable for his own death and for his involvement of manslaughter (causing a person death without intent) for the entire human race, Romans 5:12 because he chose to disobey God. We are held accountable for our decisions the choices of death and life are before us every day. Even now as Satan skillfully orchestrates the fall and (death) of mankind as he did in the beginning, God has already provided a remedy in the second Adam (Jesus Christ) and again the decision is ours Lets choose Life this time. ( 1Corinthians 15:22)

Author : Richard Gallagher, M.D.
Publisher : HarperOne
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0062876473

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Demonic Foes by Richard Gallagher, M.D. Pdf

The world’s leading psychiatric authority on demonic possession delves into the hidden world of exorcisms and his own transformation from cynic to believer over the course of his twenty-five-year career. Successful New York psychiatrist Richard Gallagher was skeptical yet intrigued when a hard-nosed, no-nonsense Catholic priest asked him to examine a woman for a possible exorcism. Meeting her, Gallagher was astonished. The woman’s behavior defied logic. In an instant, she could pinpoint a person’s secret weaknesses. She knew how individuals she’d never known had died, including Gallagher’s own mother, who passed away after a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. She spoke fluently in multiple languages, including Latin—but only when she was in a trance. This was not psychosis, Gallagher concluded. It was, in his scientific estimation, what could only be describe as paranormal ability. The woman wasn’t mentally disturbed—she was possessed. This remarkable case was the first of many that Gallagher would encounter. Sought after today by leaders of all faiths—ministers, priests, rabbis and imams, Gallagher has spent a quarter-century studying demonic activity and exorcisms throughout history and has witnessed more cases than any other psychiatrist in the world today. In this eerie and enthralling book, Gallagher chronicles his most famous cases for the first time, including: A professional who claimed her spiritualist mother had “assigned” her a spirit who “turned on her.” A petite woman—”90 pounds soaking wet”—who threw a 200-pound Lutheran deacon across the room to the horror of onlookers in a church hall; And “Julia,” the so-called Satanic queen and self-described witch, who exhibited “the most harrowing” case, a “once-in-a-century” possession. Going beyond horror movies and novels, Demonic Foes takes you deep into this hidden world. As he shares in full these true-life tales of demonic possession, Gallagher also explains his own change from doubter to believer.

Author : Adam Stewart
Publisher : Northern Illinois University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501757105

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Handbook of Pentecostal Christianity by Adam Stewart Pdf

Author : JONATHAN L. ZECHER
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198854135

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Spiritual Direction As a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism by JONATHAN L. ZECHER Pdf

What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? To explore these questions, this study shows how several early Christian writers applied the logic, knowledge, and practices of Galenic medicine to develop their own practices of spiritual direction. Evagrius reads dream images as diagnostic indicators of the soul's state. John Cassian crafts a nosology of the soul using lists of passions while diagnosing the causes of wet dreams. Basil of Caesarea pits the spiritual director against the physician in a competition over diagnostic expertise. John Climacus crafts pathologies of passions through demonic family trees, while equipping his spiritual director with a physician's toolkit and imagining the monastic space as a vast clinic. These different appropriations of medical logic and metaphors not only show us the thought-world of late antique monasticism, but they would also have decisive consequences for generations of Christian subjects who would learn to see themselves as sick or well, patients or healers, within monastic communities.

Author : Oliver Larry Yarbrough
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506400471

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Engaging the Passion by Oliver Larry Yarbrough Pdf

Engaging the Passion gathers an impressive array of scholars to survey how the death of Jesus has been portrayed and represented in Scripture, liturgy and music, literature, art and film, and theology and ethics—from the first to the twenty-first centuries. The contributors approach the passion from a variety of perspectives—diversely Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and secular. Their voices differ as well, from the challenging to the comforting and from the academic to the confessional. They address the faithful, the skeptical, and the curious.

Author : Roel C. Nedd
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781466956490

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The Changing of the Guard by Roel C. Nedd Pdf

For the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two edged sword piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intent of the heart. (Hebrew 4:12) THE WAR AGAINST RULING SPIRITS The CURSE MUST BREAK! DEMONS SHALL FLEE OR BE UPROOTED DEMON SHATTERING PRAYER POINTS THE CHANGING OF THE GUARD IS AN INSPIRED, INSPIRATIONAL, INFLUENTIAL, STUDY MANUAL AND A WITNESSING AND DELIVERANCE TOOL THAT EMPHASIZES THE NECESSITY FOR SPIRITUAL REFORM. IT GRANTS GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF SALVATIONS PLAN AND HELPS BELIEVERS TO SEE THE BIG PICTURE AND TO UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE AS IT IS WRITTEN. MANY SHALL BE PULLED OUT OF THE DUMPSTER BEING GIVEN A FUTURE AND A HOPE. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight and the rough places plain. (Isaiah 40:4)

Author : Sara Ronis
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520386174

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Demons in the Details by Sara Ronis Pdf

The Babylonian Talmud is full of stories of demonic encounters, and it also includes many laws that attempt to regulate such encounters. In this book, Sara Ronis takes the reader on a journey across the rabbinic canon, exploring how late antique rabbis imagined, feared, and controlled demons. Ronis contextualizes the Talmud's thought within the rich cultural matrix of Sasanian Babylonia, placing rabbinic thinking in conversation with Sumerian, Akkadian, Ugaritic, Syriac Christian, Zoroastrian, and Second Temple Jewish texts about demons to delve into the interactive communal context in which the rabbis created boundaries between the human and the supernatural, and between themselves and other religious communities. Demons in the Details explores the wide range of ways that the rabbis participated in broader discussions about beliefs and practices with their neighbors, out of which they created a profoundly Jewish demonology.

Author : Keith Warrington
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567044525

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Pentecostal Theology by Keith Warrington Pdf

An introduction to the subject of Pentecostal theology, by a leading scholar in the field.

Author : Shandon L. Guthrie
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666727272

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The Conqueror’s Tread by Shandon L. Guthrie Pdf

For many Christians, the concept of spiritual warfare involves scenarios that are often enchanting, extravagant, and even parapsychological. Hard-lined skeptics respond by treating it instead as an archaic and outmoded superstition--a farce. While we might think a simple reading of Scripture will settle the matter, this has not been the case since those writing on the subject are (tacitly) influenced by dubious philosophical commitments and presuppositions left unchecked. This groundbreaking book incorporates philosophical reasoning in formulating for the everyday Christian a robust biblical doctrine of spiritual warfare. It is a serious but readable attempt to understand what spiritual warfare is by addressing both the theological and philosophical issues involved. The Conqueror's Tread dares to take a reasoned approach to pressing questions such as: -Do supernatural beings really exist? If so, what are they and what can they do? -Are there territorial spirits? -Is exorcism a part of spiritual warfare? -Does spiritual warfare involve speaking aloud, prayerwalking, and breaking curses? -What can evil spirits do to Christians? Can Christians be demon-possessed? -Why would God allow his people to be in a state of conflict with evil spirits? -What is Christian holiness and how do we pursue it? -What role does apologetics have? and many more!

Author : James Combs
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443806862

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Movie Time by James Combs Pdf

Movie Time is a study of temporal mythmaking in American popular movies. The work is rooted in American pragmatic philosophy and contemporary traditions of inquiry in the social sciences and humanities. It proceeds on the premise that social beings and social orders are interested in the mediation of time, and attempt to make sense of their present world through the reconstruciton of important pasts of interest in the present, develop new presents with the help of popular expressions which define new situations and responses for a new time, and foresee possible futures which impinge upon life in the here-and-now. In particular, the work focuses on the subsequent treatment of the American 1950's in films set in that era, beginning in the 1970's and continuing, with an effort to create a rough taxonomy of mythemes in such retrospective films, and why it is that future times would find the Fifties to be so important that people wish to revisit it. Too, the mediation of time includes the development of a new present, in this case the emergence of conservatism as a social force in the 1970's and beyond. The movies were an important form of expression in the dramatization of the conservative myth, leading to the pervasion of conservative leaders and ideologies into the new century. Finally, the unrealized but imminent future of the country and world was increasingly on people's minds, as both millennial hopes and fears and unanticipated threats began to emerge at century's end, so movies which anticipated alternative futures appeared in response to that prospective interest. It is hoped that this present inquiry will stimulate further work on the social relevance of popular expression and in particular the social mediation of time.

Author : J. P. Moreland
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310124207

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A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles by J. P. Moreland Pdf

Does God Still Do Miracles Today? A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles will give you confidence in and awareness of the supernatural realm as you learn how to flourish spiritually by experiencing more miraculous interventions in your life and ministry. Internationally renowned philosopher J. P. Moreland looks at the nature of miracles and explains why bearing and receiving credible testimony to God's miraculous acts is a crucial feature of a mature Jesus-follower. He also shows how to distinguish a real miracle from a mere coincidence. Miracles bring comfort to believers, strengthening faith in God and creating boldness in our lives. While miraculous healings have occurred frequently throughout church history, Moreland provides data showing how the last fifty years have seen a massive outbreak of miracles and supernatural activity. Today, he argues, the church should humbly expect to see more of these miraculous works of God than we do. Moreland looks at topics like: The relationship between sickness and suffering, along with two different ways to pray for healing How to discern clearly the difference between a genuine miracle and a mere coincidence How to increase your faith that petitionary prayer really works and what to make of unanswered prayer Six ways God speaks to us and advice for hearing God wisely and biblically The role angels play in our lives, how they appear to us, and how to combat demonic influence The biblical basis for most Near-Death Experiences and what we can learn from them A Simple Guide to Experience Miracles increases your expectation and hope that God can and often does miraculously intervene to bring help and comfort. Moreland shows that it makes rational sense to step out and engage in employing Kingdom power and to strengthen courage to witness and act on behalf of the gospel of Jesus. Filled with inspiring, credible, motivating accounts of miracles, he covers five different kinds of supernatural activities and provides practical wisdom about how to begin practices such as healing prayer and learning to deal with the demonic.