Desires In Paradise

Author : Adam Trettel
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,8 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 : Kristiana Kahakauwila
Publisher : Hogarth
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780770436254

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This Is Paradise by Kristiana Kahakauwila Pdf

Elegant, brutal, and profound—this magnificent debut captures the grit and glory of modern Hawai'i with breathtaking force and accuracy. In a stunning collection that announces the arrival of an incredible talent, Kristiana Kahakauwila travels the islands of Hawai'i, making the fabled place her own. Exploring the deep tensions between local and tourist, tradition and expectation, façade and authentic self, This Is Paradise provides an unforgettable portrait of life as it’s truly being lived on Maui, Oahu, Kaua'i and the Big Island. In the gut-punch of “Wanle,” a beautiful and tough young woman wants nothing more than to follow in her father’s footsteps as a legendary cockfighter. With striking versatility, the title story employs a chorus of voices—the women of Waikiki—to tell the tale of a young tourist drawn to the darker side of the city’s nightlife. “The Old Paniolo Way” limns the difficult nature of legacy and inheritance when a patriarch tries to settle the affairs of his farm before his death. Exquisitely written and bursting with sharply observed detail, Kahakauwila’s stories remind us of the powerful desire to belong, to put down roots, and to have a place to call home.

Author : Sean Pryor
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409406601

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W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise by Sean Pryor Pdf

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention.

Author : Jenny Hval
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781804294529

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Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval Pdf

"As intriguing and impressive a novelist as she is a musician, Hval is a master of quiet horror and wonder.” —Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. In a house with no walls, shared with a woman who has no boundaries, she finds her strange home coming to life in unimaginable ways. Jo’s sensitivity and all her senses become increasingly heightened and fraught, as the lines between bodies and plants, dreaming and wakefulness, blur and mesh. This debut novel from critically acclaimed artist and musician Jenny Hval presents a heady and hyper-sensual portrayal of sexual awakening and queer desire.

Author : Warren Felt Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Paradise
ISBN : UCD:31175005144103

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The Happy Islands, Or, Paradise Restored by Warren Felt Evans Pdf

Author : islam
Publisher : IslamKotob
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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This is our Aqeedah by islam Pdf

Author : Peter Matthiessen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698161764

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In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen Pdf

The bestselling final novel by a writer of incomparable range, power, and achievement, a three-time winner of the National Book Award. Peter Matthiessen was a literary legend, the author of more than thirty acclaimed books. In this, his final novel, he confronts the legacy of evil, and our unquenchable desire to wrest good from it. One week in late autumn of 1996, a group gathers at the site of a former death camp. They offer prayer at the crematoria and meditate in all weathers on the selection platform. They eat and sleep in the sparse quarters of the Nazi officers who, half a century before, sent more than a million Jews in this camp to their deaths. Clements Olin has joined them, in order to complete his research on the strange suicide of a survivor. As the days pass, tensions both political and personal surface among the participants, stripping away any easy pretense to resolution or healing. Caught in the grip of emotions and impulses of bewildering intensity, Olin is forced to abandon his observer’s role and to bear witness, not only to his family’s ambiguous history but to his own. Profoundly thought-provoking, In Paradise is a fitting coda to the luminous career of a writer who was “for all readers. He was for the world” (National Geographic).

Author : John Milton,Gustave Doré
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019070595

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Paradise Lost, Book 3 by John Milton,Gustave Doré Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Colleen Ballerino Cohen
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813550312

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Take Me to My Paradise by Colleen Ballerino Cohen Pdf

The British Virgin Islands (BVI) markets itself to international visitors as a paradise. But just whose paradise is it? Colleen Ballerino Cohen looks at the many players in the BVI tourism culture, from the tourists who leave their graffiti at beach bars that are popularized in song, to the waiters who serve them and the singers who entertain them. Interweaving more than twenty years of field notes, Cohen provides a firsthand analysis of how tourism transformed the BVI from a small neglected British colony to a modern nation that competes in a global economic market. With its close reading of everything from advertisements to political manifestos and constitutional reforms, Take Me to My Paradise deepens our understanding of how nationalism develops hand-in-hand with tourism, and documents the uneven impact of economic prosperity upon different populations. We hear multiple voices, including immigrants working in a tourism economy, nationalists struggling to maintain some control, and the anthropologist trying to make sense of it all. The result is a richly detailed and accessible ethnography on the impact of tourism on a country that came into being as a tourist destination.

Author : David Lodge
Publisher : Random House
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781446496749

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Paradise News by David Lodge Pdf

Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feels more like purgatory than paradise. Surrounded by quarrelling honeymooners, a freeloading anthropologist and assorted tourists in search of their own personal paradise, and with his father whisked off to hospital after an unfortunate accident, Bernard is beginning to regret ever coming to Haiwaii. Until, that is, he stumbles on something he had given up hope of finding: the astonishing possibility of love.

Author : James Buchanan Wallace
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9783110247848

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Snatched Into Paradise (2 Cor 12:1-10) by James Buchanan Wallace Pdf

In 2 Corinthians 12:1-10, Paul claims to have been snatched into paradise but then tells how he received a "thorn in the flesh". Many recent scholars contend that Paul belittles ecstatic experiences such as the ascent to paradise. This monograph places 2 Corinthians 12:1-10 in the contexts of ancient ascent traditions as well as other accounts of extraordinary religious experience in Paul's letters, and it engages premodern interpretation of the ascent. This study argues that for Paul, extraordinary experiences such as the ascent enable self-transcending love for God and neighbors.

Author : David A. Michelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780192573285

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The Library of Paradise by David A. Michelson Pdf

Contemplative reading is a spiritual practice developed by Christian monks in sixth- and seventh-century Mesopotamia. Mystics belonging to the Church of the East pursued a form of contemplation which moved from reading, to meditation, to prayer, to the ecstasy of divine vision. The Library of Paradise tells the story of this Syriac tradition in three phases: its establishment as an ascetic practice, the articulation of its theology, and its maturation and spread. The sixth-century monastic reform of Abraham of Kashkar codified the essential place of reading in East Syrian ascetic life. Once established, the practice of contemplative reading received extensive theological commentary. Abraham's successor Babai the Great drew upon the ascetic system of Evagrius of Pontus to explain the relationship of reading to the monk's pursuit of God. Syriac monastic handbooks of the seventh century built on this Evagrian framework. 'Enanisho' of Adiabene composed an anthology called Paradise that would stand for centuries as essential reading matter for Syriac monks. Dadisho' of Qatar wrote a widely copied commentary on the Paradise. Together, these works circulated as a one-volume library which offered readers a door to "Paradise" through contemplation. The Library of Paradise is the first book-length study of East Syrian contemplative reading. It adapts methodological insights from prior scholarship on reading, including studies on Latin lectio divina. By tracing the origins of East Syrian contemplative reading, this study opens the possibility for future investigation into its legacies, including the tradition's long reception history in Sogdian, Arabic, and Ethiopic monastic libraries.

Author : Paul Backholer
Publisher : ByFaith Media
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781907066320

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Heaven – A Journey to Paradise and the Heavenly City by Paul Backholer Pdf

Enter into and witness an inspirational journey to heaven. Discover what life will be like in the realm of light and love, free from suffering and pain! Join one person’s exploration of paradise, guided by an angel and a glorified man, to witness the thrilling promise of eternity, and to provide answers to many questions about heaven, to illuminate and encourage. Paul Backholer is a British broadcaster and the founder of ByFaith Media (www.ByFaith.org). He is the director of ByFaith TV which airs on multiple platforms around the world and is the producer of several Christian documentaries. Paul is the author of How Christianity Made the Modern World, The Exodus Evidence and The Ark of the Covenant – Investigating the Ten Leading Claims. Paul studied in a British Bible college in the 1990s and has travelled to over forty nations on Christian endeavours.

Author : John Gierach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fly fishing
ISBN : 0684824248

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Another Lousy Day in Paradise by John Gierach Pdf

The highly acclaimed author of Dances with Trout, Even Brook Trout Get the Blues, and Sex, Death, and Fly-Fishing presents more whimsical musings on the fishing life. Another Lousy Day in Paradise offers Gierach's writing at its vintage best--as "human and witty and memorable and perceptive as any prose of its kind" (Nick Lyons). Line drawings.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0023726581

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The Vision; Or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise ... Translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary ... A New Edition, Corrected. With the Life of Dante, Chronological View of His Age, Additional Notes, and Index by Dante Alighieri Pdf