Divine Love Life Love Human Love

Author : Jeff Levin,Stephen G. Post
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781599472492

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Divine Love by Jeff Levin,Stephen G. Post Pdf

The contributors to Divine Love cover a broad spectrum of world religions, comparing and contrasting approaches among Christians of several denominations, Jews, Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, and adherents of traditional African religions. Each chapter focuses on the definition and conceptual boundaries of divine love; its expression and experience; its instrumentality and salience; how it can become distorted, and how it has been made manifest or restored by great historic exemplars of altruism, compassion, and unlimited love. The ultimate aim for many of the world’s major faith traditions is to love and be loved by God—to live in connection with the Divine, in union with the Beloved, in reconciliation with the Ultimate. Religious scholars Jeff Levin and Stephen G. Post have termed this connection “divine love.” In their new collection of the same name, they have invited eight of the world’s preeminent religious scholars to share their perspectives on the what, how, and why of divine love. From this diverse gathering of perspectives emerges evidence that to love and to be loved by God, to enter into a mutual and covenantal relationship with the Divine, may well offer solutions to many of the current crises around the world. Only a loving relationship with the Source of being within the context of the great faith and wisdom traditions of the world can fully inform and motivate the acts of love, unity, justice, compassion, kindness, and mercy for all beings that are so desperately required to counter the toxic influences in the world. Contributors: William C. Chittick, Vigen Guroian, Ruben L. F. Habito, William K. Mahony, John S. Mbiti, Jacob Neusner, Clark H. Pinnock, and David Tracy.

Author : Thanh Tran
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1973602393

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Divine Love - Life Love - Human Love by Thanh Tran Pdf

Divine Love - Life Love - Human Love: My Mother Is My Aunt-in-Law is a practical, social, pastoral, spiritual, and theological novel. It is about the story of a girl who was brought up by her foster mother. She did not know that her foster mother was not her natural mother until the mother had passed away, because she had always loved and cared for her wholeheartedly, tenderly, and sincerely. From a girl who did not have much faith in God, the daughter had changed unbelievably to have strong faith in the Creator and to be willing and desiring to serve people around her. She decided to give her life to God by entering a convent to become a nun, and she also remained serving people tirelessly in her vocation as a doctor. The conversion of her life happened through the way she felt and understood the wonderful love of her foster and natural mothers for her and the unconditional love of God for her and for humanity. Through this story, the author wishes that the readers may be moved and begin to think about the grace and love of God for them and for the whole human race. He wants all people to slow down the ways they live their lives and learn to feel more, to feel more about others, about themselves, about life, about the meaning of their existence and living, and especially to feel more about God's love for them.

Author : Thanh Tran
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781973602385

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Divine Love – Life Love – Human Love by Thanh Tran Pdf

Divine Love Life Love Human Love: My Mother Is My Aunt-in-Law is a practical, social, pastoral, spiritual, and theological novel. It is about the story of a girl who was brought up by her foster mother. She did not know that her foster mother was not her natural mother until the mother had passed away, because she had always loved and cared for her wholeheartedly, tenderly, and sincerely. From a girl who did not have much faith in God, the daughter had changed unbelievably to have strong faith in the Creator and to be willing and desiring to serve people around her. She decided to give her life to God by entering a convent to become a nun, and she also remained serving people tirelessly in her vocation as a doctor. The conversion of her life happened through the way she felt and understood the wonderful love of her foster and natural mothers for her and the unconditional love of God for her and for humanity. Through this story, the author wishes that the readers may be moved and begin to think about the grace and love of God for them and for the whole human race. He wants all people to slow down the ways they live their lives and learn to feel more, to feel more about others, about themselves, about life, about the meaning of their existence and living, and especially to feel more about Gods love for them.

Author : Veronica Mary Rolf
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532674495

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Suddenly There is God by Veronica Mary Rolf Pdf

Suddenly There is God plunges us into the key stories of biblical characters who find themselves caught up in the divine-human drama. With unique insight, it relates these stories directly to the distinct stages of our own lives: being created, falling from grace, leaving the childhood ark, hearing God’s call, gaining freedom, embracing covenant, praying the psalms, learning forgiveness, choosing love, and expecting resurrection. The scenes unfold before our eyes like a riveting play or film, as we discover with astonishment how closely the progression of Old and New Testament stories reflects our own spiritual journey. Packed with historical content and written with dramatic intensity, Suddenly There is God suggests contemplative ways for us to nurture an ardent expectation of encountering God. By identifying with the biblical characters—their conflicts, difficult choices, and realizations—we recognize how divine presence continually breaks into our own life story. This book is a valuable resource for clergy, students, and spiritual seekers who long to experience the drama of sacred Scripture as deeply personal revelation.

Author : A. Helwa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1734231262

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Secrets of Divine Love Journal by A. Helwa Pdf

Secrets of Divine Love Journal is based on the award-winning and #1 international bestselling book, Secrets of Divine Love: A Spiritual Journey into the Heart of Islam. Through heart-centered reflections, insightful prompts, and thought-provoking questions, Secrets of Divine Love Journal can help you foster a deeper relationship with Allah by connecting you with the heart of your faith in a more intimate and inspiring way.The Secrets of Divine Love Journal connects you more deeply with Allah through exercises and questions designed to help you:* Experience the love of Allah: Discover divine love through inspiring stories, powerful verses from the Qur'an, and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh).* Connect with your faith: The journal is filled with a 100+ thought-provoking prompts designed to give you the space to feel, reflect and ultimately return to Allah.* Transform every moment into prayer: Each journaling session begins and ends with a prayer of gratitude with the intention of allowing you to experience the transformative power of prayer.* Create connection with your faith community: The questions and prompts within journal were written for both private contemplation and to be shared amongst friends or answered in book clubs.This journal will follow chapter-by-chapter the Secrets of Divine Love book. The journal has additional reflections, stories, and quotes while supplementing each chapter with reflective prompts alongside ample space for the reader to journal. Each chapter of the Secrets of Divine Love Journal starts with a quote from Secrets of Divine Love alongside a verse of the Qur'an followed by a story and reflection, an opening prayer, journal prompts, a quote to contemplate upon, and a closing prayer.This book will help you to reflect upon and enjoy your faith from a more holistic perspective. You will learn even more about the pillars, principles, and practices within the Islamic tradition through the Qur'an, hadith, spiritual teaching stories, and sayings from mystics like Imam Ghazali, Ibn Arabi, Rumi and countless others.

Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781625583932

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Divine Love and Wisdom by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf

In Divine Love and Wisdom, Swedenborg uses reason and empirical facts to prove the existence of God and God's divine love. He further posits that we are all an essential part of God's Divine plan, and that without us God's plan could not come to fruition.

Author : Edward Collins Vacek, SJ
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158901362X

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Love, Human and Divine by Edward Collins Vacek, SJ Pdf

Although the two great commandments to love God and to love our neighbors as ourselves are central to Christianity, few theologians or spiritual writers have undertaken an extensive account of the meaning and forms of these loves. Most accounts, in fact, make love of God and love of self either impossible or immoral. Integrating these two commandments, Edward Vacek, SJ, develops an original account of love as the theological foundation for Christian ethics. Vacek criticizes common understandings of agape, eros, and philia, examining the arguments of Aquinas, Nygren, Outka, Rahner, Scheler, and other theologians and philosophers. He defines love as an emotional, affirmative participation in the beloved's real and ideal goodness, and he extends this definition to the love between God and self. Vacek proposes that the heart of Christian moral life is loving cooperation with God in a mutually perfecting friendship.

Author : Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532662799

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Divine Love by Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon Pdf

In this book, visual and poetic emblems of God’s love, created by Otto van Veen and Jeanne Guyon, symbolically represent spiritual meaning and, as such, offer a gift of revealed strength and purpose to the aware reader. In our age, when love seems almost forgotten, this emblem book uniting Guyon’s poetry and D’Othon Vaenius’s illustrations give us a faithful look into what might be. What if Divine love becomes part of the human endeavor and joins to human souls? Otto van Veen and Jeanne de la Mothe Guyon internalized this hope and here reveal to us their vision of the love of God bonding and becoming one with the human soul. Translated into English for the first time here, these emblems of divine love become available to postmodern readers.

Author : Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781387992188

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The Padgett Messages-Soulful Teachings Living with Divine Love- by Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold Pdf

Between the years 1914-1920 James E. Padgett received spirit communications that introduce the Divine Love and natural love that are connected with teachings relating to the mortal soul, God and the spirit world. When James himself passed into his spirit-life his friend Eugene Morgan received 3 known communications from James 1923-1925. In the year 2017, the message of Divine Love continues as James conveys spirit-life experience that relates with his experiences as a man receiving spirit communication and now as a spirit living with Divine Love in his spirit-life in the spirit world. There is at present a worldwide readership of The Padgett Messages and now we are fortunate to have James the receiver and James the conveyer along with all the spirits who have contributed toward the realisation and fulfilment when living with Divine Love and perfecting our natural love. The Padgett Messages 1914-1920 and 2017-2018 provide a great reach of love that is an example for us all.

Author : Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781304692993

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The Divine Universe, The book of love by Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold Pdf

The Divine Universe, The book of love was first published in 2013 as a hardcover with gold embossed linen and dust jacket. A beautiful book for the book lover. Now we are pleased to introduce the soft cover book of these spirit communications. This book is a work of spirit communication that introduces themes of Love and Spirit relating with the Natural love of man and the Divine Love of God. The Padgett Messages, also a book of spirit communication was received by James E. Padgett 1914-1923. The Divine Universe extends the experience and vision of the Divine Love from the messages that James received. The Divine Universe introduces the workings of the soul, the spirit body, human evolution of the personality and how this evolution transitions from a human life into spirit life. The vision of harmony, Immortality, and living Divine Love is conveyed by the spirits with illumination and a sense of wonder that introduces the living potential of love for us all.

Author : Roberta Grimes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1737410729

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Liberating Jesus by Roberta Grimes Pdf

Roberta Grimes spent decades studying nearly 200 years of afterlife evidence and forming a detailed picture of what happens at and after death. She then discovered that two thousand years ago Jesus told us things about God, reality, death, the afterlife, human nature, and the nature of reality that perfectly match the afterlife evidence in even small details. She outlines many of these correspondences in appendices to her books The Fun of Dying (2010, 2014) and The Fun of Staying in Touch (2014). In Liberating Jesus Roberta offers compelling evidence that the earliest Christians misunderstood the meaning and the message of Jesus. She demonstrates that all the correspondences between the Gospels and the afterlife evidence amount to nothing less than a new revelation from God. And she shows us that once we put aside the magic-thinking notion that the whole Christian Bible must be the Inspired Word of God just because the earliest Christians said it was, we at last free Jesus to bring to humankind the messages directly from God that long ago were His true life's purpose. His promise remains as fresh today as it was two thousand years ago, and now it is confirmed by the afterlife evidence: if we will live according to the teachings of Jesus, we can create the Kingdom of God on earth.

Author : James E. Padgett (Recorder)
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-08-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781435729018

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DIVINE LOVE - Transforming the Soul by James E. Padgett (Recorder) Pdf

This is volume one of 5 books. Altogether the books contain the messages received from angelic realms by means of automatic writing through the mediumistic work of James E. Padgett between 1914 and 1920. They reveal information such as: the realities of the spirit and soul universe; the qualities and attributes of the Creator; laws of Divine Love and natural Love; qualities of Absolute Truth; understanding the human soul, spirit body and mortal body; soul progression on earth and in the spirit world; spiritual laws such as the law of compensation and the law of attraction; the two paths of spiritual development as first presented by Jesus in the first century, each path resulting in the purification of the soul, but only one path resulting in eternal progression, complete emotional bliss and immortality. The major theme of the basic principles governing the reception of Divine Love by the human soul is also covered.

Author : Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329019430

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Shining toward Spirit, The book of Divine Love and beginnings Volume II by Zara Borthwick,Nicholas Arnold Pdf

Author : Jordan Wessling
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198852483

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Love Divine by Jordan Wessling Pdf

Love Divine provides a systematic account of the deep and rich love that God has for humans. While the associated theological territory is vast, the objective is to contend for a unified paradigm regarding fundamental issues pertaining to the God of love who deigns to share His life of love with any human willing to receive it. Realizing this objective includes clarifying and defending specific conclusions concerning how the doctrine of divine love should be approached, what God's love is, what role love plays in motivating God's creation and subsequent governance of humans, how God's love of humans factors into His emotional life, which humans it is that God loves in a saving manner, what the punitive wrath of God is and how it relates to God's love for humans, and how it might be possible for God to share the intra-trinitarian life of love with human beings. As the book unfolds, the chapters interlock and build upon one another in the effort to trace nodal issues related to God's love as it begins in Him and then spills out in the creation, redemption, and glorification of humanity--a kind of exitus-reditus structure that is driven by the unyielding love of God.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594735622

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Julian of Norwich by Anonim Pdf

Teachings from this fourteenth-century mystic provide spiritual direction and call for you to open yourself, body and soul, to divine love. Many people are familiar with the phrase "All shall be well" but do not know much, if anything, about Julian of Norwich, the fourteenth-century English mystic who wrote those words. Thomas Merton declared her to be “without a doubt one of the most wonderful of all Christian voices,” and former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says that her writings “may well be the most important work of Christian reflection in the English language.” This accessible introduction to Julian's Revelations of Divine Love, an extended reflection on a series of her mystical visions, includes an informative introduction that addresses the historical, cultural and sociological context of Julian’s life and writings. Mary Earle’s facing-page commentary focuses on Julian’s profoundly hopeful vision of humanity and God, her creative imagery and her rigorous honesty about the spiritual life. Drawing directly from Julian’s text, Earle addresses a variety of topics essential to understanding Julian’s mysticism, including the infinite nature of God, the life of prayer, God’s suffering with us, the eternal and undying life of the soul, the motherhood of Jesus and the motherhood of God, “all shall be well” and more. Drawing directly from Julian’s text, the commentary addresses a variety of topics including the infinite nature of God, the life of prayer, God’s suffering with us, the eternal and undying life of the soul, the motherhood of Jesus and the motherhood of God, “all shall be well” and more.