Encountering The Sacred

Author : James L. Griffith,Melissa Elliott Griffith
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781462505838

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Encountering the Sacred in Psychotherapy by James L. Griffith,Melissa Elliott Griffith Pdf

Drawing on narrative, postmodern, and other therapeutic perspectives, this book guides therapists in exploring the creative and healing possibilities in clients' spiritual and religious experience. Vivid personal accounts and dialogues bring to life the ways spirituality may influence the stories told in therapy, the language and metaphors used, and the meanings brought to key relationships and events. Applications are discussed for a wide variety of clinical situations, including helping people resolve relationship problems, manage psychiatric symptoms, and cope with medical illnesses.

Author : Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-12-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520241916

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Encountering the Sacred by Bruria Bitton-Ashkelony Pdf

Annotation A study of the response (political and theological) of early Christian intellectuals to the widespread practice of pilgrimage to holy places in Palestine.

Author : Rebecca Todd Peters,Grace Yia-Hei Kao
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567683021

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Encountering the Sacred by Rebecca Todd Peters,Grace Yia-Hei Kao Pdf

Many women of faith are interested in having deep conversations with their friends and families about issues they face in their personal lives. Unfortunately, there is a dearth of feminist and theologically progressive materials for these women to turn to for counsel or advice. Simultaneously, there are a growing number of theologically trained biblical scholars, theologians, and ministers who are experiencing similar life challenges, but who are generally discouraged from writing about these experiences in ways that would be accessible to the general public. This book bridges the chasm between Christian laywomen and feminist theologians. For the last fifty years, feminist theologians have sought to reimagine Christian theology in ways that speak to the realities and complexities of women's lives. They have also sought to use women's experience as the starting point for theological reflection in the same way that men's lives have shaped the history of Christian theology for the past 2000 years. In this book, feminist Christian scholars of theology and religion use the tools of their trade to examine powerful personal life experiences and to search for new and empowering ways of understanding the power of the sacred as they have experienced it.

Author : Sandra E. Greene
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0253108896

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Sacred Sites and the Colonial Encounter by Sandra E. Greene Pdf

"Greene gives the reader a vivid sense of the Anlo encounter with western thought and Christian beliefs... and the resulting erasures, transferences, adaptations, and alterations in their perceptions of place, space, and the body." -- Emmanuel Akyeampong Sandra E. Greene reconstructs a vivid and convincing portrait of the human and physical environment of the 19th-century Anlo-Ewe people of Ghana and brings history and memory into contemporary context. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork, early European accounts, and missionary archives and publications, Greene shows how ideas from outside forced sacred and spiritual meanings associated with particular bodies of water, burial sites, sacred towns, and the human body itself to change in favor of more scientific and regulatory views. Anlo responses to these colonial ideas involved considerable resistance, and, over time, the Anlo began to attribute selective, varied, and often contradictory meanings to the body and the spaces they inhabited. Despite these multiple meanings, Greene shows that the Anlo were successful in forging a consensus on how to manage their identity, environment, and community.

Author : Tamara Park
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830836239

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Sacred Encounters from Rome to Jerusalem by Tamara Park Pdf

Tamara Park and a couple of friends flew to Rome and from there followed the footsteps of Helena, mother of the first Christian emperor of ancient Rome, on a meandering path to Jerusalem. Along the way, she sat on all sorts of benches and talked with all sorts of people about how they thought of God. This book is that story.

Author : John D. Dadosky
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791460614

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The Structure of Religious Knowing by John D. Dadosky Pdf

Provides a critical exploration of Mircea Eliade's notion of the sacred by referencing the work of Bernard Lonergan.

Author : Carl McColman
Publisher : North Star Publications (MA)
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997-04
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1880823160

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Spirituality by Carl McColman Pdf

"A visionary, nondogmatic exploration of spirituality. Topics covered include: wonder, serendipity, and other spiritual qualities; what prayer is, and why it's important; the earthy dimension of spirituality; finding the Divine in other people; why we turn to nature for spiritual sustenance; the characteristics of a mature spirituality."--Page 4 of cover

Author : Gregory Scott Sparrow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0883474980

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Sacred Encounters with Jesus by Gregory Scott Sparrow Pdf

"Sacred Encounters with Jesus" is a discerning account of how Jesus heals and transforms people today just as He ministered to His disciples. Readers will enter into the miraculous experiences of a terminally ill girl who was healed by Jesus' touch and of a woman who touched Jesus as He knelt beside her and prayed. These experiences raise the possibility that only some people will readily accept: that Jesus can be experienced as directly and as personally today as when He walked the earth 2,000 years ago.

Author : Raimundo Panikkar
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451416431

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The Experience of God by Raimundo Panikkar Pdf

"Today's search for spirituality and authenticity leads ultimately to the question, and the experience, of God. In this profound meditation from one of today's most renowned religious voices, theologian Raimon Panikkar offers a way to reflect on the perennial quest for God, its significance in many religious traditions, and its connection to our own deepest purpose and meaning. .... " [from back cover]

Author : Paul Coutinho
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780829436594

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Sacred Darkness by Paul Coutinho Pdf

Before there was light, God was. In fact, darkness is the medium God worked in to create the world, the universe, and all material things. Certainly, God lives in the warmth of sunlight and within our happiest days--but God also dwells in darkness. In Sacred Darkness, Paul Coutinho, SJ, examines how many Christians are fearful of dark times and struggles, yet it is often darkness that sheds light on our world and helps us live more effectively and more fully in the painful situations of our lives. Throughout the book, Coutinho shares powerful stories of how darkness can empower us--from a self-destructive alcoholic, to St. Ignatius, to the author himself. Ultimately, Sacred Darkness encourages us to overcome our "fear" or the dark by exploring the legitimate role of darkness on the spiritual journey. By learning to embrace darkness rather than run from it, we can experience God's love in ways and in places where we would least expect it.

Author : Lisa L. Grushcow
Publisher : CCAR Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780881232240

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Sacred Encounter by Lisa L. Grushcow Pdf

This wide-ranging anthology takes a close look at the breadth of human sexuality from a Jewish perspective. The essays begin with a look at biblical and rabbinic views on sexuality, and then proceed to explorations of sexuality at different moments in the life cycle, sexuality and the marital model, diverse expressions of sexuality, examples of sexuality education, the nexus of sexuality and theology, and the challenges of contemporary sexual ethics. The Sacred Encounter is a thought-provoking and important Jewish resource. Perfect for personal study, or for high school or adult classes.

Author : Mike Yankoski
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780718022426

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The Sacred Year by Mike Yankoski Pdf

"In his life and writing, Michael Yankoski walks a tightrope between action and contemplation, and, behold, in ways we can all learn from, he manages to find a sort of essential balance." —Philip Yancey, author of What's So Amazing About Grace "This book is a joy to the soul and a delight to the heart. It is destined to become a classic within the genre of contemporary spiritual and religious writing." —Phyllis Tickle, compiler of The Divine Hours Frustrated and disillusioned with his life as a Christian motivational speaker, Michael Yankoski was determined to stop merely talking about living a life of faith and start experiencing it. The result was a year of focused engagement with spiritual practices—both ancient and modern—that fundamentally reshaped and revived his life. By contemplating apples for an hour before tasting them (attentiveness), eating on just $2.00 a day (simplicity), or writing letters of thanks (gratitude), Michael discovered a whole new vitality and depth through the intentional life. Guided by the voice of Father Solomon—a local monk—Yankoski's Sacred Year slowly transforms his life. Both entertaining and profound, his story will resonate with those who wish to deepen their own committed faith as well as those who are searching—perhaps for the first time—for their own authentic encounter with the Divine.

Author : Rosanne Keller
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0814630332

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Pilgrim in Time by Rosanne Keller Pdf

"A chronicle of pilgrimage, interpersed with light historical background about sacred travel and the concept of time from tribal times to the presnt; gives literal and figurative meaning to the word pilgrimage'"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Lionel Corbett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000031263

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Psyche and the Sacred by Lionel Corbett Pdf

This book presents an approach to spirituality based on direct personal experience of the sacred. Using the language and insights of depth psychology, Corbett outlines the intimate relationship between spiritual experience and the psychology of the individual, unveiling the seamless continuity between the personal and transpersonal dimensions of the psyche. His discussion runs the gamut of spiritual concerns, from the problem of evil to the riddle of pain and suffering. Drawing upon his psychotherapeutic practice as well as on the experiences of characters from our religious heritage, Corbett explores the various portals through which the sacred presents itself to us: dreams, visions, nature, the body, relationships, psychopathology, and creative work. Referring extensively to Jung’s writings on religion, but also to contemporary psychoanalytic theory, Corbett gives form to the new spirituality that is emerging alongside the world’s great religious traditions. For those seeking alternative forms of spirituality beyond the Judeo-Christian tradition, this volume will be a useful guide on the journey.

Author : Jacqueline Peterson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sacred Encounters by Jacqueline Peterson Pdf