Forming God

Author : Anne K. Knafl
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781575068992

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Forming God by Anne K. Knafl Pdf

This volume examines divine anthropomorphism in the Hebrew Bible, a study characterized by disagreement and contradiction. Discussions of anthropomorphism in the Hebrew Bible are typically found in three areas of inquiry: ancient Israelite religion, as reflected by the compositions of the Pentateuch; comparisons with ancient Near Eastern religions; and comparison with ancient translation and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible. Contradictory arguments exist, both within each area of study and between them, about the intent of biblical writers, with respect to a theology of anthropomorphism. In this work, Knafl asserts that biblical studies has reached this impasse, largely due to its approach to the study of the phenomenon. The prevailing method has been to study divine anthropomorphism within an assumed framework of polemic and by associating it with a theological system. By contrast, Knafl analyzes divine anthropomorphism as a literary-contextual phenomenon and seeks to build a typology, from which secondary arguments regarding theology or history of religion may be built. This typology will provide scholars of biblical studies, history of religion, and (systematic) theology with a means of evaluating divine anthropomorphisms and their relation to human-divine interactions, as a biblical phenomenon.

Author : Mark Buchanan
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310413318

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God Walk by Mark Buchanan Pdf

Drawing on Jesus's example of walking, bestselling author Mark Buchanan explores one of the oldest spiritual practices of our faith. What happens when we literally walk out our Christian life? We discover the joy of traveling at the speed of our soul. We often act as if faith is only about the mind. But what about our bodies? What does our physical being have to do with our spiritual life? When the Bible exhorts us to walk in the light, or walk by faith, or walk in truth, it means these things literally as much as figuratively. The Christian faith always involves walking out, as again and again we find the holy in the ordinary. "Come, follow me," Jesus said, and then he was off. The most obvious thing about Jesus's method of discipleship, in fact, is that he walked and invited others to walk with him. Jesus is always "on the way," "arriving," "leaving," "approaching," "coming upon." It's in the walking that his disciples are taught, formed, tested, empowered, and released. Part theology, part history, part field guide, God Walk explores walking as spiritual formation, walking as healing, walking as exercise, walking as prayer, walking as pilgrimage, suffering, friendship, and attentiveness. It is a book about being alongside the God who, incarnate in Jesus, turns to us as he passes by--always on foot--and says simply, "Come, follow me." With practical insight and biblical reflections told in his distinct voice, Buchanan provides specific walking exercises so you can immediately implement the practice of going "God speed." Whether you are walking around the neighborhood or hiking in the mountains, walking offers the potential to awaken your life with Christ as it revives body and soul.

Author : Renovare
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061951749

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Connecting with God by Renovare Pdf

How can we experience god? God has communicated with his people throughout the ages in many ways. Adam and Eve encountered him directly in the Garden of Eden, Teresa of Avila experienced him through visions, and Francis of Assisi heard his voice in nature. This book gives practical advice for connecting on a deeply personal level with God. It uncovers new places to look for God, while providing reflection questions and activities to reinvigorate communication with God in such traditional areas as prayer and Bible study. Divided into twelve chapters conveniently organized for individual or group study, each section explores a different area in which we can deepen our individual communion with God. The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Guides, created by Richard J. Foster and the team that developed The Renovaré Spiritual Formation Bible and the longstanding A Spiritual Formation Workbook, provide tangible lessons that help us become spiritually formed, conformed, and transformed into the image of Jesus Christ. Geared for either individual study or use in small groups, each Renovaré Spiritual Formation Guide explores one facet of our life with God, providing readings from Scripture as well as classic and contemporary works of spirituality. The combination of readings, reflection questions, exercises, and activities makes these books invaluable interactive guides that prompt true spiritual growth.

Author : F Gerald Downing
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227905166

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Formation for Knowing God by F Gerald Downing Pdf

In this challenging and engaging discussion, F. Gerald Downing draws on evidence from Ancient Jewish and New Testament scriptures to analyse the changing history of the concept of 'revelation' within Christianity. Through the discussion of central concepts in the philosophy of language, such as reference and identity, Downing provides a comprehensive analysis of our notion of the concept of knowledge through revelation and self-revelation. Formation for Knowing God contains an overview of the history of the debate regarding the methods and extent of God's revelation, specifically his self-revelation. Downing argues that the conviction that God is selfrevealed stems from eighteenth-century Enlightenment debates, and has no roots in the early Christian tradition, from which we learn that God is incomprehensible. Downing rejects the view that it was the primary purpose of Christ's death to show God's love, claiming that this is unsupported by the scriptural evidence. The positive thesis argued by Downing isthat what has been revealed to us is not a matter of knowledge but a matter of faith. Downing's Formation for Knowing God will challenge the assumptions of its readers, providing an alternative and thought provoking approach to the nature of knowledge and certainty within Christianity.

Author : Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Dutta
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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God Particle Formation From Dark Energy And Human Being From This God Particle by Dr. Sanjoy Kumar Dutta Pdf

There are two types of energy that exist within space : Dark Energy and Dark Matter. Dark Energy is a homogenous eternal potential energy that exists below zero degree kelvin temperature in absolute static equilibrium phase of energy. Dark Matter is the dynamic phase of Dark Energy above zero degree kelvin temperature as kinetic Energy. Smallest unit of kinetic energy particle is a one-dimensional photon and known as the God Particle. All elements are formed by these God particles. We, human beings are also made with baryonic hydrogen atoms arranged in elemental and molecular forms that are all made with God particles. Dark energy to Dark Matter conversion leads to contraction of energy space and Dark Matter to Dark Energy conversion leads to expansion of energy space like ice to water conversion and vice versa.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Chalice Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0827236662

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Taught by God: Teaching Andspiritual Formation by Anonim Pdf

The history of the Christian spiritual life suggests that those who truly teach the spiritual life have been themselves "taught by God." The phrase "taught by God" occurs in Christian writings across several centuries. This book draws on the teachers and teaching models that animate Christian history, bringing it into conversation with the issues and concerns of contemporary teachers and learners who seek to follow Christ. The authors contend that the various strands of the Christian spiritual and mystical tradition provide continuing guidance for Christian teachers in the cultivation of their own spiritual lives and the lives of their students. They order this book around four aspects of Christian educational ministries: the identity of the teacher, contexts in which we teach, models for teaching, and evaluation of teaching. Readers are invited to look at the world of teaching through multiple sides of a prism, refracting differently with each effort, drawing the eye toward a variety of subtle nuance, and inviting varied interpretations of the subject we see. Each chapter focuses on particular spiritual teachers (Francis de Sales, Catherine of Siena, Søren Kierkegaard), practices (monastic rules, spiritual direction, examination of conscience), and images (pilgrimage, imitation, apprenticeship) as exemplars of or frameworks for teaching and spiritual formation in the church today.

Author : David L. Kelly
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781607998419

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The Unchanging Word of God and Our Spiritual Formation by David L. Kelly Pdf

This is the season for the Church to wake up from the slumber of the religious dark ages and step into the light of the truth of the Kingdom. In this, his first book, Dr. David Kelly challenges the 21st Century Church to return to the bedrock of Christian faith, to rediscover The Unchanging Word of God. He calls the church to personal and corporate accountability, wholehearted repentance, and a true revival of the Word. The first generation church operated in awesome Kingdom authority and delegated Kingdom power because they obediently waited on the Lord; they anticipated something big was about to occur, so they remained in Jerusalem until the promise of the Holy Spirit was sent to them. The Unchanging Word of God reveals the foundational principles that come together to make up our spiritual formation. The fullness of the Holy Spirit at work in us, as well as the fullness of the Holy Spirit in operation coming from us, can never be completely understood until we passionately return to the Lord, forsaking the dead, powerless religious traditions and experiences of the past.

Author : Robert L. Anello, MSA
Publisher : Robert L. Anello
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781508676669

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The “Hand of God” at Work in Adult Catholic Priestly Formation by Robert L. Anello, MSA Pdf

Fr. Eusèbe M. Ménard, O.F.M., was gifted with a visionary perspective regarding God's call to adults for ministry in the Catholic Church, specifically, priestly vocations. In the mid-1940s, Ménard proposed an innovative idea for training men called to serve God through the priesthood: college seminaries for "belated vocations." As he defined it, a man with a belated vocation had not heard God's call in his early years or, having heard it, did not or could not act upon it at that time. The events leading to the formation and development of Holy Apostles College & Seminary proved challenging and, at times, painful for those people who joined Ménard in this enterprise. Still, it appeared from the start that the "Hand of God" was truly at work in the concept, acquisition, and development of Holy Apostles. This study documents the founding and initial development of Holy Apostles and highlights several significant events from the first forty years of its service to the Catholic Church.

Author : W. DIXON (of Blackheath.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022673868

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God manifesting his glory in the creation of matter and the formation of man, etc by W. DIXON (of Blackheath.) Pdf

Author : Wayland Richardson Benedict
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Beatitudes
ISBN : UIUC:30112087618218

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New Studies in the Beatitudes and the Lord's Prayer by Wayland Richardson Benedict Pdf

Author : Isaak August Dorner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : UOM:39015067211881

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A System of Christian Doctrine by Isaak August Dorner Pdf

Author : Thomas Bradbury
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555049465

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Grove chapel pulpit [sermons]. by Thomas Bradbury Pdf

Author : Richard J. Foster
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780061851872

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Life with God by Richard J. Foster Pdf

“If you want to discover new ways of entering the Bible, and letting it enter you, you will find no better guide than Richard Foster.” — Lauren F. Winner, Duke Divinity School, author of Girl Meets God “Foster’s work is not for those readers who are seeking quick answers or a behavioral checklist of what the Bible says they should do. Rather, it is a deep reflective guide to spiritual rumination and growth.” — Publishers Weekly Richard Foster, the beloved, bestselling author of Celebration of Discipline, Streams of Living Water, and Prayer, shows the intimate connection between Scripture and spirituality, revealing the secrets to living the “with-God life.”

Author : Isaak August Dorner,Issac August Dorner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3040868

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History of the Development of the Doctrine of the Person of Christ by Isaak August Dorner,Issac August Dorner Pdf

Author : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UCLA:31158003189452

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Journal by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Pdf