Author : Clive Barker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019836001
Forms of Heaven
Clive Barker
Forms Of Heaven
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Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories
Joan Silber
Author : Joan Silber
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393070727
Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories by Joan Silber Pdf
Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive."—Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are about longings—often held for years—and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. Though the stories stand alone, a minor element in one becomes major in the next. In "My Shape", a woman is taunted by her dance coach, who later suffers his own heartache. A Venetian poet of the 1500s, another storyteller, is introduced to a modern traveler reading Rilke. His story precedes a mesmerizing narrative of missionaries in China. In the final story, Giles, born to a priesthood family, leans toward Buddhism after a grievous loss, and in time falls in love with the dancer of the first story. So deft and subtle is Joan Silber with these various perspectives that we come full circle surprised and enchanted by her myriad worlds. National Book Award finalist. Reading group guide included.
On Earth as it is in Heaven
Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Author : Virginia Garrard-Burnett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0842025855
On Earth as it is in Heaven by Virginia Garrard-Burnett Pdf
Collects nine previously published essays that consider the entire region and so provide a more comparative view of the range of religious experience than studies that focus on a particular country. They also range widely across religion, covering not only the dominant Catholicism, but also popular Indian and African religious forms and new elements such as Protestantism and Mormonism. The collection is suitable for a course. It is not indexed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
The Power & Intelligence of Karma & Reincarnation
Dharma
Author : Dharma
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781452594897
The Power & Intelligence of Karma & Reincarnation by Dharma Pdf
In the distant past, life was pretty harsh - most work was manual labor, medicine was primitive and there was little law & order - the perfect opening to religions that promised an easy afterlife. Life was mocked as sin, "up there" awaited a magical land of plenty. These religions kept us weak, God made in the image of the local King reduced followers down to slaves/servants, down on their knees begging for mercy and seeking pity. This book asks for a paradigm change - are we still weak? Do we still think we can just run away from problems? This book is for the Strong, the Warrior, for those who see Life as a Great Gift from God, God as our Teacher, as we build the paradise right here on Earth and make Her Proud of us! Create & build a great Future for all life on earth. Only Reincarnation gives us such an opportunity.
Heaven and Hell
Bart D. Ehrman
Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781501136740
Heaven and Hell by Bart D. Ehrman Pdf
Over half of Americans believe in a literal heaven, in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. Ehrman shows that eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament, and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. He recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket
Losing Heaven
Thomas Großbölting
Author : Thomas Großbölting
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785332791
Losing Heaven by Thomas Großbölting Pdf
As the birthplace of the Reformation, Germany has been the site of some of the most significant moments in the history of European Christianity. Today, however, its religious landscape is one that would scarcely be recognizable to earlier generations. This groundbreaking survey of German postwar religious life depicts a profoundly changed society: congregations shrink, private piety is on the wane, and public life has almost entirely shed its Christian character, yet there remains a booming market for syncretistic and individualistic forms of “popular religion.” Losing Heaven insightfully recounts these dramatic shifts and explains their consequences for German religious communities and the polity as a whole.
The Book of Heaven
Patricia Storace
Author : Patricia Storace
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375707551
The Book of Heaven by Patricia Storace Pdf
From the author of the acclaimed Dinner with Persephone comes a radically original novel about four women who invite us to imagine the divine anew: what if “a woman’s point of view” were also God’s? Patricia Storace’s Eve begins by telling us her version of what happened in Eden, and by revealing that our familiar constellations conceal other heavens we have never allowed ourselves to see. Each of the four subsequent chapters is the story of one of these new zodiacs, featuring images central to women: a knife, a cauldron, a garden, a pair of embracing lovers. The four women whose stories they tell are Job’s daughter, the Queen of Sheba, a polytheistic cook, and a transformed Sarah, wife of Abraham. Storace brilliantly reimagines the worlds of these women, freeing them from the old tales in which they were trapped and putting them in the foreground of their stories and of the Old Testament itself.
Will There Be Free Will in Heaven?
Simon Gaine
Author : Simon Gaine
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567089509
Will There Be Free Will in Heaven? by Simon Gaine Pdf
Just before Christmas 1999, various prominent public figures, teachers, clergymen and others received a set of ten religious questions from the BBC's Today programme. All were predictable save one: 'Will there be free will in heaven?' This book addresses this important question. Simon Gaine sets out the arguments of two modern philosophers, one who concludes that heaven is undesirable because it excludes freedom by excluding the possibility of sin (Wall), and the other who responds that an orthodox notion of heaven in fact implies the real possibility of sin (Donnelly). He shows how such modern concerns have arisen against the background of theologians such as Sußrez, who limits freedom in the face of heavenly impeccability, and asks whether a high value placed on freedom can be successfully combined with heavenly impeccability. He then goes on to investigate the theories of Duns Scotus and William of Ockham, two theologians who hold a high view of freedom in general as well as heavenly impeccability, but they are found wanting. Gaine then introduces an alternative conception of freedom through an account of Servais Pinckaers' connection of two different ideas of freedom ('indifference' and 'excellence') with two different moral theologies. He applies these two conceptions to eschatology.He concludes that the most pleasing theory combines freedom for excellence and an intrinsic theory of impeccability develops this suggestion by drawing on and developing some ideas found in Thomas Aquinas.
The Future Life
Emanuel Swedenborg
Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Future life
ISBN : BL:A0021757917
The Future Life by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf
Under the Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781400078998
Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer Pdf
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series streaming on HULU. “Fantastic.... Right up there with In Cold Blood and The Executioner’s Song.” —San Francisco Chronicle Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God; some 40,000 people still practice polygamy in these communities. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.
Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell. ... Originally published in Latin at London, A.D. 1758
Emanuel Swedenborg
Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1867
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017664548
Heaven and its Wonders, and Hell. ... Originally published in Latin at London, A.D. 1758 by Emanuel Swedenborg Pdf
Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought
John S. Major
Author : John S. Major
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0791415856
Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought by John S. Major Pdf
The Huainanzi has in recent years been recognized by scholars as one of the seminal works of Chinese thought at the beginning of the imperial era, a summary of the full flowering of early Taoist philosophy. This book presents a study of three key chapters of the Huainanzi, "The Treatise on the Patterns of Heaven," "The Treatise on Topography," and "The Treatise on the Seasonal Rules," which collectively comprise the most comprehensive extant statement of cosmological thinking in the early Han period. Major presents, for the first time, full English translations of these treatises. He supplements the translations with detailed commentaries that clarify the sometimes arcane language of the text and presents a fascinating picture of the ancient Chinese view of how the world was formed and sustained, and of the role of humans in the cosmos.
Breasts and Eggs
Mieko Kawakami
Author : Mieko Kawakami
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609455880
Breasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami Pdf
A novel that “considers the agency . . . women exert over their bodies and charts the emotional underpinnings of physical changes . . . with humor and empathy” (The New Yorker). On a sweltering summer day, Makiko travels from Osaka to Tokyo, where her sister Natsu lives. She is in the company of her daughter, Midoriko, who has lately grown silent, finding herself unable to voice the vague yet overwhelming pressures associated with adolescence. Over the course of their few days together in the capital, Midoriko’s silence will prove a catalyst for each woman to confront her fears and family secrets. On yet another summer’s day eight years later, Natsu, during a journey back to her native city, confronts her anxieties about growing old alone and childless. Bestselling author Mieko Kawakami mixes stylistic inventiveness and riveting emotional depth to tell a story of contemporary womanhood in Japan. “Took my breath away.” —Haruki Murakami, #1 New York Times–bestselling author The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle “Kawakami lobbed a literary grenade into the fusty, male-dominated world of Japanese fiction with Breast and Eggs.” —The Economist “A sharply observed and heartbreaking portrait of what it means to be a woman.” —TIME “Raw, funny, mundane, heartbreaking.” —The Atlantic “A bracing, feminist exploration of daily life in Japan.” —Entertainment Weekly “Timely feminist themes; strange, surreal prose; and wonderful characters will transcend cultural barriers and enchant readers.” —The New York Observer “Bracing and evocative, tender yet unflinching.” —Publishers Weekly “Kawakami writes with unsettling precision about the body—its discomforts, its appetites, its smells and secretions. And she is especially good at capturing its longings.” —The New York Times Book Review
50 Days of Heaven
Randy Alcorn
Author : Randy Alcorn
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414327914
50 Days of Heaven by Randy Alcorn Pdf
For Christians, eternity is an exciting promise, but many do not know the details of what life will be like in heaven and throughout eternity. 50 Days of Heaven allows the reader to stop wondering about heaven by teaching the biblical facts regarding what's so wonderful about Heaven. The devotional provides an easy-to-follow, 50-day program that reveals the biblical information on what a Christian's life will be like in heaven. Throughout this journey, the reader will learn and meditate upon the promises, rewards, and expectations that a believer in Christ will enjoy for eternity. This devotional draws on the teachings in Randy Alcorn's best-selling book Heaven.
Heaven and Hell
Emanuel Swedenborg
Author : Emanuel Swedenborg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1758
Category : Future life
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6FMR