Inward Apocalypse

Author : Anna Elisabeth Howard
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666735819

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Inward Apocalypse by Anna Elisabeth Howard Pdf

“I wish I could still believe in God, but I can’t be a Christian anymore because of ______” Fill-in-the-blank with racism, misogyny, homophobia, toxic capitalism, and so on. I’ve had this conversation with different people almost word-for-word over and over. White American Christianity has so defined God that many people cannot separate God from the toxic theology they were taught. But this isn’t the God I see in the Bible. The Bible shows us a God meeting people where they are and nudging them towards justice and total thriving for all: shalom. The Bible details arcs of justice and societal reform. If we understand how radical those arcs were in the context of the day, we can extend them forward into the future and figure out how to work for justice, total thriving, and societal reformation in our day. I grew up in that first world view. Come along, and I’ll tell you the story of how I escaped, and I’ll show you a theology that I believe paints a more accurate picture: a faith for the common good where everyone thrives and no one is left out.

Author : Jerome Tharaud
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691200101

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Apocalyptic Geographies by Jerome Tharaud Pdf

Evangelical Space. Thomas Cole and the Landscape of Evangelical Print -- Abolitionist Mediascapes: The American Anti-Slavery Society and the Sacred Geography of Emancipation -- The Human Medium: Harriet Beecher Stowe and the New-York Evangelist -- Geographies of the Secular. Pilgrimage to the 'Secular Center': Tourism and the Calvinist Novel -- Cosmic Modernity: Henry David Thoreau, the Missionary Memoir, and the Heathen Within -- The Sensational Republic: Catholic Conspiracy and the Battle for the Great West -- Epilogue.

Author : Arthur W. Wainwright
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579106249

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Mysterious Apocalypse by Arthur W. Wainwright Pdf

No part of the Bible is more controversial than the book of Revelation, or, as it is often called, the Apocalypse. For eighteen hundred years it has given rise to conflicting interpretations, and in the late twentieth century it is as controversial as ever.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781137076571

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Imagining Apocalypse by NA NA Pdf

This volume brings together essays by specialists in different disciplines on the cultural expression of apocalypse, in particular in anglophone science fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Approaching these works from historical, philosophical, linguistic and literary perspectives, the contributors examine the relationship between secular and spiritual apocalypse, connecting the fiction and films to their historical moment. Not surprisingly, war recurs throughout this material, as a critical turning-point, fulfilment of prophecy, or prelude to a new age. In particular the essays explore the issue of whether modern apocalypse is seen as an ending or a beginning, considered under its political, ethnic and gendered aspects. Among the writers covered are H. G. Wells, Olaf Stapledon and such contemporary figures as Michael Moorcock, J. G. Ballard and Storm Constantine.

Author : Jon R. Kershner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190868093

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John Woolman and the Government of Christ by Jon R. Kershner Pdf

In 1758, a Quaker tailor and sometime shopkeeper and school teacher stood up in a Quaker meeting and declared that the time had come for Friends to reject the practice of slavery. That man was John Woolman, and that moment was a significant step, among many, toward the abolition of slavery in the United States. Woolman's antislavery position was only one essential piece of his comprehensive theological vision for colonial American society. Drawing on Woolman's entire body of writing, Jon R. Kershner reveals that the theological and spiritual underpinnings of Woolman's alternative vision for the British Atlantic world were nothing less than a direct, spiritual christocracy on earth, what Woolman referred to as "the Government of Christ." Kershner argues that Woolman's theology is best understood as apocalyptic-centered on a supernatural revelation of Christ's immediate presence governing all aspects of human affairs, and envisaging the impending victory of God's reign over apostasy. John Woolman and the Government of Christ explores the theological reasoning behind Woolman's critique of the burgeoning trans-Atlantic economy, slavery, and British imperial conflicts, and fundamentally reinterprets 18th-century Quakerism by demonstrating the continuing influence of early Quaker apocalypticism.

Author : Alan D. Hodder
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300129755

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Thoreau's Ecstatic Witness by Alan D. Hodder Pdf

When Henry David Thoreau died in 1862, friends and admirers remembered him as an eccentric man whose outer life was continuously fed by deeper spiritual currents. But scholars have since focused almost exclusively on Thoreau’s literary, political, and scientific contributions. This book offers the first in-depth study of Thoreau’s religious thought and experience. In it Alan D. Hodder recovers the lost spiritual dimension of the writer’s life, revealing a deeply religious man who, despite his rejection of organized religion, possessed a rich inner life, characterized by a sort of personal, experiential, nature-centered, and eclectic spirituality that finds wider expression in America today. At the heart of Thoreau’s life were episodes of exhilaration in nature that he commonly referred to as his ecstasies. Hodder explores these representations of ecstasy throughout Thoreau’s writings—from the riverside reflections of his first book through Walden and the later journals, when he conceived his journal writing as a spiritual discipline in itself and a kind of forum in which to cultivate experiences of contemplative non-attachment. In doing so, Hodder restores to our understanding the deeper spiritual dimension of Thoreau’s life to which his writings everywhere bear witness.

Author : Marie de la Maare
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9783750462298

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Healing from Visionary Psychosis by Marie de la Maare Pdf

Visionary Psychosis or Spiritual and Psychological Emergence have next to their beauty also very painful aspects often leaving the emergent person deeply traumatized. This book is a personal account of a 50 year old woman and artist on her way of healing from her trauma from the negative aspects of her emergence, her movement back into life. The book is intended as inspiration for all those healing from the traumas of their psychosis, especially from Visionary Psychosis. In addition the book includes excerpts from earlier writings of Marie, giving an in depth look at the inside of emergence. The book concludes with visions for a more humane practice with emergent human beings. This book is insightful and a gentle and pensive inspiration to all those recovering from a Spiritual and Psychological Emergence, finding their way back into life whilst understanding their personal stories. This book is resilience building.

Author : John Gray
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780374609740

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The New Leviathans by John Gray Pdf

A bold, provocative reckoning with our current political delusions and dysfunctions. Ever since its publication in 1651, Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan has unsettled and challenged how we understand the world. Condemned and vilified by each new generation, his cold political vision continues to see through any number of human political and ethical vanities. In his wonderfully stimulating book The New Leviathans, John Gray allows us to understand the world of the 2020s with all its contradictions, moral horrors, and disappointments. The collapse of the USSR ushered in an era of near apoplectic triumphalism in the West: a genuine belief that a rational, liberal, well-managed future now awaited humankind and that tyranny, nationalism, and unreason lay in the past. Since then, so many terrible events have occurred and so many poisonous ideas have flourished, and yet our liberal certainties treat them as aberrations that will somehow dissolve. Hobbes would not be so confident. Filled with fascinating and challenging observations, The New Leviathans is a powerful meditation on historical and current folly. As a species we always seem to be struggling to face the reality of base and delusive human instincts. Might a more self-aware, realistic, and disabused ethics help us?

Author : John Cumming
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Consolation
ISBN : NLS:V000564319

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Consolations; Or Leaves from the Tree of Life by John Cumming Pdf

Author : Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781107050525

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Early Quakers and their Theological Thought by Stephen Ward Angell,Stephen W. Angell,Pink Dandelion Pdf

This comprehensive theological analysis of leading early Quakers' work, offers fresh insights into what they were really saying.

Author : SARAH. APETREI,Sarah Apetrei
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198836001

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The Reformation of the Heart by SARAH. APETREI,Sarah Apetrei Pdf

This groundbreaking study offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the seventeenth-century English Revolution. Examining published works and previously unexplored archival material, Sarah Apetrei shows the transformative role that women played in religious reform during the period.

Author : Allen Ginsberg
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781452962177

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South American Journals by Allen Ginsberg Pdf

The great Beat poet’s observations, reflections, poetry, and mind-expanding explorations while traveling through South America When Allen Ginsberg went to South America in 1960, ostensibly to attend a literary conference, he had a different kind of trip in mind. This would be another experience in the Beat poet’s journey deep into the realm of consciousness, the inward travel explored to exhilarating effect in his writing—whether in the poetry that had already earned him international acclaim or in the idiosyncratic journals that raised self-documentation to a new form of art. In his South American Journals, covering a tumultuous six months, Ginsberg describes his travels through Chile and Peru, his visit to Machu Picchu, and his search for a source for ayahuasca, or yagé, a mind-expanding drug recommended by his friend William S. Burroughs, another writer well traveled in altered states of consciousness. Far from quotidian diary entries, Ginsberg’s observations in these pages, interspersed with poetry, dream notations, and musings about spirituality, amount to a critical chapter in the poet’s informal autobiography. Writing more during these six months than in any of his other journals, Ginsberg summons great ferment. In his distinctive accounts of all that he encounters, elevating travel writing to lyrical expression; in an abundance of poems published here for the first time, in both first drafts and polished forms; in his reports of fascinating conversations; and, in particular, in detailed passages that delve into inner recesses of his consciousness, Ginsberg recreates a journey like no other, one that reflects the workings of one of the best minds of his generation in the world of his own making and in its mysterious, immutable counterpart in the South American landscape.

Author : Julia Alexis Kushigian
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Apocalypse in literature
ISBN : 9781469681900

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The Resilient Apocalypse by Julia Alexis Kushigian Pdf

"Portraits of 'good battling evil' in the geography of Hell come in many forms in the Hispanic World. Apocalyptic nightmares, fearful images of life, chaos and death are inclusive and interdepEndent, yet simultaneously project an exceptional quality. Where images remain unfulfilled in narrow allegiances to a proscribed End, this investigation explores how narrative logic may challenge unified notions of finalities. Redeploying transglobal character and narrative potential, it distinguishes itself by training the lens on New Beginnings. Its analysis embeds resilient formulas for combating the End through resistance in Latin America and Spain revealed in gilded illustration, decolonizing drama, messianic chronicles and poetry, baroque letters, racially-motivated novels, sexuality-threatening films, and intimidating immigrant photos complete with destruction wreaked by climate change. Through chaos the resilient Apocalypse simultaneously performs as an internal defense (a vehicle for mourning) and a counter-discourse to power (a mechanism for resistance). Its strategy listens to and keeps the enemy 'in sight and in mind,' a formula for grappling with and engaging difference that analyzes the traces left on each other's cultural fabric in an open-Ended, communal struggle. This study argues for decolonizing the politics of the End and reformulating an incomplete, mythical, uncanny quality into a poetics of resistance garnering communal solutions and obligations. Here the Apocalypse is unremittingly sought after to redefine social justice, salvation and reality over time and past collateral damage, ironically providing future hope against itself, the crushing fear of the End. It crystalizes what had yet to be comprehensively explored: how rival traditions internalize competing apocalyptic worldviews to arrive at sustainable plans of action, time-tested, reputable cultural models to control dissension from within and without, and social goals supported by traces the other imprints on their cultural ethos. Bracketing the finality of the End and arguing the process from conflict archaeology toward New Beginnings, salvation, solace or hope, resolves an incomplete myth by negotiating the afterward. Revealing how plural, competing viewpoints of the End go a long way to legitimize each other, this theory of unfulfilled promise forever changes the way we engage the other and value the self"

Author : Karl August Auberlen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Apocalypse of Daniel
ISBN : UOM:39015050997801

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The Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations of St John by Karl August Auberlen Pdf

Author : Carl August AUBERLEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017185755

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The Prophecies of Daniel and the Revelations of St. John, Viewed in Their Mutual Relation ... With an Appendix, by M. Fr. Roos. Translated by the Rev. Adolph Saphir by Carl August AUBERLEN Pdf