Knowing And Loving

Author : Robert Beezat
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Happiness
ISBN : 9781608446063

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Knowing and Loving by Robert Beezat Pdf

Be joyful Have fun Be the happy person you were born to be Understanding, developing, and nurturing the human capacities of knowing and loving are the keys to finding deep and long lasting human happiness. Who am I? What am I? Why am I here? Is there a God? What will really make me happy? These are questions all of us ask ourselves from time to time. Our answers to or avoidance of those questions shape the practical and moral choices we make every day. Those choices, in turn, determine our level of happiness. As human beings, we are born to know and love. With a grasp of this basic concept, we can make choices and decisions which will enable us to live authentic, good, and happy lives in the short term and the long run. It is never too early or too late in life to be deeply happy Robert Beezat is a successful businessman, public official, and community leader whose life is devoted to working for social justice, peace and the common good. He has been engaged for over 50 years with business, social, political, and religious issues at the local, national, and international levels. As a practical man and a man of faith, he addresses the important questions which confront all of us regarding the critical decisions and choices we make as we try to build a good and happy life for ourselves, our families, and society at large. He holds Bachelor and Master Degrees and has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities. He is currently a speaker at colleges and universities regarding social justice issues and the concept of the Common Good. He has been married to a wonderful woman for 44 years. They have two daughters and two grandchildren.

Author : Michael Dauphinais,Matthew Levering
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268077907

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Knowing the Love of Christ by Michael Dauphinais,Matthew Levering Pdf

Knowing the Love of Christ provides a thorough introduction to the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas in accessible language. As a complement to the many short introductions to St. Thomas’s philosophy, this book fills a gap in the literature on Thomas—a comprehensive introduction to his thought written by theologians. With enthusiasm and insight, Michael Dauphinais and Matthew Levering make available the vast theology of Thomas Aquinas. Focusing upon the Summa Theologiae, Dauphinais and Levering illumine the profoundly biblical foundations of Thomas’s powerful vision of reality. Drawing upon their own experience, the authors guide readers into grappling with the fresh and penetrating insights of St. Thomas. Students at all stages of theological education will find this book an enriching introduction to the mysteries of the Christian faith.

Author : Fr Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange
Publisher : Saint Joseph Communications
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1942759002

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Knowing the Love of God by Fr Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange Pdf

In this compilation of retreat talks, the beloved Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange gives a blueprint for progress in the spiritual life.

Author : Robert Sokolowski
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0813208270

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The God of Faith and Reason by Robert Sokolowski Pdf

Identifies what is most radically distinctive about Christian belief. Addressed to a non-technical audience, the book helps the reader examine the most basic questions concerning Christian faith.

Author : Anthony J. Steinbock
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810144040

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Knowing by Heart by Anthony J. Steinbock Pdf

Drawing on and developing the phenomenological work of figures such as Edmund Husserl and Max Scheler, Knowing by Heart: Loving as Participation and Critique provides an account of the various feelings and feeling‐states that pertain to matters of the heart. Anthony J. Steinbock’s work investigates the special kind of knowing that is revealed most profoundly through love. Knowing by Heart describes the movement of loving as a participation that bears on all beings. Eschewing the dichotomy of rationalism and sensibility that has dominated discussions of love and emotion, Steinbock understands the heart as a vast schema ranging from the deepest loving to affects and felt conditions. The book brings into focus the importance of a full‐bodied relational account of a normative critique based in emotion. From a phenomenological description of diverse feelings to the normativity of loving as the discernment of the heart, this work evaluates hating’s relation to loving. At the basis of all this is a phenomenological and philosophical anthropology in response to the basic question: In reality, who and what are we?

Author : Emily Ogden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226751351

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On Not Knowing by Emily Ogden Pdf

"Emily Ogden's On Not Knowing is at once a memoir and suite of pointed inquiries. Her brief, sharply observed essays invite the reader to think with her about problems she can't set aside: not knowing how to give birth, to listen, to hold it together, to love. Ogden moves nimbly across registers of experience, from the operation of a breast pump to the art of herding cattle; from one-night stands to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe; from kayaking near a whale to psychoanalytic meditation on drowning. Unapologetically personal in its range of reference and idiosyncratic in its canon, On Not Knowing takes for its subject neither a life nor a library, but a cherished world. Ultimately, Ogden wants to teach herself to resist the temptation of knowingness: to encounter passionate love, well remembered art, and the new lives of her children without forearming herself with a sense that these things are already understood. Committed, as a scholar, to the accumulation of knowledge, Ogden nonetheless finds that knowingness is, for her, a way of getting stuck, a way of not really living. These essays want to learn with us to resist the temptation to cling to the wall at the edge of the pool, and instead to swim"--

Author : George Westhaver,Rebekah Vince
Publisher : SCM Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780334058304

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Christ Unabridged by George Westhaver,Rebekah Vince Pdf

A deep and scholarly study on the person of Christ as Son of Man from an impressive array of key theological and philosophical thinkers, including NT Wright, Lydia Schumacher and Oliver O'Donovan. Poetic interludes from renowned poet and scholar Malcolm Guite creatively shed a different light on the subject.

Author : Christopher Barzak
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780553905892

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The Love We Share Without Knowing by Christopher Barzak Pdf

In this haunting, richly woven novel of modern life in Japan, the author of the acclaimed debut One for Sorrow explores the ties that bind humanity across the deepest divides. Here is a Murakamiesque jewel box of intertwined narratives in which the lives of several strangers are gently linked through love, loss, and fate. On a train filled with quietly sleeping passengers, a young man’s life is forever altered when he is miraculously seen by a blind man. In a quiet town an American teacher who has lost her Japanese lover to death begins to lose her own self. On a remote road amid fallow rice fields, four young friends carefully take their own lives—and in that moment they become almost as one. In a small village a disaffected American teenager stranded in a strange land discovers compassion after an encounter with an enigmatic red fox, and in Tokyo a girl named Love learns the deepest lessons about its true meaning from a coma patient lost in dreams of an affair gone wrong. From the neon colors of Tokyo, with its game centers and karaoke bars, to the bamboo groves and hidden shrines of the countryside, these souls and others mingle, revealing a profound tale of connection—uncovering the love we share without knowing. Exquisitely perceptive and deeply affecting, Barzak’s artful storytelling deftly illuminates the inner lives of those attempting to find—or lose—themselves in an often incomprehensible world.

Author : Gary Chapman
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-17
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781575678856

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The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman Pdf

Marriage should be based on love, right? But does it seem as though you and your spouse are speaking two different languages? #1 New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman guides couples in identifying, understanding, and speaking their spouse's primary love language-quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, or physical touch. By learning the five love languages, you and your spouse will discover your unique love languages and learn practical steps in truly loving each other. Chapters are categorized by love language for easy reference, and each one ends with simple steps to express a specific language to your spouse and guide your marriage in the right direction. A newly designed love languages assessment will help you understand and strengthen your relationship. You can build a lasting, loving marriage together. Gary Chapman hosts a nationally syndicated daily radio program called A Love Language Minute that can be heard on more than 150 radio stations as well as the weekly syndicated program Building Relationships with Gary Chapman, which can both be heard on fivelovelanguages.com. The Five Love Languages is a consistent New York Times bestseller - with over 5 million copies sold and translated into 38 languages. This book is a sales phenomenon, with each year outselling the prior for 16 years running!

Author : John LaBarbara
Publisher : Sophia Institute Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781622823499

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Knowing God’s Love by John LaBarbara Pdf

If you are confused by the array of conflicting teachings that claim to be Catholic, or have found the Catechism too difficult to read, then this book will give you clear, concise, and readable explanations of the foundational truths for living the Catholic faith. Organized by topic, Dr. LaBarbara has pulled from countless Church documents to present a timely and compelling synthesis of not only what the Church teaches, but how those teachings fit together perfectly in a true unity of faith and truth. Read these pages, and you’ll learn so much more about who God is and who you are, and how fully embracing the Church’s teachings will lead you to truly live the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Author : Esther Lightcap Meek
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781621893165

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Loving to Know by Esther Lightcap Meek Pdf

Knowing is less about information and more about transformation; less about comprehension and more about being apprehended. This radical book develops the notion of covenant epistemology--an innovative, biblically compatible, holistic, embodied, life-shaping epistemological vision in which all knowing takes the shape of interpersonal, covenantal relationship. Rather than knowing in order to love, we love in order to know. Meek argues that all knowing is best understood as transformative encounter. Creatively blending insights from a diverse range of conversation partners--including Michael Polanyi, Michael D. Williams, Lesslie Newbigin, Parker Palmer, John Macmurray, Martin Buber, and James Loder--Meek offers critically needed "epistemological therapy" in response to the pervasive and damaging presumptions that those in Western culture continue to bring to efforts to know. The book's innovative approach--an unfolding journey of discovery-through-dialogue--itself subverts standard epistemological presumptions of timeless linearity. While it offers a sustained and sophisticated philosophical argument, Loving to Know's texts and textures interweave loosely to effect therapeutic epistemic transformation in the reader.

Author : Robert Holden, Ph.D.
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401941635

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Loveability by Robert Holden, Ph.D. Pdf

"Love is your destiny. It is the purpose of your life. It is the key to your happiness and to the evolution of the world." Loveability is a meditation on love. It addresses the most important thing you will ever learn. All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired. Robert Holden is the creator of a unique program on love called Loveability, which he teaches worldwide. He has helped thousands of people to transform their experience of love. "Love is the real work of your life," says Robert. "As you release the blocks to love you flourish even more in your relationships, work, and life." In Loveability, Robert weaves a beautiful mix of timeless principles and helpful practices about the nature of true love. With great intimacy and warmth, he shares stories, conversations, meditations, and poetry that have inspired him in his personal inquiry on love. Key themes include: • Your destiny is not just to find love; it is to be the most loving person you can be. • Self-love is how you are meant to feel about yourself. It is the key to loving others. • When you think something is missing in a relationship, it is probably you. • Forgiveness helps you to see that love has never hurt you; it is only your misperceptions of love that hurt. • The greatest influence you can have in any situation is to be the presence of love.

Author : bell hooks
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-30
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780062862174

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All About Love by bell hooks Pdf

A New York Times bestseller and enduring classic, All About Love is the acclaimed first volume in feminist icon bell hooks' "Love Song to the Nation" trilogy. All About Love reveals what causes a polarized society, and how to heal the divisions that cause suffering. Here is the truth about love, and inspiration to help us instill caring, compassion, and strength in our homes, schools, and workplaces. “The word ‘love’ is most often defined as a noun, yet we would all love better if we used it as a verb,” writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, renowned scholar, cultural critic and feminist bell hooks offers a proactive new ethic for a society bereft with lovelessness--not the lack of romance, but the lack of care, compassion, and unity. People are divided, she declares, by society’s failure to provide a model for learning to love. As bell hooks uses her incisive mind to explore the question “What is love?” her answers strike at both the mind and heart. Razing the cultural paradigm that the ideal love is infused with sex and desire, she provides a new path to love that is sacred, redemptive, and healing for individuals and for a nation. The Utne Reader declared bell hooks one of the “100 Visionaries Who Can Change Your Life.” All About Love is a powerful, timely affirmation of just how profoundly her revelations can change hearts and minds for the better.

Author : Christine Dixon
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781512742480

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Choosing Stillness, Knowing Love by Christine Dixon Pdf

Often our default is to turn for guidance to external sources rather than connecting to the God-given Spirit of Love within us. We may effectively forfeit our direct connection to God and become dependent on outside authorities, causing our spiritual roots to remain shallow and insecure. Choosing Stillness, Knowing Love offers a practical daily plan that makes connecting to the Spirit of God personal and tangible. Through guided journaling, awareness, and stillness exercises, this book encourages the reader to develop the habit of creating space to listen to the still, small voice of God. This leads to deeper roots that result in healing, wisdom, and a natural production of the fruit of the Spirit. This book is designed to focus on one person at a time, one moment at a time.

Author : Joanna Kimbrel,Stefanie Boyles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950185931

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Growing in Grace - Knowing and Loving God Through Spiritual Disciplines by Joanna Kimbrel,Stefanie Boyles Pdf