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Author : Paul Selig
Publisher : TarcherPerigee
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780399160905
In this latest revelation, the invisible teachers who speak through Selig actually instruct readers in how they can develop their own powers of clairvoyance, intuition and aura-reading.
Author : Gary Chartier
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781506481050
Is it true that all we need is love? Does love capture the essence of Christian ethics? Does a love-centered ethic need to be impartial in a way that leaves no room at ground-level for relationships and projects? What is the place of well-being in an ethic of love? Loving Creation: The Task of Moral Life seeks to answer these questions by showing how a love-ethic and an ethic of creation are not at odds but rather reinforce each other. Gary Chartier articulates a love-centered creation ethic--or a creation-centered love-ethic--and applies it to such issues as sex, economic life, love for enemies, and political order. In the book, Chartier offers a powerful alternative both to natural-law theories that seem to lose sight of the welfare of actual people and to the accounts of Christian love that embrace an alienating impartiality. He develops an understanding of Christian love as focused on creation that can contribute effectively to enriching both social practices and personal lives. Loving Creation is unabashedly theological. But the theological considerations it adduces are ones that will allow Christians to engage in the public sphere with adherents of other religious traditions and of none. It is a contribution not only to theological understanding but also to personal moral reflection, to church practice, and to Christian participation in public life.
Author : Paul Douglas,Mitch Hescox
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441230720
Faith-Based Solutions to Caring for the Earth Climate change is a confusing and polarizing issue. It may also prove to be the most daunting challenge of this century because children, the elderly, and the poor will be the first to feel its effects. The issue is all over the news, but what is seldom heard is a conservative, evangelical perspective. Connecting the dots between science and faith, this book explores the climate debate and how Christians can take the lead in caring for God's creation. The authors answer top questions such as "What's really happening?" and "Who can we trust?" and discuss stewarding the earth in light of evangelical values. "Acting on climate change is not about political agendas," they say. "It's about our kids. It's about being a disciple of Jesus Christ." Capping off this empowering book are practical, simple ideas for improving our environment and helping our families and those around us.
Author : Kathleen Fischer
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809146037
How can we bring about the profound conversion of mind and heart necessary to protect and preserve our planet at this critical point in history? Loving Creation shows that only when we are touched by God will we find new ways of relating to all other species and the Earth itself. Rich in tradition, the book draws from ancient and contemporary sources to fashion a holistic Christian spirituality that unites ecological concerns with social justice, personal struggles with those of the planet, theological reflection with scientific findings, and everyday grace with global outreach.
Author : Dr Abdul Qader Ismail
Publisher : Abdul Qader Ismail
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781739670580
How important are good manners and beautiful character in the life of a Muslim? What is the connection between loving Allah and loving our fellow human beings? How does one lead to the other, and why can one not exist without the other? Come, let us follow in the footsteps of the Prophets (peace be upon them all) and learn the reality of what it means to be a Muslim.
Author : Nathan J. Chambers
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781646021024
There is a broad consensus among biblical scholars that creation ex nihilo (from nothing) is a late Hellenistic concept with little inherent connection to Genesis 1 and other biblical creation texts. In this book, Nathan J. Chambers forces us to reconsider the question, arguing in favor of reading this chapter of the Bible in terms of ex nihilo creation and demonstrating that there is a sound basis for the early Christian development of the doctrine. Drawing on the theology of Augustine of Hippo and Thomas Aquinas, Chambers considers what the ex nihilo doctrine means and does in classical Christian dogma. He examines ancient Near Eastern cosmological texts that provide a potential context for reading Genesis 1. Recognizing the distance between the possible historical and theological frameworks for interpreting the text, he illuminates how this doctrine developed within early Christian thought as a consequence of the church’s commitment to reading Genesis 1 as part of Christian Scripture. Through original close readings of the chapter that engage critically with the work of Jon Levenson, Hermann Gunkel, and Brevard Childs, Chambers demonstrates that, far from precluding interpretive possibilities, reading Genesis 1 in terms of creation from nothing opens up a variety of interpretive avenues that have largely been overlooked in contemporary biblical scholarship. Timely and innovative, this book makes the case for a new (or recovered) framework for reading Genesis 1 that will appeal to biblical studies scholars and seminarians.
Author : Norman Wirzba
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493400089
How does Christianity change the way we view the natural world? In this addition to a critically acclaimed series, renowned theologian Norman Wirzba engages philosophers, environmentalists, and cultural critics to show how the modern concept of nature has been deeply problematic. He explains that understanding the world as creation rather than as nature or the environment makes possible an imagination shaped by practices of responsibility and gratitude, which can help bring healing to our lands and communities. By learning to give thanks for creation as God's gift of life, Christians bear witness to the divine love that is reconciling all things to God. Named a "Best Theology Book of 2015," Englewood Review of Books "Best Example of Theology in Conversation with Urgent Contemporary Concerns" for 2015, Hearts & Minds Bookstore
Author : Brian Davis
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781909107496
In this 5 session course, Brian Davis vividly reminds us that the human race is facing its greatest challenge: global warming, leading to climate change. This, along with the damage we have done, and are still doing to the environment, God’s wonderful creation, means that we all have to make radical changes to our whole way of life. Many of us who care about this issue are sometimes understandably quite pessimistic about the future. That's where faith in God should make a difference. Hope for the future is not the same as being optimistic. Being optimistic suggests always looking on the bright side. A hope based on faith in God should enable us to open our eyes and see what is actually happening to our planet today, and still believe there is much that we can do, individually and together, with God to guide and strengthen us. This York Course is available in the following formats: Course Book (Paperback 9781909107311) Course Book (eBook 9781909107496) Audio Book of Interview to support Caring for Creation York Course (CD 9781909107403) Audio Book of Interview (Digital Download 9781909107489) Transcript of interview to support Caring for Creation Course (Paperback 9781909107328) Transcript of interview (eBook 9781909107502) Book Pack (9781909107410 Featuring Paperback Course Book, Audio Book on CD and Paperback Transcript of Interview) Large print (9781909107427) The five sessions focus on: SESSION 1: The Environment SESSION 2: Global Warming and Climate Change SESSION 3: The Age of Humans – The Anthropocene Era SESSION 4: Coming out of Denial and Facing Crisis SESSION 5: Faith, Hope and Love The course audio features Ruth Valerio, Environmentalist, theologian, social activist, Tearfund Director and author of Saying Yes to Life (SPCK, 2020); Dave Bookless who specializes in biblical theology and biodiversity conservation and is Director of Theology for A Rocha International; Kuki Rokhum, who is on the Leadership Team of Renew our World and involved in the Lausanne Creation Care network; and David Clogh, who launched CreatureKind and DefaultVeg projects, and is concerned with the place of animals in Christian theology and ethics.
Author : Paul Selig
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-24
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781101188309
The channeled Guides of I Am the Word provide a concise and immensely powerful program in self-awareness that can ease negative complexes and align your existence with its highest purpose. Humanity has lost itself. Both as individuals and as a world culture, we have forgotten our true nature. In I Am the Word, writer and medium Paul Selig has recorded an extraordinary program for self- realization, as dispensed through beings of higher intelligence, sometimes called Guides or Ascended Masters. These figures seek, as they have in the past, to assist men and women in discovering the higher, purposeful nature-or "Christed Self"-that lies dormant within us all. In a series of enticing, irresistibly practical dialogues, the Guides of I Am the Word identify the emotional "boulders" that displace our authentic selves and consume our potential. The Guides provide to-the-point psychological and existential insights, along with self-developing exercises and affirmations, which begin to strip away residues of fear, self-doubt, and self-suffocating habits.
Author : Mehmet Yavuz Seker
Publisher : Tughra Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781597848770
The heart in the Islamic understanding is the expression of a human being's spiritual existence. It is a Divine gift and Divine subtle faculty bestowed upon humanity. It is a polished mirror reflecting God. Like a general, the heart commands all other bodily organs and faculties, which are its troops, Everything that comes from a human being, whether good or bad, is a product of the heart. Mehmet Y. Seker, a scholar of Sufism and tasawwuf, studies the concept of the heart in the Islamic tradition looking at how it is approached by three prominent scholars and thinkers of Islam: Ghazali, Said Nursi, and Fethullah Gulen. Being the first in English to take as its focus the human heart from an Islamic spiritual, this book comparatively analyzes classical and modern age interpretations and evaluations on the concept and adds to the rich literature of spirituality in the Islamic tradition.
Author : E. M. Conradie
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783643901378
Christians trying to "save the planet" have to relate "creation" with "salvation." This volume explores the ways in which this task is approached by a wide range of recent theological movements.
Author : Andrew K. Gabriel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620329542
Theologians working on the doctrine of creation are compelled to wrestle with Karl Barth's explication of this doctrine. And yet, studies on Barth have not paid a significant amount of attention to this aspect of his theology. To help fill this gap, Gabriel introduces and clarifies Barth's doctrine of creation by outlining its contours and evaluating three prominent critiques of Barth--critiques that focus on questions regarding the place of nature, the Trinity, Jesus, and history in his doctrine. Gabriel finds value in these critiques, while also identifying ways in which Barth's theology sometimes adequately addresses them. Through this, Gabriel mines insights from Barth that can contribute to a theology of nature or ecological theology and a Trinitarian theology of creation.
Author : William Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1668
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021059103
Author : Gaven Kerr OP
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190941321
In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation; Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his works in order to present a unified Thomistic metaphysics of creation. Kerr argues that Aquinas's metaphysics of creation, wherein God is conceived as the absolute source of all that exists, is the backbone of his philosophical theology. Throughout his writings, the framework of the absolute dependence of creatures on God and of the independence of God as existence itself is ever present. Without understanding this aspect of Aquinas's philosophical thought, Kerr suggests, it is impossible to understand his philosophy of God. When it comes to metaphysics, Thomas is committed to thinking through the issues involved therein on the basis of natural reason. Aquinas and the Metaphysics of Creation demonstrates Aquinas's belief that we must arrive at an affirmation of the existence of God on the basis of a wider metaphysical view as to the constitution of reality, a view that does not presuppose divine truths but can indeed establish them.
Author : Tim Thornborough
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178498633X
Teach children 2-4 years old how God made his very good and wonderful creation, with every shade of the rainbow.