Oasis Of Imagination

Author : Ted Turnau
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781789744774

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Oasis of Imagination by Ted Turnau Pdf

What should the church's cultural witness be? Too often, it has been marked by political strong-arming or fearful withdrawal into the "Christian bubble." There is another way: creative cultural engagement, using our imaginations to plant oases in the desert, breathable spaces that refresh, challenge, and draw together Christians and non-Christians alike. Oases refresh the soul, provoke discussion, challenge assumptions, and lead the imagination to a new place. In Oasis of Imagination, Ted Turnau lays out the Biblical mandate for engaging culture, and why the imaginative path holds promise. He explores the nature of the imagination from both Scripture and nature. He asks, "What makes a Christian imagination that resonates with non-Christians different?" He explores examples of Christian creativity done well from video games to movies to music to The Lord of the Rings. He challenges the church, artist and non-artist alike, to be intentional about their own imaginative lives, how artists and non-artists can support each other, as they together engage in building bridges and being cultural ambassadors to the wider community. In-depth and wide-ranging, Oasis of Imagination equips and encourages Christians, whatever their calling, to consider how to imaginatively enter into the broader cultural conversation, beyond the culture-warring and Christian bubbles. It seeks to provoke a conversation within the church between its artists and non-artists about how best to unleash our God-given creativity to shine light into the broader culture.

Author : Ted Turnau
Publisher : IVP
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 178974475X

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Oasis of Imagination by Ted Turnau Pdf

Oasis of Imagination equips and encourages Christians, whatever their calling, to go beyond culture-warring or Christian bubbles and use the arts and imagination to plant oases to draw people together.

Author : Ted Turnau,Ruth Naomi Floyd
Publisher : Inter-Varsity Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789744743

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Imagination Manifesto by Ted Turnau,Ruth Naomi Floyd Pdf

Ted Turnau introduces readers to the major themes of his in-depth Oasis of Imagination by collaborating with Ruth Naomi Floyd. Floyd brings her distinctive experience as a Christian artist to make this a practical guide that distils the "why" and "how" of embracing Christian creative cultural engagement. Why does the church need to pay more attention to the imagination? How can we, in this day and age, best enter our cultural conversations for the common good? How can the local church better support its creatives, enriching its own imaginative life and building bridges to their neighbours and the wider culture? Whether you are a Christian artist or creative yourself, or an everyday Christian searching for a path beyond the culture wars and Christian bubble, Imagination Manifesto will give you biblical foundations, practical pointers, discussion starters, and inspiration for "planting oases" in today's culture.

Author : Andrew Wommack
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781680312874

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The Power of Imagination by Andrew Wommack Pdf

Too often believers pray for healing but never experience it. They pray for prosperity but never receive it. Why? Because they don’t know how to use a godly imagination correctly. They don’t see themselves healed. They don’t see themselves prosperous. They don’t see themselves victorious. In The Power of Imagination...

Author : Kerry Kirkwood
Publisher : Destiny Image Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780768488128

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The Power of Imagination by Kerry Kirkwood Pdf

Just imagine! Does God want you to use your imagination? Are Christians to turn off their imaginative, creative side when they become mature believers? The answers may surprise you! The Power of Imagination reveals the part of spiritual life that is often shunned or closeted away because it may seem New Age or too unconventional. On the contrary, when believers use their imaginations to see beyond current circumstances into the realm where God paints pictures in their minds, healings are commonplace, goals are accomplished, dreams come true, and victories are celebrated! But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit (2 Corinthians 3:14-18). You can develop the ability to see as God sees. You can see the future that He planned for you before you were born. Through the power of your God-given imagination, nothing is impossible—no problem too big, no relationship too broken. This exciting new way of living is thoughtfully and biblically presented in a refreshing and empowering way that will keep you imagining for years to come. Topics include: How to Develop a Godly Imagination Supernatural Vision Living from the Inside Out Discerning Vain Imaginations Seeing the Unseen Deep Calls Unto Deep A special chapter is devoted to healing the orphan spirit that can keep people from becoming all God intended for them—walls are identified and torn down, replaced with a beacon of beauty and light shining throughout the spirit, body, and soul. Just imagine!

Author : Christopher Badura,Amy Kind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000399066

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Epistemic Uses of Imagination by Christopher Badura,Amy Kind Pdf

This book explores a topic that has recently become the subject of increased philosophical interest: how can imagination be put to epistemic use? Though imagination has long been invoked in contexts of modal knowledge, in recent years philosophers have begun to explore its capacity to play an epistemic role in a variety of other contexts as well. In this collection, the contributors address an assortment of issues relating to epistemic uses of imagination, and in particular, they take up the ways in which our imaginings must be constrained so as to justify beliefs and give rise to knowledge. These constraints are explored across several different contexts in which imagination is appealed to for justification, namely reasoning, modality and modal knowledge, thought experiments, and knowledge of self and others. Taken as a whole, the contributions in this volume break new ground in explicating when and how imagination can be epistemically useful. Epistemic Uses of Imagination will be of interest to scholars and advanced students who are working on imagination, as well as those working more broadly in epistemology, aesthetics, and philosophy of mind. Chapters 6 and 12 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Author : Vern Alford
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1420884247

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Oasis 101 by Vern Alford Pdf

My book is a variety of poems written from the heart at a time when the world I had been living in, shattered. If you have ever lost someone, suddenly, perhaps you will be able to relate to. Some of these poems were written for others. Who perhaps were dealing with difficult times. The majority is for the loss I have had to endure. This is my way and how I am getting through the grieving. It brings a peace to me when I write. As you continue to read, the second part is my philosophy. Why certain people are taken and others left behind.This is how in my mind I try to rationalize life and the surprises life has to hand us. Exhausted from continuously asking the question why? To continue to do so, when there will never be an answer to this question. The Lord brought this Angel into my life for three years, enriched my life with love that only exists once in a lifetime.Perhaps to bring me to this point, the next stage of my life.Without having met my soul mate, my earth angel, this book could and would never have been. This poetry book is like a love story.

Author : Amy Kind
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317329442

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination by Amy Kind Pdf

Imagination occupies a central place in philosophy, going back to Aristotle. However, following a period of relative neglect there has been an explosion of interest in imagination in the past two decades as philosophers examine the role of imagination in debates about the mind and cognition, aesthetics and ethics, as well as epistemology, science and mathematics. This outstanding Handbook contains over thirty specially commissioned chapters by leading philosophers organised into six clear sections examining the most important aspects of the philosophy of imagination, including: Imagination in historical context: Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Kant, Husserl, and Sartre What is imagination? The relation between imagination and mental imagery; imagination contrasted with perception, memory, and dreaming Imagination in aesthetics: imagination and our engagement with music, art, and fiction; the problems of fictional emotions and ‘imaginative resistance’ Imagination in philosophy of mind and cognitive science: imagination and creativity, the self, action, child development, and animal cognition Imagination in ethics and political philosophy, including the concept of 'moral imagination' and empathy Imagination in epistemology and philosophy of science, including learning, thought experiments, scientific modelling, and mathematics. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Imagination is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy of mind and psychology, aesthetics, and ethics. It will also be a valuable resource for those in related disciplines such as psychology and art.

Author : Haiping Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134570881

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Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 by Haiping Yan Pdf

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood. Unlike recent literary studies that focus on the discursive formation of the modern Chinese nation state and its gendering effects, Haiping Yan explores the radical degrees to which Chinese women writers re-invented their lives alongside their writings in distinctly conditioned and fundamentally revolutionary ways. The book draws on these women's voluminous works and dramatic lives to illuminate the range of Chinese women's literary and artistic achievements and offers vital sources for exploring the history and legacy of twentieth-century Chinese feminist consciousness and its centrality in the Chinese Revolution. It will be of great interest to scholars of gender studies, literary and cultural studies and performance studies.

Author : Jasper Knight,Stefania Merlo,Andrea Zerboni
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031471605

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Landscapes and Landforms of the Central Sahara by Jasper Knight,Stefania Merlo,Andrea Zerboni Pdf

This book describes the Central Sahara region, bringing together an unprecedented combination of diverse and often historic research published in different languages in order to describe its varied landscapes and landforms. The Central Sahara region consists of Libya, Algeria, Mali, Niger and Chad, countries that share similar landscape histories and common landscape traits, including massifs, sand seas, paleowater features and large depressions. Furthermore, human settlement of this region goes hand-in-hand with climate and environmental changes and landscape evolution during the Holocene and earlier; hence, Central Saharan landscapes and landforms provide valuable insights into landscape–human relationships over long timescales. The book offers a comprehensive yet accessible reference source, drawing on both past and present interdisciplinary research and gathering the insights of authors from many different countries to explore a region that has largely been overlooked in available literature.

Author : Anja Schäfer,Dr. Raymond Keller
Publisher : DISCUS Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9783910804036

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Venus and I by Anja Schäfer,Dr. Raymond Keller Pdf

A Story about Initiations, the Transformation of the Earth, and LoveIf you count yourself among the millions seeking a greater spiritual enlightenment and understanding, then Anjas Venus and I is definitely written specifically for you. Inasmuch as the Moon is the most splendid reflector of the Light of the Sun to the Earth, so also is Anjas Venus and I a reflector of the cosmic consciousness one attains from the illumined masters of our sister planet who have come before us.In the Light of Venus! Dr. Raymond Keller Cosmic RayContents: Venus Ambassadors, Omnec Onec, Dr. Raymond Keller Cosmic Ray, Phaistos Disc, Atlantis, Cyclic Time Linear Time, Venus-Germany-Connection, Transformation and Future of the Earth, Ascension, Awakening, Artificial Timeline (2D) and Natural Timeline (5D), Spiritual Practices, Levels of Consciousness, Journey of Soul, Twin Flames, Unconditional Love, Jo Conrad Interview with Omnec Onec. I am certain today that I have incarnated as one of the Souls to break down encrusted structures and to help both myself and people to allow true, divine love to rise within and be embodied. We are here to help Mother Earth, by returning home to divine love, to raise herself to a higher vibrational frequency and end the age of darkness and ignorance. Anja Schäfer * venus-spirit.com

Author : Emily A. Haddad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351913218

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Orientalist Poetics by Emily A. Haddad Pdf

Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics. It convincingly demonstrates orientalism's centrality to the evolution of poetry and poetics in both nations, and provides a singularly comprehensive and definitive analysis of the aesthetic impact of orientalism on nineteenth-century poetry. Because it examines the poetry of the entire century across both national literatures, the book is in a unique position to articulate the essential part orientalism plays in major developments of nineteenth-century poetics. Through probing discussions of an array of prominent nineteenth-century poets-including Shelley, Southey, Byron, Hugo, Musset, Leconte de Lisle, Wordsworth, Hemans, Gautier, Tennyson, Arnold and Wilde-Emily A. Haddad reveals how orientalism functions as a diffuse avant-garde, a crucial medium for the cultivation and refinement of a broad range of experimental positions on poetry and poetics. Haddad argues that while orientalist poems are often viewed mainly as artefacts of European attitudes towards the East and imperialism, poetic representations of the Islamic Orient also provide an indispensable matrix for the reexamination of such aesthetically fundamental issues as the purpose of poetry, the value of mimesis, and the relationship between nature and art. Orientalist Poetics effectively bridges the gap between the analysis of poetics and the analysis of orientalism. In showing that major poetic developments have roots in orientalism, Haddad's book offers a valuable and innovative revisionist view of nineteenth-century literary history.

Author : Thom Rock
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498218252

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A Table in the Wilderness by Thom Rock Pdf

The joyful premise at the heart of this book is that there is a table lavishly spread for all who hunger for forgiveness--the believer, the doubter, and the famished. The book's journey begins and ends with this assertion: not only is there a table of forgiveness set for us in the many wildernesses of life, there is a seat waiting for each and every one of us at that table. What matters is whether we take that seat and, if so, how we behave at the feast. Rooted in the notion of journeying, of setting out each day to discover some new vista along the many paths to the banquet hall of forgiveness, A Table in the Wilderness draws upon the wisdom of multiple religious traditions, as well as non-religious sources, in order to gain perspective on this long misunderstood subject. Readers are just as likely to encounter Dr. Seuss as they are to read the words of Sri Ramakrishna or Saint Augustine along the way. Anyone who has ever been hurt or has hurt another will find this book a helpful guide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Lifestyles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029376907

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New Age by Anonim Pdf

Author : Laureen Vonnegut
Publisher : Counterpoint Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1582433607

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Oasis by Laureen Vonnegut Pdf

Exiled from an impoverished Russian childhood by her desperate mother in order to give her a new life, Lili is sold to become a wife-in-training - ultimately purchased by a Moroccan man for whom she feels nothing but hatred. When their treacherous relationship explodes on a remote road in the conflict-torn Sahara, Lili pitches herself into what she hopes will be the end of this miserable life - only to reemerge into an oasis of inscrutable characters that is desired by hostile forces for the secrets buried under its sand. Blistered and barefoot in her torn gown, Lili brazenly stands six-feet tall in front of her rescuers, who can only assume that she is either an angel or the mythical djenni, come to destroy their haven. But Midhat, the putative owner of the oasis sees her for what she is: a commodity worth owning long enough to use for his own advancement. As Lili slowly pieces together the events and personalities flying around her, she also mulls over her past misfortunes and yearns for what she calls her "third death, " the one that will erase for good the creature she has become at the hands of Madame Mer, a cunning flesh monger. As the daily intrigues and secret betrayals of her tiny outpost of humanity become clearer, Lili discovers that the only way out is to find a way back into the world through these similarly fractured souls.