Profile Of A Religious Man

Author : Edwin Zackrison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532699047

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Profile of a Religious Man by Edwin Zackrison Pdf

This book is a “journey book.” Sitting down at a computer and producing the story has been a grand trek. I have learned that there is a principle in nature that some things need to mellow, calm down, and soak in. The refusal of winemakers to take a wine before its time is a notion I am coming to understand. It works with writers as well. Like a fetus signaling its mother that it is time to head for the hospital, a literary work stays in the mind until its time. In my education, I have read of the battles of great Church leaders who were eventually thrown out of their churches. In my denominational education, I was largely led to see them as heretics, rebels, eccentrics, revolutionaries, apostates, and as generally representing a lower form of spirituality. Church education often asked me to surrender my biases in favor of accepting a new set of assumptions—my denominational ones. We were to be critical of everything except our organization. I submit that there is danger in that. This book will cover incidents from the first forty years of my life as a religious addict. You may find something here that you can identify with.

Author : Edir Macedo
Publisher : Unipro
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788571408647

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The profile of a man of God by Edir Macedo Pdf

God needs people who are filled with the Holy Spirit, who are worried about their own will or future, and who have adopted the character of the Lord Jesus. These people need to think like He thinks, speak like He speaks, behave like He behaves, and feel like He feels. These people must embrace their faith in the Lord Jesus in order to be tools in God's hands and reveal His character to the world. The Lord Jesus said that many are called but few are chosen. But who is chosen. But who is chosen? How are they identified? Why were anointed men of the past different from men today? In The Profile of a Man of God, Bishop Macedo tries to answer these and many other questions based on what he has seen in the Work of God and, above all, in His Word.

Author : Edwin Zackrison
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781532699061

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Profile of a Religious Man by Edwin Zackrison Pdf

This book is a "journey book." Sitting down at a computer and producing the story has been a grand trek. I have learned that there is a principle in nature that some things need to mellow, calm down, and soak in. The refusal of winemakers to take a wine before its time is a notion I am coming to understand. It works with writers as well. Like a fetus signaling its mother that it is time to head for the hospital, a literary work stays in the mind until its time. In my education, I have read of the battles of great Church leaders who were eventually thrown out of their churches. In my denominational education, I was largely led to see them as heretics, rebels, eccentrics, revolutionaries, apostates, and as generally representing a lower form of spirituality. Church education often asked me to surrender my biases in favor of accepting a new set of assumptions--my denominational ones. We were to be critical of everything except our organization. I submit that there is danger in that. This book will cover incidents from the first forty years of my life as a religious addict. You may find something here that you can identify with.

Author : Thomas O. Hovestol
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575675497

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Spiritual Profiling by Thomas O. Hovestol Pdf

Jesus’ world was far more religiously pluralistic than most of us imagine. He grew up and headquartered His ministry in “Galilee of the Gentiles.” He regularly rubbed shoulders with polytheistic and superstitious Romans, with philosophical and sophisticated Greeks, with hard-partying pagans, and with God-fearing Africans. The Bible tells us that Jesus, unlike His fellow countrymen, did not avoid the despised and syncretistic Samaritans. Nor did Jesus shun the Jews who were considered persona non grata in the local synagogues, like those who worked for the occupying government, or who rejected Hebrew ways in favor of Greek, or who lived hellion lifestyles. Moreover, Jesus interacted with individuals representing all of the major sects of Judaism--Sadducees, Pharisees, Zealots, and Essenes. And these included a huge variety of spiritual expression from the emotional to the contemplative, from the spontaneous to the staid, from Bible-thumpers to compassion-lovers, from those who push religion to the four corners of their lives while others passionately seek to push it to the four corners of the globe. Is there some way to categorize, organize and understand the varieties of spiritual expression that Jesus encountered? Is it possible that the kinds of people Jesus dealt with in His day are similar to the ones we face today? Are there prototypical and stereotypical religious patterns to which people gravitate? And why do we do so? If we lived in Jesus’ day, what spiritual “camp” would be most like ours? How would Jesus approach us? What would he do with us? What would our Spiritual Profile be?

Author : Marta Trzebiatowska,Steve Bruce
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191611667

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Why are Women more Religious than Men? by Marta Trzebiatowska,Steve Bruce Pdf

Women are more religious than men. Despite being excluded from leadership positions, in almost every culture and religious tradition, women are more likely than men to pray, to worship, and to claim that their faith is important to them. Women also dominate the world of 'New Age' spirituality and are far more superstitious than men. This book reviews the now-sizeable body of social research to consider if the gender gap in religion is indeed universal. Marta Trzebiatowska and Steve Bruce extensively critique competing explanations of the differences found. They conclude that the gender gap is not the result of biology but is rather the consequence of important social differences over-lapping and reinforcing each other. Responsibility for managing birth, child-rearing and death, for example, and attitudes to the body, illness and health, each play a part. In the West, the gender gap is exaggerated because the social changes that undermined the plausibility of religion bore most heavily on men first. Where the lives of men and women become more similar, and where religious indifference grows, the gender gap gradually disappears. Written in an accessible style whilst drawing some robust conclusions, the book's main purpose is to serve as a state-of-the-art review for those interested in one of the largest differences between male and female behaviour.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Mental health
ISBN : UCR:31210023565813

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Religion and Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU15394301

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Religious Bodies, 1916: Separate denominations : history, description, and statistics by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of the Census
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Religion
ISBN : COLUMBIA:CU15394280

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Religious Bodies, 1906: Separate denominations : history, description, and statistics by United States. Bureau of the Census Pdf

Author : David G. Bromley
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195177299

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Teaching New Religious Movements by David G. Bromley Pdf

In this volume, a group of senior NRM scholars who have been instrumental in the development of the field offer essays that present the basics of NRM scholarship along with guidance for teachers on classroom use.

Author : Dawn Perlmutter
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781420041040

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Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes by Dawn Perlmutter Pdf

The legalities of particular religious practices depend on many factors, such as the type of occult or religious activity, the current laws, and the intention of the individual practitioner. Written by the director of the Institute for the Research of Organized and Ritual Violence, Investigating Religious Terrorism and Ritualistic Crimes is the fir

Author : Chris Stedman
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780807014394

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Faitheist by Chris Stedman Pdf

The story of a former Evangelical Christian turned openly gay atheist who now works to bridge the divide between atheists and the religious The stunning popularity of the “New Atheist” movement—whose most famous spokesmen include Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens—speaks to both the growing ranks of atheists and the widespread, vehement disdain for religion among many of them. In Faitheist, Chris Stedman tells his own story to challenge the orthodoxies of this movement and make a passionate argument that atheists should engage religious diversity respectfully. Becoming aware of injustice, and craving community, Stedman became a “born-again” Christian in late childhood. The idea of a community bound by God’s love—a love that was undeserved, unending, and guaranteed—captivated him. It was, he writes, a place to belong and a framework for making sense of suffering. But Stedman’s religious community did not embody this idea of God’s love: they were staunchly homophobic at a time when he was slowly coming to realize that he was gay. The great suffering this caused him might have turned Stedman into a life-long New Atheist. But over time he came to know more open-minded Christians, and his interest in service work brought him into contact with people from a wide variety of religious backgrounds. His own religious beliefs might have fallen away, but his desire to change the world for the better remained. Disdain and hostility toward religion was holding him back from engaging in meaningful work with people of faith. And it was keeping him from full relationships with them—the kinds of relationships that break down intolerance and improve the world. In Faitheist, Stedman draws on his work organizing interfaith and secular communities, his academic study of religion, and his own experiences to argue for the necessity of bridging the growing chasm between atheists and the religious. As someone who has stood on both sides of the divide, Stedman is uniquely positioned to present a way for atheists and the religious to find common ground and work together to make this world—the one world we can all agree on—a better place.

Author : Bakheit M. Nur Mohammed
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Anthropology of religion
ISBN : 9783643909169

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The Religious Men in Jebel Marra by Bakheit M. Nur Mohammed Pdf

"The study investigates how Muslim religious specialists (fuqarâ, sing. fakî) acquire Qur'anic knowledge in the context of the 'communities of practice'. It contextualises the Qur'anic schools of Jebel Marra in the Sudan arguing that the fuqarâ increase their access to knowledge of the Qur'an by socially interacting with each other. The book is grounded in a[n] ethnographic study of Qur'anic memorisation and activities that the fuqarâ perform after graduation from Qur'anic schools. It thus provides a fresh perspective to Islamic learning and epistemology. 'The great value of the study lies in the author's reconstruction of the practices and techniques, cognitive and corporeal, which are systematically employed to memorise the whole of the Qur'an.'"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : Thomas DAWSON (Missionary.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1827
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0025651896

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The Christian Astronomer; Or a Familiar Description & Religious Improvement of Subjects Connected with Astronomy. Also a Brief Survey of the Bible in Reference to that Science. Illustrated with Engravings by Thomas DAWSON (Missionary.) Pdf

Author : Roger East,Richard J. Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781317639404

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Profiles of People in Power by Roger East,Richard J. Thomas Pdf

Succint narrative biographies of every serving head of state or head of government, covering some 200 countries and territories. Each country section contains a brief explanation of its type of government and the respective roles of the head of state, the head of government and the legislature; a listing of the most recent heads of state and head of government, with dates of office; biographical profiles of the current head of state and head of government, and other recent incumbents of these positions who remain significant and active political leaders; and a photographic section with pictures of many of the world's political leaders. Fully indexed by name, date of taking office, and source of authority.

Author : William L. Rowe,Nick Trakakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351872812

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William L. Rowe on Philosophy of Religion by William L. Rowe,Nick Trakakis Pdf

William Rowe is one of the leading thinkers in contemporary philosophy of religion. Although he is best known for his contributions to the problem of evil, he has produced innovative and influential work across a wide array of subjects at the interface between philosophy and religion. He has, for example, written extensively on the existentialist theologian, Paul Tillich, on the challenging problem of divine freedom, and on the traditional arguments in support of the existence of God. His work in these areas is distinguished by its clarity, rigour, originality, and sensitivity towards the claims of his theistic opponents. Indeed, Rowe's work has played a pivotal role in the remarkable revival of analytic philosophy of religion since the 1970s. The present collection brings together for the first time Rowe's most significant contributions to the philosophy of religion. This diverse but representative selection of Rowe's writings will provide students, professional scholars as well as general readers with stimulating and accessible discussions on such topics as the philosophical theology of Paul Tillich, the problem of evil, divine freedom, arguments for the existence of God, religious experience, life after death, and religious pluralism.