Reflections Of Agape

Author : Jennifer Baptiste
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9768301023

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Reflections Of Agape by Jennifer Baptiste Pdf

"God is love!" These words thunder from the lips of preachers of nearly every Christian denomination, but many are questioning the truthfulness of this bold statement in the face of the pain and suffering that people in every part of this world are experiencing. Disasters, rape, murder, abuse of all kinds and diseases of every type and kind, including this century's COVID 19 virus, affect almost every home, Christian and non-Christian. How can a good God sit idly by and allow innocent children and good people to suffer and die? Have Christians been pacifying the masses with lies?Reflections of Agape unmasks the truth behind pain and suffering and unveils the hidden evidence of a loving God amidst the chaos and devastation of God's once perfect creation.

Author : Christopher West
Publisher : Ascension Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Love That Satisfies by Christopher West Pdf

The celebrated author of Theology of the Body Explained andTheology of the Body for Beginners offers compelling insights into Pope Benedict’s profound teaching on human and divine love. The Love That Satisfies is for all - whether married, single, or religious - who are seeking the face of true love in a wounded world. In The Love That Satisfies, Christopher West turns to the wisdom of both Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II in order to shed some light on sexual love (eros) and its relationship with divine love (agape). Why is the love between man and woman so attractive and elusive, demanding and rewarding, restrictive and liberating, painful and ecstatic, messy and beautiful, maddening and fulfilling? Our world is saturated with sex but remains starved for love. Why? Perhaps as Waylon Jennings put it, we’re “Lookin' for love in all the wrong places, lookin' for love in too many faces.” Where, then, is the right place and whose, then, is the right face in which to look for love? By reflecting on key passages from Pope Benedict’s grand encyclical Deus Caritas Est, this book explores these and many other questions with the goal of pointing all who read it towards the love that satisfies. Those who give Pope Benedict’s teaching the attention it deserves will discover that the Catholic Church has a vision of sexual love far more glorious than anything Sigmund Freud, Hugh Hefner, Britney Spears, or Howard Stern could dream of or imagine. You doubt? This book will make you a believer.

Author : Angela Floyd Amichia
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1544214456

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Agape by Angela Floyd Amichia Pdf

A cache of poetry on today's social, political and religious climate inspired by reflection on the words of Martin Luther King Jr.

Author : Mary Jane Noyes
Publisher : Belleville, Ont. : Guardian Books
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Agape
ISBN : 1553068882

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Silver Lining by Mary Jane Noyes Pdf

Author : Johannes M. Oravecz
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802868930

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God as Love by Johannes M. Oravecz Pdf

Nineteenth-century Russian religious intellectuals devoted a great deal of attention to the concept of agape, or Divine Love, arguing that the Christian church is a reflection of the triune, self-sacrificing God and his love for all of creation. On account of their deliberations, these intellectuals played a key role in mediating between the Orthodox Church and modern society. In God as Love Johannes Oravecz presents a comprehensive summation of twenty-five prominent Russian thinkers and their thought on the concept of agape, showing in detail how they broke new ground in their various affirmations of the truth that God is love. No other book in any language treats this topic with such breadth and depth.

Author : William Gaddis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440650031

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Agape Agape by William Gaddis Pdf

William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than fifty years Gaddis collected notes for a book about the mechanization of the arts, told by way of a social history of the player piano in America. In the years before his death in 1998, he distilled the whole mass into a fiction, a dramatic monologue by an elderly man with a terminal illness. Continuing Gaddis's career-long reflection on those aspects of corporate technological culture that are uniquely destructive of the arts, Agape Agape is a stunning achievement from one of the indisputable masters of postwar American fiction.

Author : John H. Armstrong
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781565486164

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Costly Love by John H. Armstrong Pdf

John Armstrong knows from personal experience how easy it is to put too much emphasis on correct teaching in our experience of church—and how easily we lose sight of the love on which Christ built his church when we do so. In Costly Love, Armstrong acknowledges the importance of doctrine and theological discussion in the church, but he urges Christians to focus first on whether we are following Jesus’ new commandment: to love as he loved. Our actions of love will begin to bring us closer to unity with one another and with God.

Author : Edward Sri,Elizabeth Sri
Publisher : Emmaus Road Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781940329765

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Surprised by Love by Edward Sri,Elizabeth Sri Pdf

Edward and Elizabeth Sri provide an excellent introduction to Pope Benedict's encyclical Deus Caritas Est. They ponder extensively two of the "loves" that the Pope Emeritus discusses, eros and agape - eros, a passionate, self-seeking love; and agape, one that turns to seek the good of the other. These loves are both exemplified most perfectly in God's love for His people - from the passionate love that's expressed in the Song of Songs to the self-emptying love that culminates in His death on the cross. As God exemplifies them, so we are to imitate them - in any friendship, but they are most especially at the heart of the marriage covenant. As the Sris remind us, we too-often think of love solely as the passionate eros; but we must remember that this eros must be - to use Benedict's words - "disciplined and purified if it is to provide not just fleeting pleasure, but a certain foretaste ... of that beatitude for which our whole being yearns."

Author : ACTS Missions
Publisher : ACTS Missions
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-12
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781545752692

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ACTS Retreat Manual by ACTS Missions Pdf

The intent of the ACTS Retreat Manual is to provide all priests, deacons, and lay ACTS Retreat Team leaders and members with the necessary information to facilitate the ACTS Retreat process in a way that grounds the experience in the invitation to encounter Jesus Christ and be His disciple.

Author : William Greenway
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498202398

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Agape Ethics by William Greenway Pdf

Consider intense moments when you have been seized by joy or, in different contexts, by anguish for another person, or a cat or dog, or perhaps even for a squirrel or possum struck as it dashed across the road: whether glorious or haunting, these are among the most profound and meaningful moments in our lives. Agape Ethics focuses our attention on such moments with utter seriousness and argues they reveal a spiritual reality, the reality of agape. Powerful streams of modern Western rationality reject the idea of agape. This has created a crisis of foundations in modern ethics and alienated us from love for all creatures. Working wholly within the bounds of reason, Agape Ethics joins an increasingly vibrant struggle to legitimate the spiritual reality of agape, to awaken people to its power, to clarify its ethical implications, and to validate our spiritual communion with all creatures in all creation. The result is a powerful, inclusive, and wholly reasonable defense of moral realism that should speak to all who are passionate about creating a maximally loving and good world.

Author : Ron Clark,Lori A. Clark
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498298117

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Reflections from the Marriage Table by Ron Clark,Lori A. Clark Pdf

In the midst of hectic and fast paced families, one stable element that can bring grace, love, and joy is the table. Biblically, the table was a place of mercy, unity, and hospitality. Marriage also is a uniting of male and female, to complement and partner, to create a new family, ministry, and community. When the marriage table becomes a central element, sacred and safe spaces are created for individuals, couples, and families to thrive and mature as God intended. Ron and Lori Clark share their experiences as a couple in ministry, working with family violence, and creating safe spaces for their marriage and children to mature and develop healthy self-esteem. This book, with discussion questions, is designed to help couples find partnership, peace, and grow together in relationship and love, whether in ministry or simply seeking to be who God called them to be.

Author : Maurizio Gentilini
Publisher : New City Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565481503

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Chiara Lubich by Maurizio Gentilini Pdf

The New York Times called Chiara Lubich “one of the most influential women in the Catholic Church.” And she was even more than that. Her spirituality has touched millions of people worldwide from different Christian churches, religions and cultural backgrounds. On the 100th anniversary of her birth, this new biography traces Chiara's story and the story of the Focolare Movement during the momentous upheavals in society and in the Church through the twentieth century and into the third millennium. This biography aims at presenting Chiara Lubich's life and work from a “historical” perspective, offering the reader a rich and well-documented development of facts, situations and experiences.

Author : Gennaro Iorio
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781622739950

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Sociology of Love by Gennaro Iorio Pdf

This short book deals with a sociological concept: love-agape. It is an attempt to demonstrate that love-agape resists, indeed insists, as a fact that cannot be reduced or concealed. Its simple goal is to introduce agape into the vocabulary of sociological analysis by demonstrating its potential to demarcate and to interpret social phenomena. Love-agape is presented as a critical concept. On the one hand, love-agape denounces the risks linked to the needs of closed groups, often absolutist and fundamentalist. On the other hand, it represents a concrete reality, lying at the root of a particular type of sociality. A sociality that, rather unconventionally, recognizes differences and distances, but also characterizes their condition of being together, as community founded on the recognition and respect of subjectivity.

Author : Dr. Michael Keirns
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9798888327951

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Ignatian Spirituality and Golf by Dr. Michael Keirns Pdf

Ignatian spirituality and golf is a book which introduces a foundation of St. Ignatius's teachings and how they can be integrated on the golf course. Saint Ignatius of Loyola is the founder of the Jesuit order and uses his spiritual exercises to guide a golfer on how they can be mentally stronger and have joy during their time on and off the golf course. Each chapter will have perspectives on the golf game as St. Ignatius might have witnessed this blessed game. Along with spiritual exercises, at the end of each chapter will be physical exercise tips for enriching your game from a physical therapy perspective. This includes stretching and strengthening programs to augment one's golf game. This will provide an enhancement of the game which will improve a golfer's journey physically and spiritually. Finally, one should get out of this book what golf has to offer each of us: wisdom and joy!

Author : Pitcharan
Publisher : PartridgeIndia
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1482817780

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Agape by Pitcharan Pdf

AGAPE: THE DIVINIZING LOVE is an effort to bring out the centrality of AGAPE in the divinization of humans. The terms agape and divinization are not defined at the outset and their gradual understanding is the intended outcome of the book. The first part - THE TREE OF LIFE, is a depiction of the amazing power of sacraments which are seen as extraordinary aids for all those who choose to draw near to God. How to worship God in spirit and truth? What is the theology behind suffering? These and many more such theological insights gained while quenching divine thirst are presented in the second part - THEOLOGY OF DIVINIZATION. The third part is all about THE STRUGGLE for freedom from sinful slavery. After providing an elaborate outline of the whole divinization process the finale is an approach to perfection based on Trinitarian dynamics. The last part is a stand-alone synchronous meditation of the WAY OF THE CROSS, in a manner that explicitly reveals THE DIVINIZING WAY. PARABOLIC REFLECTIONS is a conducted tour through some of the parables of Jesus. Though not a part of the main book, it is included as an APPENDIX in view of the immense guidance value.