Silence And The Word

Author : Oliver Davies,Denys Turner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002-08-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139434836

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Silence and the Word by Oliver Davies,Denys Turner Pdf

Negative theology or apophasis - the idea that God is best identified in terms of 'absence', 'otherness', 'difference' - has been influential in modern Christian thought, resonating as it does with secular notions of negation developed in continental philosophy. Apophasis also has a strong intellectual history dating back to the early Church Fathers. Silence and the Word both studies the history of apophasis and examines its relationship with contemporary secular philosophy. Leading Christian thinkers explore in their own way the extent to which the concept of the apophatic illumines some of the deepest doctrinal structures of Christian faith, and of Christian self-understanding both in terms of its historical and contemporary situatedness, showing how a dimension of negativity has characterised not only traditional mysticism but most forms of Christian thought over the years.

Author : John Main
Publisher : Canterbury Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781848253698

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Word into Silence by John Main Pdf

An introduction to the practice of Christian meditation, this book offers a twelve step programme in learning meditative prayer.

Author : Sara Maitland
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Loneliness
ISBN : 9781847081513

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A Book of Silence by Sara Maitland Pdf

A deeply thoughtful, honest and illuminating memoir about a phenomenon too often neglected in the contemporary world.

Author : Gregory Fruehwirth
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Church year meditations
ISBN : 1557256012

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Words for Silence by Gregory Fruehwirth Pdf

Originating from weekly talks given to a contemplative community of monks and nuns, the meditations in this book aim to help people surrender their lives to God.

Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101638064

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Silence by Diarmaid MacCulloch Pdf

A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are many forms of religious silence, from contemplation and prayer to repression and evasion. In his latest work, MacCulloch considers Jesus’s strategic use of silence in his confrontation with Pontius Pilate and traces the impact of the first mystics in Syria on monastic tradition. He discusses the complicated fate of silence in Protestant and evangelical tradition and confronts the more sinister institutional forms of silence. A groundbreaking book by one of our greatest historians, Silence challenges our fundamental views of spirituality and illuminates the deepest mysteries of faith.

Author : Olivia Dresher
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1098940393

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A Silence of Words by Olivia Dresher Pdf

In A Silence of Words, Olivia Dresher's poetic aphorisms and other brevities, taken from her first few years at Twitter beginning in 2009, express her devotion to short forms that she also explored in her book In Pieces: An Anthology of Fragmentary Writing. Ten years later, in 2019, she has a significant following at Twitter and has written over 58,000 tweets, of which 874 appear in this book. As one of her followers noted, "You write as you breathe, shaping everything with some sort of second nature." Published by Impassio Press, www.impassio.com

Author : E.D. Blodgett,Harold Coward
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889205246

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Silence, the Word and the Sacred by E.D. Blodgett,Harold Coward Pdf

The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closure, locating the sacred in modes as diverse as patristic traditions, feminist retranslations of biblical texts, and oral and written versions of documents from the world’s religions. The essays cohere in their preoccupation with the crucial role language plays in the creation of the sacred, particularly in the relation that language bears to silence. In their interplay, language does not silence silence by, rather, calls the other as sacred into articulate existence.

Author : Raymond Gawronski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Asia
ISBN : UOM:39015038423805

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Word and Silence by Raymond Gawronski Pdf

Author : Robert Sarah
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781681497587

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The Power of Silence by Robert Sarah Pdf

Now with a new afterword by Pope emeritus Benedict XVI! In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and more necessary than ever before. Silence is the indispensable doorway to the divine, explains the cardinal in this profound conversation with Nicolas Diat. Within the hushed and hallowed walls of the La Grande Chartreux, the famous Carthusian monastery in the French Alps, Cardinal Sarah addresses the following questions: Can those who do not know silence ever attain truth, beauty, or love? Do not wisdom, artistic vision, and devotion spring from silence, where the voice of God is heard in the depths of the human heart? After the international success of God or Nothing, Cardinal Sarah seeks to restore to silence its place of honor and importance. "Silence is more important than any other human work," he says, "for it expresses God. The true revolution comes from silence; it leads us toward God and others so as to place ourselves humbly and generously at their service."

Author : George Prochnik
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780385533263

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In Pursuit of Silence by George Prochnik Pdf

An "elegant and eloquent" (New York Times) exploration of the frontiers of noise and silence, and the growing war between them. Between iPods, music-blasting restaurants, earsplitting sports stadiums, and endless air and road traffic, the place for quiet in our lives grows smaller by the day. In Pursuit of Silence gives context to our increasingly desperate sense that noise pollution is, in a very real way, an environmental catastrophe. Traveling across the country and meeting and listening to a host of incredible characters, including doctors, neuroscientists, acoustical engineers, monks, activists, educators, marketers, and aggrieved citizens, George Prochnik examines why we began to be so loud as a society, and what it is that gets lost when we can no longer find quiet.

Author : Paul W. Gooch
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0300066953

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Reflections on Jesus and Socrates by Paul W. Gooch Pdf

Living more than four centuries apart in very different cultures, Jesus and Socrates wrote nothing themselves, but they inspired their followers to set down words that continue to shape Western consciousness. In this deeply personal and provocative meditation, Paul Gooch reflects on enduring themes that arise from the lives of these two pivotal figures: death and witness, silence as the limit of language, prayer, obedience, and love. Focusing on the Jesus of the Gospels and the Socrates of Plato's dialogues, Gooch does not debate the historical realities of either figure, but seeks to understand their fundamental commitments to philosophy and to God, drawing parallels and contrasts that invite deeper reflection upon our own lives and experiences. Throughout this book, Gooch tells and retells the stories of Socrates and Jesus as he examines perennial human issues: why would anyone willingly die? To what do these two martyrlike deaths bear witness? What are the limits of words in explanation and defense? Why was Jesus silent during his trial? Why did Socrates' most powerful apologia fail? What words, if any, work in prayer? Do words work against the fear of death? Out of this philosophical and religious questioning, Reflections on Jesus and Socrates throws new light on these two compelling figures and on the continuing meanings of their stories for us today.

Author : Harold G. Coward,Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay,Ronald Neufeldt
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988-09-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780889209558

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Readings in Eastern Religions by Harold G. Coward,Eva K. Neumaier-Dargyay,Ronald Neufeldt Pdf

Developed principally for use in introductory courses in the study of religious traditions in the East, this anthology offers a selection of readings from primary texts of India, China and Japan. The selections are arranged both chronologically and thematically within religious traditions and include readings from Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism (including Tibetan Buddhism), Sikhism, Early Chinese thought, Confuciansiim, Taoism, Mao Tse Tung, Shintoism, and Japan’s new religions (Tenrikyo and Sokka Gakkai). Throughout the anthology, an effort has been made to present more than the usual short excerpts. As much as possible larger excerpts have been included to give students a better sense of significant developments within traditions. As well, doctrinal elements have been combined with story to make these traditions more than museum pieces for students.

Author : Diane Comer
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310341789

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He Speaks in the Silence by Diane Comer Pdf

He Speaks in the Silence is about Diane Comer’s search for the kind of intimacy with God every woman longs for. It is a story of trying to be a good girl, of following the rules, of longing for a satisfaction that eludes us. Disappointed with all Diane had been told was supposed to fulfill her, she begged God in desperation to give her more. And He did. But first He took her through a trial so debilitating it almost destroyed what little faith she had. He let her go deaf. Using vivid parallels between her deafness and every woman’s struggle to hear God, this book shows women not only how Diane, as a deaf woman, hears in everyday life, but also how she can learn to listen to God in the midst of her own loud life, finding intimacy with God and the deep soul satisfaction she longs for.

Author : Ruth Haley Barton
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281085989

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Invitation to Solitude and Silence by Ruth Haley Barton Pdf

Ruth Haley Barton's award-winning, practical introduction to the spiritual practice of silence and solitude is an invitation to you to journey into the real presence of God and hear and his voice. Much of the Christian faith is about words - preaching, teaching, talking with others. But the hectic demands and noise of daily modern life can drown out God's words, and keep us from fully meeting him. Taking the story of Elijah the prophet as inspiration and example, Invitation to Solitude and Silence explores the power of quietness and stillness in connecting with God. Filled with practical exercises that draw on Ruth's own experience, it encourages and challenges us to rethink how we see silence and solitude and to use them to invite God deeper into our lives. Invitation to Solitude and Silence is ideal for anyone looking for spiritual disciplines to help them connect more fully with God and practices to aid their spiritual formation. Ruth's gentle wisdom will expand your idea of what prayer can be, and help you find time to rest and renew your faith so that your relationship with God is strengthened. Helpful and hopeful, this book is a reminder that God does not push himself where he is not wanted but waits for us to respond from the depths of our desire. Will you say yes?

Author : Harold Coward,Pinit Ratanakul
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780889208551

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A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics by Harold Coward,Pinit Ratanakul Pdf

The ethical theories employed in health care today assume, in the main, a modern Western philosophical framework. Yet the diversity of cultural and religious assumptions regarding human nature, health and illness, life and death, and the status of the individual suggest that a cross-cultural study of health care ethics is needed. A Cross-Cultural Dialogue on Health Care Ethics provides this study. It shows that ethical questions can be resolved by examining the ethical principles present in each culture, critically assessing each value, and identifying common values found within all traditions, It encourages the development of global awareness and sensitivity to and respect for the diversity of peoples and their values and will advance understanding as well as help to foster a greater balance and a fuller truth in consideration of the human condition and what makes for health and wholeness.