Soul Purity

Author : David A Coats
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 098995322X

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Soul Purity by David A Coats Pdf

Christians are crashing and burning on the runways of life. Through the TV, Internet, cell phones, newspapers, books, and magazines we are bombarded by the world's temptations and attractions. The response of choosing isolation from the world doesn't work: we fail to reach the people God has called us to reach, and we find that the problem comes with us in the sinful desires of our hearts. The opposite extreme, becoming like the world, turns Christians into people who are irrelevant. So how can we build pure lives in this generation? The Word of God has the answers. This workbook is designed to be used by small groups, counselors, and individuals to help us get into God's Word to find His help to be pure people in a world overcome with sensuality in all its forms.

Author : Andrej Petrovic,Ivana Petrovic
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191080937

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Inner Purity and Pollution in Greek Religion by Andrej Petrovic,Ivana Petrovic Pdf

Was Ancient Greek religion really 'mere ritualism'? Early Christians denounced the pagans for the disorderly plurality of their cults, and reduced Greek religion to ritual and idolatry; protestant theologians condemned the pagan 'religion of form' (with Catholicism as its historical heir). For a long time, scholars tended to conceptualize Greek religion as one in which belief did not matter, and religiosity had to do with observance of rituals and religious practices, rather than with worshipers' inner investment. But what does it mean when Greek texts time and again speak of purity of mind, soul, and thoughts? This book takes a radical new look at the Ancient Greek notions of purity and pollution. Its main concern is the inner state of the individual worshipper as they approach the gods and interact with the divine realm in a ritual context. It is a book about Greek worshippers' inner attitudes towards the gods and rituals, and about what kind of inner attitude the Greek gods were envisaged to expect from their worshippers. In the wider sense, it is a book about the role of belief in ancient Greek religion. By exploring the Greek notions of inner purity and pollution from Hesiod to Plato, the significance of intrinsic, faith-based elements in Greek religious practices is revealed - thus providing the first history of the concepts of inner purity and pollution in early Greek religion.

Author : Jr Assel Jean-Pierre
Publisher : Watersprings Media House
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948877414

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Purity for the Mind, Body, and Soul by Jr Assel Jean-Pierre Pdf

Purity for the Mind, Body and Soul is a journey through a 21-day purity fast for people who desire to improve aspects of their life for the better.

Author : Robbie Duschinsky,Simone Schnall,Daniel H Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315529714

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Purity and Danger Now by Robbie Duschinsky,Simone Schnall,Daniel H Weiss Pdf

Mary Douglas’s seminal work Purity and Danger (Routledge, 1966) continues to be indispensable reading for both students and scholars today. Marking the 50th anniversary of Douglas’s classic, the present volume sheds fresh light upon themes raised by Douglas by drawing on recent developments in the social sciences and humanities, as well as current empirical research. In presenting new perspectives on the topic of purity and impurity, the volume integrates work in anthropology and sociology with contemporary ideas from religious studies, cognitive science and the arts. Containing contributions from both established and emerging scholars, including protégées of Douglas herself, Purity and Danger Now is an essential volume for those working on purity and impurity across the full spectrum of the social sciences and humanities.

Author : Thomas Kazen
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789188906144

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Jesus and Purity Halakhah by Thomas Kazen Pdf

This study traces Jesus' attitude to impurity within the historical context at the end of the Second Temple period, when practices of ritual purity came to play an increasing role in Jewish society and an expansionist trend gained in influence and support. The traditional focus on sayings material and criteria of authenticity in historical Jesus-research is modified, narrative traditions with implicit purity issues are appealed to, and extra-canonical traditions are included. The main areas examined are the most important "fathers" of impurity: "leprosy" (skin diseases), genital discharges, and corpse-contamination. Jesus is found to have acted in ways that could have been understood by some of his contemporaries as indifference to these types of impurity. His behaviour is shown on several points to clash with current purity halakhah and dominant expansionist ideals. In an attempt to interpret his actions within the Jewish context and culture of the Second Temple period, three explanatory models are provided. Jesus' attitude can be seen as part of a moral trajectory in Judaism. It can be understood as a response to a regional, Galilean dilemma. It can be viewed in a power perspective as an expression of Jesus' eschatological struggle against demonic evil. The result is that Jesus may be understood as operating within the purity paradigm of his time, yet seemingly indifferent in the eyes of some, pushing it to the breaking point. Such a reconstruction makes subsequent developments intelligible, in which various Christian currents drew conflicting conclusions. Those looking to Jesus' behaviour for some sort of guidance today may perhaps find contemporary analogies.

Author : Magdalena Lovejoy
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781532050183

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The Fourfold Path by Magdalena Lovejoy Pdf

How Do We Become Free and Enter into the Mystery of Life? The Fourfold Path takes us on a healing journey inspired by the philosopher Plato and his teachings on how to know yourself by transcending all limitations within the human space. The model of transcendence leaves behind the metaphors we live by to pioneer humankind into the deepest and most powerful gnosis ever attained through the love of wisdom. Through transcendence, you can discover how to free yourself from the suffering that obstructs the complete vision of the soul. You can heal from the unconscious processes and go beyond the limitations of the ego. Once you have learned the Path, you can attain enlightenment and become like God, and attain the characteristics of divinity, immortality, and bliss. Transcendence is basic to all human cultures who move through the limitless possibilities given to humankind to evolve using the wisdom of the mind and the wisdom of the heart. This wisdom invites us to go deeper and move from self-realization to knowledge of God. Life itself inspires this change through the experiences of love, birth, death, miracles, blessings, and family. True enlightenment occurs when we process these life experiences as lessons on a soul journey that initiate a spiritual awakening. It is as simple as arguing that there are two identities: a true self and a false self. Philosophy is the means to know the difference between the two, while transcendence is the path that can lead humankind to know the truth. When humankind comes to know their true selves, they will be set free from suffering. This is the ascent toward what Plato called The Good, which many believe is also called God. The Fourfold Path shows us how to leave behind the limitations of the human space to discover a sacred place in communication and communion with Spirit, so you can become one with God and find true happiness.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004289758

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Discourses of Purity in Transcultural Perspective (300–1600) by Anonim Pdf

This volume comprises fifteen articles on the differing functions that purity, impurity, pollution and related categories could fulfil in Asian and European religions and societies of the 3rd to 17th century c.E. They focus processes of religious demarcation and transfer.

Author : Jonathan Klawans
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195395846

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Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple by Jonathan Klawans Pdf

Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others see these cultic rituals as merely the fossilized vestiges of primitive superstition. Some believe that ancient Jewish sacrifice was doomed from the start, destined to be replaced by the Christian eucharist. Others think that the temple was fated to be superseded by the synagogue. In Purity, Sacrifice, and the Temple Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that these supersessionist ideologies have prevented scholars from recognizing the Jerusalem temple as a powerful source of meaning and symbolism to the ancient Jews who worshiped there. Klawans exposes and counters such ideologies by reviewing the theoretical literature on sacrifice and taking a fresh look at a broad range of evidence concerning ancient Jewish attitudes toward the temple and its sacrificial cult. The first step toward reaching a more balanced view is to integrate the study of sacrifice with the study of purity-a ritual structure that has commonly been understood as symbolic by scholars and laypeople alike. The second step is to rehabilitate sacrificial metaphors, with the understanding that these metaphors are windows into the ways sacrifice was understood by ancient Jews. By taking these steps-and by removing contemporary religious and cultural biases-Klawans allows us to better understand what sacrifice meant to the early communities who practiced it. Armed with this new understanding, Klawans reevaluates the ideas about the temple articulated in a wide array of ancient sources, including Josephus, Philo, Pseudepigrapha, the Dead Sea Scrolls, New Testament, and Rabbinic literature. Klawans mines these sources with an eye toward illuminating the symbolic meanings of sacrifice for ancient Jews. Along the way, he reconsiders the ostensible rejection of the cult by the biblical prophets, the Qumran sect, and Jesus. While these figures may have seen the temple in their time as tainted or even defiled, Klawans argues, they too-like practically all ancient Jews-believed in the cult, accepted its symbolic significance, and hoped for its ultimate efficacy.

Author : Christopher Alan Anderson
Publisher : First Edition Design Pub.
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781622871377

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Purity by Christopher Alan Anderson Pdf

In this article, the author looks at the necessity of purity for the reconfiguration of one's soul. The author is suggesting that illumination, in whatever its form, does not, and can not, arise from that which is impure. Author Bio: Christopher Alan Anderson (1950 - ) received the basis of his education from the University of Science and Philosophy, Swannanoa, Waynesboro, Virginia. He resides in the transcendental/romantic tradition, that vein of spiritual creativity of the philosopher and poet. His quest has been to define and express an eternal romantic reality from which a man and a woman could together stand in their difference and create a living universe of procreative love. Mr. Anderson began these writings in 1971. The first writings were published in 1985. On a personal note, when Mr. Anderson was asked to describe the writings and what he felt their message was he responded, "Spiritual procreation. Mankind has yet to distinguish the two sexes on the spiritual level. In this failure lies the root of our problems and why we cannot yet touch the eternal together. The message of man and woman balance brings each of us together in love with our eternal other half right now." Keywords: Man and Woman Balance, Relationships, Procreation, Spirituality, Love, Metaphysics, Eternal, Creation, Sexuality, & Soul.

Author : Andrew Brower Latz,Arseny Ermakov
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227906361

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Purity by Andrew Brower Latz,Arseny Ermakov Pdf

In ancient societies and religion, the concept of purity was of central importance; in many modern societies it is either irrelevant or, when it is used, attached to extremely conservative agendas. This suggests an interesting story to be told within the history of ideas and, at the same time, raises questions about the place, meaning, and use of purity in religious traditions. What does purity mean in different scriptural contexts? Is it synonymous with holiness or different? How has it been used within various strands of theology? What should we make of it today? Have we moderns, by discarding purity as an organising social form, lost something essential or have we made a significant moral advance? Or both? This volume addresses these questions in essays on biblical genres, books and different theological traditions. Accessibly written and incisive in its scholarship, Purity will be of interest to both specialists and non-specialists alike.

Author : Thomas Nicolas Burke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Occasional sermons
ISBN : NYPL:33433070296615

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Sermons, and Lectures on Moral and Historical Subjects by Thomas Nicolas Burke Pdf

Author : Wil Rogan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567708670

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Purity in the Gospel of John by Wil Rogan Pdf

Wil Rogan argues that, contrary to twentieth-century interpretation, the Fourth Gospel did not replace purity with faith in Jesus. Instead, as with other early Jewish writings, its discourse about purity functions as a way to make sense of life before God in the world. He suggests that John's Gospel employs biblical and early Jewish traditions of purity associated with divine revelation and Israel's restoration to narrate how God's people are prepared for the coming of Jesus and enabled by him to have life with God characterized by love. After evaluating different theories of purity for the interpretation of the Fourth Gospel, Rogan explores John the Baptist as an agent of ritual purification, Jesus as the agent of moral purification, and the disciples of Jesus as ones who are (or are not) made morally pure by Jesus. While purity is not one of the Fourth Gospel's primary focuses, Rogan stresses that the concept figures into some of its most significant claims about Christology, the doctrine of salvation, and ethics. Through purity, the Fourth Gospel guards continuity with the past while placing surprising conditions on participation in Israel's future.

Author : Moshe Blidstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198791959

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Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature by Moshe Blidstein Pdf

This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.

Author : John Bartlett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1944 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : English language
ISBN : CHI:77729656

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A New and Complete Concordance Or Verbal Index to Words, Phrases, & Passages in the Dramatic Works of Shakespeare by John Bartlett Pdf

Author : Matthew Black
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387305971

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Song of Solomon: Passion, Purity, and the Glory of Christ (Growing and Changing Commentary) by Matthew Black Pdf