The Body Broken

Author : Lynne Greenberg
Publisher : Random House
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588367846

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In the tradition of William Styron’s tour de force Darkness Visible, The Body Broken is a gorgeously told and intensely moving account of one woman’s extraordinary odyssey into a life of chronic pain–and of the unyielding resilience of the human spirit. At age nineteen, Lynne Greenberg narrowly survived a devastating car crash. When her broken neck healed–or so everyone thought–her recovery was hailed as a medical miracle and she returned to normal life. Years later, she seemed to have it all: a loving husband, two wonderful children, a peaceful home, and a richly satisfying job as a tenured poetry professor. Then, one morning, this blissful façade shattered–the pain in her neck returned in the most vicious way. A life with physical agony ensued. Greenberg realized that she had been living for years on borrowed time. As she and her family navigated an increasingly complicated web of doctors and specialists, Greenberg taught herself to fight her own battles–against a medical system ill-equipped to handle patients with chronic pain, and against the emotional pitfalls of a newly restricted life. Drawing on her family’s support, her own indomitable spirit, and an intense connection to the poetry she taught, Greenberg found the strength to return to a productive and satisfying–if irrevocably changed–life. This deeply personal saga takes us to the heart of a family’s struggle to survive a crisis, and shows us how, at the most profound levels, such an odyssey affects a patient’s marriage, the ability to parent, family, work, and friendships. The Body Broken is a powerful, lyrical story of one woman’s remarkable determination and breathtaking courage, as she puts mind over matter in the struggle to reclaim her life.

Author : Robert Benson
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780385506168

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The Body Broken is an honest and moving meditation on the Gospel imperative to love one another as brothers and sisters, even as we choose to live and express our faith in differing ways. A lifelong Christian and seeker, Robert Benson has shared the prayers, rituals, conversations, and practices of many different denominations. His broad range of ecumenical experiences have led to moments of great joy and deep fellowship, but they have also opened his eyes to the misunderstanding and the intolerance that constantly threaten to dismember the whole Body of Christ. Benson writes longingly about the things of the faith that bind us together and gracefully about the things that keep us apart. He recounts his own journey from Nazarene to Methodist to Episcopalian and introduces us to the people and the differing expressions of faith he encountered along the way. We meet ordinary folk, including Benson's family and childhood friends, as well as legendary religious thinkers as Henri Nouwen. Some of the stories--particularly the ones about his own brother's suicide--are heartbreakingly painful; others bring to light the joy and grace of Christian love as found in acts of common worship and compassion. Although Benson acknowledges that there are--and always will be--very real differences in the ways that Christians seek to live out their faith, he reminds us of the essential beliefs that we share about God and our common dependency on God's mysterious mercy and grace, even as we look for God as through a glass darkly. In poetic prose that is reminiscent of the writing of Frederick Buechner and Annie Dillard, Benson illuminates, with wit and wisdom and humility and passion, one of the most difficult challenges that face the Church. The Body Broken is a powerful, important examination of the intolerance and divisiveness that have become an all too familiar part of the Church and a gentle, poignant call for a Christian community that embraces a spirit of love and unity even as it honors our differences.

Author : Laurent Cleenewerck
Publisher : Euclid University Press
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780615183619

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His Broken Body by Laurent Cleenewerck Pdf

A comprehensive, objective, scholarly and yet easy-to-read presentation of the differences, both historical, theological and liturgical between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. The ideal complement (or even antidote) to such books as Upon this Rock; Jesus, Peter and the Keys; Two Paths; The Primacy of Peter; etc. Discusses Peter's Primacy and Succession, Ecclesiology, Infallibility, the Filioque, Celibacy, etc.

Author : Charles F. Briggs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0415341493

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The Body Broken by Charles F. Briggs Pdf

Politics-government and the state; war; changes in political geography.

Author : Charles F. Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 1138842281

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The Body Broken is a thematic survey of Europe in the late Middle Ages. Equipped with maps, tables, illustrations, a chronology and an annotated bibliography, it is an essential and complete student's guide to Europe during this period of crisis and change.

Author : Mary C. Earle
Publisher : Church Publishing, Inc.
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003-07
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780819219282

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Broken Body, Healing Spirit by Mary C. Earle Pdf

Using the Benedictine practice of lectio divina, or holy reading, as a way of reading an illness, as a way to relate better to one's body and soul.

Author : Oakley, Ann
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781447300632

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Fracture by Oakley, Ann Pdf

The starting point of Ann Oakley's fascinating book is the fracture of her right arm in the grounds of a hotel in the USA. What begins as an accident becomes a journey into some critical themes of modern Western culture: the crisis of embodiment and the perfect self; the confusion between body and identity; the commodification of bodies and body parts; the intrusive surveillance and profiteering of medicine and the law; the problem of ageing; and the identification of women, particularly, with bodies - from the intensely ambiguous two-in-one state of pregnancy to women's later transformation into unproductive, brittle skeletons. Fracture mixes personal experience (the author's and other people's) with 'facts' derived from other literatures, including the history of medicine, neurology, the sociology of health and illness, philosophy, and legal discourses on the right to life and people as victims of a greedy litigation system. The book's genre spans fiction/non-fiction, autobiography and social theory.

Author : Francis J. Moloney
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801047153

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Body Broken for a Broken People, A by Francis J. Moloney Pdf

"Here we have a Catholic exegete, on the basis of a close analysis of the New Testament texts, challenging his church to a reexamination of its disciplinary tradition: if the meal practice of Jesus embodied a never-failing presence of the Lord to his ever-failing disciples, then should not the church think twice before excluding faltering members from communion? Moloney's stimulating study gives food for thought even to Protestants who may consider that their own communion discipline has relaxed to the point of disappearance. In any case, this book makes a significant contribution to reflection on the ways to hold together the divine generosity in forgiveness, the call of sinners to repentance, and the responsibility of the church as beneficiary, messenger, and steward of the gospel."--Geoffrey Wainwright, Robert Earl Cushman Professor of Christian Theology, Duke University

Author : Mary McClintock Fulkerson,Marcia W. Mount Shoop
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498273534

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A Body Broken, A Body Betrayed by Mary McClintock Fulkerson,Marcia W. Mount Shoop Pdf

Race and privilege are issues that cry out for new kinds of attention and healing in American society. More specifically, we are being called to surface the dynamics of whiteness especially in contexts where whites have had the most power in America. The church is one of those contexts--particularly churches that have traditionally been seen as the stalwarts of the American religious landscape: mainline Protestant churches. Theologians and Presbyterian ministers Mary McClintock Fulkerson and Marcia Mount Shoop invite us to acknowledge and address the wounds of race and privilege that continue to harm and diminish the life of the church. Using Eucharist as a template for both the church's blindness and for Christ's redemptive capacity, this book invites faith communities, especially white-dominant churches, into new ways of re-membering what it means to be the body of Christ. In a still racialized society, can the body of Christ truly acknowledge and dress the wounds of race and privilege? Re-membering Christ's broken and betrayed body may be just the healing path we need.

Author : Jean Vanier
Publisher : Darton, Longman & Todd
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Christian life
ISBN : 0232517495

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The Broken Body by Jean Vanier Pdf

Wholeness, healing and hope amid a broken and suffering world are the themes of this powerful prose-poem.

Author : Tilly Dillehay
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736980135

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Broken Bread by Tilly Dillehay Pdf

God Cares More About How You Eat than What You Eat Christians should have their heads on straight about food—but too often our eating is complicated by burdens and rules, by diets and dependencies. So how can we keep a spiritually healthy view of what we eat? Should Christians stop eating white sugar? Does the Bible ask us to go paleo? Most questions about food aren’t really about nutrition but about how we understand God. In Broken Bread, Christian Book Award–winner Tilly Dillehay challenges us to abandon the concept of good and bad foods and instead offers a way to… celebrate food without obsession make healthy choices without bondage to rules feed our families without feeling frazzled find satisfaction without using food as an emotional crutch This isn’t another diet book. You won’t find any system or plan for eating but rather a joyful call to develop a vision of Christ that informs the way you eat. Take delight in food again, and discover a feast for today that whispers of the eternal feast to come.

Author : Francis J. Moloney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809149710

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A Body Broken for a Broken People by Francis J. Moloney Pdf

Professor Moloney examines the New Testament's discussion of divorce, remarriage, and access to the eucharistic table. The earliest Church's accommodation of Jesus' teaching is part of our inspired Sacred Scriptures. The contemporary Church needs to question whether the current tradition concerning the divorced and remarried has not distorted the original revealed Tradition. Paul tells us why: For God has called us to peace (1 Cor 7:15).

Author : Michele Bardsley
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0451226771

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Over My Dead Body by Michele Bardsley Pdf

A single mom finds a man who's hot enough to wake the undead in this Broken Heart novel from New York Times bestselling author Michele Bardsley. With my ex-husband out of my life after attempting murder (on me!) and my little Glory not uttering a word since that awful night, Broken Heart, Oklahoma seemed like the perfect sanctuary for us. And I, Simone Sweet, was ready to start a new life. I just didn’t figure it’d be an eternal one. But then local hunk Braddock Hayes turns my undead world upside down. He’s the only one who sees me as I really am, and let me tell you, he makes my fangs quiver. But if he finds out the truth about my past, it would just about kill me (if I weren’t already dead, that is). Luckily, no one knows better than me that things aren’t always as they appear...

Author : Janine Shepherd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Crash injuries
ISBN : 1622037103

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Defiant by Janine Shepherd Pdf

"As I looked back over the landscape of my life, and the many setbacks I had endured, I saw that every loss also offered a gift, even if I didn't recognize it at the time. Whenever I was called upon to loosen my grip on some cherished part of my life, I was consequently given the opportunity to start again, to create anew something of value . . . every ending carried the seeds of possibility, a chance to start over." --Janine Shepherd Defiant chronicles the remarkable life of Janine Shepherd, an elite ski racer whose bid to represent Australia in the Olympics was cut short by a tragic accident. She recalls the ten days she hovered between life and death, faced with the difficult choice to let go or return to a body that would never be whole again. After six months in hospital battling to rehabilitate her permanent disabilities, she not only taught herself to walk again--she earned her wings as both a pilot and an aerobatics instructor. Happily married and raising three children, her life was again upended when she was forced to face a painful divorce, the loss of her home, and financial ruin. Undaunted, Janine persevered in managing her again-reinvented life as a single mom, as well as celebrated author and international speaker. Janine Shepherd shares with candor and compassion the practical lessons she has learned throughout her continuing journey. Defiant offers hope and encouragement for anyone facing a life challenge, sharing the author's hard-won wisdom and priceless advice for navigating one's way from loss to healing.

Author : Alasdair A. MacDonald,Bernhard Ridderbos,R. M. Schlusemann
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015046001353

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The Broken Body by Alasdair A. MacDonald,Bernhard Ridderbos,R. M. Schlusemann Pdf