The Sun And The Shrub Book 1 The Quest For Faith

Author : Loretta McKee
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781329798885

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The Sun and the Shrub - Book 1: The Quest for Faith by Loretta McKee Pdf

The Quest for Faith introduces a mystical kingdom called Terra, a world ruled by a benevolent monarch named Emperor Abba. The people of Terra have lived peacefully for many years, until Malum, the Emperor's traitorous servant plagued the hearts of the citizens with a terrible curse that brought evil into their lives. As the people are losing the very virtues that would keep them from falling completely into sin, Emperor Abba hid away these virtues across the land of Terra, deciding that in time they would be restored to the people of Terra by His own lineage. Many years later, a timid maiden named Laurel is hurled into the most epic adventure of all times as she is needed to drive out the evil of Malum's curse. In her first adventure, The Quest for Faith, and with the help of many new-found friends, Laurel must come to terms with her own uncertainty as she discovers the true meaning of faith.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015023716791

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Index to Book Reviews in Religion by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rita D. Sherma,Purushottama Bilimoria
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030793012

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Religion and Sustainability: Interreligious Resources, Interdisciplinary Responses by Rita D. Sherma,Purushottama Bilimoria Pdf

This volume brings sustainability studies into creative and constructive conversation with actions, practices, and worldviews from religion and theology supportive of the vision and work of the UN SDGs. It features more than 30 chapters from scholars across diverse disciplines, including economics, ethics, theology, sociology, ritual studies, and visual culture. This interdisciplinary content presents new insights for inhibiting ecospheric devastation, which is inextricably linked to unsustainable financial, societal, racial, geopolitical, and cultural relationships. The chapters show how humanistic elements can enable the establishment of sustainable ways of thinking, feeling, and acting. This includes the aesthetic and emotive dimensions of life. The contributors cover such topics as empowering women and girls to systemically reverse climate change; nurturing interreligious peace; decolonizing landscapes; and promoting horticulture, ecovillages, equity, and animal ethics. Coverage integrates a variety of religious and theological perspectives. These include Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, and other traditions. To enable the restoration and flourishing of the ecosystems of the biosphere, human societies need to be reimagined and reordered in terms of economic, cultural, religious, racial, and social equitability. This volume illustrates transformative paradigms to help foster such change. It introduces new principles, practices, ethics, and insights to the discourse. This work will appeal to students, scholars, and professionals researching the ethical, moral, social, cultural, psychological, developmental, and other social scientific impacts of religion on the key markers of sustainability.

Author : Fred Bahnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451663303

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Soil and Sacrament by Fred Bahnson Pdf

Recounts the author's experiences founding a faith-based community garden in rural North Carolina, and emphasizes how growing one's own food can help readers reconnect with the land and divine faith.

Author : John M. Newman
Publisher : John Michael Newman
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781456317621

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Quest for the Kingdom by John M. Newman Pdf

A fascinating analysis that blends world history, Western religion, and Eastern mysticism, Quest for the Kingdom by Dr. John M. Newman examines the "kingdom of God" as the historical Jesus describes it. The book's premise holds that Jesus' teachings include specific instructions for the quest to find and live in God's kingdom before death. This powerful work favors fact, and readers can revel in Jesus' authentic teachings that describe the quest both as internal spiritual cultivation and the way to live in the world. It is rare for a book on Christian theology to break new ground, but Newman does this on two fronts: the striking parallel of Jesus' teachings with the ancient mysticism of yoga and the equally fascinating parallel between Jesus' healing techniques and the practices of modern psychotherapists like Freud. Newman is meticulous in drawing these original and unique parallels and they lift this work's premise to a non-generic level that speaks to several audiences, an accomplishment that sets the work apart from the pack. In twenty accessible and engaging chapters like "The Kingdom of God," "The War of the Houses," "The Kingdom Is Like a Woman," "Spiritual Cultivation," and "The Exorcisms and Healings of Jesus," the reader watches Jesus at work, healing and offering his parables at a communal meal. In addition to elucidating the path to the kingdom that Jesus shared with his followers, Newman explains and illustrates the voice print of Jesus-his sage rhetorical strategies and distinctive discourse. Newman brings Jesus' parables to life with a penetrating analysis that enables the reader to experience Jesus' mastery of metaphor and management of the unconscious trajectory of thought in the minds of his listeners. A commanding new breakthrough in the understanding of the teachings and works of Jesus, this book is a must-read for academics and laypersons alike.

Author : Jude Lal Fernando
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725283992

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Faith in the Face of Militarization by Jude Lal Fernando Pdf

What does believing mean in the face of empire and militarization? These essays articulate the critical and liberating consciousness shared by oppressed peoples across the world, arising from a faith in the God of the oppressed, expressed in radically diverse ways, and resisting the imperialist deities of materialism (read: economic growth), racism, and militarization that falsely appear as the saviors of humanity. The authors confront these false gods—which form the modern empire—worshiped by the most dominant militarized states in the world and followed by their allied states even in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Out of the eleven articles, two are written by critical political analysts with an anti-colonial lens while recognizing the importance of faith in resistance. The rest are written by theologians who critically reflect on their faith within the context of empire and militarization in their societies. Militarization is among the most brutal forms of oppression on the resisting peoples. The theologies that have emerged from critical reflections on their collective experiences are grounded on a material spirituality as opposed to materialistic, racist, and militaristic godlessness. This collection has emerged out of creative and transformative practices in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Pacific, and the US. The essays are divided it into four sections in recognizing some of the key features of material spirituality; indigenous, feminist and interreligious voices, and horizontal solidarity. With contributions from: Michael Lujan Bevacqua Wati Longchar Nidia Arrobo Rodas Rasika Sharmen Pieris Lilian Cheelo Siwila Young-Bock Kim Dan Gonzales-Ortega Erin Shea Martin Mark Braverman Joshua Samuel Phil Miller

Author : John Fischer
Publisher : Menorah Ministries Inc
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780877848486

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The Olive Tree Connection by John Fischer Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:30000116389580

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Religion Index One by Anonim Pdf

Author : Josh Buoy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692710515

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Agnostic-Ish by Josh Buoy Pdf

This is a book about science, religion, and the world in between. I was born into a Christian family, but fell out of religion and in love with the scientific method. I had little need of faith, I thought, when science could tell me so much more about the world, and ask so little of me in return. But as I aged into young adulthood, a new chapter of my story began. Did I really know why I believed what I believed? How could I be so certain of my convictions when I hadn't even honestly considered the evidence? This book traces my journey through the furthest reaches of thought, a journey that took me through the realms of psychology, biology, physics, and belief. Could I find a place for faith in the modern world? Or was I right to cast it off as I did?

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Authors
ISBN : 0835248518

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Children's Books in Print, 2007 by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Bridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1657
Category : Theology
ISBN : OXFORD:590115674

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Twenty One Several Books of Mr. William Bridge ... by William Bridge Pdf

Author : Barbara Ehrenreich
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781455501755

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Living with a Wild God by Barbara Ehrenreich Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a brave, frank, and exquisitely written memoir that will change the way you see the world. Barbara Ehrenreich is one of the most important thinkers of our time. Educated as a scientist, she is an author, journalist, activist, and advocate for social justice. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, she recounts her quest-beginning in childhood-to find "the Truth" about the universe and everything else: What's really going on? Why are we here? In middle age, she rediscovered the journal she had kept during her tumultuous adolescence, which records an event so strange, so cataclysmic, that she had never, in all the intervening years, written or spoken about it to anyone. It was the kind of event that people call a "mystical experience"-and, to a steadfast atheist and rationalist, nothing less than shattering. In LIVING WITH A WILD GOD, Ehrenreich reconstructs her childhood mission, bringing an older woman's wry and erudite perspective to a young girl's impassioned obsession with the questions that, at one point or another, torment us all. The result is both deeply personal and cosmically sweeping-a searing memoir and a profound reflection on science, religion, and the human condition. With her signature combination of intellectual rigor and uninhibited imagination, Ehrenreich offers a true literary achievement-a work that has the power not only to entertain but amaze.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Young Men's Christian associations
ISBN : WISC:89102345691

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The Watchman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Benthall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857716378

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Returning to Religion by Jonathan Benthall Pdf

How can one explain the resurgence of religion, even in a western context of rationality, postmodernity and scientific endeavour? The persistence of religious expression has compelled even diehard secularists, or proponents of the 'secularization thesis', to rethink their positions. Jonathan Benthall explains precisely why societies are not bound to embrace western liberal rationality as an evolutionary inevitability. He shows that the opposite is true: that where a secular society represses the religious imagination, the human predisposition to religion will in the end break out in surprising, apparently secular, modes and outlets.Concentrating on what he calls 'para-religion', a kind of secular spirituality that manifests itself within movements and organisations who consider themselves motivated by wholly rational considerations, Benthall uncovers a paradox: despite themselves, they are haunted by the shadow of irrationality. Arguing that humanitarianism, environmentalism, the animal rights movement, popular archaeology and anthropology all have 'religiod' aspects, his startling conclusion is that religion, rather than coming 'back', in fact never went away. A human universal, the 'religious inclination' underlies the fabric of who we are, and is essential for the healthy functioning of any society.

Author : James Hastings
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1830 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Ethics
ISBN : NWU:35556022981245

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Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics by James Hastings Pdf