Without Flesh

Author : Jonathan Fisk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0758666446

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Without Flesh by Jonathan Fisk Pdf

Have the times really changed? Is the Church actually dying? Are we truly in danger of being subsumed beneath a new, ominous culture of evil? Or is the only real change the fact that we have convinced ourselves that times have changed? It is no secret that Christianity has been ceding ground to secular worldliness and exotic spiritualities for years. The front lines of the battle waged against the present darkness have experienced retreat after retreat, each time with people wagging their heads and saying, "If only we can rethink our strategies for mission, we can turn this tide and win the lost for Jesus." But for all our "rethinking," we haven't "rethought" nearly so much as it might seem. Perhaps the real out-of-the-box thinking we need is not out-of-the-box at all, but inside it. In Without Flesh, Jonathan Fisk proposes that we don't need something new. Instead, he writes that we need something old-very, very old. Like...the most important words Jesus ever said. Fisk's solution is more simple than we may think. Maybe the only problem is that we just don't want to believe it's true. "Do this," He said. -- Back Cover.

Author : Frederick J. Simoons
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 029914254X

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Eat Not this Flesh by Frederick J. Simoons Pdf

Examines the use and avoidance of flesh foods, including beef, pork, chicken, and eggs, camel, dog, horse, and fish, from antiquity to the present day. Simoons finds that the recurrent theme of maintaining ritual purity, good health, and well-being underlies diet habits. He emphasizes that only a full range of factors can explain eating patterns, and stresses the interplay of religious, moral, hygienic, ecological, and economic factors in the context of human culture. From publisher description.

Author : Tertullian of Carthage
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On the Flesh of Christ by Tertullian of Carthage Pdf

Author : Dr. Roberta Morrison
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781450022750

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No Flesh Shall Glory by Dr. Roberta Morrison Pdf

God does not want us to worship idols but to worship Him. We need to acknowledge the power, presence and authority of God who is at work in our lives. We are a triune being: body, soul and spirit. As God uses us as instruments to the Body of Christ we cant make the mistake and believe that these gifts are ours and others should give us the glory. We have been created by God to worship Him and when we dont we will worship something else. Isaiah 42:8 states I am the Lord; that is My name! And my glory I will not give another, nor My praise to graven images. We need to lift up Jesus. When we lift Jesus up and seek His face then the glory comes. His glory will not come when we are lifting up idols or lifting up a man. We need to return to the basics and the simplicity of the gospel and lift up Jesus. The banner needs to be Jesus. When we deny ourselves, take up our cross and follow Him then His glory shines through us and others are led to Him.

Author : Cherie Priest
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781429943918

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Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest Pdf

Down by the river, the first to go missing were not much lamented. Disappearances of homeless men foraging through trash or nuisance skater kids who rolled their boards along the planked piers at night were not noteworthy enough to delay the city's development projects. But deep beneath the riverbank, the evidence of a terrible crime has been covered up twice. When a TVA dam falters and the river swells, panic rises downtown. As the Tennessee creeps over its banks, it dredges up death from its own polluted bed. Twenty-nine victims of a long-ago slaughter walk when the water rises, patrolling the banks and dragging the living down to a muddy grave. No one remembers how they died and no one knows what they want. Some secrets are never washed away. Instead they are patient, biding their time. They wait for the water to lift them so they can prowl for the justice that was denied them ninety years ago. But in ninety years a city's shape changes, and where justice can no longer be found, vengeance may have to suffice. The city of Chattanooga is about to learn a terrible truth about the things a river can and cannot hide.... And reluctant medium Eden Moore may be the only one who can dissuade the twenty- nine bodies from adding hundreds of its citizens to their ghastly ranks. Not Flesh Nor Feathers is a stand-alone sequel to Four and Twenty Blackbirds and Wings to the Kingdom. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Didier Franck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441101907

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Flesh and Body by Didier Franck Pdf

Flesh and Body, originally released in French in 1981, is a pioneering study that provides both a close reading of Husserl's phenomenology of relationship between flesh and body as well as Didier Franck's own highly original account of flesh. Husserl's work on the body influenced many phenomenologists, including Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Henry, and Levinas, to name just a few. But his work was often misunderstood. Franck thus guides the reader carefully through Husserl's multi-layered and complex observations about the notions of on the flesh and the body. Franck shows that the flesh is never entirely one's own, instead it is always situated in relation to a prior alterity, principally the other ego. This book is thus a vital contribution to current debates over the themes of embodiment, temporality and intersubjectivity.

Author : Emmanuel Falque
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810168169

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God, the Flesh, and the Other by Emmanuel Falque Pdf

In God, the Flesh, and the Other, the philosopher Emmanuel Falque joins the ongoing debate about the role of theology in phenomenology. An important voice in the second generation of French philosophy’s “theological turn,” Falque examines philosophically the fathers of the Church and the medieval theologians on the nature of theology and the objects comprising it. Falque works phenomenology itself into the corpus of theology. Theological concepts thus translate into philosophical terms that phenomenology should legitimately question: concepts from contemporary phenomenology such as onto-theology, appearance, reduction, body/flesh, inter-corporeity, the genesis of community, intersubjectivity, and the singularity of the other find penetrating analogues in patristic and medieval thought forged through millennia of Christological and Trinitarian debate, mystical discourses, and speculative reflection. Through Falque’s wide-ranging interpretive path, phenomenology finds itself interrogated—and renewed.

Author : Paul J Griffiths
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781503606753

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Christian Flesh by Paul J Griffiths Pdf

“[A] brilliant and provocative work . . . demonstrating the centrality of the flesh to the mysteries and doctrines of the Christian faith.” —Carol Zaleski, Smith College A sustained and systematic theological reflection on the idea that being a Christian is, first and last, a matter of the flesh, Christian Flesh shows us what being a Christian means for fleshly existence. Depicting and analyzing what the Christian tradition has to say about the flesh of Christians in relation to that of Christ, the book shows that some kinds of fleshly activity conform well to being a Christian, while others are in tension with it. But to lead a Christian life is to be unconstrained by ordinary ethical norms. Arguing that no particular case of fleshly activity is forbidden, Paul J. Griffiths illustrates his message through extended case studies of what it is for Christians to eat, to clothe themselves, and to engage in physical intimacy. “In this trenchant and careful theological treatment of our embodiment, Paul Griffiths puts the stress exactly where it should be put––on the possibility of transfigured touch. By focusing on the varieties of touch, he is able to untangle several unfortunate arguments between liberals and conservatives in a most refreshing way.” —John Milbank, University of Nottingham “Very few theologians can boast a comparable combination of profound questioning and precise reasoning. This is a book worthy of the most serious reflection, debate, and admiration.” —David Bentley Hart, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study “Supremely lucid and beautifully austere.” —Evan Sandsmark, Modern Theology “A model of well-reasoned, stimulating and enduring theology.” —R. David Nelson, International Journal of Systematic Theology

Author : Ruth Rendell
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307410320

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Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell Pdf

A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.” When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand. In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that’s become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise. As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.

Author : E. Jerome Van Kuiken
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567675569

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Christ's Humanity in Current and Ancient Controversy: Fallen or Not? by E. Jerome Van Kuiken Pdf

Was Christ's human nature fallen, even sinful? From the 18th century to the present, this view has become increasingly prominent in Reformed theological circles and beyond, despite vigorous opposition. Both sides on the issue see it as vital for understanding the nature of salvation. Each side's advocates appeal to or critique the Church Fathers. This book reviews the history and present state of the debate, then surveys the connections, distinctions, and patristic interpretations of five of the modern fallenness view's proponents (Edward Irving, Karl Barth, T. F. Torrance, Colin Gunton, and Thomas Weinandy) and five of its opponents (Marcus Dods the Elder, A. B. Bruce, H. R. Mackintosh, Philip Hughes, and Donald Macleod). The book verifies the views of the ten most-cited Fathers: five Greek (Irenaeus, Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Nyssen, and Cyril of Alexandria) and five Latin (Tertullian, Hilary of Poitiers, Ambrose, Augustine, and Leo the Great). The study concludes by sketching the implications of its findings for the doctrines of the Immaculate Conception, sin, sanctification, and Scripture.

Author : Thom Carnell
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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No Flesh Shall Be Spared by Thom Carnell Pdf

Set in a near future where society has dealt with the global outbreak of the Living Dead, a new highly lucrative international sport, zombie pit fighting, emerges. NO FLESH SHALL BE SPARED is the story of Cleese, his recruitment and rise to supremacy in this violent world where every match could be his last. The Dead will fall. Friends will die. The question that arises is that of Cleese's fate in the ensuing mayhem.

Author : Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10606824

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The Writings by Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus Pdf

Author : Witness Lee
Publisher : Living Stream Ministry
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Ministry Digest, Vol. 03, No. 04 by Witness Lee Pdf

In this issue we will continue four lines of ministry. The first line--The History of the Lord's Recovery--contains chapters 14 through 17 of Fellowship concerning the Urgent Need of the Vital Groups, which are in volume 3 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1991–1992. These chapters cover vital points concerning the vital group practice, an earnest talk concerning the practice of the vital groups, being burdened with God's loving concern for sinners and with converting sinners into members of Christ for the carrying out of God's economy, and fellowship concerning the living contents of the vital groups. The second line--Words for New Believers--contains chapters 9 through 12 of Crucial Truths in the Holy Scriptures, Volume 1, which are in volume 3 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1932–1949. These chapters cover topics related to justification, reconciliation, regeneration, and eternal life. The third line--Maturing in Life--continues with chapters 3 through 6 of Reward and Punishment, which are in volume 3 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1955. These chapters cover various aspects of the gospel revealed in the Gospels and Acts, God setting aside a portion of His salvation as a reward, reward and punishment in the New Testament, and the time, duration, and intention of reward and punishment. The fourth line--The High Peak of the Divine Revelation--continues with chapters 2 through 5 of God's New Testament Economy, which are in volume 3 of The Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1984. These chapters cover the Word's incarnation and the Son's living on the earth, the Son's death in His humanity with His divinity through the Spirit, and the Son's resurrection in His divinity with His humanity.

Author : Richard ELLIOT (A.B.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1772
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0021667390

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Encouragement for Sinners; a righteousness attainable without works. Being the substance of a sermon on Gal. ii. 21 by Richard ELLIOT (A.B.) Pdf

Author : Charles Lowe,Henry Wilder Foote,John Hopkins Morison,Henry H. Barber,Joseph Henry Allen,James De Normandie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Unitarianism
ISBN : UOM:39015006945300

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The Unitarian Review by Charles Lowe,Henry Wilder Foote,John Hopkins Morison,Henry H. Barber,Joseph Henry Allen,James De Normandie Pdf