Words Of Ecstasy Revised Edition

Author : Peter Gardella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190609412

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Innocent Ecstasy, Updated Edition by Peter Gardella Pdf

Though they disagree on virtually everything else, evangelicals and gays, Catholics and agnostics all agree that sex should be innocent and ecstatic. For most of Western history people have not had such expectations. Innocent Ecstasy shows how Christianity led Americans to hope for so much from sex. The book explains how the sexual revolution could have occurred in a nation so deeply imbued with Christian ethical values. Tracing our strange journey from the hands of Jonathan Edward's angry Puritan God to the loving embrace of Marabel Morgan's Total Woman, Gardella draws his surprising evidence from widely disparate sources, ranging from Catholic confessionals to methodist revival meetings, from evangelical romances to The Song of Bernadette. He reveals the sexual messages of mainstream Protestant theology and the religious aspirations of medical texts found at the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. He sheds new light on such well-known figures as Henry Adams, Margaret Sanger, Aimee Semple McPherson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, and introduces us to such fascinating, lesser-known characters as Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and Sylvester Graham, inventors of corn flakes and Graham crackers, who devised their products as anti-aphrodisiacs. While detailing the development of moral obligations to pursue sexual pleasure and to follow certain patterns of sexual practice, Gardella incidentally provides one of the few books to bring together the liberal Protestant, Roman Catholic, and evangelical perspectives on any aspect of American culture. Gardella attributes the American ethic of sexual pleasure to the eagerness of Americans to overcome original sin. This led to a quest for perfection, or complete freedom from guilt, combined with a quest for ecstatic experience. The result, he maintains, is an attitude that looks to sex for what was once expected from religion. In this new edition, a new conclusion explores how popular music, gay liberation, and recovery from sexual abuse have substantially expanded innocent ecstasy during the past thirty years while continuing the Christian themes of redemption and mission. A new afterword deals with contemporary developments in popular culture and offers thoughts about the future

Author : Wayne Grudem
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433517808

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The Gift of Prophecy in the New Testament and Today (Revised Edition) by Wayne Grudem Pdf

What does the New Testament teach about the spiritual gift of prophecy? What is it? How does it function? Can evangelical Christians use it in their churches today? This updated, comprehensive work answers such questions and points the way to a renewed understanding of the gift of prophecy—an understanding that suggests how the body of Christ may enjoy one of the Holy Spirit's most edifying gifts without compromising the supremacy of Scripture.

Author : St Teresa of Avila
Publisher : ICS Publications
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781939272492

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The Interior Castle: Study Edition / Second Edition, Revised by St Teresa of Avila Pdf

The Interior Castle is considered St. Teresa of Avila’s masterpiece. She wrote this last work in just a few months in 1577, five years before her death. At this point in her life she had been granted the highest mystical graces; this book is the fruit of her lived experience and a deep-felt praise of God for it. More than a book, The Interior Castle is a powerful image of the mystery of the human person. It is, in a very real sense, Teresa’s soul. Using the image of a castle, Teresa describes the soul’s progressive inner journey through seven dwelling places, until finally reaching the center where, now transformed, it is united with God. Reading the works of Teresa herself is indispensable. This second, revised study edition has been completely redesigned as a springboard to reading and understanding Teresa’s text. The book presents a chapter of The Interior Castle itself, followed by a review of the development of her thought and the principal ideas in each chapter. Interpretive notes after each chapter cover doctrine, history, and sociology. Expanded questions for reflection and/or discussion conclude each chapter. A glossary of terms offers definitions as well as their specific and sometimes unique meaning in Teresa’s writings. Comprehensive indexes of key themes and figures, castle imagery, and biblical references make this volume an indispensable reference resource.

Author : Cuthbert Butler
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579107567

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Western Mysticism; Second Edition with Afterthoughts by Cuthbert Butler Pdf

Author : Jim DeKorne
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781583942901

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Psychedelic Shamanism, Updated Edition by Jim DeKorne Pdf

Psychedelic Shamanism presents the spiritual and shamanic properties of psychotropic plants and discusses how they can be used to understand the structure of human consciousness. Author Jim DeKorne offers authoritative information about the cultivation, processing, and correct dosages for various psychotropic plant substances including the belladonna alkaloids, d-lysergic acid amide, botanical analogues of LSD, mescaline, ayahuasca, DMT, and psilocybin. Opening with vivid descriptions of the author’s personal experiences with psychedelic drugs, the book describes the parallels that exist among shamanic states of consciousness, the use of psychedelic catalysts, and the hidden structure of the human psyche. DeKorne suggests that psychedelic drugs allow us to examine the shamanic dimensions of reality. This worldview, he says, is ubiquitous across space, time, and culture, with individuals separated by race, distance, and culture routinely describing the same core reality that provides powerful evidence of the dimensional nature of consciousness itself. The book guides the reader through the imaginal realm underlying our awareness, a world in which spiritual entities exist to reconnect us with ourselves, humanity, and our planet. Accurate drawings of plants, including peyote, Salvia divinorum, and San Pedro, enhance the book’s usefulness.

Author : Ernest B. Gentile
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441215277

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Your Sons and Daughters Shall Prophesy by Ernest B. Gentile Pdf

A thorough yet practical study that shows how the biblical gift of prophecy can build up today's churches and individual Christians.

Author : ROBERT CHAMBERS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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CHAMBERS'S ENCYCLOPAEDIA: A DICTIONARY OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE NEW EDITION VOL. IV by ROBERT CHAMBERS Pdf

Author : Paul Turner
Publisher : LiturgyTrainingPublications
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781568549811

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Understanding the Revised Mass Texts, Second Edition by Paul Turner Pdf

Author : James Hogg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024391140

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The Works of the Ettrick Shepherd. A New Edition, Revised ... by T. Thomson ... With Illustrative Engravings by James Hogg Pdf

Author : John WALKER (the Philologist.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020044254

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A critical pronouncing dictionary ... Also, A key to the classical pronunciation of Greek, Latin, and Scripture proper names ... A new edition, carefully revised and corrected by John WALKER (the Philologist.) Pdf

Author : G. Atkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137381637

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T.S. Eliot, Lancelot Andrewes, and the Word: Intersections of Literature and Christianity by G. Atkins Pdf

With special attention to the poems For Lancelot Andrewes, Journey of the Magi, and Ash-Wednesday , G. Douglas Atkins offers an exciting new analysis of T.S. Eliot's debt to the seventeenth-century churchman Lancelot Andrewes and his theories of reading and writing texts.

Author : Edwin Wilbur Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Bible
ISBN : CHI:090197847

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People's Commentary on the Acts by Edwin Wilbur Rice Pdf

Author : Thomas Hobbes
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781460403679

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Leviathan - Revised Edition by Thomas Hobbes Pdf

Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan is the greatest work of political philosophy in English and the first great work of philosophy in English. Beginning with premises that were sometimes controversial, such as that every human action is caused by the agent’s desire for his own good, Hobbes derived shocking conclusions, such as that the civil government enjoys absolute control over its citizens and that the sovereign has the right to determine which religion is to be practiced in a commonwealth. Hobbes’s contemporaries recognized the power of arguments in Leviathan and many of them wrote responses to it; selections by John Bramhall, Robert Filmer, Edward Hyde, George Lawson, William Lucy, Samuel Pufendorf, and Thomas Tenison are included in this edition. Leviathan is divided into four parts: In the first part, Of Man, Hobbes presents a view of human beings and of the natural world in general that is materialistic and mechanistic. In the second part, Of Commonwealth, he defends the theory of absolute sovereignty, the view that the government has all the political power and has the right to control any aspect of life. In the third part, Of a Christian Commonwealth, he critiques concepts like revelation, prophets, and miracles in such a way that it becomes doubtful whether they can be rationally justified. In the fourth part, Of the Kingdom of Darkness, he explains various ways in which priestly religion has corrupted religion and transgressed the rights of the sovereign.

Author : Edward W. Goodrick
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725244061

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Is My Bible the Inspired Word of God? by Edward W. Goodrick Pdf

Evangelical Christians vigorously defend the Bible as the inspired Word of God, yet we limit that term just to the autographs--those original writings of the Scriptures that no longer exist. What does this say for the reliability of your Bible? Can you honestly and truthfully claim that your Bible translation is the inspired Word of God? Ed Goodrick believes that we need to adjust our thinking about inspiration: a change that argues that the Bible that you actually hold in your hand is also rightly described as the inspired Word of God. His enlightening discussion of the nature of God's revelation, the accurate copying of these original writings, the careful comparison of the manuscripts (textual criticism), and their translation into contemporary languages will give you a renewed confidence in the trustworthiness of your Bible. Goodrick also explores the issues that surround interpreting the Bible, for if it is misused by present-day readers, it does little good practically to assert its divine origin. Ray Lubeck has sought to bring this very important work back into print for a new generation of believers who now need, more than ever in this increasingly postmodern culture, to learn that the Bible is worthy of your trust, commitment, study, and confidence. Though Goodrick's arguments are timeless, his wording and sources have now been completely updated, giving the second edition of Is My Bible the Inspired Word of God? an easy-to-read style for today.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024367890

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The Complete Works of Shakspere, Revised from the Original Editions. With Historical and Analytical Introductions to Each Play, Also Notes Explanatory and Critical, and a Life of the Poet. By J. O. Halliwell, and Other Eminent Commentators. (The Doubtful Plays of Shakspere ... Revised. Accompanied with ... Introductions ... and Notes ... by H. Tyrrell.). by William Shakespeare Pdf