Author: John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881414035
Category : Christian civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Felix Ó Murchadha
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253010098
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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A study of how the world is experienced through Christian philosophy and phenomenology. How does Christian philosophy address phenomena in the world? Felix Ó Murchadha believes that seeing, hearing, or otherwise sensing the world through faith requires transcendence or thinking through glory and night (being and meaning). By challenging much of Western metaphysics, Ó Murchadha shows how phenomenology opens new ideas about being, and how philosophers of “the theological turn” have addressed questions of creation, incarnation, resurrection, time, love, and faith. He explores the possibility of a phenomenology of Christian life and argues against any simple separation of philosophy and theology or reason and faith. “Ó Murchadha makes abundant and timely references to the philosophical tradition from Plato through Heidegger, but also, perhaps more so, to the post-Heideggerian developments sometimes considered together and at once as “the theological turn” in phenomenology. He is equally at home in the Christian theological traditions from Paul to Barth and von Balthasar.” —Jeffrey Bloechl, Boston College “The book is engaging, well-written and, from this reviewer’s point of view, generally convincing. It constitutes an impressive and original contribution to both the philosophy of religion and has very much to offer to those interested in phenomenology and phenomenological analysis.” —Modern Theology “As an explication of how Christian belief can transform the meaning of the world . . . this book shows its greatest worth. Here it does as compelling a job as any in bringing out the novelty of Christianity before it became overly familiar and overwritten.” —Philosophical Quarterly

Author: Vassilios Papavassiliou
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936270897
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 249

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Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the Ladder for the ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. Now you too can accept the challenge offered by St. John Climacus to ascend closer to God with each passing day.--

Author: John Calvin
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1606087436
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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A leading expert on John Calvin brings together the reformer's most profound reflections on what it means to live a fully Christian life. The Christian Life includes excerpts from Calvin's impressive theological writings and illuminating sermons, as well as a selection of his stately prayers. Editor John H. Leith focuses on Calvin's spirituality, which arose out of the reformer's conviction that theology's primary importance is to encourage piety, to edify, and to transform human life and society. Calvin's writings have much to tell about the manner and style of Christian living. The writings gathered in The Christian Life draw upon Calvin's own heartfelt commitment to the ideals of life in Christ and to the responsibility to the community he served as pastor, preacher, teacher, and counselor. Here, then, is Calvin's own pattern for the conduct of the fully Christian life, which stresses that it is in Christian people living in Christian community and in society that we see most clearly the reality of faith. The Christian Life shares Calvin's thinking on such essential questions as the nature of sin; the importance of self-denial and cross-bearing to the Christian life; maintaining the proper balance between the present life and the life to come; the role of grace; the concept of Christian freedom; the place of prayer; the centrality of community; ideas of the elect and predestination; and the deepest purposes of God for his people. He relates all issues to the fundamental question of piety and how Christians can best attune themselves to God's unfolding plans in everyday life. This compact volume makes available to readers as never before some of the most accessible and rewarding writings of this foremost figure in the history of Christian thought. The selections in The Christian Life will introduce the reader to an influential form of Christian piety; but above all, they provide a clue to how Christians today may live and cope with the problems of personal and public life in a highly pluralistic and secular culture, in which the traditional guides and support for Christian living seem to have lost vitality and vigor.

Author: Hubert Talmadge Spence
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882542710
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 159

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Our spiritual lives should be lives of ascent. Certainly the pinnacle of our spiritual walk is not something which is achieved all at once. Our spiritual experiences with the Lord can be described as different degrees, as a series of steps, as varying stages of growth. The Christian life is to be a continual advancing, a continual going forward and going upward. We should never be standing still; if we remain stationary in one experience or become stranded at one stage, we will find that our spiritual lives suffer and become frustrated. Failing to grow onward, we could eventually go back on God. These songs of degrees, also called the "Psalms of Ascent," present a spiritual journey of the soul's growing hunger and intensifying desire for Christ. In this writing we present a simplistic ascent of the redeemed soul through the teachings of the New Testament set in types and shadows from the Psalms of Degrees. - Back cover.

Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547537077
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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The author of The Seven Storey Mountain explores the mysticism of Saint John of the Cross. The only thing that can save the world from complete moral collapse is a spiritual revolution. . . . The desire for unworldliness, detachment, and union with God is the most fundamental expression of this revolutionary spirit. In Ascent to Truth, author and Trappist Monk Thomas Merton makes an impassioned case for the importance of contemplation. Drawing on a range of thinkers—from Carl Jung to Pope Pius XII—Merton defines the nature of contemplative experience and shows how the Christian mysticism of sixteenth-century Spanish Carmelite Saint John of the Cross offers essential answers to our disquieting and troubling times. “For any who have the desire to look into meditation and contemplation . . . this is the book for which they have waited.” —New York Herald Tribune Book Review “For those who may be curious about mysticism, and for those who may be called to a life of contemplation, this is an excellent book.” —Catholic World

Author: John Breck
Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press
ISBN: 9780881412529
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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This collection of reflections contemplates the Divinity descending, acting within, and enlightening our day-to-day lives. This eminent Orthodox ethicist and pastor ponders questions that arise in our culture and answers them in an engaging style that is fully accessible to the average layperson.

Author: Karl Barth
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN: 9780664253257
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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In a rare volume, Barth presents his lecture on "The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life", in which he insists there is no way to get behind or beyond the fact that God is revealed to us in three distinct ways, yet with a unity that cannot be divided.

Author: Amory Bradford
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781544060798
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180

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The scope of this book is best stated by the author in his opening chapter: "To trace some of the steps of what may be called the evolution of the spirit, or, in the light of modern knowledge, the growth of the soul as it moves upward. Given the spiritual being, what are the stages through which he will pass on his way to the goal toward which he is surely pressing." "Amory H. Bradford, D. D., the author of this suggestive book, is a leading Congregational minister, and belongs to the liberal wing of his denomination. Outside of that denomination he will well known as a thoughtful writer on latter-day subjects, and this new book will do much to extend his influence. Dr. Bradford is a theistic evolutionist, and as such represents that school of thinkers who believe that the evolutionary hypothesis can be made to consist with Christianity. If nowhere in this volume he obtrudes his belief in this respect, that belief none the less colors his thoughts. Aside then, from its religious merits, the book is one of much more than ordinary interest, and cannot fail to be helpful to man....Dr. Bradford writes excellent English; his style is clear and chaste, and remarkably free from verbiage; while every page reveals the severely conscientious and spiritually-minded thinker and the sincere lover of his kind....No one can follow him through these pages without feeling that he is with one who is doing him good." -The Literary World "A deep, searching, and vital study of great problems that confront the individual." -St. Paul Dispatch "Presents the distinctly spiritual aspect of the subject, especially in its practical bearings, with noticeable clearness, breadth, candor, and sympathy." -Buffalo Express "A thoughtful study of the spiritual life in man....Bradford's reflections and his growing experience, as time has passed, have inspired him with optimism. He has come to believe profoundly not only in the immortal life, but that no soul of man will ever, in the end, be 'cast as rubbish to the void,' because God's love cannot be defeated. In the 'fullness of Christ' is the soul's true goal, and for that all men, and not the elect few, were created. Believing thus, he finds a place for prayers for the dead, for the idea is to him untenable that when men die their state is irrevocably and forever fixed....His study of the soul's upward struggle, its sufferings, its disciplines, its conquests through Christ, will be felt as true by everyone, and his hopeful and trustful spirit knows no cry of defeat, but only the shout of victory." -The Christian Advocate "Dr. Bradford has been an influence and a force for right living, civic integrity, and high patriotism. He has always had strong convictions, has uttered them plainly and clearly, but has never scolded or fumed from pulpit or platform. Gentleness of manner and strength of purpose have united effectively in his work and in his personality." -New Outlook "The development, improvement, and final destiny of the individual soul....Dr. Bradford evidently recognizes the fact of future suffering for the impenitent. But he teaches that without exception, every soul will eventually be brought around to God's love." -The Christian Work and the Evangelist CONTENTS The Soul The Awakening of the Soul The First Steps Hindrances The Austere Re-Awakening The Place of Jesus Christ The Inseparable Companion Nurture and Culture Is Death the End? Prayers for the Dead The Goal Footnotes

Author: Vassilios Papavassiliou
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781955890519
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This large-print edition of Thirty Steps to Heaven includes an industry standard 16pt font on bright white paper. This edition is ideal for the visually impaired, late-night readers, or anyone who prefers reading larger type. Many laypeople have attempted to read the great spiritual classic, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, but have been frustrated in attempting to apply the lessons of this monastic text to their everyday lives in the world. In Thirty Steps, Archimandrite Vassilios interprets the Ladder for the ordinary Christian without sacrificing any of its beauty and power. Now you too can accept the challenge offered by St. John Climacus to ascend closer to God with each passing day.