Rise To Divinity

Author : Bryant Hinkle
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524660760
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise to Divinity written by Bryant Hinkle and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-02-06 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about a young man who takes his life because he cant handle watching the world continue in the way its going. Finding himself in the afterlife, he tries to make the most of it, only to find he actually enjoys where he is. But then a deal is made that sends him back to the realm of the living.

Author : Richard Rohr
Publisher : SPCK
ISBN 13 : 0281078165
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divine Dance written by Richard Rohr and published by SPCK. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divine Dance has become a classic for fans of Richard Rohr and an important book on Christian mysticism, it provides a fresh perspective for anyone studying or teaching the trinity. The Trinity is the central doctrine of Christianity, but it is still widely considered a mystery we won't ever fully understand. Should we still try to understand it, even so? If we could, how would it transform our relationship with God? In this stimulating and thought-provoking book, internationally recognised teacher Richard Rohr explores the nature of God and the paradoxical idea of the Holy Trinity as both three and one. With clear, surefooted wisdom, he encourages us to build on the early Christian understanding of the relationship between Father, Son and Spirit as a flow and dance - a Divine Dance - that we are invited to join in. An engaging, accessible look at the nature of God, The Divine Dance will challenge the way you think about the Trinity and give you a much fuller understanding of the triune relationship that is at the heart of Christian doctrine. It will leave you with a faith that is renewed and strengthened, and show you how you can engage more deeply in your relationship with God and the world through the Trinity.

Author : Christopher Russell
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1642798886
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divinity's Twilight written by Christopher Russell and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Russell’s new high fantasy series launch is well written with a definite steampunk vibe and sword-and-sorcery appeal.” —Library Journal A world consumed by war. An ancient evil resurrected. A millennia-old bargain comes due . . . When two blades clash, the third will fall, and the fate of all will be jeopardized. To save Lozaria, the failures of the past must be atoned for by a new generation of heroes. The time has come for mortals to cast off sight and, in doing so, truly come to see . . . Victory is never absolute. Seven centuries ago, the forces of order won the Illyriite War on the plains of Har’muth. Darmatus and Rabban Aurelian slew their elder brother, Sarcon, the despotic architect of the conflict, then sacrificed themselves to banish the cataclysmic vortex opened with his dying breath. The first advent of the Oblivion Well was thwarted. Even without their vanished gods, the seven races of Lozaria proved themselves capable of safeguarding their world. Or so the story goes. The year is now 697 A.B.H. (After the Battle of Har’muth). Though war itself remains much the same, the weapons with which it is waged have evolved. Airships bearing powerful cannons ply the skies, reducing the influence of mages and their spells. Long-range communication has brought far-flung regions of Lozaria closer than ever before. At the center of this technological revolution are the three Terran states of Darmatia, Rabban, and Sarconia, who have fought a near ceaseless campaign of seven hundred years in an attempt to best each other. The roots of their enmity lie buried beneath the wasteland of Har’muth, a place all three nations consider best forgotten. However, an ancient power sealed within Har’muth has not forgotten them, and the descendants of those who fought on that field must now take a stand to rectify the mistakes of the past . . .

Author : Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere
Publisher : OUP USA
ISBN 13 : 0199777594
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rise of a Folk God written by Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2011-10-10 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vitthal, also called Vithoba, is the most popular god in the western Indian state of Maharashtra, and the best-known Hindu god of that region outside of India. This book by Ramchandra Chintaman Dhere is the foremost study of the history of Vitthal, his worship, and his worshippers.

Author : Michael J. Puett
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684170419
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Become a God written by Michael J. Puett and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evidence from Shang oracle bones to memorials submitted to Western Han emperors attests to a long-lasting debate in early China over the proper relationship between humans and gods. One pole of the debate saw the human and divine realms as separate and agonistic and encouraged divination to determine the will of the gods and sacrifices to appease and influence them. The opposite pole saw the two realms as related and claimed that humans could achieve divinity and thus control the cosmos. This wide-ranging book reconstructs this debate and places within their contemporary contexts the rival claims concerning the nature of the cosmos and the spirits, the proper demarcation between the human and the divine realms, and the types of power that humans and spirits can exercise. It is often claimed that the worldview of early China was unproblematically monistic and that hence China had avoided the tensions between gods and humans found in the West. By treating the issues of cosmology, sacrifice, and self-divinization in a historical and comparative framework that attends to the contemporary significance of specific arguments, Michael J. Puett shows that the basic cosmological assumptions of ancient China were the subject of far more debate than is generally thought.

Author : Charles M. Stang
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674970187
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Divine Double written by Charles M. Stang and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you were to discover that you were only one half of a whole—that you had a divine double? In the second and third centuries CE, Charles Stang shows, this idea gripped the religious imagination of the Eastern Mediterranean, offering a distinctive understanding of the self that has survived in various forms down to the present.

Author : Abhijit Naskar
Publisher : Neuro Cookies
ISBN 13 : 1386165425
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Divinity written by Abhijit Naskar and published by Neuro Cookies. This book was released on 2016-12-29 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Theoretical Religion is easy. Even a chimpanzee can get it. What the world needs is Practical Scientific Religion.” “Once upon a time, there was a frog that lived in a well. It was born there and brought up there, and yet was a little, small frog. One day another frog that lived in the sea came and fell into the well. "Where are you from?" "I am from the sea." "The sea! How big is that? Is it as big as my well?" and it took a leap from one side of the well to the other. "My friend," said the frog of the sea, "how do you compare the sea with your little well?" Then the frog took another leap and asked, "Is your sea so big?" "What nonsense you speak, to compare the sea with your well!" "Well, then," said the frog of the well, "nothing can be bigger than my well; there can be nothing bigger than this; this fellow is a liar, so turn him out." This has been the difficulty with religious beliefs all through ages." Is it possible for the civilized human society to see beyond those tiny circles of belief systems? In Search of Divinity is a heart-warming journey towards the Kingdom of Conscience, beyond the never-ending conflicts among orthodox religious belief systems. Celebrated Neuroscientist and International Best-selling Author Abhijit Naskar in his surreal and spell-binding way reveals the path towards the liberation of the mind. He shows us the glimpse of a world, where religious faith doesn't become an impediment in the path of progress of thinking humanity. Naskar's painstaking efforts to build that world represent the quest of billions of peace-loving human beings. In Search of Divinity is the Handbook of Discovering the Kingdom of Absolute Oneness.

Author : John Hey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures in Divinity written by John Hey and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062252194
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Jesus Became God written by Bart D. Ehrman and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church. The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself. How Jesus Became God tells the story of an idea that shaped Christianity, and of the evolution of a belief that looked very different in the fourth century than it did in the first. A master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, Ehrman reveals how an apocalyptic prophet from the backwaters of rural Galilee crucified for crimes against the state came to be thought of as equal with the one God Almighty, Creator of all things. But how did he move from being a Jewish prophet to being God? In a book that took eight years to research and write, Ehrman sketches Jesus’s transformation from a human prophet to the Son of God exalted to divine status at his resurrection. Only when some of Jesus’s followers had visions of him after his death—alive again—did anyone come to think that he, the prophet from Galilee, had become God. And what they meant by that was not at all what people mean today. Written for secular historians of religion and believers alike, How Jesus Became God will engage anyone interested in the historical developments that led to the affirmation at the heart of Christianity: Jesus was, and is, God.

Author : M. David Litwa
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190627433
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desiring Divinity written by M. David Litwa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no declaration incites more theological and moral outrage than a human's claim to be divine. Those who make this claim in ancient Jewish and Christian mythology are typically represented as the most hubristic and dangerous tyrants. Their horrible punishments are predictable and still serve as morality tales in religious communities today. But not all self-deifiers are saddled with pride and fated to fall. Some who claimed divinity stated a simple and direct truth. Though reviled on earth, misunderstood, and even killed, they received vindication and rose to the stars. This book tells the stories of six self-deifiers in their historical, social, and ideological contexts. In the history of interpretation, the initial three figures have been demonized as cosmic rebels: the first human Adam, Lucifer (later identified with Satan), and Yaldabaoth in gnostic mythology. By contrast, the final three have served as positive models for deification and divine favor: Jesus in the gospel of John, Simon of Samaria, and Allogenes in the Nag Hammadi library. In the end, the line separating demonization from deification is dangerously thin, drawn as it is by the unsteady hand of human valuation.