The English Sabbath

Author : Kenneth L. Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521526562
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Sabbath written by Kenneth L. Parker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-07-04 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of sabbatarianism, one of the most cherished Puritan causes during the Civil War.

Author : MaryAnn McKibben-Dana
Publisher : Chalice Press
ISBN 13 : 0827235224
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabbath in the Suburbs written by MaryAnn McKibben-Dana and published by Chalice Press. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy." Yeah, right. Sabbath-keeping seems quaint in our 24/7, twenty-first century world. Life often feels impossibly full, what with work, to-do lists, kid activities, chores, and errands. And laundry... always and forever laundry. But the Sabbath isn't just one of the ten commandments; it is a delight that can transform the other six days of the week. Join one family's quest to take Sabbath to heart and change their frenetic way of living by keeping a Sabbath day each week for one year. With lively and compelling prose, MaryAnn McKibben Dana documents their experiment with holy time as a guide for families of all shapes and sizes. Tips are included in each chapter to help make your own Sabbath experiment successful.

Author : Maurice Sachs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943679126
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Witches' Sabbath written by Maurice Sachs and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Autobiography. Translated from the French by Richard Howard. Witches' Sabbath is the remarkable autobiographical chronicle of French author Maurice Sachs (1906-1945). To Sachs, the work was "a statement of account, a moral memo. Or should I say immoral?" He recounts how, as a young man, he befriended Jean Cocteau and Coco Chanel, both of whom he stole from, as he stole from many others in his life (Sachs would later propose writing a book entitled Confessions of a Thief). He tells of when, in 1925, he converted to Catholicism and entered a seminary, only to be expelled because of his homosexuality. He tells of when he drifted through America, of when he nearly drank himself to death, of his many failed love affairs. In addition to being a compelling, honest portrait of a unique character, Witches' Sabbath is also notable for its engagement with literature. Every period of Sachs' life is marked by his dialogue with living and dead authors; Charles Baudelaire, Marcel Proust, Stendhal, all are featured. Thanks to his lifelong obsession with literature, Sachs developed a style all his own: peppered with keen, acerbic portraits of his contemporaries, sometimes picaresque, introspective and often full of irony.

Author : Wayne Muller
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553380117
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabbath written by Wayne Muller and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, with its relentless emphasis on success and productivity, we have lost the necessary rhythm of life, the balance between work and rest. Constantly striving, we feel exhausted and deprived in the midst of great abundance. We long for time with friends and family, we long for a moment to ourselves. Millennia ago, the tradition of Sabbath created an oasis of sacred time within a life of unceasing labor. Now, in a book that can heal our harried lives, Wayne Muller, author of the spiritual classic How, Then, Shall We Live?, shows us how to create a special time of rest, delight, and renewal--a refuge for our souls. We need not even schedule an entire day each week. Sabbath time can be a Sabbath afternoon, a Sabbath hour, a Sabbath walk. With wonderful stories, poems, and suggestions for practice, Muller teaches us how we can use this time of sacred rest to refresh our bodies and minds, restore our creativity, and regain our birthright of inner happiness. Praise for Sabbath “Muller's insights are applicable within a broad spectrum of faiths and will appeal to a wide range of readers.”—Publishers Weekly “One of the best spiritual books of the year.”—Spirituality and Health “Wayne Muller's call to remember the Sabbath is not only rich, wise and poetic, it may well be the only salvation for body and soul in a world gone crazy with busyness and stress.”—Joan Borysenko, author ofMinding the Body, Mending the Mind and A Woman's Book of Life “This is a book that may save your life. Sabbath offers a surprising direction for healing to anyone who has ever glimpsed emptiness at the heart of a busy and productive life.”—Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., author of Kitchen Table Wisdom

Author : Charles P. Arand
Publisher : B&H Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 0805448217
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on the Sabbath written by Charles P. Arand and published by B&H Publishing Group. This book was released on 2011 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four views of the Sabbath commandment (Seventh-day, Fulfillment, Christian Sabbath, and Lutheran) are presented by scholars in point-counterpoint style to determine which is most faithful to Scripture.

Author : Eric A. Kimmel
Publisher : Kar-Ben Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0761359095
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joseph and the Sabbath Fish written by Eric A. Kimmel and published by Kar-Ben Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells the story of Joseph, who is rewarded for honoring the Sabbath by being generous to others even after he, himself, becomes poor.

Author : Lynne M. Baab
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830868275
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabbath Keeping written by Lynne M. Baab and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2010-10-18 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let's give ourselves an A for effort. We keep our minds so preoccupied with work projects that we act and think on autopilot. We keep our kids so occupied with activities that they need day planners before grade school. We keep our schedules so full with church meetings and housekeeping and even entertaining that down-time sounds like a mortal sin. When we fail to rest we do more than burn ourselves out. We misunderstand the God who calls us to rest--who created us to be people of rest. Let's face it: our rest needs work. Sabbath recalls our creation, and with it God's satisfaction with us as he made us, without our hurried wrangling and harried worrying. It also recalls God's deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt, and with it God's ability to do completely what we cannot complete in ourselves. Sabbath keeping reminds us that we are free to rest each week. Eighteen months in Tel Aviv, Israel, where a weekly sabbath is built into the culture, began Lynne M. Baab's twenty-five-year embrace of a rhythm of rest—as a stay-at-home mom, as a professional writer working out of her home and as a minister of the gospel. With collected insights from sabbath keepers of all ages and backgrounds, Sabbath Keeping offers a practical and hopeful guidebook that encourages all of us to slow down and enjoy our relationship with the God of the universe.

Author : Bruce A. Ray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875523941
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celebrating the Sabbath written by Bruce A. Ray and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This positive look at the Sabbath explains how to delight in that day as the opportunity reserved by God for his people to be refreshed in fellowship with him.

Author : Michael D. Bailey
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271089512
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the perception of magic as harmful is age-old, the notion of witches gathering together in large numbers, overtly worshiping demons, and receiving instruction in how to work harmful magic as part of a conspiratorial plot against Christian society was an innovation of the early fifteenth century. The sources collected in this book reveal this concept in its formative stages. The idea that witches were members of organized heretical sects or part of a vast diabolical conspiracy crystalized most clearly in a handful of texts written in the 1430s and clustered geographically around the arc of the western Alps. Michael D. Bailey presents accessible English translations of the five oldest surviving texts describing the witches’ sabbath and of two witch trials from the period. These sources, some of which were previously unavailable in English or available only in incomplete or out-of-date translations, show how perceptions of witchcraft shifted from a general belief in harmful magic practiced by individuals to a conspiratorial and organized threat that led to the witch hunts that shook northern Europe and went on to influence conceptions of diabolical witchcraft for centuries to come. Origins of the Witches’ Sabbath makes freshly available a profoundly important group of texts that are key to understanding the cultural context of this dark chapter in Europe’s history. It will be especially valuable to those studying the history of witchcraft, medieval and early modern legal history, religion and theology, magic, and esotericism.

Author : Alice Morse Earle
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387319746
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sabbath in Puritan New England written by Alice Morse Earle and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.