The Ground Of Our Beseeching

Author : Peter Sharpe
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910802
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ground of Our Beseeching written by Peter Sharpe and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Ground of Our Beseeching: Metaphor and the Poetics of Meditation describes the signature styles of meditation in three American poets, and shows how each generated language out of spiritual yearning. The author's inquiry in this area grew out of an interest in the interplay of creativity, language, and religion, and a need to know, as both critic and practicing poet, how metaphor arises, particularly in the context of poetry which hearkens after the sacred. How far, in other words, has metaphor taken some of our central poets - T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and Theodore Roethke - in matters of belief? No other critique of American poetry, prior to this study, has systematically linked the idea of the sacred with the practice of metaphor. Nor has a compelling case been made, until now, for viewing meditation, a style of thinking close to prayer, as the source or "ground" of these poets."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809120918
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Showings written by Julian (of Norwich) and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the light of their thirteen years of work on the critical edition of Showings, Colledge and Walsh give us this first modern English rendering from their critical text.

Author : Robert Aitken
Publisher : Shambhala Publications
ISBN 13 : 1570622191
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ground We Share written by Robert Aitken and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 1996-06-18 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These dialogues between Robert Aitken Roshi, one of the first American-born Zen masters, and Brother David Steindl-Rast, the Roman Catholic monk and hermit, took place during a week-long retreat the two old friends undertook in 1991 in a remote part of the island of Hawaii. Their aim was to approach the dialogue between Buddhism and Christianity in a fresh way, one that takes as its starting point a comparison of the personal experiences of the dialoguers—as a Buddhist and as a Christian, respectively—rather than abstract concepts. The result is the discovery of a surprising amount of common ground—the kind of shared experience that forms a solid foundation for further dialogue.

Author : Grace Jantzen
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809139910
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Julian of Norwich written by Grace Jantzen and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julian of Norwich, an anchoress of the fourteenth century, has captured the imagination of our time in a remarkable way. She shares with her readers the deepest and most intimate experiences of her life through her writings.This detailed study of Julian attempts not only to penetrate her theological ideas but also brings to life her world and her life as an anchoress. Grace Jantzen has more than an academic interest in Julian's writings and sets out to integrate scholarly findings with contemporary spirituality. There is much in the thought of this extraordinary woman mystic which is excitingly relevant; her insights into spiritual growth and wholeness foreshadow the modern interest in psychotherapy and her image of Christ as mother has resounding implications for Christian feminist theology.In a new introduction to this edition, the author explores what it might mean to be an anchoress in post modernity, and how reflections on Julian of Norwich and her desire for God can enable us to become the space of divine transformation.This is a book not only for those who have a scholarly interest in Julian, but also for anyone drawn to Christian mysticism and the place of women within that tradition.Julian of Norwich, an anchoress of the fourteenth century, has captured the imagination of our time in a remarkable way. She shares with her readers the deepest and most intimate experiences of her life through her writings.

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
Publisher : CCEL
ISBN 13 : 1610251040
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian (of Norwich) and published by CCEL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julian (of Norwich)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revelations of Divine Love written by Julian (of Norwich) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David R Andersen
Publisher : New Reformation Publications
ISBN 13 : 1948969653
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Defense of Christian Ritual written by David R Andersen and published by New Reformation Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Christian worship best conceived as a creative, Spirit-fueled experience that any formalized structure necessarily inhibits, or are there any biblical prescriptions around for worship that Christians were meant to follow? In light of recent research from various disciplines-including history, psychology, and New Testament studies - In Defense of Christian Ritual: The Case for a Biblical Pattern of Worship argues the latter. Specifically, this book will demonstrate three things. First, in contrast to the anti-ritualism so prevalent in modern churches, ritual's indispensable role in providing biblically-centered context and content is detailed.Second, contrary to modern opinion, a definite pattern of worship is shown to be present both in our earliest New Testament documents and the early church.Finally, new research will reveal that the assumptions about creativity lying at the heart of modern contemporary worship are fundamentally flawed. Readers will discover that the apostolic teaching embodied in the church's early ritual, as expressed in its liturgy, was never intended to be outdated or rendered irrelevant in light of current fads. It was never meant to be a relic of the ancient past, but a structured way of bringing the "memoirs of the apostles" -that Jesus died for sinners- to God's people in the here and now.

Author : Gordon W. Lathrop
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451408966
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Holy Things written by Gordon W. Lathrop and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New in paperback! Cyril of Jerusalem wrote about "holy things." He thereby reflected the communion invitation used in his fourth-century liturgy to call people to "taste and see that the Lord is good" (Mystagogical Catecheses). The present times call for strong and healthy symbols that hold people into hope. The Christian communities need a reintroduction into the ways in which liturgical symbols respond to human need. Indeed, Lathrop argues, Christian communities continually need to reconsider the meaning of their liturgies and reform those liturgies toward authentic clarity. In its three parts, this book (1) proposes that an ecumenical pattern or ordo of worship can be discerned which is also a pattern of meaning, (2) discusses the ways in which meaning occurs in the meeting for worship itself, and (3) draws practical conclusions about the organization of that meeting and its importance to current human need. Throughout, Lathrop undertakes to do theology, that is, to say what the liturgy actually says about God.

Author : Ronald Schuchard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198026412
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eliot's Dark Angel written by Ronald Schuchard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-10-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schuchard's critical study draws upon previously unpublished and uncollected materials in showing how Eliot's personal voice works through the sordid, the bawdy, the blasphemous, and the horrific to create a unique moral world and the only theory of moral criticism in English literature. The book also erodes conventional attitudes toward Eliot's intellectual and spiritual development, showing how early and consistently his classical and religious sensibility manifests itself in his poetry and criticism. The book examines his reading, his teaching, his bawdy poems, and his life-long attraction to music halls and other modes of popular culture to show the complex relation between intellectual biography and art.

Author : Edited and with an introduction by Kathleen A. Walsh
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 1616439521
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of the Soul written by Edited and with an introduction by Kathleen A. Walsh and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2014-03-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: