The Texture Of The Divine

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253110874
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Texture of the Divine written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texture of the Divine explores the central role of the imagination in the shared symbolic worlds of medieval Islam and Judaism. Aaron W. Hughes looks closely at three interrelated texts known as the Hayy ibn Yaqzan cycle (dating roughly from 1000--1200 CE) to reveal the interconnections not only between Muslims and Jews, but also between philosophy, mysticism, and literature. Each of the texts is an initiatory tale, recounting a journey through the ascending layers of the universe. These narratives culminate in the imaginative apprehension of God, in which the traveler gazes into the divine presence. The tales are beautiful and poetic literary works as well as probing philosophical treatises on how the individual can know the unknowable. In this groundbreaking work, Hughes reveals the literary, initiatory, ritualistic, and mystical dimensions of medieval Neoplatonism. The Texture of the Divine also includes the first complete English translation of Abraham Ibn Ezra's Hay ben Meqitz.

Author : Paul Fletcher
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409478254
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Disciplining the Divine written by Paul Fletcher and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disciplining the Divine offers the first comprehensive treatment of the Social Model of the Trinity, exploring its central place within much theological discourse of the past half century, including its relation to wider cultural and political concerns. The book highlights the manner in which theologians have attempted to make the doctrine of God relevant to modern issues and outlooks and it charts the conditions that have necessitated such a reconfiguration of theological analysis. While interrogatory in tone and intent, Disciplining the Divine nevertheless provides a critical reconstruction of a Christian theology and practice which might be undertaken within the political and cultural contexts of the new millennium.

Author : Shelia Burlock
Publisher : Augsburg Fortress Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1506494013
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Divine Natural Hair written by Shelia Burlock and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2024 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uplifting and authentic, My Divine Natural Hair helps Black women embrace the God-created beauty of natural hair through inspirational readings and salon chair guidance on how to heal, consistently care for, and grow their coils.

Author : Thomas Tregenna BIDDULPH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Influence Or, The Operation of the Holy Spirit Traced from the Creation of Man to the Consummation of All Things written by Thomas Tregenna BIDDULPH and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vernon K. Robbins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781563381836
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Texture of Texts written by Vernon K. Robbins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Vernon K. Robbins provides an accessible introduction to socio-rhetorical criticism, illustrating the method by guiding the reader through the study of specific New Testament texts and stories. An opening chapter outlines this new approach and its focus on values, convictions, and beliefs both in the text we read and in the world in which we live. Then follow studies and exercises dealing with specific textural features: inner texture, intertexture, social and cultural texture, ideological texture, and sacred texture.

Author : Diane Donato
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1452518858
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clothes Encounters of the Divine Kind written by Diane Donato and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothes Encounters of the Divine Kind is a recapitulation of the author's life from early childhood to the present time and the role that her passions for fashion and healing played in her own spiritual awakening. While it seems like an autobiography, in truth, it is an invitation for the reader to take that tumble down the rabbit hole and dare to wear the clothing of their dreams while learning about and experiencing the wonderful healing benefits of clothing & colors. An added benefit is that it is jam packed with ideas for dressing to express rather than the old dress for success paradigm. Hop on the Peace Train to experience true Freedom

Author : Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030294226
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Metaphor and Imagination in Medieval Jewish Thought written by Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how Moses ibn Ezra, Judah Halevi, Moses Maimonides, and Shem Tov ibn Falaquera understood metaphor and imagination, and their role in the way human beings describe God. It demonstrates how these medieval Jewish thinkers engaged with Arabic-Aristotelian psychology, specifically with regard to imagination and its role in cognition. Dianna Lynn Roberts-Zauderer reconstructs the process by which metaphoric language is taken up by the imagination and the role of imagination in rational thought. If imagination is a necessary component of thinking, how is Maimonides’ idea of pure intellectual thought possible? An examination of select passages in the Guide, in both Judeo-Arabic and translation, shows how Maimonides’ attitude towards imagination develops, and how translations contribute to a bifurcation of reason and imagination that does not acknowledge the nuances of the original text. Finally, the author shows how Falaquera’s poetics forges a new direction for thinking about imagination.

Author : Peter Hooton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1666955825
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Theology of Divine Vulnerability written by Peter Hooton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-05-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light understands confidence in the idea of God to rest largely on three claims. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universe—for the fact that there is anything at all. The second is that God’s own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by the presence of evil in the world. And the third is that God knows we are here and shares fully, somehow, in the joys and pains of transient life. Peter Hooton considers these claims on the whole sympathetically. He prefers—to traditional Christian views of God’s omnipotence—a more nuanced understanding of God’s power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible than impassible, and the Christian’s relationship with God as essentially a compassionate participation in the reality signified by the crucified and risen Christ.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Words of Truth for the Saints of God. First (-fourth) Series. Second edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard E. Creel
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597522732
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divine Impassibility written by Richard E. Creel and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Richard Creel sets forth a thesis that offers a third way to approach divine impassibility. Defining impassibility as imperviousness to causal influence from external factors, Creel sketches a path between Aquinas and Hartshorne, by asserting that once this definition is accepted, one must still distinguish the various respects in which God is or is not impassible. Virtually no one would dispute that the divine nature is impassible. God will never cease to be God, no matter what happens in creation. With respect to the divine knowledge and will, however, there are conflicting views. Creel claims that God's will is impassible because God knows everything that can be accomplished by divine power. Yet, unlike Aquinas, Creel believes that God has this knowledge in virtue of a 'plenum' of possibilities eternally coexistent with the divine being. The absolute is not simply God, but rather God plus the 'plenum'. Creel suggests that God's knowledge is passible with respect to the contingent future actions of creatures. God knows these actions, therefore, not in their presentiality from all eternity, as Aquinas would hold, but only as they happen and become actual. God's will, however, remains immediately impassible because the divine will is ordered to possibilities, not actualities. God never has to wait until after we do something in order to decide his response to it. He has eternally decided his response to all that we might do. Ultimately God's feelings remain impassible, no matter what concrete decisions human beings make, because the basic intent of the divine plan for us is always achieved: we exercise our freedom to choose for or against God. God is impassible with respect to the divine nature, divine will, and divine feelings; but God is passible with respect to the divine knowledge of future contingent events.