Wilderness And Paradise In Christian Thought

Author : George H. Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498224563
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought written by George H. Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradise or wasteland--the wilderness has always been a challenge to Westerners. Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought traces the exciting theme of the quest for the wilderness--both physical and metaphysical--to create a new and important perspective for understanding Christian civilization. With a wealth of knowledge, a renowned historian presents the biblical understanding of the religious and ethical significance of the desert and how this understanding has influenced later Christian history and culture. Dr. Williams specifically applies the paradise theme to the university today and shows the continuing vitality of this ancient concept.

Author : George Huntston Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought written by George Huntston Williams and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Huntston Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought written by George Huntston Williams and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Huntston Williams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 245 pages
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Download or read book Wilderness and Paradise in Christian Thought written by George Huntston Williams and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Avihu Zakai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521521420
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exile and Kingdom written by Avihu Zakai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America.

Author : Zachary McLeod Hutchins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199998159
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inventing Eden written by Zachary McLeod Hutchins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inventing Eden is the first study to fully uncover the integral relationship between the New England interest in paradise and the numerous iconic intellectual artifacts and social movements of colonial North America. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. Be it public nudity or Freemasonry, Zachary Hutchins convincingly shows how a shared wish to bring paradise into the pragmatic details of colonial living had a profound effect on early New England life and its substantial culture of letters. Spanning two centuries and surveying the works of major British and American thinkers from James Harrington and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that irrevocably altered the theology, literature, and culture of colonial New England -- and, eventually, the new republic.

Author : George H. Williams
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498224571
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Christian Attitudes Toward Nature written by George H. Williams and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2015-10-16 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this essay the author, George Huntston Williams, explores the views of nature which have been held throughout the history of the Christian church.

Author : H. Paul Santmire
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451409277
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travail of Nature written by H. Paul Santmire and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Travail of Nature shows that the theological tradition in the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long-forgotten, ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled by the environmental crisis and other related concerns, might wistfully hope to find. This is why it is appropriate to speak of the ambiguous ecological promises of Christian theology.

Author : Robert Barry Leal
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9780820471389
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wilderness in the Bible written by Robert Barry Leal and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2004 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilderness in many parts of the globe is under considerable threat from human development. This has important ramifications not only for fauna and flora but also for human well-being. Wilderness in the Bible addresses this ecological crisis from a biblical and theological perspective. It first establishes the context of a biblical study of wilderness and then passes to an analysis of the attitudes towards in the canonical biblical record. This provides the biblical basis for the development of a theology of wilderness for the twenty-first century. The Australian wilderness is taken as an illuminating case study.

Author : Belden C. Lane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199886326
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality written by Belden C. Lane and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-25 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference. Interweaving a memoir of his mothers long struggle with Alzheimers and cancer, meditations on his own wilderness experience, and illuminating commentary on the Christian via negativa--a mystical tradition that seeks God in the silence beyond language--Lane rejects the easy affirmations of pop spirituality for the harsher but more profound truths that wilderness can teach us. There is an unaccountable solace that fierce landscapes offer to the soul. They heal, as well as mirror, the brokeness we find within. It is this apparent paradox that lies at the heart of this remarkable book: that inhuman landscapes should be the source of spiritual comfort. Lane shows that the very indifference of the wilderness can release us from the demands of the endlessly anxious ego, teach us to ignore the inessential in our own lives, and enable us to transcend the false self that is ever-obsessed with managing impressions. Drawing upon the wisdom of St. John of the Cross, Meister Eckhardt, Simone Weil, Edward Abbey, and many other Christian and non-Christian writers, Lane also demonstrates how those of us cut off from the wilderness might make some desert in our lives. Written with vivid intelligence, narrative ease, and a gracefulness that is itself a comfort, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes gives us not only a description but a performance of an ancient and increasingly relevant spiritual tradition.