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God and Time (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
By Natalja Deng. 2019
The God of Western religion is said to be eternal. But what does that mean? Is God somehow beyond time,…
living a life that does not involve one thing after another? Or is God's relationship to time much more like ours, so that God's eternality just consists in there being no time at which God doesn't exist? Even for non-believers, these issues have interesting implications for the relation between historical and scientific findings on the one hand, and religion on the other. This Element introduces the reader to the requisite metaphysical background, and then examines reasons for and against thinking of God as timeless.Religious Disagreement (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
By Helen De Cruz. 2019
This Element examines what we can learn from religious disagreement, focusing on disagreement with possible selves and former selves, the…
epistemic significance of religious agreement, the problem of disagreements between religious experts, and the significance of philosophy of religion. Helen De Cruz shows how religious beliefs of others constitute significant higher-order evidence. At the same time, she advises that we should not necessarily become agnostic about all religious matters, because our cognitive background colors the way we evaluate evidence. This allows us to maintain religious beliefs in many cases, while nevertheless taking the religious beliefs of others seriously.Devotional Stories for Women: Everyday Miracles of Faith and Wisdom
By Carol McLean Wilde, James Stuart Bell. 2012
Being a woman is a blessing - and a challenge. Juggling all those roles - daughter, mother, sister, friend, colleague,…
wife, and more - isn’t easy. And without God’s grace, it often seems impossible. In Devotonal Stories for Women, you’ll find three biblical passages and accounts of women’s real-life encounters with God. These stories extend a sisterly hand to help you stay on the path of Christian love and devotion.Devotional Stories for Christian Moms: Everyday Miracles of Maternal Love
By James Stuart. 2012
In Devotional Stories for Christian Moms, you'll find three touching, biblical-themed stories written by devoted mothers who have welcomed the…
Lord into their daily lives. Celebrating the God-given beauty, strength, and wisdom of mothers everywhere, these reflections will inspire and delight you. Being a good mother is never easy. But with Devotional Stories for Christian Moms, you have all you need to help deepen your faith in God, family, and the power of a mother's love.Danica: Crossing the Line
By Danica Patrick, Laura Morton. 2006
Sharing secrets and stories, tales from the track, and insights into her personal life, Danica reflects on her extraordinary rise…
from a ten-year-old go-kart champion to the most successful woman in the history of American racing.Danica Patrick's life moves at 220 mph. She drives every race and lives every day like she has something to prove—and she does. As a 5-foot 2-inch, 100-pound woman, she had to qualify a little quicker and race a little faster than the boys—just to earn the respect she would otherwise be given if she weren't the "girl on the track, driving the princess mobile." But you don't get to be an IndyCar driver without talent and determination. Danica is living proof that if you work hard and aim high, you can do whatever you set your mind to, that you can rise to any challenge, and that what makes you different is what makes you great. An inspiration to all, Crossing the Line offers Danica's unique perspective on how to compete in life, how to stand out, and how to get the respect and attention you deserve.¿Qué haría Vicky? (Edición enriquecida con audio)
By Vicky Mart n Berrocal. 2017
Una obra íntima y personal en la que Vicky Martín Berrocal desnuda su corazón y nos cuenta sus secretos. Hay…
personas a quienes creemos conocer por su fama, otras a quienes admiramos por su trayectoria profesional, o bien aquellas a quienes simplemente quisiéramos tener como amigas. Vicky Martín Berrocal es una de ellas. Su carácter, su personalidad y su manera de afrontar la vida conquistan a cualquiera. Como mujer luchadora que es ha tenido que enfrentarse sola a muchos obstáculos, ha amado, ha sufrido, ha compartido, es madre, empresaria de éxito y ha seguido siendo fiel a ella misma. Vicky intenta transformar las dificultades, las heridas, en cicatrices que enseñan, en experiencias de vida positivas que guardar en la maleta y con las que poder reinventarse y seguir su camino. Con la afabilidad, la honestidad y el carácter que la definen Vicky Martín Berrocal nos transmite en ¿Qué haría Vicky? la emoción y laintensidad con las que afronta la vida y nos habla de amor, amistad, familia, metas, entre otras muchas cosas. ¿Qué actitud hemos de mostrar frente a la vida? ¿Es posible compaginar la maternidad con el desarrollo profesional? ¿Qué hemos de plantearnos a la hora de afrontar un proyecto y prosperar? Un recorrido cómplice por aquello que nos define y los logros que nos impulsan, o el hombre como compañero de viaje. Un libro sincero. «Victoria es demasiado mujer para llamarla Vicky. Es exuberante en todo, en físico, en sonrisa, en gestos y en palabras, en energía. Vive entre tres ciudades, cuida a su hija con total entrega, diseña trajes, lee continuamente [...] Es divertida, culta, a veces hechizada también. Y siempre tan femenina. Capaz de apasionarse de la misma manera por un hombre que por un par de zapatos. Se manifiesta en mil campos a la vez y eso me encanta».Boris IzaguirreElisabeth Gilman: Crusader for Justice
By Ross Jones. 2017
This is the first biography of Elisabeth Gilman, a largely forgotten Marylander who was born to privilege in the nineteenth…
century but became an irrepressible force for social justice in the twentieth. As the second daughter of Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Elisabeth was raised in well-to-do, influential circles. Privately educated by tutors, she eventually earned a bachelor's degree at Johns Hopkins. But unlike many who shared Elisabeth's elevated station, she was possessed of a restless and critical spirit. As a strong devotee of the Social Gospel, she campaigned on behalf of the poor, African- Americans, women, and laborers exposed to harsh conditions. After her father's death, Elisabeth joined the Socialist Party and was nominated as a candidate for governor of Maryland, United States senator, mayor of Baltimore, and even sheriff of Baltimore. Never married, Elisabeth fell under the spell of a charismatic, progressive Episcopal priest named Mercer Green Johnston, and followed him and his wife to Paris during World War I, where she helped to support homesick American doughboys under the aegis of the YMCA.Aprendamos a amarnos
By Mar a Estela Pe afiel Toaza. 2018
Hay cosas que llevo dentro de mí que las amo porque forman parte de mí ser desde el momento que…
se alojaron en mi cuerpo. Es un argumento basado en la vida real de dos mujeres que, en su tiempo, sufrieron; una de ellas, maltratos psicológicos y la segunda, ambas cosas solo por evitar que el llanto de sus hijos fuese silenciado en su propio vientre. Este tema tiene como característica principal contar la verdad, las lágrimas de dos madres que lloraban en la soledad tratando de encontrarle una salida sin perjudicar a ese ser maravilloso que su corazón ya latía dentro de su tripa. Al hacer este relato, la autora de este libro no trata de juzgar a nadie, sencillamente, quiere hacer una reflexión a todas aquellas personas que por falta de experiencia o por insensatez y no pensar en las consecuencias que nos pueden ocasionar ciertos recuerdos del pasado; hacerles entender que se perdieron o intentaron acabar con uno de los privilegios más lindos que el universo les estaba regalando. Con esto les confirma que tener amor propio es el comienzo de una vida llena de paz, amor y felicidad sin remordimientos.A New Model of the Universe
By P D Ouspensky.
Along with Aleister Crowley, Madame Blavatsky, and George Gurdjieff, P. D. Ouspensky (1878 –1947) was one of the most important…
and influential figures in the occult movements of the twentieth century. With such books as The Fourth Dimension (incorporated in this present volume), Tertium Organum, In Search of the Miraculous, and The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution, he earned a loyal following among those seeking a deeper knowledge of themselves and their lives, and of the meaning of human existence.In the present book, Ouspensky analyzes certain older schools of thought, of both East and West, connects them with modern ideas and explains them in the light of twentieth-century discovery and speculations in physics and philosophy. In the process he explores relativity, the fourth dimension, Christian symbolism, the tarot, yoga, dreams, hypnotism, eternal recurrence, and various psychological theories.The book closes with an examination of the role of sex in the evolution of man toward superman. Anyone interested in the occult, mysticism and the relationship of those elements to scientific developments in the modern world will find much to ponder in these stimulating, thought-provoking pages.From the HERMITAGE
By Esteban De Ema s, Alberto. 2017
Monastic life in the world today is perhaps as never before, a testimony of trust in the providence of God.…
In what way can we understand the act of consecrating life to prayer and work in a world that is continually desacralized. The brightness of the fleeting glares with vehemence; Infiltrated in the technological revolution has come the exacerbation of consumption and the alienation that results from it. In big bands of the population the sense of the sacred is lost. Communicated more than at any time in history, we exchanged mere fatuities; Today that particular verse, which says Vanity of vanities, is all vanity! (Ecclesiastes 1,2). That is why, whoever becomes a monk or a nun today, gives special testimony of faith in the living presence of Jesus Christ. He claims to have seen something that is not in sight. That person in the midst of the multiple mirages has noticed something that escapes the majority. In the history of spirituality it has been called "Experience of the Presence". Those who in the second decade of the 21st century embrace the religious life, particularly the monastic, have heard the peculiar voice of the inner desert. It is a deep silence that draws them to the deep heart. They have been fascinated by God through various contingencies. Some were first seduced by prayer and quiet steps resounding in the cloister, others fraternal life in communion of works, to those from beyond them perhaps invited, the lectio, personal communion with the sacred writing. As a beloved niece said before her first profession: "... I was so refreshed by the joy of the nuns!" No mistake. Many still impress the joy without purpose of a life recovered in the essential. Be the writings that follow here for you, as an act thrown into becoming, a gesture of hope and recognition to the Spirit of God that encourages you as a soft breeze where wSecularists, Religion and Government in Nineteenth-Century America
By Timothy Verhoeven. 2019
This book shows how, through a series of fierce battles over Sabbath laws, legislative chaplains, Bible-reading in public schools and…
other flashpoints, nineteenth-century secularists mounted a powerful case for a separation of religion and government. Among their diverse ranks were religious skeptics, liberal Protestants, members of minority faiths, labor reformers and defenders of slavery. Drawing on popular petitions to Congress, a neglected historical source, the book explores how this secularist mobilization gathered energy at the grassroots level. The nineteenth century is usually seen as the golden age of an informal Protestant establishment. Timothy Verhoeven demonstrates that, far from being crushed by an evangelical juggernaut, secularists harnessed a range of cultural forces—the legacy of the Revolutionary founders, hostility to Catholicism, a belief in national exceptionalism and more—to argue that the United States was not a Christian nation, branding their opponents as fanatics who threatened both democratic liberties as well as true religion.Secular Nations under New Gods: Christianity’s Subversion by Technology and Politics
By Willem H Vanderburg. 2018
The ongoing political muscle-flexing of diverse Christian communities in North America raises some deeply troubling questions regarding their roles among…
us. Earlier analyses including Herberg’s Protestant, Catholic, Jew showed that these three branches of the Judaeo-Christian tradition correspond to three forms of the American way of life; while Kruse’s One Nation Under God showed how Christian America was shaped by corporate America. Willem H. Vanderburg’s Secular Nations under New Gods proceeds based on a dialogue between Jacques Ellul’s interpretation of the task of Christians in the world and Ellul’s interpretation of the roles of technique and the nation-state in individual and collective human life. He then adds new insight into our being a symbolic species dealing with our finitude by living through the myths of our society and building new secular forms of moralities and religions. If everything is political and if everything is amenable to discipline-based scientific and technical approaches, we are perhaps treating these human creations the way earlier societies did their gods, as being omnipotent, without limits. Vanderburg argues that until organized Christianity becomes critically aware of sharing these commitments with their societies, it will remain entrapped in the service of false gods and thereby will continue to turn a message of freedom and love into one of morality and religion.Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
By Anne Lamott. 2014
From the bestselling author of Stitches and Help, Thanks, Wow comes her long-awaited collection of new and selected essays on…
hope, joy, and grace.Anne Lamott writes about faith, family, and community in essays that are both wise and irreverent. It's an approach that has become her trademark. Now in Small Victories, Lamott offers a new message of hope that celebrates the triumph of light over the darkness in our lives. Our victories over hardship and pain may seem small, she writes, but they change us--our perceptions, our perspectives, and our lives. Lamott writes of forgiveness, restoration, and transformation, how we can turn toward love even in the most hopeless situations, how we find the joy in getting lost and our amazement in finally being found.Profound and hilarious, honest and unexpected, the stories in Small Victories are proof that the human spirit is irrepressible.Everywhere You Go There's a Zacchaeus Up a Tree: Small-Town Faith and Words of Wisdom from Roger Campbell’s Newspaper Columns
By Timothy Campell, Roger Campell. 2017
The wholesome, winsome wit and wisdom of columnist Roger CampbellEvery week for nearly forty years, Roger Campbell took up his…
pen to craft a newspaper column that would make a difference in the lives of his readers. His tales of fishing, family, friends, and fun helped them to trade their fears for faith, their sorrows for songs, and their doubts for certainties.Everywhere You Go There's a Zacchaeus Up a Tree is an anthology edited by his son, drawn from these weekly columns. Based on Roger's experiences in the world at large, the pastorate, his community, and his family, these brief but wise essays are enriching, instructive, and gently challenging. Roger's habit of humbly talking with people from all walks of life wherever he went provided ample opportunity to impact generations of folks. His warm words still bear witness to the truth that God meets us where we are and uses us when we are willing.Always starting with a Scripture reference, these short entries can be read as a daily or weekly devotion.For those longing for a simpler time and the flavor of small-town life, Everywhere You Go There's a Zacchaeus Up a Tree shares a deep, abiding, homespun faith that knows, as Campbell wrote, that "God loves you no matter which way the wind blows."Papa Guadalupano
By Leticia del Rosario Barrientos. 2017
Una de las principales virtudes del Papa Francisco es su humildad y sencillez. Él procura mantener los pies en la…
tierra estando cerca de la gente, evadiendo la vanidad y soberbia que suele prevalecer entre políticos y mandatarios. Quizá por eso, él se ha identificado tanto con la Virgen de Guadalupe, la madre amorosa que se compadece de todos los que solicitan su amparo, de los necesitados, dando protección al que sufre y cuidando de sus hijos. El Papa Francisco menciona; no debemos tener más alto concepto de nosotros mismos del que debemos tener. Así quien es humilde, no mira lo suyo propio, sino lo de los demás. Sale en ayuda de los afligidos, extiende su mano al menesteroso. Viene a servir y no a ser servido. Reconoce su dependencia de Dios, pero no busca el dominio sobre sus semejantes, sino que da el valor a las personas por encima de sí mismo. Este libro contiene el mensaje del primer Papa latinoamericano y un resumen muy claro de las encíclicas.Miles to Millions: One Aviator's Amazing True Story
By Bill Grenier. 2017
When he became a commercial pilot at age nineteen, Bill Grenier never imagined that one day he’d be captain of…
the largest commercial plane the world had seen, flying the highest profile routes of a proud national carrier. Even less could he have imagined, at age nineteen and with barely a penny to his name, that he’d one day be a wealthy man. But he would ultimately control an empire worth nearly a billion dollars. With liberal doses of wit and humour, Miles to Millions shows what a little luck, lots of perseverance, and an appetite for adventure can do. From boarding house to boardroom, from cradle to cockpit, Grenier offers a fascinating story of success both as a commercial pilot and as a businessman. Filled with anecdotes you’d never expect from a single career – from acting as repo man taking planes for payment to saving hundreds of passengers in a stricken 747 with a collapsed co-pilot – Miles to Millions is a high-flier of a story bound to entertain both aviation experts and enthusiasts alike.The Unreformed Martin Luther: A Serious (and Not So Serious) Look at the Man Behind the Myths
By Anreas Malessa. 2017
Will the real Martin Luther please stand up?After five hundred years of examining the life of the “father of the…
Reformation,” we must surely know all there is to know about Martin Luther. But is that true?Did he really nail his Ninety-Five Theses to the church door?Did he throw an inkpot at the devil?Did he plant an apple tree?Did his wife escape her convent in a herring barrel?German radio and television journalist Andreas Malessa looks at the actual history of Luther and concludes that many of the tales we know best are nothing but nonsense.Diving gleefully into the research, Malessa investigates many of the falsehoods and fallacies surrounding the reformer, rejecting them in favor of equally incredible facts. Full of humor and irony, this book educates and entertains while demonstrating a profound respect for Luther's life and mission.If you're looking for the truth of the man behind the theses, come discover his faith and influence--with the myths stripped away.Faith Movements and Social Transformation: Guru Charisma In Contemporary India
By Samta P Pandya. 2019
This book examines the role of Hindu-inspired faith movements (HIFMs) in contemporary India as actors in social transformation. It further…
situates these movements in the context of the global political economy where such movements cross national boundaries to locate believers among the Hindu diaspora and others. In contemporary neoliberal India, HIFMs have become important actors, and they realize themselves by making public assertions through service. The four pillars of the contemporary presence of such movements are: gurus, sociality, hegemony and social transformation. Gurus, who spearhead these movements, create a matrix of possible meanings in their public discourses which their followers pick up to create messages of personal and social change. Sociality is a core strategy of proliferation across such movements and implies social service, which is qualified by memories of the guru and what they are believed to embody. Hegemony is reflected in the fact that social service in such movements often ominously imbibes right-wing or far-right Hinduism. They propose a model of Hindu-inspired social transformation, involving faith building into and transforming the civil society. The book discusses in a nuanced way several Hindu-inspired faith movements of various hues which have made national and international impact.This topical book is of interest to students and researchers in the fields of sociology, anthropology, social work, and social psychology, with a special interest in the study of religious movements.When God Winks: How the Power of Coincidence Guides Your Life (The Godwink Series #1)
By Squire Rushnell. 2001
It is not by accident that you just picked up When God Winks.Whether you call it synchronicity or coincidence, what…
brought you to this book today is worth remembering. In fact, you may have suspected all along that there is more to coincidence than meets the eye. These seemingly random events are actually signposts that can help you successfully navigate your career, relationships, and interests. Squire Rushnell shows us that by recognizing our "God Winks," we can use the untapped power of coincidence to vastly improve our lives. The author applies his compelling theory as to why coincidences exist to fascinating stories in history, sports, medicine, and relationships involving both everyday and famous people including Barbra Streisand, Charles Schulz, Oprah Winfrey, Kevin Costner, Mark Twain, and Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.The Divine Attributes (Elements in the Philosophy of Religion)
By Tim Mawson. 2019
The Divine Attributes explores the traditional theistic concept of God as the most perfect being possible, discussing the main divine…
attributes which flow from this understanding - personhood, transcendence, immanence, omnipresence, omniscience, omnipotence, perfect goodness, unity, simplicity and necessity. It argues that the atemporalist's conception of God is to be preferred over the temporalist's on the grounds of perfect being theology, but that, if it were to be the case that the temporal God existed, rather than the atemporal God, He'd still be 'perfect enough' to count as the God of Theism.