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"Rejoice, readers, as you receive the generosity of Luci Shaw's 76 new grace-infused parable poems. Autobiography once more merges with theology as these poems illuminate in splendored natural detail how the seasons of creation parallel and explain the seasons of her life as a poet. Again and again, these poems shower us with glorious epiphanies from the natural world as it reflects God's generosity at work such as "spring's impossible news of green." These poems confirm that in poetry as in...

While place-based pilgrimage is an embodied practice, can it be experienced in its fullness through built environments, assemblages of souvenirs, and music? Imaging Pilgrimage explores contemporary art that is created after a pilgrimage and intended to act as a catalyst for the embodied experience of others. Each chapter focuses on a contemporary artwork that links one landscape to another—from the Spanish Camino to a backyard in the Pacific Northwest, from Lourdes to South Africa, from Jerusale...

Whether this is your first visit to C. S. Lewis's wonderful fantasy world or you have been there many times, you'll want to bring along this handy companion to the landscape and inhabitants of Narnia, including an A to Z guide to its characters, places, objects, and events.

The book uses scientific discipline of chemistry to inform a Natural Theology. While Natural Theology typically employs scientific analysis from Cosmology, Physics, Mathematics and at times Biology the author extends the subject. He refers to the perception of beauty to provide a conceptual framework linking aspects of Epistemology, Theology and Chemistry. The volume presents a working definition of Natural Theology and a new definition of Beauty that bridges the conceptual gaps between the huma...

The author of The Gospel of Inclusion continues to rouse organized religion as he raises controversial issues and provides enlightening answers to the deepest questions about God and faith. What is God? Where is God? Who is the one true God? Questions such as these have driven a thousand human struggles, through war, terrorism, and oppression. Humanity has responded by branching off into multiple religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam-each one pitted against the other. But it does...

Sasse's foundational study of the early Syriac author Aphrahat is divided into three sections: Aphrahat's life, his writings (including a study of the Armenian translation), and his biblical citations in comparison with the Peshitta.

Die Untersuchung deutet Nietzsches Hauptwerk, -Also sprach Zarathustra-, als das, was es nach Meinung seines Autors darstellt: eine Tragodie. Ausgehend von seinen eigenen Ausfuhrungen dazu weist sie deren Berechtigung nach, indem sie mit Hilfe der Theorien von Hegel, Rosenzweig und Benjamin in den Tragodien des Aischylos die Keime von Nietzsches Philosophie offenlegt. Wille zur Macht, Ubermensch und Lehre von der ewigen Wiederkehr werden verstanden als der Versuch, den ursprunglichen Gehalt des...

Stormie Omartian inspires readers to open their lives to the prayer that changes everything-the prayer of praise to God. This bestselling look at prayer and worship has a fresh cover for a new audience.Intimate conversations with God often focus on immediate needs, concern for others, and direction regarding His will, but praise requires believers to look beyond themselves and their circumstances and place their attention solely on God. Stormie shares personal stories, biblical truths, and pract...

Einleitend behandelt die Arbeit die Problematik judischer Literatur und Identitat und untersucht den Grenzbereich der Beziehung von Religion und Literatur. Anhand der Erzahlungen von Goodbye, Columbus weist sie dann nach, wie Roth die judische Glaubenswirklichkeit seiner Tage behandelt, eingebettet in judisches Leben und amerikanische Umwelt, wie er auch christliche Tradition zu Wort kommen lasst und alle diese Elemente in einem Versuch zusammenfasst, judische Glaubensmoglichkeit darzustellen. M...

`I have little but praise for this study. The crisp insights of the conclusion are symptomatic of its lucidity and sophistication.' British Journal of Aesthetics