'A revelatory classic' Maria Popova 'A spiritual polymath, the first and possibly greatest' Deepak ChopraWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriouslyToo often we fall into the trap of anticipating the future while lamenting the past and in the midst of this negative loop we forget how to live in the now. In this iconic and prescient text, pioneering Zen scholar Alan Watts shows us how, in an age of unprecedented anxiety...
God's Little Book of Marriage Builders
by Karen Holford and Bernie Holford
Werde, Der Du Sein Sollst (Europaeische Hochschulschriften / European University Studie, #565)
by Wolfgang Kues
Von Karl Rahner und C.G. Jung her wird das Phanomen der personlichen Entscheidung aus theologischer und tiefenpsychologischer Sicht angegangen. Ausgehend von den Deutungen der Exerzitien des Ignatius von Loyola werden uberraschende tiefenpsychologische Spuren bei Karl Rahner und deutliche theologische Gehalte bei C.G. Jung entdeckt. Die Synthese der beiden Untersuchungsstrange macht die enge Verflechtung von Tiefenpsychologie und Theologie bei Rahner und Jung deutlich und gibt praktische Impulse...
This book addresses the eclipse of shame in Christian theology by showing how shame emerges in Christian texts and practice in ways that can be neither assimilated into a discourses of guilt nor dissociated from embodiment. Stephanie N. Arel argues that the traditional focus on guilt obscures shame by perpetuating the image of the lonely sinner in guilt. Drawing on recent studies in affect and attachment theories to frame the theological analysis, the text examines the theological anthropologica...
"And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die." The Flood that God used to destroy the sinful race of man on the earth in Genesis 6:17 crystalizes—in its terrifying, dramatic, simplicity—the universally recognized concept of payback. For millennia human civilization has relied on such beliefs to create a moral order that threatens divine punishment on peopl...
Heart in Pilgrimage (Library of Anglican Spirituality)
by Christopher Bryant
Self, Culture, and Others in Womanist Practical Theology (Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice)
by Phillis Isabella Sheppard
Clinical Theology, A Theological and Psychiatric Basis to Clinical Pastoral Care, Volume 2
by Frank Lake
The Human Person in Theology and Psychology
by James R Beck and Bruce Demarest
A voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives. UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin—but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It's about us, our longings and terrors, and especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence. This is a book about UFOs that goes beyond believing in them or debunking them and to a fresh understanding of what they tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a...
Near-Death Experience in Indigenous Religions
by Honorary Research Fellow Gregory Shushan