By weaving practical insights and exercises through a rich tapestry of multicultural myths, ancient legends, and folktales, Anita Johnston helps the millions of women preoccupied with their weight discover and address the issues behind their negative attitudes toward food.
Raising Amazing combines years of research with personal stories and step-by-step, practical advice to equip you to raise kids of godly character and deep faith who love their parents and remain close to their siblings for a lifetime.
The Fool and the Heretic is a deeply personal story told by two respected scientists who hold opposing views on the topic of origins, share a common faith in Jesus Christ, and began a sometimes-painful journey to explore how they can remain in Christian fellowship when each thinks the other is harming the church.
According to the Christian faith, Jesus Christ is the ultimate revelation not only of the nature of God the Creator but also of how God the Creator relates to the created order.
A Feminist Perspective on Virtue Ethics provides of historical survey of feminist virtue ethics, and shows how the ethical theorizing of women in the past can be brought to bear on that of women in the present.
Venturing beyond the inter-faith literature on ancient wisdom, this book identifies and explores the meaning of 36 Divine Virtues or Universal Ethical Principles shared across the world's religions, providing the reader with a pathway to a higher spiritual consciousness.
Knepper criticizes existing efforts in the philosophy of religion for being out of step with, and therefore useless to, the academic study of religion, then forwards a new program for philosophy of religion that is in step with, and therefore useful to, the academic study of religion.
Silver Gavel Award, Honorable MentionScribes Merit AwardIn June 2001, there was a decidedly new look to the graduating class at Virginia Military Institute.
After hearing the words no one wants to hear--"e;you have cancer"e;--Jim Burns set out to articulate the most important principles for a life well lived and now shares them with you as a collection of essential truths for a healthy, balanced, and successful life.
Mans word is Spirit in man ParamahansaYoganandaThis groundbreaking book reveals the hidden laws for harnessing the power of concentrated thought not only for physical healing, but to overcome obstacles and create all-around success in our lives.
An inspiring and concise introduction to the spiritual truths of Indias most beloved scripture, these selections from Paramahansa Yoganandas critically acclaimed two-volume translation of and commentary on the Bhagavad Gita (God Talks With Arjuna) explain how the step-by-step methods of yoga meditation and right action enable us to achieve union with Spirit and ultimate liberation.
This book explores the parameters of the African Methodist Episcopal Church's dual existence as evangelical Christians and as children of Ham, and how the denomination relied on both the rhetoric of evangelicalism and heathenism.
Hier wird eine Sammlung von Weisheitstexten vorgelegt, vom Weltschöpfungslied des Rigveda, ausgewählten Upanishaden und den Hymnen Zarathustras über gnostische und hermetische Texte bis hin zu Gedichten von Goethe, Schiller und der Großen Invokation von Alice Bailey.
This book explores the religious foundations, political and social significance, and aesthetic aspects of the theatre created by the leaders of the Occult Revival.
In this dynamic and wide-ranging collection of essays, prominent scholars examine the condition of church-state relations in the United States, France, and Israel.
Introducing a framework to generate new conversations about inter-religious dialogue and create a community of religions, Shai Har-El argues that Islam and Judaism, sister religions, are closely related to one another with roots intertwined in the land, in the language, and in the memories of shared history.
Finnish Women Making Religion puts forth the complex intersections that Lutheranism, the most important religious tradition in Finland, has had with other religions as well as with the larger society and politics also internationally.
This book re-imagines the universe (and the scientific study of it) through the lens of a triune Creator, three persons of irreducible identity in a perichoretic or coinherent communion.
Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, presents the Gospel accounts of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection as viewed through the eyes of those who witnessed them.
This book explores centuries of power relations and imperial and civilizing rhetorics, overarching themes highlighted in these infrequently heard accounts by eastern travelers to the West.
Der Begriff "Märtyrer" erfährt aktuell eine geradezu inflationäre Verwendung: Popstars und Prominente werden ebenso zu Märtyrern stilisiert wie islamistische Selbstmordattentäter.
Drawing on international and multidisciplinary expertise, this pioneering edited collection analyzing Islam in contemporary Ethiopia challenges the popular notion of a 'Christian Ethiopia' imagined as the century-old, never colonized Abyssinia, isolated in the highlands and dominated by Orthodox Christianity.
Grau reconsiders the relationship between "logos" and "mythos" as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures and genres, other modes of telling and retelling.
From diverse international and multi-disciplinary perspectives, the contributors to this volume analyze the experiences, challenges and responses of Orthodox Churches to the foundational transformations associated with the dissolution of the USSR.
Lysa TerKeurst, autora de best sellers del New York Times, te muestra qué hacer con tu escepticismo y desconfianza para que puedas sanar de las traiciones del pasado y avanzar con fuerza y resiliencia.
Tiempos Divinos describe la forma un tanto peculiar en la que vive una familia de devotos de Sri Sathya Sai Baba que, desde el comienzo mismo de su relación con el Gran Avatar, ha estado recibiendo mensajes a través de sueños, visitaciones y, especialmente, meditaciones.
From the manger of Jesus Christ to the 21st century, this encyclopedia explores more than 2,000 years of Christmas past and present through 966 entries packed with a wide variety of historical and pop-culture subjects.