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When Our World Became Christian. 312 - 394 Поль Вейн
ISBN: 9780745683348 Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Язык: Английский This short book by one of France's leading historians deals with a big question: how was it that Christianity, that masterpiece of religious invention, managed, between 300 and 400 AD, to impose itself upon the whole of the Western world? In his erudite and inimitable way, Paul Veyne suggests three possible explanations. Was it because a Roman emperor, Constantine, who was master of the Western world at the time, became a sincere convert to Christianity and set out to Christianize the whole world in order to save it? Or was it because, as a great emperor, Constantine needed a great religion, and in comparison to the pagan gods, Christianity, despite being a minority sect, was an avant-garde religion unlike anything seen before? Or was it because Constantine limited himself to helping the Christians set up their Church, a network of bishoprics that covered the vast Roman Empire, and that gradually and with little overt resistance the pagan masses embraced Christianity as their own religion? In the course of deciding between these explanations Paul Veyne sheds fresh light on one of the most profound transformations that shaped the modern world – the Christianization of the West. A bestseller in France, this book will appeal to a wide readership interested in history, religion and the rise of the modern world. -
Utopias. A Brief History from Ancient Writings to Virtual Communities Howard Segal P.
ISBN: 9781118234310 Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Язык: Английский This brief history connects the past and present of utopian thought, from the first utopias in ancient Greece, right up to present day visions of cyberspace communities and paradise. Explores the purpose of utopias, what they reveal about the societies who conceive them, and how utopias have changed over the centuries Unique in including both non-Western and Western visions of utopia Explores the many forms utopias have taken – prophecies and oratory, writings, political movements, world's fairs, physical communities – and also discusses high-tech and cyberspace visions for the first time The first book to analyze the implicitly utopian dimensions of reform crusades like Technocracy of the 1930s and Modernization Theory of the 1950s, and the laptop classroom initiatives of recent years -
Revisiting the Jewish Question Elisabeth Roudinesco
ISBN: 9780745683720 Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Язык: Английский What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of medieval times, which persecuted the Jews, and the anti-Judaism of the Enlightenment, which emancipated them while being critical of their religion. It is a mistake to confuse the two and see everyone from Voltaire to Hitler as anti-Semitic in the same way. Then we need to focus on the development of anti-Semitism in Europe, especially Vienna and Paris, where the Zionist idea was born. Finally, we need to investigate the reception of Zionism both in the Arab countries and within the Diaspora. Re-examining the Jewish question in the light of these distinctions and investigations, Roudinesco shows that there is a permanent tension between the figures of the ‘universal Jew’ and the ‘territorial Jew’. Freud and Jung split partly over this issue, which gained added intensity after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the Eichmann trial in 1961. Finally, Roudinesco turns to the Holocaust deniers, who started to suggest that the Jews had invented the genocide that befell their people, and to the increasing number of intellectual and literary figures who have been accused of anti-Semitism. This thorough re-examination of the Jewish question will be of interest to students and scholars of modern history and contemporary thought and to a wide readership interested in anti-Semitism and the history of the Jews. -
Восемь строф для тренировки ума геше Сонам Ринчен
ISBN: 978-5-4465-0538-8 Год издания: 2014 Издательство: ИП Гусев Язык: Русский «Крайне важно правильно относиться к учениям Великой колесницы. Если мы стремимся только к почестям, наградам и хорошей репутации, все наши усилия приведут лишь к незначительным результатам – благополучию в этой жизни, и ни один из наших поступков не станет истинной практикой учений Будды…» -
Узнайте, кем вы были в прошлых жизнях, и измените свою нынешнюю жизнь к лучшему В. В. Рафеенко
ISBN: 978-966-481-914-2 Год издания: 2015 Издательство: БАО Язык: Русский Человек живет на свете много раз, но не помнит об этом. Прошлые жизни накладывают отпечаток на жизнь нынешнюю, и многое становится понятным, если принять идею реинкарнации - переселения душ.
Автор предлагает читателю погрузиться в мир мистики, магии, древних и современных религий. Теперь каждый может узнать, кем он был в прошлых жизнях, и внести необходимые коррективы в свою нынешнюю жизнь.
Издание адресовано широкой читательской аудитории. -
Feet of Clay Anthony Storr
ISBN: 9780007382026 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский There are many reports of strange cults which enthral their followers and cut themselves off from the world. Invariably led by gurus, or «spiritual leaders», the fruit of these cults are mass suicides in the South American jungle or the self-immolation of hundreds in besieged fortresses.There are said to be at least six hundred New Religious Movements in Britain, and many more in other parts of the world. They range from benign, charitable organisations to corrupt, dangerous cults which may end in murder or mass suicide. Since cults have a special appeal to the young, anxious parents have prompted a good deal of research into who joins cults and why. Less has been written about the gurus who institute and lead such movements.Gurus are extraordinary individuals who cast doubt upon current psychiatric distinctions between sanity and madness. A guru convinces others that he knows – a persuasive capacity which can bring illumination but which may also and in disaster.Anthony Storr’s book is a study of some of the best-known gurus, ranging from monsters such as Jim Jones or David Koresh, to saints such as Ignatius of Loyola. It includes both Freud and Jung because, as Storr demonstrates, what ostensibly began as a scientific investigation became, in each case, a secular path to salvation.'Feet of Clay' is one of Anthony Storr’s most original and illuminating books. It demonstrates that most of us harbour irrational beliefs, and discusses how the human wish for certainty in an insecure world leads to confusing delusion with truth. No-one knows, in the sense that gurus claim that they know. Maturity requires us to be able to tolerate doubt. The book ends with reflections upon why human beings need gurus at all, and indicates how those in need of guidance can distinguish the false and dangerous from the genuine and good. -
The Love Wins Companion: A Study Guide For Those Who Want to Go Deeper Роб Белл
ISBN: 9780007465811 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский For anyone who wants to delve deeper into Rob Bell’s bestselling Love Wins, the expansive and accessible Love Wins Companion offers scholarly support and critiques, resources for individuals, groups, and classes, and brand new material by Rob Bell himself.As Love Wins continues to become a touchstone for thousands of readers worldwide, controversy surrounds the book’s arguments. Here, in The Love Wins Companion, Rob Bell offers commentary on the positive and negative attention his groundbreaking book is receiving, delivering a crucial supplement to one of the most important books Christian books today.• For those looking to go deeper with Rob Bell’s bestselling pioneering book Love Wins, this companion offers:• Insights and commentary by theologians, Bible scholars, scientists, and pastors• Deep analysis of all relevant Bible passages on heaven, hell, and salvation• Detailed chapter summaries, discussion questions, and Bible studies for individuals, groups, and classes• Excerpts from works throughout Christian history illustrating the variety of teachers also debating the issues Bell wrestles with• New material by Bell on his mission for the book and how people can take the next step -
What We Talk About When We Talk About God Роб Белл
ISBN: 9780007448463 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Rob Bell’s bestselling book Love Wins struck a powerful chord with a new generation of Christians who are asking the questions church leaders have been afraid to touch. His new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, continues down this path, helping us with the ultimate big-picture issue: how do we know God?Love Wins was a Sunday Times bestseller that created a media storm, launching Bell as a national religious voice who is reinvigorating what it means to be religious and a Christian today.He is one of the most influential voices in the Christian world, and now his new book, What We Talk About When We Talk About God, is poised to blow open the doors on how we understand God.Bell believes we need to drop our primitive, tribal views of God and instead understand the God who wants us to become who we were designed to be, a God who created a universe of quarks and quantum string dynamics, but who also gives meaning to why new-born babies and stories of heroes and sacrifice inspire in us a deep reverence.What We Talk About When We Talk About God will reveal that God is not in need of repair to catch him up with today’s world so much as we need to discover the God who goes before us and beckons us forward.A book full of mystery, controversy, and reverence, What We Talk About When We Talk About God has fans and critics alike anxiously awaiting, and promises not to disappoint. -
Drops Like Stars: A Few Thoughts on Creativity and Suffering Роб Белл
ISBN: 9780007487905 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Rob Bell’s extraordinary and provocative Drops Like Stars, published as part of the Rob Bell Classics relaunch, explores the relationship between suffering and creativity, and the transformative power of pain.‘We plot. We plan. We assume things are going to go a certain way. And when they don’t, we find ourselves in a new place – a place we haven’t been before; a place we never would have imagined on our own. It is the difficult and the unexpected, and maybe even the tragic, that opens us up and frees us to see things in new ways.‘Many of the most significant moments in our lives come not because it all went right but because it all fell apart. Suffering does that. It hurts, but it also creates. This book is an exploration of the complex relationship between suffering and creativity, driven by the belief that there is art in the agony.’ Rob Bell -
Best Loved Prayers and Words of Wisdom Martin Manser
ISBN: 9780007461059 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский A timeless collection of prayers, quotes, poems and speeches for every occasion. Complete with a brief introduction to each piece and its author, this book features words and prayers from 300BC to the present day. It provides a great source of inspiration when planning a speech or ceremonial occasion or can be used for personal devotions.This carefully chosen selection of the best loved prayers and words of wisdom is a staple for any bookshelf.The many contributors include C. S. Lewis, Florence Nightingale, St Francis of Assisi, John & Charles Wesley, Mother Teresa, John Stott, Oswald Chambers, G. K. Chesterton and Julian of Norwich. From The Lord's Prayer and Footprints, to excerpts from A Pilgrims Progress and A Christmas Carol, this compilation is a useful for individuals to read and reference, and a great source of inspiration when planning for a ceremonial occasion, speech, wedding or funeral.Each reading is introduced with a brief history to the piece and its author, providing new levels of interest and a sense of context.The 300 hand-picked pieces have been arranged alphabetically, so that selecting a favourite work is easy. This guide is also accompanied by a set of indexes which detail first lines, themes, Bible references, and authors, so that each entry is thoroughly cross-referenced, enabling you to make the most of this fabulous selection. -
Glittering Images Susan Howatch
ISBN: 9780007396399 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский The author’s most famous and well-loved work, the Starbridge series, six self-contained yet interconnected novels that explore the history of the Church of England through the 20th century.Beneath the smooth surface of an Episcopal palace lurks the salacious breath of scandal. Charles Ashworth is sent to untangle the web of self-delusion and corruption only to become embroiled in a strange m?nage ? trois that threatens to expose the secrets of his own past…In Glittering Images tension and drama combine in a compelling novel of people in high places, of desperate longings and the failure to resist them, of lies and evasions, of tarnished realities behind brilliant glittering images. -
The Real Witches’ Craft: Magical Techniques and Guidance for a Full Year of Practising the Craft Kate West
ISBN: 9780007364343 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский A follow-up to the best selling The Real Witches' Handbook. The book includes more practical advice on becoming a Wiccan and teaches the skills and techniques necessary for celebrating this craft.This book enables you to take your magic on to the next level and provides the further skills and techniques for powerful magic making. It provides the sort of guidance and development usually found in the first year of Coven life.The Real Witches’ Craft moves on from the simple spells and rituals of The Real Witches’ Handbook to more advanced magic, teaching the skills and techniques of practising magic.This book will teach you how to:– Balance the elements to create effective magic.– Raise, focus and direct magical energy to powerful effect.– Strengthen the five senses in order to help towards developing the 6th sense.– Use divination and scrying – tarot, runes, fire, etc.– Design your own spells.– Use the Moon's phases for magic. -
The Little Book of Lent: Daily Reflections from the World’s Greatest Spiritual Writers Arthur Howells
ISBN: 9780007561179 Год издания: 2018 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский An inspirational source of encouragement for Lent.‘The Little Book of Lent’ is a powerful anthology of readings from spiritual writers for each day of Lent, with accompanying scripture and prayers to help guide daily reflections.With extracts from a range of inspirational writers and theologians, including Desmond Tutu, Sheila Cassidy and Rowan Williams, ’The Little Book of Lent’ guides you to deepen your prayer life in anticipation of Easter.This book can be read on your own or with others, used either for self-reflection or to spark discussion and share insights on God’s truths. This edition would be perfect on which to base a Lent course or to use as a talking point for home groups.Whether or not you choose to read the extracts multiple times or once straight through, Howells’ latest work will lead you to new heights in your Christian journey and personal walk with God. It is the ideal gift for friends, family or anyone else preparing themselves for the sacrifices of Lent. -
A Silent Terror & A Silent Fury: A Silent Terror / A Silent Fury Lynette Eason
ISBN: 9781474032971 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Two suspenseful Santino siblings novels–in one volume for the first time!–by bestselling author Lynette EasonA Silent TerrorWhen Marianna Santino's roommate is killed, Detective Ethan O'Hara realizes the deaf teacher was the intended target. Marianna must have something the murderer desperately wants. Digging for the truth, the guarded cop tries to learn everything he can about the charming beauty. Soon he's willing to risk everything–including his heart–to lay the silent terror stalking Marianna to rest.A Silent FuryWith one student murdered and another missing, it's up to homicide detective Catelyn Clark to find the culprit. She'll even work with her ex-boyfriend, FBI agent Joseph Santino, to solve the case. Relationships between cops never work so she's learned to rely on herself. But when the killer starts targeting Catelyn, it's only by opening her heart to love that she can finally bring the threat to an end. -
Grave Risk Hannah Alexander
ISBN: 9781472091215 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский It was a tragedy for the entire town: beloved high school principal Edith Potts collapsed and quickly died.For nurse Jill Cooper, it was a crushing loss–and the first of many shocks. Two former sweethearts have suddenly returned to town, reawakening all her youthful traumas, secrets and dreams. Then another death occurs. It appears accidental, but is it? Is everything a coincidence? Or could it all possibly be connected to another murder, three decades ago?Before it's over, Jill will have to look hard at her troubled history, question her sanity, her faith…and face the deepest secrets in her heart. -
Safe Haven Hannah Alexander
ISBN: 9781472092489 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский A TEENAGE FUGITIVE–Youthful master of disguise Fawn Morrison comes to Hideaway seeking refuge. Now that her dangerous game has turned deadly, she must entrust her safety to strangers.A DOUBTING DOCTOR–Karah Lee Fletcher relishes the challenges offered by Hideaway's new clinic, until an unsettling discovery shakes her confidence. Despite self-doubt, she reaches out to Fawn and finds unexpected grace.A LONELY RANGER–Their first meeting leaves Ranger Taylor Jackson vowing to avoid strong-willed Karah Lee. Yet, observing her interact with patients, Taylor begins to feel admiration. Could it lead to something deeper? -
Bad Heiress Day Allie Pleiter
ISBN: 9781472091192 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский What would you do with $1 million?That's a question Darcy Nightengale never thought she'd need to answer. But a sudden inheritance of just over $1 million begs a more immediate response. And when Darcy learns of her father's last request that she «give it all away,» she discovers just how quickly big money makes big problems.Her husband believes that charity begins at home. His home. And her children are sure it's only a matter of time before the presents start rolling in. Right? Darcy wants to do the right thing–as soon as she can figure out what it is. Can the path of righteousness be paved with gold? Darcy's surprising answer turns her world on end. -
Queen Esther & the Second Graders of Doom Allie Pleiter
ISBN: 9781472091345 Издательство: HarperCollins Язык: Английский Teaching Sunday school at her brother's church in the Bay area was supposed to help former champion athlete Esther «Essie» Walker understand boys–the better to raise her newborn son as a stellar example of manhood. Fat chance! Enter the eight-year-old male psyche: awful jokes, disrespectful behavior and general mayhem.Essie, the queen of control, finds herself in a brand-new world of chaos.The pressure builds on all fronts–Sunday school class, husband's job, church pageant, aging parents, finances, friends secretly battling illnesses–until Queen Esther has one royal meltdown. God, it seems, has makeover plans for Essie's competitive nature. Her characteristic control is in very short supply as she gains a better understanding of the nature of imperfection, the value of motherhood and the virtues of a messy but connected life. -
As Vozes Da Luz Aldivan Teixeira Torres
ISBN: 9788873047889 Год издания: 2019 Издательство: TEKTIME S.R.L.S. UNIPERSONALE Язык: Португальский “Em Arcoverde,O vidente começa a atravessar a rua pensativo.Sem perceber,há uma trama do destino visando sua fatalidade.Porém,há um momento exato em que a treva se torna luz e conhecimento.Se inicia aí uma nova trajetória cheia de obstáculos,prazer e aprendizado em direção a Jeritacó ao encontro dos “Mestres da Luz”.Você está preparado para a verdade? -
Asian Religions. A Cultural Perspective Randall L. Nadeau
ISBN: 9781118471937 Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Язык: Английский This lively introduction offers a complete overview of the main Asian religions, their traditions and contemporary relevance, and how they are lived and practiced today. Provides readers with an all-embracing introduction to Asian religions, covering each of the main traditions in a style that is lively and distinctive Focuses on Asian religions as lived and practiced by real people, leading readers to a deeper understanding of Asian spiritualities and traditions, and their contemporary relevance Uses exercises, activities, and an appealing mixture of examples, such as novels, throughout the book, to both inform and engage readers Employs a comparative approach, highlighting the contrasts between Asian and Western modes of thinking and living Debates the influence of religion on real-world issues including work, economic growth, the environment, human rights, and gender relations Written by an acclaimed scholar in this field, who is able to draw on his remarkable knowledge across all relevant religious traditions -
Dawkins' God. From The Selfish Gene to The God Delusion Алистер Э. Макграт
ISBN: 9781118963999 Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Язык: Английский A fully updated new edition of a critically acclaimed examination of the theories and writings of Richard Dawkins by a world-renowned expert on the relation of science and religion Includes in-depth analysis of Dawkins’ landmark treatise The God Delusion (2006), as well as coverage of his later popular works The Magic of Reality (2011) and The Greatest Show on Earth (2011),and a new chapter on Dawkins as a popularizer of science Tackles Dawkins’ hostile and controversial views on religion, and examine the religious implications of his scientific ideas including a comprehensive investigation of the ‘selfish gene’ Written in an accessible and engaging style that will appeal to anyone interested in better understanding the interplay between science and religion -
Decoding Dao. Reading the Dao De Jing Lee Rainey DianРазвернуть
Written by a leading authority on Chinese philosophy, Decoding Dao uniquely focuses on the core texts in Daoist philosophy, providing readers with a user-friendly introduction that unravels the complexities of these seminal volumes. Offers a detailed introduction to the core texts in Daoist philosophy, the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi, two of the most widely read – and most challenging – texts in China’s long literary history Covers the three main ways the texts can be read: as religious, mystical, and philosophical works Explores their historical context, origins, authorship, and the reasons these seminal texts came into being, along with…
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Of God and Man Зигмунт Бауман
ISBN: 9780745695709 Издательство: John Wiley & Sons Limited Язык: Английский In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Their conversation ranges from the plight of monotheistic religions cast onto a polytheistic world stage to the nature of religious experience and its impact on human worldviews and life strategies; from Messianic and Promethean ideas of redemption and salvation to the possibility and prospects of inter-religious dialogue and the factors standing in its way. While starting from different places, Bauman and Obirek are driven by the same concern to reconcile the multiplicity of religions with the oneness of humanity, and to do so in a way that avoids the trap of adhering to a single truth, bearing witness instead to the multiplicity of human truths and the diversity of cultures and faiths. For everything creative in human existence has its roots in human diversity; it is not human diversity that turns brother against brother but the refusal of it. The fundamental condition of peace, solidarity and benevolent cooperation among human beings is a willingness to accept that there is a multiplicity of ways of being human, and a willingness to accept the model of coexistence that this multiplicity requires. -
Переживание Бога. Том 1 Папа Рамдас
ISBN: 978-5-907059-33-7 Год издания: 1963 Издательство: ИД Ганга Папа Рамдас из Канангада (1884–1963) – духовный учитель Кришнабаи и Йоги Рамсураткумара – один из самых замечательных и обаятельных святых Индии, в ашраме которого и поныне множество людей изо всех уголков мира черпают любовь, счастье и радость. Книга содержит учение Папы Рамдаса, данное в форме ответов на вопросы учеников и почитателей. -
Песнь безмолвия. Книга 2 Шри Чандра Свами Удасин
ISBN: 978-5-907059-43-6 Издательство: ИД Ганга Чандра Свами Удасин – живой святой из Северной Индии, достигший вершины духовного постижения, редко достигаемой даже в Индии с ее богатейшей духовной культурой. Редкое обаяние святого, его магнетизм, мудрость и образованность привлекают искателей Истины со всех сторон света, всех культур и вероисповеданий. В книге собраны ответы святого на вопросы искателей, связанные с духовным поиском.
Книга послужит вдохновению тех, кто встал на духовный путь. Она также будет интересна тем, кого интересует духовная культура Индии.
