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Author: Steven S. Sadleir
Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
Published: 2010-02-22
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781439267851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The remarkable story of Christ and Christianity from the historical perspective that reveals Christ's teachings on enlightenment, practiced by the earliest Jewish disciples only recently revealed.
Author: Jonathan C. P. Birch
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2019-07-18
Total Pages: 493
ISBN-13: 1137512768
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book explores the religious concerns of Enlightenment thinkers from Thomas Hobbes to Thomas Jefferson. Using an innovative method, the study illuminates the intellectual history of the age through interpretations of Jesus between c.1650 and c.1826. The book demonstrates the persistence of theology in modern philosophy and the projects of social reform and amelioration associated with the Enlightenment. At the core of many of these projects was a robust moral-theological realism, sometimes manifest in a natural law ethic, but always associated with Jesus and a commitment to the sovereign goodness of God. This ethical orientation in Enlightenment discourse is found in a range of different metaphysical and political identities (dualist and monist; progressive and radical) which intersect with earlier ‘heretical’ tendencies in Christian thought (Arianism, Pelagianism, and Marcionism). This intellectual matrix helped to produce the discourses of irenic toleration which are a legacy of the Enlightenment at its best.
Author: Gina Lake
Publisher: Gina Lake
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 0615153941
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Radical Happiness is for seekers who are ready to be finders and anyone asking the question, Who am I really? Radical Happiness provides the keys to experiencing the happiness that is always present and not dependent on circumstances. This happiness doesn't come from getting what you want but from wanting what already is. It comes from realizing that who you think you are is not who you really are. This is a radical perspective! Radical Happiness describes the nature of the egoic state of consciousness, the mind's role in maintaining it, how this interferes with happiness, what awakening and enlightenment are, and how to live in this world following awakening. Exercises are included to help you apply the information and transform your experience of life--and become happier.
Author: Frank Loftin
Publisher: Xulon Press
Published: 2013-05
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781626975873
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →* What Does the Bible Say About Jesus Christ and Salvation? * What do I Need to Know About Satan? * Can I Be Delivered From My Addictions? * Can I Overcome Depression, Bitterness, Unforgiveness, Sexual Perversion, Suicide? * What Does the Bible Say About Being Unequally Yoked? * Can I Really Walk In the Spirit? * Can I Reach My Spiritual Potential? * Can I Be Restored To My State of Purity After Being Sexually Violated? * If God Loves Me Why Is Life So Hard? * Can I Get Victory Over My Past? * Does God Really Have A Plan For My Problems and How Can I Know The Plan? ENLIGHTENED is to be made aware of...this book is designed with that purpose in mind, to help the reader understand what being a Christian is all about. Many questions need many answers...this practical study guide answers many of the unasked but often thought about questions. This is a great study guide to learning about Christianity along with the challenge to grow spiritually. This book is designed for the new converts as well as those who are mature in the Lord. Knowledge is power, and power leads to victory. No longer do you have to be in the dark about who you are in the Lord. Allow the knowledge of the word of God to make you ENLIGHTENED! The author: Frank Loftin is an ordained Elder at New Jerusalem House of God, Mt. Holly, NJ. Being in ministry for over 25yrs, Frank has served in several churches in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania area. Licensed as a Chaplain he has also served for 3 yrs as an instructer at Manna Bible Institue, Mt Holly Campus.
Author: Edmund Danilo Auguis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1504945212
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Englightened: The Purpose of Spiritual Understanding is an inspiring book for those who are lost and wanting to find direction. It is for those who want to put substance into their spiritual life without being too religious and sacred. Pastor Edmund passionately expounds the benefits of respectful human interaction and relationship as showed by Jesus Christ centuries ago. He talks about the various aspects of enabling oneself to fully understand one's unique purpose in life while likewise preparing the self for the challenges that will come along. Pastor Edmund expounds on the mental and spiritual readiness that one should endeavor to learn successfully overcome the difficulties. Truly an Enlightening book for today's troubled world.
Author: Matthew Barnes
Publisher:
Published: 2020-07-02
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781673264241
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Jesus Christ was a Zen master? In at least one version of early Christian belief, he sure sounded like one. Early Christianity was far from the gentle and unified belief system that we have been led to believe it was. In fact, in the earliest stages of its development, interpretations of the meanings of Jesus' teachings varied widely, were hotly debated, and differing views were not tolerated well at all. The Jesus narrative that eventually won out was passed on to future generations while the losers had their books burned and adherents imprisoned, tortured, or put to death. Talk about issues with freedom of religion! Luckily, an early Christian group called the "Gnostics", in seeing their beloved books burned and adherents mistreated, buried their most important works in hopes of future discovery. These works were discovered in Nag Hammadi, Egypt in 1945 and have shed quite a bit of light on an alternative and very different interpretation of Jesus' teachings--one that was widely followed in the early years of Christianity, yet more closely resembles the "enlightenment" teachings of Zen and Buddhism. The Zen-like nature of the Gnostic's Jesus is the focus of this work. "What you seek after is within you." - Dialogue of the Savior Scroll up and grab your copy today!
Author: Craig Hazen
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000-01-05
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780252068287
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Village Enlightenment in America focuses on three nineteenth-century spiritual activists who epitomized the marriage of science and religion fostered in antebellum, pre-Darwinian America by the American Enlightenment. A theologian, writer, and apologist for the nascent Mormon movement, as well as an amateur scientist, Orson Pratt wrote Key to the Universe, or a New Theory of Its Mechanism, to establish a scientific base for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Robert Hare, an inventor and ardent convert to spiritualism, used his scientific expertise to lend credence to the spiritualist movement. Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, generally considered the initiator of the American mind-cure movement, developed an overtly religious concept of science and used it to justify his system of theology. Pratt, Hare, and Quimby all employed a potent combination of popular science and Baconianism to legitimate their new religious ideas. Using the same terms--matter, ether, magnetic force--to account for the behavior of particles, planetary rotation, and the influence of the Holy Ghost, these agents of the Enlightenment constructed complex systems intended to demonstrate a fundamental harmony between the physical and the metaphysical. Through the lives and work of these three influential men, The Village Enlightenment in America opens a window to a time when science and religion, instead of seeming fundamentally at odds with each other, appeared entirely reconcilable.
Author: Deacon Paul Covino
Publisher: Liturgy Training Publications
Published: 2021-12
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 1616716002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book considers the deacon’s relationship to Baptism, his relationship to the ritual, and his relationship to the families of the children whom he baptizes. The resource will help the deacon better understand how Baptism calls its recipients to discipleship, the symbols and the gestures of the ritual, and ways to stimulate faith among families who bring their children to be baptized. This resource also will address practical issues, such as suggestions for the homily, a checklist to prepare for Baptisms, when a deacon may baptize, and how to navigate through the ritual when many children are being baptized.
Author: Jonathan Yeager
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2011-04
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 019977255X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This title tells how John Erskine was the leading evangelical in the Church of Scotland in the latter half of the 18th century. It explores how, educated in an enlightened setting at Edinburgh University, he learned to appreciate the epistemology of John Locke and other empiricists.
Author: Robert E. Schofield
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-10-29
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0271032464
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley Robert Schofield completes his two-volume biography of one of the great figures of the English Enlightenment. The first volume, published in 1997, covered the first forty years of Joseph Priestley’s life in England. In this second volume, Schofield surveys the mature years of Priestley, including the achievements that were to make him famous—the discovery of oxygen, the defenses of Unitarianism, and the political liberalism that characterized his later life. He also recounts Priestley’s flight to Pennsylvania in 1794 and the final years of his life spent along the Susquehanna in Northumberland. Together, the two volumes will stand as the standard biography of Priestley for years to come. Joseph Priestley (1733–1804), a contemporary and friend of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, exceeded even these polymaths in the breadth of his curiosity and learning. Yet Priestley is often portrayed in negative terms, as a restless intellect, incapable of confining himself to any single task, without force or originality, and marked by hasty and superficial thought. In The Enlightened Joseph Priestley, he emerges as a man who was more than a lucky empiricist in science, more than a naive political liberal, more than an exhaustive compiler of superficial evidence in militant support of Unitarianism. In fact, he was learned in an extraordinary variety of subjects, from grammar, education, aesthetics, metaphysics, politics, and theology to natural philosophy. Priestley was, in fact, a man of the Enlightenment.
