A Common Name for Everything

A Common Name for Everything
Author: Sarah Wolfson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781950584130

I. Have you been to the place? Night travel -- Have you been to the place? -- A study -- Aurora borealis -- My mother names her inner state -- The mammoth -- No heron -- Overwintered -- Fruiting bodies -- Love song in a small place -- II. Little here, little now. A guidebook with common phrases -- Apples -- One problem with maps -- Garlic -- What we tell children about animals -- The rural pantheon -- Nearer, my bog, to thee -- Namer of lakes -- Declared nuisances -- The place and the whale -- From above a lambing -- III. Earth-things. Some conditions -- Leaving pangaea -- To consider the tree crab -- Views from ruminant creatures -- My favorite human smile -- We are taking the trees -- A child tries to extinguish the sun -- The subtle animal -- The mountain -- The prayers of sheep -- IV. Beginnings. The propagule -- Regeneration (acornal, coralic, human) -- An unfunded study of milking and the moon -- Birth story -- An unfunded study of the afterbirth -- Arrival at the river Jordan -- The landing -- Renovation -- A small and unsuccessful reckoning -- The afterlion -- The next season.

Life, the Universe, and Everything

Life, the Universe, and Everything
Author: Ric Machuga
Publisher: Lutterworth Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0718840569

No philosophical idea, no matter how small, can live alone. Ideas always gain their force, power, and life from their surroundings - their ecosystem. The ecosystem of ideas defended in this book comes from the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and his medieval interpreter, Thomas Aquinas. The ongoing relevance of their philosophical thought to twenty-first century issues is opened up in fascinating ways in this book. Life, the Universe, and Everything is the product of thirty years of teaching introductory courses in philosophy. Assuming no prior background, it only requires of readers an enquiring mind and a willingness to think carefully. An ideal guide to the big questions we face.

Lao Tzu and the Bible

Lao Tzu and the Bible
Author: Yuan Zhiming
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2010
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1449091105

Lao Tzu and The Bible: A Meeting Transcending Time and Space Yuan Zhiming Translated by Chen Shangyu Has God's light ever shone on the vast land of China-"Land of God, ' so named by her ancient ancestors? This book vividly recaptures God's universal light shown to the Chinese sage Lao Tzu 600 years before Jesus was born. By comparing Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching with the Bible, Yuan Zhiming offers a ground-breaking interpretation of Lao Tzu's Tao in light of the Word, or Logos. Yuan Zhiming juxtaposes Lao Tzu's "Holy One" with Jesus Christ, systematically and thoroughly unveiling the nature and characteristics of the mysterious Tao in a concrete and understandable manner, resolving a riddle of 2,600 years. "The text speaks to our time, because so many people believe that mere secular teaching of "morality," such as Confucius taught, is sufficient, and because what we really need is a deep spiritual awakening, such as Lao Tzu announced. The profound teaching in Lao Tzu and the Bible enriches the spirit of not only the Chinese people but also the people of the West." -Dr. Paul de Vries, president of New York Divinity School and author of The Taming of the Shrewd Lao Tzu and the Bible offers not only a spiritual feast to the analytical minds about Tao/Word/Logos, illustrating Tao in a tangible form, the Holy One/Jesus Christ, but also provides helpful advice about how to follow and be united with Tao. A work of great erudition and wisdom, it contains deep insight, opening up the secrets of the Tao while also illuminating the Bible. This book will surely delight the hearts and minds of seekers of Tao.