The Divine Embrace

The Divine Embrace
Author: Robert E. Webber
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0801065550

What is true Christian spirituality? Rediscover spirituality's biblical roots and how you can live out your response to God's story today.

The Divine Embrace (Ancient-Future)

The Divine Embrace (Ancient-Future)
Author: Robert E. Webber
Publisher: Baker Books
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2006-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441242430

One of the most popular current views on spirituality is that there are varied paths to God. In this new Ancient-Future series book, Bob Webber evaluates this common misunderstanding of spirituality as separated from God's story, extremely self-focused, and shaped by our surrounding culture. This challenging work offers a corrective, calling us to an alternative Christian spirituality, one that reveals two sides-that of God's "divine embrace" of us and our passionate response. The Divine Embrace is a fresh, grounded look at true spirituality that will be embraced by pastors, thinking Christians, and anyone looking for an engaging and thorough treatment of this topic.

Divine Embrace

Divine Embrace
Author: Francois Du Toit
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-08-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9780992176914

Religion thrives on two lies: distance and delay. "Divine Embrace" celebrates the initiative that God undertook to cancel every possible definition of distance. The mission of Jesus was not to begin the Christian religion but to reveal and redeem the image and likeness of God in human form.

Love's Oneing

Love's Oneing
Author: Kerrie Hide
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1398452297

Grounded in Christian love mysticism, Love’s Oneing gives voice to the luminous consciousness that awakens from within our oneness in God in contemplation. With great sensitivity, the book offers nuanced insight into the marriage of kenosis and desire in contemplation, through the rich tapestry of writings from nine mystics: Julian of Norwich, the Cloud of Unknowing author, Meister Eckhart, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Clare of Assisi, John of the Cross, Teilhard de Chardin, Beatrice Bruteau and Ilia Delio. With the delicate eye of a spiritual director immersed in mystical literature, Kerrie Hide situates these mystical teachings within contemplative prayer, whilst offering a scholarly exploration of contemplative practice to embody the insights. Deeply grounded in traditional and contemporary mystical classics, Hide celebrates how the Christian mystical tradition lays a foundation for the evolutionary growth of communion consciousness and the insights of quantum science, highlighting key moments in contemplation that when surrendered into, open into divine love. Born of intellectual reflection, lived experience and contemplative wisdom, Love’s Oneing makes a unique contribution to the existing literature on contemplation at a time when the recovery of the mystical dimension of life is crucial for the future of our planet in this climate crisis moment.

Praying the Priestly Prayer

Praying the Priestly Prayer
Author: Warren Marcus
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2021-05-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1636410057

What if you could unlock God's ancient secret of blessing with a prayer? This book will help you understand the full meaning of this ancient prayer and unlock its supernatural power of blessing in your life. Learn to unlock God’s blessing and favor on your life in thirty days by praying this "Divine Prayer of the Blessing" over yourself and others in the way God intended so you too can receive the "full supernatural impartation" in the same manner that the children of Israel did! In Praying the Priestly Prayer, Warren Marcus explains the deeper meaning of the prayer through his "Amplified Hebrew to English translation" of this ancient scripture and coaches you on how to make this blessing a part of your daily life! God wants to be proclaimed over you every day to bring: Supernatural favor Prosperity Abundance Healing Protection And so much more!

Learn To Pray

Learn To Pray
Author: Marcus Braybrooke
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2001-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780811831222

Here is a guide to treading the mystical path of prayer and praying with practical feet, this book combines illustrations with step-by-step exercises. 125 illustrations.

Exclusion & Embrace

Exclusion & Embrace
Author: Miroslav Volf
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 453
Release: 2010-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1426712332

Life at the end of the twentieth century presents us with a disturbing reality. Otherness, the simple fact of being different in some way, has come to be defined as in and of itself evil. Miroslav Volf contends that if the healing word of the gospel is to be heard today, Christian theology must find ways of speaking that address the hatred of the other. Reaching back to the New Testament metaphor of salvation as reconciliation, Volf proposes the idea of embrace as a theological response to the problem of exclusion. Increasingly we see that exclusion has become the primary sin, skewing our perceptions of reality and causing us to react out of fear and anger to all those who are not within our (ever-narrowing) circle. In light of this, Christians must learn that salvation comes, not only as we are reconciled to God, and not only as we "learn to live with one another", but as we take the dangerous and costly step of opening ourselves to the other, of enfolding him or her in the same embrace with which we have been enfolded by God.

Revelation

Revelation
Author: John Christopher Thomas
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 692
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1467445495

The book of Revelation is perhaps the most theologically complex and literarily sophisticated — and also the most sensual — document in the New Testament. In this commentary John Christopher Thomas’s literary and exegetical analysis makes the challenging text of Revelation more accessible and easier to understand. Frank Macchia follows up with sustained theological essays on the book’s most significant themes and issues, accenting especially the underappreciated place of the Holy Spirit in the theology of Revelation.

Justified in the Spirit

Justified in the Spirit
Author: Frank D. Macchia
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2010-07-26
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802837492

"Argues persuasively that Christian teaching about the Spirit (pneumatology) has much to offer to a correct understanding of justification.... We have here a book of singular consequence."ùWilliam G. Rusch, Yale Divinity School --

The Spirit-Baptized Church

The Spirit-Baptized Church
Author: Frank D. Macchia
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-04-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567680673

Frank D. Macchia argues that the Son of God baptized (and continues to baptize) humanity in the Spirit by pouring forth the Spirit on the Day of Pentecost. All four Gospels and the book of Acts describe how the Son is sent of the Father and empowered by the Spirit to fulfil this mission; Macchia in turn claims that Christ succeeds by incorporating others into himself and into the love of the Father. The Spirit-Baptized Church proposes a richly pneumatological ecclesiology that is dominated by a Pentecostal confessional concern, while also open to a larger ecumenical conversation. The volume focuses not only on the dogmatic (Trinitarian) foundations and election processes of the Spirit-baptized church, but also on its marks and witnessing practices. As an exceptionally detailed study of the Spirit-baptismal metaphor, this volume is a valuable resource for scholars of ecclesiology, Pentecostalism, and systematic theology.