Heavenly Divine - A Spiritual Street on a Poetic Curve

Heavenly Divine - A Spiritual Street on a Poetic Curve
Author: Antonio B. Bivens
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2014-10-05
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1312570938

Heavenly Divine - A Spiritual Street on a Poetic Curve is a compilation written by author, Antonio B. Bivens based on his observation of others, personal life experience and spiritual inspiration.

Yeats The Poet

Yeats The Poet
Author: Edward Larrissy
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1317866657

This work addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of measure. It then explores how this relates to freemasonry, Celticism and Orientalism and looks at the Blakean esoteric language of contrariety and outline which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.

Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness

Mysticism: A Study in Nature and Development of Spiritual Consciousness
Author: Evelyn Underhill
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2017-02-15
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1773560042

Remaining a classic in its field, this book explains first how mysticism relates to such things as vitalism, theology psychology, symbolism and magic. This treatment may seem unusual for Christian mysticism, but it relates widely to the world as we know it and the different practices therein. Part Two explores the awakening, purification and illumination of yourself and gives solid groundwork for such things as voices, visions dreams and other mystical experience.

Dancing Without Grace

Dancing Without Grace
Author: Antonio Bivens
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2020-05-30
Genre:
ISBN:

Antonio Bivens invites you on his journey of a life of dancing without grace - to his new dance with grace in the pulpit. As a teenager, Antonio secretly became an exotic dancer, forsaking the Christian upbringing of his evangelistic mother. She would later put him out of the house because his street life brought near death to his baby sister.Alone, inexperienced and clueless, for the next 23 years Antonio found himself on a road without grace, dancing away from the pulpit that had been prophesied on his life. But - life has a way of turning around when God is a factor. After the exotic dancing, womanizing, a myriad of addictions, jail time, and baby mama drama, Antonio would return from dancing without grace - back to the pulpit favored by God's grace, where he belongs.DANCING WITHOUT GRACE is Antonio's second book release following Heavenly Divine, A Spiritual Street on a Poetic Curve. Antonio is married to author and publisher, Leigh Bivens. They currently reside in the Miami, Florida area.

Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions

Heavenly Realms and Earthly Realities in Late Antique Religions
Author: Ra'anan S. Boustan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2004-08-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 113945398X

The idea of heaven held a special place in the late antique imagination, which was marked by a poignant sense of the relevance of otherworldly realities for earthly life. Such concerns can be found not only in Judaism and Christianity but also in the Greco-Roman religious, philosophical, scientific, and 'magical' traditions. Transcending social, regional and creedal boundaries, the preocupation with heaven in Late Antiquity serves as a focus for an interdisciplinary approach to understanding this formative era in Western culture and history. Drawing upon the expertise of scholars of Classics, Ancient History, Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume explores the different functions of heavenly imagery in different texts and traditions in order to map the patterns of unity and diversity within the religious landscape of Late Antiquity.

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2020-09-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004438440

Gender and Exemplarity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain gathers a series of studies on the interplay between gender, sanctity and exemplarity in regard to literary production in the Iberian peninsula. The first section examines how women were con¬strued as saintly examples through narratives, mostly composed by male writers; the second focuses on the use made of exemplary life-accounts by women writers in order to fashion their own social identity and their role as authors. The volume includes studies on relevant models (Mary Magdalen, Virgin Mary, living saints), means of transmission, sponsorship and agency (reading circles, print, patronage), and female writers (Leonor López de Córdoba, Isabel de Villena, Teresa of Ávila) involved in creating textual exemplars for women. Contributors are: Pablo Acosta-García, Andrew M. Beresford, Jimena Gamba Corradine, Ryan D. Giles, María Morrás, Lesley K. Twomey, Roa Vidal Doval, and Christopher van Ginhoven Rey.