The Spiritual Language of Art: Medieval Christian Themes in Writings on Art of the Italian Renaissance

The Spiritual Language of Art: Medieval Christian Themes in Writings on Art of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Steven F.H. Stowell
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2014-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004283927

Analyzing the literature on art from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, The Spiritual Language of Art explores the complex relationship between visual art and spiritual experiences during the Italian Renaissance. Though scholarly research on these writings has predominantly focused on the influence of classical literature, this study reveals that Renaissance authors consistently discussed art using terms, concepts and metaphors derived from spiritual literature. By examining these texts in the light of medieval sources, greater insight is gained on the spiritual nature of the artist’s process and the reception of art. Offering a close re-readings of many important writers (Alberti, Leonardo, Vasari, etc.), this study deepens our understanding of attitudes toward art and spirituality in the Italian Renaissance.

The Beauty of Spiritual Language

The Beauty of Spiritual Language
Author: Jack W. Hayford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Glossolalia
ISBN: 9781945529429

Jack Hayford's approach to speaking in tongues doesn't fit the stereotype. Revised and expanded with new content. People often think speaking in tongues is either gibberish or emotional exuberance. They think it is strange, dramatic, or sometimes excessive. Even among Spirit-filled communities, there is disagreement over the importance of tongues. Pastor Jack makes a persuasive case for accepting tongues as a normal part of a Christian's experience. In sensible, biblical terms he reaches across denominational lines to explain this intimate encounter with the heart of God. This revised and expanded edition includes fourteen never-before published lessons from Pastor Jack.

Living the Spirit-Formed Life

Living the Spirit-Formed Life
Author: Jack Hayford
Publisher: Chosen Books
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144123117X

New Look for Landmark Teaching on Living the Spirit-Empowered Life In our instant-gratification culture, we consume a fleeting, shallow diet of media, relationships, entertainment, and spirituality. Our souls go hungry, longing for a fuller, more satisfying life. Bestselling author and beloved pastor Jack Hayford shows, in what has become a modern-day classic, how we can feed our deepest places with the sustaining Bread of Life. With warmth and wisdom, he reveals how we can link our souls to timeless practices and principles set forth in Scripture. He invites you to rediscover the power and blessing of these spiritual disciplines--of true Spirit-fullness. Even more, he shows how these spiritual disciplines are relevant for today and how we can practice them in our quick-paced, surface-level culture. When we take time to fast and pray, worship daily, feed on God's Word, and more, we fully enter the rich adventure of becoming an effective disciple of Christ--ensuring that our souls will never go hungry.

Seeking Spiritual Beauty

Seeking Spiritual Beauty
Author: Sheila Keckler Butt
Publisher: Publishing Designs Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-09-05
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780929540269

"In our microwave society that manufactures designer babies, most young women are more efficient at the computer than at home. Seeking Spiritual Beauty is a book of courage and power for women who are not satisfied with the world's standard of spirituality."--Cover

The Secret Language of the Soul

The Secret Language of the Soul
Author: Jane Hope
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1997-11
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780811818612

This latest in the Secret Language series is an inspiring survey of faith and ritual through the ages, from Native American vision quests to chakras, avatar, and archangels. Original and ancient artworks depict some of the most profound and compelling images ever devised. This richly illustrated volume is an inviting universal guide to the realm of the divine. Over 200 full-color illustrations.

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit
Author: Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2013-04-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439128324

Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is a collection of twenty-two powerful and indispensable essays on Native American life, written by one of America's foremost literary voices. Bold and impassioned, sharp and defiant, Leslie Marmon Silko's essays evoke the spirit and voice of Native Americans. Whether she is exploring the vital importance literature and language play in Native American heritage, illuminating the inseparability of the land and the Native American people, enlivening the ways and wisdom of the old-time people, or exploding in outrage over the government's long-standing, racist treatment of Native Americans, Silko does so with eloquence and power, born from her profound devotion to all that is Native American. Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit is written with the fire of necessity. Silko's call to be heard is unmistakable—there are stories to remember, injustices to redress, ways of life to preserve. It is a work of major importance, filled with indispensable truths—a work by an author with an original voice and a unique access to both worlds.

The Language of Heaven

The Language of Heaven
Author: Sam Storms
Publisher:
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2019
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1629996076

Few other issues have separated the church more than the issue of tongues. Sam Storms focuses on this controversial subject with his signature insights to theology and the gifts of the spirit. What does the gift giver say about the gift He gave? Storms seeks to bring balance to this subject in The Language of Heaven as he wrestles with this s...

The Language of Sycamores

The Language of Sycamores
Author: Lisa Wingate
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2005-01-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101210206

Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from life-immersing herself in a high-powered job-until the day the company downsizes her out of a job and the doctor tells her that she may have cancer. It's a double blow that sends Karen on a search for herself in the last place she ever thought to look: Grandma Rose's old farm. As Karen's hectic schedule falls away, she opens up to the unexpected. In the quiet of the Missouri Ozarks, she hears the soft, secret language of the sycamore trees, and discovers answers and a joy to make her life complete.

The Beauty of the Lord

The Beauty of the Lord
Author: Jonathan King
Publisher: Lexham Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2018-05-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1683590597

Why is God's beauty often absent from our theology? Rarely do theologians take up the theme of God's beauty—even more rarely do they consider how God's beauty should shape the task of theology itself. But the psalmist says that the heart of the believer's desire is to behold the beauty of the Lord. In The Beauty of the Lord, Jonathan King restores aesthetics as not merely a valid lens for theological reflection, but an essential one. Jesus, our incarnate Redeemer, displays the Triune God's beauty in his actions and person, from creation to final consummation. How can and should theology better reflect this unveiled beauty? The Beauty of the Lord is a renewal of a truly aesthetic theology and a properly theological aesthetics.

Sacramental Life

Sacramental Life
Author: David A. deSilva
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2008-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830835180

As David deSilva has experienced the ancient wisdom of the Book of Common Prayer, he's been formed spiritually in deep and lasting ways. In these pages, he offers you a brand new way to use the Book of Common Prayer, exploring how Christians can be spiritually formed by the sacraments of baptism, Eucharist, marriage and last rites.