Death Tractates - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Death Tractates write by Brenda Hillman. This book was released on 2012-01-01. Death Tractates available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the depths of sorrow following the sudden death of her closest female mentor, Brenda Hillman asks anguished questions in this book of poems about separation, spiritual transcendence, and the difference between life and death. Both personal and philosophical, her work can be read as a spirit-guide for those mourning the loss of a loved one and as a series of fundamental ponderings on the inevitability of death and separation. At first refusing to let go, desperate to feel the presence of her friend, the poet seeks solace in a belief in the spirit world. But life, not death, becomes the issue when she begins to see physical existence as "an interruption" that preoccupies us with shapes and borders. "Shape makes life too small," she realizes. Comfort at last comes in the idea of "reverse seeing": that even if she cannot see forward into the spirit world, her friend can see "backward into this world" and be with her. Death Tractates is the companion volume to a philosophical poetic work entitles Bright Existence, which Hillman was in the midst of writing when her friend died. Published by Wesleyan University Press in 1993, it shares many of the same Gnostic themes and sources.
Tractates on the Gospel of John 112–24; Tractates on the First Epistle of John (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 92)
Tractates on the Gospel of John 112–24; Tractates on the First Epistle of John (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 92) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tractates on the Gospel of John 112–24; Tractates on the First Epistle of John (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 92) write by Saint Augustine. This book was released on 2010-04. Tractates on the Gospel of John 112–24; Tractates on the First Epistle of John (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 92) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this volume, which concludes John W. Rettig's translation of St. Augustine's Tractates on the Gospel of John, Augustine applies his keen insight and powers of rhetoric to the sacred text, drawing the audience into an intimate contemplation of Jesus through the course of his Passion, Death, and Resurrection.
The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism
The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism write by Jacob Neusner. This book was released on 2003-09-02. The Four Stages of Rabbinic Judaism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This concise volume provides a lucid introduction to the genesis and development of Rabbinic Judaism. Jacob Neusner outlines and examines the four stages in which the initial period of the historical development of Rabbinic Judaism divides, beginning with the Pentateuch and ending with its definitive and normative statement in the Talmud of Babylonia. He traces the development of Rabbinic Judaism by exploring the relationships between and among the cognate writings which embody its formative history.
Theology of the Oral Torah
Theology of the Oral Torah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Theology of the Oral Torah write by Jacob Neusner. This book was released on 1999-04-10. Theology of the Oral Torah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Theology of the Oral Torah Neusner crafts the central conceptions of rabbinic Judaism into a rigorous, coherent argument by setting forth four cogent principles: that God formed creation in accord with a plan which the Torah reveals; that the perfection of creation is signified by the conformity of human affairs to a few enduring paradigms that transcend change; that Israel's condition, public and personal, is indicative of flaws in creation; and that God will ultimately restore the perfection embodied in his plan for creation. A masterful and original construction of theology of rabbinic Judaism, Neusner's story of the Oral Torah is also remarkably familiar - the emphasis is still on man's sin and God's response, God's justice and mercy, and the human mirroring of God through the possession of the power of will. The Theology of the Oral Torah is part of Neusner's ongoing major project - the construction of theology of rabbinic Judaism - a project which rivals in its scope that of the great Maimonides or, in Christian theology, that of Thomas Aquinas's Summa.
St. Augustine on St. John: Tractates, Homilies and Sermons on St. John's Gospel and First Epistle
St. Augustine on St. John: Tractates, Homilies and Sermons on St. John's Gospel and First Epistle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook St. Augustine on St. John: Tractates, Homilies and Sermons on St. John's Gospel and First Epistle write by St. Augustine of Hippo Fr. Seraphim, Editor. This book was released on . St. Augustine on St. John: Tractates, Homilies and Sermons on St. John's Gospel and First Epistle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
