Desire and Delight - 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 Desire and Delight write by Margaret R. Miles. This book was released on 2006-08-01. Desire and Delight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most powerfully evocative autobiographies of the Christian West. It recounts the complex experiences through which this formative theologian came to renounce the compulsive sexual practice of his youth, reinvesting his attention and affection in a disciplined spirituality. The Confessions is explicitly about desire, longing, passion--physical and spiritual. It narrates Augustine's desperate attempt to get, and to keep, the greatest degree of pleasure. Even his conversion to Catholic Christianity is narrated as a seduction to continence, and the model of spirituality he articulated relied intimately and profoundly on his sexual experience. Desire and Delight explores the erotics of asceticism as described by Augustine, noticing the gendered foundation of his model of spiritual aspiration. Going beyond the tormented, self-conscious Augustine of conventual interpretations, one discovers in this book a man impelled by the eros that defines human beings as such: the pursuit up the scale of pleasures to the ultimate Pleasure. The pursuit is analyzed here in the text, context, and subtext, with such intellectual and emotional engagement that the Confessions becomes a text of pleasure.
The Dangerous Duty of Delight
The Dangerous Duty of Delight - 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 Dangerous Duty of Delight write by John Piper. This book was released on 2001. The Dangerous Duty of Delight available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strengthen your relationship with God by enjoying Him and His creation! Discover just how to delight in the Lord in this compact version of Piper's classic Desiring God.
When I Don't Desire God
When I Don't Desire God - 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 When I Don't Desire God write by John Piper. This book was released on 2004. When I Don't Desire God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explaining how to become a Christian hedonist, a bestselling author offers guidance on how to find spiritual joy to readers who are unsure of where to seek it.
The Pleasures of God
The Pleasures of God - 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 Pleasures of God write by John Piper. This book was released on 2012-01-17. The Pleasures of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author of Desiring God reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Includes a study guide for individual and small-group use. Isn’t it true—we really don’t know someone until we understand what makes that person happy? And so it is with God! What does bring delight to the happiest Being in the universe? John Piper writes, that it’s only when we know what makes God glad that we’ll know the greatness of His glory. Therefore, we must comprehend “the pleasures of God.” Unlike so much of what is written today, this is not a book about us. It is about the One we were made for—God Himself. In this theological masterpiece—chosen by World Magazine as one of the 20th Century’s top 100 books, John Piper reveals the biblical evidence to help us see and savor what the pleasures of God show us about Him. Then we will be able to drink deeply—and satisfyingly—from the only well that offers living water. What followers of Jesus need now, more than anything else, is to know and love—behold and embrace—the great, glorious, sovereign, happy God of the Bible. “This is a unique and precious book that everybody should read more than once.” —J.I. PACKER, Regent College, Vancouver, British Columbia
The Book of (More) Delights
The Book of (More) Delights - 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 Book of (More) Delights write by Ross Gay. This book was released on 2023-09-19. The Book of (More) Delights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From bestselling author of The Book of Delights and award-winning poet, a book of lyrical mini-essays celebrating the everyday that will inspire readers to rediscover the joys in the world around us. In Ross Gay’s new collection of small, daily wonders, again written over the course of a year, one of America’s most original voices continues his ongoing investigation of delight. For Gay, what delights us is what connects us, what gives us meaning, from the joy of hearing a nostalgic song blasting from a passing car to the pleasure of refusing the “nefarious” scannable QR code menus, from the tiny dog he fell hard for to his mother baking a dozen kinds of cookies for her grandchildren. As always, Gay revels in the natural world—sweet potatoes being harvested, a hummingbird carousing in the beebalm, a sunflower growing out of a wall around the cemetery, the shared bounty from a neighbor’s fig tree—and the trillion mysterious ways this glorious earth delights us. The Book of (More) Delights is a volume to savor and share.
