Shaped by the End You Live For - 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 Shaped by the End You Live For write by Bonnie B. Thurston. This book was released on 2020-05-15. Shaped by the End You Live For available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To understand the life and thought of Thomas Merton, one must understand him as a monk. After introducing his vocation and entrance into the Trappist order, this book highlights some of his basic spiritual presuppositions. Relying primarily on Merton's writing, Bonnie B. Thurston surveys his thought on fundamental aspects of monastic formation and spirituality, particularly obedience, silence, solitude, and prayer. She also addresses some of the temptations and popular misunderstandings surrounding monastic life. Accessible and conversational in style, the book suggests how monastic spirituality is relevant, not only for all Christians, but also for serious spiritual seekers.
Shaped by the End You Live For
Shaped by the End You Live For - 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 Shaped by the End You Live For write by Bonnie Bowman Thurston. This book was released on 2020. Shaped by the End You Live For available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A survey of Thomas Merton's thought on fundamental aspects of monastic formation and spirituality, which also addresses some of the temptations and popular misunderstandings surrounding monastic life"--
The Vanishment
The Vanishment - 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 Vanishment write by Robert Firth. This book was released on 2013-05-22. The Vanishment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The VANISHMENT describes a fictional account of a modern day visitation by the late great Jesus Christ. The appearance of the spirit in the personage of the son of God or God himself, with all his miraculous powers, in the back yard of a middle class white guy, begins an astounding series of happenings that change mankind and the world forever. The book relates the authors rather wry and at times hilarious and wishful account of the "second coming" as has been predicted for two thousand years. Why Jesus decides to visit humanity in 2011 and why he returns to a poolside patio in Boca Raton Florida is left to the imagination of the writer and the reader. Equally, it remains for the reader to comprehend Jesus' actions as he goes about his business. Most certainly there are echoes of the day of Judgment, so colorfully described in the Book of Revelations, the last chapter in the Christian Bible, dealing with the prophetic visions John, a servant of Jesus, received from God. The author, in imagining the reasoning and actions of JC as he goes about "cleaning up" the mess mankind has made of his lovely world, delivers to the reader a vision of God's vision of a perfect world, with all its poisonous influences surgically removed by a miraculous intervention.' Nothing, but nothing, can top God when it comes to removing "stains" from the carpet of history. From one problem to the other, God, who knows the hearts of all men, makes decisions to improve his world and preserve his chosen people, which, as it turns out, aren't entirety and solely the Jews. In the end, a perfect world remains, cleansed of all a evil' influences...... The question for the reader is this: Is the world "fixed" by Jesus Christ a better one?
For the Time Being
For the Time Being - 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 For the Time Being write by Richard Quinney. This book was released on 1998-08-27. For the Time Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Through the sharing of one man's life and photographs, this ethnography of human existence covers religion, philosophy, literature, the environment, visual arts, music, drama, literary criticism, sociology, and the psychology of self.
The Fourth Turning
The Fourth Turning - 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 Fourth Turning write by William Strauss. This book was released on 1997-12-29. The Fourth Turning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Discover the game-changing theory of the cycles of history and what past generations can teach us about living through times of upheaval—with deep insights into the roles that Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials have to play—now with a new preface by Neil Howe. First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive prophecy about how America’s past will predict what comes next. Strauss and Howe base this vision on a provocative theory of American history. The authors look back five hundred years and uncover a distinct pattern: Modern history moves in cycles, each one lasting about the length of a long human life, each composed of four twenty-year eras—or “turnings”—that comprise history’s seasonal rhythm of growth, maturation, entropy, and rebirth. Illustrating this cycle through a brilliant analysis of the post–World War II period, The Fourth Turning offers bold predictions about how all of us can prepare, individually and collectively, for this rendezvous with destiny.
