Beautiful Encounters


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Hope Sings, So Beautiful


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In Hope Sings, So Beautiful, award-winning author Christopher Pramuk offers a mosaic of images and sketches for thinking and praying through difficult questions about race. The reader will encounter the perspectives of artists, poets, and theologians from many different ethnic and racial communities. This richly illustrated book is not primarily sociological or ethnographic in approach. Rather, its horizon is shaped by questions of theology, spirituality, and pastoral practice. Pramuk's challenging work on this difficult topic will stimulate fruitful conversations and fresh thinking, whether in private study or prayer; in classrooms, churches, and reading groups; or among friends and family around the dinner tale.




A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter


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A Place for Beauty in the Therapeutic Encounter is written for all psychotherapists, counsellors, and psychologists who practise under the broad banner of psychoanalytic thinking. It is also for anyone who loves beauty and wants to think more about its place in the mind.




Beautiful Encounters - Teen Girls' Bible Study Book


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Beautiful Encounters: The Presence of Jesus Changes Everything by Erin Davis is a Bible study designed for girls in grades 7-12.




ORLAN


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'ORLAN' is a study of ORLAN's pioneering art. The book covers her entire career in performance and a range of other art forms. It describes and analyses her various innovative uses of the body as artistic material.




Encounters


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Encounters


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I'm 126 years old. This is my 4,500th incarnation." -Dr. Bob, as profiled in Encounters With the Strange and Unexplained * The National UFO Reporting Center averages 332 unexplained alien sightings each month, and the Gallup Organization reports that more than 32 percent of Americans believe in ghosts. In the summer of 2006, award-winning photographer Matt Hoyle took a paranormal road trip across the United States. He photographed 60 witnesses to alien spacecraft, murky swamp creatures, and demonic house poltergeists. * Chronicling these encounters through both written and photographic profiles, Hoyle presents a spectrum of specter--loving and--loathing believers in Encounters With the Strange and Unexplained. * Hoyle's award-winning photography is known for its rich character and post-production treatment that re-creates both the mood and setting of the environments his portraits depict.




Beauty in the Bright Light


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Raaluchi had always thought she was perfect; that she was walking in the light, because she had her fathers special love. She lives a holy life for which she believes God owes her a huge gratitude. But everything turns upside down when her father, Chief Nnanyelugo Ezechikwelu, dies unexpectedly the very day she writes the last paper of her West African Examination, on the twentieth day of May 2005. She mourns her father like a widow. This is the day Raaluchis depression begins and her lifes long journey becomes fraught with unexpected challenges. Life seems to turn around for her happiness when she sees the beauty in the bright light and learns of her fathers deception. Raaluchi realizes she has been walking in darkness.




Brief Encounters


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The Arts and the Christian Life


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Many find their engagement with works of art raises questions concerning where value is found and how meaning and import are understood and experienced. For persons of Christian faith, a parallel question arises concerning the significance such experience holds for the Christian life and the spiritual journey. This collection of essays pursues questions that address how we perceive value in our experience of the arts, how this experience leads to a greater measure of human fullness, and what significance engagement with the arts holds for the Christian life. The author argues that human experience and the quality of our personhood are enriched in and through the imaginative life and that our spiritual lives are profoundly impacted by our aesthetic engagements. An underlying assumption is that all great art, all that is beautiful, is inherently religious: that is, it embodies qualities that reflect the glory of God and is therefore valuable to the Christian life and one's spiritual experience. Indeed, insofar as the noetic privileges language and reason, the arts and the domain of the aesthetic provide an alternate pathway by which we are able to encounter the Divine.