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Injuring Eternity is a bold volume of poetry written by renowned National Endowments for the Arts poet Millicent Borges Accardi.
Author : Millicent Borges Accardi
Publisher :
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780982886540
Injuring Eternity is a bold volume of poetry written by renowned National Endowments for the Arts poet Millicent Borges Accardi.
Author : H. Daniel Peck
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
Release : 1994-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300061048
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers and Walden, the only works Thoreau conceived and brought to conclusion as books, bear a distinctively important relation to each other and to his Journal, the document whose twenty-four-year composition encompasses their development. In a brilliant new book, H. Daniel Peck shows how these three works engage one another dialectically and how all of them participate in a larger project of imagination. "Morning work," a phrase from Walden, is the name Peck gives to this larger project. by it he means the work done by memory and perception as they act to shape Thoreau's emerging vision of a harmonious universe. Peck argues that the changing balance of memory and perception in the three works defines the unique literary character of each of them. He offers a major reevaluation of Walden, which he sees neither as the epitome of Thoreau's career (the traditional view) nor as an anomaly (the recent, revisionary view). Rather, he sees Walden as a pivotal work, reflecting the issues of loss and remembrance that earlier had found prominent expression in A Week and prefiguring the late Journal's vision of natural order. Focusing on the two-million-word Journal, Peck provides the first critical analysis that defines the essential forces and the imaginative coherence in its vast discursiveness. The consideration of memory and perception in Thoreau also leads peck to the issue of the writer's modernity, and he explores the ways in which Thoreau anticipates twentieth-century thought, especially in the works of such great objectivist philosophers as William James and Alfred North Whitehead.
Author : Ray L. Hart
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2016-05-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022635962X
In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a speculative theology that profoundly challenges traditional understandings of God. Drawing on a lifetime of reading in philosophy and religious thought, Hart unfolds a vision of God perpetually in process: an unfinished God. Breaking out of the classical doctrine of divine persons, Hart reimagines Trinity as composed of theogony, cosmogony, and anthropogony an emerging Godhead in relation to origins, temporal creation, and human existence. The book s ultimate import is that all of Being and Nonbeing emerges together in interrelation and interdependence. This divine reality, Hart explains, is unfinished, imperfect, still in the course of a living-dying process that implicates all things, existent and inexistent, temporal and eternal. Doctrinal closuresomething that every orthodox theology requiresthus becomes impossible, and rightly so. Hart confronts those orthodoxies by asking: How can thinking of God reach closure when the divine is itself unfinished and its appearance to us always amounts to new creation? Hart s insights open the potencies of the nothing to the actualization of freedomthe freedom to create. That is, the nothing is not for nothingit is procreative. In the domain of radical speculative theology, then, Hart offers a fully deconstructive revisioning of the Christian God as ever an emerging and self-transfiguring actuality. It is a work with which all serious students of theology will wish to contend."
Author : Tim King
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2006-07-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1400071496
You’re not defined by what you’ve done. You’re defined by Who pursues you. What if you could believe that God not only chases you, but has yet to leave your side for a second, has yet to go a minute without courting you, whispering in your heart, I’m right here? What if you could believe that God is never distant, never out of reach, never indifferent to what’s going on in your life? Would that make a difference in your relationship with him? And what if you could go a step further and believe that God’s pursuit has nothing to do with your level of faithfulness? He is just as near, and just as vigilant in his pursuit, regardless of your dedication to the spiritual disciplines, and in spite of your struggle with sin. Because of his nature, it is impossible for God not to pursue you. In Furious Pursuit, Tim King and Frank Martin invite you to lay down the smaller story of your life and instead tap into the Larger Story. To begin today by allowing God to transform the nature of your relationship with him. To stop chasing God and start embracing the Romance that is already well under way. Begin today! Open yourself to God’s Furious Pursuit. Companion workbook also available.
Author : Rex Hickox
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2006-04-25
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1847289207
Do you feel "hurried or harried?" Are you satisfied with the way your time is spent? Do you feel that you never really seem to have TIME to enjoy the things you like in life? If so, you NEED this book! Time management is a SKILL that must be learned and practiced. This book will explain the "concept of time" and our place in it and will give you a practical vehicle for personal growth and effectiveness. Time need NOT be your enemy! Read and apply these ideas and techniques and you will become a happier, more successful person! (SEE PREVIEW!)
Author : Henry David Thoreau
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category :
ISBN : 9781785435256
Henry David Thoreau was born on July 12th, 1817 on Virginia Road in Concord, Massachusetts. Thoreau studied at Harvard between 1833 and 1837 taking classes in rhetoric, classics, philosophy, mathematics, and science. On graduating the normal professions left him unmoved and, after a period teaching at his own school, a growing friendship with Ralph Waldo Emerson moved his career onto that of writer and observer of nature. Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and how it affected the human condition. He was deeply influenced by Nature and especially the Walden woods. Eventually his published writings were to celebrate this area and his own philosophies. A noted Abolitionist Thoreau was a man to stand by his principles regardless of the minority view he might be holding. Tragically his life and career were short. In 1859, following a late-night excursion to count the rings of tree stumps during a rain storm, he fell ill with bronchitis. His health now fell into an irreversible decline with only short periods of remission. Thoreau spent his last years revising and editing his unpublished works. In the decades that followed he would be regarded as one of America's greatest writers. Henry David Thoreau died on May 6th, 1862 at the tragically early age of just 44.
Author : Paul Friedrich
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2008-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0791477479
This book explores and interprets the myriad connections between two spiritual classics, Henry David Thoreau's Walden and the Bhagavad-Gita. Evidence shows that Thoreau took the Gita with him when he moved to Walden Pond, and the books have much in common, touching on ultimate ethical and metaphysical questions. Paul Friedrich looks at how each work speaks to fundamental problems of good and evil, self and cosmos, duty and passion, reality and illusion, political engagement and philosophical meditation, sensuous wildness and ascetic devotion. His examination moves through several stages, from an analysis of key symbols, such as the upside-down tree, to an exposition of social, ethical, and metaphysical values, to a consideration of the many sources of these syncretic works. This book should be of lively interest to those concerned with the origins of Indian and American thought, activism, and poetry.
Author : Reggie Ononibaku
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1646280172
For your best-ever book, for the one who wants to improve in his life's endeavors and excel, or for the one who wants to think and behave like a philosopher or think tank, then this is your chance. Invest in the best and grab a copy of Ideas Forever, and stay naturally ahead of others as you become stronger and inspired to succeed. This book is your best friend and companion.
Author : Robert J. Morgan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451664745
Outlines ten scripture-based steps for leading an effective, purposeful life.
Author : Susan S. Neville
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2003-09-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780253110725
"I started this meditation on the first day of Lent. I hope to keep going every day until Easter. Each day I go fishing in the water of this internal voice. This week the water's still, this angled pen a blue sail; the hook is lazy in the estuary, the water the color of lapis. So what if I don't catch a fish? I said that I would fish; that's all I promised. I bait the hook with each day's discipline. I have no guarantees that there is anything at all to catch in these particular waters, that something beneath the surface won't grab my pen and pull me under." -- from Iconography When Susan Neville enrolls in an icon-painting class in the cellar of an Indianapolis monastery, she begins a journey into a fascinating hidden world where saints are fabricated of mineral and wood, yolk and blood, earth and time. The process is tedious, and she begins to make mistakes, to become impatient; she doesn't feel ready for the challenge. To prepare herself, Neville makes a vow to write during the 40 days of Lent. What emerges is a journal, a meditation, a series of confessions that we are invited to listen to as we follow Neville's sometimes painful attempts to reveal the truth and discover the mystery of her existence. In the layering of colors and moods, her writing is the spiritual equivalent of an icon. As she observes the world around her and applies the paint of language to her observations, she realizes that spirit and matter are not separate -- that now and then moments of meaning emerge from daily life, and the stillness and majesty of the universe shine through.