Sacred Space offers an introduction to the five major religions of the world: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Vedantaism, and Buddhism. Beginning with a description of the places of worship, the authors explore what takes place in this space, what it means and what happens in the lives of the people beyond the Sacred Space. This book offers a model for religious groups and communities to explore the sacred space of the other. It aims to promote dialogue, mutual understanding and cooperation in solving the major problems of the world. The authors explain in simple language the faith and the practice of the various religions. This book is unique in that the authors also servwe as guides in visiting the Sacred Spaces of the other faiths. The approach is clear; the language is simple; and the effect is clear. Those who will benefit from this text include individuals who want a brief overview of these five religions, searching lay persons, students in reigious studies and teachers.

A fascinating and detailed report on recent miracles and miraculous cures. Contents Include - Letter of Appreciation from H.H.Pius XII - Declaration - Translator's Introduction - Miracles - Miraculous Cures - Modern Miraculous Cures in Our Experience - Miracles Associated with Holy Persons - Church Procedure for Investigating - Canonisation Miracles - The Lourdes Medical Bureau - Cures Officially Recognised as Miraculous - Scientifically Extraordinary Cures not yet Canonically Recognised - An Unusual Cure - Daniel Kylmetis - Etiology and Physiology of Miraculous Cures

1925. Contents of Part One: Principles of Method: Can Religion Be Taught?; The Religious Factor in Native Equipment; Locating and Defining Objectives; The Use of Habit in Religious Development; Laws of Learning in Religion; Selection and Control of Subject Matter; Training of Mental Technique in Religion; Control of Classroom Response; Types of Teaching in Church Schools; The Teacher of Religion. Part Two: Applications to Classroom Procedure: Classroom Procedure; Project Teaching; Teaching Through the Story; Dramatization in Religious Education; Teaching Through the Manual Arts; Teaching Through Discussion; Training in Social Service; and Teaching the Art of Worship.

After twenty years of meditation and studying, Robert Blumetti has complied a modern perspective on the Norse myths for anyone of European ancestry who seeks a personal connection with the Gods of their ancestors. He has discovered a new understanding of the death and resurrection legend of Balder and its meaning for all people of European ancestry in the twenty-first century. "The Book of Balder Rising" is a religious guide on how the old myths can be a path to a new spirituality in the present modern age. Blumetti's new understanding of the old myths is presented as a guide for personal and spiritual transformation.

Discover the meaning and role that the Gods can play in leading you to the dawning of the New Age of Gimli. Blumetti explains how the old Gods still live on within us, and how we can once again make them a living part of our lives. This book is a must read for all who are interested in the old pagan religions of Europe and its a message of hope and joy for the future that will change your life in ways that will amaze you.

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By its very nature, the ideals of religion entail sin and failure. Judaism has its own language and framework for sin that expresses themselves both legally and philosophically. Both legal questions - circumstances where sin is permissible or mandated, the role of intention and action - as well as philosophical questions - why sin occurs and how does Judaism react to religious crisis - are considered within this volume. This book will present the concepts of sin and failure in Jewish thought, weaving together biblical and rabbinic studies to reveal a holistic portrait of the notion of sin and failure within Jewish thought.

A book on teaching and learning in theological education, Decolonial Futures: Intercultural and Interreligious Intelligence for Theological Education is guided by the questions, "What makes education intercultural and interreligious?" "How might we rethink and redesign spaces of learning to be hospitable to cultural and religious differences as well as to dismantle the coloniality of theological education?" "How might we subvert traditionally colonial spaces to model the engaged intercultural and interreligious world that we seek?" The book helps educators and practitioners of intercultural and interreligious learning both deconstruct and reconstruct spaces of learning by centering interreligious and intercultural intelligence through the voices, experiences, and narratives of minoritized people.

Invites us to engage in the creative process, live creative, authentic, playful lives. Berryman invites the reader into a creative process that explores what it means to be spiritually mature, starting with Jesus' injunction to "become like a child." What does this mean at the literal level? the figurative level? the mystical level? the ethical level? The structure of the process parallels the book's organization and the structure of Christian worship, as well as the arc of life itself. The steps on this journey begin when we enter, and the world of childlike maturity opens to us as we respond with inarticulate wonder and gratitude. Berryman includes stories and examples from his long career working with children, which adds warmth and appeal to the book. He has described this volume as his "summary, theological statement."

This timeless treasure from Charles Spurgeon reminds readers to place their hope in the finished work of Jesus Christ as they navigate trials on this earth. Part of the Crossway Short Classics series.

This collection of essays constitute an extended argument for an anthropocentric, human-focused, study of religious practices. The basic premise of the argument, offered in the opening section, is that there is nothing special or extraordinary about human behaviors and constructs that are claimed to have uniquely religious status and authority. Instead, they are fundamentally human and so the scholar of religion is engaged in nothing more or less than studying humans across time and place and all their complex existence-that includes creating more-than-human beings and realities. As an extended and detailed example of such an approach, the second part of the book contains essays that address practices, rhetoric and other data in early Christianities within Greco-Roman cultures and religions. The underlying aim is to insert studies of the New Testament and non-canonical texts, most often presented as "biblical studies," into the anthropocentric study of religion proposed in the opening section. For a general reading of modern biblical scholarship makes clear the assumption that the Christian bible is a "sacred text" whose principal raison d'etre is to stand, fetish-like, as the foundational and highest authority in matters moral, ritual or theological; how might we instead approach the study of these texts if they are nothing more or less than human documents deriving from situations that were themselves all too human? Braun's Jesus and Addiction to Origins seeks to answer just that question-doing so in a way that readers working outside Christian origins will undoubtedly find useful applications for the people, places, and historical periods that they study.

Hiermit wird der Vortrag, den ich am 20. Januar 1971 in der Klasse fur Geisteswissenschaften der Rheinisch-Westfalischen Akademie der Wissen schaften gehalten habe, im Druck vorgelegt. Die ursprungliche Fassung ist betrachtlich erweitert und der Gang der Untersuchung stellenweise modi fiziert worden. Gemass einer mit dem damaligen Sekretar der Klasse, Herrn Prof. Kotting, und seinem Nachfolger im Amt, Herrn Prof. Dihle, getrof fenen Absprache sind hierbei auch die Beitrage zu der dem Vortrag folgenden Diskussion verwertet worden. An ihr haben sich als Mitglieder der Akade mie oder geladene Gaste die Herren Professoren Dihle, Hegel, Klinkenberg, Kotting, Landgrebe, Lausberg, Lubbe, Ohly und Schall er beteiligt, denen fur ihre kritischen Hinweise und erganzenden Ausfuhrungen auch hier herz lich zu danken ist. Die von Dieter Schaller in freundschaftlicher Weise ge botene Moglichkeit, mit ihm die Ergebnisse unmittelbar vor der Drucklegung erneut zu erortern, ist fur mich ein willkommener Anlass, um ihm meine dankbare Verbundenheit an dieser Stelle zu bezeugen. Die Veroffentlichung geht zufallig in einem Zeitpunkt zum Druck, in dem sich die Erhebung Gregors VII. auf den papstlichen Stuhl zum neunhundert sten Male jahrt. Anders als in der Sturmzeit des Kulturkampfs vor hundert Jahren, hat unsere Gegenwart von dem weltgeschichtlich folgenreichen Ereig nis, das sich am 22. April 1073 vollzogen hat, auffallend wenig Notiz ge nommen."

Mit der Einfuhrung der Bildungs- und Orientierungsplane fur die fruhe Bildung in Kindertagesstatten wird die Bedeutung von (inter)religiosen und philosophischen Kompetenzen von ErzieherInnen mit Nachdruck betont. Wie aber erleben die Professionellen in der fruhpadagogischen Praxis selbst die damit verbundenen Inhalte und Anforderungen? Am Beispiel baden-wurttembergischer Kindergarten wird dieser Frage in der vorliegenden Studie empirisch nachgegangen. Dabei ist ein Kennzeichen der Arbeit der Blick von der Eerziehungswissenschaft aus."