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"Every good giving and every perfect gift is from on high, coming
down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or
shadow of turning" (James 1:17). This verse conveys a powerful
image of God as the source and referent of all beauty. This book
demonstrates how the experience of beauty is related to our
inherent longing for the God who is reflected in such moments.
Richly informed by Junius Johnson's expertise on Bonaventure and
von Balthasar, the book offers a robust, full-orbed theology of
beauty, showing how it has functioned as a theological concept from
biblical times to the present day.
The notion of atonement, a process by which humans are made right
before God, is central to the logic of Christian theology. In spite
of this, major thinkers in the Christian traditions have held
vastly different understandings of both the way atonement works and
what it means. These differing accounts have become intellectual
traditions which continue to influence both academic theology and
spiritual practice today. In spite of the strong dependence of much
contemporary thought on early ideas, linguistic and cultural
barriers often preclude serious study of the original materials.
Patristic and Medieval Atonement Theory takes a close look at the
doctrines that depend on and influence views of atonement in order
to make clear what place atonement occupies within the larger
system of Christian theology. Junius Johnson also considers key
concepts and tensions within the doctrine of atonement itself,
which may be emphasized or glossed over to create the shape of
particular doctrines. Johnson's guide briefly discusses major
figures in the development of Christian doctrines of atonement to
the end of the Middle Ages. Johnson then turns to the major primary
and secondary sources and provides an orientation to the rich
literature existing on this topic. The attention given to the
anatomy of the concepts involved, the introduction to the ideas of
major thinkers, and the survey of available literature makes this
an essential guide for students and scholars of Christian theology
of any period, as well as those who research the Middle Ages but
are not specialists in theology.
HERBS / ALCHEMY "Simply put, this is a classic text on plant
alchemy, or spagyrics, for the modern practitioner. . . . Anyone
serious about learning alchemy needs to have a copy." --Mark
Stavish, director of the Institute of Hermetic Studies and author
of The Path of AlchemyThe practice of spagyrics is the application
of ancient alchemical working methods in the preparation of
tinctures, essences, and other products from medicinal plants.
While ordinary tinctures and infusions use only a part of the great
curative potential of plants, spagyric methods "open" medicinal
plants completely to reveal their more powerful healing properties.
Drawing on the rich imagery and symbolism of ancient source
materials, Manfred M. Junius describes these methods in great
detail, showing readers how to prepare plant remedies alchemically
for their own use as well as imparting a knowledge of the
ideological world in which alchemistic and hermetic thought
flowered. Spagyrics includes the Plant Magistery of Paracelsus and
the Life Elixir recipe of Andreas Libavius among its historic
techniques as well as a wealth of scientific information that
demonstrates the greater efficacy of alchemical methods of plant
essence extraction. This classic source text preserves the nearly
forgotten but highly valuable methods of this true hermetic art for
preparing natural remedies.MANFRED M. JUNIUS (1929-2004) was a
professor of biology at the University of Calcutta and later served
as the production manager for spagyrics for Australerba
Laboratories in Australia. He was also head of the Australian
School of Ayurveda in Adelaide, Australia. His Western alchemical
knowledge was obtained through many years of personalinstruction
from Augusto Pincaldi in Switzerland.
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