Into The Region Of Awe
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Into The Region Of Awe
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Author : David C. Downing
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2005-04-21
Into The Region Of Awe written by David C. Downing and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-21 with Religion categories.
David C. Downing explores mysticism as a part of C. S. Lewis's faith and writing. He addresses both the influence on Lewis by mystical writers of his own day and the threads of mysticism evident in Lewis's works.
Into The Region Of Awe
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Author : Jong-Tae Lee
language : en
Publisher:
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"Disenchantment" (Entzauberung), literally meaning "eliminating magic (Zabuer)," involves the spiritual crisis of modernity. To put it in a nutshell, disenchantment means that the world is no longer seen as a meaningful cosmos. Instead, moderns live in a mechanistics, meaningless universe. Disenchantment is commonly described as the eclipse of wonder in the modern world. Examining the link between thaumazein ("Platonic wonder"), contemplation (theoria), and seeing, this dissertation argues that wonder is essentially linked to the human experience of or yearning for the transcendent. I propose to understand wonder as a way of seeing, "contemplative seeing," the loss of which lies at the heart of the disenchantment of modernity. C. S. Lewis was deeply concerned with addressing and confronting challenges posed by disenchantment. Lewis strongly opposed the reductionist or subjectivist accounts of human meanings that are consequent upon disenchantment, and sought to recover the sense of the world as a locus of meaning. This dissertation demonstrates that Lewis's vision of re-enchantment is anchored in a Platonist, sacramental ontology, a metaphysics of participation, the demise of which, in modernity, is regarded by many as pivotal to the process of disenchantment. Central to Lewis's sacramental view of reality is his spirituality of wonder. I propose that his conversion can be understood as his coming to recognize the ontological significance of his experiences of wonder ("Joy")--an "original conversion," which radically transformed his approach to reality. Linking "Joy," a central motif of Lewis's life and works, to "desiderium naturale" I argue that his "argument from desire" betrays a metaphysical vision that is profoundly sacramental: the natural is innately oriented to the supernatural. This dissertation demonstrates how The Chronicles of Narnia embodies Lewis's vision of re-enchantment. Narnia, the magical world, is an imaginary "sacramental universe" in which all things are alive with transcendent meanings. I read the Narnian scenes of dancing as betraying Lewis's notion of "fullness" as a participation in an enchanted cosmos ("the great dance") and the divine life (the Trinitarian Dance), and Lucy, as a practitioner of "contemplative seeing," which Lewis believed is need for re-enchantment.
Into The Wardrobe
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Author : David C. Downing
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2007-06-15
Into The Wardrobe written by David C. Downing and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-06-15 with Social Science categories.
Published in the early 1950s, C. S. Lewis's seven Chronicles of Narnia were proclaimed instant children's classics and have been hailed in The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature as "the most sustained achievement in fantasy for children by a 20th-century author." But how could Lewis (a formidable critic, scholar, and Christian apologist)conjure up the kind of adventures in which generations of children (and adults) take such delight? In this engaging and insightful book, C. S. Lewis expert David C. Downing invites readers to join his vivid exploration of the Chronicles of Narnia, offering a detailed look at the enchanting stories themselves and also focusing on the extraordinary intellect and imagination of the man behind the Wardrobe. Downing presents each Narnia book as its own little wardrobe - each tale an opportunity to discover a visionary world of bustling vitality, sparkling beauty, and spiritual clarity. And Downing's examination of C. S. Lewis's personal life shows how the content of these classic children's books reflects Lewis's love of wonder and story, his affection for animals and homespun things, his shrewd observations about human nature, along with his vast reading, robust humor, theological speculations, medieval scholarship, and arcane linguistic jokes. A fun glossary of odd and invented words will allow readers to speak with Narnian flair, regaling friends and family with unusual words like cantrips, poltoonery, hastilude, and skirling. A masterful work that will appeal to both new and seasoned fans of Narnia, Into the Wardrobe offers a journey beyond Narnia's deceptively simple surface and into its richly textured and unexpected depths.
The Most Reluctant Convert
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Author : David C. Downing
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2021-05-07
The Most Reluctant Convert written by David C. Downing and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In his teens, a young man wrote, “I believe in no religion. There is absolutely no proof for any of them.” After serving in the trenches of WW1, the same young man said, “I never sank so low as to pray.” To a religious friend, he wrote impatiently, “You can’t start with God. I don’t accept God!” This young man was C. S. Lewis, the “foul-mouthed atheist” who would become one of the most eloquent Christian writers of the twentieth century. David C. Downing offers a unique look at Lewis’s personal journey to faith and the profound influence it had on his life as a writer and eventual follower of Christ. This is the first book to focus on the period from Lewis’s childhood to his early thirties, a tumultuous journey of spiritual and intellectual exploration. It was not despite this journey but precisely because of it that Lewis understood the search for life’s meaning so well.
Awe
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Author : Paul David Tripp
language : en
Publisher: Crossway
Release Date : 2015-10-14
Awe written by Paul David Tripp and has been published by Crossway this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-14 with Religion categories.
Humans are hardwired for awe. Our hearts are always captured by something—that’s how God made us. But sin threatens to distract us from the glory of our Creator. All too often, we stand in awe of everything but God. Uncovering the lies we believe about all the earthly things that promise us peace, life, and contentment, Paul Tripp redirects our gaze to God’s awe-inducing glory—showing how such a vision has the potential to impact our every thought, word, and deed.
Christ Plays In Ten Thousand Places
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Author : Eugene Peterson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-10-27
Christ Plays In Ten Thousand Places written by Eugene Peterson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-27 with Religion categories.
Eugene Peterson's Spiritual Theology series provides a completely fresh evaluation of Christian Spirituality, past, present and future. The bestselling author of THE MESSAGE draws on the very latest scholarship and understanding of biblical revelation, and will represent the most thorough and significant work on contemporary Christian Spirituality by an evangelical author. Most writings in the field of spiritual theology represent mere dabblings. The more significant endeavours are impenetrably academic. Petrson's masterwork, which has been years in the making, is designed for those who are comfortable with being stretched, as well as pastors, academics and lay leaders. CHRIST PLAYS IN TEN THOUSAND PLACES is Book One in a five-part series, and concentrates on 'clearing the playing field', evaluating spirituality as it is understood today. Also available in the Spiritual Theology series: Eat This Book, The Jesus Way, The Word Made Flesh and Practise Resurrection.
Surprised By Joy
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Author : C. S. Lewis
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-12-09
Surprised By Joy written by C. S. Lewis and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
For many years an atheist, C. S. Lewis vividly describes the spiritual quest that convinced him of the truth and reality of Christianity, in his famous autobiography.
Admiration And Awe
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Author : Antonio Urquízar Herrera
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Admiration And Awe written by Antonio Urquízar Herrera and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Architecture categories.
This book explores the appropriation of Islamic architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, illuminating its relationship to the development of Spanish national identity.
The Fire Within
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Author : Michael Gailey
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-02-18
The Fire Within written by Michael Gailey and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-18 with categories.
Just beyond the reach of our natural senses is a place of dreams and visions, fantasy and imagination, good and evil. It is real -- as real -- more real than the narrow slice of reality that we can weigh and measure. It is not far away or hard to get to; it lies both within and without. But, unless our spiritual senses are awakened, we perceive it only vaguely, as if veiled behind a curtain rarely parted by a chance breeze, leaving us with fleeting glimpses of Heaven and Hell and the realms between them. Some of us who have been permitted to visit this place call it the Region of the Seven Dimensions and the Ten Senses. THE FIRE WITHIN is my own account of such a visit.
Looking For The King
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Author : David C. Downing
language : en
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Looking For The King written by David C. Downing and has been published by Paraclete Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Fiction categories.
It is 1940, and American Tom McCord, a 23-year-old graduate student, is in England researching the historical evidence for the legendary King Arthur. There he meets perky and intuitive Laura Hartman, a fellow American staying with her aunt in Oxford, and the two of them team up for an even more ambitious and dangerous quest. Aided by the Inklings — that illustrious circle of scholars and writers made famous by its two most prolific members, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien — Tom and Laura begin to suspect that the fabled Spear of Destiny, the lance that pierced the side of Christ on the Cross, is hidden somewhere in England.