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Interview with an Angel
by Stevan J. ThayerA research psychologist and a minister team up to share an angel's messages about life and death, religion, the afterlife, extraterrestrials, and much more.From the Paperback edition.
Interview with the Antichrist
by Jeff KinleyThe story you are about to read is told from the perspective of Julien, a young journalist in close proximity to a person the Bible calls the &“Beast.&” Julien will give us a window into the character of the Antichrist and how our last days could unfold according to Scripture&’s ultimate plot. This imagined prophetic narrative will also reveal how this coming prince may alter reality and impact humankind--and eventually transform into the most malevolent human in history.But what can be known about this man? What does the Bible actually say about this nefarious individual? How close are we to his unveiling?More than a suspenseful mystery, however, this speculative account will arouse your prophetic curiosity, whetting your appetite for more information, more solid biblical food on the subject. And you&’ll find that in the last section of the book.Your imagination and curiosity will soar in this raw, rugged, often shocking account of the rise of the Antichrist.He is real, my friend. And he is coming.
Intieme Seks Geheime van die Jode
by Bernard LevineWat is die waarheid omtrent seks deur 'n gaatjie in die laken? Wat doen die Rabbis met die voorhuid wat afgesny word? Hoekom moet vroue hulle panties vir die Rabbi wys? Het jy geweet die Rabbi suig die bloed van 'n baba se besnyde penis? Het jy gehoor daar is 'n spesiale manier hoe Jode veronderstel is om hulle skoene aan te trek? Waarom vat Jode 'n lewendige hoender en swaai dit bo hulle koppe? Hoekom begrawe Jode hulle borde in die grond? Jy sal geskok wees deur die vreemde praktyke van die Joodse gemeenskap.
Intimacies: A New World of Relational Life
by Patricia Ticineto Clough Steven Seidman Alan FrankIn the last decade or so, there has been a shift in the popular and academic discussion of our personal lives. Relationships – and not necessarily marriage – have gravitated to the center of our relational lives. Many of us feel entitled to seek intimacy, an emotionally depthful social bonding, rather than simply security or companionship from our relationships. Unlike in a marriage-centred culture, intimacy is today pursued in varied relationships, from familial to friends and to romances. And intimacies are being forged in multiple venues, from face-to-face to virtual, cyber contexts. A new scholarship has addressed this changing terrain of personal life – there is today a vast literature on cohabitation, parenthood without marriage, sex and love outside marriage, queer families, cyber intimacies and friendships. However, much theorizing and research has focussed either on the interior, subjective or sociocultural aspects of intimacies, not their interaction. This volume aims to break new ground: Intimacies explores the psychological terrain of intimacy in depthful ways without abandoning its sociohistorical context and the centrality of power dynamics. Drawing on a rich archive that includes the social sciences, feminism, queer studies, and psychoanalysis, the contributors examine: changing cultures of intimacy fluid and solid attachments and intimacies from hook ups, to sibling bonds, to erotic love a politics of intimacy that may involve state enforced hierarchies, class, misrecognition, social exclusion and violence embodied experiences of intimacy and dynamics of endings and loss a pluralization of intimacies that challenge established ethical hierarchies This volume aims to define the cutting edge of this emerging field of scholarship and politics. It challenges existing paradigms that assume rigid hierarchical approaches to relational life. Intimacies will be of interest for psychoanalysts and for students or scholars in sexualities, gender studies, family studies, feminism studies, queer studies, social class, cultural studies, and philosophy.
Intimacy and Mission: Intentional Community as Crucible for Radical Discipleship
by Luther E. SmithIs radical discipleship really possible today? With all the competing demands we face, can the church empower us to fully respond to God's call? Can the church rise far enough above the demands of institutional survival to live out a radical gospel? <p><p>Intimacy and Mission invites readers into Christian communities working at answering such questions. The author offers a carefully researched yet accessible study of five religious communities--Church of the Messiah, Koinania Partners, Patchwork Central, Sojourners, and Voice of Calvary. He shows how the experience of these communities can help local congregations discern possibilities for radical discipleship. By revealing not only the strengths of intentional community but also the struggles experienced by each of the five communities, Smith has also created a fascinating human-interest narrative.
Intimacy and Ritual: A Study of Spiritualism, Medium and Groups (Routledge Library Editions: Spiritualism #2)
by Vieda SkultansOriginally published in 1974 Intimacy and Ritual is a sympathetic study of spiritualist activities and their relation to the practitioners’ secular lives. The book, in particular, looks at the therapeutic function of spiritualism. Based on the author’s fieldwork as a ‘participant observer’ among spiritualists in a South Wales town, the research covers spiritualists services and meetings as well as interviews with spiritualists in their own homes. The book gives an accurate account of spiritualist doctrines and beliefs about the spirit world. The book postulates that spirit possession always relates to illness and shows how this is often the physical counterpart of social malaise. Throughout the study, spiritualism is seen in terms of the coping techniques and the rewards which it offers its members. The book shows that spiritualism is more highly regarded as a problem-solving source than the formal care-giving organizations, such as psychiatrist hospitals and the social work agencies. Healing activities are interpreted as a symbolic enactment of male and female roles ideally conceived, and spiritualist messages offer symbols and explanations of illness and misfortune.
Intimacy in Prayer
by Bernard Of ClairvauxHow can I have a more intimate relationship with God through prayer? In these selections from his sermons on the Song of Songs, Bernard awakens us to God's tender embrace and God's desire to have his affection reciprocated.
Intimacy with God: Cultivating a Life of Deep Friendship Through Obedience
by Randy ClarkWhat does it mean to pursue an intimate relationship with God?intimacy, obedience, and the miraculous as a blueprint for all believers. Combining sound biblical teaching with keen insight and compelling personal accounts from others, Dr. Clark invites us to go deeper by exploring the following questions: How do we achieve true intimacy in our relationship with God?What does it mean to express faith that results in the miraculous? What does the Bible say about the balance between obedience and grace? A clear understanding of the integral relationship between intimacy and obedience provides a framework in today&’s world for glorifying God, particularly through the miraculous, as Dr. Clark has so profoundly demonstrated during his many years of ministry. He longs for you to renew your knowledge of God&’s deep love for His children and how fervently God desires a life of intimate friendship with you.
Intimacy with the Almighty
by Charles R. SwindollFour decisions and four disciplines that will deepen your intimacy with God
Intimate Alien: The Hidden Story of the UFO (Spiritual Phenomena)
by David J. HalperinA voyage of exploration to the outer reaches of our inner lives. UFOs are a myth, says David J. Halperin—but myths are real. The power and fascination of the UFO has nothing to do with space travel or life on other planets. It's about us, our longings and terrors, and especially the greatest terror of all: the end of our existence. This is a book about UFOs that goes beyond believing in them or debunking them and to a fresh understanding of what they tell us about ourselves as individuals, as a culture, and as a species. In the 1960s, Halperin was a teenage UFOlogist, convinced that flying saucers were real and that it was his life's mission to solve their mystery. He would become a professor of religious studies, with traditions of heavenly journeys his specialty. With Intimate Alien, he looks back to explore what UFOs once meant to him as a boy growing up in a home haunted by death and what they still mean for millions, believers and deniers alike. From the prehistoric Balkans to the deserts of New Mexico, from the biblical visions of Ezekiel to modern abduction encounters, Intimate Alien traces the hidden story of the UFO. It's a human story from beginning to end, no less mysterious and fantastic for its earthliness. A collective cultural dream, UFOs transport us to the outer limits of that most alien yet intimate frontier, our own inner space.
Intimate Assemblages: The Politics of Queer Identities and Sexualities in Indonesia
by Hendri Yulius WijayaWritten in the aftermath of Indonesia's anti-queer panic in 2016, this book tells the story of local queer movements in challenging the heteronormative society and resisting the homophobic hostility from religious conservative groups and the state. The year 2016 was a touchstone moment for queer issues in Indonesia, marked by the ubiquity of anti-queer campaigns, along with the pervasive use of the term 'LGBT' in public. Drawing on historical archives and his engagements with local queer activisms, Hendri Yulius Wijaya traces the historical shifts of gender and sexual identities in Indonesia, from gay and lesbian, to LGBT, to SOGIE minorities, while exploring their connections with the country's socio-political circumstances and the globalization of queer rights. Using a strategic blend of queer theory and assemblage framework, Wijaya demonstrates how activists refashion transnational sexuality discourses to balance international developments of queer rights against the contingencies of daily life in Indonesia. Equally importantly, he sheds light on emerging practices in activist landscapes, including the emergence of sexuality experts and the professionalization of activisms. In analyzing the rising tide of homophobic paranoia, Wijaya further shows how the current anti-queer campaigns have branched out into a broader assault on feminism and promoted a form of 'aversion therapy' that positions same-sex attraction as a divine ordeal. Intimate Assemblages follows the travails of queer activists in defining what it means to be queer in contemporary Indonesia.
Intimate Connections: Love and Marriage in Pakistan’s High Mountains (Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts)
by Anna-Maria WalterIntimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.
Intimate Conversations with the Divine: Prayer, Guidance, and Grace
by Caroline MyssFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Sacred Contracts and Anatomy of the Spirit, a timely guide with 100 prayers for entering into a personal relationship with the Divine.***In her most personal book to date, beloved teacher and best-selling author Caroline Myss draws on her own practice to help us regain our fluency in the language of prayer and renew our connection to the sacred.Intimate Conversations with the Divine offers 100 of Myss's personal prayers as a resource and inspiration to start a prayer practice of your own. Each prayer illustrates a different type of grace that feeds the human soul, from awakening, endurance, and healing, to silence, surrender, and trust. "We are one holy system of life and great cosmic truth, which is that all life-including all of us-breathes together," Myss writes. "I hope this book, these prayers, will bring you comfort and grace, and help you through the difficult times ahead. And I hope they will inspire you to believe that with God, all things are possible."
Intimate Enemies: Jews and Arabs in a Shared Land
by Meron BenvenistiAs Israelis and Palestinians negotiate separation and division of their land, Meron Benvenisti, former Deputy Mayor of Jerusalem, maintains that any expectations for "peaceful partition" are doomed. In his brave and controversial new book, he raises the possibility of a confederation of Israel/Palestine, the only solution that he feels will bring lasting peace.The seven million people in the territory between Jordan and the Mediterranean are mutually dependent regarding employment, water, land use, ecology, transportation, and all other spheres of human activity. Each side, Benvenisti says, must accept the reality that two national entities are living within one geopolitical entity—their conflict is intercommunal and will not be resolved by population transfers or land partition.A geographer and historian by training, a man passionately rooted in his homeland, Benvenisti skillfully conveys the perspective of both Israeli and Palestinian communities. He recognizes the great political and ideological resistance to a confederation, but argues that there are Israeli Jews and Palestinians who can envision an undivided land, where attachment to a common homeland is stronger than militant tribalism and segregation in national ghettos. Acknowledging that equal coexistence between Israeli and Palestinian may yet be an impossible dream, he insists that such a dream deserves a place in the current negotiations."Meron Benvenisti is the Middle East expert to whom Middle East experts go for advice . . . the most oft-quoted and oft-damned analyst in Israel."—from the Foreword by Thomas L. Friedman
Intimate Faith: A Womans Guide to the Spiritual Disiplines
by Jan WinebrennerScripture provides insight into additional disciplines -- 17 in all -- and each is essential for strong spiritual development. This book introduces these disciplines and provides biblical proofs as well as present-day illustrations to show how God uses them to increase our capacity for enjoying Him.
Intimate Intercession: The Sacred Joy of Praying for Others
by Tricia McCary RhodesSo what is the point of intercession, anyway? Author Tricia Rhodes defines intercession in vivid terms-"to stand in the gap between God and needy people, our hearts bonded to theirs as we plead their case in prayer, regardless of what they have done or haven't done to deserve God's intervention." Moses did it and saved the Israelites from God's wrath. Stephen interceded for those who stoned him. Paul prayed for countless Christians and non-believers alike. And we see intercession most extravagantly displayed through Jesus Christ, who walked the earth a friend of sinners.Tricia declares, "We are never more like Christ than when we connect with others in their pain or their sin and choose to bear their burdens in prayer. Intercession is simple, yet profound." Offering easy-to-grasp tools and truths, Intimate Intercession will show the reader how to know and to pray God's heart. Each chapter is divided into segments that provide a biblical basis, inspirational thoughts, and personal devotional exercises that will engage the reader both in connecting with God and experiencing intimacy with Him.
Intimate Issues: 21 Questions Christian Women Ask About Sex
by Linda Dillow Lorraine PintusIntimate Issues answers the twenty-one questions about sex most frequently asked by Christian wives, as determined by a nationwide poll of over one thousand women. Written from the perspective of two mature Christian wives and Bible teachers--women who you'll come to know as teachers and friends--Intimate Issues is biblical and informative: sometimes humorous, other times practical, but always honest. Through its solid teaching warm testimonials, scriptural insights, and experts' advise, you'll find resolution for your questions and fears, surprising insights about God's perspective on sex, and a variety of practical and creative ideas for enhancing your physical relationship with the husband you love. With warmth and wisdom, authors Linda Dillow and Lorraine Pintus speak woman to woman: examining the teachings of Scripture, exposing the lies of the world, and offering real hope that every woman's marriage relationship can become all it was intended to be in God's design.
Intimate Strangers: A History of Jews and Catholics in the City of Rome
by Fredric BrandfonThe Jewish community of Rome is the oldest Jewish community in Europe. It is also the Jewish community with the longest continuous history, having avoided interruptions, expulsions, and annihilations since 139 BCE. For most of that time, Jewish Romans have lived in close contact with the largest continuously functioning international organization: the Roman Catholic Church. Given the church&’s origins in Judaism, Jews and Catholics have spent two thousand years negotiating a necessary and paradoxical relationship. With engaging stories that illuminate the history of Jews and Jewish-Catholic relations in Rome, Intimate Strangers investigates the unusual relationship between Jews and Catholics as it has developed from the first century CE to the present in the Eternal City. Fredric Brandfon innovatively frames these relations through an anthropological lens: how the idea and language of family have shaped the self-understanding of both Roman Jews and Catholics. The familial relations are lopsided, the powerful family member often persecuting the weaker one; the church ghettoized the Jews of Rome longer than any other community in Europe. Yet respect and support are also part of the family dynamic—for instance, church members and institutions protected Rome&’s Jews during the Nazi occupation—and so the relationship continues. Brandfon begins by examining the Arch of Titus and the Jewish catacombs as touchstones, painting a picture of a Jewish community remaining Jewish over centuries. Papal processions and the humiliating races at Carnival time exemplify Jewish interactions with the predominant Catholic powers in medieval and Renaissance Rome. The Roman Ghetto, the forcible conversion of Jews, emancipation from the Ghetto in light of Italian nationalism, the horrors of fascism and the Nazi occupation in Rome, the Second Vatican Council proclamation absolving Jews of murdering Christ, and the celebration of Israel&’s birth at the Arch of Titus are interwoven with Jewish stories of daily life through the centuries. Intimate Strangers takes us on a compelling sweep of two thousand years of history through the present successes and dilemmas of Roman Jews in postwar Europe.
Intimately Forsaken: A Trinitarian Christology of the Cross
by Thomas BrandThe book offers a new Trinitarian and Christological reading of Christ’s cry of dereliction that is grounded in historic orthodoxy. Arguing for an interpretation of the cry in relation to the communication of idioms in Christology and the modal distinction between person and nature in Trinitarian theology, the book draws from a broad range of Patristic, Scholastic and Reformed sources. This work is a must for scholars of Christian theology.
Intimating the Sacred
by Andrew Hock Soon NgFour main objectives underpin this study: to introduce Anglophone Malaysian literature to a wider, international readership; to identify the varied dimensions of religion and religiosity in Malaysian fiction in English, and what they reveal about identity and nationhood; to demonstrate the manner in which these narratives provide crucial insights into the "cultural memory" of a people, rather than as documents about "the nation"; and to reveal the intersections between religion and other facets of identity such as class, gender and sexuality. The book is aimed at postgraduate students and researchers interested in Malaysian literature and religion. Those interested in the intersections between (post)modernity and religion in the Southeast Asian region will also find this book useful. Also, students and researchers interested in the configurations of women and postcoloniality from a religious perspective may also find this book insightful.
Intimations of Christianity Among The Greeks
by Simone WeilThis book is a collection of Simone Weil's writings, which reflect her intellectual and spiritual concerns, on Greek thought. It discusses how precursors to Christian religious ideas can be found in ancient Greek mythology, literature and philosophy.
Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks (Routledge Classics)
by Simone WeilSimone Weil (1909–1943) is one of the most brilliant and unorthodox religious and philosophical minds of the twentieth century. She was also a political activist, worked in the Renault car factory in France in the 1930s and fought briefly as an anarchist in the Spanish Civil War, before her tragic early death in England at the age of thirty-four. Her work spans an astonishing variety of subjects, from ancient Greek philosophy and Christianity to oppression, political freedom and French national identity. Intimations of Christianity Among the Ancient Greeks sees Weil apply her unique and piercing intellect to early Greek thought, where she finds fundamental precursors to Christian religious ideas. She argues, provocatively, that concepts fundamental to Christianity such as incarnation, redemption, suffering and resurrection are Greek as well as Christian and that there is much we can learn, spiritually and philosophically, from their entwinement. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Christopher Hamilton.
Intime Sex-Geheimnisse der Juden
by Bernard LevineDurch Bernard Levine Was ist die Wahrheit über Juden, die sex durch ein Loch im Blatt haben? Warum müssen Frauen einem Rabbi Ihr Höschen zeigen? Was machen die Rabbiner mit den abgeschnittenen Vorhäuten? Warum nehmen Juden ein lebendes Huhn und schwingen es über Ihren Köpfen? Stimmt es, dass Juden Ihren Ehepartner ausspucken müssen, wenn Sie sich scheiden lassen? Wusstest du, dass der Rabbi das Blut des beschnittenen penis eines Babys saugt? Warum begraben Juden Ihre Teller im Boden? Stimmt es, dass Juden die Bibel nicht Lesen? Warum ist jüdischer Geschlechtsverkehr anders? Was ist die Jüdische Art, Babys zu machen? Warum dürfen Frauen nicht vor Männern singen? Zu welcher Tageszeit kann eine verheiratete Frau sex mit Ihrem Ehemann haben? Warum dürfen Jüdische Frauen Männern nicht Ihre Ellbogen oder Knie zeigen? Wie gehen Juden dazu, das andere Geschlecht zu treffen? Stimmt es, dass Jüdische Frauen nicht mit Männern Händchen halten können? Warum werfen orthodoxe Juden Steine auf Frauen, die in den Straßen Jerusalems spazieren gehen? Wussten Sie, dass die meisten Juden nicht wissen, was Sie beten? Was ist die Jüdische Glückszahl? Wussten Sie, dass Juden eine Liste der Marken von Lebensmitteln erhalten, die Sie kaufen dürfen? Warum schneiden Jüdische Jungen Ihre Haare nicht aus Ihren Schläfen? Haben Sie gehört, dass Juden Ihre Plätze in der Synagoge für die Heiligen Tage kaufen müssen? Dieser Band ist eine ganz neue edition, die mit vertraulichen Informationen, die nie zuvor veröffentlicht wurden. Sie werden von den seltsamen Praktiken der jüdischen Gemeinde schockiert sein.
Intimidad sexual en el matrimonio
by William CutrerUn libro franco acerca de las relaciones íntimas en la pareja. Escrito por un médico ginecólogo cristiano. [Answers to couples' most commonly-asked questions regarding sexual intimacy.]
Intimidades: Para que estés bien desde adentro
by Edwin LemuelIntimidades: Para que estés bien desde adentro pone a tu disposición todas las herramientas que utilizo --las convencionales y las nuevas-- para dirigir a mis discípulos, y pacientes a encontrar la libertad emocional y espiritual que tanto anhelan y merecen. Creo firmemente que todos disponemos de la capacidad de alcanzar la libertad emocional y espiritual que Dios quiere para nosotros. Nuestra generación, como ninguna otra en la historia de la humanidad, necesita ser sanada en sus intimidades emocionales. Nadie puede ser realmente libre sino toma el tiempo para descifrar y entender sus emociones internas. Primero hay que conocer la verdad, para que entonces esa verdad pueda hacernos libres. Nuestras intimidades alcanzan la sanidad cuando sanamos nuestras emociones. Todas esas «cosas raras» que te ocurrieron en el pasado, cada una de tus circunstancias difíciles, no tienen porqué seguir afectando tus «intimidades» de hoy.