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Early Christian Discernment of Spirits

2016 Body, Mind & Spirit
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Release : 2016
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Book Synopsis Early Christian Discernment of Spirits by : Elisabeth Hense

Download or read book Early Christian Discernment of Spirits written by Elisabeth Hense. This book was released on 2016. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon a comparative analysis, this book argues that early notions of 'discernment of spirits' are not superior to later ones. Discernment of spirits is not a matter of an apostolically fixed ideal that should be traditionally cleaved to, but, above all, is a continual re-shaping and restructuring of this tradition. Christians were not expected to imitate the discernment of others, but rather were encouraged to make judgments for themselves. Dr. Elisabeth Hense is Assistant Professor for Spiritual Theology at Radboud University Nijmegen (NL).

Discerning God's Will Together

2012-08-15 Religion
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Release : 2012-08-15
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Discerning God's Will Together by : Danny E. Morris

Download or read book Discerning God's Will Together written by Danny E. Morris. This book was released on 2012-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bible study, research, and fieldwork merge in this book of practical principles for decision making by spiritual discernment. The step-by-step approach can be used to help any size group learn a new way to make decisions--a way that is interactive, spiritual, and rooted in faith practices and community. Small groups, committees, church boards, church leaders at all levels, and seminary professors will find this book valuable. This is a revised and updated version of the book, originally published in 1997. This new version inclused revised and updated material, as well as a new introduction by Charles Olsen.

The Discernment of Spirits

2011 Discernment of spirits
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Release : 2011
Genre : Discernment of spirits
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Book Synopsis The Discernment of Spirits by : Wendy Love Anderson

Download or read book The Discernment of Spirits written by Wendy Love Anderson. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Anderson] succeeds in neatly fitting together selected pieces of the history of discernment of spirits to provide a valuable, readable description of the contours of its evolution in the late Middle Ages. -- Debra L. Stoudt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, The Medieval Review Late medieval Christians lived in a world of visions, but they knew that not all visions came from God: angels, demons, illness, nature, or passion could also inspire an apparent divine visitation. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the involvement of visionaries in everything from reform movements to military campaigns to papal schisms raised the political and spiritual stakes of determining whether or not a vision was truly from God. In response, a diverse group of medieval thinkers - including men and women, clergy and laity, visionaries and theologians - gradually began to transform the loose patristic readings of Pauline discretio spirituum into a system with the potential to distinguish between true and false visions and between genuine and delusional visionaries. Wendy Love Anderson chronicles the historical, political, and spiritual struggles behind the flowering of late medieval mysticism and what came to be seen as the Christian doctrine of discernment of spirits.

Manresa

1881 Meditations
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Release : 1881
Genre : Meditations
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Book Synopsis Manresa by : Saint Ignatius (of Loyola)

Download or read book Manresa written by Saint Ignatius (of Loyola). This book was released on 1881. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Discerning Spirits

2015-09-25 History
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Release : 2015-09-25
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Discerning Spirits by : Nancy Mandeville Caciola

Download or read book Discerning Spirits written by Nancy Mandeville Caciola. This book was released on 2015-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the early modern European witch craze, Nancy Caciola shows how medieval people decided whom to venerate as a saint infused with the spirit of God and whom to avoid as a demoniac possessed of an unclean spirit. This process of discrimination, known as the discernment of spirits, was central to the religious culture of Western Europe between 1200 and 1500.Since the outward manifestations of benign and malign possession were indistinguishable, a highly ambiguous set of bodily features and behaviors were carefully scrutinized by observers. Attempts to make decisions about individuals who exhibited supernatural powers were complicated by the fact that the most intense exemplars of lay spirituality were women, and the "fragile sex" was deemed especially vulnerable to the snares of the devil. Assessments of women's spirit possessions often oscillated between divine and demonic interpretations. Ultimately, although a few late medieval women visionaries achieved the prestige of canonization, many more were accused of possession by demons.Caciola analyzes a broad array of sources from saints' lives to medical treatises, exorcists' manuals to miracle accounts, to find that observers came to rely on the discernment of bodies rather than seeking to distinguish between divine and demonic possession in purely spiritual terms.

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