Gods And Diseases

Author : David Tacey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135085773
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods and Diseases written by David Tacey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase such as depression, phobias and anxiety with no obvious solution in sight. In Gods and Diseases, David Tacey argues that the answers lie in leaving behind the confines of conventional medicine. Instead we should turn towards spirituality and to what he calls 'meaning-making', to make sense of our physical and mental wellbeing and explore how the numinous may help us to heal.

Author : David Tacey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135085765
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gods and Diseases written by David Tacey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's society faces many problems that cannot be solved by the application of reason, logic or medicine. Some of these include alcoholism, suicide, drug addiction and child abuse to name but a few. Many mental health problems are on the increase such as depression, phobias and anxiety with no obvious solution in sight. In Gods and Diseases, David Tacey argues that the answers lie in leaving behind the confines of conventional medicine. Instead we should turn towards spirituality and to what he calls 'meaning-making', to make sense of our physical and mental wellbeing and explore how the numinous may help us to heal.

Author : Philippa Koch
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479806684
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Course of God’s Providence written by Philippa Koch and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that a religious understanding of illness and health persisted well into post-Enlightenment early America The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the power of narrative during times of sickness and disease. As Americans strive to find meaning amid upheaval and loss, some consider the nature of God’s will. Early American Protestants experienced similar struggles as they attempted to interpret the diseases of their time. In this groundbreaking work, Philippa Koch explores the doctrine of providence—a belief in a divine plan for the world—and its manifestations in eighteenth-century America, from its origins as a consoling response to sickness to how it informed the practices of Protestant activity in the Atlantic world. Drawing on pastoral manuals, manuscript memoirs, journals, and letters, as well as medical treatises, epidemic narratives, and midwifery manuals, Koch shows how Protestant teachings around providence shaped the lives of believers even as the Enlightenment seemed to portend a more secular approach to the world and the human body. Their commitment to providence prompted, in fact, early Americans’ active engagement with the medical developments of their time, encouraging them to see modern science and medicine as divinely bestowed missionary tools for helping others. Indeed, the book shows that the ways in which the colonial world thought about questions of God’s will in sickness and health help to illuminate the continuing power of Protestant ideas and practices in American society today.

Author : Elmer A. Josephson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781893085213
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Key to Health and Happiness written by Elmer A. Josephson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George H. Malkmus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780929619026
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God's Way to Ultimate Health written by George H. Malkmus and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Malkmus and Dye base natural healing on the premise that a diet rich in raw fruits and vegetables, and the elimination of processed "dead" foods, will result in the ultimate health.

Author : Hippocrates
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1465528040
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Sacred Disease written by Hippocrates and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Hillman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facing the Gods written by James Hillman and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Gods have become diseases," said C.G. Jung, & these nine chapters show how major figures of the Greek mythological imagination are still at work in the contemporary psyche. This book is both reliably scholarly & intuitively psychological. It offers the reader ways of finding mythical backgrounds for personal experiences. Here we can feel how the Gods & Goddesses influence symptoms, ideas, attitudes, relationships, & dream imagery. Includes chapters by: Karl Kerenyi on Artimis in girlhood, Rene Malamud on Amazons & creative passion, Murray Stein on Hephaistos & the art of introversion, David L. Miler on Rhea the Grandmother, Barbara Kirksey on Hestia & the power of the hearth, William Doty on Hermes in all his guises, Chris Downing on Ariadne, wife to Dionysos, James Hillman on Athene & Necessity & on Dionysos in Nietzsche & Jung.

Author : Diane Langberg
Publisher : New Growth Press
ISBN 13 : 1942572034
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suffering and the Heart of God written by Diane Langberg and published by New Growth Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She's seen slave dungeons in Ghana. Genocide in Rwanda. Systemic sexual abuse in Brazil. Child abuse and domestic violence in the US. After forty years of counseling abuse survivors around the world, Dr. Diane Langberg, a world renowned trauma expert, remains certain that what trauma destroys, Christ can and does restore. This book will convince you, too, of the healing heart of God. But it's not a fast process, instead much patience is required from family, friends, and counselors as they wisely and respectfully help victims unpack their traumatic suffering through talking, tears, and time. And it's not a process that can be separated from the work of God in both a counselor and counselee. Dr. Langberg calls all of those who wish to help sufferers to model Jesus's sacrificial love and care in how they listen, love, and guide. The heart of God is revealed to sufferers as they grow to understand the cross of Christ and how their God came to this earth and experienced such severe suffering that he too is "well-acquainted with grief." The cross of Christ is the lens that transforms and redeems traumatic suffering and its aftermath, not only for the sufferer, but it also transforms those who walk with the suffering. This book will be a great help to anyone who loves, listens to, and seeks to help someone impacted by trauma and abuse. There is no quick fix, but there is the hope for healing through the love of God in Christ.

Author : Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher : Two Dollar Radio
ISBN 13 : 193751286X
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Savage Gods written by Paul Kingsnorth and published by Two Dollar Radio. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Chicago Tribune "Fall literary preview: books you need to read now" * Vulture "The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall" * The Guardian "A best book of 2019" After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment. It is the goal he has sought — to nest, to find home — after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he finds that his tools as a writer are failing him, calling into question his foundational beliefs about language and setting him at odds with culture itself. Informed by his experiences with indigenous peoples, the writings of D.H. Lawrence and Annie Dillard, and the day-to-day travails of farming his own land, Savage Gods asks: what does it mean to belong? What sacrifices must be made in order to truly inhabit a life? And can words ever paint the truth of the world — or are they part of the great lie which is killing it?

Author : Ajay Kansal
Publisher : Epicurus Books
ISBN 13 : 9350294389
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution Of Gods : The Scientific Origin Of Divinity And Religion written by Ajay Kansal and published by Epicurus Books. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did gods create mankind, or did mankind create gods? Why, when and how did mankind begin to worship gods? Religious scriptures the world over claim that one or the other god made man, but science has not yet identified any supernatural power that created and governed human beings. Was it man who came up with the idea of gods to help him cope with his own fears? Could it be that ancient people attributed natural phenomena-unfathomable and frightening to them-to the working of invisible gods? What kind of sufferings or bewilderments made people bow before unseen powers or gods as we call them? When were these gods created? Who invented morals and methods of worship? Who wrote the ancient scriptures such as the Bible and the Vedas? Most crucially, have gods and the scriptures shaped our responses to the world around us? The Evolution of Gods seeks to answer these questions, and explains scientifically how, when and why religions and gods came into being. Ajay Kansal marshals anthropological and historical facts about the development of religions in a simple and straightforward manner to assert that it was mankind that created gods, and not the other way around.