The Yoga of Jesus
Title | The Yoga of Jesus PDF eBook |
Author | Paramhansa Yogananda |
Publisher | Self Realization Fellowship Pub |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780876125564 |
"Contains selected excerpts from Paramahansa Yogananda's book "The Second Coming of Christ: The Resurrection of the Christ Within You," which book is a commentary on the New Testament gospels and noncanonical source material, focusing on the quest to uncover the original teachings of Jesus"--Provided by publisher.
A Handbook on Christian Baptism: Christian baptism, its subjects
Title | A Handbook on Christian Baptism: Christian baptism, its subjects PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Ingham |
Publisher | |
Pages | 678 |
Release | 1871 |
Genre | Baptism |
ISBN |
The Missionary Review of the World
Title | The Missionary Review of the World PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 646 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Missions |
ISBN |
The Missionary Review
Title | The Missionary Review PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1288 |
Release | 1909 |
Genre | Missions |
ISBN |
The Classical Weekly
Title | The Classical Weekly PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 1925 |
Genre | Classical literature |
ISBN |
The Great Commentary ...
Title | The Great Commentary ... PDF eBook |
Author | Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1876 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Sacred Fictions
Title | Sacred Fictions PDF eBook |
Author | Lynda L. Coon |
Publisher | University of Pennsylvania Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-11-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0812201671 |
Late antique and early medieval hagiographic texts present holy women as simultaneously pious and corrupt, hideous and beautiful, exemplars of depravity and models of sanctity. In Sacred Fictions Lynda Coon unpacks these paradoxical representations to reveal the construction and circumscription of women's roles in the early Christian centuries. Coon discerns three distinct paradigms for female sanctity in saints' lives and patristic and monastic writings. Women are recurrently figured as repentant desert hermits, wealthy widows, or cloistered ascetic nuns, and biblical discourse informs the narrative content, rhetorical strategies, and symbolic meanings of these texts in complex and multivalent ways. If hagiographers made their women saints walk on water, resurrect the dead, or consecrate the Eucharist, they also curbed the power of women by teaching that the daughters of Eve must make their bodies impenetrable through militant chastity or spiritual exile and must eradicate self-indulgence through ascetic attire or philanthropy. The windows the sacred fiction of holy women open on the past are far from transparent; driven by both literary invention and moral imperative, the stories they tell helped shape Western gender constructs that have survived into modern times.