This eagerly awaited book by David F. Ford makes a unique and important contribution to the debate about the Christian doctrine of salvation. Using the pivotal image of the face, Professor Ford offers a constructive and contemporary account of the self being transformed. He engages with three modern thinkers (Levinas, Jüngel and Ricoeur) in order to rethink and reimagine the meaning of self. Developing the concept of a worshipping self, he explores the dimensions of salvation through the lenses of scripture, worship practices, the life, death and resurrection of Christ, and the lives of contemporary saints. He uses different genres and traditions to show how the self flourishes through engagement with God, other people, and the responsibilities and joys of ordinary living. The result is a habitable theology of salvation immersed in Christian faith, thought and practice while also being deeply involved with modern life in a pluralist world.

Reclaim your essential self with the workbook that guides you back to the truth of who you really are: joyous, intuitive, loving and free. The exercises in Finding the Sacred Self can be done alone or in a group and augment Dr. Gregg's first book, Dance of Power. Finding and living from your sacred self is a profound act that can change the world. Live safely, fill every moment of your life with passion; love and be loved unconditionally.

The thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies and biblical interpretation. The 28 papers contained in this volume constitute the most comprehensive overview of Ricoeur's writings in religion since 1970. Ricoeur's hermeneutical orientation and his sensitivity to the mystery of religious language offer fresh insight to the transformative potential of sacred literature, including the Bible.

Self that require solicitude, he indicates the direction from the self to the other and clarifies moral problems that appear to founder on the issue of identity. His identification of the nonpersonal concept of the self with the concept of the other thus exposes the key to the Moral Law. Oneself as Another expands on the Gifford Lectures that Ricoeur gave in Edinburgh in 1986 and published in French in 1990. It will be widely discussed among philosophers, literary.

Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur offers perspectives on the twenty-one papers collected by Mark I. Wallace in Paul Ricoeur’s Figuring the Sacred, translated by David Pellauer; this new collection by Joseph A. Edelheit, James Moore, and Mark I. Wallace gives Ricoeur scholars an opportunity to reflect and engage on critical issues of Ricoeur’s religious ideas. Contributions by several significant Ricoeur scholars prompt questions and invite new conversations more than 15 years after Ricoeur’s death. His life-long engagement with texts illuminates his embrace of the Sacred; his significant thinking and writings on Religious imagination, Theology, the Bible, Hope, and Praxis are all ideas that beg more reading, reflection, and refiguring of our understanding of Ricoeur. Wallace brings two additional essays that could not be included in his original collection and reflects on why they are essential to our understanding of Ricoeur and the Sacred. Refiguring the Sacred also provides a model of the interfaith and multidisciplinary dialogue that were foundational to Paul Ricoeur’s scholarship.

For Andrew Ecker the confusion of the illusion of self-identity led to a life of alcohol, cocaine, opiate addiction, imprisonment and ultimately suicidal attempts on his life. Generational drug addiction, imprisonment and mental illness fortified the foundation of his thoughts and kept the vision of destruction going until he began a spiritual path and process of redefining and finding the medicine in his relationships: The Sacred 7.Based on an ancient indigenous teaching of introduction The Sacred 7 will guide you in a ceremonial process of intentionally designing your life; how you relate to yourself, your family, the community and the universe, creating a bridge from the inner and outer world to assist in fortifying the metaphysical architecture of your reality. This foundational spiritual teaching is about awakening the greatest parts of you and practicing your spirituality in a truly authentic way. It is about claiming the truth and the medicine in the story of YOU!