Sense and Spirituality: The Arts and Spiritual Formation

Religion & Spirituality

MCCULLOUGH, JAMES

Christian Books & Bibles

Lutterworth Press

Pride & Poise: The Oakland Raiders of The American Football League takes a definitive look into the formation and turbulent early history of the Oakland Raiders. Beginning with the hurried scramble to bring professional football to a city that couldn't provide a home for the team only to suffer through three losing seasons a combined 9-33 record with 19 consecutive losses. After plodding through three head coaches and an alarming player turn around before finding a young dynamo who transformed their club from a doormat rumored to move to another city willing to pour more funds into a prolific loser before having ever played in their home city to an immediate, nearly unstoppable winner. Relive the exploits of the Oakland Raiders in a week in, week out chronicle of their first ten seasons. Meet six unique head coaches and the legends who helped to make the transitions caused by age, injuries associated with football seamless and the whirlwind transformation of a young dynamo from coach to commissioner and ultimately to ownership as he built one of the most respected and feared organization in professional sports. Packed with statistics, transactions and forgotten lore, Pride and Poise: The Oakland Raiders of the American Football League is the most complete, accurate and fair account ever produced of the early Raiders, revisiting every game, win, lose or tie as they make the great journey from near oblivion to professional football's elite and its most dominating franchise.

Pride & Poise: The Oakland Raiders of the American Football League

Sports & Outdoors

Football (American)

AuthorHouse

There is growing interest in the relationship between the arts and Christian faith. Much has been written about the arts and theology and the place of the arts in church life. Not as much has been written, however, about how the arts might actually advance spiritual formation in terms of the cumulative effect of religious experience and intentional practices. This book provides a modest step forward in that conversation, a conversation between theological aesthetics and practical theology. Understanding aesthetics as ""the realm of sense perception"" and spiritual formation as ""growing capacities to participate in God's purposes,"" James McCullough suggests how these dynamics can mutually enhance each other, with the arts as an effective catalyst for this relationship. McCullough proposes an analysis of artistic communication and explores exciting examples from music, poetry, and painting, which render theoretical proposals in concrete terms. This book will engage both those new to the arts and those already deeply familiar with them. ""What is art? How is it formed? What does it do? Does it, or can it, illuminate, animate, express, and catalyze spirituality--the perception and experience of the presence of God? McCullough answers all these questions, but explains as well how each person who understands the answers will have much to do--much attention, much contemplation, much silence. Indeed, McCullough plumbs the depth of puzzlement of the arts and the wonderful enlightenment of spirituality."" --James W. Sire, former editor of InterVarsity Press ""Just as Martin Thornton and Diogenes Allen rediscovered theology's inherent relation to Christian spirituality, so James McCullough here does the same for the theology and art conversation. Heeding T. S. Eliot's call to transform 'esthetic sensibility . . . into spiritual perception, and spiritual perception . . . into esthetic sensibility, ' McCullough deftly calls attention to the elephant in the aesthetics seminar room: the way that art catalyzes spiritual growth."" --Matthew Milliner, Associate Professor of Art, Wheaton College James McCullough is an adjunct instructor at Lindenwood University. He has published articles on the music of Anton Bruckner as well as on the art of Graham Sutherland and Makoto Fujimura.

Sense and Spirituality

Wipf and Stock

Informed by Scripture and the church fathers, and inspired by the ressourcement theology of Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Pope Benedict XVI, this book advances new insight and practical application of the recent retrieval of Trinitarian theology and its vision of human transformation known as deification. Father Philip Krill contributes to a growing retrieval of Trinitarian Christianity and a synthesis of the Western and Eastern theological traditions. A final section on theosis, or deification, rounds out this exploration of God's full intentions for the redemption of humanity.

Life in the Trinity: The Mystery of God and Human Deification

KRILL, PHILIP

Life in the Trinity

Wipf & Stock Publishers

There is growing interest in the relationship between the arts and Christian faith. Much has been written about the arts and theology and the place of the arts in church life. Not as much has been written, however, about how the arts might actually advance spiritual formation in terms of the cumulative effect of religious experience and intentional practices. This book provides a modest step forward in that conversation, a conversation between theological aesthetics and practical theology. Understanding aesthetics as "the realm of sense perception" and spiritual formation as "growing capacities to participate in God's purposes" James McCullough suggests how these dynamics can mutually enhance each other, with the arts as an effective catalyst for this relationship. McCullough proposes an analysis of artistic communication and explores exciting examples from music, poetry, and painting, which render theoretical proposals in concrete terms. This book will engage both those new to the arts and those already deeply familiar with them.

Cascade Books

(Synopsis) John Voelker was a fly fishing icon - and to avid readers of 1950s best sellers and to classic film buffs, he was also known as Robert Traver the author of award-winning classics such as Trout Madness, Trout Magic and novel turned Academy Award winning movie, Anatomy of a Murder. John Voelker was also a Michigan Supreme Court justice. And either way he was a man who needed little introduction, fr he was the man who Charles Kuralt befriended and in the end called the closest thing to a great man [he] ever met.John Voelker had a fishing spot - a private retreat more or less - in the northern portion of Michigan's upper peninsula. Millions of people are familiar with this place in the woods through his words, but never before has a professional photographer captured with such stunning beauty, the one-room cabin nestled in the woods, the glacial pond where native brook trout remain elusive, the forest that surrounds it all, as well as the rods, the flies, and the small nuances that tell the story of an extraordinary man, and the legacy he leaves behind.

Voelker's Pond: A Robert Traver Legacy

Wargin, Ed

Biographies & Memoirs

Huron River Pr

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Education & Teaching

Studying & Workbooks

Independently published

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