-- Michael Bernard Beckwith, author
of Spiritual Liberation: Fulfilling Your Soul's Potential
Not exact matches
It was simultaneously the product and part
of the process
of her own
liberation from external ecclesiastical and
spiritual controls.
Yet this rejection implies as well an avoidance
of all single emphases, whether the emphasis be that
of spiritual healing, women's
liberation, liturgical reform, or the rights
of lettuce pickers.
Of course, re-purposing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s famous, astonishing treatise on black
liberation for a purely
spiritual hip - hop song may not be the most racially sensitive move this group ever made, but you probably weren't thinking about that then.
A critical analysis
of globalization, (within such global apartheid) and a reflection based on the religious and
spiritual values
of humanity would lead to an option for the genuine development and
liberation of the people, especially the poor.
Some
of those carried away by the emotional enthusiasm
of the revival interpreted their new
spiritual liberation as freedom from any law whatsoever.
This organic worldview suggests that a discussion
of liberation must include an integration
of both
spiritual and physical dimensions.
The dark night is a time
of liberation when God weans us from our reliance on
spiritual experience, empowering us to no longer live as servants but as friends (John 15:15).
At the close
of two weeks
of daily growth group sessions, participants in one workshop could identify these biblical themes in their shared experiences: bondage and
liberation, salvation by grace, judgment, death and rebirth, alienation and reconciliation, mutual caring, the transforming power
of love, becoming a
spiritual unity, growth.
Think
of the numerous forms
of captivity entrapping a poor inhabitant
of a Third World nation — economic, social, environmental,
spiritual and appreciate the promise
of liberation and loosing presented in Jesus» inaugural sermon in the Nazareth synagogue.
Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the
spiritual and physical needs
of the poor, the teachings
of Vatican II, the intentions
of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda
of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work
of academics all played a part.
Acoemetae Adelophagi Adventist Movement amillennialism Amish Anabaptism Arminian Theology Assemblies
of God Augustinians Baptists Benedictines Cahenslyism Calvinism Capuchins Carmelites Christadelphians Christian Identity Church
of Christ Church
of England Church Universal and Triumphant Congregationalism Coptic Christianity dispensationalism Dominicans Eastern Orthodox Episcopal Church Ethiopian Christianity Evangelicalism Franciscans fundamentalism Gnosticism Huguenots Hutterites IURD Jehovah's Witnesses
Liberation Theology Lutheran Church Mainline Protestant Maronites Mendicant Orders Mennonites Methodism Neo-Orthodoxy Old Catholic Movement Pentecostal Church People's Temple Pietism Pilgrims postmillennialism premillennialism Presbyterian Church Primitivism Protestant Puritanism Quakers Quietism Roman Catholicism Sabbatarianism Scholasticism Shakers
Spiritual Baptists staret Thomas Christians Thomism Transcendentalism Trinitarianism Unification Church Unitarian Universalist Unitarianism United Church
of Christ
This is a
liberation of a deeply
spiritual kind.
But that answer is not a program for redeeming the world
of nature as well as the human soul, so that they can then live in harmony to create the kingdom
of God on earth as it is, but a
spiritual liberation of those men and women who believe in Jesus as the prerequisite
of a total remaking
of the cosmos by God's Spirit and in God's own time.
«Integral» means «whole,» «entire,» «complete,» and Hoff insists that the Lord's Prayer gives no support to a merely «
spiritual»
liberation divorced from the world
of poverty and hunger.
Dr. Smith's sermons have three primary themes:
spiritual and economic
liberation for his own people, helping them develop what some would call black pride, but what he terms «self - esteem, a sense
of somebodiness»; the church's mission as the Body
of Christ in the world; and reconciliation and relationship — «Relationship is what the gospel is all about for me.»
Once they reached this sense
of spiritual awakening — the «Bodhi» — it results in
liberation from the reincarnation cycle dictated by karma.
Engage in
spiritual discourse and lead yourself towards
liberation of the mind, body and spirit during Satsang sessions with us.
The Mysore Ashtanga yoga school is an authentic «eight - limbed» practice aimed at
liberation and heightened awareness
of our
spiritual potential.
It also includes Eastern philosophy about Karma, reincarnation, suicide,
liberation while alive,
spiritual perspective on grief, death
of a child, what to do at the time
of death and the journey
of a soul.
Looking at Early Judeo - Chrsitian Meditation Practice An early description
of enlightened
liberation in Buddhist meditation practice reads like this: Birth is destroyed, the
spiritual life has been lived, what had to be done has been done.
I am a
spiritual man, who is constantly seeking God - given truth with the goal
of growing and sharing truth for the
liberation of others as well as myself.
One
of the things she hopes for in Michael is a
spiritual liberation.