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Desiring God : meditation of a Christian hedonist / by Piper, John

Desiring God : meditations of a Christian hedonist / by Piper, John

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The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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Desiring God : meditation of a Christian hedonist / by Piper, John

Subjects: “…Desire for God.…”

The Givenness of Desire : Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God / by Rosenberg, Randall S

Table of Contents: “…De Lubac's lament : loss of the supernatural -- Ressourcement and neo-Thomism : a narrative under scrutiny, a dialogue renewed -- The erotic roots of intellectual desire -- Concretely operating nature : Lonergan on the natural desire to see God -- Being-in-love and the desire for the supernatural : erotic-agapic subjectivity -- Incarnate meaning and mimetic desire : saints and the desire for God -- The metaphysics of holiness and the longing for God in history : Therese of Lisieux and Etty Hillesum -- Distorted desire and the love of deviated transcendence.…”
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Fetishizing tradition : desire and reinvention in Buddhist and Christian narratives / by Cole, Alan, 1964-

Subjects: “…Desire Religious aspects Buddhism.…”
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There is a God, there is no God : a companion for the journey of unknowing / by Kirvan, John J.

Table of Contents: “…There comes a time -- The way of unknowing -- A life lived in desire -- The desert -- Love and longing -- A matter of desire -- Forgetting -- Only God -- Prayer -- Listening -- Silence and solitude -- Consent -- Doing -- God simply is -- The sacred -- The stumbling block -- Our only power -- Leaving self behind -- Why so little -- The dark -- Stripped of ideas -- Humility -- The desire to love -- Others -- Humanity -- Walls -- Patience -- Our need to know -- God beyond God.…”
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Does God desire all to be saved? / by Piper, John

Paul and ancient views of sexual desire Paul's sexual ethics in 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 Corinthians 7 and Romans 1 / by Ellis, J. Edward

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Views of sexual desire in Jewish literature from 200 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. -- Views of sexual desire among Greek and Roman moralists and philosophers -- 1 Corinthians 7 in light of the Greek romantic novels -- Summary, implications, and avenues for further research.…”
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When I don't desire God : how to fight for joy / by Piper, John

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A hunger for God : desiring God through fasting and prayer / by Piper, John

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The apologetics of joy a case for the existence of God from C.S. Lewis's argument from desire / by Puckett, Joe

Table of Contents: “…Haunted by desire -- pt. 4. Concerning the conclusion of the argument from desire.…”
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Christianity and sexuality in the early modern world regulating desire, reforming practice / by Wiesner, Merry E., 1952-

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Seducing Augustine bodies, desires, confessions / by Burrus, Virginia

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Imprints, voiceprints, and footprints of memory : collected essays of Werner H. Kelber / by Kelber, Werner H.

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Abandoned to lust sexual slander and ancient Christianity / by Knust, Jennifer Wright, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…: sex talk, power, and resistance -- Sexual slander and ancient invective -- Paul, the slaves of desire, the the saints of God -- Sexual vice and Christian Apologia -- The false teachers of the end time -- Illicit sex, wicked desire, and the demonized heretic.…”
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The God who may be a hermeneutics of religion / by Kearney, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Toward a phenomenology of the persona -- I am who may be -- Transfiguring God -- Desiring God -- Possibilizing God -- Conclusion : poetics of the possible God.…”
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Specters of Paul sexual difference in early Christian thought / by Dunning, Benjamin H.

Table of Contents: “…The many become one : theological monism and the problem of the female body -- Desire and the feminine : Clement of Alexandria's displacement of Eve -- What sort of thing is this luminous woman? …”
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Constructing China's Jerusalem Christians, power, and place in contemporary Wenzhou / by Cao, Nanlai

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : putting Christianity and capitalism in their place -- The rise of "boss Christians" and their engagements with state power -- Of manners, morals and modernity : cosmopolitan desires and the remaking of Christian identity -- The business of religion in the "Wenzhou model" of Christian revival -- Gendered agency, gender hierarchy and religious identity making -- Conversion to urban citizenship : rural migrant workers' participation in Wenzhou Christianity -- Conclusion : religious revivalism as a moral discourse of modernity.…”
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