Something Is Eternal
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Something is Eternal
This work is a hypothetically dialogue on how the eternal world might seem for someone recently dead, using me, the author pretending-to-be-recently-dead, confronted with a First Greeter, an intelligent and empathetic Spirit Guide named Amorella. This work is for the purpose of challenging the Reader's reasoning and contemplation about how it is permanently moving on. Amorella has been my creative spirit guide since the early 1980s, and she has been in my earlier published novels with iUniverse. The dialogue is candid. Amorella gives me questions to show who I am now that I am a heartansoulanmind and nothing more. I am who I am; Amorella is who she is and has been as my silent creative companion for the last forty years. Faces of the dead are visible to one another; their heartsansoulsanminds are dressed as their faces, as they were in life. One's spiritual face masks shows intellect and emotion. The spirit mask appears young, old, or in between, whatever the nondeceptive heartansoulanmind shows. Deception is a basic need in life, not spiritual existence. I, the Amorella and Spirit Guide, see Richard as a naked heartansoulanmind. There isn't any more of Richard left, only his straightforward humanity, his outer soul, and his personality through and through. Richard's setting is quite reasonable for one who is recently been declared dead by one such as myself. Someday you will be recently dead, and someone like me, the Amorella, may show up and appear out of black. You may sense a voice kindly saying, "Hello, I am your Spirit Guide and will help in your recent transformation from a physical/spiritual being into a spirit being, similar to myself, though you were born, lived and died. I am here when you feel the need of companionship or assistance."
From Eternal to Everlasting
Author: Lydia Schumacher
language: en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date: 2025-12-15
The Middle Ages witnessed a shift in thinking about the way God is related to time. For most of the earlier Middle Ages, scholars had followed an earlier patristic tradition of describing God as eternal and thus as timeless or outside of time. In the early thirteenth century, however, members of the Franciscan order, who played a significant role in the development of the recently-founded universities, re-defined God’s relationship to time in terms of his everlastingness. On their account, God is infinite in temporal duration, rather than simply ’timeless’, since he has no beginning and no end. So construed, God encompasses and is able to relate to every moment in time in a way that the Franciscans believed was not possible on the eternalist account. This book will discuss some of the factors that contributed to their shift in thinking about God as everlasting instead of eternal. Among these, the book will identity a transition in defining the basic nature of God as either simple (for proponents of eternity) or infinite (for proponents of everlastingness) as well as the Franciscan adoption of the metaphysics of the eleventh-century Islamic philosopher, Avicenna.
Addressed by the Word
Author: Jordan Redding
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2023-08-01
Eduard Thurneysen (1888-1974) was a close friend and confidant of Karl Barth. Whereas Barth pursued an academic career in theology, Thurneysen was committed to pastoral ministry. For him, the church is the "Existenzgrund" and subject of all theology as the gathered congregation is addressed and shaped by God’s living Word. Cast in Barth’s long shadow, Thurneysen has often been overlooked in scholarship. However, he is a significant theologian in his own right, focusing on questions of pastoral care, the church, popular culture and the intersection of theology with other disciplines (such as psychology). In short, his theology is earthed in the messy and ordinary reality of being human. In this book, Jordan Redding argues that Thurneysen’s theology of being human continues to offer much to the church today. Thurneysen realized that the practice of pastoral care reflects assumptions about what it means to be human. Conversely, pastoral practices articulate, embody, and inform theological anthropology. Thurneysen’s theology of being human is therefore deeply practical. This book is for anyone interested in the intersection of theological anthropology with pastoral practice of the church. It is also recommended for anyone interested in practical questions emerging from Barth’s Theology of the Word.