[PDF] Gluttony And Gratitude eBook

Author : Emily E. Stelzer
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271089814

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Despite the persistence and popularity of addressing the theme of eating in Paradise Lost, the tradition of Adam and Eve’s sin as one of gluttony—and the evidence for Milton’s adaptation of this tradition—has been either unnoticed or suppressed. Emily Stelzer provides the first book-length work on the philosophical significance of gluttony in this poem, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton’s writing. Working with contextual material in the fields of physiology, philosophy, theology, and literature and building on recent scholarship on Milton’s experience of and knowledge about matter and the body, Stelzer draws connections between Milton’s work and both underexamined textual influences (including, for example, Gower’s Confessio Amantis) and well-recognized ones (such as Augustine’s City of God and Galen’s On the Natural Faculties).

Author : Emily E. Stelzer
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Food in literature
ISBN : 9780271081007

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Explores the philosophical significance of gluttony in Paradise Lost, arguing that a complex understanding of gluttony and of ideal, grateful, and gracious eating informs the content of Milton's writing.

Author : John H. Clark
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2017-05-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781521288382

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Gratitude is key Is negativity weighing you down? Are you the type of person who sees the glass half-full, or half-empty? Do others see you as a negative person? Does it sting a little bit to admit that? Be honest with yourself Do you know someone who is always happy? Always walking around with a smile on their face? You look at them and wonder, "How do they do that? What is their secret?" A lot of times -- some say the vast majority of times -- it is because that happy person has an attitude of gratitude. Change your perspective It is said that, no matter your circumstances, that being grateful for what you have is the key to happiness, whether you have a little or a lot. Pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth are known as the seven deadly sins, and none of those have anything to do with gratitude. In this wonderful and inspirational book that includes beautiful photos and lots of helpful hints, John Henry Clark provides a way for anyone to learn to be grateful. He guides you step-by-step through 30 days of journal writing that can change your life. Would you like to be happier? Why not start today?

Author : Wendy Mogel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2008-12-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1416593063

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Provides parents with advice on using Jewish teachings from the Torah and Talmud to overcome struggles with raising children, nurture strengths and uniqueness, and encourage respectfulness towards their parents and others.

Author : Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Publisher : Brazos Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493422162

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Drawing on centuries of wisdom from the Christian ethical tradition, this book takes readers on a journey of self-examination, exploring why our hearts are captivated by glittery but false substitutes for true human goodness and happiness. The first edition sold 35,000 copies and was a C. S. Lewis Book Prize award winner. Now updated and revised throughout, the second edition includes a new chapter on grace and growth through the spiritual disciplines. Questions for discussion and study are included at the end of each chapter.

Author : Paul Williams
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 0698139860

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Paul Williams is an alcoholic. Tracey Jackson is not. But together, these two close friends have written Gratitude and Trust, a book designed to apply the principles of the recovery movement to the countless people who are not addicts but nevertheless need effective help with their difficulties and pain. Williams, the award-winning songwriter, actor, and performer, has embraced a traditional alcoholism recovery plan for more than two decades of sobriety. Jackson, a well-known TV and film writer—and veteran of many years of traditional therapy—has never been a drunk or a drug abuser, but she realized that many of the tenets of Williams’s program could apply to her. In Gratitude and Trust, Williams and Jackson ask: What happens to those who struggle with vexing problems yet are not full-blown addicts? Are there any lessons to be learned from the foundational and time-tested principles of the recovery movement? Whether you’re tethered to your phone or you turn to food for comfort; whether you’re a perfectionist and can’t let things go or are too afraid to fail to even try; whether you can find intimacy only on the Internet or you’ve been involved in a string of nasty relationships—the first step toward feeling better about yourself and your life is the realization that you are what’s standing in your way. Williams and Jackson have designed a new, positive program, based on a half-dozen new affirmations, that can help conquer your vices, address personal dysfunction, and start to brighten the darkest moods. Gratitude and Trust is an essential, inspirational, and uplifting guide to identifying and changing maladaptive behaviors in order to uncover your most productive, healthiest self.

Author : Shaun Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 28,22 MB
Release : 2023-04-20
Category :
ISBN : 0192872877

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The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from the Middle Ages to Milton explains the astonishing centrality of the eucharist to poets with a variety of denominational affiliations, writing on a range of subjects, across an extended period in literary history. Whether they are praying, thinking about politics, lamenting unrequited love, or telling fart jokes, late medieval and early modern English poets return again and again to the eucharist as a way of working out literary problems. Tracing this connection from the fourteenth through the seventeenth century, this book shows how controversies surrounding the nature of signification in the sacrament informed understandings of poetry. Connecting medieval to early modern England, it presents a history of 'eucharistic poetics' as it appears in the work of seven key poets: the Pearl-poet, Chaucer, Robert Southwell, John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, and John Milton. Reassessing this range of poetic voices, The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization overturns an oft-repeated argument that early modern poetry's fascination with the eucharist resulted from the Protestant rejection of transubstantiation and its supposedly enchanted worldview. Instead of this tired secularization story, it fleshes out a more capacious conception of eucharistic presence, showing that what interested poets about the eucharist was its insistence that the mechanics of representation are always entangled with the self's relation to the body and to others. The book thus forwards a new historical account of eucharistic poetics, placing this literary phenomenon within a longstanding negotiation between embodiment and disembodiment in Western religious and cultural history.

Author : Henry Fairlie
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0268079781

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Sin, like death, is an unassailable fact of life. It is also one of the last great taboos for public debate. In this compelling book, the Henry Fairlie shows that it is possible and necessary to talk about sin in ways that enrich our societies and our personal lives. Fairlie relates these ancient sins to the central issues of contemporary life: liberal vs. conservative politics, discrimination, pornography, abortion, the vistas of modern science, and especially the pop-psychologies that confirm the narcissism of our age.

Author : A. William DeJong
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 23,58 MB
Release : 2019-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1532672551

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This volume probes the nature of gratitude as a virtue and identifies its moral value in the Christian life in order to enhance pastoral effectiveness in ministering to those gripped by sins of desire. Such impulses are explored in terms of the seven deadly sins, which this inquiry regards as distorted desires for the good God provides. Utilizing a method of mutual critical correlation, this volume brings philosophical and psychological claims about gratitude into conversation with the Christian tradition. On the basis of an ontology of communion in which humans are inextricably situated in giving-and-receiving relationships with God, others, and the world, this inquiry defines gratitude as a social response involving asymmetrical, agapic reciprocity, whereby a recipient freely, joyfully, and fittingly salutes a giver for the gift received in order to establish, maintain, or restore a personal and peaceable relationship. Critiquing especially the reductions of gratitude by Aristotle and Jacques Derrida, this inquiry recommends gratitude as a virtue which, when embodied, practiced, and ritualized especially, though not exclusively, in the Eucharist, has potential to repel the destructive idolatries generated by the seven deadly sins and thus function as a crucial ingredient in human social flourishing. Familiarity with the virtue of gratitude as a vital ingredient in moral flourishing therefore equips pastors for greater ministerial effectiveness.