Delicious entertainments of the soule is a translation of a collection of conferences which Francis de Sales held for the Order of the Sisters of the Visitation. This order took the form of an institute for young girls and widows who wanted to enter a convent but lacked the strength or the inclination for the physical austerities of the great orders. It was for these sisters that Francis held conferences or 'familiar conversations' on religious topics at regular intervals. These conversations were not written out by Francis himself but were noted down and collected by the sisters. Pudentiana Deacon's translation of these transcripts gives the reader an idea of the personality of the speaker. De Sale comes across as a humane, commonsensical, practical man with an occasional sense of humour and a shrewd idea of the specific worries and temptations of his audience.
The history of the angelicall virgin glorious S.Clare (Douai 1635) is a translation by 'Sister Magdalen' of a work by the Franciscan priest François Hendricq, Vie admirable de madame S. Claire fondatrice des Pauvres Clairesses (1631). In its turn Hendricq's book is largely a translation of parts of Luke Wadding's Annales ordinis minorum ('Annals of the Franciscan Order'). These volumes include an account of the activities of the young woman, Clara Offreduccio di Favarone, one of the many followers of St. Francis of Assisi. In 1212 Clara was advised by St. Francis to withdraw to the monastery at San Damiano in Assisi. In this way St. Francis founded his Second Order, an order of religious women known as the Poor Clares. 'Sister Magdalen' has been identified as Elizabeth Evelinge who belonged to a dissident group of Poor Clares that left their English convent at Gravelines in 1627 and started a new convent at Aire in May 1629. The copy of her translation reproduced in this volume is that of Heythrop College, University of London.
Visit the author's Web site at www.ourinnerape.com It’s no secret that humans and apes share a host of traits, from the tribal communities we form to our irrepressible curiosity. We have a common ancestor, scientists tell us, so it’s natural that we act alike. But not all of these parallels are so appealing: the chimpanzee, for example, can be as vicious and manipulative as any human. Yet there’s more to our shared primate heritage than just our violent streak. In Our Inner Ape, Frans de Waal, one of the world’s great primatologists and a renowned expert on social behavior in apes, presents the provocative idea that our noblest qualities—generosity, kindness, altruism—are as much a part of our nature as are our baser instincts. After all, we share them with another primate: the lesser-known bonobo. As genetically similar to man as the chimpanzee, the bonobo has a temperament and a lifestyle vastly different from those of its genetic cousin. Where chimps are aggressive, territorial, and hierarchical, bonobos are gentle, loving, and erotic (sex for bonobos is as much about pleasure and social bonding as it is about reproduction). While the parallels between chimp brutality and human brutality are easy to see, de Waal suggests that the conciliatory bonobo is just as legitimate a model to study when we explore our primate heritage. He even connects humanity’s desire for fairness and its morality with primate behavior, offering a view of society that contrasts markedly with the caricature people have of Darwinian evolution. It’s plain that our finest qualities run deeper in our DNA than experts have previously thought. Frans de Waal has spent the last two decades studying our closest primate relations, and his observations of each species in Our Inner Ape encompass the spectrum of human behavior. This is an audacious book, an engrossing discourse that proposes thought-provoking and sometimes shocking connections among chimps, bonobos, and those most paradoxical of apes, human beings.
We need a fresh revelation of the Lord Jesus Christ to accurately understand the end, for Christ is the beginning and end of all things. This apostolic season is bringing a fresh interest in the study about the end (eschatology), and it is changing the paradigm of the Church forever. God’s intended end (eschatology) is to have a corporate, many-membered Son who inherits and rules over all creation. Fullness is Christ the Son bringing many sons to glory, manifesting His eternal Kingdom through a corporate Son who reveals His love, righteousness, and goodness in the earth. If you are ready for a radical change, this book is for you. If you are tired of going around the mountain and tired of unfulfilled prophecies and promises, then this book is surely for you. God is seeking a mature, corporate son in the earth who will manifest Christ to the world—not only one facet of Him, but Christ in all His fullness. Discovering the truth about the end will shake the religious systems of this world. To be effective and relevant today, we must understand the end. The birth of Jesus announced the end of the “night” and the beginning of a glorious new “day”—the day of the New Covenant that will shine brighter and brighter until the end.
This volume provides a comprehensive understanding of the human hypothalamus, an extremely complex structure that consists of a large number of very different functional units. It approaches the subject in a way that has not historically existed in standard neuropathological investigations of the human brain. As the hypothalamus was traditionally considered to be a neuroendocrine structure, and hence of little interest to neurologists, this volume explores new findings in the field and the value they bring to the field of neurology. New understandings of the role the hypothalamus plays in memory and attention deficits in the dementias, along with greater evidence that the hypothalamus is related to symptoms and signs in both neurological and psychological disorders provide users in the fields of neuroscience, endocrinology, pediatrics, and psychology with a comprehensive resource on which to base new research and exploration. * A new understanding of the role of the human hypothalamus in neurological disorders * Clinical evidence regarding a plethora of neurological disorders and how they relate to the human hypothalamus * A greater understanding of the direct connection between both neurological and psychological disorders and the role of the hypothalamus in these disorders
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Signs and wonders are not a gift but a promise to all believers. For over 40 years Frans has walked in the miraculous. His life is a stirring testimony to the power of God's supernatural provision, revelation, intervention, healing and, most of all, His loving, abiding and never failing presence, not only for himself and his family, but for many others as well. Contrary to the views of many, Frans insists, signs and wonders should be as normal for the church today as they were for the New Testament church in the days of the apostles. Miracles are not reserved for the super-spiritual, but should be the bread and butter of daily life for the ordinary believer. In a season for miracles, Frans proves his point through powerful vignettes drawn from his own life experiences and testimonies that will have you laughing, crying, shouting, praising, and worshiping in awestruck silence the God of miracles, mercy, and grace. Most importantly, Frans' stories will strengthen your faith, building up in you that confident conviction that you too can walk in the miraculous.
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