Historia De Luz

This volume brings together twelve scholars from a variety of scholarly fields including biblical studies, history, theology, sociology, anthropology, and missiology in a multi-disciplinary exploration of themes related to women's leadership within the three branches of the renewal movement: Holiness, Pentecostal and Charismatic traditions. These scholars - women and men - from both within and outside the traditions, draw on various methodologies including hermeneutics, ethnography, critical theory, and historical analysis to explore the experiences and contributions of women from the movement's inception to the present. They keep before us the challenges that still impact women's full participation as equal partners in ministry and leadership on both the American and global scene. The volume looks at the multiple roots of women's marginalization within the renewal movement while suggesting progressive solutions that take seriously the social locations of Pentecostal and Charismatic congregations and the theological foundations on which the movement has been built. At the same time, it locates these discussions within the broader postmodern realities facing the church as it attempts to faithfully live out its witness to the biblical truth that both male and female are created in the God's image and endowed with the capacity to work creatively toward the unfolding of the Kingdom.

En el principio de la Creación, uno de los 12 Seres Creadores originales malinterpreta una consigna del Creador y considera que puede convertirse en su igual, dando origen a la Oscuridad y desencadenado el mal que nunca debió haber existido. Debido a su desconexión de la energía del Creador, este ser y aquellos a quienes dio origen necesitan alimentarse de otra fuente por lo que secuestran la "idea" del Ser Humano (cuya concepción original fue del Creador) y la materializan en la Tierra. Sin embargo, la chispa original del Creador estaba ya en los Seres Humanos y es lo que hoy nos permitirá cortar el ciclo de esclavitud al que estamos sometidos y finalmente alcanzar la iluminación. ¿Cómo llegaron estos seres a adueñarse de nuestra Creación? ¿De qué manera utilizan al Ser Humano para sus propios fines? ¿Cuanto falta para que este mundo y todo lo que hay en él alcance la iluminación? Este libro responde estas y muchas otras preguntas.

The four decades between the two Universal Exhibitions of 1888 and 1929 were formative in the creation of modern Barcelona. Architecture and art blossomed in the work of Antoni Gaudi­ and many others. At the same time, social unrest tore the city apart. Topics such as art nouveau and anarchism have attracted the attention of numerous historians. Yet the crucial role of science, technology and medicine in the cultural makeup of the city has been largely ignored. The ten articles of this book recover the richness and complexity of the scientific culture of end of the century Barcelona. The authors explore a broad range of topics: zoological gardens, natural history museums, amusement parks, new medical specialities, the scientific practices of anarchists and spiritists, the medical geography of the urban underworld, early mass media, domestic electricity and astronomical observatories. They pay attention to the agenda of the bourgeois elites but also to hitherto neglected actors: users of electric technologies and radio amateurs, patients in clinics and dispensaries, collectors and visitors of museums, working class audiences of public talks and female mediums. Science, technology and medicine served to exert social control but also to voice social critique. Barcelona: An urban history of science and modernity (1888-1929) shows that the city around 1900 was both a creator and facilitator of knowledge but also a space substantially transformed by the appropriation of this knowledge by its unruly citizens.