Bread of heaven

Abstract When we think of “heaven,” we generally conjure up positive, blissful images. Heaven is, after all, where God is and where good people go after death to ...

Joseph Smith introduced an expanded temple liturgy and cosmology in Nauvoo. He revealed sealing rituals that materialized heaven on earth and transformed men and women into kings a...

The Branch Davidians and Heaven’s Gate, two religious groups marked by apocalyptic worldviews, are compared to elucidate two types of trajectories of apocalyptic groups involved in...

This chapter provides an eighteenth-century context for Johann Sebastian Bach’s cantatas with obbligato organ by showing how their various components engage in a larger discourse a...

Early Mormons used the Book of Mormon as the basis for their ecclesiology and understanding of the open heaven. Church leaders edited, harmonized, and published Joseph Smith’s reve...

This chapter analyses the treatment of knowledge in El cetro de José. First, it demonstrates how Sor Juana builds on the theories of demonic knowledge put forward by Thomas Aquinas...

The workshop presents the methodology and the necessary material for practical training in the section "Equipment of bakery production" of the discipline "Technological equipment f...

In Begging for Their Daily Bread, Zhenya Gurina-Rodriguez formulates a beggars-centric hermeneutic and interprets Matthew 6 through this lense, arguing that this text could be both...