Table Of ContentTranslator's Introduction. Translation: 1. On the Nature of Remembrance 2. Invoking Aloud 3. Benefits of Invocation in General 4. On the benefits of the Invocations Used by the Novice travelling the path 5. On choosing the Type of Remembrance 6. The gradual Advance of the Seeker by Means of the Invocations 7. On the Invocation During Spiritual Retreat 8. The Oneness of God 9. Gnosis 10. What Initiates on the path Must impress upon themselves 11. On Explaining Invocations 12. Remembrance in All Situations and times during the day and the night 13. Incantations. Appendix I: Key persons mentioned in the text. Appendix II: Glossary of terms Appendix III: Silsilah of the Shadhili Order Bibliography Index
SynopsisIn a book that will appeal to both Jews and Christians, a professor of the Old Testament at Harvard Divinity School explores the story of Adam and Eve and its perspectives on the problem of evil, the nature of sexuality, and the question of sin and forgiveness., This text covers the earliest Jewish and Christian readings of the story of Adam and Eve. For these ancient interpreters, the tale of human beings cannot be understood outside the larger context of Scriptures' drama about our common human destiny. Creation and redemtion are ultimately inseparable. The perspectives of Judaism and Christianity about our common human condition - the problem of evil, the nature of sexuality and the question of sin and forgiveness - are illustrated in this text through an examination of the biblical text that allows the story of Genesis to intersect with each of our own stories.