* Bibliographical Essay by James J. Martin from his book Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827 – 1908

Men Against the State: the State the Expositors of Individualist Anarchism.

In the Expositors Bible series he edited Genesis and 1 Corinthians, and he was also a contributor to the 9th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and Hastings ' Dictionary of the Bible.

* James J. Martin, Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827-1908.

Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827 – 1908.

* Men Against the State: The Expositors of Individualist Anarchism in America, 1827 – 1908.

The imagery of spiritual warfare ( including the metaphor of the Armor of God ), the mission of Tychicus, and valedictory blessings.

Although this word, in English, has taken on purely military connotations, in reality it covers the vast range of human enterprise-family life, work, spiritual development, and, at the end of all this, justified defensive warfare.

Other purposes include power for spiritual warfare ( the Christian struggles against spiritual enemies and thus requires spiritual power ), power for overflow ( the believer's experience of the presence and power of God in his or her life flows out into the lives of others ), and power for ability ( to follow divine direction, to face persecution, to exercise spiritual gifts for the edification of the church, etc.

A multitude of early Christian sarcophagi are found with cockfighting within a religious, spiritual and sacred schema with the understanding of striving for resurrection and eternal life representing fighting cocks " in mortal combat as an emblem of the Christian ( spiritual ) warfare " in depictions within the Catacombs of Rome.

Watch Tower Society publications teach that Witnesses are engaged in a " spiritual, theocratic warfare " against false teachings and wicked spirit forces they say try to impede them in their preaching work.

As such, warfare should only be spiritual in nature and reflective of Jesus.

The One Ring, its baleful power, the difficult method which is the only way to destroy it, and the spiritual and psychological torture it wreaks on its Bearer ; J. R. R. Tolkien uses all these elements to tell a meaningful tale of friendship and the inner struggle with temptation, against a background of epic and supernatural warfare.

References to eschatology and apocalyptic themes, particularly the ongoing spiritual warfare between good and evil as well as the Last Judgment and fall from grace are typical.

It is a useful source of historical information on many aspects of daily life, including the hunting and preparing of food, the making of clothing and implements, the fashions of hairdos and body decoration, the system of government and punishments, canoes, warfare, spiritual beliefs.

He also explains how the use of spiritual language in warfare is metaphysically appropriate.

A common form of spiritual warfare among Christians, is prayer.

Imagery of spiritual warfare is displayed in the Book of Revelation when after the War in Heaven ( Rev. 12: 7 ), the beasts and kings of the earth wage war against God's people ( Rev. 19: 19 ), and a final battle ensues with Satan and the nations of the earth against God himself ( Rev. 20: 8 ).

Christian practices of spiritual warfare vary throughout Christianity.

The development of specific spiritual warfare techniques has also generated many discussions in the Christian missions community.

In 2000, an international collaborative attempt was made by evangelicals and charismatics in the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization to reach some common agreement about spiritual warfare.

According to the Christian Broadcasting Network commentator Carl Moeller, spiritual warfare is practiced even in North Korea, a country that has been described as the most dangerous place on earth to be Christian.

The Nigerian Tribune, the oldest surviving private newspaper in Nigeria, has published articles calling for the need for spiritual warfare.

Others view this period to include spiritual discomfort for past wrongs.

Steiner's stated prerequisites to beginning on a spiritual path include a willingness to take up serious cognitive studies, a respect for factual evidence, and a responsible attitude.

Issues of interest include phenomena such as subliminal perception, blindsight, denial of impairment, and altered states of consciousness produced by psychoactive drugs or spiritual or meditative techniques.

Deism may also include a spiritual element, involving experiences of God and nature.

Their major issues include the ordination of women, male dominance in Christian marriage, recognition of equal spiritual and moral abilities, reproductive rights, and the search for a feminine or gender-transcendent divine.

" Islamists " who have spoken out against the use of the term insisting they are merely " Muslims ", include Ayatollah Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual mentor of Hizbullah, and Abbassi Madani, leader of the Algerian Islamic Salvation Front.

The works include Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini's Calvarys, which reflect realism and detail " meant to depict the significant events of a greater spiritual world ".

The first principles states that: " the ultimate values of mankind are spiritual ; these values include liberty, human dignity, opportunity and equal rights and justice.

Well-known spiritual systems include animism ( the notion of inanimate objects having spirits ), spiritualism ( an appeal to gods or communion with ancestor spirits ); shamanism ( the vesting of an individual with mystic powers ); and divination ( magically obtaining the truth ).

These related fields include transpersonal psychology, which studies transcendent or spiritual aspects of the human mind, and Anomalistic psychology, which examines paranormal beliefs and subjective anomalous experiences in traditional psychological terms.

NDEs include one or more of the following experiences: a sense of being dead ; an out-of-body experience ; a sensation of floating above one's body and seeing the surrounding area ; a sense of overwhelming love and peace ; a sensation of moving upwards through a tunnel or narrow passageway ; meeting deceased relatives or spiritual figures ; encountering a being of light, or a light ; experiencing a life review ; reaching a border or boundary ; and a feeling of being returned to the body, often accompanied by reluctance.

" Privacy rights gradually expanded to include a " recognition of man's spiritual nature, of his feelings and his intellect.

The six variants include the theft of the body, recovery from a coma and a spiritual non-bodily resurrection, etc.

Other explanations include the explanation of evil as the result of free will misused by God's creatures, the view that our suffering is required for personal and spiritual growth, the denial that God is omnipotent, omniscient, or omnibenevolent, and skepticism concerning the ability of humans to understand God's reasons for permitting the existence of evil.

The prevailing types of theories attempting to account for the existence of humour include psychological theories, the vast majority of which consider humour-induced behaviour to be very healthy ; spiritual theories, which may, for instance, consider humour to be a " gift from God "; and theories which consider humour to be an unexplainable mystery, very much like a mystical experience.

They enlarged their spiritual pharmacopeia to include hallucinogens such as LSD, psilocybin, and mescaline, while often renouncing the use of alcohol.

These include Falun Gong's popularity, China ’ s history of quasi-religious movements which turned into violent insurrections, its independence from the state and refusal to toe the Party line, internal power politics within the Communist Party, and Falun Gong's moral and spiritual content, which put it at odds with the atheist aspects of the official Marxist ideology.

Full Jewish names include a patronym: converts take the patronym " ben / bat Avraham Avinu " ( son / daughter of Our Father Abraham ) as converts are held to be spiritual descendants of Abraham, the forebear of Jews.

Moore's Swamp Thing had a profound effect on mainstream comic books, being the first horror comic to approach the genre from a literary point of view since the EC horror comics of the 1950s, and broadened the scope of the series to include ecological and spiritual concerns while retaining its horror-fantasy roots.

Healing is explicitly stated to include emotional and spiritual, as well as physical healing.

The Booths did not include the use of sacraments ( mainly baptism and Holy Communion ) in the Army's form of worship, believing that many Christians had come to rely on the outward signs of spiritual grace rather than on grace itself.