Böcker av Gabrielle Thomas

ASK ALL MEN If you can get him to admit it, he probably appreciates being made out to almost as much as he enjoys being a great lover.Men have traditionally brought romance, flowers, candles, sympathy, and music into their partnerships. HOW TO MAKE LOVE TO A MAN, as well as a discussion for today's woman who wants to be a partner but isn't sure how to go about it.This is a book on the art of making love rather than simply how to have sex, albeit it is both. More than 180 men, women, and sex therapists have all been able to appreciate guys' most fundamental emotional needs.The book discusses what makes a woman appealing to men, how to convey your interest in a guy, how to encourage him to disclose his needs-both sexual and emotional-and how to enhance sex with massages, touches, and better timing.The reader will get a new perspective on developing "whole" love, regardless of marital status, by fostering the mentality and understanding that make the act of love meaningful and gratifying.

This book is intended to be an encouragement and blessing to all who want to move from the confines of life dominated by material circumstances and launch out on a spiritual journey with eyes fixed on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith (Hebrews 12:2). This journey is certainly not for the fainthearted. Practical help is provided in the pages of this book as the authors share highlights of their dramatic encounters with God and their ensuing steps of faith. Like many young married couples with a growing family Cyril and Gabrielle Thomas encountered serious financial, personal and spiritual challenges before moving to Hong Kong over fifty years ago. It was a desperate cry for help to God on a sleepless, crisis-dominated night that proved to be a turning point for Cyril. Gabrielle was to have a dramatic encounter with God shortly afterwards, a transforming experience that was pivotal in restoring her faith and their marriage. Subsequent exposure to the charismatic renewal led the couple to experience the power of the Holy Spirit and a decision to commit themselves unreservedly to a life of Christian discipleship. Following the autobiographical description of the authors' journey of faith, the book contains a collection of prophecies given in recent years. Practical examples are then provided of how the authors implemented the spiritual principles embodied in each prophecy by sharing experiences from their journey through life. They are deeply aware that prophecies need to have practical outworking in the lives of the people to whom they have been given. The book is a challenge to believers to embrace a radical life style, to commit to living lives of trust and obedience, to be doers and not simply hearers of the word.

Gregory of Nazianzus, known best for his Christology and Trinitarian doctrine, presents an incomparable vision of the image of God. In this book, Gabrielle Thomas offers a close analysis of his writings and demonstrates how Nazianzen depicts both the nature and experience of the image of God throughout his corpus. She argues that Nazianzen's vision of the human person as an image of God is best understood in light of biblical and extra-biblical themes. To establish the breadth of his approach, Thomas analyzes the image of God against the backdrop of Nazianzen's beliefs about Christology, Pneumatology, creation, sin, spiritual warfare, ethics, and theosis. Interpreted accordingly, Nazianzen offers a dynamic and multifaceted account of the image of God, which has serious implications both for Cappadocian studies and contemporary theological anthropology.

Contributing Authors:Fr. John BehrDr Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-KypriouDr. Dionysios SklirisFr. Andrew LouthDr Mary CunninghamMet Kallistos WareRev Dr Sarah Hinlicky WilsonDr Kyriaki Karidoyanes FitzGeraldDr Carrie Frederick FrostDr Paul LadouceurLuis Josue SalesThis book--a collaborative, international initiative, involving academic theologians and practitioners--invites the reader into a conversation about the ordination of women in the Orthodox Church. It explores questions relating to the significance of being human, Eve's curse, sexed bodies, the place of Mary, the nature of priesthood, the role of the deacon, and the task of being a priest in the twenty-first century. The reflections move across three main areas of discussion: issues of theological anthropology, particular questions pertaining to the priesthood and the diaconate, and contemporary practices. In each area the implications for ordaining women in the Orthodox Church today are explored.