Penguin, 1984. Reprint. Trade Paperback. The Portable World Bible presents the fundamental tenets of the world's basic source religions. Contemporary readers are offered, in concise, authoritative translations, the religious thought of the ages, selected, interpreted, and arranged in view of modern man's quest for ultimate truths and values. Robert O...... More
See Sharp, January 2000. Stapled Soft Cover. 16 page stapled, folded, photo-copied pamphlet. More
HarperSanFrancisco, May 1984. Trade Paperback. Gathered here for the first time in one comprehensive volume are excerpted ancient holy texts from Judeo-Christian traditions that were excluded from the official canon of the Old and New Testaments. The Other Bible is a unique sourcebook of essential selections from Jewish Psudepigrapha, early..... More
Oxford University Press, August 2011. Paper Back. Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide us with good historical evidence for his life and teaching. To place Jesus in his proper historical context, as a Jew from Galilee..... More
Crown Publishing Group (NY), October 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. From the author of the widely acclaimed A Place at the Table, this is a major work, passionately outspoken and cogently reasoned, that exposes the great danger posed to Christianity today by fundamentalism. The time is past, says Bruce Bawer, when..... More
Dutton / Dent, January 1951. Reprint. Cloth. 12mo in heavily chipped, tattered & torn DJ. Darkened & dust stained. Flap is not clipped. Red cloth covered boards with gold lettering on spine. Streaking across front panel. Washed out splotches on rear panel and to a lesser extent along fore-edge of..... More
Ultra, 2004. Trade Paperback. Clean, sound, gently read. No markings. More
Seed Publishing Group, LLC, October 2015. Trade Paperback. More
Cascade Books, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Description: This is a work of Christian theology that Karl Barth might call an ad hoc or secondary apologetic. Relying on a paraphrase of Anselm--""faith seeking the ethical""--Boesel engages modern and postmodern theologians and philosophers--from Kierkegaard to Barth, Ruether, Hegel, Derrida, and Levinas--to analyze..... More
Touchstone Books, September 1995. Paper Back. The Christian does not live in a vacuum, says the author, but in a world of government, politics, labor, and marriage. Hence, Christian ethics cannot exist in a vacuum; what the Christian needs, claims Dietrich Bonhoeffer, is concrete instruction in a concrete situation. Although..... More
Fortress Press, September 2000. Paper Back. At a time when much of the world was either enticed with or entrapped by fascism, Dietrich Bonhoeffer dared to live the morally responsible Christian lite to a most expressive, and in his case, tragic end. His legacy has inspired many, and it demonstrates..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, April 1995. Trade Paperback. A leading biblical scholar's examination shows how today's historical Jesus research, far from being destructive, can lead to an intelligent and sustaining faith. More
Random House, February 2018. Hardcover. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A meditation on sense-making when there's no sense to be made, on letting go when we can't hold on, and on being unafraid even when we're terrified."--Lucy Kalanithi "Belongs on the shelf alongside other terrific books about this difficult subject..... More
Convergent Books, February 2023. Hardcover. Warm and witty blessings found within the struggles of our shared humanity, from the New York Times bestselling authors of Good Enough Blessed are you, the strange duck. You with the very intense hobbies. Or the collection of movies or mugs or sneakers. You with..... More
Harpercollins, January 1992. Trade Paperback. A Room Called Remember brings together some of Buechner's finest writings on faith, love, and the power of words in the form of essays, addresses, and sermons. Here Buechner explores autobiography as theology, offers exhilarating reflections on biblical passages, and leads us into the room..... More
HarperOne, February 2006. Hardcover. Frederick Buechner has long been a kindred spirit to those who find elements of doubt as constant companions on their journey of faith. He is a passionate writer and preacher who can alter lives with a simple phrase. Buechner's words, both written and spoken, have the..... More
Providence House Pub, January 1997. Hardcover. And Also With You is the remarkable story of Duncan Montgomery Gray Jr. (Episcopal Bishop of Mississippi, Chancellor of the University of the South), told by Will D. Campbell against the backdrop of racial conflict in the South and throughout the nation -- the..... More
Peachtree Pub Ltd, January 1988. Hardcover. Front free endpaper missing. More
Viking Adult, December 2007. Hardcover. A brilliant, elegant argument for spirituality without God Can we do without religion? Can we have ethics without God? Is there such thing as ?atheist spirituality In this powerful book, the internationally bestselling author Andr? Comte-Sponville presents a philosophical exploration of atheism?and comes to some..... More
William Morrow & Company, September 1998. Book Club. Hardcover. "Don't Know Much About the Bible," by "New York Times" bestselling author Kenneth C. Davis, is designed to illuminate everything we need to know about the Good Book but never learned. Davis brings the world of the Old and New Testaments..... More
Ann Arbor Paperbacks / University of Michigan, 1965. Reprint. Paper Back. Third printing of Ann Arbor first paperback. Moderate wear to corners and edges of paper wrapper. Creased spine is tender, yet intact, making for decent reading copy. Previous reader's name inked inside else without interior markings. Foxing/dust stains top..... More
Vintage, September 1999. Trade Paperback. John Donne (1572-1631) is best known as the greatest English metaphysical poet. But there was another dimension to Donne's life and writing that, if less well known, is no less profound and beautiful. Born into an aristocratic Catholic family, Donne joined the Church of England..... More
E. J. Brill, January 1966. Cloth. Octavo. In edgeworn dustjacket, with especially stressed top DJ edge. Darkened spine. Foxing/marginal darkening front and back panels. Moderate fingerprint stains and scattered spots of soiling. Navy blue cloth covered spine. Gold lettering front board and spine. Textured end pages with mild tanning. Foxing/dust..... More
Oxford University Press, June 2001. Trade Paperback. Missionary, theologian, and religious genius, Paul is one of the most powerful human personalities in the history of the Church. E.P. Sanders, an influential Pauline scholar, analyzes the fundamental beliefs and vigorous contradictions in Paul's thought, discovering a philosophy that is less of..... More
Nilgiri Press, October 1996. Trade Paperback. How do we make Jesus' love come alive in our everyday lives? The Imitation of Christ is one of the most enduring of the Christian documents. Reflecting on a famous passage, Easwaran explores what it means to make Jesus' love come alive in our..... More
