The Bible and Literature: A Reader
Wiley-Blackwell, November 2007. Trade Paperback. There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundamental to the study of English literature and language. More
Wiley-Blackwell, November 2007. Trade Paperback. There is no book more important for our culture than the Bible, and it is fundamental to the study of English literature and language. More
Cambridge University Press, March 1999. Paper Back. Liberation theology is widely referred to in discussions of politics and religion but not always adequately understood. This Companion offers an introduction to the history and characteristics of liberation theology in its various forms in different parts of the world. Through a sequence..... More
Signet, May 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's name. Minimal creasing. More
Skylight Paths Publishing, October 2014. Trade Paperback. More than ancient erotic love poetry, this celebration of the human relationship with Wisdom can be a companion for your own spiritual journey. The Song of Songs is the Hebrew Bible's deeply erotic poem of love, sexual yearning and consummation. Holding it sacred..... More
Belknap Press, September 1990. Paper Back. Rediscover the incomparable literary richness and strength of a book that all of us live with an many of us live by. An international team of renowned scholars, assembled by two leading literary critics, offers a book-by-book guide through the Old and New Testaments..... More
Oxford University Press, December 2001. Hardcover. The Bible has been a rich source of inspiration for two thousand years, one of the great wellsprings of Western civilization. In The Oxford Guide to Ideas and Issues of the Bible, dozens of eminent scholars explore how the Bible has influenced our religious..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1990. Hardcover. Spanning two thousand years of stirring religious, cultural and political events, this lavishly illustrated volume--the latest addition to the acclaimed Oxford Illustrated History series--provides the most authoritative and accessible history of Christianity ever published for the general reader. The impact of Christianity on..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, April 1998. Trade Paperback. As A. N. Wilson, biographer of Tolstoy, C. S. Lewis, and Jesus, makes clear in this astonishing and gripping narrative, Christianity without Paul is quite literally nothing. Jesus, with the layers of exegesis, scholarship, and ceremony stripped away, is a Jew..... More
Penguin USA, 1985. Mass Market PaperBack. The story of Heloise and Abelard remains one of the world's most celebrated and tragic love affairs." Mass market. Edgeworn and dust stained. Slightly cocked spine. [297 pages]. More
Cornell University Press, June 1985. Cloth. Octavo. In dustjacket with moderate wear to edges and small tears. Ochre end pages with previous owner's name in ink front free end page. Brown umber cloth covered boards. Gold lettering upon spine. Tight binding. [272 pages]. More
DeVorss & Co., (no date). Pamphlet. 16 mo. More
Modern Library, February 1965. Trade Paperback. Edited, with an Introduction, by Anton C. Pegis with selections from SUMMA THEOLOGICA and SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES. More
Ballantine Books, February 2001. Trade Paperback. In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of..... More
Ballantine Books, February 2001. Trade Paperback. In the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of..... More
Grove Press, November 2008. Trade Paperback. As the single work at the heart of Christianity, the world's largest organized religion, the Bible is the spiritual guide for one out of every three people in the world. It is also the world's most widely distributed book and its best-selling, with an..... More
Knopf, September 2009. Hardcover. A nuanced exploration of the part religion plays in human life, past and present, from one of the foremost commentators on religion at work today. Moving from the Paleolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order..... More
Knopf, September 2009. Hardcover. A nuanced exploration of the part religion plays in human life, past and present, from one of the foremost commentators on religion at work today. Moving from the Paleolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order..... More
Anchor Books, September 2015. Trade Paperback. A sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence--from the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God - "Elegant and powerful.... Both erudite and accurate, dazzling in its breadth of knowledge and historical detail." --The Washington Post In these..... More
Knopf, March 2006. Hardcover. In the ninth century BCE, the peoples of four distinct regions of the civilized world created the religious and philosophical traditions that have continued to nourish humanity to the present day: Confucianism and Daoism in China, Hinduism and Buddhism in India, monotheism in Israel, and philosophical..... More
Random House Inc, October 1993. Paper Back. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Ballantine Books, September 1994. Trade Paperback. Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--shaped and altered the conception of God? How have these religions influenced each other? In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the..... More
Knopf, March 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Karen Armstrong begins this spellbinding story of her spiritual journey with her departure in 1969 from the Roman Catholic convent she had entered seven years before--hoping, but ultimately failing, to find God. She knew almost nothing of the changed world to which she was..... More
University of Georgia Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ full number line; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy red cloth boards w/ white lettering at spine, mild scuffing/edge-wear present; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Random House Trade Paperbacks, September 2014. Trade Paperback. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "A lucid, intelligent page-turner" (Los Angeles Times) that challenges long-held assumptions about Jesus, from the host of Believer Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher walked across the Galilee, gathering followers to establish what he..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, March 1998. Trade Paperback. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his..... More