Paulist Press, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Here is a fascinating and unusual addition to the acclaimed Classics of Western Spirituality(TM)series. Abraham Miguel Cardozo (1627-1706) was born to a Marrano family in Spain and raised as a Catholic. After fleeing Spain at age 22, he returned to Judaism and educated himself..... 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
ICS Publications, January 1987. Trade Paperback. This is the second edition of volume One of The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, first woman doctor of the church. The translators have taken full advantage of all that recent scholarship has contributed to a better understanding of Teresa and her..... 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
Scribner Book Company, April 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. "Does God Exist and Does He Care?" In April 1997 Reynolds Price received an eloquent letter from a reader of his cancer memoir "A Whole New Life." The correspondent, a young medical student diagnosed with cancer himself and facing his own mortality..... 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, 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
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
Oxford University Press, USA, August 1998. Trade Paperback. St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) saw religion as part of the natural human propensity to worship. His ability to recognize the naturalness of this phenomenon and simultaneously to go beyond it--to explore, for example, spiritual revelation--makes his work as fresh and readable today..... 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
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
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, April 2019. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer explores humanity's quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn..... More
Penguin Classics, January 2004. Trade Paperback. St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on..... More
Crossroad Publishing Company, November 1996. Trade Paperback. This is a Girardian-influenced, engagingly written classic on the nature of violence and the hope for overcoming it in our conflict-ridden world. It is also a literary work, an often miraculous interplay between cultural documents and historical periods. Teacher, lecturer, and writer Gil..... More
