The Bible and the Common Reader
Macmillan Paperbacks, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with edgewear and two vertical creases running along spine. [381 pages]. More
Western Religion
The Eastern Orthodox Church: Its Thought And Life
Doubleday Anchor, 1963. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor Original. Somewhat darkened spine with torn, half inch length of top edge of front cover at upper left corner of spine. Previous owner's name & a date in ballpoint on half title page. Cover painting by Vladimir Bobri based..... More
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
W.W. Norton & Co., April 2007. Trade Paperback. Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard..... More
The Map Is Not the Journey: Faith Renewed While Hiking the Alps
Leafwood Publishers, November 2017. Trade Paperback. Replace weariness with refreshment, obligations with passion, and staleness with joy. After twenty years of working the same job, Richard was burned out. When a close friend died, grief led to questions about faith, meaning, work, and life. Seeking answers, Richard hiked four hundred..... More
New Seeds of Contemplation -- NDP337
New Directions Publishing Corporation, March 1972. Trade Paperback. If you read nothing else by Merton, read this. Personal, direct, and lucid, it contains some of his most challenging insights into the struggle to find an honest relationship with God and one's fellow humans. The book takes a compelling yet thoughtful..... More
Pilgrim's Progress
Brown Chair Books, May 2020. Trade Paperback. The most readable version of Pilgrim's Progress available! Reading The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan can be a bit challenging even for the best of readers. Not so with this new, easy-to-read version that translates the original archaic language into simple conversational English..... More
God and the Gods: Myths of the Bible
Penguin Books, May 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Biblical Religion and the Search for Ultimate Reality
University of Chicago Press, March 1964. Paper Back. Dr. Tillich shows here that in spite of the contrast between philosophical and biblical language, it is neither necessary nor possible to separate them from each other. On the contrary, all the symbols used in biblical religion drive inescapably toward the philosophical..... More
Religion and Philosophy in Germany
Beacon Press, 1959. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo with darkened spine. Rear cover damp stained across bottom and about halfway up both spine and fore-edge side. [177 pages]. More
The New English Bible - New Testament Preface-Alwyn Winton Published by Oxford University Press, 1961
Oxford University Press, April 1961. Reprint. Cloth. Tenth printing. {5 & 3/4' x 9'} Navy blue cloth covered boards and spine with gold lettering along spine and gold crucifix emblem in center of the front panel. Dust stains textblock edges. Foxing end papers. [447 pages]. More
Readings in the History of Christian Theology, Volume 2: From the Reformation to the Present
Westminster John Knox Press, January 1988. Paper Back. In this second volume of Readings in the History of Christian Theology, William C. Placher begins with a decisive transition, the Reformation of the sixteenth century, and opens with an excerpt from Martin Luther's The Freedom of a Christian. From the sixteenth..... More
Readings in the History of Christian Theology, Volume 1: From Its Beginnings to the Eve of the Reformation
Westminster John Knox Press, January 1988. Paper Back. In this book, William C. Placher compiles significant passages written by the most important Christian thinkers through the early sixteenth century. An important resource for theological study, Readings in the History of Christian Theology contains excerpts preceded by the author's illuminating introductions..... More
History of Christian Theology: An Introduction
Westminster John Knox Press, January 1983. Paper Back. A History of Christian Theology offers a consice yet complete chronicle of the whole history of Christian theology, from its background in the history of Israel to the various modes of liberation theology in the late 20th century. This book is an..... More
Understanding the New Testament (The Cambridge Bible Commentary on the New English Bible, Introductory Volume)
Cambridge University Press, 1969. Paper Back. This series of commentaries on the New English Bible is designed for use in schools and colleges, and for the minister and the layman. Each volume comments on one book, or part, of the Bible. In each the text is given in full. Sections..... More
What Jesus Meant
Viking Books, March 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. As the religious rhetoric of the culture wars escalates, New York Times bestselling author and eminent scholar Wills explores the meaning of Jesus' teachings. As the religious rhetoric of the culture wars escalates, 'New York Times' bestselling author and eminent scholar Wills explores..... More
Grief Observed
HarperOne, July 2009. Hardcover. In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, a confirmed bachelor, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four brief, intensely happy years, Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. To defend himself against the loss of belief in God, Lewis wrote this journal, an..... More
Selected Philosophical Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
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
Troubled by Truth: Biographies in the Presence of Mystery
Pilgrim Pr. Trade Paperback. Faith biographies of Salman Rushdie, Elie Wiesel, Arnold Toynbee, Abraham Heschel, Henry Martyn, Charles Freer Andrews, Constance E. Padwick, James Parkes, Isma 'il al-Faruqi, Salah 'Abd al-Sabur, Asaf 'Ali Asghar Fyzee, Raimundo Panikkar, and Wilfred Cantwell Smith. More
Obedience of a Christian Man
Penguin USA, October 2000. Trade Paperback. One of the key foundation books of the English Reformation, The Obedience of a Christian Man (1528) makes a radical challenge to the established order of the all-powerful Church of its time. Himself a priest, Tyndale boldly claims that there is just one social..... More
Screwtape Letters
Scribner, June 1996. Trade Paperback. A "Positively Diabolical" Correspondence "My dear Wormwood, ... " So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into..... More
Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (Revised)
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
The Essence of Christianity -- TB 11
Harper Torchbooks/ the Cloister Library, 1957. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo in marginally darkened. Previous owners name stamp on half title page.[339 pages]. More
Studies in the Sermon on the Mount
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, June 1984. Trade Paperback. A spiritual classic, this detailed and comprehensive study by one of the greatest expository preachers of our time explains Christ's teaching in the Sermon on the Mount and incisively applies it to the Christian life. With characteristic vigor and emotional vitality..... More
Attack Upon Christendom
Beacon Press, October 1963. Reprint. Paper Back. 5th printing.Octavo., Heavy soiling and marginal darkening. Curled and mishaped front cover. Dog-eared and torn/creased small clutch of five pages toward beginning. [303 pages]. More
Learning to Walk in the Dark
HarperOne, April 2014. Hardcover. New York Times Bestseller From the New York Times bestselling author of An Altar in the World, Barbara Brown Taylor's Learning to Walk in the Dark provides a way to find spirituality in those times when we don't have all the answers. Taylor has become increasingly..... More
