Church Dogmatics a Selection
HarperCollins (paper), January 1961. Trade Paperback. More
Religion/Philosophy/Spirituality
Jesus: A Very Short Introduction
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
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
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
Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present
University Alabama Press, October 1975. Trade Paperback. Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics Before the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English--Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and..... More
The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers: Based on the Storrs Lectures Delivered at Yale University (Y-5)
Yale University Press, January 1966. Paper Back. Moderate shelfwear, Yet heavily underlined with tick marks and side notes in pencil throught the first 120 pages thereabout of this 168 page book. Decent reading copy for those not distracted by the defacement of another reader. [168 pp.]. More
Martin Buber: personalist & prophet,
Newman Press, January 1968. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. In mildly edgeworn DJ with darkened spine and one inch tear top edge of rear jacket panel. Boysenberry cloth with gold lettering on spine. Stamped in red ink: 'Library Glenn Dorris' front and rear free end pages.Dust stained top edge. Mild darkening at..... More
The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts
New Page Books, September 2023. Hardcover. Step into the dark roots of Christmas past where the Krampus punishes the bad boys and girls. Christmas time is truly the darkest and creepiest time of the year filled with devilish creatures lurking in the shadows waiting to get us. Best known is..... More
Humility: The Secret History of a Lost Virtue
Georgetown University Press, September 2023. Hardcover. This cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance and incivility History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, excessive individualism follows. A person who lacks humility is at risk of developing a deceptive sense..... More
God and the Gods: Myths of the Bible
Penguin Books, May 1983. Trade Paperback. More
Zen without Zen Masters
New Falcon Publications, June 1993. Trade Paperback. Presents a collection of contemporary Zen parables. For the novice, this work is an introduction to the baffling world of meditation, Eastern thought and the galaxy of philosophies that make up the expanding horizon of human awareness, and for the veteran, it integrates..... More
George Muller: Guardian of Bristol's Orphans
YWAM Publishing, December 2001. Trade Paperback. With scarcely enough food or money for his own family, George Mller opened his heart and home. Sustained by God's provision, the Mller house "Breakfast Club" of thirty orphans grew to five large houses that ultimately over ten thousand children would call home. George..... More
Towards a Relational Ontology: Philosophy's Other Possibility (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)
SUNY Press, June 2015. Hardcover. In this original work of philosophy, Andrew Benjamin calls for a new understanding of relationality, one inaugurating a philosophical mode of thought that takes relations among people and events as primary, over and above conceptions of simple particularity or abstraction. Drawing on the work of..... More
Is There Life on Earth: An Introduction to Gurdjieff (Bennett Books Spiritual Classic)
Bennett Books, June 1989. First Thus. Soft Cover. Octavo. First published in 1973 by Stonehill Publishing Company. First Bennet books edition with complete number string. No markings or underlining. 118 pages. Frontispiece photo reproduction of Gurdjieff, looking sharp, circa 1924. More
The Gods of Greece
Harry N. Abrams, March 1983. Cloth. Quarto. {9' x 11 & 1/2') In dustjacket with marginal darkening/foxing. Grey cloth covered boards with sun tanned edges. Silver stamped lettering along spine. End page design of fish pattern by Theodore Kalomirakis.[216 pages]. More
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
The Essential Zohar: The Source of Kabbalistic Wisdom
Harmony/Bell Tower, April 2004. Trade Paperback. For thousands of years, no book has been more shrouded in mystery than the Zohar, yet no book offers us greater wisdom. The central text of Kabbalah, the Zohar is a commentary on the Bible's narratives, laws, and genealogies and a map of the..... More
Matter and Memory
Zone Books, April 1988. First Thus. Hardcover. "Since the end of the last century," Walter Benjamin wrote, "philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the 'true' experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is..... More
The two sources of morality and religion (A28)
Doubleday Anchor, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Dust stains to textblock edges. Cover worn at extremities. Foxing/darkening to wrapper margins.Two sources of Moraltity and Religion first published in France in 1932. The English translation appeared in 1935. (320 pages.). More
Two Sources of Morality and Religion. (Anchor, A28)
Doubleday - Anchor, January 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Edgeworn. creased spine, underlining in pen & pencil scattered here and there within text. Ring stain from a glass or cup verso of front cover. Dark stain top textblock edge. [320 pp.]. More
Principles Dialogues and Philosophical Co
Library Of Liberal Arts, January 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Principles Dialogues and Philosophical Co
Library Of Liberal Arts, January 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Hackett Pub Co Inc, June 1979. Trade Paperback. A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield. More
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
Hackett Pub Co Inc, June 1979. Trade Paperback. A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield. More
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous -- Edited, with an Introduction, By Colin M. Turbayne
The Library of Liberal Arts; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955. Paper Back. Damp stained & darkened top right corner. Sunned spine. Smudges along textblock fore-edge. Some side notes here and there, a few times within text. [113 pp.]. More
Straight Talk: My Dilemma As an Orthodox Jewish Woman
Ktav Publishing House, May 1999. Hardcover. Speaking to her daughters as they will be in ten years or so, Sally Berkovic writes that "the moment that Avigayil, my first born, was delivered, I had a profound religious experience. I realized that feminist theologians who claim God is a woman are..... More
