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
Western Religion
Cambridge Companion to Liberation Theology
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
A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible
Signet, May 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's name. Minimal creasing. More
Embracing the Divine Feminine: Finding God Through God the Ecstasy of Physical Love--The Song of Songs Annotated & Explained
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
Lit Guide to the Bible P
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
The Oxford Guide to Ideas & Issues of the Bible
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
The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity (Oxford illustrated histories)
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
Psychology & Christianity: Four Views
IVP Academic, September 2000. Trade Paperback. Psychology has exploded across the academic and popular landscape in the last hundred years. Dozens of schools of thought have arisen and thousands of books have been written on the nature of our personalities, our development, our relationships and our inner well-being. All of..... More
Paul: The Mind of the Apostle
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
Letters of Abelard and Heloise
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
The People's Reformation: Magistrates, Clergy, and Commons in Strasbourg, 1500-1598
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
The Prophet Isaiah Speaks Again
DeVorss & Co., (no date). Pamphlet. 16 mo. More
Introduction To Saint Thomas Aquinas
Modern Library, February 1965. Trade Paperback. Edited, with an Introduction, by Anton C. Pegis with selections from SUMMA THEOLOGICA and SUMMA CONTRA GENTILES. More
The Battle for God
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
The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
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
The Case for God
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
The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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
Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization - Originally published as How to Win a Cosmic War
Random House Trade Paperbacks, April 2010. Trade Paperback. "A very persuasive argument for the best way to counter jihadism" (The Washington Post) from the bestselling author of Zealot and host of Believer The wars in the Middle East have become religious wars in which God is believed to be directly..... More
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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
Augustine: On Christian Doctrine
Macmillan/Library of Liberal Arts, 1989. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Pencil underlining and tick marks and a few side notes scattered through text. Previous owner's name in ink half title page. [169 pages]. More
Portable World Bible
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
Science, Society & Religion
See Sharp, January 2000. Stapled Soft Cover. 16 page stapled, folded, photo-copied pamphlet. More
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
The Ecclesiastical History of the English Nation: With the life and miracles of St. Cuthbert and the lives of the abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow (Everyman's Library ; no. 479 : History)
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
