A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible
Signet, May 1990. Mass Market PaperBack. Previous owner's name. Minimal creasing. More
Western Religion
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
Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
Oxford University Press, USA, May 1997. Hardcover. IThe Oxford Dictionary of World Religions is an exceptionally wide-ranging A-Z reference guide to the history, beliefs, dogmas, practices, individuals, customs, and artifacts of the worlds religions past and present. As well as detailed information on individual religious traditions, there are fascinating general..... 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
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 Theology of Martin Luther
Fortress Publishers, 1979. Reprint. Cloth. 4th printingOctavo in dustjacket with edgewear and dust stains. Overall DJ is a bit grubby. Red cloth with slightly faded silver lettering. Tanned end pages. Unmarked interiors. [464 pages]. More
The Prophet Isaiah Speaks Again
DeVorss & Co., (no date). Pamphlet. 16 mo. 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
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
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
The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts
Anchor, October 2020. Trade Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK ONE OF THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR The significance of scripture may not be immediately obvious in our secular world, but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of many of today's controversies. The sacred..... 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
God: A Human History
Random House, November 2017. Hardcover. 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 portrayal of Jesus..... 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
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
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
On Being a Pagan
Ultra, 2004. Trade Paperback. Clean, sound, gently read. No markings. More
30 Days to James: A Devotional Commentary
Seed Publishing Group, LLC, October 2015. Trade Paperback. More
Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference: Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham
Cascade Books, December 2007. Trade Paperback. Description: This is a work of Christian theology that Karl Barth might call an ad hoc or secondary apologetic. Relying on a paraphrase of Anselm--""faith seeking the ethical""--Boesel engages modern and postmodern theologians and philosophers--from Kierkegaard to Barth, Ruether, Hegel, Derrida, and Levinas--to analyze..... More
