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
DeVorss & Co., (no date). Pamphlet. 16 mo. 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
Anchor Books, September 2015. Trade Paperback. With a new postscript In these times of rising geopolitical chaos, the need for mutual understanding between cultures has never been more urgent. Religious differences are seen as fuel for violence and warfare. In these pages, one of our greatest writers on religion, Karen..... More
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
Cascade Books, October 2017. Trade Paperback. As modernity gives way to postmodernity, we are witnessing the emergence of a post-political age. Concepts and realities that anchored modern politics--like nation-states, community, freedom, and law--find themselves under duress from a pluriform terror. Simultaneously, we are witnessing a turn to religion by continental..... More
Ultra, 2004. Trade Paperback. Clean, sound, gently read. No markings. More
Seed Publishing Group, LLC, October 2015. Trade Paperback. More
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
R. Rose Pub, January 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Gateway Editions, January 1956. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Macmillan, 1944. Cloth. Fourth printing. More
Random House, March 2021. Hardcover. "Courageous and inspiring."--Karen Armstrong, author of The Case for God "James Carroll takes us to the heart of one of the great crises of our times."--Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve An eloquent memoir by a former priest and National Book Award-winning writer who traces..... More
Signet Book, February 1988. Mass Market PaperBack. Millions of readers have been helped by the famous "Babylonian parables, " hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In language as simple as that of the Bible, these fascinating and informative..... More
See Sharp Press, January 2003. Pamphlet. 28 page stapled, folded, photo-copied pamphlet. More
Houghton Mifflin, September 2006. Hardcover. Jacket has very light shelf wear. More
Houghton Mifflin, September 2006. Hardcover. More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 2001. Trade Paperback. In The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (1912), Emile Durkheim sets himself the task of discovering the enduring source of human social identity. He investigates what he considered to be the simplest form of documented religion - totemism among the Aborigines of..... More
Oxford University Press, June 2001. Trade Paperback. Missionary, theologian, and religious genius, Paul is one of the most powerful human personalities in the history of the Church. E.P. Sanders, an influential Pauline scholar, analyzes the fundamental beliefs and vigorous contradictions in Paul's thought, discovering a philosophy that is less of..... More
Nilgiri Press, October 1996. Trade Paperback. How do we make Jesus' love come alive in our everyday lives? The Imitation of Christ is one of the most enduring of the Christian documents. Reflecting on a famous passage, Easwaran explores what it means to make Jesus' love come alive in our..... More
Christian Science Publishing Society, January 1937. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. {4 & 1/2' x 6 & 1/2'} Blue leatherette with gold lettering on spine and front board. Sharp squared corners of boards. Textblock top, bottom & fore-edges tinted green. Previous owner's name and location printed in blue ink front pasteddown along..... More
The Christian Science Publishing Society, January 1918. Cloth. Octavo. Black cloth covered boards with edgewear & bumped/bruised bottom corners.Gold lettering on spine with castellated horizontal bars. Blindstamped border devices on front and rear boards. Gold emblem stamped center of front board. Textblock edges with marbling print pattern top, bottom &..... More
Vintage, May 2004. Trade Paperback. In Beyond Belief, renowned religion scholar Elaine Pagels continues her groundbreaking examination of the earliest Christian texts, arguing for an ongoing assessment of faith and a questioning of religious orthodoxy. Spurred on by personal tragedy and new scholarship from an international group of researchers, Pagels..... More
Black International Iyahbinghi Press, January 1988. Trade Paperback. More
William Morrow & Company, September 2005. Hardcover. “Feiler brings to life the birth moment of Western faith and seeks to use the past to understand the present climate of religious extremism.”--Washington Post At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler travels..... More
Association Press, 1927. Reprint. Hardcover. 12mo. {4' x 6 & 1/2'}; Pine green with gold lettering on spine & black stamped lettering on front board. Blind stamped A.P. in upsided pyramid (Associated Press logo) back board. Flexible leatherette boards.Silk ribbon marker. Mild wear. Board corners are squared/sharp, not the often..... More
Anthroposophic Press, 1970. Pamphlet. 12mo. More
HarperOne, December 1996. Oversize Softcover. Did Jesus claim to be the Messiah?Did he promise to return and usher in a new age?How did Jesus envision the Kingdom of God? The Five Gospels answers these questions in a bold, dynamic work that will startle traditional readers of the Bible and rekindle..... More
Doubleday / Anchor Books, November 1956. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. This volume contains the translated text of the ancient Hebrew writings found in caves near the Dead Sea, plus separate introductions for each scroll as wee as new translations of the Hymns and paraphrases of the Bible narratives by..... More
Scholars Pr, June 1977. Trade Paperback. Covers a little rubbed; otherwise, very good condition. More
Philosophical Research Society, December 1994. Trade Paperback. Religion As A Personal Spiritual Experience This esoteric interpretation of the New Testament presents the devotional side of the Christian faith. The life and ministry of Jesus, the Lord's Prayer, the Beatitudes. the Sermon on the Mount, and the sacred mysteries of the..... More
W. W. Norton, October 2005. Trade Paperback. In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs--even when these beliefs inspire..... More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mild toning to front & back cover with slight darkening to spine. Previous owner's name in red ballpoint top edge half title page. Unmarked interior text. (312 pages.). More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich / Harvest, 1976. Paper Back. First Harvest paperback edition; darkened at margins. Clean, unmarked internally. (320 pages). More
Oxford University Press, USA, May 2009. Trade Paperback. In shaping the modern academy and in setting the agenda of modern Christian theology, few institutions have been as influential as the German universities of the nineteenth century. This book examines the rise of the modern German university from the standpoint of..... More
Twenty Third Pubns, September 1986. Trade Paperback. Meditations are directed to living life in the image of God, as revealed by Jesus, with Mary as a companion. Readers discover lovely solutions to stressful situations and grow in deeper relationship to Jesus and Mary. More
La Salette Publications, January 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Prometheus Books, July 2011. Trade Paperback. In this successor to his critically acclaimed anthology, The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, a former minister and now leading atheist spokesperson has assembled a stellar group of respected scholars to continue the critique of Christianity begun in the first volume. Contributors include Victor..... More
Vanderbilt University Press, February 2002. First Edition. Cloth. The Vanderbilt Divinity School is one of only four university-based interdenominational institutions in the United States, and the only one in the South. As such, its history provides a distinct vantage point for viewing what has occurred in theological education since the..... More
Rutgers University Press, January 2002. Trade Paperback. Human bodily existence is at the core of the Torah and the rest of the Hebrew Scriptures--from birth to death. From God's creation of Adam out of clay, to the narratives of priests and kings whose regulations governed bodily practices, the Hebrew Bible..... More
See Sharp Press, 1998. Pamphlet. 28 page stapled, folded, photo-copied pamphlet. More
See Sharp Press, January 1999. Pamphlet. 44 page stapled, photo-copied, folded, pamphlet. More
SteinerBooks, July 1980. Pamphlet. More
Houghton Mifflin, November 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. We think of Italy as an ancient nation, but in fact the unified Italian state was born only in the nineteenth century -- and only against the adamant refusal of the pope to relinquish his rule of Rome. In this riveting chronicle of..... More
Orbis Books, February 1998. Trade Paperback. Spirit of Fire is a popular biography of one of this century's most fascinating religious figures. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was a Jesuit theologian, mystic, and scientist renowned for his pioneering field work in geology, paleontology, and human origins. His writings have inspired..... More
Columbia University Press, September 2009. Hardcover. "Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism."..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, March 2007. Hardcover. The sharp, funny, and heartfelt follow-up to her bestselling Plan B, Anne Lamott's newest collection is a personal exploration of the faith and grace all around us. In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, Lamott examines the ways we're caught in life's most daunting predicaments: love..... More
Riverhead Hardcover, March 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. With the trademark wisdom, humor, and honesty that made Anne Lamott's book on faith, "Traveling Mercies," a runaway bestseller, "Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith" is a spiritual antidote to anxiety and despair in increasingly fraught times. The world is a more dangerous..... More
Anchor, February 2000. Trade Paperback. Anne Lamott claims the two best prayers she knows are: Help me, help me, help me and Thank you, thank you, thank you. She has a friend whose morning prayer each day is Whatever, and whose evening prayer is Oh, well. Anne thinks of Jesus..... More
HarperOne, October 2020. Hardcover. The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts - including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms - differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture's..... More
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, November 1991. Hardcover. A candid, wise, and warmly personal book in which Lewis explores the possibilities and problems of the four basic kinds of human love- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. Immensely worthwhile for its simplicity...a rare and memorable book (Sydney J. Harris)..... More
Touchstone Books, June 1996. Trade Paperback. "Mere Christianity" is C.S. Lewis's forceful and accesible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three seperate books - "The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior" and "Beyond Personality - Mere Christianity" brings together what Lewis sees as..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, February 2001. Trade Paperback. In The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis, one of the most renowned Christian authors and thinkers, examines a universally applicable question within the human condition: "If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow his creatures to suffer pain?" With his signature wealth of..... More
Harcourt, June 1966. Trade Paperback. "A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere . . . God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous."This book is not an autobiography. It is not a confession. It is..... More
Scribner Paper Fiction, September 1978. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Scribner, June 1996. Trade Paperback. Culled from some of C.S. Lewis's finest fiction and poetry, this collection of writings explores the eternal truths of Christianity in the accessible language of allegory, fairy tales, dream visions, and science fiction. From his children's classic "The Chronicles of Narnia" to the wisdom of..... More
Arcade Publishing, November 2004. Trade Paperback. In 1982, Henry Lincoln, with colleagues Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, published Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Dell), which became an immediate international bestseller. It investigated Rennes-le-Chateau, a small town in France where, in the late 19th century, the discovery of a series of parchments..... More
Paragon House Publishers, January 1992. Hardcover. The dramatic influence of Christianity on the Western Hemisphere was never more profound than in the era of colonization and expansion that began with Columbus and continued through the American Revolution. Christianity Comes to the Americas examines the many powerful religious forces that shaped..... More
Image, November 1987. Trade Paperback. Few spiritual figures have touched as many readers in the past century as Saint Therese of Lisieux, the saint popularly known as the Little Flower. Though she was only twenty-four years old when she died, her writings have had tremendous impact, making her one of..... More
Fordham University Press, November 2012. Trade Paperback. Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical--but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions--affirmative or negative--as they are provocations..... More
Konecky And Konecky, January 2005. Hardcover. More
Independent Publisher, July 2008. Trade Paperback. More
Abingdon Press, November 1993. Trade Paperback. An easy-to-understand scholarly study of the Book of Revelation! Noted New Testament scholar Bruce M. Metzger offers his biblical wisdom in this easy-to-understand scholarly commentary of the Revelation to John. Biblical scholar Bruce Metzger presents the fruits of solid scholarship in a non-academic style..... More
Random House Inc, June 1986. Trade Paperback. In December 1945, two Egyptian fellahin, digging for natural fertilizer in the Nile River valley unearthed a sealed storage jar. The jar proved to hold treasure of an unexpected sort: a collection of some fifty-two ancient manuscripts, most of which reflect the teachings..... More
Liveright Publishing Corporation, June 2021. Paper Back. Jesus and John Wayne is a sweeping, revisionist history of the last seventy-five years of white evangelicalism, revealing how evangelicals have worked to replace the Jesus of the Gospels with an idol of rugged masculinity and Christian nationalism--or in the words of one..... More
Carroll & Graf, August 2004. First Thus. Hardcover. More
Harper Perennial, October 1994. Trade Paperback. With more than 200,000 hardcover copies sold, this companion volume to "Care of the Soul" offers more of Thomas Moore's inspiring wisdom and empathy as it expands on his ideas about life, love, and the mysteries of human relationships. In "Care of the Soul,"..... More
Basic Books (AZ), July 2008. Book Club. Hardcover. Francis of Assisi is Catholicism's most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis-both his complicated personality and his complex theology-have been misunderstood for centuries. In 1228, Pope Gregory IX rushed to canonize..... More
NOK Publishers, January 1978. Trade Paperback. More
Viking Adult, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it received extraordinary media attention and was immediately heralded as a major biblical discovery that rocked the world of scholars and laypeople alike. Elaine Pagels and Karen King..... More
NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, 1966, January 1966. Paper Back. Sound spine, bright wrapper with foxing & some soiling to interiors. A decent good+ reading copy. More
Crossway Books, August 2004. Trade Paperback. Who is Jesus Christ? You've never met him in person, and you don't know anyone who has. But there is a way to know who he is. How? Jesus Christ-the divine Person revealed in the Bible-has a unique excellence and a spiritual beauty that..... More
World Bible Publishers, January 1963. Trade Paperback. Though apocryphal in nature, these books--suppressed by the Church Fathers--are fascinating and beautifully written. Here you can read for yourself many of the manuscripts which were excluded form the Cannon of Scripture, and discover new appreciation for those which were chosen. Now in..... More
Westminster John Knox Press, October 2003. Trade Paperback. Readers have repeatedly called The Lord of the Rings the most important book of our age--absorbing all 1,500 of its pages with an almost fanatical interest and seeing the Peter Jackson movies in unprecedented numbers. Readers from ages 8 to 80 keep..... More
Verso, March 2004. Cloth. God, who has changed the lives - and deaths - of men and women, has in turn changed His face and His meaning several times over since His birth three thousand years ago. He may have kept the same name throughout, but God has been addressed..... More
Elm Hill, November 2019. Paper Back. This one-year daily devotional is an invitation--an invitation to come on a fresh and exciting adventure into the Word of God. It is an invitation to enter into a deeper, more intimate relationship with your Heavenly Father--the One who made you, and wants you..... More
[Available from] First Presbyterian Church, January 1997. Hardcover. More
Vintage, October 1991. Trade Paperback. This controversial national bestseller is an audacious work of literary restoration revealing one of the great narratives of all time and unveiling its mysterious author. The Book of J is an innovative look at the text that runs through the first five books of the..... More
The Franklin Library. Leather. Half Leather with raised bands, gold lettering and designs. Gilt edged print block and bound in silk bookmark. More
Viking Books, October 2001. Hardcover. In Garry Wills's biography of Saint Augustine for the Penguin Lives series, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author brilliantly documented the life of the great Christian thinker. His translations of passages of Saint Augustine's influential Confessiones were hailed as "sizzling" (Peter Brown, New York Review of Books)..... More
Penguin Books, January 1996. Trade Paperback. Everyone has his own picture of Jesus - few historical figures have been so overlaid with centuries of mythmaking. But is it possible for us to discover what he was like from the historical evidence? Professor Sanders, author of Paul and Palestinian Judaism and..... More
George Ronald, June 1961. Mass Market PaperBack. More
University of Texas Press, April 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. A thief-turned-saint, killed by an insult. A rabbi burning down his world in order to save it. A man who lost his sanity while trying to fathom the origin of the universe. A beautiful woman battling her brother's and her husband's..... More
Citadel Press, January 1963. Paper Back. Worn at edges. Previous owner's name, a date and location inside first page. Clean & unmarked interior text. (419 pages). More
Yale University Press, 1976. Trade Paperback. More
Viking Adult, March 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. From the creator and host of public radios Speaking of Faith, this book offers the story of the conversational journey of discourse among theologians, scientists, ethicists, and seekers who explore such complex subjects as justice, evil, and love--all within the concept of spirituality..... More
Chalice Press, September 2019. Trade Paperback. In the year she served as a chaplain in a hospital "death ward," Dana Trent accompanied more than 200 people -- and their families -- on their passage from life to death. Dessert First gathers those stories and lessons, as well as others from..... More
Fordham University Press, January 1964. Cloth. Rubbing to dust jacket with edgewear. Orange paper end pages. Grey tinted top edge. Foxing to textblock edges & end pages. More
Arcade Publishing, January 2000. Hardcover. They stand on opposite ends of the spectrum: one is the world-famous author of The Name of the Rose and a self-declared secularist; the other is a senior member of the Catholic Church (often mentioned as a possible successor to the pope). In this amicable..... More
University of California Press, October 2019. Trade Paperback. Why are white evangelicals the most skeptical major religious group in America regarding climate change? Previous scholarship has pointed to cognitive factors such as conservative politics, anti-science attitudes, aversion to big government, and theology. Drawing on qualitative fieldwork, The Gospel of Climate..... More
Seven Bridges Pr Llc, April 2000. Trade Paperback. This is a survey of cult religious violence as associated with Jonestown, the Branch Davidians, Aum Shinriko, Montana Freemen, Solar Temple, Heaven's Gate and Chen Tao. The book presents case studies of contemporary millennial religions that either became violent, or had the..... More
Continuum Intl Pub Group (Sd), February 1994. Hardcover. A personable, congenial survey of the many approaches artists and intellectuals have made of the Jesus story these last two centuries. -- The Reader's Review. In dust jacket. Review materials. More
Penguin Classics, November 1961. Trade Paperback. Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literature. Written in the author's early forties in the last years of the fourth century A.D. and during his first years as a bishop, they reflect on his life and..... More
HarperSanFrancisco, October 1996. Trade Paperback. "The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation" is a landmark work that brings to life the long-inaccessible ancient scrolls of Qumran. Three distinguished translators at the forefront of modern scrolls scholarship reveal the rich tapestry of writings known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. This is..... More
Universelles Leben,Germany, March 1996. Pamphlet. English translation of German pamphlet. More
Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Darkened spine, dust stained cover & textblock edges. Previous owner's name rubber stamped half title page & last, inside page. (420 pages plus four pages of available Anchor titles.). More
Knopf, January 2013. Hardcover. National Book Award Finalist A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists--both famous and..... More
Vintage, November 2013. Trade Paperback. The Basis for the HBO Documentary. A National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. Scientology presents itself as a scientific approach to spiritual enlightenment, but its practices have long been shrouded in mystery. Now Lawrence Wright--armed with his investigative talents, years of..... More
