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Universelles Leben,Germany, March 1996. Pamphlet. English translation of German pamphlet. More
Universelles Leben,Germany, March 1996. Pamphlet. English translation of German pamphlet. More
W. W. Norton & Company, September 1997. Trade Paperback. In Robert Alter's brilliant translation, these stories cohere in a powerful narrative of the tortuous relations between fathers and sons, husbands and wives, eldest and younger brothers, God and his chosen people, the people of Israel and their neighbors. Alter's translation..... More
Scholars Pr, June 1977. Trade Paperback. Covers a little rubbed; otherwise, very good condition. More
Konecky And Konecky, January 2005. Hardcover. 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
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
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
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
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
Knopf, September 2009. First Edition. 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..... 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
Anchor, October 2020. Paper Back. 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
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
Random House Trade Paperbacks, May 2020. Paper Back. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a...... More
Macmillan, 1944. Cloth. Fourth printing. More
See Sharp, January 2006. Pamphlet. Stapled, folded, photo-copied 22 page pamphlet. 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, 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
Penguin Books, June 2020. Paper Back. From the world's greatest tour guide, a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times). What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and..... More
Viking, October 2019. Hardcover. From the world's greatest tour guide, a deeply-researched, captivating journey through the rich history of Christianity and the winding paths of the French and Italian countryside that will feed mind, body, and soul (New York Times). What a wondrous work! This beautifully written and totally clear-eyed..... 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
Simon & Schuster, December 2020. Hardcover. In this uplifting and practical book, written in collaboration with his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, the preeminent spiritual leader explains why we must--and how we can--make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now. In the COVID crisis, the beloved shepherd of over..... More
Anthroposophic Press, 1970. Pamphlet. 12mo. 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..... 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..... More
Simon & Schuster, September 2006. Hardcover. Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like..... 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
AltaMira Press, October 2004. Trade Paperback. Two bumped corners and some edge wear on the front cover. 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
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
Manic D Press, February 2006. Trade Paperback. In this critically acclaimed compendium of 11 outrageous commentaries and tales by the English language's greatest satirist, Jonathan Swift reflects on the absurdity of organized religion, classical versus modern literature, astrological predictions, eating children, and other tantalizing topics. 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
Ballantine Books, February 2001. Trade Paperback. In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an overwhelming force in every major world religion. Why? This is the fascinating, disturbing question that bestselling author Karen Armstrong addresses in her brilliant new book The Battle for God..... 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
Harper Perennial, October 1964. Trade Paperback. 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
Penguin, 1959. Mass Market PaperBack. 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
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
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
Independent Publisher, July 2008. Trade Paperback. More
Cascade Books, August 2012. Trade Paperback. Synopsis: Two parables that have become firmly lodged in popular consciousness and affection are the parable of the Good Samaritan and the parable of the Prodigal Son. These simple but subversive tales have had a significant impact historically on shaping the spiritual, aesthetic, moral..... More
Harper, June 1969. Trade Paperback. In a modern translation by Raymond B. Blakney, here are the essential writings of Meister Eckhart, the celebrated 14th Century German-born Dominican philosopher, mystic, and spiritual master, including his famous, brilliantly reasoned defense against charges of heresy during a local Franciscan-led Inquisition. Perhaps the most..... More
Harcourt, October 1999. Trade Paperback. One of the most famous books ever written about a man's search for faith and peace. The Seven Storey Mountain tells of the growing restlessness of a brilliant and passionate young man, who at the age of twenty-six, takes vows in one of the most..... More
Carroll & Graf, August 2004. First Thus. Hardcover. More
Beacon Press, November 2020. Hardcover. Reveals how faith traditions have always passed down tools for self-examination and debate, because all religious ideas--not just extremist ones--can cause harm, even as they also embody important moral teachings. Scripture's abiding relevance can inspire great goodness, such as welcoming the stranger and extending compassion..... More
WaterBrook, October 2019. Paper Back. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - ECPA BESTSELLER - "When it comes to the intersection of race, privilege, justice, and the church, Tasha is without question my best teacher. Be the Bridge is THE tool I wish to put in every set of hands."--Jen Hatmaker Winner..... 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
NEW YORK: SCRIBNER, 1966, January 1966. Paper Back. Sound spine, bright wrapper with foxing & some soiling to interiors. A decent good+ reading copy. 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
Abingdon Press, August 2013. Trade Paperback. The Reformation of the sixteenth century was a vast and complicated movement. It involved kings and peasants, cardinals and country priests, monks and merchants. It spread from one end of Europe to the other, and manifested itself in widely differing forms. Yet in spite..... 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
Da Capo Press, June 1999. Trade Paperback. 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
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
N/A, June 2001. Hardcover. We must reduce our volume to the simple evangelists, select, even from them, the very words only of Jesus. There will be remaining the most sublime and benevolent code of morals which has ever been offered to man.--Thomas Jefferson Featuring an introduction by Forrest Church, this..... 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
HarperOne, September 2020. Paper Back. Writing in response to our current "constitutional crisis," New York Times bestselling author and Christian activist Jim Wallis urges America to return to the tenets of Jesus once again as the means to save us from the polarizing bitterness and anger of our tribal nation..... More
Harper Perennial, 1973. Trade Paperback. Philosopher, theologian, social critic, and political activist, Simone Well has become a legend of modern spiritual and political thought. Waiting for God contains her most profound thoughts on the relationship of human life to the eternal -- especially as it relates to obedience, surrender, spiritual..... 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
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
See Sharp, January 2000. Stapled Soft Cover. 16 page stapled, folded, photo-copied pamphlet. More