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

Konecky And Konecky, January 2005. Hardcover. 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

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

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

Ultra, 2004. Trade Paperback. Clean, sound, gently read. No markings. 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

Macmillan, 1944. Cloth. Fourth printing. More

See Sharp Press, January 2003. Pamphlet. 28 page stapled, folded, photo-copied pamphlet. More

Houghton Mifflin, September 2006. Hardcover. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Independent Publisher, July 2008. Trade Paperback. 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

Carroll & Graf, August 2004. First Thus. Hardcover. 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

NOK Publishers, January 1978. Trade Paperback. 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

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

[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

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

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

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

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

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