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The Great Shift: Encountering God in Biblical Times
James Kugel · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A world-renowned scholar brings a lifetime of study to reveal how a pivotal transformation in spiritual experience during the Biblical Era made us who we are today Why does the Bible depict a world in which humans, with surprising regularity, encounter the divine - wrestling an angel, addressing... |
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The Rational Bible: Exodus
Dennis Prager · Regnery Faith
Pages: 500
Format: Hardcover
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For many, the Bible is anything but rational. It is often seen as a collection of religious fairy tales. In this remarkable new work, The Rational Bible: Exodus, the second book of the Bible, is explained by Dennis Prager, not employing faith but reason. Stories and laws which for the non-believer... |
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What the Qur'an Meant: And Why It Matters
GARRY WILLS · Viking
Pages: 226
Format: Hardcover
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America's leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur'an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient textGarry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur'an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him as he embarks... |
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Enlightenment Now: Liberation Is Your True Nature
Jason Gregory · Inner Traditions
Pages: 176
Format: Print book
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A guide to uncovering the enlightenment already within us * Builds on Buddhist, Hindu, and Taoist wisdom to express the timeless and ever-present nature of enlightenment * Reveals the negative impact of social and cultural conditioning on our psyche and how to counteract this through... |
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Tarot Mysteries: Rediscovering the Real Meaning of the Cards
Jonathan Dee · Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
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This is a practical and accessible guide to one of the most popular divination systems. What makes this book different from the others is that it:Provides instruction on reading both the Major and Minor ArcanaExplains why the cards are the cards, why each picture forms part of a sequence,... |
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Complicity and Moral Accountability
Gregory Mellema
Format: Hardcover
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In Complicity and Moral Accountability, Gregory Mellema presents a philosophical approach to the moral issues involved in complicity. Starting with a taxonomy of Thomas Aquinas, according to whom there are nine ways for one to become complicit in the wrongdoing of another, |
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Practical Magic: A Beginner's Guide to Crystals, Horoscopes, Psychics, and Spells
Nikki Van De Car · Running Press
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
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Practical Magic is a charmed introduction to the wonders of modern magic and mysticism, from crystals and astrology to chakras, dream interpretation, and, of course, a few spells!Focusing on three primary areas -- healing, magic, and fortunetelling -- this books provides the perfect... |
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The Koran in English: A Biography
Bruce B Lawrence · Princeton University Press
Pages: 264
Format: Hardcover
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For millions of Muslims, the Qur'an is sacred only in Arabic, the original Arabic in which it was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad in the seventh century; to many Arab and non-Arab believers alike, the book literally defies translation. Yet English translations exist and are growing,... |
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Wake Up to Hope: Devotional
Joel Osteen · Faithwords
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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The key to having a positive, happy, faith-filled day is to start each morning setting your mind in the right direction. It's easy to lie in bed thinking: "I don't feel like going to work. I don't want to deal with these children. I didn't exercise yesterday."... |
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C. S. Lewis' Little Book of Wisdom: Meditations on Faith, Life, Love, and Literature
C S LEWIS · Hampton Roads Publishing
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
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Novelist, poet, critic, lay theologian, and best-selling author of the 'Narnia' series, C. S. Lewis' works have become timeless classics for adults and children around the world.Here in one concise volume is the essence of his thought on subjects ranging from love and faith... |
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Archaeology of the Bible: The Greatest Discoveries From Genesis to the Roman Era
Jean-Pierre Isbouts · National Geographic Partners
Pages: 352
Format: Print book
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From ancient holy sites, to buried relics and treasures, National Geographic uncovers the history and the archaeological discoveries from Scripture and the biblical world. Richly illustrated and written from an objective and nondenominational perspective, author Jean-Pierre Isbouts uses... |
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How God Became God: What Scholars Are Really Saying About God and the Bible
Richard Smoley · Tarcher
Pages: 320
Format: Print book
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This epic, thrilling journey through Bible scholarship and ancient religion shows how much of Scripture is historically false--yet the ancient writings also resound with theologies that crisscrossed the primeval world and that direct us today toward a deep, inner, authentic experience of the truly... |
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Grace, Not Perfection: Embracing Simplicity, Celebrating Joy
Emily Ley · Thomas Nelson
Pages: 224
Format: Print book
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I will hold myself to a standard of grace, not perfection. As a busy wife, new mother, business owner, and designer, Emily Ley came to a point when she suddenly realized she couldn't do it all. She needed to simplify her life, organize her days, and prioritize the priorities. She decided... |
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