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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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What We Talk About When We Talk About God
Rob Bell · HarperOne
Format: Hardcover |
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New York Times bestselling author Rob Bell, whom The New Yorker describes as "one of the most influential Christian leaders in the country," does for the concept of God what he did for heaven and hell in his book Love Wins: He shows how traditional ideas have grown stale and dysfunctional... |
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The Divided Mind of the Black Church: Theology, Piety, and Public Witness
Raphael G Warnock · NYU Press
Pages: 263
Format: Print book |
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What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is one built by an enslaved people and formed, from its beginning, at the center of an oppressed community's... |
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Growing Up Duggar: It's All About Relationships
Jana Duggar · Howard Books; First Ed 1st Printing edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Its All About Relationships! In this delightful and very personal book, the four oldest Duggar girls share their hearts and their core beliefs, explaining that its all about relationships! Relationship with self The girls share their own personal journeys to self-acceptance and navigating... |
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Blood Moons Rising: Bible Prophecy, Israel, and the Four Blood Moons
Mark Hitchcock · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. |
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Has the final countdown to the end days begun? Are the heavens telling us we are nearing the end? Astronomers have noticed it is coming. Historians have noted its significance. In 2014 and 2015, there will be a phenomenon in the skies of four blood moons falling during Jewish feasts. This... |
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When Your Life Is on Fire: What Would You Save?
Erik Kolbell · Westminster John Knox Press |
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"In When Your Life Is On Fire Erik Kolbell listens, provokes, and most of all, shares with us the enduring lessons and insights of life and faith as realized by a diverse population of thoughtful people. It's a town hall of the soul." -- Tom BrokawIf your life was on fire, what... |
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The Gods of Olympus: A History
Barbara Graziosi · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 290
Format: Print book |
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An elegant and entertaining account of the transformations of the Greek gods across the ages, from antiquity to the Renaissance and the present dayThe gods of Olympus are the most colorful characters of Greek civilization: even in antiquity, they were said to be cruel, oversexed, mad, or just... |
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Three Gifts of Therese of Lisieux: A Saint for Our Times
Patrick V Ahern · Image
Pages: 127
Format: Print book |
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"Thérèse has been such a presence in my adult life - it is as if I have known her personally; she is as real and alive to me as my lifelong friends... I've identified three gifts that Thérèse has given me, which I would like to offer in this book to everyone seeking to find... |
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What Is Veiling?
Sahar Amer · The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover |
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Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world. What Is Veiling? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam. Sahar Amer's evenhanded approach is anchored in sharp cultural... |
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