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The Age of the Spirit: How the Ghost of an Ancient Controversy Is Shaping the Church
Phyllis Tickle · Baker Books
Pages: 184
Format: Hardcover
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A thousand years ago, the church experienced a time of tremendous upheaval called the Great Schism. The one faith became two churches, East and West, and the course of world history was forever changed. And it all swirled around one Latin word in the Nicene Creed, filioque, that indicated... |
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Psalm Hymns, Books 1, 2, & 3: Dramatic, Contemplative, Singable, Recitable Psalms!
L L Larkins · Capture Books
Pages: 292
Format: Print book
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Raw, classic prayers for a creative's portfolio. Use to perform or study dramatic historical pleas with worship and praises to God. This volume of 89 singable Psalm Hymns guides you through anchored lyrics in dramatic poetry yet, allows you to interpret the intent and style at will.... |
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The Hope Quotient: Measure It. Raise It. You'll Never Be the Same.
Ray Johnston · Thomas Nelson Publishers
Pages: 235
Format: Hardcover
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What's at the heart of every thriving person, every thriving marriage, kid, and business? Hope! The Hope Quotient is a revolutionary new method for measuring -- and dramatically increasing -- your level of hope. Hope is more than a feeling; it's the by-product of seven key factors.... |
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The Reason for My Hope: Salvation
Billy Graham · W Group
Pages: 207
Format: Hardcover
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Back cover: What is the most hopeful word in History?For Billy Graham, that word is SALVATION.Salvation from what?From our selfish and self-destructive selves.From the messes we get ourselves into.From the sin that has haunted humanity from the beginning of time and the evil that pulls... |
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The Art of the Qur'an: Treasures from the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Massumeh Farhad · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 384
Format: Print book
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In the early twentieth century, the Ottoman Empire was in political turmoil. Officials moved valuable artworks--including thousands of sumptuous Qur'an (Koran) manuscripts and loose pages dating from the 7th to 17th century--to Istanbul to ensure their safety. Penned by celebrated... |
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Believers, Thinkers, and Founders: How We Came to Be One Nation Under God
Kevin Seamus Hasson · Image Books
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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In Believers, Thinkers and Founders: How We Came to be One Nation Under God, Kevin Seamus Hasson - founder and president emeritus of the Becket Fund for Religious liberty - offers a refreshing resolution to the age-old dispute surrounding the relationship of religion and state: a return... |
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Living the Secular Life: New Answers to Old Questions
Phil Zuckerman · Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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David Brooks, The New York TimesAs secularism becomes more prominent and self-confident, its spokesmen have more insistently argued that secularism should not be seen as an absence — as a lack of faith — but rather as a positive moral creed. Phil Zuckerman, a Pitzer College sociologist,... |
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Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table
Ellen Wayland-Smith · Picador
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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A fascinating and unusual chapter in American history about a religious community that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion---only to transform itself, at the beginning of the twentieth century, into a successful silverware company and a model of buttoned-down corporate propriety.In... |
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Your Guide to the Jewish Holidays: From Shofar to Seder
Matt Axelrod · Jason Aronson
Pages: 203
Format: Print book
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Recent years have seen an increased interest in Jewish life, its culture, and its celebrations. There are many new students of Judaism, often potential converts or members of interfaith families who are seeking to learn more about the religion and its rituals. Unfortunately, many of the existing... |
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Secular Buddhism: Imagining the Dharma in an Uncertain World
Stephen Batchelor · Yale University Press
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
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An essential collection of Stephen Batchelor's most probing and important work on secular Buddhism As the practice of mindfulness permeates mainstream Western culture, more and more people are engaging in a traditional form of Buddhist meditation. However, many of these people have little... |
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God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican
Gerald Posner · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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A deeply reported, New York Times bestselling exposé of the money and the clerics-turned-financiers at the heart of the Vatican - the world's biggest, most powerful religious institution - from an acclaimed journalist with "exhaustive research techniques" (The New York Times)... |
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Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion
Susan Jacoby · Pantheon Books
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul... |
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Salvation with a Smile: Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, and American Christianity
Phillip Luke Sinitiere · Nyu Press
Pages: 336
Format: Print book
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Joel Osteen, the smiling preacher, has quickly emerged as one of the most recognizable Protestant leaders in the country. His megachurch, the Houston based Lakewood Church, hosts an average of over 40,000 worshipers each week. Osteen is the best-selling author of numerous books, and his sermons... |
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