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Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
Marcus J. Borg · HarperOne
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On the occasion of his 70th birthday, the renowned Marcus J. Borg shares his "convictions" about Christianity and America, contending that they are both at their best when they focus on hope and transformation, and shares his thoughts on how American Christians can return to what... |
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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking
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The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Reformation returns with the definitive history of Christianity for our time Once in a generation a historian will redefine his field, producing a book that demands to be read-a product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with... |
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Storm: Hearing Jesus for the Times We Live In
Jim Cymbala · Zondervan
Format: Hardcover |
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Storm What Jesus Is Saying to His Church is a book for every Christian who is concerned about the challenges that face believers today. Using powerful stories of people who have been transformed by Christ, it will strike a note of encouragement and hope, helping Christians to remember that... |
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Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
James J. O'Donnell · Ecco Press
Pages: 288
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A provocative and contrarian religious history that charts the rise of Christianity from the point of view of traditional" religion from the religious scholar and critically acclaimed author of Augustine. Pagans explores the rise of Christianity from a surprising and unique viewpoint:... |
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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
Hubert Wolf · Alfred A Knopf
Pages: 496
Format: Hardcover |
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A true, never-before-told story - discovered in a secret Vatican archive - of sex, poison, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth-century convent.In 1858, a German princess, recently inducted into the convent of Sant'Ambrogio in Rome, wrote a frantic letter to her cousin, a confidant... |
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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Karen Armstrong · Knopf; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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From the renowned and best-selling author of A History of God, a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in American. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11perception: that faith in general... |
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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East
Gerard Russell , · Tantor Audio; Unabridged CD edition
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Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctive and strange faiths: one regards the Greek prophets as incarnations of God, another reveres Lucifer in the form of a peacock, and yet another believes that their followers are reincarnated... |
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