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Convictions: How I Learned What Matters Most
Marcus J. Borg · HarperOne Format: Hardcover |
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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Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence
Karen Armstrong · Knopf; 1St Edition edition Format: Hardcover |
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 Format: Audio CD |
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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The Religion of Democracy: Seven Liberals and the American Moral Tradition
Amy Kittelstrom · Penguin Press Format: Hardcover |
A history of religion's role in the American liberal tradition through the eyes of seven transformative thinkersToday we associate liberal thought and politics with secularism. When we argue over whether the nation's founders meant to keep religion out of politics, the godless side... |
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What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done
Matthew Perman , · Zondervan |
Do Work That Matters Productivity isn't just about getting more things done. It's about getting the right things done---the things that count, make a difference, and move the world forward. In our current era of massive overload, this is harder than ever before. So how do you get more... |
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Storm: Hearing Jesus for the Times We Live In
Jim Cymbala · Zondervan Format: Hardcover |
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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The Nuns of Sant'Ambrogio: The True Story of a Convent in Scandal
Hubert Wolf · Alfred A Knopf Pages: 496 Format: Hardcover |
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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Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch · Viking Format: Hardcover |
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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