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Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus
C. Christopher Smith · IVP Books Format: Paperback
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Fast food. Fast cars. Fast and furious. Fast forward. Fast . . . church? The church is often idealized (or demonized) as the last bastion of a bygone era, dragging our feet as we're pulled into new moralities and new spiritualities. We guard our doctrine and our piety with great vigilance.... |
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Mythomania: Tales of Our Times, from Apple to Isis
Peter Conrad · Thames & Hudson Ltd Pages: 248 Format: Print book
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Weaves ancient myth into modern celebrity and consumerist culture to expose the absurdity and occasional insanity of twenty-first-century society, economy, and politicsDespite a proclaimed respect for scientific reason, humans are still as intrigued by myth as their remote ancestors. Laptops... |
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Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment
ROBERT WRIGHT · Simon & Schuster Pages: 336 Format: Hardcover
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New York Times Bestseller From one of America's greatest minds, a journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation to show how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and enduring happiness.Robert Wright famously explained in The Moral Animal how evolution shaped the human... |
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My Appeal to the World
Dalai Lama · Tibet House US Format: Hardcover
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His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama is the foremost spokesperson for the people of the Tibetan Plateau—although his home is in India, in the Himalayan foothills, where he has been forced to live in exile since 1959. As a Buddhist monk, his main focus has been the spiritual life, and the leadership... |
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Blood Moons Rising: Bible Prophecy, Israel, and the Four Blood Moons
Mark Hitchcock · Tyndale House Publishers, Inc. Format: Paperback
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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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The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism
Vladimir Sergeyevich Solovyov · University of Notre Dame Press Pages: 628 Format: Print book
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Vladimir Solovyov, one of nineteenth-century Russia's greatest Christian philosophers, was renowned as the leading defender of Jewish civil rights in tsarist Russia in the 1880s. The Burning Bush: Writings on Jews and Judaism presents an annotated translation of Solovyov's complete... |
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The Divine Mind: Exploring the Psychological History of God's Inner Journey
Michael Gellert · Prometheus Books Pages: 304 Format: Hardcover
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A Jungian psychoanalyst with a background in Judaism and Zen Buddhism explores the history of God concepts in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions. This book is about the Abrahamic God's inner journey, an epic that begins in the Hebrew Bible--the common source of Judaism, Christianity,... |
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The Miracle in the Gospels: What Do They Teach Us about Jesus?
Keith Warrington · Hendrickson Publishers Pages: 274 Format: Print book
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Keith Warrington s book paints a compelling picture of Jesus as miracle worker. It shows how miracles functioned as a strategy in his ministry, and explains why some miracles are recorded differently in different Gospels. In this magisterial study, Keith Warrington paints a rounded picture... |
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The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao
Ian Johnson · Pantheon Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today - its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China's future. The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world's great... |
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Soul Story: Evolution and the Purpose of Life
Tim Freke · Watkins Publishing Pages: 288 Format: Paperback
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The grand religious stories that gave meaning to life and death in the past have crumbled under sceptical scrutiny. The dominant mainstream philosophy is now scientific objectivism, which describes a universe that exists for no reason and a life that ends in oblivion. Pioneering philosopher... |
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