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Reinventing Liberal Christianity

Theo Hobson · Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Format: Hardcover

In this provocative book Theo Hobson addresses the current crisis of liberal Christianity. In past years liberal Christianity challenged centuries of authoritarian tradition and had great political influence. It played a major role in the founding of the United States and gave rise to the secular...
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Why the Catholic Church Must Change: A Necessary Conversation

Margaret Nutting Ralph · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Print book

Why do a third of the people raised Catholic in the United States no longer worship as Catholics? Why has the Catholic Church lost a credible teaching voice for many young people? Does the fault lie entirely with those individuals and with the secular culture? In Why the Catholic Church...
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The Story of Christianity: A Chronicle of Christian Civilization From Ancient Rome to Today

Jean-Pierre Isbouts · National Geographic
Format: Hardcover

Sumptuously illustrated with hundreds of gorgeous photographs, artifacts, and maps, The Story of Christianity focuses on the rich social and cultural history of Christianity through the ages, from its roots in Palestine to its triumph as a global movement, told through a series of dramatic...
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Spooky New Orleans: Tales of Hauntings, Strange Happenings, and Other Local Lore

S. E. Schlosser · Globe Pequot Press
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

Pull up a chair or gather round the campfire and get ready for creepy tales of ghostly hauntings, eerie happenings, and other strange occurrences under the New Orleans skies. Whether read around the campfire on a dark and stormy night or from the backseat of the family van on the way to grandma's,...
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Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas

Sarah Palin · Broadside Books; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

In her New York Times bestsellers Going Rogue and America by Heart, Sarah Palin revealed the strong Christian faith that has guided her life and family. In Good Tidings and Great Joy she calls for bringing back the freedom to express the Christian values of the season. She asserts the importance...
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Faith and Will: Weathering the Storms in Our Spiritual Lives

Julia Cameron · Tarcher; First Edition edition
Format: Book

Another classic work from the world's foremost authority on creativity and spirituality.Julia Cameron is the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way and twenty-eight other groundbreaking books that deftly trace the intersection between art and faith, between creativity...
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A Short History of Christianity

Geoffrey Blainey · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Format: Hardcover

A Short History of Christianity vividly describes many of the significant players in the religion's rise and fall through the ages, from Jesus himself to Francis of Assisi, Martin Luther, Francis Xavier, John Wesley, and even the Beatles, who claimed to be "more popular than Jesus."...
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Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

David Limbaugh · Regnery Publishing; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

New York Times Bestseller!In Jesus on Trial, David Limbaugh applies his lifetime of legal experience to a unique new undertaking: making a case for the gospels as hard evidence of the life and work of Jesus Christ. Limbaugh, a practicing attorney and former professor of law, approaches...
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Living with the Living Dead: The Wisdom of the Zombie Apocalypse

GREG GARRETT · Oxford University Press
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover

When humankind faces what it perceives as a threat to its very existence, a macabre thing happens in art, literature, and culture: corpses begin to stand up and walk around. The dead walked in the fourteenth century, when the Black Death and other catastrophes roiled Europe. They walked...
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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

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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Zen Master Raven: The Teachings of a Wise Old Bird

Robert Aitken · Wisdom Publications
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover

A uniquely playful and incisive collection of Zen teaching stories from a beloved American master.A Modern Classic. In the tradition of the great koan collections and the records of ancient masters, Robert Aitken distills a lifetime of teaching down to its essence. Intriguing and deceptively...
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Apocalyptic Anxiety: Religion, Science, and America's Obsession with the End of the World

Anthony F Aveni · University Press of Colorado
Pages: 268
Format: Print book

Apocalyptic Anxiety traces the sources of American culture's obsession with predicting and preparing for the apocalypse. Author Anthony Aveni explores why Americans take millennial claims seriously, where and how end-of-the-world predictions emerge, how they develop within a broader...
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