Religion Spirituality category: 222996 books
by Mark G. Boyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014
Sometime around the age of fifty--or as early as forty and as late as sixty--most of us come to terms with our age. We recognize that we have lived out at least half of the time allotted to us, and that the second half may be shorter than the first! Coming to terms with our age is a process, one that...
Rumi: Soul Fury
Rumi and Shams Tabriz on Friendship
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
A seminal collection of poetry from the medieval Sufi mystic—the most popular poet in America—and his “soul friend,” Shams Tabriz, which illuminate the evocative and deeply spiritual dimensions of friendship and love, compiled by the foremost Rumi translator and author of The Essential Rumi,...
Entertainment Theology (Cultural Exegesis)
New-Edge Spirituality in a Digital Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
It's the end of the church as we know it. In a digitally connected world, people are seeking spiritual answers through pop culture. Instead of retreating, Christians must "rethink the sacred" and enter global conversations about God--in film, literature, TV, and music--or face extinction,...
About You
Fully Human, Fully Alive
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2010
In About You, Dick Staub addresses irreligious, religious, spiritual seekers and all kinds of Christians and shows us that Jesus came to satisfy our universal longing for a fully human life, not to establish a narrow us versus them religion. In short, Jesus didn't come to make us Christian; Jesus...
by Jeremy Carrette
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2002
Foucault and Religion is the first major study of Michel Foucault in relation and response to Religion. Jeremy Carrette offers us a challenging new look at Foucault's work and addresses a religious dimension that has previously been neglected. We see that prior to Foucault's infamous unpublished volume...
The Third Covenant
The Transmission of Consciousness in the Work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert J. LaChance
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The Third Covenant explores the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Thomas Berry, and Albert LaChance, revealing through the lens of spirituality, science, and ecology, their understanding of human origin and evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, an early twentieth century geologist and priest, devoted...
by Adam Weishaupt
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
Seven hundred years ago, it was rational to be religious. Religion was the apex of a coherent worldview linking all of the knowledge of the world then available, including the science and cosmology of the time. Religion nowadays seems ridiculous because the modern paradigm of scientific materialism...
The End of Religion
Encountering the Subversive Spirituality of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
In The End of Religion, Bruxy Cavey shares that relationship has no room for religion. Believers and seekers alike will discover anew the wondrous promise found in our savior. And Christ’s eternal call to walk in love and freedom will resonate with readers of all ages and denominations.
The Dark Night of the Soul
A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
Now in paperback: a distinguished psychiatrist, spiritual counsellor and bestselling author shows how the dark sides of the spiritual life are a vital ingredient in deep, authentic, healthy spirituality.
Gerald G. May, MD, one of the great spiritual teachers and writers of our time, argues...
by Steven Payne OCD
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Eight hundred years ago, Albert of Jerusalem gave the hermit-penitents of Mount Carmel a way of life to follow. Since then, this rule has inspired and formed mystics and scholars, men and women, lay and ordained to seek the living God. In The Carmelite Tradition Steven Payne, OCD, brings together...
Tired of Apologizing for a Church I Don't Belong To
Spirituality without Stereotypes, Religion without Ranting
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
WHEN LILLIAN DANIEL APOLOGIZED to a total stranger for every bad thing that had ever been said or done in the name of Christianity, he was surprised that she was responsible for all that. "The Inquisition? Don't even raise it, I'm way ahead of you. I was mad about it before you even heard of...
The Old Ones in the Old Book
Pagan Roots of The Hebrew Old Testament
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
The Hebrew Old Testament, which contains some of the world s most ancient religious texts, was written and repeatedly re-edited over the course of several centuries from about 1000 BCE. It reached its final form at the hands of editors who were monotheists. They believed that their god Yahweh was the...
The Dawning of a New Dark Age
A Collection of Essays on Islam
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2003
FOREWORD
On September 11, 2001, Muslim terrorists launched an attack on the United States to punish it for being what Osama bin Laden considered the land of the infidels! In fact, this attack was an attack on the entire Western world and, even more important, it was an attack on Western civilization,...
by Don Durrett
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
Who were the Cathars and what was the Albigensian Crusade?
The brutal (and largely unknown) Albigensian Crusade took place from 1209 to 1229 in Languedoc, France, and was perpetrated by the Catholic Church. The victims were thousands of Cathars – the members of the region’s popular religion...