Lawrence: 4086 books
Medieval Monasticism
Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria, through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. Hugh Lawrence explores the many sided relationship between monasteries and the secular...
by Lawrence A. Scaff
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
Max Weber, widely considered a founder of sociology and the modern social sciences, visited the United States in 1904 with his wife Marianne. The trip was a turning point in Weber's life and it played a pivotal role in shaping his ideas, yet until now virtually our only source of information about...
Solar Cataclysm
How the Sun Shaped the Past and What We Can Do to Save Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Science journalist and futurist Lawrence Joseph has studied the unprecedented solar storms since the last ice age and in Solar Cataclysm he reveals the monumental ecological, biological, emotional, political, financial, and cultural effects they have had in the past, and will ultimately have on humanity’s...
The Seven Deadly Sins
A Visitor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Sloth, envy, gluttony, greed, anger, lust, and pride: when and how were they first identified? Who grouped them together? Can we truly resist their pull? Renowned theologian Lawrence Cunningham explores these questions and others in his book, The Seven Deadly Sins: A Visitor's Guide.
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A Hemingway Odyssey
Special Places in His Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1999
A must-read for Hemingway enthusiasts in the centennial year of his birth, A Hemingway Odyssey contains never-before-published interviews with people who knew him and observations of the special places he frequented, thus revealing how powerfully the waters Hemingway loved influenced his writing from...
by St Augustine, Thomas Kempis, Brother Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2012
This fantastic compilation brings some of the greatest Christian classics on DEVOTION and Christlikeness of all time. Learn the secret of walking in God’s presence from those whose writings have been an inspiration to millions!
The Top 5 Classics of Devotion contains the full texts of: •...
by C. Eric Lincoln, Lawrence H. Mamiya
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 1990
Black churches in America have long been recognized as the most independent, stable, and dominant institutions in black communities. In The Black Church in the African American Experience, based on a ten-year study, is the largest nongovernmental study of urban and rural churches ever undertaken and...
Conversion to Judaism
A Guidebook
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1994
Conversion to Judaism provides information, advice, and support for individuals contemplating conversion to Judaism, as well as those who have converted and the families affected by this decision. With sensitivity and compassion, Lawrence J. Epstein offers an informative volume that warmly welcomes the newcomer to Judaism.
Jewish Men Pray
Words of Yearning, Praise, Petition, Gratitude and Wonder from Traditional and Contemporary Sources
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
A celebration of Jewish men's voices in prayer—to strengthen, to heal, to comfort, to inspire from the ancient world up to our own day.
"An extraordinary gathering of men—diverse in their ages, their lives, their convictions—have convened in this collection to offer contemporary,...
by Lawrence S. Cunningham
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
The Vatican. The Inquisition. Contraception. Celibacy. Apparitions and miracles. Plots and scandals. The Catholic Church is seldom out of the news. But what do its one billion adherents really believe, and how do they put their beliefs into practice in worship, the family, and society? This down-to-earth...
Crime Without Punishment
Aspects of the History of Homicide
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
In this compelling book, Lawrence M. Friedman looks at situations where killing is condemned by law but not by social norms and, therefore, is rarely punished. He shows how penal codes categorize homicides by degree of intent, which are in turn based on society's sense of moral outrage. Despite being...
by Lawrence A. Hoffman,
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2004
An accessible introduction to the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer.The Way Into Jewish Prayer helps us to explore the reasons for and the ways of Jewish prayer. It opens the door to 3,000 years of Jewish prayer, making available all you need to feel at home in the Jewish way of communicating...
It Is Well
Expositions on Substitutionary Atonement
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The idea of Christ's substitutionary atonement for sinners is central in both the Old and New Testaments—from the Passover to the prophets to the words of Jesus and the apostles. In It Is Well, pastors Mark Dever and Michael Lawrence demonstrate how the atonement is clearly taught throughout Scripture.
Starting...
by Richard Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
The Bhagavad Gita, the Song of God, composed over 2000 years ago, is the story of a man's dilemma during a family feud. In the middle of impending violence, he is desperately confused about whether he should participate in the bloodshed. God, in the form of his charioteer, explains the nature of life...