Spirituality category: 222996 books
Understanding Our Story
The Life’s Work and Legacy of Adrian van Kaam in the Field of Formative Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
Understanding Our Story presents a concise introduction to the original, transformative thinking of Adrian van Kaam, CSSp, PhD (1920-2007). While many books are available on "spiritual formation" and "Christian disciplines," no other author of our time has offered such a holistic...
Authentic Church
True Spirituality in a Culture of Counterfeits
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
The church today faces challenges on every front. Christians are captivated by consumerism, seduced by celebrity, distracted by technology and overwhelmed by media. Religious and secular rivals are increasingly prominent, vying for our allegiance and worship. What does authentic Christian spirituality...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This book argues for the primacy of spirituality in the practice of mission. Since God is the primary agent of mission and God works through the power of the Holy Spirit, it is through openness to the Spirit that mission finds its true character and has its authentic impact. This is demonstrated today...
Paging God
Religion in the Halls of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
While the modern science of medicine often seems nothing short of miraculous, religion still plays an important role in the past and present of many hospitals. When three-quarters of Americans believe that God can cure people who have been given little or no chance of survival by their doctors, how...
by Fr. Kevin E. Mackin OFM
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Spirituality is growing into our life with God. It is letting the breath or Spirit of God live and breathe and work in us. And the fruits of that are love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control (Gal 5:2223). The Word proclaimed Sunday after Sunday is inspired...
I Don't Know What to Believe
Making Spiritual Peace with Your Religion
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Americans—especially young people—are more un-churched and less affiliated with organized religion than at any other time in our history. I Don’t Know What to Believe addresses that decline and presents an insightful examination of authentic spirituality for those who desire answers, guidance,...
Sex and the Soul, Updated Edition
Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College Campuses
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
First published in 2008, Donna Freitas's Sex and the Soul revealed what college students -- at institutions large and small, public and private, secular, Catholic, and evangelical -- really think about sex, dating, religion, and spirituality. Based on face-to-face interviews with students across the...
by Ozzie Ostwalt
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Playing with God is a meditation on finding God and developing spirituality through the everyday joys, heartaches, loves, and challenges that all human beings experience and endure. This series of reflections began with a Lenten discipline and grew into a year-long experiment wherein the author simply...
Ecclesiastical Knights
The Military Orders in Castile, 1150-1330
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
“Warrior monks”—the misnomer for the Iberian military orders that emerged on the frontiers of Europe in the twelfth century—have long fascinated general readers and professional historians alike. Proposing “ecclesiastical knights” as a more accurate name and conceptual model—warriors...
by Laura Weakley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2010
Can we be spiritual in every aspect of our lives? Our forefather Isaac exemplifies how G-d wants us to incorporate spirituality in our everyday lives. There is only one G-d, and Adonai is the G-d of everything.
Isaac has so much to teach us about the spiritual depths of his story in the Torah. It may seem there is little recorded about Isaac, but looks can be deceiving!
Nurturing Your Hidden Spirit
Straight Talk about Spiritual and Psychological Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Nurturing Your Hidden Spirit presents a dynamic interplay between psychology and spirituality. Steffler and Steffler integrate sacred writings with scientific literature on human development, along with personal stories describing how everyday men and women have experienced the sacred in their lives....
Eve's Revenge
Women and a Spirituality of the Body
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2003
Botox. Plastic surgery. Make-up. Women sometimes go to desperate lengths to distort, mold, and fashion their bodies into that of the "ideal" woman. They live with the reality of the body, from its reproductive implications to the pressures from the media to look a certain way. They are intimately...
Embrace the Infinite
The Science of Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2012
Has the modern scientific world robbed our lives of a deeper sense of meaning and purpose? Has science rendered God irrelevant? Or can science actually bring us towards a deeper spiritual understanding and a greater sense of joy in our daily lives? Space scientist and physicist Anthony Mannucci explores...
by Pink Dandelion
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
What is the future of religion given the responses of young people? What impact do existing religious forms have on youth? What kind of spirituality and religion are young people creating for themselves? Religion and Youth presents an accessible guide to the key issues in the study of youth and religion,...