Religious category: 31793 books
by Stephen Measure
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2018
Kale, a wannabe pickup artist, attends a Pastafarian meetup to mock the religious and hopefully hook up with his sufficiently-hot co-worker Jezzie. But when a peg-legged Pastafarian minister shows up in pirate garb and leads them all to the school board meeting next door where a debate about bathroom...
by Janis I. Soucie
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2011
The author captures the essence of our very thoughts if God exists in her passionate poem “God, Are You Listening?”
I know I shouldn’t doubt you
That indeed You are in everything
From the day sky so blue
To the Sunset in the Evening
Daily Your power I see
But then why sometimes is it...
Kierkegaard, Aesthetics, and Selfhood
The Art of Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
In the digital world, Kierkegaard's thought is valuable in thinking about aesthetics as a component of human development, both including but moving beyond the religious context as its primary center of meaning. Seeing human formation as interrelated with aesthetics makes art a vital dimension of human...
Retrieving the Radical Tillich
His Legacy and Contemporary Importance
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Paul Tillich is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. The way he has come to be viewed contrasts sharply with the current theological landscape one dominated by the notion...
Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern
A Once and Future Meeting of Rumi, Meister Eckhart, and Moses de León in Medieval Venice
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
In Three Mystics Walk into a Tavern, Jalal ad-Din Rumi, Moses de León, and Meister Eckhart—three of the greatest mystics of all time—meet in Venice for an imaginary night-long conversation that will inspire everyday individuals of the twenty-first century to find their own spirituality and realize...
by Søren Kierkegaard
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Søren Kierkegaard's 13 communion discourses constitute a distinct genre among the various forms of religious writing composed by Kierkegaard. Originally published at different times and places, Kierkegaard himself believed that these discourses served as a unifying element in his work and were crucial...
Free Will and Classical Theism
The Significance of Freedom in Perfect Being Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
The articles in the present collection deal with the religious dimension of the problem of free will. All of the papers also have implications for broader philosophical and theological issues, and will thus be of interest to a wide variety of scholars, both religious and secular. Together they provide...
The Gospel in Gerard Manley Hopkins
Selections from His Poems, Letters, Journals, and Spiritual Writings
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
How did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the world’s greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of all time.
Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place among the greatest poets in the English language....
The Wandering Host
Fourth Source Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
The work contained within this manuscript was penned by David Starr Jordan circa 1904. The Wandering Host is an allegorical story about the search for spiritual meaning. Symbolic of Jesus Christ’s ministry, it succinctly embodies our Christian heritage and the fourth of the six sources Unitarian...
by Michael Barber
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2017
This book illustrates how non-pragmatic finite provinces of meaning emancipate one from pragmatic everyday pressures. Barber portrays everyday life originally, as including the interplay between intrinsic and imposed relevances, the unavoidable pursuit of pragmatic mastery, and the resulting tensions...
T.D. Jakes
America's New Preacher
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2003
T.D. Jakes has emerged as one of the most prolific spiritual leaders of our time. He is pastor of one of the largest churches in the country, CEO of a multimillion dollar empire, the host of a television program, author of a dozen bestsellers, and the producer of two Grammy Award-nominated CDs and...
by A. M. Pope
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
First published in 1890, this book contains the memoirs of Vincent de Paul, translated into English from the original French. Vincent de Paul (1581 – 1660) was a French Roman Catholic priest famous for dedicating his life to helping the poor. Canonized in 1737, he is considered a saint in the Anglican...
Shout to the Lord
Making Worship Music in Evangelical America
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
How music makes worship and how worship makes music in Evangelical churches
Music is a nearly universal feature of congregational worship in American churches. Congregational singing is so ingrained in the experience of being at church that it is often misunderstood to be synonymous with worship....
Experiencing Music Restoring the Spiritual
Music as Well-being
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
This book concerns an examination of the totality of the musical experience with a view to restoring the soul within it. It starts with an analysis of the strands in the landscape of contemporary spirituality. It examines the descriptors spiritual but not religious, and spiritual and religious, looking...