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The Burdens of Sister Margaret
Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent; Abridged Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints-of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her-led to her banishment from the convent on two occasions....
Kierkegaard and the Life of Faith
The Aesthetic, the Ethical, and the Religious in Fear and Trembling
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Soren Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling is one of the most widely read works of Continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion. While several commentaries and critical editions exist, Jeffrey Hanson offers a distinctive approach to this crucial text. Hanson gives equal weight and attention to...
Understanding Faith
Religious Belief and Its Place in Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of ‘scientists’ compared...
by Maria Boulding OSB, Bruno Webb OSB, Jean Cardinal Daniélou SJ
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Maria Boulding was a highly-respected spiritual writer and translator, notably of St Augustine. Her testimony, as a contemplative nun, is eloquent and forceful: “love is the mightiest source of power in the world, and because of the solidarity of mankind contemplatives believe that lives handed...
American Heretic
Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was a powerful preacher who rejected the authority of the Bible and of Jesus, a brilliant scholar who became a popular agitator for the abolition of slavery and for women's rights, and a political theorist who defined democracy as "government of all the people, by...
Believers, Thinkers, and Founders
How We Came to Be One Nation Under God
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
In Believers, Thinkers and Founders: How We Came to be One Nation Under God, Kevin Seamus Hasson—founder and president emeritus of the Becket Fund for Religious liberty—offers a refreshing resolution to the age-old dispute surrounding the relationship of religion and state: a return to first principles.
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Catholic Teaching Brothers
Their Life in the English-Speaking World, 1891–1965
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012
O'Donoghue's book, which is written as a traditional historical narrative, while also utilizing a comparative approach, is concerned with the life of Catholic religious teaching brothers across the English-speaking world, especially for the period 1891 to 1965, which was the heyday of the religious orders.
Disability and Religious Diversity
Cross-Cultural and Interreligious Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
This collection of essays examines how diverse religions of the world represent, understand, theologize, theorize and respond to disability and chronic illness. Contributors employ a variety of methodological approaches including ethnography, historical, cultural, or textual analysis, personal narrative, and theological/philosophical investigation.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 1802-1925
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
The letters in this volume cover Erasmus' correspondence from March to December 1527. These 129 letters centre primarily on Erasmus' continuing struggle with his Catholic critics, especially those in Spain and France, and on Erasmus' growing criticism of the Protestant reform movement.
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by Currant Bush Enterprises
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
A Review by Jared F. Heath:Nephi Anderson wrote during the "Home Literature" period of Latter-day Saint literature. This period and Anderson's books participate in truly foundational works of the LDS people, and this book is couched in a very unique period in LDS history. The style is...
Natural Born Seer
Joseph Smith, American Prophet, 1805-1830
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
Joseph Smith survives today as one of nineteenth-century America’s most controversial religious figures. He claimed visions of angels, dictated a lost record of the ancient inhabitants of the New World, announced new revelations from heaven, and restored what he believed was an ancient yet more...
by NETLANCERS INC
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2013
The Rig Veda in Sanskrit
"The Rig Veda is an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns dedicated to the gods (devas) in Hinduism. It is counted among the four Hindu canonical sacred texts (sruti) known as the Vedas. Based on philological and linguistic evidence, the Rigveda...
The Transformation of Judaism
From Philosophy to Religion
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Jacob Neusner describes, analyzes, and interprets the transformation of one system of the Israelite social order by a connected but autonomous successor-system. He characterizes the successive systems classifying the one as philosophical and the other as religious. He explains the categorical account...
by Michael Beloved
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
An insightful, easy-read, word-for-word, non-sectarian translation with detailed indexes.
This volume has the Sanskrit (Devanagari) text, with word-for-word meanings in English. This has no commentary. This book is for you if you desire to peruse the Sanskrit carefully.
To sort between...