Religious category: 31793 books
by Kristi Saare Duarte
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2017
What if Jesus was just an ordinary boy searching for enlightenment?
8 AD. The young carpenter Yeshua is convinced he was born to be a preacher. But the temple priests scoff and say that no craftsman, however wise, can ever enter their holy ranks. Humiliated and robbed of his only goal, Yeshua...
Kabir
Ecstatic Poems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Originally published in 1976, with more than 75,000 copies in print, this collection of poems by fifteenth-century ecstatic poet Kabir is full of fun and full of thought. Columbia University professor of religion John Stratton Hawley has contributed an introduction that makes clear Kabir's immense...
by Carol DeChant
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Eulogies have a long and important history in remembering and commemorating the dead. As Thomas Lynch notes in his Foreword, eulogies are meant "to speak for the ages, to bring homage and appreciation, the final appraisal, the last world and first draft of all future biography." In Great American Catholic...
The Benevolent Deity
Ebenezer Gay and the Rise of Rational Religion in New England, 1696-1787
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
The years following the Great Awakening in New England saw a great theological struggle between proponents of Calvinism and the champions of Christian liberty, setting the stage for American Unitarianism. The adherents of Christian liberty, who were branded Arminians by their opponents, were contending...
John Paul II
The Road to Sainthood
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
The long life of John Paul has been an extraordinary journey from his humble origins in Southern Poland to the See of Peter.This biography describes what made Karol Wojtyla into one of the longest serving and best loved Popes in history: the loss of his family at an early age, World War II, the Nazi...
Epistemology
Becoming Intellectually Virtuous
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2009
How do we know what we know? What have wisdom, prudence and studiousness to do with justifying our beliefs? Jay Wood begins this introduction to epistemology by taking an extended look at the idea of knowing within the context of the intellectual virtues. He then surveys current views of foundationalism,...
Religion and Theism
The Forwood Lectures Delivered at Liverpool University, 1933. Together with a Chapter on the Psychological Accounts of the Origin of Belief in God
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Four lectures on the Philosophy of Religion are included in this compact book along with an extra chapter on the psychology of belief in God. In a search for an acceptable theism, the author examines religious faith and human personality via many theories and facets of thinking, referring to psychologists,...
Jonathan Edwards
America's Evangelical
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
An important new biography of America's founding religious father.
Jonathan Edwards was America's most influential evangelical, whose revivals of the 1730s became those against which all subsequent ones have been judged.
The marvelous accomplishment of Philip Gura's Jonathan Edwards...
Pope Benedict XVI
His Life and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2005
Includes a new foreword on the resignation and legacy of Pope Benedict XVI.
The sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI comes as the capstone to a papacy that that shocked some and delighted others. Pope Benedict was both an ardent intellectual and a driven traditionalist charged with leading...
Feisty and Fearless
Glimpses into the Life of Lois M. Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
Meet the many sides of Lois M. Wilson: Moderator, senator, minister, mother, chancellor, activist, wife, canoeist, feminist. Feisty and Fearless explores the legacy of an accomplished, vibrant public and religious leader, a woman of firsts who shattered the stained-glass ceiling. With access to Wilson...
All Who Go Do Not Return
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
A moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith
Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers, one of the most insular Hasidic sects in the US, he knows little about the outside world—only that it is to be shunned....
Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower
Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don't Believe
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
An award-winning USA Today columnist makes the case for how a Jesus freed from religion and politics meets the need for meaning and purpose in secular America.
Tom Krattenmaker is part of a growing conversation centered at Yale University that acknowledges—and seeks to address—the abiding...
Rabble-Rouser for Peace
The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2006
To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice -- a genuine regard for human rights -- is the only real foundation for peace....
Messengers of God
A True Story of Angelic Presence and the Return to
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Elie Wiesel’s classic look at Job and seven other Biblical characters as they grapple with their relationship with God and the question of his justice.
“Wiesel has never allowed himself to be diverted from the role of witness for the martyred Jews and survivors of the Holocaust, and by...