Comparative Religion category: 1410 books
The Great Transformation
The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2006
From Karen Armstrong, the bestselling author of A History of God and The Spiral Staircase, comes this extraordinary investigation of a critical moment in the evolution of religious thought.
In the ninth century BCE, events in four regions of the civilized world led to the rise of religious traditions...
The Lost Art of Scripture
Rescuing the Sacred Texts
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2019
Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture may not be immediately obvious in our secular world, but its misunderstanding...
by Alan W. Gomes, Zondervan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Fast, informed answers to the challenges of false religions -- This is an age when countless groups and movements, new and old, mark the religious landscape in our culture. As a result, many people are confused or uncertain in their search for spiritual truth and meaning. Because few people have the...
by Robert W. Krajenke
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
According to Edgar Cayce (1877-1945), the most-documented psychic of our time, the Bible is a sourcebook for spiritual development that applies to every facet of our lives. Beginning with the story of Genesis and the creation of souls and culminating with the promises of Jesus and The Revelation,...
Mixed-Up Love
Relationships, Family, and Religious Identity in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
Dating, commitment, kids, and family--it's all hard work, and when you come from different religious backgrounds it's even harder.
Jon, a Catholic writer, and Michal, a Reconstructionist rabbi, live out the challenges of an interfaith relationship everyday as husband and wife, and as parents...
The Emergence of Islam
Classical Tradtion in Contemporary Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
This brief survey text tells the story of Islam. Gabriel Said Reynolds organizes his study in three parts in order to tell of Muhammad’s early life and rise to power, of the origins and development of the Qur’an, with a distinctive, if unique, juxtaposition between the Qur’an and biblical literature,...
Mudhouse Sabbath: An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
An Invitation to a Life of Spiritual Discipline
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2003
After her conversion from Orthodox Judaism to Christianity, Lauren Winner found that her life was indelibly marked by the rich traditions and spiritual practices of Judaism. She set out to discover how she could incorporate some of these practices into her new faith. Winner presents eleven Jewish...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Tim Dowley's masterful one-volume survey of church history is now available in a new concise format designed with today's student in mind. Each section of Dowley's Introduction to the History of Christianity has been reviewed and content edited to create a more compact summary of Christian history....
by Ron Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Covers the Mormon view of the Bible, the Book of Mormon origins. Stresses the importance of the Trinity, salvation by grace not works, and more.
by Lynn Wilder, Michael Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Former Mormons Michael and Lynn Wilder share the 7 reasons that led them from over 30 years of devout Mormon involvement to biblical Christianity. From Michael's leadership to determine if a person was "Temple worthy" to Lynn's role as tenured professor at Mormon-owned BYU, you'll discover...
A Mormon's Unexpected Journey
Finding the Grace That I Never Knew
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
by John Ankerberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Mormons say they are Christians, but are they? Do they believe in the same Bible, the same God, and the same Jesus that Christians follow? This book answers these questions and more: Was God ever a man? Were Jesus and Lucifer brothers? Is Scripture still being written? Are we saved by what we do?...
Understanding the Book of Mormon
A Quick Christian Guide to the Mormon Holy Book
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2009
Mormons, or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, form a growing population in both numbers and influence. Yet few people have more than a passing knowledge of the document that defines and drives this important movement—the Book of Mormon. A former Mormon and an adult convert...
After Lives
A Guide to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
One of the most profound, deeply affecting questions we face as human beings is the matter of our mortality--and its connection to immortality. Ancient animist ghost cultures, Egyptian mummification, late Jewish hopes of resurrection, Christian eternal salvation, Muslim belief in hell and paradise...