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The Case for God

The Case for God more books like this

by Karen Armstrong

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Focusing especially on Christianity but including other religions, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion during a time when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.

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History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam

History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam more books like this

by K Armstrong

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This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Armstrong's personal history includes time spent as a nun in her homeland of England; this fact makes her comparative ...

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The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth

The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth more books like this

by Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting and pasting from the gospels, a new narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus.

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Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church

Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church more books like this

by Michael Scott Horton

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Is it possible that we have left Christ out of Christianity? Is the faith and practice of American Christians today more American than Christian? These are the provocative questions Michael Horton addresses in this thoughtful, insightful book. He argues that while we invoke the name of Christ, too often Christ and the Christ-centered gospel are ...

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God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality, and Ultimate Meaning

God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality, and Ultimate Meaning more books like this

by Lawrence Kushner, Rabbi

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This illuminating journey into the nature of God's "self" and one's self opens a window into Jewish spirituality for people of all faiths and backgrounds. God Was in This Place joins Kushner's great classics, The Book of Letters, Honey from the Rock, and The River of Light as the product of a new and dynamic spiritual and literary genius.

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Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture

Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture more books like this

by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

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A discussion about how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human life and destiny. It studies the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages, suggesting that the depictions are key to understanding each era.

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Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions

Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions more books like this

by Dr. Marcus J Borg, N T Wright

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In "The Meaning of Jesus" two leading Jesus scholars with widely divergent views go right to the heart of these questions and others, presenting the opposing visions of Jesus that shape our faith today. In alternating chapters, Marcus Borg, the most popular revisionist voice on Jesus and a member of the Jesus Seminar, and N.T. Wright, the most ...

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History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam more books like this

by Karen Armstrong

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From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ

From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ more books like this

by Paula Fredriksen

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Paul Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached.

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How Jesus Became Christian

How Jesus Became Christian more books like this

by Barrie Wilson

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Sure to be controversial, this is an exciting, well-written popular religious history that cuts to the heart of the differences between Christianity and Judaism, to the origins of one of the world's great religions and, ultimately, to the question of who Jesus Christ really was--a Jew or a Christian.

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Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will more books like this

by R C Sproul, Jr.

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What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall. In "Willing to Believe", Sproul traces the free-will controversy from ...

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The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries more books like this

by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan

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This volume is adapted from Jaroslav Pelikan's classic work "Jesus Through the Centuries". Pelikan has condensed the original text and enhanced the book with 150 illustrations, most in colour, that give a further dimension to his thoughts. His commentary that accompanies the illustrations provides information on the art, architecture, individuals, ...

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The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity more books like this

by Peter Brown

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First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth ...

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A History of God more books like this

by Karen Armstrong

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The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4000 years, but the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organized religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice. This controversial account of the ...

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Trinitarian Controversy more books like this

by William G Rusch (Editor)

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This volume explores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the patristic church as a result of the Arian controversy: Arius -- Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia Arius -- Letter to Alexander of Alexandria Alexander of Alexandria -- Letter to Alexander of Thessalonica The Synodal Letter of the Council of Antioch, A.D. 325 The Creed of the ...

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Conjuring Culture: Biblical Formations of Black America more books like this

by Theophus H Smith

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This treatise argues for the central importance of transforming reality by magical means in black spirituality and culture. It contends that themes and stories inspired by the Bible have played a crucial role in Afro-American culture, being reinterpreted and deployed by black Americans.

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Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus more books like this

by John Dominic Crossan

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The death of Jesus has been a subject of intense debate throughout the history of Christianity. John Dominic Crossan states definitively that it was the Roman government that tried and executed Jesus for being a social agitator. Not only has the belief that the Jews killed Jesus served as the basis for rampant anti-Semitism throughout history, ...

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Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor more books like this

by Susan Haskins

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In this "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, Haskins traces nearly 2,000 years of art, literature, and history to construct a portrait of Mary Magdalen, the woman who witnessed Christ's crucifixion and resurrection and one of the most compelling figures in early Christian history.

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Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christiantiry more books like this

by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Ph.D.

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Christological Controversy more books like this

by Richard A Norris, Jr. (Editor), William G Rusch (Editor)

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Series Foreword I. Introduction Early Christology Initial Problems Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian of Carthage, Origen of Alexandria Further Problems The Arians and Athanasius; Apollinaris of Laodicea; Theodore of Mopsuestia; Cyril, Nestorius, and Eutyches; Leo and Chalcedon II. Melito of Sardis A Homily on the ...

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Aristotle's Children: How Christians, Muslims, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages more books like this

by Richard Rubenstein

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Traces the rediscovery and translation of the works of Aristotle at the height of the Dark Ages, chronicling the rapid spread of the intellectual's philosophies and the ensuing backlash on the part of the Catholic Church.

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From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Jesus more books like this

by Paula Fredriksen

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In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen answers these questions by placing the various canonical images of Jesus within their historical contexts. She provides fascinating insights into the content of Jesus's ministry, the circumstances of his crucifixion, and the social and religious problems facing the earliest churches.

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Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil more books like this

by Bernard McGinn

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A history of Judeo-Christian religion's proclivity to personify evil, from 515 B.C.E., through the apocalyptic period of 70 C.E., early Christianity, the medieval period, the Reformation, Enlightenment, to the present time.

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Satan: The Early Christian Tradition more books like this

by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Ph.D.

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The birth of purgatory more books like this

by Jacques Le Goff

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In "The Birth of Purgatory," Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned "Annales" historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of the imagination. Le Goff argues that the doctrine of Purgatory ...

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