In this user-friendly study, Chuck Swindoll guides readers toward a greater understanding of eight spiritual disciplines of the Christian faith: prayer, humility, self-control, sacrifice, submission, solitude, silence, and hope. (Practical Life)
This wonderful book stresses 52 virtues--one for each week of the year--including trust, caring, humility, generosity, and excellence. Popov instructs parents on how to teach without moralizing and provides guidelines that can be used to gauge whether children have successfully learned each lesson. Illustrations.
Christopher Phillips travels the world to pose Socratic questions about justice, courage, and other moral abstractions to groups he recruits for the purpose, choosing participants of all ages and backgrounds who know nothing about philosophy.
The 90-plus-year-old leader of the the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints offers an analysis of the ills of modern America and offers his prescription: a return to enduring virtues such as love, morality, civility, learning--and a recommitment to marriage and family. The author of many books on faith and religion, Hinckley addresses this ...
When "After Virtue" first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it "a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world." Since that time, the book has been translated into more than fifteen ...
Renowned for his writings on spiritual growth, the author of "The Road Less Traveled" now presents a collection of his favorite quotations from the world's greatest thinkers and writers on life, happiness, love, faith, and other spiritual topics. The author adds his own uplifting commentary to each topic.
Kreeft issues a clear call to all Christians to get back to their active pursuit of real virtue in their daily lives. This in-depth analysis of the meaning of the virtues and their connection with the Beatitudes also summarizes a scriptural and theological wisdom on leading a holy lie. Includes the accumulated wisdom of St. Paul, C.S. Lewis, and ...
Widely acclaimed author Mark Buchanan shares with readers a treasure from Scripture that the vast majority overlook, a treasure that has been hidden in plain sight, that can finally move a person beyond his or her old life and into a brand new life.
This groundbreaking handbook of human strengths and virtues is the first progress report from a prestigious group of researchers in the Values in Action Classification Project, which has undertaken a systematic classification and measurement of universal strengths and virtues. This landmark work makes possible for the first time a science of human ...
A successful journalist and business woman, Yolanda Nava doles out pointed Latino wisdoms on a handful of weighty topics, such as responsibility, courage, and chastity. She draws from a number of notable Latino personalities, as well as poems, folktales, and her own personal experience.
Amy Welborn introduces powerful Christian role models--including Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, and John the Baptist--who made significant contributions to people and the world around them. Colorful illustrations and a delightful storytelling style bring these inspiring stories to life for young readers.
Author of RETHINKING THE CHURCH, White explains how the seven deadly sins still occupy a significant role in the lives of Christians, and how they can be overcome.
Written for children, "Nine Fruits Alive" describes the fruit that comes from God's Spirit. Little ones will learn that just like water and sunlight help oranges grow on an orange tree, loving God and obeying His word will grow in each person the fruit of God's Spirit.
An incisive reassessment of eighteen classic human virtues--including mercy, justice, fidelity, courage, compassion, humility, and simplicity--draws on the timeless wisdom of philosophers ranging from Aristotle to Simone Weil to explain how such virtues can be applied in modern life. Reprint. 12,500
How the mysterious nine-pointed symbol of the enneagram illuminates the worst pitfalls and highest virtues of our psyches. "The Enneagram of Passions and Virtues" elucidates human experience beyond the personality structure. In the tradition of the enneagram, the Virtues are said to be the affective atmosphere that replaces the compulsive and ...
At a time when male role models are moe often than not more examples of how not to behave, Walter Newell finds inspiration and guidance in the words of great thinkers of the past and present, including: Homer, Sir Thomas Mallory, Goethe, and John F. Kennedy.
This book is your family's complete handbook of distinctively Christian values. Wherever you open this book, you'll find timeless stories and life-changing wisdom.
This volume, three separate books in one edition, is a collection of Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. Pieper is perhaps the most popular Thomist philosopher of the twentieth century.
First published in 1991, "The Moral Virtues and Theological Ethics" introduced readers to an approach in Christian ethics that was not then much in vogue. Although the Second Vatican Council had marked a departure from the legalistic code of proper conduct for Catholics (known since the Catholic Reformation as "casuistry"), few Catholic ...
Lisa Tessman's Burdened Virtues is a deeply original and provocative work that engages questions central to feminist theory and practice, from the perspective of Aristotelian ethics. Focused primarily on selves who endure and resist oppression, she addresses the ways in which devastating conditions confronted by these selves both limit and burden ...
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Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth...
