In this inspirational book, Gloria Burgess uses the touching story of her father's relationship with William Faulkner as a starting point to explore a classic topic: how to bring forth the character qualities of love, wisdom, trust, faith, gratitude, creative action,...

Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2008-08-20

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Earl Creps is known for his work in connecting the younger generation of postmoderns with their Boomer predecessors. The author of Off-Road Disciplines, Creps, in this new book, takes up the topic of how older church leaders can learn from younger leaders who are more...

Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2008-08-20
Collection : Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series
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The Tenacity of Unreasonable Beliefs is a passionate yet analytical critique of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim scriptural fundamentalists. Schimmel examines the ways in which otherwise intelligent and bright Jews, Christians, and Muslims defend their belief in the divine...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-08-15

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Grow your faith and develop a positive attitude with Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen's inspiring advice about everyday living, happiness, and personal growth.Happy and fulfilled people make the most of new opportunities, live in the present, and expect great things...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2008-08-12

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This investigation of religion by greatest psychoanalyst of the twentieth-century explores the role faith can take in the life of man, what it can mean to us and why as a species we are inclined towards it. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-08-07

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St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-07

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St. Maximus the Confessor (580-662), was a major Byzantine thinker, a theologian and philosopher. He developed a philosophical theology in which the doctrine of God, creation, the cosmic order, and salvation is integrated in a unified conception of reality. Christ, the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-07

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The Silk Road Journey with Xuanzang tells the saga of the seventh-century Chinese monk Xuanzang, one of China's great heroes, who completed an epic sixteen-year-long journey to discover the heart of Buddhism at its source in India. Eight centuries before Columbus, this...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-06

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The Jewish people's historical claims to a small area of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean are not only the foundation for the modern state of Israel, they are also at the very heart of Judeo-Christian belief. Yet inThe Mythic Past, Thomas Thompson argues that...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-05

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Celebrate motherhood and start living your full potential with seven eye-opening principles from Lakewood Church pastor Joel Osteen.In this great Mother's Day gift, #1 New York Times bestselling author Joel Osteen revisits these seven core principles from Your Best Life...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2008-08-05

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Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic and unprecedented shift in Jewish -- Christian relations, including signs of a new, improved Christian attitude towards Jews. Christianity in Jewish Terms is a Jewish theological response to the profound changes that...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-08-01

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Free yourself from the past, break through into a new mentality, and discover God's great plans for you with these powerful scriptures and meditations for Christians.You don't want to live your life with a 'barely-get-by' mentality -- you want to move beyond ordinary...

Editeur : FaithWords
Parution : 2008-08-01

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Named by Christianity Today as one of the twenty-five most influential preachers of the last fifty years, best-selling author Tony Campolo has spent decades calling on readers and audiences around the world to live their faith through committed activism. A tireless...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-07-31

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Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently?Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy and its discontents in the twenty-first century? Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-07-31

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A noted theologian explains how the radical idea of Christian love animated the African American civil rights movement and how it can power today's social justice struggles Speaking to his supporters at the end of the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, Martin Luther King,...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2008-07-31

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A Friendly Letter to Skeptics and Atheists helps readers—both secular and religious—appreciate their common ground. For those whose thinking has moved from the religious thesis to the skeptical antithesis (or vice versa), Myers offers pointers to a science-respecting...

Editeur : Jossey-Bass
Parution : 2008-07-23

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Jeanne Halgren Kilde's survey of church architecture is unlike any other. Her main concern is not the buildings themselves, but rather the dynamic character of Christianity and how church buildings shape and influence the religion. Kilde argues that a primary function...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-07-21

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Jesus' birth in a cave, his childhood, escapades, his secret sayings, and his descent to the underworld; the torments in Hell; Saint Paul baptizing a lion; the death of Pontius Pilate and Saint Peter being crucified upside down. These are among the fascinating stories...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-07-11

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The World Council of Churches has called for renewed theological reflection on the biblical roots of ordination to strengthen the vocational identity of the ordained and to provide a framework for ecumenical dialogue. This book is a response to that call. It is grounded...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-07-10

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Jesus' birth in a cave, his childhood, escapades, his secret sayings, and his descent to the underworld; the torments in Hell; Saint Paul baptizing a lion; the death of Pontius Pilate and Saint Peter being crucified upside down. These are among the fascinating stories...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-07-10

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