Religion

This book tackles three topics from a Orthodox Christian perspective, namely; God's attributes God's relationship with man Man's relationship with God.On God's attributes, you will read about God the Creator, the Eternal, the Unlimited, the Omnipresent and the Omnipotent.On God's relationship with man, you will read about God's love to man, His giving, His goodness, His kindness, His protection, His forgiveness, His Chastening, His dispensation, His great redemption…. Etc.On man's relationship with God, you will read about God's place in our life, our knowledge of Him, our meeting with Him, our communion with Him and abiding in Him, reconciliation, wrestling with Him, waiting for Him, and rejoicing in Him. You will read also about those who flee from God.This book is the fruit of forty lectures on these and other topics.Pope Shenouda III

Many people seem to have it all together outwardly, but inside they are a wreck. Their past has broken, crushed, and wounded them inwardly. They can be healed. God has a plan, and Isaiah 61 reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding. Joyce Meyer is a victim of the physical, mental, emotional, and sexual abuse she suffered as a child. Yet today she has a nationwide ministry of emotional healing to others like herself. In Beauty for Ashes she outlines major truths that brought healing in her life and describes how other victims of abuse can also experience God's healing in their lives. Joyce Meyer suffered for thirty-three years the devastating effects of abuse. Now God has exchanged her ashes for beauty and called her to help others allow Him to do the same for them. Book jacket.

Includes the complete Road to Assisi, Paul Sabatier's ground-breaking and foundational biography of the saint; the complete Francis in His Own Words: The Essential Writings; and The Little Flowers.

An Introduction to Lectio Divina

Written by an anonymous fourteenth-century author, The Cloud of Unknowing was originally prepared for cloistered monks. This contemporary English translation with foreword by bestselling author, Robert Benson, helps to put this classic text within reach of everyday Christians.

A 2011 NIV Bible bound in tactile brown satchel leather with black and white patterned end-papers and a magnetic clasp closure.

This stunning collection showcases the love poetry and mystical teachings at the heart of the Islamic tradition in accurate and poetic original translations At a time when the association of Islam with violence dominates headlines, this beautiful collection offers us a chance to see a radically different face of the Islamic tradition. It traces a soaring, poetic, popular tradition that celebrates love for both humanity and the Divine as the ultimate path leading humanity back to God. Safi brings together for the first time the passages of the Qur'an sought by the Muslim sages, the mystical sayings of the Prophet, and the teachings of the path of "Divine love." Accurately and sensitively translated by leading scholar of Islam Omid Safi, the writings of Jalal al-Din Rumi can now be read alongside passages by Kharaqani, 'Attar, Hafez of Shiraz, Abu Sa'id-e Abi 'l-Khayr, and other key Muslim mystics. For the millions of readers whose lives have been touched by Rumi's poetry, here is a chance to see the Arabic and Persian traditions that produced him.

A reading a day for Lent exploring themes in 40 of George Herbert's poems by Mark Oakley.

Andrew Steinmann's thorough exegetical commentary includes a reconstructed timeline of events from Abraham's life through to the death of Joseph.

When we strip away what is superficial, cultural or traditional, what is the essence of genuine Christianity? John's letters focus on the three most important aspects of the Christian life and help us focus our attention on what really matters.

New Testament scholar James D. G. Dunn has published his research on Christian origins in numerous commentaries, books, and essays. In this small, straightforward book designed especially for a lay audience, Dunn focuses his fifty-plus years of scholarship on elucidating the New Testament witness to Jesus, from Matthew to Revelation. Dunn's Jesus according to the New Testament constantly points back to the wonder of those first witnesses and greatly enriches our understanding of Jesus.

This extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities, where some 40,000 people still practice polygamy. Defying both civil authorities and the Mormon establishment in Salt Lake City, the renegade leaders of these Taliban-like theocracies are zealots who answer only to God. At the core of Krakauer’s book are brothers Ron and Dan Lafferty, who insist they received a commandment from God to kill a blameless woman and her baby girl. Beginning with a meticulously researched account of this appalling double murder, Krakauer constructs a multi-layered, bone-chilling narrative of messianic delusion, polygamy, savage violence, and unyielding faith. Along the way he uncovers a shadowy offshoot of America’s fastest growing religion, and raises provocative questions about the nature of religious belief.

Was Jesus of Nazareth a real historical person or a fictional character in a religious legend? What do the Dead Sea Scrolls reveal about the origins of Christianity? Has there been a conspiracy to suppress information in the Scrolls that contradicts traditional church teaching? This book addresses these and many other questions.

”Hvad er en jøde? Hvis man kun tænker på folk som tilhører den jødiske religion (judaismen), er svaret lige så enkelt som spørgsmålet: Hvad er en kristen? Men det er ikke kun de troende som er jøder, helt bortset fra at de troende ikke er enige om, hvilken slags jødedom der er den ’rigtige’. Ifølge den jødisk-religiøse lov, halakha, er en jøde en som har en jødisk mor. Det betyder jo, at ikke-troende børn af jødiske kvinder ud fra en teologisk synsvinkel faktisk også er jøder. Selv teologien accepterer altså at begrebet ’jøde’ har en større social udstrækning end begrebet ’troende jøde’.”Morten Things essays handler om de mange aspekter af det at være jøde, af hvordan jøden er blevet opfattet igennem historien, jøden i litteraturen og myten om Den evige jøde, der bliver dømt til at leve til Dommedag, da han nægter Jesus et hvil ved sit hus. Bogen slutter af med en ordbog, hvori Morten Thing forholder sig til sit eget forhold til det at være jøde.Bogen er oprindeligt udgivet i 2001.Morten Thing (f. 1945) er en dansk kulturhistoriker og forfatter, der arbejder som forskningsbibliotekar ved Roskilde Universitet. Han voksede op på Nørrebro som barn af russiske jøder. Morten Thing har udgivet flere bøger blandt andet om sin fars oplevelser som modstandsmand under besættelsen, jødisk identitet og kulturhistorie.

Kensho is the Zen experience of waking up to one’s own true nature—of understanding oneself to be not different from the Buddha-nature that pervades all existence. The Japanese Zen Master Hakuin (1689–1769) considered the experience to be essential. In his autobiography he says: “Anyone who would call himself a member of the Zen family must first achieve kensho-realization of the Buddha’s way. If a person who has not achieved kensho says he is a follower of Zen, he is an outrageous fraud. A swindler pure and simple.” Hakuin’s short text on kensho, “Four Ways of Knowing of an Awakened Person,” is a little-known Zen classic. The “four ways” he describes include the way of knowing of the Great Perfect Mirror, the way of knowing equality, the way of knowing by differentiation, and the way of the perfection of action. Rather than simply being methods for “checking” for enlightenment in oneself, these ways ultimately exemplify Zen practice. Albert Low has provided careful, line-by-line commentary for the text that illuminates its profound wisdom and makes it an inspiration for deeper spiritual practice.

Complete Enlightenment is the first authoritative translation and commentary on The Sutra of Complete Enlightenment, a central text that shaped the development of East Asian Buddhism and Ch'an (Chinese Zen). The text is set in the form of a transcription of discussions between the Buddha and the twelve enlightened beings(bodhisattvas), who question him on all aspects of spiritual practice. This new translation preserves all the liveliness and nuance of the text in the original Chinese. The sutra's ancient wisdom is brought to life by the commentaries of Master Sheng-yen, one of the most revered living Buddhist masters in the Ch'an lineage. This is truly a manual for the spiritual journey toward complete enlightenment, providing the key to the deep, poetic, and practical meanings of the scripture.

The Emerald Tablet is a cryptic and central piece of the Hermetica reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia and its transmutation. It was highly regarded by medieval alchemists as the foundation of their art and its Hermetic tradition. The original source of the Emerald Tablet is unknown. Although Hermes Trismegistus is the author named in the text, the text was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century. Numerous translations, interpretations, and commentaries followed.