Format: Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: November 6, 2012 Price: $40.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0987-1 (1-4262-0987-8)
The Gospels of the New Testament describe the life of Jesus of Nazareth, from his birth in Bethlehem and his travels through Galilee, to his trial and death in Jerusalem. In the Footsteps of Jesus goes even deeper into the story of Jesus’ life by following his path through the Holy...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks On Sale: February 10, 2004 Price: $13.95 ISBN: 978-0-8129-7086-9 (0-8129-7086-1)
In this mesmerizing examination of Delacroix’s crowning masterwork, Jacob Wrestling with the Angel, and of Saint-Sulpice, the grand church that houses it, Jean-Paul Kauffmann reveals the city of Paris in an entirely new way.
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Format: Trade Paperback, 416 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: March 3, 1998 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-345-41882-1 (0-345-41882-4)
Sex. Violence. Scandal. These are words we rarely associate with the sacred text of the Bible. Yet in this brilliant new book, Jonathan Kirsch shows that the Old Testament is filled with some of the most startling and explicit stories in all of Western literature. These tales of seduction and rape...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books On Sale: November 2, 1999 Price: $23.00 ISBN: 978-0-345-41270-6 (0-345-41270-2)
Drawing on the biblical text and a treasury of both scholarship and storytelling, Kirsch examines all that is known and all that has been imagined of Moses.
"A lively narrative...There is a figure here looming up through the mists of tradition and folk memory that is of compelling significance, complex and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: New Seeds On Sale: January 10, 2006 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-59030-299-6 (1-59030-299-0)
From John Chrysostom in the fourth century to Teresa of Avila in the sixteenth to William Butler Yeats in the twentieth, this wide-ranging collection is a treasury of writings on prayer from throughout the history of Christianity. Lorraine Kisly has arranged the material according to the great general themes of prayer—such...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
Publisher: Three Leaves On Sale: September 21, 2004 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-49974-3 (0-385-49974-4)
Fifty-three percent of the world’s population practices Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, religions that all trace their lineage to the towering, quasi-mythological figure of Abraham. In this reverent biography of the man who invented–or discovered–God, David Klinghoffer disentangles history from myth and uncovers the profound impact of Abraham’s message on his time...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Three Rivers Press On Sale: March 7, 2006 Price: $15.99 ISBN: 978-0-385-51022-6 (0-385-51022-5)
In Why The Jews Rejected Jesus, David Klinghoffer reveals that the Jews since ancient times accepted not only the historical existence of Jesus but the role of certain Jews in bringing about his crucifixion and death. But he also argues that they had every reason to be skeptical of claims for...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: March 20, 2007 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0047-2 (1-4262-0047-1)
In this compelling and exhaustively researched account, Herbert Krosney unravels how the Gospel of Judas was found and its meaning painstakingly teased from the ancient Coptic script that had hid its message for centuries. With all the skills of an investigative journalist and master storyteller, Krosney traces the forgotten gospel’s improbable...
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Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: April 6, 2006 Price: $27.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0041-0 (1-4262-0041-2)
In this compelling and exhaustively researched account, Herbert Krosney unravels how the Gospel of Judas was found and its meaning painstakingly teased from the ancient Coptic script that had hid its message for centuries. With all the skills of an investigative journalist and master storyteller, Krosney traces the forgotten gospel’s improbable...
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Format: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: October 2, 2012 Price: $24.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4292-8 (0-8052-4292-9)
From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach us about living in a troubled world.
The story of Job is one of unjust things happening to a good man. Yet after losing...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: October 8, 2010 Price: $14.95 ISBN: 978-0-307-38589-5 (0-307-38589-2)
From the best-selling author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, an illuminating book about fear—and what we can do to overcome it.
An inescapable component of our lives, fear comes in many guises. In uncertain times, coping with these fears can be especially challenging, but in this indispensable book, Harold...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 24, 2004 Price: $14.00 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3335-5 (1-4000-3335-7)
From the author of the best-selling When Bad Things Happen to Good People and Living a Life That Matters—a new book of practical spirituality, of inspiration and encouragement gleaned from what may be the best-known and best-loved chapter in the Bible: the Twenty-third Psalm.
Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Knopf On Sale: August 26, 2003 Price: $19.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-4056-8 (1-4000-4056-6)
From the author of the best-selling When Bad Things Happen to Good People and Living a Life That Matters—a new book of practical spirituality, of inspiration and encouragement gleaned from what may be the best-known and best-loved chapter in the Bible: the Twenty-third Psalm.
“The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: August 21, 2007 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 978-1-4000-3336-2 (1-4000-3336-5)
From Harold S. Kushner, author of the inspirational #1 bestseller When Bad Things Happen to Good People, comes a book that shows us how to be our best selves even when things don’t turn out as we had hoped.
Kushner turns to the experience of Moses to find the requisite lessons of...
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Schocken On Sale: August 26, 2003 Price: $21.00 ISBN: 978-0-8052-4220-1 (0-8052-4220-1)
In the ancient Jewish practice of the kavannah (a meditation designed to focus one’s heart on its spiritual goal), Lawrence Kushner and David Mamet offer their own reactions to key verses from each week’s Torah portion, opening the biblical text to new layers of understanding.
Here is a fascinating glimpse into two...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Anchor On Sale: February 19, 2002 Price: $15.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-72216-2 (0-385-72216-8)
Renowned scholar Alister McGrath recounts the complicated history of the King James Bible and its impact with grace and simplicity.
The King James Bible has enriched the English language and Western culture more than any other single work. In the Beginning explores the forces–as political as they were theological–that led to...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: WaterBrook Press On Sale: June 25, 2002 Price: $12.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-50316-7 (0-385-50316-4)
Alister McGrath is a widely acknowledged master of contemporary spirituality, and in Knowing Christ he has written a profound meditation on one of the most deceptively simple-sounding tenets of the Christian faith, the centrality of Christ in the life of his followers. Knowing Christ is a work of spirituality grounded with...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 232 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: May 8, 2012 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-8070-0147-9 (0-8070-0147-3)
Does the Bible prohibit homosexuality? No, says Bible scholar and activist Jay Michaelson. But not only that: Michaelson also shows that the vast majority of our shared religious traditions support the full equality and dignity of LGBT people. In this accessible, passionate, and provocative book, Michaelson argues for equality, not despite...
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Format: Hardcover, 232 pages
Publisher: Beacon Press On Sale: October 25, 2011 Price: $25.95 ISBN: 978-0-8070-0159-2 (0-8070-0159-7)
As both a gay rights activist and religion scholar, Michaelson is uniquely positioned to tackle the contentious “God vs. Gay” divide. The author underscores that the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament both emphasize the importance of love, compassion, and equality. From this starting point, Michaelson offers a progressive take on...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: November 5, 2002 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-78160-8 (0-679-78160-9)
With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise—God’s ancient covenant with Israel—and of its strange, unlooked-for fulfillment. For, having abandoned his chosen...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
Publisher: Vintage On Sale: March 19, 1996 Price: $16.95 ISBN: 978-0-679-74368-2 (0-679-74368-5)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
In this acclaimed work, Miles offers a brilliant and original portrait of God--God in the guise of a great literary character, the hero of the Old Testament. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, who he...
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Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publisher: Doubleday Religion On Sale: September 29, 2009 Price: $26.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-52370-7 (0-385-52370-X)
An intriguing examination of the extraordinary–and little known¯meeting between St. Francis of Assisi and Islamic leader Sultan Malik Al-Kamil, with strong resonance in today’s divided world.
For many of us, St. Francis of Assisi is known as a poor monk and a lover of animals. However, these images are sadly incomplete...
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Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: National Geographic On Sale: April 6, 2006 Price: $22.00 ISBN: 978-1-4262-0042-7 (1-4262-0042-0)
Jesus says to Judas: “Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star.” –from The Gospel of Judas
For 1,600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: March 24, 2009 Price: $15.95 ISBN: 978-0-385-52444-5 (0-385-52444-7)
Home Tonight follows the path of Henri Nouwen’s spiritual homecoming. More than three years prior to writing his great classic, The Return of the Prodigal Son, Nouwen suffered a personal breakdown followed by a time of healing solitude when he encountered Rembrandt’s famous painting. Within his solitude he reflected on and...
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Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
Publisher: Image On Sale: March 1, 1994 Price: $16.00 ISBN: 978-0-385-47307-1 (0-385-47307-9)
The beloved spiritual writer meditates on the parable of the prodigal son's return -- a powerful drama of fatherhood, filial duty, rivalry, and anger between brothers -- and its enduring lessons for Christianity.
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