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      <title>The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas by Etienne Gilson</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307823359&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307823359&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307823359&quot;&gt;The Christian Philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=66175&quot;&gt;Etienne Gilson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 480 pages | Random House | Philosophy - Religious; Religion - Philosophy; Religion | &lt;b&gt;$11.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-82335-9 (0-307-82335-0)&lt;p&gt;Etienne Gilson explains the foundations of St. Thomas Aquinas's thoughts and Christian philosophy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Gilson is also the author of &lt;i&gt;History of Christian Philosophy in the Middle Ages.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-05-01T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Does God Exist by Hans Kung</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307826527&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307826527&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307826527&quot;&gt;Does God Exist&lt;/a&gt; An Answer For Today&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=16360&quot;&gt;Hans Kung&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Doubleday | Religion - Philosophy | &lt;b&gt;$17.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-82652-7 (0-307-82652-X)&lt;p&gt;Does God exist? The  question implies another: Who is God? This book is  meant to give an  answer to both questions and to give reasons for this  answer. Does God  exist? Yes or no? Many are at a loss between belief  and unbelief; they  are undecided, skeptical. They are doubtful about  their belief, but they  are also doubtful about their doubting. There  are still others who are  proud of their doubting. Yet there remains a  longing for certainty.  Certainty? Whether Christians or Jews, believers  in God or atheists, the  discussion today runs right across old  denominations and new ideologies&amp;mdash;but the longing for certainty is  unquenched. Does God exist? We are  putting all our cards on the table  here. The answer will be &quot;Yes, God  exists,&quot; As human beings in the  twentieth century, we certainly can  reasonably believe in God&amp;mdash;even more  so in the Christian God&amp;mdash;and  perhaps even more easily today than a few  decades or centuries ago. For,  after so many crises, it is surprising  how much has been clarified and  how many difficulties in regard to  belief in God have melted into the  Light that no darkness has overcome.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2013-01-02T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Great Partnership by Jonathan Sacks</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805243017&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780805243017&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805243017&quot;&gt;The Great Partnership&lt;/a&gt; Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26645&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt;, 384 pages | Schocken | Religion - Theology; Religion - Atheism; Religion - Philosophy | &lt;b&gt;$28.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8052-4301-7 (0-8052-4301-1)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist***&lt;br&gt;Dorot Foundation Award for&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Modern Jewish Thought and Experience&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;An impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other&amp;mdash;and that the world needs both. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Atheism deserves better than the new atheists,&amp;rdquo; states Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, &amp;ldquo;whose methodology consists of criticizing religion without understanding it, quoting texts without contexts, taking exceptions as the rule, confusing folk belief with reflective theology, abusing, mocking, ridiculing, caricaturing, and demonizing religious faith and holding it responsible for the great crimes against humanity. Religion has done harm; I acknowledge that. But the cure for bad religion is good religion, not no religion, just as the cure for bad science is good science, not the abandonment of science.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Rabbi Sacks&amp;rsquo;s counterargument is that religion and science are the two essential perspectives that allow us to see the universe in its three-dimensional depth. Science teaches us where we come from. Religion explains to us why we are here. Science is the search for explanation. Religion is the search for meaning. We need scientific explanation to understand nature. We need meaning to understand human behavior. There have been times when religion tried to dominate science. And there have been times, including our own, when it is believed that we can learn all we need to know about meaning and relationships through biochemistry, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology. In this fascinating look at the interdependence of religion and science, Rabbi Sacks explains why both views are tragically wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-09-11T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>The Great Partnership by Jonathan Sacks</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805243024&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780805243024&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780805243024&quot;&gt;The Great Partnership&lt;/a&gt; Science, Religion, and the Search for Meaning&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=26645&quot;&gt;Jonathan Sacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Schocken | Religion - Theology; Religion - Atheism; Religion - Philosophy | &lt;b&gt;$14.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-8052-4302-4 (0-8052-4302-X)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;***National Jewish Book Awards 2012, Finalist***&lt;br&gt;Dorot Foundation Award for&lt;/b&gt; &lt;b&gt;Modern Jewish Thought and Experience&lt;br&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;An impassioned, erudite, thoroughly researched, and beautifully reasoned book from one of the most admired religious thinkers of our time that argues not only that science and religion are compatible, but that they complement each other&amp;mdash;and that the world needs both. &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&amp;ldquo;Atheism deserves better than the new atheists,&amp;rdquo; states Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, &amp;ldquo;whose methodology consists of criticizing religion without understanding it, quoting texts without contexts, taking exceptions as the rule, confusing folk belief with reflective theology, abusing, mocking, ridiculing, caricaturing, and demonizing religious faith and holding it responsible for the great crimes against humanity. Religion has done harm; I acknowledge that. But the cure for bad religion is good religion, not no religion, just as the cure for bad science is good science, not the abandonment of science.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;Rabbi Sacks&amp;rsquo;s counterargument is that religion and science are the two essential perspectives that allow us to see the universe in its three-dimensional depth. Science teaches us where we come from. Religion explains to us why we are here. Science is the search for explanation. Religion is the search for meaning. We need scientific explanation to understand nature. We need meaning to understand human behavior. There have been times when religion tried to dominate science. And there have been times, including our own, when it is believed that we can learn all we need to know about meaning and relationships through biochemistry, neuroscience, and evolutionary psychology. In this fascinating look at the interdependence of religion and science, Rabbi Sacks explains why both views are tragically wrong.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the Hardcover edition.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-09-11T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>God in Pain by Ellen Elias-Bursac</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781609803698&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781609803698&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781609803698&quot;&gt;God in Pain&lt;/a&gt; Inversions of Apocalypse&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=149686&quot;&gt;Slavoj Zizek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=149687&quot;&gt;Boris Gunjevic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Translated by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=149688&quot;&gt;Ellen Elias-Bursac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 288 pages | Seven Stories Press | Philosophy - Religious; Religion - Comparative Religion; Religion - Philosophy | &lt;b&gt;$19.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-60980-369-8 (1-60980-369-8)&lt;p&gt;A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjevic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, &lt;i&gt;God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse&lt;/i&gt; shows how each faith understands humanity and divinity--and how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Chapters include (by Zizek) (1) &quot;Christianity Against Sacred,&quot; (2) &quot;Glance into the Archives of Islam,&quot; (3) &quot;Only Suffering God Can Save Us,&quot; (4) &quot;Animal Gaze,&quot; (5) &quot;For the Theologico-Political Suspension of the Ethical,&quot; (by Gunjevic) (1) &quot;Mistagogy of Revolution,&quot; (2) &quot;Virtues of Empire,&quot; (3) &quot;Every Book Is Like Fortress,&quot; (4) &quot;Radical Orthodoxy,&quot; (5) &quot;Prayer and Wake.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-04-17T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>God in Pain by Ellen Elias-Bursac</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781609803704&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781609803704&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781609803704&quot;&gt;God in Pain&lt;/a&gt; Inversions of Apocalypse&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=149686&quot;&gt;Slavoj Zizek&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=149687&quot;&gt;Boris Gunjevic&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;b&gt;Translated by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=149688&quot;&gt;Ellen Elias-Bursac&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt; | Seven Stories Press | Philosophy - Religious; Religion - Comparative Religion; Religion - Philosophy | &lt;b&gt;$19.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-60980-370-4 (1-60980-370-1)&lt;p&gt;A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunj&amp;eacute;vic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, &lt;i&gt;God in Pain: Inversions of Apocalypse&lt;/i&gt; shows how each faith understands humanity and divinity&amp;mdash;and how the differences between the faiths may be far stranger than they may at first seem.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Chapters include (by Zizek) (1) &quot;Christianity Against Sacred,&quot; (2) &quot;Glance into the Archives of Islam,&quot; (3) &quot;Only Suffering God Can Save Us,&quot; (4) &quot;Animal Gaze,&quot; (5) &quot;For the Theologico-Political Suspension of the Ethical,&quot; (by Gunjevic) (1) &quot;Mistagogy of Revolution,&quot; (2) &quot;Virtues of Empire,&quot; (3) &quot;Every Book Is Like Fortress,&quot; (4) &quot;Radical Orthodoxy,&quot; (5) &quot;Prayer and Wake.&quot;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-04-17T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Religion for Atheists by Alain De Botton</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307379108&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307379108&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307379108&quot;&gt;Religion for Atheists&lt;/a&gt; A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=6639&quot;&gt;Alain De Botton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Hardcover&lt;/b&gt; | Pantheon | Philosophy - Religious; Religion - Philosophy; Self-Help - Spiritual | &lt;b&gt;$26.95&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-37910-8 (0-307-37910-8)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense?&lt;/i&gt; The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton&amp;rsquo;s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false&amp;mdash;but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Religion for Atheists &lt;/i&gt;suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it&amp;mdash;because the world&amp;rsquo;s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself)&amp;nbsp;proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in &lt;i&gt;Religion for Atheists,&lt;/i&gt; Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-03-06T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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      <title>Religion for Atheists by Alain De Botton</title>
      <author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307907103&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307907103&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307907103&quot;&gt;Religion for Atheists&lt;/a&gt; A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=6639&quot;&gt;Alain De Botton&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;eBook&lt;/b&gt;, 320 pages | Vintage | Philosophy - Religious; Religion - Philosophy; Self-Help - Spiritual | &lt;b&gt;$11.99&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-307-90710-3 (0-307-90710-4)&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense?&lt;/i&gt; The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton&amp;rsquo;s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false&amp;mdash;but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;i&gt;Religion for Atheists &lt;/i&gt;suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it&amp;mdash;because the world&amp;rsquo;s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself)&amp;nbsp;proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world.&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in &lt;i&gt;Religion for Atheists,&lt;/i&gt; Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-03-06T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Night of the Confessor by Tomas Halik</title>
      <author>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385524520&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385524520&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385524520&quot;&gt;Night of the Confessor&lt;/a&gt; Christian Faith in an Age of Uncertainty&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=79248&quot;&gt;Tomas Halik&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 240 pages | Image | Religion - Philosophy; Religion - Christian Life - Spiritual Growth | &lt;b&gt;$13.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-0-385-52452-0 (0-385-52452-8)&lt;p&gt;Tom&amp;aacute;&amp;scaron; Hal&amp;iacute;k is a wise guide for the post-Christian era, and never more so than in his latest work, a thought-provoking and powerful reflection on the relationship between faith, paradox, change, and resurrection. &lt;br&gt;As the challenges of cultural secularization and dwindling congregation size confront religious communities across North America and Europe, and the Catholic Church in particular, Tom&amp;aacute;&amp;scaron; Hal&amp;iacute;k is a prophetic voice of hope. He has lived through the political oppression and intolerance of religion that defined Communist Czechoslovakia, and he draws from this experience to remind readers that not only does crisis lead to deeper understanding but also that any living religion is a changing religion. The central messages of Christianity have always seemed impossible, from peace and forgiveness in the face of a harsh world to love and self-sacrifice despite human selfishness to the victory of resurrection through the defeat of the cross. Acceptance of paradox therefore is the way forward, Hal&amp;iacute;k explains. It is a difficult way that offers an unclear immediate future, but it is ultimately the only honest way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <updated>2012-01-10T00:30:00-05:00</updated>
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    <entry>
      <title>Night of the Confessor by Tomas Halik</title>
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      <content type="text/html">&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781591027744&quot;&gt;&lt;img align=&quot;right&quot; src=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781591027744&quot; border=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;h3&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781591027744&quot;&gt;Seeking the Truth&lt;/a&gt; How Science Has Prevailed over the Supernatural Worldview&lt;br/&gt;&lt;b&gt;Written by&lt;/b&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=179255&quot;&gt;Richard H. Schlagel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;b&gt;Trade Paperback&lt;/b&gt;, 518 pages | Humanity Books | Religion - Atheism; Science - Philosophy &amp; Social; Religion - Philosophy | &lt;b&gt;$39.00&lt;/b&gt; | 978-1-59102-774-4 (1-59102-774-8)&lt;p&gt;In this sweeping intellectual history, philosopher Richard H. Schlagel compares the conceptual worldviews of science and religion, their distinct historical origins, their radically different experiential foundations, and their contrasting methods of justification. With great clarity and an impressive command of the historical facts, he depicts Western civilization as a composite of two diverse traditions&amp;#8212;the empirical-rationalistic perspective of the ancient Greek philosophers and the mystical-revelatory approach of Judeo-Christian religion. Today, science, the inheritor of the Greek empirical-rationalistic approach, is clearly in the ascendancy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Schlagel shows how and why science has achieved its remarkable success, while religion, still burdened by archaic, static concepts anchored in a vanished past, has experienced more and more cognitive and emotional difficulties accommodating scientific discoveries. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Looking to the future, Schlagel argues that scientific inquiry is clearly superior to faith in ancient religious doctrines to cope with the challenges of climate change, energy sources, environmental protection, population increases, and the global economy. He concludes that the health of democratic societies will depend, in large part, on an educated citizenry that appreciates the importance of science and recognizes the retrograde tendencies of the fundamentalist mindset both in the United States and abroad.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br clear=&quot;all&quot;&gt;</content>
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      <title>Decoding the Language of God by George C. Cunningham, M.D.</title>
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