Religious and spiritual Books

This is a compelling biography of Jesus Christ, written by theologian Karl August von Hase and translated by J. F. Clarke. An essential read for scholars of religion and anyone interested in the life of Jesus.This work has been selected by scholars as...

A shocking and revealing account of life inside a 19th-century convent, written by a woman who experienced it firsthand. Rebecca Theresa Reed's memoir will captivate anyone interested in the history of the Catholic Church, or in the struggle for women's...

This biography of Monseigneur Berneux, a French missionary bishop who was martyred in Korea in 1866, is a touching tribute to a man of great faith and courage. Frédéric Pichon's vivid descriptions and Lady Herbert's moving preface make this a book that...

Questa biografia del cardinale Pietro Bembo, scritta dal celebre umanista Giovanni della Casa, offre una visione dettagliata della vita e delle opere del cardinale, noto per la sua influenza sulla cultura italiana della sua epoca. Questa nuova edizione...

This is the story of Louise Lateau, a Belgian peasant girl who began showing signs of stigmata in the late 19th century. Her visions and mystical experiences attracted the attention of the public and the Church, and she quickly became a celebrated figure...

Through the world of James of Jerusalem we discover the development of Christianity and its struggle for self-definition amidst Jewish roots and a rising congregation of newly converted Gentiles. In this time of early Christianity, James'...

These six monologues are accompanied by a worship service that includes a call to worship, scripture readings, a pastoral prayer, and suggested hymns.Monologues include:NoahAbrahamJosephMosesA Wise ManChuzaThe script is fascinating and fast-paced from...

This series brings to a wide audience important new discoveries concerning relationships of women and men in the Bible, ancient Israel, early Judaism, and early Christianity. The books explore the role of gender within the biblical tradition and document...

'She defined herself by her past because she saw no future...'This woman knew what it was to feel unloved, to feel unwanted, to suffer disappointment, and to want revenge. However, she found the courage to go forward in life. Her name is Hagar, the woman...

How does a virtuous young woman who is one of God's own chosen people deal with an undesirable future determined by the plans of a tyrant? Hadassah knows glorious promises that fill the scriptures. She knows the history of God's deliverance and...

I AM HOPE is a book about survival. Many people who have suffered abuse live in fear, guilt, and shame. Hope shares her testimony of overcoming the shame and guilt of the abuse she suffered as a child. Hope wants the victims of abuse to know they too...

Since the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Gilgamesh epic, we have known that the Bible imports narratives from outside of Israelite culture, refiguring them for its own audience. Only more recently, however, has come the realization that Greek...

On her sixteenth birthday, Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on a spindle of a spinning wheel, which was meant to kill her, but instead she fell into a deep sleep, only to be awakened by true love's kiss.Rapunzel was locked up in a tower-how did she get...

The life-story of Chiswakhata Mkandawire (1903-1998) who was the principal missionary at the Livingstonia mission in Malawi for over sixty years. His life and work spanned much of the period from the beginnings of Christianity in Malawi to the modern...

This book is about my life-long search for spiritual meaning, truth, and freedom. Raised during World War II within the confines of an all-Catholic town in Northern Maine and within a community that kept an ever-vigilant watch over the words and actions...

Reports From The Soul is a balm for pain, joy and an antidote for self-validation. The poetry inspires one to break through confined walls and move like liquid over mountains. It is a recipe of dreams with spicy thoughts, fusing emotions, people and time...

This book is a chronological relating of the raising up of a prophet of God.Many of us have read the Holy Bible and learned of spiritual work done by various prophets of God throughout the history of man. We have read and learned that God raises up his...

Memories are the fond things we remember about life, or at least they are supposed to be. I suspect that most mamas tell their little girls about becoming a woman. Love is always happily ever after. Growing up should have been marked with beautiful...

Through a beautiful and happy-go-lucky childhood, to a confusing adolescence, abusive marriage, and finally freedom, Charlene Jeffs takes readers on a wandering journey through the joys and heartaches of her life within the FLDS Church.Charlene was...

Suffering from loss, first her father who was her hero. Then ten years later the loss of her mother with all the struggles of a hard life 26 miles inside the arctic circle. This is how a young girl from a small town survived and fought to make a better...

The old world of traditional Tibet had its few windows to the outside world slammed shut when Chinese troops completed their conquest in 1959. This is the life of Tashi Khedrup, who was born in a traditional Tibetan village, ordained as a monk in one of...

Publisher's ForewordThis is a life story of two spiritual mentors in the Eastern Christian Orthodox tradition, St. Leo of Optina (Nagolkin) and St. Theodore of Neamts (Polzikov). St Theodore was a disciple of St. Paisios (Velichkovsky). St...

Vida del padre Baltasar Álvarez es una obra que combina elementos biográficos y reflexiones espirituales, centrada en la vida y la ascesis cristiana del Padre Baltasar Álvarez. Escrita por Luis de la Puente en un período en el que la Compañía de Jesús...

Der hl. Aloisius ist ein großer Heiliger der Konzils von Trient und der sog. Gegenreformation.

"One of the most engaging memoirs I've read in ages. The wise and feisty voice I've come to know and love in Elizabeth Cunningham’s Maeve Chronicles fills these pages and carried me away. Anyone who has forged an independent path through...

He was supposed to be a great prophet. He was supposed to call the king to repentance. He wasn't good enough. Look at him now: Hiding. Hurting. Alone. Abandoned. Broken. He faces a desolate desert with a desolate heart. He cries out in pain, "Let me...

IN THIS TIME OF UNCERTAINTY and change, it may be time for us to reassess our thinking on how we are living our lives. What is your truth? Where do you find beauty? What is important for you? Is there "baggage" that pulls you down and keeps you locked...

These are stories of a wandering little boy who followed his two brothers into the Roman Catholic priesthood. His wanderings eventually led to leaving the priesthood as a psychologist. Healing the wounds of neglected and abused children. His wanderings...

     +Bishop Larry D. Green, M.Th., Th.D., is Senior Shepherd and       Rev Saundra B. Green, MDiv is Associate Pastor of New Temple Ministries of Wilmington, NC. As the primary teaching...

The story of a Canadian man who went from the poverty of a dirt farm in Northern Ontario where he went barefoot to school until after the first few snowfalls, to becoming the Assistant General Superintendent of the fastest growing Protestant denomination...

To give us a better understanding of the Catholic Faith, in Characters of the Passion Fulton J. Sheen returns us to Calvary. There he dramatically brings to life in brief but penetrating characterizations many who played important roles in the "Eternal...

This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East...

I grew up being taught a safe place to go to was church. One new member changed how I feel about church. I experienced how the people you thought you could trust will turn on you during hard times. Demons are all around us, and we can never let our guard...

Have you ever wondered why the bible is so hard to interpret? Have you ever wondered why so many religions have different opinions of how we should be worshipping our Father? Have you ever wondered why our Father allows so much evil to prevail in the...

The Burden Is Light! is the author's soul-searching account of her discovery of Jesus Christ.Told in the vibrant, honest prose that has made Eugenia Price a classic religious writer and bestselling novelist, The Burden Is Light! offers an...

Monica Furlong followed Watts's travels conducting interviews with his family, colleagues, and intimate friends, to provide an analysis of the intellectual, cultural, and deeply personal influences behind this truly extraordinary life.

Vision of Hope is an important contribution to the growing number of stories by recovering addicts, for its well-written account in terms that are touching yet honest, in both the low points and high points of her story. Perhaps most significantly,...

Bernhard Martin (1900-1985) grew up Germany in what he calls the "ungodly" age of the First World War and the post-war crisis. Raised a lukewarm Protestant, in secondary school he came to feel disconnected from spiritual life. He made forays...

With this book, Owen Power offers the first full-length intellectual history of the thinker Hugh Schonfield (1901-1988). Power contextualises Schonfield and his work in the spheres of Jewish ideology and Messianic Jewish politics as a means to explain...

The autobiography of Rabbi Jacob Emden (1697-1776), now available for the first time in English translation. Translated directly from the original manuscript with notes.

Christianity introduced a new moral epoch in the course of human history. Its effect was necessarily transforming upon those who came under its sway. Being cosmopolitan in its nature, we have now to study woman as being somewhat dissociated from racial...

For anyone who has ever wanted to become a better person, this book will truly inspire. God Is a Coleman Lantern is the autobiography of Connie Darlene Stewart, a woman who has dedicated her life to following in the footsteps of Mother Teresa, helping...