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The golden needle in the hay stack,the message in the bottle, the new world we have all been awaitingthis book is it that was thought lost but now revealed,joy for the true seeker,impregnated with soul forcea true wow! a living entity, a spiritual...

2024 Reprint of the 1883 Edition Reprinted in Two Volumes. Two volumes bound into one. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.   Massey intended this work as an attempt to recover and...

2021 Reprint of the 1938 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The author asserts in this pamphlet that the Japanese are one of the lost tribes of Israel, naming the Children of Ammon...

A collaborating pastor, rabbi and Imam share their stories, challenges, and the inner spiritual work necessary to go beyond tolerance to a vital, inclusive spirituality. Includes practical advice to help you embody their revolutionary spirit of healing.

The name Jesus identified the Son of God as a man. It was a common Jewish name meaning savior or deliverer. Jesus grew up perceived as a member of the local community.It was his baptism at age 30 that marked his anointing and attaining the title of...

Orthodox Christianity is one of the world's major religions, and the Russian Orthodox Church is by far its largest denomination. Few know its history and spiritual richness, however. Neil Kent's comprehensive new book fills that gap. The Russian Orthodox...

The Word of God in the Ethics of Jacques Ellul originated (1979) as one of the first PhD dissertations on the thought of French sociologist and theologian Jacques Ellul (1912-94), author of some sixty volumes on the nature and impact of modern technology...

""There is science and there is religion and never the twain shall meet."" Is that to be the fate of these two disciplines? Having one foot in the religious world and the other in the scientific can be as precarious as attempting to remain astride two...

Is it possible to believe that our life in this world is all there is and be Christian? Karl Peters says yes. We can think about God as the creativity of the world. About our life as beginning when we were hydrogen atoms, so that everything is family...

Why does the universe exist?What is the source of human personality?Why do people suffer and die?Do humans really have free will?Is evil real, and can it be overcome?Does humanity have a future?If God exists, how can he be known?Throughout history,...

Charles Wesley and early Methodist women shaped Wesleyan theology and practice just as much as John Wesley. All these pioneers in the renewal of the church engaged together in a quest for love divine. That journey led them to timeless discoveries related...

Should a Christian doctrine of salvation be concerned with this life or the life to come? With forgiveness of sins or deliverance of sinners? With the saving of the soul or the healing of the body? Should it focus on the person and work of Jesus Christ...

The cross has always been portrayed as the means of salvation and forgiveness for sinners, but does it have anything to say to those who have been sinned against? This book shows that the atonement of Christ has powerful potential to speak to those who...

Europe has a tremendously important role in the history of Christianity and was the continent with the most Christians from roughly the year 900 to 1980. However, Europe is now home to only 22 percent of all Christians in the world, down from 68 percent...

Modernity and the Rise of the Pocket God explores the relationship between modern religion and ancient values. Journey through the bucolic fields of the ancient villager, en route to the concrete jungles and splendid skylines of the modern city-goer. See...

The Reformation put the grace of God in the right place in the salvation of man. Luther's proclamation of ""justification by faith"" brought the concept of grace to the fore and made it the centrality of Christian theology. But the overemphasis on the...

Demystifying an unrealistic idealMaria Mayo questions the contemporary idealization of unconditional forgiveness in three areas of contemporary life: so-called Victim-Offender Mediation involving cases of criminal injury, the work of the Truth and...

The Nephilim, men of renown, as written in Genesis 6: 1-2, the result of the angelic cohabitating with human females. The first century church understood this to be a reality, but some church fathers considered this rendering mistranslated and even...

Is the earth really just 6,000 years old, as many conservative Christians believe? Or is it really 4,500,000,000 years old, as the vast majority of scientists believe? It is a big difference. Almost a million times different! The purpose of this book is...

From the Retractations, Book II. Chap. 60. “Then also I wrote a Book against Lying, the occasion of which work was this. In order to discover the Priscillianist heretics, who think it right to conceal their heresy not only by denial and lies, but...

The work constitutes an exposition of the several clauses of the so-called Apostles’ Creed. The questions concerning the mutual relations of the three Persons in the Godhead are handled with greatest fullness; in connection with which, especially...

Have you ever thought about or considered the UFO phenomenon? Never or perhaps are not even aware of what it is? Well, perhaps the time has come that you need to be!Whether government super craft or alien perhaps demonic alien craft, the matter may soon...

Edición renovada de esta famoso libro de teología bíblica utilizado en escuelas católicas durante años. Cubre los eventos más famosos narrados en la Biblia, y contiene mapas descriptivos e ilustraciones de los eventos bíblicos.Originalmente publicado...

Weaving together insights from social psychology, theology, and experiences of interfaith religious leaders, Dagmar Grefe develops practical strategies that support interreligious contact at a grassroots level. She shows that by working together,...

The Woodcarver is a collection of feature and cover articles written for national and international publications over the past two decades on matters of faith. These true stories illustrate how the Holy Spirit, acting through people and serendipitous...

This volume represents the Morgan Lectures delivered at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York in October 1897. The advances in the history of Christianity have come about not so much from the discovery of new materials--though of these also unremitting...

Feminist," with its modern interpretation, might not be the word Alma White would have chosen, but there is no doubt that this strong and independent woman fought all the definitions of what a woman was supposed to be at the end of the nineteenth and...

AT ONCE AN INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL ECONOMICS AND a Christian ethical examination of it, 'Free People' looks at one of the most pressing challenges facing followers of Jesus today. How does one love God and neighbor while enmeshed in a globalized economy,...

'Sacred Sacrifice' examines how analogous mythological ideas and the experience of sacred presence during the ritual act created similar ritual paradigms in two non-contiguous cultures. Vedic fire sacrifice, the Horse sacrifice in ancient India and the...

'Brothers In Christ', a reprint of a ground breaking study by Swiss church historian Fritz Blanke, details the origins of the Anabaptist movement in the little town of Zollikon, near Zurich.The author retraces the development of this fascinating...