Religion: general Books

Bhagavad Gitan jooga on innoittava ja ytimekäs johdanto Intian rakastetuimman pyhän kirjoituksen hengellisiin totuuksiin. Tämä teos on kokoelma otteita Paramahansa Yoganandan kiitetystä kaksiosaisesta Bhagavad Gitan käännöksestä ja kommentaarista (God...

Самореализация - это знание телом, умом и душой, что мы едины с вездесущностью Бога и нам не нужно молиться о ней; что она не просто рядом с нами в каждый миг нашей жизни, но что вездесущность Бога - это наша собственная вездесущность и мы сейчас - такая...

2025 Reprint of the 1927 Edition. "Devastating in its use of cold logic," (The Independent), the classic essay expresses the freethinker's views on religion and challenges set notions in today's society from one of the most influential intellectual...

Illuminates a text that until now has intimidated the general reader.Focuses on seven themes that recur throughout the five-volume work-repentance, the heart, prayer, the Jesus Prayer, the passions, stillness, and theosis.

The text in Significant Secular and Sacred Matters in America contains nineteen commentaries, nine on secular matters and ten on sacred matters.The secular materials focus on various matters in American society, including the reprehensible treatment of...

God can do anything, but did you know He has already done everything? Instead of asking the Lord to do something for you - revive you, heal you, bless you, prosper you - accept what He has already done for you through the death, burial, and resurrection...

Have you ever asked yourself what changed when you were "born again?" You look in the mirror and see the same reflection - your body hasn't changed. You find yourself acting the same and yielding to those same old temptations - that...

As recovering Fundamentalists we often find ourselves unknowingly remaining within the Fundamentalist worldview. We think that if we enter into Progressive Christianity we're leaving behind the irrational, hurtful, racist, and untrue theological...

Making disciples is the primary calling of the church; however, in the past decades of American evangelicalism, there has been a breach of Christ's Great Commission (as found in Matt 28:19-20). Much of this failure can be attributed to the doctrine and...

Liturgy at its best has the power to transform the community of the faithful. The liturgies in this book focus on lament, especially the lament experienced by communities of people facing environmental degradation and loss. It is often observed that...

White supremacy and racialized violence have animated much of society and church in the United States. Many people of goodwill are grasping for what to do in the face of such broad-reaching and painful wounds. From tracing the emergence of the modern...

Servanthood of Song is a history of American church music from the colonial era to the present. Its focus is on the institutional and societal pressures that have shaped church song and have led us directly to where we are today. The gulf which separates...

Divine Disorder and the Rescue of God is based on the idea that a kenotic approach is essential to a viable theology. It is deeply influenced by the way such an approach influenced the writings of Donald MacKinnon.Part I argues that God forces us to live...

Not long ago, those who wrote about the ""end-time"" were preachers--the more fundamentalist, the more extreme by some standards. ""The end is coming soon,"" they said, and cartoons were rampant with guys carrying placards captioned by ""The End is...

ERT publishes quality articles and book reviews from around the world (both original and reprinted) from an evangelical perspective, reflecting global evangelical scholarship for the purpose of discerning the obedience of faith, and of relevance and...

A thirteenth-century priest in the Iberian Peninsula reaches out to Muslims and Jews in order to convert them to Christianity. This was a time of great conflict between the Abrahamic faiths, so any communication between adherents was usually difficult...

The need for reconciliation and the significance of renewal are fundamental aspects of a person's life, and they are also essential to Christian faith. In the Christian tradition in the West the concept of reconciliation has been extensively discussed,...

God loves animals and gives them a special place in creation. So, do animals also have a place in God's work of redemption? Will there be animals on the new Earth? Will we see our beloved pets in the afterlife? This book takes up the challenge to think...

In this book, we pay particular attention to a son of Africa who opened up to reflection, research and ""armed himself with science to the teeth"", to restore to Africa--without complacency or false modesty--its true image: Engelbert Mveng. Our approach,...

The Quest for Early Church Historiography explores how early church historiography underwent a significant shift beginning with the thought of Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), a shift that eventually culminated in the current extreme...

Nine Philosopher kings were commissioned to under gird the articles of Marxist faith while expunging dogma and religious doctrine. Their seeds of a pre-ordained organic philosophy were planted to upbring young sprouts to destroy the America republic and...

Science and Religion should never in be in conflict as Dr. James, a Ph.D. scientist and Christian mystic carefully demonstrates. He employs many personal experiences in the science realm and in the Christian realm to show how the two are wonderfully...

The Biblical book of Revelation is a rich treasure trove for those who explore it. Revelation is equally exciting for the novice as for the expert of many years. It is a pool for a paddling baby or a swimming elephant. There is enough here for everyone...

For almost six thousand years, Hebrew tribesmen in the Middle East have sought to build a nation for Hebrew tribesmen. However, over the centuries Hebrew became Jew and Israeli due to the input of trillions of dollars by various wealthy families and...

"When we receive the key to biblical eschatology, a whole new world opens up to us. The scales fall from our eyes and we see Christ, His covenant, His kingdom, and His people in all Scripture. In The Great End Time Debate, Dean Davis offers us the key...

I like to apply the same analytical skills that helped me succeed in IT to my study of the Bible. I use the same technique when preparing a lesson, a sermon, or just discussing God's word with friends.It was while discussing God's word with...

Brand New Story of Creation is the journey of an independent scholar, trained as a Jesuit and seasoned by top-tier executive business challenges. He takes on the avocation of answering the question: What am I doing on a ball spinning in space?The author...

Whether Alexander was called Λυκοπολίτης from his birthplace, or from his episcopal See, this is certain and acknowledged, that he of good right claims for himself a place among ecclesiastical writers, for he has given us an elaborate treatise against...

“We do not indeed forbid the union of man and woman, blest by God as the seminary of the human race, and devised for the replenishment of the earth and the furnishing of the world, and therefore permitted, yet singly. For Adam was the one husband...

As persecutions in increasing number threaten us, so the more are we called on to give earnest thought to the question of how faith ought to receive them, and the duty of carefully considering it concerns you no less, who no doubt, by not accepting the...

And so He gathered together a people for Himself, and fostered them with many liberal distributions of His bounty, and, after so often finding them most ungrateful, ever exhorted them to repentance and sent out the voices of the universal company of the...

No one deserves (favor) by availing himself of the indulgence, but by rendering a prompt obedience to the will, (of his master). The will of God is our sanctification, for He wishes His “image”—us—to become likewise His...

This among Christians is a season of persecution. When, therefore, faith is greatly agitated, and the Church burning, as represented by the bush, then the Gnostics break out, then the Valentinians creep forth, then all the opponents of martyrdom bubble...

 This is a very revealing and enlightening book about the anti-christ. Pastor Robert Johnson has sought to inform the reader on a biblical level, which is what matters most. He has brought together the scriptures from various passages in the Bible...

Spiritual Man: Natural Woman is an empowerment and relationship-building Bible study written to reveal and remind young, middle-aged, and mature women of faith that we do not have to ask for liberation or equality because we already possess it. The key...

There is no book quite like this if you know a little bit about St. Francis and want to know more. Each chapter describes a pilgrimage to a place in Italy that's central to Francis's biography written by one of his most literary modern biographers...

This is the book for now and the future. Revelation 5:7 states, “And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.” This book came out of the hands of God the Father into the hands of our Lord Jesus Christ...

From popes to television personalities to high school students, everyone who encountered Monsignor Lorenzo Albacete knew there was no one like him. He could engage you with a joke about a New Yorker cartoon, move on to a keen commentary on the state of...

There are many doorways that can be used to enter and engage with the storyline of the Bible. In this book, TK Dunn traces the theme of "take and eat" across the pages of Scripture to demonstrate that many of the critical events in redemptive...

The incarnation is a central Christian doctrine. Many books have been dedicated to attempting to understand its mystery and how it fits with the rest of Christian theology. But what about the way this doctrine can and should impact the way we...

Al comenzar esta “defensa del Evangelio” necesitamos conocer bien lo que es el Evangelio, y por qué necesitamos defenderlo. El Apóstol Pablo creía que en su día era necesario defender el Evangelio. Él...

We need to know how we have gotten to this place in thehistory of Christianity, as Baptists. What sacrifices have been madeby Baptists that have shaped our distinct identity today.It is my concern that many of these cherished teachings may beforgotten,...

This book deals with questions that have plagued many who have tried to deal with the problem of theodicy; that is: why a good God would allow evil to enter the world. Why did an omnipotent and good God allow the fall of Adam and Eve to occur? Why did...

To differentiate between the "Sons of God" and the "Sons of Man," one must not only rely on the Word of the Lord, but must also be able to comprehend what actually transpired within the Roman Empire as the powerful Emperors ruled in...

The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 BCE to circa 50 CE).