God and the Western World

Reducere. Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally,...

Reducere. Cultures of the West: A History, Third Edition, focuses on the ways in which the major ideas and passions of Western culture developed, internally,...

DescriptionAt the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Mormons were deliberately excluded from one of the main attractions, the Parliament of Reli...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: OvidNotes by: Joseph ReedTranslator: Rolfe HumphriesOvid's Metamorphoses is one of the most influential works of Western li...

Philosopher David Hume was considered to one of the most important figures in the age of Scottish enlightenment. "A Treatise of Human Nature" broke...

Reducere. Basil of Caesarea is considered one of the architects of the Pro-Nicene Trinitarian doctrine adopted at the Council of Constantinople in 381, which...

Reducere. The Self-Disclosure of God offers the most detailed presentation to date in any Western language of the basic teachings of Islam's greatest mystica...

What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we--in the West, at least--largely do. And clearly the pla...

Reducere. In a consumer-driven and technologized world, can we still experience the mystery of God? This book answers yes by exploring the rich resources of ...

Reducere. It is surely a significant manifestation of the permanence of the soul's quest for God that the Western world, at a time when human values, princip...

Reducere. Metaphysical study of God, love, technology, and culture in modern society Reality most basically and properly considered, says David L. Schindler,...

Reducere. Wonderfully wide-ranging and enjoyable, this outstanding collection features highly acclaimed short stories by Tolstoy who is regarded as one of th...

DescriptionPantheism is the idea that God and the world are identical--that the creator, sustainer, destroyer, and transformer of all things is the...

Reducere. "Within its own 'world view' Egyptian Heka was of far more exalted significance than its Coptic descendant or Western approximation."Robert Ritner,...

Reducere. Leaders in congregations and Christian organizations wrestle with an unraveling of the world in which they have little experience and training. Whi...

Reducere. Despite the importance of St. Benedict of Nursia in the history of the Church and of the world, we know precious little about his life. He left no ...

Reducere. All over the Western world gaps between rich and poor are widening-or the headlines say. Nobody has done more to spread this view than the French e...

Reducere. Far too ignorant of the histories of the rest of the world, being aware of only the accomplishments of Greece, Rome and Europe, Westerners have bee...

Reducere. There are many biographies of John Calvin, the theologian--some villifying him and others extolling his virtues--but few that reveal John Calvin, t...

Reducere. Every great religious order runs into difficulties, and God provides a saint to redress them. Where would the Benedictines be without St. Maurus, t...

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" ...

Reducere. DescriptionA historian of antiquity shows how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imaginationCrucifixion, the Romans believed, was the wors...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Catholicity of Reason explains the -grandeur of reason, - the recollection of which Benedict XVI has presented as one of the primary...

Reducere. Despite the importance of St. Benedict of Nursia in the history of the Church and of the world, we know precious little about his life. He left no ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn July 2006, with the commencement of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the longstanding secretary gen...

Reducere. This ambitious and well-researched study brings together for the first time translations of the ancient literature concerning the Sumerian god Enki...

Reducere. A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and t...

Reducere. The third volume in Campbell's monumental four-volume series, The Masks of God, traces the mythological underpinnings of Western religions: the shi...

The Divine Comedy (Italian: La Divina Commedia) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321. It is widely conside...

Reducere. "Within its own 'world view' Egyptian Heka was of far more exalted significance than its Coptic descendant or Western approximation."Robert Ritner,...

Reducere. God brought passion into Jon's life at an early age when he saw his very first golf club. This passion turned to love and gave birth to a dream. Fu...

Reducere. Sri Swami Vishwananda, an enlightened spiritual master from the island of Mauritius, provides a commentary on the Sri Guru Gita, which is a discuss...

In his prime, Vaslav Nijinsky (1889-1950) was the most celebrated man in Western ballet--a virtuoso and a dramatic dancer such as European and Amer...

Reducere. This fresh look at the Gospel of Matthew highlights the unique contribution that Matthew's rich and multilayered portrait of Jesus makes to underst...

Reducere. new York Times Bestseller: A "beautifully written" and "truly outstanding" novel based on the life of Paul the Apostle (The Cincinnati Enquirer). B...

Reducere. Leaders in congregations and Christian organizations wrestle with an unraveling of the world in which they have little experience and training. Whi...

Reducere. Few thinkers have been as influential as Augustine of Hippo. His writings, such as Confessions and City of God, have left an indelible mark on West...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mohammad IqbalIntroduction by: Javed MajeedThe Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam (1930) is Muhammad Iqbal's majo...

Reducere. First Corinthians is one of the most relevant NT documents for both younger churches seeking maturity in the majority world and older churches seek...

Reducere. Power. Politicians crave it. Money buys it. And some people will do anything to get it. In a world where New Agers rely on crystals and channeling ...

Pope Leo XIII was born of a family of the lower nobility, raised in a pious household, and gifted with superior intelligence and an energetic tempe...

Today the chasm between rich and poor is constantly widening. While the wealthy seem to acquire more and more, the impoverished struggle to survive...

Reducere. At its heart, the Protestant Reformation was about a deep, doctrinally shaped faith centered on God and his Word. But that historic, substantive fa...

Reducere. Christian mission is no longer a matter of missionaries from the West going to the rest of the world. Rather, the growth of Christianity in Latin A...

Reducere. This is the story of Bakht Singh, a man who God used, despite his human frailties and limitations, to do extraordinary things. During the time of I...

Reducere. This is a complete and practical introduction to storying, especially for people who want to learn about using biblical storytelling in cross-cultu...

Reducere. A student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide...

Reducere. What if I told you the whole world is based on Pimping..? From Business Owners (of all types) to Employees... Everything in this society is based o...

Reducere. The Christian faith presents a distinctive vision of last things: that God in Christ aims to reconcile the world to himself, and through his Spirit...

Most people have heard of the Celts--the elusive, ancient tribal people who resided in present-day England, Ireland, Scotland and France. Paradoxic...

From the sands of Alexandria via the Renaissance palaces of the Medicis to our own time, this spiritual adventure story traces the profound influen...

Reducere. Many find it difficult to take words that were written thousands of years ago and apply them to twenty-first-century life in the Western world. How...

Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influentia...

Reducere. You Are Never Going To Look At The Book Of Revelation The Same Way Again The worst times in all of human history are coming, and what Michael Snyde...

In "White Eagle, Red Star, " distinguished historian Norman Davies gives us a full account of the Polish-Soviet War, with its dramatic climax in Au...

DescriptionThis is a book which understands and faces the impact of modernity on the Jewish community today. Being Jewish Today gives an account of...

Recovering the history of the revolutionary Jewish tradition Jewish radicals manned the barricades on the avenues of Petrograd and the alleys of th...

Reducere. Every great religious order runs into difficulties, and God provides a saint to redress them. Where would the Benedictines be without St. Maurus, t...

Reducere. DescriptionSynopsis: Visible unity means that churches recognize in one another a witness to the fullness of the apostolic faith which they profess...

Reducere. The Divine Comedy is a long narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed in 1320, a year before his death in 1321. It is widely c...

DescriptionChallenge to get out of our spiritual comfort zones to reach a disengaged generation Powerful. Almighty. Sovereign. Magnificent. Fearsom...

Reducere. With sensitivity to the Christian tradition and a rich understanding of postmodern thought, Peter Rollins argues that the movement known as the "em...

Reducere. No book except the Bible itself had a greater influence on the Middle Ages than City of God. Since medieval Europe was the cradle of today s Wester...

Reducere. Saint Augustine -- the celebrated theologian who served as Bishop of Hippo from 396 C.E. until his death in 430 C.E. -- is widely regarded as one o...

Reducere. DescriptionAs Christianity's center of gravity has shifted to the Majority World in the 21st century, many younger churches in Africa, Asia, and La...

Reducere. A "marvelous" (Economist) account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination. Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst f...

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" ...

Reducere. As Christianity adopted to the needs of nations and empires over the centuries, the Gospel message as originally delivered by Christ and the Apostl...

Reducere. * mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc.; a sucker.-Dictionary of American Slang, Thoma...

Reducere. Five hundred years ago, a monk named Martin Luther wrote ninety-five questions, hoping to start a discussion about sin and repentance at the Univer...