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How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social...

The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780791458402Author John MarmyszFormat PaperbackPage Count 217Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852222Author C. Stephen EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 600Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1016gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 163mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684717258Author Martin BuberFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Howard BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 166g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804522Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

John MacArthur's exhaustive study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word.Over 4 million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God's Word...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830852529Author Joshua RasmussenFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 250gDimensions(mm) 209mm * 140mm *...

This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these...

In this short, lucid, rich book Michael Dummett sets out his views about some of the deepest questions in philosophy. The fundamental question of metaphysics is: what does reality consist of? To answer this, Dummett holds, it is necessary to say what...

While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief. Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being...

Selected as a Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement'This lucid and riveting new biography at once rescuses Kierkegaard from the scholars and shows why he is such an intriguing and useful figure' ObserverSoren Kierkegaard, one of the most...

One of the classics of modern spirituality, Encounters with Silence is one of Karl Rahner's most lucid and powerful books. A book of meditations about man's relation with God, it is not a work of dry theology, but rather a book of prayerful reflections...

The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and incantations, each section contains the words of power to overcome...

The deepest truths of the Bible accessible in a way that can be seen, understood, and experienced like never before, combining graphics and text to teach the nature and contents of the Bible in a fresh and exciting way.For a beautiful, approachable,...

Natural theology is a matter of debate among theologians and Christian philosophers. In this book, top scholars in the fields of theology and Christian philosophy introduce readers to five prevailing views on the topic. Contributors include John C...

Ludwig Wittgenstein was an outstanding 20th-century philosopher whose influence has reverberated throughout not only philosophy but also numerous other areas of inquiry, including theology and the study of religions. Exemplifying how Wittgenstein's...

Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God. It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the twentieth century leave little...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christianity Today Book Award (Christianity & Culture) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780802867612Author James K. A. SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint...

The four Gospels that begin the Bible's New Testament tell the life of Jesus. But each Gospel relates a slightly different version of events. Some stories appear only in one Gospel, while certain other stories are different in each. What Leo Tolstoy...

This is a comprehensive textbook for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time. "Philosophy of Religion: An Introduction" is a comprehensive textbook for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time. It sets traditional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598182613Author Leo TolstoyFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Alan Rodgers BooksPublisher Alan Rodgers BooksWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 152mm *...

In Breaking the Spell Daniel C. Dennett explores how the great ideas of religion have enthralled us for thousands of years - and whether we could (or should) break free. What is religion and how did it evolve? Is it the product of blind evolutionary...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780906094563Author Simon Van den BerghFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint Gibb Memorial TrustPublisher Gibb Memorial Trust

This book offers a systematic and radical introduction to the Buddhist roots of Patanjala-yoga, or the Yoga system of Patanjali. By examining each of 195 aphorisms (sutras) of the Yogasutra and discussing the Yogabhasya, it shows that traditional and...

A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppress...

In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830848553Author Francis A. SchaefferFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams)...

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The philosophies of French thinkers Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault form the basis for postmodern thought and are seemingly at odds with the Christian faith. However, James K. A. Smith claims that their ideas have been misinterpreted and actually have a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060936990Author Abraham J. HeschelFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570627439Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This volume presents the original Arabic text of Epistle 9 of the Brethren of Purity, with a clear English translation, introduction, and notes. This epistle is a major medieval treatise on ethics and character traits, which drinks from two sources: the...

Philosophy for Understanding Theology has become the classic text for exploring the relationship between philosophy and Christian theology. This new edition adds chapters on postmodernism and questions of the self and the good to bring the book up to...

Philip Burton explores Augustine's treatment of language in his Confessions - a major work of Western philosophy and literature, with continuing intellectual importance. One of Augustine's key concerns is the story of his own encounters with language:...

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this...

Why have Western societies that were once overwhelmingly Christian become so secular? Looking to the feelings and faith of ordinary people, the award-winning author of Protestants Alec Ryrie offers a bold new history of atheism. ...

"In the vast literature of love, The Seducer's Diary is an intricate curiosity--a feverishly intellectual attempt to reconstruct an erotic failure as a pedagogic success, a wound masked as a boast," observes John Updike in his foreword to Soren...

This third book in a series of successful introductory textbooks by Craig Bartholomew and Michael Goheen builds on their previous projects, The Drama of Scripture and Living at the Crossroads, to offer a comprehensive narrative of philosophical thought...