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Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church and revered as one of its most influential spiritual thinkers. But in his own time a cloud of controversy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915544070Author Dom Pius de HemptinneFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Cenacle Press at Silverstream PrioryPublisher Cenacle Press at Silverstream...

Brutally honest, beautifully written, THE RABBI'S DAUGHTER is the compulsive story of a woman trying to find love, and struggling to make peace with her faith, her parents, and ultimately herself.Reva Mann was a wild child. Granddaughter of the Chief...

Zac's Place is a church in Swansea. It is a small chaotic community of Jesus followers where the most fragile of life's walking wounded try to work out their faith, because they quite simply wouldn't fit anywhere else. It's also the spiritual home for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621642497Author Mother Dolores HartFormat PaperbackPage Count 540Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

In this classic psychobiography, Erik H. Erikson brings his renowned insights on human development and the identity crisis to bear on the mighty figure of the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther.About the AuthorA winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781680316957Author Roberts LiardonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Harrison HousePublisher Harrison House

What are you willing to do to survive? What are you willing to endure if it means you might live?'Achingly moving, gives much-needed hope . . . Deserves the status both as a valuable historical source and as a stand-out memoir' Daily Express'A story that...

First published in 1930, Swallows and Amazons secured Arthur Ransome's reputation as one of the most influential children's authors of all time, yet prior to writing fiction he had had a turbulent career as a journalist and war correspondent in...

This is the moving story of a nonviolent hero, illustrated with more than 70 photographs, and told by a highly respected author who grew up in Gandhi's India. Gandhi's life continues to inspire and baffle readers today. How did an unsuccessful young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594484384Author Kathleen NorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm)...

Dorothy L. Sayers was a woman of contrasts. A strong Christian, she had a baby - out of wedlock - by a man she did not love. Possessing a fierce intellect, she translated Dante, and also created one of the most popular fictional detectives ever in...

For anyone who feels caught in the tension between the beauty of God's story and the ugliness of human hypocrisy, Why I Still Believe offers a stirring story of hope. Why would anyone be a Christian when there is so much hypocrisy in the church? Mary Jo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565481541Author Edmund AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 307Imprint New City PressPublisher New City PressWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

Sangharakshita was a Buddhist monk, a writer, a poet, and the founder of the Triratna Buddhist Order and Community - a pioneering worldwide Buddhist movement. He was also an audacious reformer, and for some a deeply controversial figure. In an absorbing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781035812752Author Laura MansellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

National Director of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Stuart is described in Baroness Cox's biography as 'larger than life in every respect ... a combination of ex-RAF, ex-British Intelligence and Assemblies of God pastor'. A former Barnardo's boy,...

National Director of Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), Stuart is described in Baroness Cox's biography as 'larger than life in every respect ... a combination of ex-RAF, ex-British Intelligence and Assemblies of God pastor'. A former Barnardo's boy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611804515Author Roger LipseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310024Author Blanche BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 453g

The extraordinary story of the young African who came to be called "The Apostle of Simple Faith."While most missionary biographies detail the lives of Western missionaries, this is the story of the African missionary that God called to the United States...

An unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585429387Author Gary LachmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735291645Author Winn CollierFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A Division...

From a trusted advisor and devoted friend of Mother Teresa comes a "powerful" (The Washington Free Beacon) firsthand account of the miraculous woman behind the saint and a book that is "rich in reflection on contemporary sanctity" (George Weigel).Mother...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118770Author Paul JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 218g

William Wilberforce is probably best known as the leader of the parliamentary campaign for the abolition of the slave trade in the United Kingdom. But behind his heart for justice lay a commitment and desire to serve God that permeated not only his life,...

Almost exactly 400 years ago, an English woman completed an astonishing walk to Rome. An English Catholic, Mary Ward had already defied the authorities in England. In 1621 she walked across Europe to ask the Pope to allow her to set up schools for girls...

Priceless Wisdom from a Modern Tao Te Ching Odyssey"...this book will completely absorb your attention from the beginning..." -Emanuele Pettener, PhD, assistant professor of Italian and writer in residence at Florida Atlantic University#1 New Release in...

This is no ordinary parish, and no ordinary priest - a true story of poverty, haunting, exorcism, birth, death and murder. Seth was a priest. He served for 10 years and 163 days. Then he decided to die. "Have you ever questioned whether you are...

The first thing you will notice when you meet Kechi Okwuchi is her scars. One of just two survivors of a devastating plane crash that killed more than 100 people, 16-year-old Kechi was left with third-degree burns over 65 percent of her body. More Than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802430793Author I-suk AnFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody PublishersWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

The first volume of Peter Seewald's authoritative biography. By any reckoning, the papacy of Pope Benedict XVI was extraordinary, with moments of high drama. Not the least of these was his resignation from office in February 2013, the first papal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895557612Author Blessed Raymond of Capua, GeorgeFormat PaperbackImprint Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Publisher Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Weight(grams)...

What is the theology that underlies the thinking of the former Pope? Covenant and Communion reveals the hidden key that unlocks the mind of Benedict XVI. The first half of the twentieth century saw the emergence of three renewal movements in Catholic...

This elegantly written biography offers the most intimate, detailed, rounded and supremely human portrait yet painted of the great Christian thinker and martyr. Draws on writings only recently made accessible - including the correspondence between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385177092Author Fulton J. SheenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

`There is a physical world, which we all accept as real, but there is also a spiritual world, which interpenetrates this material world and is its cause and foundation. Between these two worlds exists a threshold that can be felt, seen clairvoyantly,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513804835Author Anna WoofendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Herald Press (VA)Publisher Herald Press (VA)Weight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

To find out why Pope Francis is making Oscar Romero a saint, read the words that cost him his life."A church that does not provoke crisis, a gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is...