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Exploring the different points of view and 'tones of voice' adopted in theology for the meeting of religions, this book presents a contemporary philosophical and theological engagement with key issues of how different faiths might meet, of comparative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062643513Author C S LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

At a time when loneliness and isolation have reached unprecedented levels, it has never been more important for Christians to embrace the practice of hospitality. For many, it is a lost art - a practice we have forgotten, neglected or distorted beyond...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645471318Author Hozan Alan SenaukeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

'The mystery of Life, the mystery Of Death, I see Darkly as in a glass...' Christina Rossetti (1830-94) is perhaps the most contradictory of the great Victorian poets. She writes of the world's beauty, but fears that it may be deceptive, even...

The Ramayana is, quite simply, the greatest of Indian epics - and one of the world's supreme masterpieces of storytelling 'Almost every individual living in India,' writes R. K. Narayan in the Introduction to this new interpretation, 'is aware of the...

Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories--some preposterous, some profound, and some shocking--The Golden Legend was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. It was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804189279Author Madeleine L'EngleFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ConvergentPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 182g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780551031739Author Adrian PlassFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 167gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 125mm * 19mm

What is it we want when we can't stop wanting? And how do we make that hunger productive and vital rather than corrosive and destructive? These are the questions that animate Christian Wiman as he explores the relationships between art and faith, death...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640094215Author Gary SnyderFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint

"The Corpus Hermeticum" is a collection of short philosphical treatises, a powerful fusion of Greek and Egyptian thought, written in Greek in Alexandria between the first and third centuries AD and rediscovered in the West in the fifteenth century when...

The Derveni papyrus is the oldest literary papyrus ever found, and one of the very few from Greece itself, which makes it one of the most interesting new texts from the ancient Greek world to have been discovered this century. The eschatological...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611800388Author Georg Feuerstein, PhDFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

The Cistercian Order was born in Burgundy at the start of the twelfth century as a movement of radical renewal - an Order that survives to this day with the greater part of its written heritage preserved. This volume brings together a selection of its...

Angels have soared through Western culture and consciousness from Biblical to contemporary times. But what do we really know about these celestial beings? Where do they come from, what are they made of, how do they communicate and perceive? The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590174883Author Sir Thomas BrowneFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611808216Author Norman FischerFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615953090Author Thomas J J AltizerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint MindvendorPublisher MindvendorWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688129583Author Rabbi Joseph TelushkinFormat HardbackPage Count 663Imprint HarperCollins (USA)Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688172336Author Robert Lawrence SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 188g

Centering on the pioneering work of Christoph Luxenberg, this anthology of scholarly yet accessible studies of the Koran makes a convincing case that Islam's holy book borrowed heavily from Christian texts in Syriac and other Near Eastern sources. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598533750Author Reinhold NiebuhrFormat HardbackPage Count 850Imprint The Library of AmericaPublisher The Library of AmericaWeight(grams) 620g

In the long river of human history, if one person can represent the civilization of a whole nation, it is perhaps Master Kong, better known as Confucius in the West. If there is one single book that can be upheld as the common code of a whole people, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsNominated for Books for a Better Life Book Award 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781594486296Author Anne LamottFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Riverhead Books,U.S.Publisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556438028Author Norman O. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)...

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Each year, the Holy Week and Easter double issue of the Church Times offers a wealth of seasonal reading and resources for worship and preaching. This volume, like its companion Christmas collection, draws together outstanding features from the past...

In these vivid and approachable essays Eamon Duffy engages with some of the central aspects of Western religion in the thousand years between the decline of pagan Rome and the rise of the Protestant Reformation. In the process he opens windows on the...

Revive Your Heart is a call for spiritual renewal and an invitation to have a conversation with one of the world s most recognizable voices on Islam, Nouman Ali Khan. This collection of essays is disarmingly simple, yet it challenges us to change. To...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603867412Author C W LeadbeaterFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570625329Author W. M. ThackstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895554635Author Hilaire BellocFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Tan BooksPublisher Tan BooksWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm) 207mm * 143mm * 17mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496981929Author Luke VandenbergheFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Authorhouse UKPublisher Authorhouse UKWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908212542Author Josie EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Weasel Green PressPublisher Weasel Green PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Life is not always easy. We face challenges, difficulties and hardship throughout our life journey. These highs and lows are a part of life. Sometimes however, we need that reminder that Allah is always there and these moments of hardship are not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for IndieFab awards (Body/Mind/Spirit) 2014.Book InformationISBN 9781939681232Author Celeste YacoboniFormat PaperbackPage Count 269Imprint Monkfish Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578253220Author Kerk MurrayFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Winter Press PublishingPublisher Winter Press PublishingWeight(grams) 349gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739468101Author S.B. Keshava SwamiFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint S.B. Keshava SwamiPublisher Wisdom That Breathes Foundation

When Brian Doyle died of brain cancer at the age of sixty, he left behind dozens of books -- fiction and nonfiction, as well as hundreds of essays -- and a cult-like following who regarded his writing on spirituality as one of the best-kept secrets of...