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The Acts of the Apostleby William BarclayISBN 0664226752 (0-664-22675-2)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Adam, Eve, and the Serpentby Elaine PagelsISBN 0679722327 (0-679-72232-7)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Adam, Eve, and the Serpent'Book summary:Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. [via]
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Angels: An Endangered Speciesby Malcolm GodwinISBN 0671706500 (0-671-70650-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Angels: An Endangered Species'Book summary:In this exquisitely designed volume, the mystical hierarchies of heaven and hell, and the ranking of seraphs, cherubim, archangels and other angelic manifestations are explained, in the first comprehensive survey of one of the most powerful and ever-present symbols in our collective vision. 95 four-color, 30 two-color, and 30 black-and-white illustrations. [via]
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The Blessingby Gary SmalleyISBN 0671737430 (0-671-73743-0)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Book of Jby Harold Bloom, David RosenbergISBN 0679736247 (0-679-73624-7)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of J'Book summary:Scholars agree that the first strand in Genesis, Exodus, and Numbers was written by an author whom they call J, who lived in the tenth century before Christ.
In The Book of J, accompanying David Rosenberg's startling new translation, America's greatest literary critic, Harold Bloom, asserts that J was a writer of the stature of Homer, Shakespeare, and Tolstoy and puts forth the revolutionary idea that J was very likely a woman.
J was a genius with unmatched powers of irony and characterization, as shown in her unforgettable and very human portraits of Abram and Sarai, Rebecca, Jacob and Rachel, Joseph, Tamar, and Moses -- and, above all, God, or Yahweh. The Book of F reclaims the Bible's first and greatest author and presents us with the full grandeur of her creation. [via]More editions of The Book of J:
Christian Doctrineby Shirley C. GuthrieISBN 0664253687 (0-664-25368-7)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Confessions of a Parish Priestby Andrew M. GreeleyISBN 0671644777 (0-671-64477-7)
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Credoby William Sloane Coffin, James CarrollISBN 0664229484 (0-664-22948-4)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Credo'Book summary:This collection of inspiring credos by William Sloane Coffin melds Christian spirit with social justice. Coffin's credentials are impressive--he served as chaplain of Yale University and Williams College, and he is the inspiration for the character Rev. Sloan in the Doonesbury comic strip. He is also a lifelong social crusader and peace activist. In James Carroll's exquisite introduction he recalls a night in 1972 when he and Coffin and numerous other ministers were thrown in jail for trespassing at the U.S. Capitol (while protesting the war in Vietnam). It was Coffin's baritone voice that broke the jailhouse silence, singing out Handel's "Messiah" and comforting the frightened men of the cloth. In fact, Coffin, author of The Heart is a Little to the Left has never been afraid to speak or sing out his beliefs. "I like to believe that I am an American patriot who loves his country enough to address her flaws," he states in the preface. "Today these are many, and all preachers worth their salt need fearlessly to insist that 'God 'n' Country' is not one word."
Editor Stephanie Egnotovich reviewed a lifetime of Coffin's sermons and unpublished speeches and then excerpted and organized them into categories. His words and her editing created a book that is full of quotables. For example:
On Social Justice and Economic Rights: "In the United States grim poverty is a tragedy that great wealth makes a sin."
For the leftist leaning Christian, this is the book you'll want to take on your next spiritual retreat, political protest, or any situation where left-leaning Christians gather to create social change. And when it's not being carted around in a satchel, it deserves a permanent residence on your lifelong spiritual contemplations bookshelf. --Gail Hudson [via]On Social Justice and Civil Liberties: "Prejudice disfigures the observer, not the person observed. If only the latter could remember it."
On Patriotism: "All nations make decisions based on self-interest and then defend them in the name of morality."
On War and Peace: "We are beginning to resemble extinct dinosaurs who suffered from too much armor and too little brain."
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Crime and Punishmentby Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear, Larissa Volokhonsky, W. J. LeatherbarrowISBN 0679420290 (0-679-42029-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Crime and Punishmentby Richard Pevear, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Larissa VolokhonskyISBN 0679734503 (0-679-73450-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crime and Punishment'Book summary:Mired in poverty, the student Raskolnikov nevertheless thinks well of himself. Of his pawnbroker he takes a different view, and in deciding to do away with her he sets in motion his own tragic downfall. Dostoyevsky's penetrating novel of an intellectual whose moral compass goes haywire, and the detective who hunts him down for his terrible crime, is a stunning psychological portrait, a thriller and a profound meditation on guilt and retribution. [via]
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Crossing the Threshold of Hopeby Pope John Paul IIISBN 0679765611 (0-679-76561-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing the Threshold of Hope'Book summary:A great international bestseller, the book in which, on the eve of the millennium, Pope John Paul II brings to an accessible level the profoundest theological concerns of our lives. He goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of God; about the dignity of man; about pain, suffering, and evil; about eternal life and the meaning of salvation; about hope; about the relationship of Christianity to other faits and that of Catholicism to other branches of the Christian faith.With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is known, John Paul II speaks directly and forthrightly to all people. His message: Be not afraid!
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Crossing the Threshold of Hopeby Vittorio Messori, John Paul IIISBN 0679440585 (0-679-44058-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crossing the Threshold of Hope'Book summary:Fifteen years into his papacy, and on the eve of the third millennium, pope john paul ii goes to the heart of his personal beliefs and speaks with passion about the existence of god; about pain, suffering, and evil; about "salvation"; and about the relationship of catholicism to other branches of the christian faith. With the humility and generosity of spirit for which he is well known, john paul speaks forthrightly to all people. (religion--roman catholic [via]
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Cruzando El Umbral De LA Esperanza / Crossing the Threshold of Hopeby Pope John Paul IIISBN 067976562X (0-679-76562-X)
Softcover, Random House Espanol
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Con la humildad y generosidad de espiritu que le caracterizan, Juan Pablo II le habla directa y francamente a todo el mundo.
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The Daily Study Bible: New Testament Setby William BarclayISBN 0664240984 (0-664-24098-4)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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A Diary of Private Prayerby Donald M. BaillieISBN 0684309971 (0-684-30997-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Diary of Private Prayerby John BaillieISBN 0684163233 (0-684-16323-3)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Financial Peace: Revisitedby Dave Ramsey, Sharon RamseyISBN 0670032085 (0-670-03208-5)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Financial Peace: Revisited'Book summary:[via]Dave Ramsey knows what it's like to have it all. By age twenty-six, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business bestsellers Financial Peace and More than Enough, he has helped hundreds of thousands of people to understand the forces behind their financial distress and how to set things right-financially, emotionally, and spiritually.
In this new edition of Financial Peace, Ramsey has updated his tactics and philosophy to show even more readers:
- how to get out of debt and stay out
- the KISS rule of investing"Keep It Simple, Stupid"
- how to use the principle of contentment to guide financial decision making
- how the flow of money can revolutionize relationships
With practical and easy to follow methods and personal anecdotes, Financial Peace is the road map to personal control, financial security, a new, vital family dynamic, and lifetime peace.
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Forgive and Forgetby Lewis B. SmedesISBN 0671730304 (0-671-73030-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgive and Forget'Book summary:In Forgive & Forget, Lewis B. Smedes show you how to move form hurting and hating to healing and reconciliation. With the lessons of forgiveness, you can establish healthier relationships, reclaim the happiness that should be yours, and achieve lasting peace of mind. [via]
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God: A Biographyby Jack MilesISBN 0679743685 (0-679-74368-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God: A Biography'Book summary:Treating the Bible as a literary text is a standard approach in certain areas of scholarship. Jack Miles' innovation is to treat God as the main protagonist of this literary work, and to analyze his "character" as revealed in the text. Miles, a former Jesuit who studied in Rome and Jerusalem, and has a doctorate in Near Eastern languages, analyzed the Hebrew Bible (for the most part like the Old Testament, but ordered differently) to arrive at his literary exegesis. This God, it is clear, is certainly a complex character. Undoubtedly male, but possessed of seemingly multiple personalities, He is alternately creator/destroyer, protector/executioner, and warrior/lawgiver. Miles' "reading" of God, whose proactive role at the beginning develops into a passive silent presence, is entertaining, thoughtful and a worthy winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize. [via]
God's Trombonesby James Weldon JohnsonISBN 0670343404 (0-670-34340-4)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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The Gospel of Lukeby William BarclayISBN 0664224873 (0-664-22487-3)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gospel of Luke'Book summary:With a historian's precision, Luke's Gospel shows painstaking care both in detail and in expression. Of equal distinction is the universal appeal of the Gospel. Barclay's insightful comments help each of us to see the infinitude of God's love through Luke's eyes.
For almost fifty years and for millions of readers, the Daily Study Bible commentaries have been the ideal help for both devotional and serious Bible study. Now, with the release of the New Daily Study Bible, a new generation will appreciate the wisdom of William Barclay. With clarification of less familiar illustrations and inclusion of more contemporary language, the New Daily Study Bible will continue to help individuals and groups discover what the message of the New Testament really means for their lives.
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The Gospel of Markby William BarclayISBN 0664224881 (0-664-22488-1)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gospel of Mark: The New Daily Study Bible'Book summary:Dr. Barclay explains why the first three Gospels are called synoptic, how they came to be written, and how scholars have concluded that Mark's was the first. Touching on Mark's own life, he discusses the rift that Mak occasioned between Paul and Barnabas, Mark's sources of information about Jesus, the characteristics of his Gospel writing, and mystery of the "lost ending. [via]
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The Gospel of Matthewby William BarclayISBN 066424100X (0-664-24100-X)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Gospel of Matthew'Book summary:Dr. Barclay gives first the text for each day's study (in his own translation) and follows this with two or three pages of commentary. He has the happy faculty of making even the most seemingly unpromising passages fairly burst with meaning. Dr. Barclay's scholarship is so thorough and his style of writing so brisk that while he instructing the reader by what he says, he is also delighting the reader by the sheer charm with which he says it. [via]
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Gospel of Matthew: Chapters 11 to 28by William BarclayISBN 066422492X (0-664-22492-X)
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Hebrews for Everyoneby Tom Wright, N. T. WrightISBN 0664227937 (0-664-22793-7)
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A History of Christian Thought: From Its Judaic and Hellenistic Origins to Existentialismby Paul TillichISBN 0671214268 (0-671-21426-8)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Honest to Godby John Arthur Thomas RobinsonISBN 0664244653 (0-664-24465-3)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Honest to Godby Rowan Williams, Douglas John Hall, John Arthur Thomas RobinsonISBN 0664224229 (0-664-22422-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Honest to God'Book summary:This is the fortieth anniversary edition of John Robinson's classic text. Honest to God is a bracing and engaging call to re-examine outdated and troublesome images of God.
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Instruction in Faithby John Calvin, Paul FuhrmannISBN 0664253148 (0-664-25314-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Instruction in Faith'Book summary:This translation of Calvin's enlightening book includes the essentials of his position on how one should think and live as a Christian. Keeping Calvin's intentions for a clear and simple text in mind, Paul Fugrmann presents an edition that has value for people who have a scholarly interest in the Reformed tradition and for lay readers who wish to clarify and strengthen their own faith.
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It Was on Fire When I Lay down on Itby Robert FulghumISBN 0679741178 (0-679-74117-8)
Hardcover, Random House Large Print
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› Find signed collectible books: 'It Was on Fire When I Lay down on It'Book summary:The beloved author of All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten presents more memorable observations and commentary that range from an account of a disastrous Christmas pageant to travelogues. (Religion & Inspiration). [via]
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Jerusalem Vigilby Brock Thoene, Bodie ThoeneISBN 0670889113 (0-670-88911-3)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Jerusalem's Heartby Brock Thoene, Bodie ThoeneISBN 0670894877 (0-670-89487-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jerusalem's Heart'Book summary:The newest volume in the best-selling historical epic of the world's holiest city.
With more than seven million books in print, Bodie and Brock Thoene have taken their works of historical fiction to the top of the bestseller charts and into the hearts of their readers. Jerusalem Vigil, the first book in their latest Zion Legacy series, begins the sweeping saga of the history of Jerusalem in 1948 with the withdrawal of the British. Thunder from Jerusalem, the next installment continues the story of the harrowing and glorious battle to liberate this ancient enclave.
Jerusalem's Heart, the third riveting episode, plunges us into the maelstrom of the conflict between Jewish and Muslim forces during five brutal days of struggle to defend the Old City from a treacherous takeover. Again we meet the richly drawn cast of characters whose ongoing heroism and faith, passions and destinies, are interwoven with the soul of the city and played out in its bloodstained alleys. With its gripping drama, Jerusalem's Heart is an unsurpassed and timely blend of superb storytelling, historical authenticity, and spiritual adventure that will stay with readers forever. [via]More editions of Jerusalem's Heart:
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Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospelsby Michael GrantISBN 0684148897 (0-684-14889-7)
Hardcover, Marboro Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jesus: An Historian's Review of the Gospels'Book summary:The author looks at the gospels with an historian's eye, in search of the authentic Jesus. He seeks to separate those portions of the gospels that refer to the true career and teachings of Jesus, from the subsequent additions or inventions by the evangelists. The gospels are studied in the same way as other ancient historical sources, endeavouring to reconstruct what really happened and to uncover the truth of the historical Jesus. The picture of Jesus that emerges is in some respects unfamiliar. [via]
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Jesus and the Wordby Rudolf BultmannISBN 0684175967 (0-684-17596-7)
Hardcover, Macmillan Pub Co
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John for Everyone: Chapters 1-10by Tom Wright, N. T. WrightISBN 0664227899 (0-664-22789-9)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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John for Everyone: Chapters 11-21by Tom Wright, N. T. WrightISBN 0664227902 (0-664-22790-2)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'John for Everyone: Chapters 11-21'Book summary:Making use of his true scholar's understanding, yet writing in an approachable and anecdotal style, N.T. Wright manages to convey the simplicity, and helps to unravel the great complexity, of this extraordinary gospel. He describes it as one of the great books in the literature of the world; and part of its greatness is the way it reveals its secrets not just to high-flown learning, but to those who come to it with humility and hope. These volumes complete the Gospels in the For Everyone series. [via]
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The Language of Loveby Gary Smalley, John T. Trent, Denise SilvestroISBN 067175047X (0-671-75047-X)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Language of Love'Book summary:Family counselors and bestselling authors Smalley and Trent offer a key to a life-transforming communication method--one that has been used instinctively by great speakers throughout the ages--emotional word pictures. "The authors of The Blessing have once again broken new ground. . . ".--Bookstore Journal. [via]
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The Last Gentlemanby Walker PercyISBN 0679602720 (0-679-60272-0)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Last Gentleman'Book summary:"The Last Gentleman is lovely and brilliant...a highly whimsical kind of picaresque tale that puts one in mind of both Faulkner and Camus," wrote Joyce Carol Oates when Walker Percy's novel was first published in 1966.
Williston Bibb Barrett, the last gentleman of the story, is a displaced Southerner who has dropped out of Princeton owing to a nervous condition that his psychoanalyst associates with an inability to fit into groups. While living in New York City, our wayfarer-hero falls in love with a young woman he spies through a telescope...and sets out on a cross-country odyssey in search of home, identity, and the meaning of contemporary life.
"The Last Gentleman is a fantastically intuitive report on how America feels to the touch," said Wilfrid Sheed. "Page-for-page and line-for-line this is certainly one of the best-written books in recent memory. As a Southern writer, Percy inherits the remains of a sonorous musical language. But beyond that, his unique point of view forms beautiful sentences like a diamond cutting glass." Alfred Kazin agreed: "Percy is a natural writer, downright, subtle, mischievous . . . a philosopher among novelists."
With a new Introduction by Robert Coles.
The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford-
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tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy-
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Letter to the Hebrewsby William BarclayISBN 0664225586 (0-664-22558-6)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Letters of John and Judeby William Barclay, Linda Foster, Ronnie BarclayISBN 0664225578 (0-664-22557-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The Letters of Paul: Conversations in Contextby Calvin J. RoetzelISBN 0664257828 (0-664-25782-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Letters to the Corinthiansby William BarclayISBN 0664225551 (0-664-22555-1)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to the Corinthians'Book summary:Corinth was not only one of the most flourishing commercial centers of the ancient world, but also a symbol of vile debauchery. "In this hotbed of vice," writes William Barclay, "some of the greatest work of Paul was done." In his endearing, simple, and illustrative manner, Barclay shows how the message that Paul communicated to the Corinthians continues to help us who live today in the midst of twenty-first century temptations.
For almost fifty years and for millions of readers, the Daily Study Bible commentaries have been the ideal help for both devotional and serious Bible study. Now, with the release of the New Daily Study Bible, a new generation will appreciate the wisdom of William Barclay. With clarification of less familiar illustrations and inclusion of more contemporary language, the New Daily Study Bible will continue to help individuals and groups discover what the message of the New Testament really means for their lives.
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The Letters to Timothy, Titus and Philemonby William BarclayISBN 0664226779 (0-664-22677-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Letters to Timothy, Titus and Philemon'Book summary:These four letters, too often neglected, possess an interest that is quite unique to church people today. I and II Timothy and Titus, known as the Pastoral Epistles, deal with extremely practical matters of church management and personal conduct. The little letter to Philemon is the only private letter of Paul that we possess. It tells the romantic story of the runaway slave Onesimus, who, as Dr. Barclay shows, may have become, some fifty years later, the great bishop of Ephesus. [via]
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Luke for Everyoneby Tom Wright, N. T. WrightISBN 0664227848 (0-664-22784-8)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Luke for Everyone'Book summary:N.T. Wright has undertaken a tremendous task: to provide guides to all the books of the New Testament, and to include in them his own translation of the entire text. Each short passage is followed by a highly readable discussion, with background information, useful explanations and suggestions, and thoughts as to how the text can be relevant to our lives today. A glossary is included at the back of the book. The series is suitable for group study, personal study, or daily devotions. [via]
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Martin Luther: A Penguin Lifeby Marty E. MartinISBN 0670032727 (0-670-03272-7)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Martin Luther: A Penguin Life'Book summary:Martin Martyprofessor, author, pastor, historian, and journalistis, in Bill Moyerss words, "the most influential interpreter of American religion." In Martin Luther this man of unswerving faith, rooted in his own Lutheran tradition yet deeply committed to helping enrich a pluralist society, brings to powerful life the devout Reformation figure whose despair for a perilous world, felt anew in our own times, drove him to a ceaseless search for assurance of Gods love. It was one that led him steadily to a fresh interpretation of human interaction with Godas born solely from Gods grace and not the Churchs mediationand to the famous theses he posted at Wittenberg in 1517.
Luthers persistence in this belief, and in his long battle with Church leadersembellished by rich historical backgroundmake Martys biography riveting reading. Luthers obdurate yet receptive stance, so different from the travestied image of "fundamentalism" we currently face, restored the balance between religion and the individual. Martin Luther is at once a fascinating history, a story of immense spiritual passion and amazing grace, and a superb intellectual biography. [via]
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Master And Margaritaby Michael Glenny, Mikhail BulgakovISBN 0679410465 (0-679-41046-5)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'MASTER AND MARGARITA'Book summary:Surely no stranger work exists in the annals of protest literature than The Master and Margarita. Written during the Soviet crackdown of the 1930s, when Mikhail Bulgakov's works were effectively banned, it wraps its anti-Stalinist message in a complex allegory of good and evil. Or would that be the other way around? The book's chief character is Satan, who appears in the guise of a foreigner and self-proclaimed black magician named Woland. Accompanied by a talking black tomcat and a "translator" wearing a jockey's cap and cracked pince-nez, Woland wreaks havoc throughout literary Moscow. First he predicts that the head of noted editor Berlioz will be cut off; when it is, he appropriates Berlioz's apartment. (A puzzled relative receives the following telegram: "Have just been run over by streetcar at Patriarch's Ponds funeral Friday three afternoon come Berlioz.") Woland and his minions transport one bureaucrat to Yalta, make another one disappear entirely except for his suit, and frighten several others so badly that they end up in a psychiatric hospital. In fact, it seems half of Moscow shows up in the bin, demanding to be placed in a locked cell for protection.
Meanwhile, a few doors down in the hospital lives the true object of Woland's visit: the author of an unpublished novel about Pontius Pilate. This Master--as he calls himself--has been driven mad by rejection, broken not only by editors' harsh criticism of his novel but, Bulgakov suggests, by political persecution as well. Yet Pilate's story becomes a kind of parallel narrative, appearing in different forms throughout Bulgakov's novel: as a manuscript read by the Master's indefatigable love, Margarita, as a scene dreamed by the poet--and fellow lunatic--Ivan Homeless, and even as a story told by Woland himself. Since we see this narrative from so many different points of view, who is truly its author? Given that the Master's novel and this one end the same way, are they in fact the same book? These are only a few of the many questions Bulgakov provokes, in a novel that reads like a set of infinitely nested Russian dolls: inside one narrative there is another, and then another, and yet another. His devil is not only entertaining, he is necessary: "What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth look like if shadows disappeared from it?"
Unsurprisingly--in view of its frequent, scarcely disguised references to interrogation and terror--Bulgakov's masterwork was not published until 1967, almost three decades after his death. Yet one wonders if the world was really ready for this book in the late 1930s, if, indeed, we are ready for it now. Shocking, touching, and scathingly funny, it is a novel like no other. Woland may reattach heads or produce 10-ruble notes from the air, but Bulgakov proves the true magician here. The Master and Margarita is a different book each time it is opened. --Mary Park [via]
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Master And Margaritaby Mikhail Bulgakov, Katherine Tiernan O'Connor, Diana Lewis BurginISBN 0679760806 (0-679-76080-6)
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Matthew for Everyone: Chapters 1-15by Tom Wright, N. T. WrightISBN 0664227864 (0-664-22786-4)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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Matthew for Everyone: Chapters 16-28by Tom Wright, N. T. WrightISBN 0664227872 (0-664-22787-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Matthew for Everyone: Chapters 16-28'Book summary:N.T. Wright's own translation of the Gospel of Matthew is combined, section by section, with useful explanation and interpretation of the passage, as well as thoughts as to how it can be relevant to our lives today. [via]
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The Meal Jesus Gave Usby N. T. WrightISBN 0664226345 (0-664-22634-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Meal Jesus Gave Us'Book summary:In this introductory volume, perfect for Protestant new member and confirmation classes, acclaimed theologian and writer Tom Wright explains in clear and vivid style the background of the Last Supper, the ways in which Christians have interpreted this event over the centuries, and what it all means for us today.
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Monarch Notes on Graham Greene's Major Novelsby Gregor RoyISBN 0671008382 (0-671-00838-2)
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Moral Compass: Stories for a Life's Journeyby William J. BennettISBN 0684803135 (0-684-80313-5)
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The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation Human Natureby Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. LovinISBN 0664257097 (0-664-25709-7)
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Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's Favorite Quotesby Jan KaronISBN 0670030066 (0-670-03006-6)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's Favorite Quotes'Book summary:Throughout his years as Mitford's beloved Episcopal priest, Father Tim Kavanagh has been reading and also pondering two crucial questions: How can he guide and encourage his flock? How can he deepen and encourage his own spirit? The result is a wonderful collection of his favorite quotes from thinkers, theologians, poets, and philosophersfrom Mark Twain and C. S. Lewis to St. Paul and Wordsworth.
Patches of Godlight is a stunning two-color facsimile of Father Tim's own leather-bound notebook with his name gold stamped on the cover. Every quote is in his own handwriting, and scattered throughout the margins are his scribbled notes and doodles, even the occasional ink blot or coffee stain. Just as it has for Father Tim, this handsome, "must-have" quote book will provide wisdom and inspiration for millions of Mitford fans. [via]More editions of Patches of Godlight: Father Tim's Favorite Quotes:
Paul For Everyone: Romans Part 2 Chapters 9-16by Tom WrightISBN 0664227996 (0-664-22799-6)
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People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evilby Morgan Scott PeckISBN 0671528165 (0-671-52816-5)
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The Pocket Aquinasby Vernon BourkeISBN 0671739913 (0-671-73991-3)
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Power and the Gloryby Graham Greene, R. W. B. Lewis, Peter J. ConnISBN 0670018066 (0-670-01806-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Power and the Glory'Book summary:How does good spoil, and how can bad be redeemed? In his penetrating novel The Power and the Glory, Graham Greene explores corruption and atonement through a priest and the people he encounters. In the 1930s one Mexican state has outlawed the Church, naming it a source of greed and debauchery. The priests have been rounded up and shot by firing squad--save one, the whisky priest. On the run, and in a blur of alcohol and fear, this outlaw meets a dentist, a banana farmer, and a village woman he knew six years earlier. For a while, he is accompanied by a toothless man--whom he refers to as his Judas and does his best to ditch. Always, an adamant lieutenant is only a few hours behind, determined to liberate his country from the evils of the church.
On the verge of reaching a safer region, the whisky priest is repeatedly held back by his vocation, even though he no longer feels fit to perform his rites: "When he was gone it would be as if God in all this space between the sea and the mountains ceased to exist. Wasn't it his duty to stay, even if they despised him, even if they were murdered for his sake? even if they were corrupted by his example?"
As his sins and dangers increase, the broken priest comes to confront the nature of piety and love. Still, when he is granted a reprieve, he feels himself sliding into the old arrogance, slipping it on like the black gloves he used to wear. Greene has drawn this man--and all he encounters--vividly and viscerally. He may have said The Power and the Glory was "written to a thesis," but this brilliant theological thriller has far more mysteries--and troubling ideals--than certainties. --Joannie Kervran Stangeland [via]
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A Prayer for Owen Meanyby John IrvingISBN 0679642595 (0-679-64259-5)
Hardcover, Modern Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Prayer for Owen Meany'Book summary:Owen Meany is a dwarfish boy with a strange voice who accidentally kills his best friend's mom with a baseball and believes--accurately--that he is an instrument of God, to be redeemed by martyrdom. John Irving's novel, which inspired the 1998 Jim Carrey movie Simon Birch, is his most popular book in Britain, and perhaps the oddest Christian mystic novel since Flannery O'Connor's work. Irving fans will find much that is familiar: the New England prep-school-town setting, symbolic amputations of man and beast, the Garp-like unknown father of the narrator (Owen's orphaned best friend), the rough comedy. The scene of doltish the doltish headmaster driving a trashed VW down the school's marble staircase is a marvelous set piece. So are the Christmas pageants Owen stars in. But it's all, as Highlights magazine used to put it, "fun with a purpose." When Owen plays baby Jesus in the pageants, and glimpses a tombstone with his death date while enacting A Christmas Carol, the slapstick doesn't cancel the fact that he was born to be martyred. The book's countless subplots add up to a moral argument, specifically an indictment of American foreign policy--from Vietnam to the Contras.
The book's mystic religiosity is steeped in Robertson Davies's Deptford trilogy, and the fatal baseball relates to the fatefully misdirected snowball in the first Deptford novel, Fifth Business. Tiny, symbolic Owen echoes the hero of Irving's teacher Günter Grass's The Tin Drum--the two characters share the same initials. A rollicking entertainment, Owen Meany is also a meditation on literature, history, and God. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul IIby Peter Canisius Johannes Van LierdeISBN 0670861790 (0-670-86179-0)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II'Book summary:This is a treasury of selected passages from the addresses and writings of Pope John Paul II. This devotional offers the modern reader, engaged with various daily tasks, the opportunity to know and enter into the heart and mind of the leader of the Catholic Church. His concerns, as expressed in these passages, include such topics as "Sharing with Others", "To Be in Peace", "Consumer Society", "The Great Divine Trial", his near-assassination, "The Christian Family in the Modern World" and "The Physical and Moral Values of Sport". Through these pages of calm reflection, arranged according to the liturgical calendar for every day of the year, it is intended that readers will find a moment of peaceful repose from the occupations of life. [via]
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The Princess and the Goblinby George MacDonaldISBN 0679428100 (0-679-42810-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Princess and the Goblin'Book summary:As always with George MacDonald, everything here is more than meets the eye: this in fact is MacDonald's grace-filled vision of the world. Said to be one of J.R.R. Tolkien's childhood favorites, The Princess and the Goblin is the story of the young Princess Irene, her good friend Curdie--a minor's son--and Irene's mysterious and beautiful great great grandmother, who lives in a secret room at the top of the castle stairs. Filled with images of dungeons and goblins, mysterious fires, burning roses, and a thread so fine as to be invisible and yet--like prayer--strong enough to lead the Princess back home to her grandmother's arms, this is a story of Curdie's slow realization that sometimes, as the princess tells him, "you must believe without seeing." Simple enough for reading aloud to a child (as I've done myself more than once with my daughter), it's rich enough to repay endless delighted readings for the adult. --Doug Thorpe [via]
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Protestant Worship: Traditions in Transitionby James F. WhiteISBN 0664250378 (0-664-25037-8)
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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story Of John Winthropby Edmund Sears MorganISBN 067339347X (0-673-39347-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Puritan Dilemma: The Story Of John Winthrop'Book summary:In 1630, along with hundreds of other settlers, John Winthrop left England for the New World. Because of his ardent Puritan beliefs and natural talent for government and politics, he was appointed governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony. He became the foremost political leader in the colony for nearly 20 years, including twelve nonconsecutive terms as governor. When Winthrop and these new settlers arrived in the New World, they were aiming to create their own utopia, but they encountered difficulty and dissent.
In The Puritan Dilemma: John Winthrop, biographer Edmund Morgan helps us understand the motivations behind Puritan migration to America and the ideological and political difficulties they faced once they arrived. What does freedom mean? What is the proper role of the individual in society? Alongside the unfolding drama of a developing country, Morgan explores the life of John Winthrop and the core question of what level of responsibility people owe to their community and society. [via]
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The Responsible Self: An Essay in Christian Moral Philosophyby H. Richard Niebuhr, William Schweiker, James M. GustafsonISBN 0664221521 (0-664-22152-1)
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Revelation of Johnby William BarclayISBN 0664226795 (0-664-22679-5)
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Revelation of Johnby W. Barclay, William BarclayISBN 0664241158 (0-664-24115-8)
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A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Lifeby William LawISBN 0664248330 (0-664-24833-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life'Book summary:This devotional classic, written by William Law, an eloquent religious teacher of the eighteenth century, was designed to prod indifferent Christians into making an honest effort to live up to what they professed to believe. It has been appreciated in every succeeding generation because of its innate vigor and virility.
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Shaking of the Foundationsby Paul TillichISBN 068471910X (0-684-71910-X)
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A Simple Way to Prayby Martin Luther, Marjorie J. ThompsonISBN 0664222730 (0-664-22273-0)
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Sources of Strength : Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faithby Jimmy CarterISBN 067977453X (0-679-77453-X)
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Stones of Jerusalemby Brock Thoene, Bodie ThoeneISBN 0670030511 (0-670-03051-1)
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T S Eliot's Murder in the Cathedralby T. S. EliotISBN 0671007823 (0-671-00782-3)
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Thunder from Jerusalem : A Novel of the Struggle for Jerusalemby Bodie Thoene, Brock ThoeneISBN 0670892068 (0-670-89206-8)
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When All You Ever Wanted Isn't Enoughby Harold S. KushnerISBN 0671732129 (0-671-73212-9)
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When All You'Ve Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For A Life That Mattersby Harold KushnerISBN 0671543423 (0-671-54342-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'When All You'Ve Ever Wanted Isn't Enough: The Search For A Life That Matters'Book summary:'There is no Answer but there are answers...' Rabbi Kushner's previous bestseller brought comfort to millions by helping them cope with life's shattering tragedies. Now he applies his compassionate mind to another kind of problem, one more delicate that that of sudden tradgedy, but just as dangerous - the felling that life is utterly meaningless. 'Again, I came away impressed and consoled...This book affectingly teaches what Ecclesiastes learned: happiness derives not from wealth, power, learning, indulgence even religiosity, but from living fully in the moment, becoming a good human being, risking the pain of giving yourself to what matters' Los Angeles Times. 'Sensible and helpful...At a time when most self-help manuals are topical consumer reading, it is refreshing to find one that attempts to deal with the timeless' New York Times 'A thoughtful, well-reasoned meditation and a useful spiritual manual' Washington Post 'Wise, compassionate, and sure to be in demand' New York Library Journal [via]
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Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjectsby Bertrand Russell RussellISBN 0671203231 (0-671-20323-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Why I Am Not a Christian, and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects'Book summary:Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions that involve life after death, morality, freedom, education, and sexual ethics. He brings to his treatment of these questions the same courage, scrupulous logic, and lofty wisdom for which his other work as philosopher, writer, and teacher has been famous. These qualities make the essays included in this book perhaps the most graceful and moving presentation of the freethinker's position since the days of Hume and Voltaire.
"I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue," Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man's mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954.
The book has been edited, with Lord Russell's full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial "Bertrand Russell Case" of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared "unfit" to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York.
Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell's views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read. [via]
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Women's Bible Commentaryby Carol A. Newsom, Sharon H. RingeISBN 066425781X (0-664-25781-X)
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