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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In the United States, we often assume religious and spiritual identity are pure, static, and singular. But some people regularly cross religious boundaries. These "spiritually fluid" people celebrate complex religious bonds, and in the process they blur social categories, evoke prejudice, and complicate religious communities. Their presence sparks questions: How and why do people become spiritually fluid? Are they just confused or unable to commit?...
Author
Publisher
William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An essential guide for fostering dialogue and understanding between Muslims and Christians. Martin Accad identifies trends, recognizes historical realities, and brings to light significant points of contention that often lead to the breakdown in Christian-Muslim dialogue. Weaving personal stories together with discussion of theological beliefs, he suggests positive and creative practices that could lead to a more hopeful future. SACRED MISINTERPRETATIONS...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"The church has stood silent over the last several years despite a growing divide between New Age-inspired self-help books and traditional Christian spirituality. Christian teachers have dismissed as heterodox, and therefore unimportant, the phenomenal literary success of Eckart Tolle (A New Earth), Rhonda Byrne (The Secret), Deepak Chopra (The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success), Don Miguel Ruiz (The Four Agreements), and many others like them. Now...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Buddha and Christ, perhaps the two most pivotal figures in the history of humankind, each left behind a legacy of teachings and practices that have shaped the lives of billions of people over two millennia. If they were to meet on the road today, what would each think of the other's spiritual views and practices? In this classic text for spiritual seekers, Thich Nhat Hanh explores the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which the two traditions...
Author
Publisher
Fortress Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From her childhood on an Iowa farm, Lori Erickson grew up to travel the world as a writer specializing in holy sites--journeys that led her on an ever-deepening spiritual quest. In Holy Rover, she weaves her personal narrative with descriptions of a dozen pilgrimages.
Author
Publisher
Ecco/Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Drawing on both European and Arabic sources, a narrative history tells the full story of this brutal struggle for dominion of the Holy Land from both the Christian and Muslim perspective for the first time, revealing the full horror, passion, and barbaric grandeur of the Crusades.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking, controversial dive into the role psychedelics have played in the human experience of the Divine throughout Western history, and the answer to a 2,000 year old mystery that could shake the Church to its foundations. The Immortality Key connects the lost, psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity-exposing the true origins of Western Civilization. In the tradition of unsolved historical mysteries like David Grann's...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In a world with so many religions, why Jesus? We are living in a time when you can believe anything, as long as you do not claim it to be true. In the name of "tolerance," our postmodern culture embraces everything from Eastern mysticism to New Age spirituality. But as Ravi Zacharias points out, such unquestioning acceptance of all things spiritual is absurd. All religions, plainly and simply, cannot be true. Jesus Among Other Gods provides the answers...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Chesterton attacks the notion that humankind has evolved from barbarism to civility, saying that humans have always been unique and that Christ is the model for his uniqueness. He also explains Christ's place in history, asserting that the Christian myth carries more weight than other mythologies for one simple reason--it is the truth.
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler, explore how Jews and Christians can learn from and understand each other better by exploring how they read many of the same Bible stories through different lens"--
Author
Publisher
IVP Academic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Christian Zionism influences global politics, especially U.S. foreign policy, and has deeply affected Jewish-Christian and Muslim-Christian relations. With a fair-minded, longitudinal study of this dynamic yet controversial movement, Donald M. Lewis traces its lineage from biblical sources through the Reformation to various movements of today"--
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