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Displaying records 181 through 190 of 4000 |
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $21.46
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Manufacturer: Delacorte Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Michael Baigent::Richard Leigh::Henry Lincoln
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Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 944
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Publication Date: 2005-10-25
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. The power of this secret, which has been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the alternate history that it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of skepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $4.99
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Manufacturer: Doubleday
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Thomas J. Craughwell
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Publisher: Doubleday
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.0922
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Publication Date: 2006-09-19
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Saints are not born, they are made. And many, as Saints Behaving Badly reveals, were made of very rough materials indeed. The first book to lay bare the less than saintly behavior of thirty-two venerated holy men and women, it presents the scandalous, spicy, and sleazy detours they took on the road to sainthood.
In nineteenth- and twentieth-century writings about the lives of the saints, authors tended to go out of their way to sanitize their stories, often glossing over the more embarrassing cases with phrases such as, “he/she was once a great sinner.” In the early centuries of the Church and throughout the Middle Ages, however, writers took a more candid and spirited approach to portraying the saints. Exploring sources from a wide range of periods and places, Thomas Craughwell discovered a veritable rogues gallery of sinners-turned-saint. There’s St. Olga, who unleashed a bloodbath on her husband’s assassins; St. Mary of Egypt, who trolled the streets looking for new sexual conquests; and Thomas Becket, who despite his vast riches refused to give his cloak to a man freezing to death in the street.
Written with wit and respect (each profile ends with what inspired the saint to give up his or her wicked ways) and illustrated with amusing caricatures, Saints Behaving Badly will entertain, inform, and even inspire Catholic readers across America.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $11.93
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Edmund Colledge::James Walsh::Jean Leclercq
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 242
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Publication Date: 1977-01-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: In a time when Christian women mystics are at last being discovered, Julian of Norwich still stands out as one of the most essential--and one of the most approachable. An anchoress who lived in solitude in Norwich, England, in the late 14th century, Julian's book consists of the 16 "showings" or revelations from God. Most famous is her vision of the universe as she gazes into the smallness of a hazelnut, but the book is rich throughout with beauty. Her style is simple and homely in its images, not unlike the later St. Teresa of Avila. "God almighty is our loving Father," she writes, "and God all wisdom is our loving Mother." She affirms, "our substance is in God, and ... God is in our sensuality." For Julian God is the foundation of all that is, and the foundation of God is love. As she concludes, "What, do you wish to know your Lord's meaning in this thing? Know it well, love was his meaning. Who reveals it to you? Love. What did he reveal to you? Love. Why does he reveal it to you? For love." The editors, Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., and James Walsh, S.J., worked for 13 years on this beautiful edition. Including a detailed analysis of the text in the introduction, the book also contains an insightful preface from Jean Leclercq, who explores the relevance of Julian's work for today. All of this, however, is in service to these astonishing visions, given to a woman whose single desire was to surrender all to God. --Doug Thorpe
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Price: $16.99
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Sale: $7.99
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Manufacturer: Chosen
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francis MacNutt
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Publisher: Chosen
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Dewey Decimal Number: 235.4
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Publication Date: 1995-08-01
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: A guide to deliverance ministry explains the biblical record and clarifies what a deliverance ministry is and how it functions in the church of today.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $1.90
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Manufacturer: National Geographic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: National Geographic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 229.8
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Publication Date: 2006-04-06
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: For 1,600 years its message lay hidden. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Christianity, and which few experts had even thought existed–a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, history’s ultimate traitor. And far from being a villain, the Judas that emerges in its pages is a hero.
In this radical reinterpretation, Jesus asks Judas to betray him. In contrast to the New Testament Gospels, Judas Iscariot is presented as a role model for all those who wish to be disciples of Jesus. He is the one apostle who truly understands Jesus.
This volume is the first publication of the remarkable gospel since it was condemned as heresy by early Church leaders, most notably by St. Irenaeus, in 180. Hidden away in a cavern in Middle Egypt, the codex (or book) containing the gospel was discovered by farmers in the 1970s. In the intervening years the papyrus codex was bought and sold by antiquities traders, hidden away, and carried across three continents, all the while suffering damage that reduced much of it to fragments. In 2001, it finally found its way into the hands of a team of experts who would painstakingly reassemble and restore it.
The Gospel of Judas has been translated from its original Coptic in clear prose, and is accompanied by commentary that explains its fascinating history in the context of the early Church, offering a whole new way of understanding the message of Jesus Christ.
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Price: $23.00
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Sale: $4.00
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Boswell
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 306.76
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Publication Date: 2005-11-01
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Reading Level: 442
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Description: "Truly groundbreaking work. Boswell reveals unexplored phenomena with an unfailing erudition."—Michel Foucault
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members—among them priests, bishops, and even saints—when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted make this one of the most extensive treatments of any single aspect of Western social history. Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality, still fiercely relevant today, helped form the disciplines of gay and gender studies, and it continues to illuminate the origins and operations of intolerance as a social force.
"What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content—fascinating though that is—but its revolutionary challenge to some of Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions."—Jean Strouse, Newsweek
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $4.66
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Manufacturer: Paulist Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gertrud Mueller Nelson
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Publisher: Paulist Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 263.9
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Publication Date: 1986-08
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Shows how to use ritual and celebration throughout the church year by creatively combining rites and folk customs to celebrate sacred mysteries. "Gertrud Nelson has written a book on ritual that is one of a kind. Her exquisitely written volume covers the history, psychology and spirituality of ritual in general and Christian ritual in particular. Enlivened by pithy and insightful examples, many of them drawn from her own family life, Ms. Nelson penetrates to the heart of the meaning of ritual and ceremony in a fresh wan. She manages to escape the trap of many writers on this subject--superficial piety--and makes relevant for the modern reader the importance of ritual for connecting us to the meaning and flow of life. I would not have thought in today's rationalistic age that the ceremonies of life could be made vital again as cogently and splendidly as has been don in this book. Sometimes even single sentences speak volumes: 'It is Advent, and we, a people, are pregnant.' This is a book to be read carefully, perhaps only a few pages a day. Reading the book can become a ritual, especially for Christian people to whom it is primarily addressed. Beautiful illustrations by the author add to the expressiveness of this carefully composed work. This book may prove to be a classic treatment of the meaning of ritual for this modern era." --John Sanford
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.12
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: N.t. Wright
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Dewey Decimal Number: 220.13
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Publication Date: 2005-12-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: While showing how both evangelicals and liberals misread Scripture, a leading Bible scholar and Anglican bishop shows how to restore the Bible’s authority today for guiding the church through its many controversies.
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Price: $16.99
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Sale: $7.95
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Manufacturer: Revell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: A. Kenneth Curtis::J. Stephen Lang::Randy Petersen
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Publisher: Revell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 270.0202
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Publication Date: 1998-03-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Brush up on the people, places, and events every Christian should know about with this fascinating, accessible guide. Ideal for pastors and speakers.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.02
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Manufacturer: Image
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Bokenkotter
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Publisher: Image
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Edition: Rev Exp
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Dewey Decimal Number: 282
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Publication Date: 2005-08-16
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Reading Level: 624
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Description: Expanded and updated for the new millennium.
Covering the life of Christ, the election of Pope Benedict XVI, and everything in between, A Concise History of the Catholic Church has been one of the bestselling religious histories of the past two decades and a mainstay for scholars, students, and others looking for a definitive, accessible history of Catholicism. With a clarity that will appeal to any reader, Thomas Bokenkotter divides his study into five parts that correspond to the major historical and epochal developments in Catholicism. His authoritative, thorough approach takes readers from the Church’s triumph over paganism, through "the sound and fury of renewal," to a new section devoted to such topics as dissent and current developments in the ecumenical movement. Informative illustrations throughout the book, new to this edition, enrich the reader's experience, and the addition of a wide-ranging bibliography increases its value as a sourcebook.
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