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Price: $32.98
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Sale: $21.01
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Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 212.1
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Publication Date: 2006-02-06
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: A growing number of powerful arguments have been formulated by philosophers and logicians in recent years, demonstrating that the existence of God is improbable. These arguments assume that God's existence is possible, but argue that the weight of the empirical evidence is against God's actual existence. This unique anthology collects most of the important arguments that have been published since the mid 1900s. The editors make each argument clear and accessible by providing a helpful summary arranging the diverse collection into four thematic groups - the cosmological, teleological, inductive evil, and non-belief. The list of distinguished authors offer an indispensable resource in the philosophy of religion.
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Price: $35.00
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Sale: $27.94
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Manufacturer: University Of Chicago Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mark C. Taylor
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200.903
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Publication Date: 2007-10-15
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: With fundamentalists dominating the headlines and scientists arguing about the biological and neurological basis of faith, religion is the topic of the day. But religion, Mark C. Taylor shows, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike.
Using scientific theories of dynamical systems and complex adaptive networks for cultural and theological analysis, After God redefines religion for our contemporary age. Taylor begins by asking a critical question: What is religion? He then proceeds to explain how Protestant ideas in particular undergird the character and structure of our global information society—the Reformation, Taylor argues, was an information and communications revolution that effectively prepared the way for the media revolution at the end of the twentieth century. Taylor’s breathtaking account of religious ideas allows us to understand for the first time that contemporary notions of atheism and the secular are already implicit in classical Christology and Trinitarian theology. Weaving together theoretical analysis and historical interpretation, Taylor demonstrates the codependence and coevolution of traditional religious beliefs and practices with modern literature, art, architecture, information technologies, media, financial markets, and theoretical biology. After God concludes with prescriptions for new ways of thinking and acting. If we are to negotiate the perils of the twenty-first century, Taylor contends, we must refigure the symbolic networks that inform our policies and guide our actions. A religion without God creates the possibility of an ethics without absolutes that leads to the promotion of creativity and life in an ever more fragile world.
The first comprehensive theology of culture since the pioneering work of Paul Tillich, After God is a radical reconceptualization of religion and Taylor’s most pathbreaking work yet, bringing together various strands of theological argument and cultural analysis four decades in the making.
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Price: $25.95
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Sale: $6.95
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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: Rodney Stark
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2007-10-01
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Reading Level: 496
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Description: Discovering God is a monumental history of the origins of the great religions from the Stone Age to the Modern Age. Sociologist Rodney Stark surveys the birth and growth of religions around the world—from the prehistoric era of primal beliefs; the history of the pyramids found in Iraq, Egypt, Mexico, and Cambodia; and the great "Axial Age" of Plato, Zoroaster, Confucius, and the Buddha, to the modern Christian missions and the global spread of Islam. He argues for a free-market theory of religion and for the controversial thesis that under the best, unimpeded conditions, the true, most authentic religions will survive and thrive. Among his many conclusions: - Despite decades of faulty reports that early religions were crude muddles of superstition, it turns out that primitive humans had surprisingly sophisticated notions about God and Creation.
- The idea of "sin" appeared suddenly in the sixth century BCE and quickly reshaped religious ideas from Europe to China.
- Some major world religions seem to lack any plausible traces of divine inspiration.
- Ironically, some famous figures who attempted to found "Godless" religions ended up being worshiped as Gods.
Most people believe in the existence of God (or Gods), and this has apparently been so throughout human history. Many modern biologists and psychologists reject these spiritual ideas, especially those about the existence of God, as delusional. They claim that religion is a primitive survival mechanism that should have been discarded as humans evolved beyond the stage where belief in God served any useful purpose—that in modern societies, faith is a misleading crutch and an impediment to reason. In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark responds to this position, arguing that it is our capacity to understand God that has evolved—that humans now know much more about God than they did in ancient times.
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Price: $56.00
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Sale: $35.28
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Manufacturer: Fortress Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James C. Livingston::Francis Schussler Fiorenza::Sarah Coakley::James H., Jr. Evans
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Publisher: Fortress Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.0903
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Publication Date: 2006-07
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Reading Level: 974
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Description: This widely acclaimed introduction to modern Christian thought, formerly published by Prentice Hall, provides full, scholarly accounts of the major movements and thinkers, theologians and philosophers in the Christian tradition since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment, together with solid historical background and critical assessments.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $18.77
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Manufacturer: InterVarsity Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 239
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Publication Date: 2004-09
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Reading Level: 396
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $7.50
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Manufacturer: Baker Academic
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Norman L. Geisler::Ronald M. Brooks
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Publisher: Baker Academic
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Dewey Decimal Number: 160
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Publication Date: 1990-08-01
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Reading Level: 232
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Description: The perfect introductory textbook, this simplified study of logic prepares readers to reason thoughtfully and to spot illogic in an argument.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $11.19
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Steve Turner
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 782.421660922
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Publication Date: 2006-08-01
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Renowned British music journalist and author Steve Turner surveys the religious and spiritual influence of the Beatles, the band that changed the history of music forever. With new interviews, never-before-published material, and fresh insights, Turner helps the reader understand the religious and spiritual ideas and ideals that influenced the music and lives of the Beatles and helps us see how the Fab Four influenced our own lives and culture. Chapters include the religious upbringing of John, Paul, George, and Ringo; the backlash in the United States after John Lennon’s "We’re more popular than Jesus" comment; the dabbling in Eastern religion; the use of drugs to attempt to enter a higher level of consciousness; and the overall legacy that the Beatles and their music have left. While there is no religious system that permanently anchored the Beatles or their music, they did leave a gospel, Turner concludes: one of love, peace, personal freedom, and the search for transcendence.
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $26.04
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Manufacturer: Sema Institute
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dr. Muata A. Ashby
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Publisher: Sema Institute
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Dewey Decimal Number: 932
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Publication Date: 2000-07-01
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Reading Level: 330
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Description: This book is a new original translation of the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Deadbased on surviving papyri from Ancient Egypt " I Know myself, I know myself, I am One With God!-From the Pert Em Heru "The Ru Pert em Heru" or "Ancient Egyptian Book of The Dead," or "Book of Coming Forth By Day" as it is more popularly known, has fascinated the world since the successful translation of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic scripture over 150 years ago. The astonishing writings in it reveal that the Ancient Egyptians believed in life after death and in an ultimate destiny to discover the Divine. The elegance and aesthetic beauty of the hieroglyphic text itself has inspired many see it as an art form in and of itself. But is there more to it than that? Did the Ancient Egyptian wisdom contain more than just aphorisms and hopes of eternal life beyond death? In this volume Dr. Muata Ashby, the author of over 25 books on Ancient Egyptian Yoga Philosophy has produced a new translation of the original texts which uncovers a mystical teaching underlying the sayings and rituals instituted by the Ancient Egyptian Sages and Saints. "Once the philosophy of Ancient Egypt is understood as a mystical tradition instead of as a religion or primitive mythology, it reveals its secrets which if practiced today will lead anyone to discover the glory of spiritual self-discovery. The Pert em Heru is in every way comparable to the Indian Upanishads or the Tibetan Book of the Dead."
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Price: $8.00
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Sale: $3.89
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Manufacturer: IVP Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francis A. Schaeffer
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Publisher: IVP Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 231.042
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Publication Date: 2007-01-30
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Reading Level: 123
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Description: Truth used to be based on reason. No more. What we feel is now the truest source of reality. Despite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face anxiety, despair, and purposelessness. How did we get here? And where do we find a remedy? In this modern classic, Francis A. Schaeffer traces trends in twentieth-century thought and unpacks how key ideas have shaped our society. Wide-ranging in his analysis, Schaeffer examines philosophy, science, art and popular culture to identify dualism, fragmentation and the decline of reason. Schaeffer's work takes on a newfound relevance today in his prescient anticipation of the contemporary postmodern ethos. His critique demonstrates Christianity's promise for a new century, one in as much need as ever of purpose and hope.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $1.87
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Manufacturer: Basic Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: George Weigel
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Publisher: Basic Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.83
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Publication Date: 2006-02-27
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Why do Europeans and Americans see the world so differently? Why do Europeans and Americans have such different understandings of democracy in the twenty-first century? Why is Europe dying, demographically? In The Cube and the Cathedral, George Weigel offers a penetrating critique of "Europe's problem" and draws out its lessons for the rest of the democratic world. Contrasting the civilization that produced the starkly modernist "cube" of the Great Arch of La Defense in Paris with the civilization that produced the "cathedral," Notre-Dame, Weigel argues that Europe's embrace of a narrow and cramped secularism has led to a crisis of civilizational morale that is eroding Europe's soul and failing to create the European future. Even as thoughtful Europeans and Americans wrestle with these grave issues, many European political leaders continue to insist-most recently, during the debate over a new European constitution-that only a public square shorn of religiously informed moral argument is safe for human rights and democracy. The most profound question raised by The Cube and the Cathedral is whether there can be any true "politics"-any true deliberation about the common good, and any robust defense of freedom-without God. George Weigel makes a powerful case that the answer is "No"-because, in the final analysis, societies and cultures can only be as great as their spiritual aspirations.
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