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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $2.54
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Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James P. Carse
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Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
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Dewey Decimal Number: 200
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Publication Date: 2008-05-29
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: A provocative, insightful explanation for why it is that belief—not religion—keeps us in a perilous state of willful ignorance
In The Religious Case Against Belief, James Carse identifies the twenty-first century’s most forbidding villain: belief. In distinguishing religions from belief systems, Carse works to reveal how belief—with its restriction on thought and encouragement of hostility—has corrupted religion and spawned violence the world over.
Galileo, Martin Luther, Abraham Lincoln, and Jesus Christ—using their stories Carse creates his own brand of parable and establishes a new vocabulary with which to study conflict in the modern world. The Religious Case Against Belief introduces three kinds of ignorance: ordinary ignorance (a mundane lack of knowledge, such as ignorance of tomorrow’s weather or the reason why your stove is malfunctioning), willful ignorance (an intentional avoidance of accessible knowledge), and finally higher ignorance (a learned understanding that no matter how many truths we may accumulate, our knowledge falls infinitely short of the truth).
While ordinary ignorance is common to all people, Carse associates the strongest manifestation of willful ignorance with the most fervent (and dangerous) of believers. He points to the historic conflict between Martin Luther and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V both to reveal this seemingly religious collision as a clash of belief and to identify belief ’s inherently destructive characteristics. From Luther to the contemporary Christian right, we learn that believers construct identity by erecting boundaries and by fostering aggression between the believer and the other. This is why belief systems choose—at great cost—to remain locked in bloody conflict rather than to engage in dialogue, recognizing the great deal they have in common. This is willful ignorance.
In fierce contrast to willful ignorance, higher ignorance is an acquired state enhanced by religion. Those traveling the path to higher ignorance recognize faith teachings (such as the Bible) as poetry intended to promote contemplation, interpretation, and a sense of wonder. For evidence of religion’s deeply embedded rejection of singular truth and its acceptance of diverse dialogue, Carse looks to the many faces of Jesus presented in the books of the Bible and elsewhere. Uncontaminated by belief systems, religion rejects the imagined boundaries that falsely divide people and ideas, working to expand horizons.
The Religious Case Against Belief exposes a world in which religion and belief have become erroneously (and terrifyingly) conflated. In strengthening their association with powerful belief systems, religions have departed from their essential purpose as agencies of higher ignorance. Carse uses his wideranging understanding of religion to find a viable and vital path away from what he calls the Age of Faith II and toward open-ended global dialogue. Far from abstract philosophical musing, The Religious Case Against Belief is required reading for our age.
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Price: $13.00
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Sale: $6.24
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Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. Gresham Machen
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Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 1923-06
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Reading Level: 195
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Description: Machen's classic defense of orthodox Christianity establishes the importance of scripural doctrine and contrasts the teachings of liberalism and orthodoxy on God and man, the Bbible, Christ, salvation, and the church. Though originally published nearly seventy years ago, the book maintains its relevance today.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $12.33
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Manufacturer: Paraclete Press (MA)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Rollins
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Publisher: Paraclete Press (MA)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2008-05-06
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Reading Level: 196
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Description: It may be necessary to betray your faith in order to keep it What if one of the core demands of a radical Christianity lay in a call for its betrayal, while the ultimate act of affirming God required the forsaking of God? And what if fidelity to the Judeo-Christian Scriptures demanded their renunciation? In short, what would it mean if the only way of finding real faith involved betraying it with a kiss? Employing the insights of mysticism and deconstructive theory, The Fidelity of Betrayal delves into the subversive and revolutionary nature of a Christianity that dwells within the church while simultaneously undermining it.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $20.00
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Manufacturer: Polebridge Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles W Hedrick::Robert W. Funk::Glenna S. Jackson::Nigel Leaves::Robert M. Price::Paul Alan Laughlin::James M. Robinson::Mahlon H. Smith::Theodore J. Weeden::Walter Wink::David Galston::Darren J. N. Middleton::Susan M. Elliott::Hal Taussig
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Publisher: Polebridge Press
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Edition: Cdr
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Dewey Decimal Number: 277.30830922
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Publication Date: 2008-10-21
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: What happens to faith when the creeds and confessions can no longer be squared with historical and empirical evidence? Most critical scholars have wrestled with this question. Some have found ways to reconcile their personal religious belief with the scholarship they practice. Others have chosen to reconstruct their view of religious meaning in light of what they have learned. But most have tended not to share those views in a public forum. And that brings up a second question: at what point does the discrepancy between what I know, or think I know, and what I am willing to say publicly become so acute that my personal integrity is at stake? Being honest about what one thinks has always mattered in critical scholarship. In the pages of When Faith Meets Reason, thirteen scholars take up the challenge to speak candidly about how they negotiate the conflicting claims of faith and reason, in hopes that their journeys will inspire others to engage in their own search for meaning.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $9.75
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Manufacturer: HarperOne
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: J. Krishnamurti
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Publisher: HarperOne
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 181.4
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Publication Date: 1996-10-04
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Counted among his admirers are Jonas Salk, Aldous Huxley, David Hockney, and Van Morrison, along with countless other philosophers, artist, writers and students of the spiritual path. Now the trustees of Krishnamurtis work have gathered his very best and most illuminating writings and talks to present in one volume the truly essential ideas of this great spiritual thinker.Total Freedom includes selections from Krishnamurtis early works, his Commentaries on Living, and his discourses on life, the self, meditation, sex and love. These writings reveal Krishnamuris core teachings in their full eloquence and power: the nature of personal freedom; the mysteries of life and death; and the pathless land, the personal search for truth and peace. Warning readers away from blind obedience to creeds or teachers including himself Krishnamurti celebrated the individual quest for truth, and thus became on of the most influential guides for independent-minded seekers of the twentieth century and beyond.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $6.78
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Manufacturer: Self-Realization Fellowship
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Swami Sri Yukteswar
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Publisher: Self-Realization Fellowship
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.544
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Publication Date: 1894-12-01
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: This extraordinary treatise explores parallel passages from the Bible and the Hindu scriptures to reveal the essential unity of all religions. Swami Sri Yukteswar is renowned as the revered guru of the great pioneer of yoga in the West, Paramahansa Yogananda (author of Autobiography of a Yogi). In this remarkable work - composed in the year 1894 at the request of the great Indian sage, Mahavatar Babaji - Sri Yukteswar outlines the universal path that every human being must travel to enlightenment. He also explains the vast recurring cycles of history - the yugas that mark the upward ascent of human consciousness over millenniums - amid the ever-changing panorama of turbulent world events.
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Price: $27.00
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Sale: $13.19
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Manufacturer: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Daniel L. Migliore
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Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230
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Publication Date: 2004-06
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Reading Level: 439
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Description: This timely, stimulating introduction to Christian theology is both critically respectul of the church's classical theological heritage and critically open to the emphases of contemporary theology--especially feminist, black, and Latin American liberation theologies.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $9.80
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Manufacturer: Healing Arts Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Deborah Morris Coryell
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Publisher: Healing Arts Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 155.937
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Publication Date: 2007-08-02
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: A compassionate guide to the experience of loss as an essential growth process
• Explores the nature of loss as a profound mystery shared by all human beings
• Offers sensitive and practical advice for experiencing grief and preparing for the healing journey that follows
• Includes CD of the author reading selections from the text
We grieve only for that which we have loved, and the transient nature of life makes love and loss intimate companions. In Good Grief professional grief educator Deborah Morris Coryell describes grief as the experience of not having anywhere to place our love, of losing a connection, an outlet for our emotion. To heal grief we have to learn how to continue to love in the face of loss.
In this compassionate guide, Coryell gives inspiring examples of how embracing our losses allows us to awaken our most profound connections to other people. Though our society tends to rank losses in a “hierarchy of grief,” she reminds us that all losses must be grieved in their own right and on their own terms, and that we must honor the “small” losses as well as the “big” ones. Paying attention to even the most minute experiences of loss can help us to be more in tune with our responses to the greater ones, allowing us to once again become part of the rhythm of life from which we have become disconnected. This 10th anniversary edition includes a 60-minute CD of the author reading select passages from the text.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $14.85
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Manufacturer: Sorin Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Chet Raymo
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Publisher: Sorin Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 211.7092
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Publication Date: 2008-09
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Reading Level: 148
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Description: Best-selling author of sixteen books and a long-time writer of the popular column "Science Musings" in the Boston Globe, Chet Raymo invites readers to explore "the beautiful and terrible mystery that soaks creation." In what he describes as a "late-life credo," renowned science writer Chet Raymo narrates his half-century journey from the traditional Catholicism of his youth to his present perspective as a "Catholic agnostic." As a scientist, Raymo holds to the skepticism that accepts only verifiable answers, but as a "religious naturalist," he never ceases his pursuit of "the beautiful and terrible mystery that soaks creation." Raymo assembles a stunning array of scientists, philosophers, mystics, and poets who help him discover "glimmers of the Absolute in every particular." Whether exploring the connection of the human body to the stars or the meaning of prayer of the heart, these challenging reflections will cause believers and agnostics alike to pause and pay attention.
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $25.00
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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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Author: J. P. Moreland::William Lane Craig
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Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 261.51
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Publication Date: 2003-04
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Reading Level: 653
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Description: Winner of a 2004 ECPA Gold Medallion Award! Winner of an Award of Excellence in the 2003 Chicago Book Clinic! * What is real? * What is truth? * What can we know? * What should we believe? * What should we do and why? * Is there a God? * Can we know him? * Do Christian doctrines make sense? * Can we believe in God in the face of evil? These are fundamental questions that any thinking person wants answers to. These are questions that philosophy addresses. And the answers we give to these kinds of questions serve as the the foundation stones for consrtucting any kind of worldview. In Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview J.P. Moreland and William Lane Craig offer a comprehensive introduction to philosophy from a Christian perspective. In their broad sweep they seek to introduce readers to the principal subdisciplines of philosophy, including epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, ethics and philosophy of religion. They do so with characteristic clarity and incisiveness. Arguments are clearly outlined, and rival theories are presented with fairness and accuracy. Philosophy, they contend, aids Christians in the tasks of apologetics, polemics and systematic theology. It reflects our having been made in the image of God, helps us to extend biblical teaching into areas not expressly addressed in Scripture, facilitates the spiritual discipline of study, enhances the boldness and self-image of the Christian community, and is requisite to the essential task of integrating faith and learning. Here is a lively and thorough introduction to philosophy for all who want to know reality. Features & Benefits * Provides a Christian orientation to the study of philosophy * Comprehensive * Introduces all the major areas of philosophical study * Answers key questions to help readers construct a Christian worldview * Arguments are clearly outlined; rival theories are presented with fairness and accuracy * Lively * Up to date * Accessibly written * Shows how philosophy aids apologetics, polemics and systematic theology * Shows how philosophy helps extend biblical teaching into areas not expressly addressed in Scripture * Shows how philosophy enhances the boldness and self-image of the Christian community * Shows how philosophy is necessary for integrating faith and learning
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