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In Why I Am a Hindu, one of India’s finest public intellectuals gives us a profound book about one of the world’s oldest and greatest religions. Starting with a close examination of his own belief in Hinduism, he ranges far and wide in his study of the faith.

Throughout the whole of this series of books runs a single thread uniting various aspects of life and specialised activities within the Plan for man. This is the thread of consciousness, evolving in man through the efforts of the soul to contact and control its personality equipment; and evolving within the planet as the centre Hierarchy becomes increasingly able to impress the Plan on the minds of men.

Written in 75 AD by the Jewish historian and Roman citizen Titus Flavius Josephus, “The Wars of the Jews”, describes Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem in 164 BC. to the destruction of the city in 70 AD. Josephus, born in Jerusalem in 37 AD with the name Yosef ben Matityahu, was from a Jewish family with a father of a priestly heritage and a mother who claimed to have royal blood. Josephus fought against the Romans in the First Jewish-Roman War and was eventually taken prisoner by the Romans and made a slave of the Roman leader Vespasian.

この直感を大事にしていますかまずはこの直感に向かって行動してみると今よりももっと楽しく恵まれた生き方を授かるかもしれません

For generations, the book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands, expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on the question of its basic coherency, just as fundamentalist interpretation has centered on the question of the appropriateness of reading it as literally true.

Asian spiritual practices, from yoga and tai chi to qigong and mindfulness meditations, permeate our culture. But these practices are often casually used in the West, and sometimes little understood. As informative as it is inviting, A Lamp unto Yourself introduces “spiritual explorers” of all experience levels to embodied Eastern spiritual practices.

This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.

Listening to The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan can be a bit challenging. Not so with this new version that translates the original archaic language into simple, conversational English, allowing listeners of all ages to easily navigate the most popular Christian allegory of all time. The story chronicles the epic adventure of a man named Christian who leaves his home in the City of Destruction and begins a life-long quest to the Celestial City.

The Gnostic Gospels provides engaging listening for those seeking a broader perspective on the early development of Christianity. Author and noted scholar Elaine Pagels suggests that Christianity could have developed quite differently if Gnostic texts had become part of the Christian canon.

In an era of hardening religious attitudes and explosive religious violence, this book offers a welcome antidote. Richard Holloway retells the entire history of religion - from the dawn of religious belief to the 21st century - with deepest respect and a keen commitment to accuracy. Writing for those with faith and those without, and especially for young listeners, he encourages curiosity and tolerance, accentuates nuance and mystery and calmly restores a sense of the value of faith.

A History of Religion–Catholics and Protestants provides a sweeping history of the mesmerizing struggle between these two major branches of Christianity, spanning from the Reformation to modern day times. It describes the clashes, often violent, between these two groups, across multiple geographies around the world, from Europe, the UK and Ireland to Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Sometimes people lose sight of the core of their ministry. They feel overwhelmed by the needs that surround them on a daily basis. Wise and beloved pastor Warren Wiersbe invites ministry leaders to listen in on thirty short "armchair chats" to encourage and strengthen them for service. He shares what he wishes he had known about ministering to others when he began his own Christian pilgrimage.

Gnosis simply means knowing. And in the Gnostic frame of reference, gnosis refers to remembering the truth of our existence and our cosmic origin. Gnostic literature says we come into life holding all of this knowledge within ourselves, and that we have complete access to the Father, the Son, and the Fullness of God any time we choose to turn our focus upward. It is this direct connection to the Father that brings us into alignment with our gnosis.

Twentieth century science completely revolutionized human understanding of the world, rewriting the story of the universe with exciting discoveries and theories—the big bang, the relativity of space and time, the accelerating expansion of the universe, along with increasingly refined ideas of evolution and the origin of life.

كلّ منا قد يكون مرَّ بهذه التجربة وتساءل بينه وبين نفسه: ما سرّ ذلك الإحساس المضيء وخفة الحركة في جسمه عندما استغرق في صلاته؟

العملاق عباس محمود العقاد .. إمتلأت المكتبات بابداعاته الفكرية وقد غزا التاريخ والشعر والأدب والدين والسياسة.. وكما عرفنا عبقرياته محمد وعلى وخالد وعمر .. نراه يمد بنفيس الكلم والفكر عن حياة المسيح عليه السلام. يناقش تاريخ ميلاده وكيف هو في التاريخ والحالة السياسية والاجتماعية في عصر الميلاد وايضا الدينية والفكرية.. ويكتب في الاناجيل ومدى اخلاص التلاميذ له . وفي الختام يخبرنا ماذا لو عاد المسيح ؟ في خضم العقاد ننهل من الثقافة والفكر مع هذا الكتاب .. نقرأ الكلمة القوية ذات الحجة القويمة نتدارس حياة المسيح من الاناجيل والقرآن والتاريخ

أرأيت كم يبدو هذا السؤال بسيطًا؟ هما كلمتان فقط لا ثالث لهما (الدين والعلم)...والإجابة المطلوبة هي كلمة واحدة فقط نعم أو لا!

In Flee from Heresy, Bishop Athanasius Schneider — raised among persecuted Catholics in the Soviet Union — offers a systematic treatment of more than 130 doctrinal errors, from ancient times down to our own day, along with English translations of the Church’s major anti-heresy documents of the past two centuries.

The Lausiac History is a timeless classic of immense value to anyone studying the lives of the great Desert Fathers and Mothers. Embark with Palladius on a journey into the desert and encounter saints like John of Egypt, Moses the Black, Isidora the Fool-for-Christ, and Macarius the Great.

This book is a well written concise topical study about what it means to be a soldier for Christ. This is essential in this season where such topics are no longer a feature on the pulpit or discussion points during our bible study sessions.