Biography: religious and spiritual

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

Daily prayer the Wesleyan wayPrayer is a spiritual practice, and daily prayer uses the repetition of forms and words to cultivate a deep, meaningful ritual, drawing the individual into an ever-closer relationship with God.

Learn about the primal beliefs to the world's great faiths in The Religions Book.

Le frère André, né Alfred Bessette, demeure, soixante-treize ans après sa mort, l'une des figures les plus énigmatiques de l'histoire du Québec.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions?

For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy.

This is the first full biography of Biblical scholar and theological seminary professor James Strong (1822-1894).

A complete liturgical resource to the richest days of the Christian year, grouping the seasonal liturgies of Holy Week and Easter with Holy Communion Order One.

The first comprehensive resource for spiritual and pastoral caregivers-a vital resource for clergy, seminarians, chaplains, pastoral counselors and caregivers of all faith traditions.

Forgiveness is possible even in impossible circumstances.

The Encyclopaedia of World Religions and Interfaith Dialogues is an initiative to deal with the subject of religion and interfaith dialogue in its totality.

The Origins of Ethical Thought: A Comparative Study Between Hellenism and Hebraism is the first text to analyze both Greek and Hebrew ethical thought based on a comprehensive and ideological interpretation of the two systems on their own and in relation to one another.

There are no pre-packaged "e;magic bullet"e; solutions to life's anticipated and unforeseen hurdles.

A separate booklet including the text of the Order One service, all eight eucharistic prayers and supplementary texts including a form of preparation, penitential material, the Apostles Creed, a selection of prayers at the preparation of the table and a selection of prayers after communion.

This book discusses key works by important writers from Church of Ireland backgrounds (from Farquhar and Swift to Beckett and Bardwell), in order to demonstrate that writers from this Irish subculture have a unique socio-political viewpoint which is imperfectly understood.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

'The best vicar ever' Caitlin Moran 'Sex, drugs, death, religion, more sex.

On December 18, 2017, Pope Francis declared that Father Patrick Peyton, C.

Founded in 1421, the Collegiate Church of Manchester, which became a cathedral in 1847, is of outstanding historical and architectural importance.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe American Dream isn't a thing of the past, but a miracle of the present.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

An old man feels beautifully broken into prayer by God's presence, and these poems are the shards of that breakage.

Convinced that we no longer have immediate access to the sense of Jesus' words but must account for the history of its "e;effects,"e; David Clark seeks to trace the meaning of the Lord's Prayer through the early centuries of the faith.

Few words inspire more fear in Americans these days than jihad.

';Torah, as both book and process, is the taproot that penetrates to the heart of Jewish meaning, understanding, and expression.

A thrilling account of treachery, loyalty and martyrdom in Elizabethan England from an exceptional new writer.

A major figure in eighteenth-century Christianity, John Wesley sought to combine the essential elements of the Catholic and Evangelical traditions and to restore to the laity a vital role in church life.

Idolatry, or its Hebrew equivalent Avodah Zarah is a fundamental feature of a Jewish view of other religions.

The Bishop of one of the richest dioceses in the world (London), Richard Chartres is passionately concerned with preaching the Christian Gospel.

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

John J.

Lewis Champion Chambers is one of the forgotten figures of Canadian Black history and the history of religion in Canada.

Ian Harper just cannot stop meddling.

Almost every organization has a vision.

As the first single-volume work to present a national picture of Baptist engagement with the fundamentalist movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Canadian Baptist Fundamentalism fills an important gap in the historiography.

Picking up a fresh metaphor from the field of urban planning, Wayfinding with Dietrich Bonhoeffer applies a "e;wayfinding"e; lens to consider how Bonhoeffer might be a wayfinder for followers of Christ today.

If you love poetry, this book is about you and for you.

A brief, narrative survey of the Baptists in North America over the last three and a half centuries, from their roots in Europe to their present manifestations in contemporary America and the world.

Sermon Nuggets is a collection of ninety-one topics treated in hundreds of Fred R.

The adherents of Islam and Christianity comprise half of the world's population, or 3.

The synagogue remains a central institution in Jewish life as a place of study, worship, and assembly, but each day brings word of a new challenging development within each of the larger movements to which synagogues belong-Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and Reconstructionist.