Biography: religious and spiritual

"e;Daily, quiet reflection on the Word of God as it applies to me becomes for me a point of crystallization for everything that gives interior and exterior order to my life,"e; wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer to his colleagues at the warfront in the winter of 1942.

He was told he'd never walk again.

John Paul Newport was perhaps the most influential American Baptist philosopher and apologist of the twentieth century.

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

Helen Barrett Montgomery was a prominent member of the women's ecumenical movement of the early twentieth century.

A great theater critic brings twentieth-century playwright Arthur Miller's dramatic story to life with bold and revealing new insights "e;Lahr's cogent analyses are revelatory.

Baptist Preaching comprises thirty-five sermons from around the globe given in the same year by Baptist preachers.

This long-awaited companion volume to Howard E.

Even Jennifer herself has in the light of severe recent tragedies found herself gaining a new understanding of all she has been through.

With over four million copies in print, Paramahansa Yogananda's autobiography has served as a gateway into yoga and alternative spirituality for North American practitioners since 1946.

Although God is at the center of the process of spiritual direction, the more readily visible participants are human beings.

Muhammad: His Character and Conduct is the latest work by Adil Salahi, the Translated by of Sayyid Qutbs In the Shade of the Quran and author of Muhammad Man and Prophet.

The eighth volume in the Dalai Lama's definitive and bestselling Library of Wisdom and Compassion series, and the second of three focusing on emptiness.

The few popular Bible stories about women are often presented in black and white-the women were good or bad, Ruth or Jezebel.

Cut off in traffic?

Buddhism is in many ways a visual tradition, with its well-known practices of visualization, its visual arts, its epistemological writings that discuss the act of seeing, and its literature filled with images and metaphors of light.

The lives of Christian churches are shaped by doctrinal theology.

This book is an autobiography tracing Rosemary Radford Ruether's intellectual development and writing career.

Baptists have at times been tempted to dismiss liturgy as formulaic.

The Training Anthology--or Siksa-samuccaya--is a collection of quotations from Buddhist sutras with illuminating and insightful commentary by the eighth-century North Indian master Santideva.

The opening of the ordained ministry to women, in the larger context of the women's movement in America, has created an unprecedented situation within Protestant denominations.

I've told my kids for years that God doesn't make mistakes," writes Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Grammy award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman.

This against-all-odds autobiography of gospel legend Kirk Franklin takes you through the life and trials of one of the most influential and bestselling artists in the music industry.

The Quakers were by far the most successful of the radical religious groups to emerge from the turbulence of the mid-seventeenth century--and their survival into the present day was largely facilitated by the transformation of the movement during its first fifty years.

Tom Harpur's compelling spiritual journey from fundamentalism to mass media.

Philip Turner's contributions as a leader and thinker in Christian missions and social ethics are here engaged by an array of friends and colleagues.

Professor Pater presents a revolutionary appraisal of the origins of law Protestantism in the Radical Reformation.

Doctrine and Race examines the history of African American Baptists and Methodists of the early twentieth century and their struggle for equality in the context of white Protestant fundamentalism.

John Henry Newman was one of the most eminent of Victorians and an intellectual pioneer for an age of doubt and unsettlement.

The world's most famous hymn book has been completely revised and now offers the broadest ever range of traditional hymns and modern compositions, from the Psalms to John Bell, Bernadette Farrell and Stuart Townend.

For anyone who feels caught in the tension between the beauty of God's story and the ugliness of human hypocrisy, Why I Still Believe offers a stirring story of hope.

This is the biography of a contested memory, how it was born, grew, changed the world, and was changed by it.

This title is part of UC Presss Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact.

Charles Gore (1853-1932) is a towering figure in Anglicanism whose writings and lectures shaped theological discussion for decades.

Evangelical Christianity is one of the most formative and least acknowledged movements in Australian history.

Aquinas at Prayer draws attention to important aspects of Aquinas's life and work which have been all too often overlooked or forgotten.

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

Exchange exhaustion and disappointment for the full, abundant life you long for when you surrender your story at the foot of the cross.

Wry and exhilarating, Chutzpah is a fearless exploration of what is possible when one person simply refuses to choose between abandoning their roots and abandoning themselves.

This narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau describes the life-worlds of people in a region traditionally known as Kham who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture, depending on the milk production of their herd for sustenance.

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Alojzije Stepinac war als Erzbischof von Zagreb ein Gegner von Nationalsozialismus und Kommunismus.

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Originally published in 1996 Religious Higher Education in the United States looks at the issue of higher education and a lack of a clearly articulated purpose, an issue particularly challenging to religiously-affiliated institutions.