Jean-Yves Leloup - Böcker

For more than fifteen hundred years Christianity has cultivated a rich and varied teaching on the practice of stillness and inner calm. Here we can find answers to the contemporary psychological struggle for inner peace. In a fresh and engagi...

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Perhaps no figure in biblical scholarship has been the subject of more controversy and debate than Mary Magdalene. Also known as Miriam of Magdala, Mary Magdalene was considered by the apostle John to be the founder of Christianity because she was...

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The mainstream position of the Christian church on sexuality was perhaps best summed up by Pope Innocent III (1160-1216) when he stated that the sexual act is so shameful that it is intrinsically evil. Another Christian theologian maintained that ...

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One of the cache of codices and manuscripts discovered in Nag Hammadi, the Gospel of Thomas, unlike the canonical gospels, does not contain a narrative recording Christ's life and prophecies. Instead it is a collection of his teachings--what ...

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The familiar story of Judas, betrayer of Jesus, is striking because of its incomprehensibility. Why would one of Christ's disciples and companions of the heart deliver him up to his enemies and a barbarous, ignominious and certain death for thirty...

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In Asian spiritual traditions the mountain traditionally symbolises meditation while the ocean signifies compassion. Jean-Yves Leloup uses this metaphor to compare Buddhist and Christian approaches to meditation and compassion to reveal the simila...

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An examination of how the teachings of Jesus reveal the essential role of sexuality in spiritual growth and transformation*; Shows that Jesus did not come to redeem humanity from the life of the flesh, but to honor it as a spiritual path*; Uses He...

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A new translation and analysis of the gospel that records the actual words of Jesus*; Explores the gnostic significance of Jesus's teachings recorded in this gospel*; Explains the true nature of the new man whose coming Jesus envisioned *; Transla...

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A new translation and analysis of one of the most controversial of the apocryphal gospels *; Emphasizes an initiatic marriage between the male and female principles as the heart of the Christian mystery *; Bears witness to the physical relationshi...

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Restores to the forefront of the Christian tradition the importance of the divine feminine*; The first complete English-language translation of the original Coptic Gospel of Mary, with line-by-line commentary*; Reveals the eminence of the divine f...

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A radical reinterpretation of the relationship of Judas and Jesus *; Reexamines the role and the purpose the key figure of Judas played in the crucifixion story *; Reveals how Judas was ';betrayed' by Jesus, and how, taken to the limits of his hum...

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A profound reflection on how complementary themes in Buddhism and Christianity could serve as the basis for a truly ecumenical faith *; Compares Zen meditation with the Greek Orthodox practice of Hesychasm (prayer of the heart) *; Shows how Buddha...

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A new translation and analysis of the gospel that records the actual words of Jesus*; Explores the gnostic significance of Jesus's teachings recorded in this gospel*; Explains the true nature of the new man whose coming Jesus envisioned *; Transla...

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At more than 120 bpm, electronic music sets the tempo on dancefloors around the globe. Accompanying the exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, this book offers an insight into the visual culture of electronic music, and ho...

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En cette époque où le christianisme occidental se voit progressivement aplati en un simple humanisme dévitalisé de ses racines spirituelles et où l''on vante, depuis un rationalisme étroit, une « spiritualité sans Dieu » ou, comble du par...

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Ce bref essai ne sera pas un livre "e;sur"e; les icones, ce qui supposerait un certain nombre d'illustrations, cela a deja ete fait (Cf. Jean-Yves Leloup, L'Icone, une ecole du regard, ed. Le pommier, 2000), mais une reflexion suscitee par...

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Die verbotene Göttin hinter »Gott dem Vater« - eine Reise zur ursprünglichen christlichen Lehre Die weibliche Stimme des Urchristentums: Jahrhundertelang von der Kirche unterdrückt, bringt das verborgene Evangelium der Maria Magdalena Licht in die...

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