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Gospel of Thomas
A Guidebook for Spiritual Practice
Av Ron Miller
Häftad, 2004
201 kr
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The Gospel of Thomas—a book of sayings and wisdom of Jesus compiled as early or earlier than the New Testament gospels—can transform your spiritual life.There are many academic commentaries on the Gospel of Thomas, but this book has a different aim. It is meant to be a guidebook, that is, a …
Selections from the Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2002
161 kr
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Ramakrishna experienced the truth of all religions inspiring seekers of every creed. Now his 'gospel' is made accessible to all readers. Ramakrishna is India's greatest example of God-consciousness and mystical ecstasy in recent history. He became known to the world not merely as a saint but as a …
Sacred Writings of Paul
Selections Annotated & Explained
Inbunden, 2007
265 kr
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Fresh insight into Christianity's earliest teachings can be a guide for your own spiritual journey. The Apostle Paul, who wrote many of the books in the New Testament, was a fearless and revolutionary religious innovator. In a society where slaveholding was commonplace and women were little more …
Spiritual Writings on Mary
Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2005
226 kr
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SPIRITUAL WRITINGS ON MARY explores a collection of writings on Mary, the mother of Jesus dating from the time of the Hebrew Bible prophecies to the present. Selections from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament and Qur'an include sacred poems, prayers, hymns and songs, scriptural passages and prose …
Rumi and Islam
Selections from His Poems Sayings and Discourses - Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2004
204 kr
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Discover the richness of Rumi's spiritual tradition—through facing-page commentary that brings his writings to life for you."This book you are now holding is a selection of what I believe are the best of Rumi’s accounts of the compassionate actions, sayings, and qualities of the Prophet, which …
Hebrew Prophets
Selections Annotated and Explained
Häftad, 2004
232 kr
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Hundreds of commentaries and dozens of Bible translations make the Hebrew prophets available to modern-day readers but most often these sources focus on history or apologetics losing the reader who is searching for spiritual insight. THE HEBREW PROPHETS makes the wisdom of these timeless teachers …
Hidden Gospel of Matthew
Annotated and Explained
Av Ron Miller
Häftad, 2004
161 kr
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James has been a subject of controversy since the founding of the Church. Evidence that Jesus had siblings contradicts Church dogma on the virgin birth and James is also a symbol of Christian teachings that have been obscured. While Peter is traditionally thought of as the leader of the apostles …
Book of Mormon
Selections Annotated and Explained
Av Jana Reiss
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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An inside look at the foundational sacred text of one of the world's youngest and fastest growing religionsThe Book of Mormon stands alongside the Bible as the keystone of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church/Mormonism). Translated by the prophet Joseph Smith from ancient …
Secret Book of John
The Gnostic Gospel - Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2005
224 kr
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THE SECRET BOOK OF JOHN is the most significant and influential text of the ancient Gnostic religion. Part of the library of books found in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, in 1945, this central myth of Gnosticism tells the story of how God fell from perfect Oneness to imprisonment in the material world and how …
Philokalia
The Eastern Christian Spiritual Texts Selections Annotated & Explained
Av Allyne Smith
Häftad, 2006
231 kr
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A collection of writings by monks from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, the PHILOKALIA more than any other text reflects the Eastern Church's interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Simply translated the title means 'love of the beautiful', which reflects the text's emphasis on mystical and …
Divine Feminine in Biblical Wisdom Literature
Selections Annotated and Explained
Häftad, 2005
177 kr
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The pure and penetrating message of the Divine Feminine Wisdom can become a companion for your own spiritual journeyThe first of God's creations and God’s endless delight, Wisdom (also known as Chochma and Sophia) is the Mother of all life, the guide to right living. She is God manifest in the …
Gospel of Philip
Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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This ancient Gnostic text can be a companion for your own spiritual quest.The Gospel of Philip is one of the most exciting and accessible of the Gnostic texts found at Nag Hammadi in Egypt in 1945. The source of Dan Brown's intriguing speculations about Mary Magdalene in his best-selling novel The …
Native American Stories of the Sacred
Annotated and Explained
Häftad, 2005
174 kr
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The wisdom from these stories can become a companion on your own spiritual journey.Native American Stories of the Sacred are intended for more than entertainment: they are teaching tales containing elegantly simple illustrations of time-honored truths. From tales of Creation to "Why?" stories that …
Tao Te Ching
Annotated & Explained
Av Derek Lin
Häftad, 2006
197 kr
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The enduring wisdom of the Tao Te Ching can become a companion for your own spiritual journey.Reportedly written by a sage named Lao Tzu over 2,500 years ago, the Tao Te Ching is one of the most succinct—and yet among the most profound—spiritual texts ever written. Short enough to read in an …
Ethics of the Sages
Pirke Avot-Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2006
166 kr
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At the heart of Judaism is an ethical imperative to live life from your true self, as the image and likeness of God. To do this, you must see the greatness of God manifest in all things, and therefore engage each moment with grace, humility, and justice. This imperative flowers in the words of the …
Sacred Writings of Paul
Selections Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2007
166 kr
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The Apostle Paul, who wrote many of the books in the New Testament, was a fearless and revolutionary religious innovator. In a society where slaveholding was commonplace and women were little more than servants, he preached a groundbreaking equality founded on a new spiritual identity. In an …
Sex Texts from the Bible
Selections Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2007
232 kr
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For some people, the Bible's perspectives on sex may seem too one-dimensional or antiquated to apply to modern-day life. Others may hold up the Bible as the ultimate moral guideline when it comes to sex and human sexuality. A close reading of the Bible reveals that while its rules and lessons about …
Gnostic Writings on the Soul
Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2007
215 kr
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Just what is a soul, exactly? Where did the idea come from? How do we experience our souls? Two ancient Gnostic texts - The Exegesis on the Soul and The Hymn of the Pearl, both presented here in all-new translations - hold important clues to the development of the soul as a concept and reveal …
Qur'an and Sayings of Prophet Muhammed
Selections Annotated and Explained
Häftad, 2007
189 kr
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For many in the West, the teachings of the Qur'an are often enshrouded in mystery and fear. Yet Islam's holy book gave birth to one of the most powerful and enlightened civilisations the world has ever seen. By the sixteenth century, Muslim culture stretched from India to Africa to Europe, …
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Selections Annotated & Explained
Av Marcus Aurelius, Russell McNeil
Häftad, 2007
201 kr
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Stoicism is often portrayed as a cheerless, stiff-upper-lip philosophy of suffering and doom. Yet as experienced through the thoughtful and penetrating writings of Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius (121 - 180 CE), the Stoic approach to life is surprisingly rich, nuanced, clear-eyed and friendly. With …
Art of War - Spirituality for Conflict
Annotated & Explained
Av Sun Tzu, Thomas Huynh
Häftad, 2008
201 kr
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Written 2,500 years ago by Chinese general Sun Tzu, THE ART OF WAR is a masterpiece of military strategy still used in war colleges around the world. Yet its principles transcend warfare and have practical applications to all the conflicts and crises we face in our lives - in our workplaces, our …
Infancy Gospels of Jesus
Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2009
166 kr
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The three principal infancy gospels-the Infancy Gospel of James, the Book of Joseph the High Priest, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas-are accounts of the birth and early life of Mary and of the birth and early life of Jesus. These apocryphal stories are fictions but nevertheless of great historical …
Tanya, the Masterpeice of Hasidic Wisdom
Selections Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2010
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189 kr
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Tanya, "It Was Taught," is one of the most powerful and potentially transformative books of Jewish wisdom. Written in 1797 by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, the founder of Chabad Hasidism, Tanya sets forth the fundamentals of Jewish spirituality and mysticism. While a focus of daily study by tens of …
Saint Augustine of Hippo
Selections from Confessions and Other Essential Writings - Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2010
174 kr
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Augustine of Hippo (354-430), priest, bishop and theologian, is one of the most important figures in the development of Western Christianity. He is known as much for his long interior struggle that ended with conversion and baptism at age thirty-two as for his influential teachings on human will, …
Ghazali on the Principles of Islamic Spirituality
Selections from Forty Foundations of Religion - Annotated & Explained
Av Shaykh Faraz Rabbini, Aaron Spevack
Häftad, 2011
177 kr
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Many consider Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazali the all-time greatest scholar of Islam. One of the great legal scholars of his time (1058-1111), he was, also, one of the foremost scholars of theology, philosophy and Sufism. In the realm of Sufism, his writings on the interrelation of law, theology and …
Ecclesiastes
Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2010
166 kr
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Two thousdand, three hundred years ago an unnamed Hebrew sage known only as Koheleth, the Teacher, rocked the ancient Jewish world with a critique of society that shattered conventional notions of God, piety, politics and power. Speaking to a world not unlike our own - a world of increasing …
Chuang-Tzu
The Tao of Perfect Happiness - Selections Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2011
166 kr
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The timeless wisdom of this classic Taoist text can become a companion on your own spiritual journey.The Chuang-tzu is the second major text of the Taoist tradition. It was compiled in the third century BCE and follows the lead of the best-known and oldest of all Taoist texts, the Tao-te-ching …
Celtic Christian Spirituality
Essential Writings Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2011
177 kr
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The forgotten truths of Celtic Christianity provide a portal into a spiritual way of experiencing the world.The Celtic Christians beheld the world around them and perceived the divine life of God as upholding every aspect of the material universe. Their prayers and poems, their liturgies and …
Confucius, the Analects
The Path of the Sage Selections Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2011
166 kr
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The wisdom of Confucius, China's greatest teacher and sage, can guide each of us in our own time.Twenty-six centuries after their origination, the principles laid down in the Analects of Confucius still act as the foundation of Chinese philosophy, ethics, society and government, and play a …
John & Charles Wesley
Selections from Their Writings and Hymns - Annotated & Explained
Häftad, 2011
232 kr
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John Wesley (1703-1791), Anglican priest, theologian and church reformer and his brother, Charles Wesley (1707-1788), one of the greatest hymn writers of all time, co-founded Methodism, a major movement of Christian renewal. Their vision of Christian discipleship included important spiritual …
