Biography: religious and spiritual Books
YWAM Publishing,U.S. Christian Heroes Gift Set (16-20): Christian
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£45.41
YWAM Publishing,U.S. Florence Young
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£12.02
YWAM Publishing,U.S. Sundar Singh
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£12.21
YWAM Publishing Paul Brand: Helping Hands
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£11.39
Editorial Jucum El Agente Secreto de Dios: La Vida del Hermano
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£999.99
YWAM Publishing Nick Vujicic: No Limits
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£999.99
Rowman & Littlefield Jesus The Holy Fool
Book SynopsisRichly written, Jesus the Holy Fool combines diverse images from religious traditions, world literature, Jungian archetype, and Scripture. Weaving the best theology and spirituality, Jesus the Holy Fool is a fresh and inviting Christology. The Scriptures tell us that religious leaders thought Jesus was "possessed," and his own family thought he was "crazy." In his open table fellowship, choice of followers, radical passion, and his death and resurrection, Jesus was willing to appear as a fool for the sake of God’s reign. His teachings—especially the parables, paradoxes, and the beatitudes—advocate a way of life that is grounded in Holy Foolishness. Through an archetypal examination of the fool motif as it applies to Jesus in the Gospels,Jesus the Holy Fool develops the connections between holiness and folly. Offering new insights into Christology and exploring its practical pastoral ramifications, Jesus the Holy Fool presents Holy Foolishness as a paradigm for the Christian journey and as a new model of what it means for us to be church.
£26.29
Ignatius Press Padre Pio Under Investigation: The Secret Vatican
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£14.99
Ignatius Press Historia de un Alma Manuscritos Autobiograficos
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£18.95
St Augustine's Press Conversion Of Edith Stein
Book SynopsisOne fateful day Edith Stein took from a friend’s bookshelf the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Avila. In it she found the simple truth about human existence. Shortly afterward, she became a Catholic, but her desire to become a Carmelite like Teresa was delayed for some time. Eventually she entered the convent in Cologne. Because of the Nazi persecution of Jews, converted or not, endangered others in her convent, she ask to be moved to a convent in the Netherlands. The German armies of occupation soon followed. It was from the Carmelite convent at Echt that she was taken in 1942, shipped to Auschwitz and executed. Florent Gaboriau sees Edith Stein’s conversion under three aspects: first the conversion of a Jew, then the conversion of a feminist, finally the conversion of a philosopher. Edith saw her conversion as the fulfillment of herself as Jewish; she saw the uniqueness of woman in the light of the faith; she saw her phenomenology as finding its home within Christian philosophy. One of the most brilliant women of her generation, she became a model of sanctity. Her canonization by Pope John Paul II was the occasion for strange reactions. Gaboriau’s account of her conversion, and of the saint she became, puts it all into perspective. "O my God, fill my soul with holy joy, courage and strength to serve You. Enkindle Your love in me and then walk with me along the next stretch of road before me. I do not see very far ahead, but when I have arrived where the horizon now closes down, a new prospect will open before me, and I shall meet it with peace." – Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
£9.44
Tyndale House Publishers Into the Deep
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£14.73
Other Press LLC Stranger In A Strange Land: Searching for Gershom
Book SynopsisA nonfiction Bildungsroman of one of the twentieth century's most important humanist thinkers, while also telling an intimate story of his own youth, marriage and spiritual quest in Jerusalem
£22.49
Multnomah Press Lessons I Learned in the Dark: Walking by Faith
Book SynopsisAt the age of fifteen, Jennifer Rothschild confronted two unshakable realities: Blindness is inevitable ... and God is enough. Now this popular author, speaker, and recording artist offers poignant lessons that illuminate a path to freedom and fulfillment. With warmth, humor, and insight,Jennifer shares the guiding principles she walks by -- and shows you how to walk forward by faith into God''s marvelous light.
£13.29
Select Books Inc My Journey: A Life in Quest of the Purpose of
Book SynopsisIn My Journey, Ervin Laszlo recounts the story of his life, describing its fundamental transformations from musician to academic to global activist. But this story is more than an entertaining read—it also conveys a message. It shows that the quest that has marked Laszlo’s life is profound and meaningful, and important also for the reader. It is the quest to find the purpose that underlies our life. Laszlo marshals scientific evidence that life is not a meaningless accident, but the expression of a universal drive in nature: the drive toward the evolution of complex and coherent systems, and of the consciousness that is associated with the systems. What you do in your life impacts on you and impacts on everyone in this interdependent and interacting quantum universe. Here the reader can follow how Laszlo came across the evidence for life’s purpose and how his life has been changed again and again by the pursuit of this discovery. He now communicates his life-story, the story of his quest for life’s purpose, as he is convinced that it can lend meaning and significance also to the life of the reader.Trade Review"Read this book not just for the entertaining turns and transformations of the life of its author, but for understanding the quest that it seeks to communicate. Understanding and adopting this quest could help you to find the purpose of your own life." Gregg Braden, from his Introduction
£15.15
Creation House Bruchko
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£17.85
Penguin Putnam Inc Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn, Bird by Bird, Hallelujah Anyway, and Almost Everything Lamott has chronicled her wacky and (sometimes) wild adventures in faith in...the wonderful Grace (Eventually). (Chicago Sun-Times) In Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith, the author of the bestsellers Traveling Mercies and Plan B delivers a poignant, funny, and bittersweet primer of faith, as we come to discover what it means to be fully alive.
£15.30
Tughra Books The Messenger: Prophet Muhammad and His Life of
Book SynopsisThis book narrates the life of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, shedding light upon segments of his life that are either neglected or glossed over in conflict-focused biographies. The narrations in this book revolve around the Prophet''s various strategies of diplomacy and reconciliation to avoid conflicts. In narrating these events, the book helps the readers broaden their perspective on the life of the Messenger of God and better capture the ethos of his life. Indeed, both Muslims and non-Muslims may benefit from this understanding at a time when violent extremist groups such as ISIS are causing carnage with their brutality while dressing their totalitarian ideologies in Muslim garb. The book exposes the hypocritical and willful deception of these radical groups which cherry-pick incidents and sayings from the Prophet''s life, decontextualize them, and abuse them to serve their perverted ideologies.The extensive evidence presented in this book will not only dispel many myths about the life and message of the Noble Prophet, but also show how through compassionate efforts he conquered the hearts of people around him and turned them from die-hard enemies to devoted faithful friends.
£12.30
Whitaker House,U.S. God's Generals: Healing Evangelists Volume 4
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£26.99
University of Utah Press,U.S. Emmeline B. Wells: An Intimate History
Book SynopsisStories of the ordinary people who helped build Salt Lake City emerge from a study of their often humble adobe houses. Rather than focusing on men and women in positions of power and influence, the emphasis here is on the lives of people who built their sturdy, simple homes from mud.A Modest Homestead provides architectural descriptions of ninety-four extant adobe houses. They are as basic as the people who built them—small tradesmen and farmers, laborers and domestics. Author Laurie Bryant discusses the neighbourhoods in Salt Lake City where adobe houses have survived, often much renovated and disguised, and she showcases the houses not just as they appear today but as they were originally built. Almost all the houses now have additions and improvements, and without some dissection they are not always recognisable, often being both more comfortable and pleasant than might have been the case in the nineteenth century. What emerges through Bryant’s research is an enlarged picture of the roughhewn life of many early Utahns. Includes 120 historic and contemporary photographs.Trade Review“Madsen’s absorbing biography is meticulously researched and elegantly composed. No Mormon studies education is complete without this book.” —Kate Holbrook, specialist in Women’s History, LDS Church History Department, and coeditor of Women and Mormonism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives “Carol Madsen, having previously dealt with Emmeline Wells’ public life, now ably explores her interior landscape, tracing the contrast between her public triumph and her private pain, from her ‘wild and fanciful’ youth to her unexpected humiliations. Wells’ excellent record-keeping habit enables the rich detail of her story. This extended and sympathetic inner biography of the best known Mormon woman of her time is told largely in her own words, linked by Madsen’s steady and judicious narrative.” —Claudia L. Bushman, author of Contemporary Mormonism “A significant contribution to women’s history, Utah history, and LDS history that will also appeal to the general reader.” —Kathryn L. McKay, professor of history, Weber State University “Emmeline B. Wells is an admirable and engaging work of historical research and imagination. It offers a compelling portrait of an ambitious, loving, often unhappy but always striving human being, and as it does so it offers readers also a refreshing new perspective on domestic and political possibilities in the nineteenth century.” —Mormon Studies Review "A thorough and engaging biography of Emmeline Wells’s private life. Massive amounts of careful research create a three-dimensional picture of Mormon society from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City as Emmeline moved through it, as well as the late 19th- and early 20th-century American suffrage and national political circles she became part of. The biography is as readable as a good novel and even more engaging because the story it tells is of a real woman whose extraordinary achievements were made despite personal tragedies that would have defeated someone less hopeful and resilient." —Susan Elizabeth Howe, poet and retired professor of English, Brigham Young University “Despite the daunting physical presence of the book, its prose and short chapter structure makes it accessible for a broad audience. . . . The intimate biography is important because it recognizes the multiple ways we can know this woman who is famous for her remarkable public achievements. Readers not only see someone who writes, leads, and organizes. We see someone who feels.” —Juvenile Instructor “Few historians have written as well or as much on Mormon history as author Carol Madsen, and in this work she does not disappoint in the least. Required reading for anyone associated with Mormon studies as well as researchers studying 19th century American religion more generally or women’s history, and certainly recommended for anyone who enjoys a good biography." —Association for Mormon Letters “This attractively designed book is a moving and well-told introduction to an unforgettable woman.” —Western Historical Quarterly “Every chapter, every page invites the reader into the thinking and the social world of Emmeline and her contemporaries. … This era of female writers and defenders of the faith, of innovators and preservers of tradition, and of socially alert women in times of transition will undoubtedly be better understood and valued because of Carol Madsen’s notable achievement.”—BYU Studies Quarterly
£43.20
Savas Beatie The Other “Hermit” of Thoreau’s Walden Pond: The
Book Synopsis“I didn’t realize there was another ‘hermit’ of Walden Pond!” is the usual response author-historian Terry Barkley receives when he tells someone the subject of his new book. Henry David Thoreau’s experiment there from 1845-1847 is widely known and immortalized in his classic Walden; or, Life in the Woods (1854). However, stresses Barkley, “Neither the world nor even most avid Thoreauvians know about Edmond Hotham’s six-months at Walden Pond during the winter of 1868-1869,” the fascinating story of which is detailed in The Other “Hermit” of Thoreau’s Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham. A generation later and nearly seven years after Henry Thoreau died in 1862 of tuberculosis in Concord, Massachusetts, a young theological student from New York City arrived in Concord in November 1868. Edmond Hotham had never been there, but he immediately began preparations to pursue the “wild life.” He met transcendentalist poet (William) Ellery Channing, a former close friend of Thoreau’s who had suggested to Thoreau that he build his cabin at Walden Pond. It was Channing who likely introduced Hotham to transcendentalist leader Ralph Waldo Emerson (the “Sage of Concord”), and Emerson who gave Hotham permission, like Thoreau before him, to build his “Earth-cabin” on the poet’s property at Walden Pond. Edmond Hotham’s sojourn at Walden Pond was the first and only time someone traveled to Walden Pond to emulate Thoreau’s experiment in simplicity. Hotham made his way to Walden Pond to pursue some “private business” while he was preparing for Christian ministry and stateside missionary work. He built his shanty on the pond’s shore about 100 yards in front of Thoreau’s, where he attempted to out-economize and out-simplify Thoreau. Hotham’s sojourn as the second “hermit” at Walden Pond exemplified the growing adulation of Henry David Thoreau and his literary work. Author Terry Barkley has gleaned archival sources, vital records, period newspaper accounts, and census rolls for everything that is known about Edmond Hotham.The Other “Hermit” of Thoreau’s Walden Pond is the first book-length treatise on Hotham, half of which is wholly new material. It far supersedes the late Kenneth Walter Cameron’s 1962 article on Hotham, which until now was the most complete study of the man. Barkley’s groundbreaking study book is an important addition to the Concord-Walden Pond story and a fascinating read. To quote Thoreau, “What is once well done is done forever.”
£14.24
Shambhala Publications Inc On Thomas Merton
Book SynopsisFrom the best-selling novelist and memoirist: a deeply personal view of her discovery of the celebrated modern monk and thinker through his writings.“If Thomas Merton had been a writer and not a monk, we would never have heard of him. If Thomas Merton had been a monk and not a writer, we would never have heard of him.”So begins acclaimed author Mary Gordon in this probing, candid exploration of the man who became the face and voice of mid-twentieth-century American Catholicism. Approaching Merton “writer to writer,” Gordon illuminates his life and work through his letters, journals, autobiography, and fiction. Pope Francis has celebrated Merton as “a man of dialogue,” and here Gordon shows that the dialogue was as much internal as external—an unending conversation, and at times a heated conflict, between Merton the monk and Merton the writer. Rich with excerpts from Merton’s own writing, On Thomas Merton produces an intimate portrait of a man who “lived life in all its imperfectability, reaching toward it in exaltation, pulling back in anguish, but insisting on the primacy of his praise as a man of God.”
£15.29
God & Country Stories of Faith and Courage from the Marines
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£999.99
Bahai Publishing Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His
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£18.00
Bellwood Press Crossing the Line: A Memoir of Race, Religion,
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£17.10
Baha'i Publishing Siyyid Mustafá Rúmí: Hand of the Cause of God,
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£18.00
Time Inc Home Entertaiment Life Pope Francis: The Vicar of Christ, from
Book SynopsisPope Francis heralds a new era for the Catholic Church, and all of the pomp and circumstance-and hope-is captured in this commemorative LIFE volume, that features all of the best photography from coronation day in Rome. In addition, LIFE's editors present a visual and anecdotal history of the Vatican and of the papacy itself, a narrative with triumphs and tragedies, saints and scoundrels. The same team that created the bestselling Pope John Paul II: a Tribute, and the recent Jesus: Who Do You Say the I Am? has now brings forth this lavishly illustrated and right-up-to-date volume on Francis, the Church in our day and the Church down the centuries, beginning with St. Peter. This is the complete story, in words and pictures.
£16.16
Time Inc. Books Francis Miracle: Inside the Transformation of the
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£22.50
CLC Publications Take Your Glory, Lord
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£13.99
Hendrickson Publishers Inc Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther
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£22.43
Ignatius Press I Burned for Your Peace: Augustine's Confessions
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£14.99
Ignatius Press God or Nothing: A Conversation on Faith
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£17.91
Ignatius Press A Family of Saints: The Martins of Lisieux Saints
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£18.99
Ignatius Press The Ear of the Heart: An Actress' Journey from
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£25.16
Ignatius Press Saint Th r se of Lisieux: Story of a Life
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£14.99
Ignatius Press Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable
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£999.99
Ignatius Press Father Joseph Fessio S.J.
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£999.99
Ignatius Press That Was Father Stu: A Memoir of My Priestly
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£18.00
Ignatius Press George Cardinal Pell
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£28.45
Ignatius Press Holy Men and Women
£18.28
Life Sentence Publishing My People, the Amish: The True Story of an Amish
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£999.99
Aneko Press Uncommon Character: Stories of Ordinary Men and
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£18.99
Sophia Institute Press Chiara Corbella Petrillo: A Witness to Joy
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£999.99
Orbis Books (USA) Joyce Rupp: Essential Writings
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Orbis Books (USA) Birth of a Dancing Star: My Journey from Cradle
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£18.99
Whitaker House God's Generals: The Martyrs Volume 6
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£26.99
WW Norton & Co American Messiahs: False Prophets of a Damned
Book SynopsisMania surrounding messianic prophets has defined the national consciousness since the American Revolution. From Civil War veteran and virulent anticapitalist Cyrus Teed, to the dapper and overlooked civil rights pioneer Father Divine, to even the megalomaniacal Jim Jones, these figures have routinely been dismissed as dangerous and hysterical outliers. After years of studying these emblematic figures, Adam Morris demonstrates that messiahs are not just a classic trope of our national culture; their visions are essential for understanding American history. As Morris demonstrates, these charismatic, if flawed, would-be prophets sought to expose and ameliorate deep social ills—such as income inequality, gender conformity, and racial injustice. Provocative and long overdue, this is the story of those who tried to point the way toward an impossible “American Dream”: men and women who momentarily captured the imagination of a nation always searching for salvation.Trade Review"Scholar and journalist Morris examines the theological, ideological, and personal relationships among a series of American spiritual leaders over the course of two centuries in his captivating debut.... Morris's research is extensive, and his reconstruction of his subjects' complex personal histories is impressive.... A fine examination of a series of Americans whose lives and missions shed light on the dominant institutions and values they sought to subvert." -- Publishers Weekly"[A] gripping narrative…Morris shows that these oddball spiritual liberators are not just historical footnotes. They reveal society’s fundamental themes and contradictions." -- Molly Worthen, New York Times Book Review
£21.84
Counterpoint One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the
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£12.99
Paraclete Press The Story of St. Francis of Assisi: In
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£18.99
