The Soul Of Christianity - Paperback

: Restoring The Great Tradition

BY HUSTON SMITH
In his most personal and passionate book on the spiritual life, scholar and teacher of world religions Huston Smith turns to his own life-long religion, Christianity. With stories and personal anecdotes, Smith not only presents the basic beliefs and essential teachings of Christianity, but argues why religious belief matters in today's secular world. Though there is a wide variety of contemporary interpretations of Christianity- some of them conflicting- Smith cuts through these to describe Christianity's "Great Tradition," the common faith of the first millennium of believers, which is the trunk of the tree from which Christianity's many branches, twigs, and leaves have grown.

Harper SanFrancisco Paper

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Streams Of Living Water

Celebrating The Great Traditions Of Christian Faith

BY RICHARD FOSTER, FOREWARD BY MARTIN MARTY
Foster's roundup of six great traditions of Christian spiritual practice- contemplative, holiness, charismatic, social justice, evangelical, and incarnational-are grounded in straightforward profiles of biblical and modern characters whom Foster considers exemplars of these traditions (the prophet Amos and John Woolman, for example, are featured in the chapter on social justice).

HarperSF 1998 424 PP. Blank

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Theology And Feminism

BY DAPHNE HAMPSON
British Quaker theologian Daphne Hampson, acknowledges that traditional Christianity finds it hard to treat women as equals. Feminism however suggests new ways to conceive of God and reformulate theological ideas for a "post Christian" Christian world. Covering the work of conservative Christian, Christian feminist and radical feminist thinkers in religion, this book will be welcomed by those already familiar with the discussion, as well as providing a clear introduction for those who are new to the subject.

Blackwell 1990 188 PP. Paper

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Tomorrow's God

GEERING, LLOYD GEORG
SECONDHAND, in good condition though a little scuffed. According to Lloyd Geering, the world we inhabit is largely a product of our own making. We supply its meaning. Thus "God," a central symbol of meaning, is entirely a human creation. In Tomorrow's God, Geering traces the collective "drift toward meaning" that gave rise to the various religions and explores the reasons they are now in decline. He argues that, for our own survival, we must consciously create new meaning for our lives and shows how the Christian tradition may lead toward a new world of meaning.

Polebridge 2000 202 PP. Paper

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Tractatus Logico Philosophicus

WITTGENSTIEN, LUDWIG
Quaker philosopher Newton Garver has run many workshops that imagine bringing Wittgenstein into conversation with George Fox and Martin Luther King. This is the definitive version of Wittgenstein's key work The Tractatus: Starting with "The world is everything that is the case" Definitive translation by C K Ogden supervised by W . Introduction by Bertrand Russell.

Dover Paperback 1955 125 PP. Paper

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Twentieth-century Global Christianity

A People's History Of Christianity, Volume 7

EDITED BY MARY FARRELL BEDNAROWSKI
A specific focus and intent of this final volume of A People's History of Christianity is to delve behind the global phenomenon of Christianity to glimpse some of the very rich and dynamic lifeways within it. Ranging over the whole century and across several continents, the scholars in this volume probe Christians' creative encounters with popular culture, liturgy and spirituality, social change and Marxism, intrareligious and interreligious dialogue, and changes in gender expectations and roles. Includes 50 illustrations, maps, bibliographies, and an 8-page color gallery.

Fortress Press 2008 350 PP. Cloth

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The Unlikely Disciple

A Sinner's Semester At America's Holiest University

BY KEVIN ROOSE
A sophomore at Brown, raised in a liberal Quaker home, Roose moved to Jerry Falwell's Liberty University as a new transfer student. Liberty's ten thousand undergraduates take courses like Evangelism 101, hear from guest speakers like Sean Hannity and Karl Rove, and follow a 46 page code of conduct that regulates every aspect of their social lives. Here he chronicles what he discovered about Liberty - and what he found out about himself while he was there.

Grand Central Publishing 2011 319 PP. Paper

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Unmasking The Powers

The Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence

BY WALTER WINK
For Wink `the Powers' are understood as social forces, religious, moral and political structures (the tyrant, the market, the school, the courts, race, and nation) They make themselves the hand servants of the worst of human emotions and motivations and facilitate actions leading to inequality, injustice and ecological destruction, making such actions appear `logical' and `inevitable,' causing good people to act accordingly, even as they may personally regret the results. This quartet of books names, unmasks and shows how one can engage with these powers producing a powerful new theology of nonviolence.

Fortress Press 1986 Paper

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Velvet Elvis

Repainting The Christian Faith

BY ROB BELL
"God doesn't change, but times do, and Rob Bell, founding pastor of Mars Hill Bible Church in Michigan, believes new times call for us to remain open and flexible, living with passion and conviction....An advocate of a postmodern approach to faith, Bell is vulnerable about his own struggles with doubt and understanding Scripture. Joy, awe, raw honesty, and an appreciation for the mystery of faith permeate the pages." - Christianity Today

Zondervan 2006 194 PP. Paper

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What Canst Thou Say?

Toward A Quaker Theology

BY JANET SCOTT
Are Quakers Christian? Is it possible for Quakerism to be both Christian and Universalist? These are just two of the questions which form the starting point for this book. In exploring them, it becomes clear that they cannot be answered in isolation for they are linked to a whole complex of questions about Jesus, God and the nature of human living. So it becomes necessary to engage in theology. But for Quakers this must be from a distinctively Quaker standpoint which seeks to be both undogmatic and concerned with practical issues. Most of all it must be grounded in our corporate experience of God. Janet Scott attempts to begin this process.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2007 100 PP. Paper

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What It's All About

The Great Commandment And The Deepest Yearnings

BY MARCUS BORG
Renowned Jesus and Bible scholar Marcus Borg delves into the story of the Good Samaritan from the Gospel of Luke. Drawing broadly from the Old and New Testaments, he uncovers the deep yearnings a the center of the Great Commandment and charts the possibility for a life lived in God's passion for liberation, peace, and economic justice.

Quaker Press of FGC 2007 AUDIO CD Audio

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When The Powers Fall

Reconciliation In The Healing Of Nations

BY WALTER WINK
For Wink `the Powers' are understood as social forces, religious, moral and political structures (the tyrant, the market, the school, the courts, race, and nation) They make themselves the hand servants of the worst of human emotions and motivations and facilitate actions leading to inequality, injustice and ecological destruction, making such actions appear `logical' and `inevitable,' causing good people to act accordingly, even as they may personally regret the results. This quartet of books names, unmasks and shows how one can engage with these powers producing a powerful new theology of nonviolence.

Fortress Press Paper

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Why Christianity Must Change Or Die

A Bishop Speaks To Believers In Exile

BY JOHN SHELBY SPONG
Bishop Spong proposes a Christianity based on a whole new way of thinking, premised upon justice and love rather than judgment and literal readings of the Bible. Arguing that fundamentalism is incompatible with true Christian faith, Spong's manifesto is the summation of his life's work and a guide for every reader searching for a reasoned, just, and loving faith.

HarperSF 1999 258 PP. Paper

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