Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God (Oxford Early Christian Texts)
By: John Behr
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human …
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1. Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
By: David Hume , Richard H. Popkin
3.97
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Hume's brilliant and dispassionate essay "Of Miracles" has been added in this expanded edition of h… read more
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"[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)"-David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
"El mundo es tal vez el bosquejo rudimentario de algún dios infantil, que lo abandonó a medio hacer, avergonzado de su ejecución deficiente; es obra de un dios subalterno, de quien los dioses superior…"-David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
"How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is there in that infinite progression? Let us remember the story of the Indian philosopher and his elepha…"-David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
"This world, for aught he knows, is very faulty and imperfect, compared to a superior standard; and was only the first rude essay of some infant deity, who afterwards abandoned it, ashamed of his lame…"-David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
2. The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
By: Frederick Buechner
4.33
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
This memoir reflects on key moments of the author's early life, from childhood to his entering semi… read more
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"You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own."-Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
"It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon wh…"-Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
3. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.01
Format: 183 pages, Paperback
Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more
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"Master, I go hunting."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)
4. That Hideous Strength (Space Trilogy, #3)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.81
Format: 4 pages, Paperback
Written during the dark hours immediately before and during the Second World War, C. S. Lewis's Spa… read more
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5. On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
By: Desmond M. Clarke , Friedrich Schleiermacher , Karl P. Ameriks , None , Richard Crouter
4.31
Format: None pages, Paperback
Detailed annotation clarifies this translation of a key document in early German Romanticism, which… read more
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6. Telling Secrets
By: Frederick Buechner
3.79
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With eloquence, candor and simplicity, Frederick Buechner shares his darkest secrets--his father's … read more
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7. Confessions
By: Augustine of Hippo , Henry Chadwick , Albert Cook Outler
3.41
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Augustine's Confessions is one of the most influential and most innovative works of Latin literatur… read more
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8. Creation and Fall Temptation: Two Biblical Studies
By: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
1.00
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
In this enlightening study, renowned twentieth-century theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers a care… read more
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9. Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit (Jeeves, #11)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
4.01
Format: 560 pages, Hardcover
In Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit, Bertie is in it up to his neck when a perfectly harmless visit to … read more
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10. The Weight of Glory
By: C.S. Lewis
4.38
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
The classic Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis, the most important Christian writer of the 20th century,… read more
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"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Never, in peace or war, commit your virtue or your happiness to the future."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Have courage, dear heart, for there is nothing to be afraid of and never has been."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
"Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses."-C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
11. The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.94
Format: 489 pages, Paperback
Henry J.M. Nouwen, one of the greatest of all spiritual writers, invites us to search deeply for th… read more
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12. On God and Christ, The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius: St. Gregory of Nazianzus
By: Gregory of Nazianzus
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Gregory of Nazianzus, "The Theologian," was recognized among the Cappadocian Fathers as a peculiarl… read more
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13. On the Unity of Christ
By: Cyril of Alexandria , John Anthony McGuckin
4.00
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14. Gilead (Gilead, #1)
By: Marilynne Robinson
3.85
Format: 247 pages, Paperback
Nearly 25 years after Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson returns with an intimate tale of three gener… read more
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
"That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth."-Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Gilead, #1)
15. On the Incarnation
By: C.S. Lewis , Athanasius of Alexandria , None
3.29
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A universally acknowledged masterpiece of fourth-century patristic theology. As C. S. Lewis observe… read more
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16. Love Alone is Credible
By: Hans Urs von Balthasar , None
3.79
Format: 704 pages, Paperback
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17. Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation
By: James K.A. Smith
2.00
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Malls, stadiums, and universities are actually liturgical structures that influence and shape our t… read more
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18. A Theology in Outline: Can These Bones Live?
By: Robert W. Jenson , None
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19. Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
By: C.S. Lewis
3.93
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the first novel of C.S. Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy, Dr Ransom, a Cambridge academic… read more
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"The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"There I drank life because death was in the pool. That was the best of drinks save one."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
"And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."-C.S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (The Space Trilogy, #1)
20. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
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21. The Philosophy of History
By: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel , None , None , None
4.19
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22. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
By: Susanna Clarke
1.00
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Sophisticated, witty, and ingeniously convincing, Susanna Clarke's magisterial novel weaves magic i… read more
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23. The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community
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24. In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership
By: Henri J.M. Nouwen
3.24
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25. On the Holy Spirit
By: David Anderson , Basil the Great
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26. For the Life of the World: Sacraments and Orthodoxy
By: Alexander Schmemann
3.75
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27. I Cheerfully Refuse
By: Leif Enger
4.03
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of Rainy, an aspiring musician se… read more
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"Those thieves and lovers and wandering poets- what big lives they had! I began watching everyone I met for secret greatness."-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"I think the sea has no in-between: you get either rage and wayward lightning and schizoid frenzy or such freehanded beauty that time contract or turns in on itself leaving you forgetful and no more n…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"One shelf became two. Then a wall. Then eight-foot rolling racks from a shut library in Hayward, Wisconsin. Maudie suggested changing the shop name to reflect its inventory. Bread and Books. Loaves a…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
"Much as I wanted to think of Lark in someplace better, I knew from a thousand conversations that she never worried abut that place. Maybe it was real and full of saints and poets, or maybe it was poe…"-Leif Enger, I Cheerfully Refuse
28. Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
By: Eleanor Parker
4.17
Format: 268 pages, Hardcover
Interweaving literature, history, and religion, an exquisite meditation on the turning of the seaso… read more
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"A man cannot grow wise before he has had his share of winters in the world."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"Whatever one thing we give to God's needy for the sake of his love, he will repay us for it a hundredfold in the life to come."-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"In a time of ecological crisis, Anglo-Saxon poems which recognize how fundamentally we are connected to the rhythms of nature - how dependent we are on the well-being of the earth, how grateful we sh…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
"The cycle of the seasons, to which poets have so often turned as a reminder that nothing in this world is stable, is in fact one of the great constants in life. In some ways, the thousand years or mo…"-Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year
29. On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
By: James K.A. Smith
4.28
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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"Attainment is a goddess who quickly turns a cold shoulder."-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
"identity is our name for being found by a story someone else told."-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
"A friend is not an enabler; love doesn’t always look like agreement."-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
"When we leave home looking for happiness, we’re in search of the self we never knew."-James K.A. Smith, On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
30. Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
By: Frederick Buechner
4.29
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
Spiritual and autobiographical reflections on the author's seminary days, early ministry, and writi… read more
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"The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around."-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
"It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around..."-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
"It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship."-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of …"-Frederick Buechner, Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
31. Gregory of Nyssa: On the Human Image of God (Oxford Early Christian Texts)
By: John Behr
4.38
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
This book presents the first modern critical edition of the work of Gregory of Nyssa, On the Human … read more
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