In a widely praised translation, Stephen Mitchell provides an accessible understanding of a classic guide for living, now in an attractive, pocket-size trim designed to fit in a purse, briefcase, backpack, or pocket. The English, as 'fluid as meling ice, ' is a joy to read throughout.--New Republic.

Cremna, a ruined city of southern Turkey, has one of the most spectacular sites in Asia Minor, high in the Taurus mountains. For a long time a stronghold of hellenised Pisidians, Cremna was refounded as a veteran colony by the emperor Augustus. From the age of Hadrian until the early third century AD the colony enjoyed a boom in public buildings, whose remains still adorn the site. Disaster struck in the late third century when Cremna became a centre for a regional insurrection against Roman rule. Roman forces staged a major siege of the city, and recaptured it in AD 278. A bishopric in Late...

A radical book with its roots in a very traditional understanding of God. God is omni-present, so he is everywhere. We are already in God. What does that mean? Here is a radical orthodoxy to give confidence to those who have given up on the fundamentalist expressions of faith that dominate the church today.

Perfect has lost nearly all meaning. A way of life, faith and theology without perfection.

Zenové učení je jako okno. Nejprve v něm vidíme pouze nejasný odraz vlastní tváře. Časem se však náš zrak postupně projasňuje a spolu s tím je nám čím dál jasnější také zenové učení. Až je nakonec docela čiré a průzračné. Vidíme skrz. Vidíme všechny věci: svou vlastní tvář. Tato kniha je sbírkou různých textů z doby, kdy zenový mistr Seung Sahn působil ve Spojených státech. Obsahuje dialogy, příběhy, formální zenové rozhovory, řeči dharmy i korespondenci se studenty. Slova jsou vždy adekvátní dané situaci, přičemž každá z...

The towns and villages of Phrygia, a predominantly rural region of inner Asia Minor, provide richer documentation of their early Christian communities than any other part of the Roman empire. This includes the earliest lengthy Christian funerary text, coin types depicting Noah and the Flood introduced by Christians at the Phrygian emporium of Apamea, the famous ‘Christians for Christians’ inscriptions, and more than a hundred other pre-Constantinian grave monuments, The abundant evidence for the Christian presence up the Turkish invasions throws new light on continuity between Late...