Company of the Creative-H: A Christian Reader's Guide to Great Literature and Its Themes
ISBN: 9780825430978 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Milton, Dickens, Shakespeare, Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and C.S. Lewis.
Great works and authors of the world are introduced and reviewed artistically, intellectually, and theologically. Persons discussed include Plato, Mil...
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Scribbling in the Sand: Christ and Creativity
ISBN: 9780830832545 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paper Edition was voted 2002 Publisher's Weekly Best Adult Religion Book of the Year "It was art and it was theater at the same time, but it was more. It was what he did not say that spoke most powerfully to the mob that morning. It was a cup of cold water for a thirsty adulteress and an ice-cold drenching in the face to a group of angry Pharisees. "To this day we have not the slightest idea what it was Jesus twice scribbled in the sand. By and large the commentaries have asked the wrong question through the ages. They labor over the content, over what he might have written. They ask what...
Paper Edition was voted 2002 Publisher's Weekly Best Adult Religion Book of the Year "It was art and it was theater at the same time, but it was more...
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90,36 zł |
A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness
ISBN: 9780842369084 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This modern classic will bring light, clarity, and comfort to the brokenhearted.
Many Christians have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believers. To those believers, this compelling story offers comfort, healing and hope. Christian leaders and directors of religious movements throughout the world have recommended this simple, powerful, and beautiful story to their members and staff. You will want to join these other people who have been profoundly touched by this incomparable story. This tale by Gene Edwards is based on the... This modern classic will bring light, clarity, and comfort to the brokenhearted.
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68,84 zł |
A Concise Guide to the Documents of Vatican II
ISBN: 9780867165524 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council are the most important texts produced by the Catholic church in the past four hundred years. They shape virtually every aspect of church life today. But hardly anyone ever reads them... --From the Introduction In this indispensable guide, Edward P. Hahnenberg outlines each of the documents produced by the Second Vatican Council. Offering the background for each work, its language and context, this book provides a clear and concise overview of the Council's work and its significance in the life of the church. Each document's history,...
The sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council are the most important texts produced by the Catholic church in the past four hundred years. They ...
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86,06 zł |
Spurgeon on Prayer & Spiritual Warfare
ISBN: 9780883685273 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full."--John 16:24About the Author: Charles H. Spurgeon became so popular that his published Sunday sermons were literally sold by the ton. He continually appealed to his audiences to allow the Lord to minister to them individually. Highlighted with splashes of spontaneous, delightful humor, his teachings still provide direction to all who are seeking true joy and genuine intimacy with God.*******Prayer brings big answers [headline]Prayer is the Christian's lifeline to God, and with it lives are...
"Hitherto have ye asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full."--John 16:24About the Author: Charles H. Spurgeon be...
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107,58 zł |
Quiet Talks on Prayer
ISBN: 9780971603639 / Angielski / Miękka / 175 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the distinctive and admired style that made Gordon famous, the writer explores the creative power unleashed in the place of prayer. Gordon leads readers out of the habitual, forced patterns of prayer into a realm where prayer lives as it is activated by the Spirit of God.
In the distinctive and admired style that made Gordon famous, the writer explores the creative power unleashed in the place of prayer. Gordon leads re...
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86,74 zł |
Swift, Lord, You Are Not
ISBN: 9780974099200 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Some poets begin very early to write great poetry. Arthur Rimbaud wrote one of his best poems at 15, Percy Shelley published his first book of poetry at 18. But Kilian McDonnell, O.S.B., did not start until he was 75, after decades of writing as a professional theologian. Now 82 he gives us "Swift, Lord, You Are Not," poems of the struggle to find God - waiting for the silence of God to break. He does not write pious verse, or inspirational poetry, but of wrestling with the illusive God. His themes are mostly biblical and monastic. He closes with an essay Poet: Can You Start at... Some poets begin very early to write great poetry. Arthur Rimbaud wrote one of his best poems at 15, Percy Shelley published his first book of poet... |
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Thailand
ISBN: 9780978926502 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thailand tells the story of a young man who travels into the wild of Southeast Asia, for adventure and for Peace. His journey leads him through cities, mountains, islands, oceans and spirits, in search of a treasure with no beginning and no end.
Thailand tells the story of a young man who travels into the wild of Southeast Asia, for adventure and for Peace. His journey leads him through cities...
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Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times: Exploring the Left Behind Series
ISBN: 9781403965257 / Angielski / Twarda / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An indispensable exploration of the runaway bestselling series From Left Behind to Glorious Appearing, the books in the Left Behind series have sold over 60,000,000 copies worldwide and their popularity continues to grow. What makes the books about the apocalypse so popular? What is it about the end times that fascinates millions around the globe? And what does the Bible really say about the end of the world? In Rapture, Revelation, and the End Times, six experts gather to answer these provocative questions and more, guiding readers through the different Christian millennialist views and how...
An indispensable exploration of the runaway bestselling series From Left Behind to Glorious Appearing, the books in the Left Behind series have sold ...
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106,67 zł |
Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary International Catholic Girlhood Narratives
ISBN: 9781403967572 / Angielski / Twarda / 203 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Writing Catholic Women examines the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality through the lens of Catholicism in a wide range of works by women writers, forging interdisciplinary connections among women's studies, religion, and late twentieth-century literature. Discussing a diverse group of authors, Jeana DelRosso posits that the girlhood narratives of such writers constitute highly charged sites of their differing gestures toward Catholicism and argues that an understanding of the ways in which women write about religion from different cultural and racial contexts...
Writing Catholic Women examines the interplay of gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, and sexuality through the lens of Catholicism in a wide range o...
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190,51 zł |
The Religious Affections
ISBN: 9781589600263 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Crook In The Lot
ISBN: 9781589601239 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ancient Fiction: The Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative
ISBN: 9781589831667 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The essays in this volume examine the relationship between ancient fiction in the Greco-Roman world and early Jewish and Christian narratives. They consider how those narratives imitated or exploited conventions of fiction to produce forms of literature that expressed new ideas or shaped community identity within the shifting social and political climates of their own societies. Major authors and texts surveyed include Chariton, Shakespeare, Homer, Vergil, Plato, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Daniel, 3 Maccabees, the Testament of Abraham, rabbinic midrash, the Apocryphal Acts, Ezekiel the Tragedian,...
The essays in this volume examine the relationship between ancient fiction in the Greco-Roman world and early Jewish and Christian narratives. They co...
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189,85 zł |
C. S. Lewis: A Shiver of Wonder
ISBN: 9781932307320 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. He was an atheist who became the best-selling Christian author in history. He was an intellectual snob who was transformed into a man who had a mind and heart awake to holiness. He had no children, but few men in history have been so deeply loved by children. He was a mirror reflecting another Face. He was an Oxford Don and a Cambridge Professor. He was an expert in Medieval and Renaissance English who gripped the imagination of millions through his wartime broadcasts of Christian truth for the BBC. These broadcasts later became his famous book, Mere Christianity, through which more people...
He was an atheist who became the best-selling Christian author in history. He was an intellectual snob who was transformed into a man who had a mind a...
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72,27 zł |
Puritans and Pragmatists: Eight Eminent American Thinkers
ISBN: 9781932792553 / Angielski / Miękka / 505 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the intellectual contributions of eight great American thinkers (Edwards, Franklin, Adams, Emerson, Pierce, James and Dewey).
Explores the intellectual contributions of eight great American thinkers (Edwards, Franklin, Adams, Emerson, Pierce, James and Dewey).
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Happiness and Holiness: Thomas Traherne and His Writings
ISBN: 9781853117893 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The recent discovery of two manuscripts by Thomas Traherne has sparked renewed interest in the seventeenth century writer and a reappraisal of his significance not only as a poet but as a theologian and philosopher engaged in the political and social realities of his day. Happiness and Holiness includes extracts from the newest manuscripts, from better known works and from fragments and notebooks - all of Traherne's known works are represented, making this the most varied and complete collection of his writings available in a single volume. Here we see Traherne, who died at the age of 37, in...
The recent discovery of two manuscripts by Thomas Traherne has sparked renewed interest in the seventeenth century writer and a reappraisal of his sig...
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The St Gall Passion Play: Music and Performance
ISBN: 9789042023468 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The early-fourteenth-century St Gall Passion Play comes from the Central Rhineland. Unfortunately its music (over one hundred Latin and German chants) is given in the manuscript only as brief incipits, without any musical notation. This interdisciplinary study reconstructs the musical stratum of the play. It is the first full-scale musical reconstruction of a large German Passion play in recent times, using the latest available scholarly data in drama, liturgy and music. It draws conclusions about performance practice and forces, and offers a sound basis for an authentic performance of the...
The early-fourteenth-century St Gall Passion Play comes from the Central Rhineland. Unfortunately its music (over one hundred Latin and German chants)...
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Getting the Blues: What Blues Music Teaches Us about Suffering and Salvation
ISBN: 9781587432125 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Getting the Blues, Stephen Nichols shows how blues music offers powerful insight into the biblical narrative and the life of Jesus. Weaving Bible stories together with intriguing details of the lives of blues musicians, he leads readers in a vivid exploration of how blues music teaches about sin, suffering, alienation, and worship. Nichols unpacks the Psalms, portions of the prophets, and Paul's writings in this unique way, revealing new facets of Scripture. Getting the Blues will resonate with all readers interested in Christianity and culture. In the end they will...
In Getting the Blues, Stephen Nichols shows how blues music offers powerful insight into the biblical narrative and the life of Jesus. Weaving ...
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96,43 zł |
The Art of God and the Religions of Art
ISBN: 9781556357213 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world, according to Paul in Romans, testifies to God: but what about those things created by humans, such as works of art?The Art of God presents a balanced view of the history of art. It demonstrates that art is at its best when it fits in with the scheme of creation.
The world, according to Paul in Romans, testifies to God: but what about those things created by humans, such as works of art?The Art of God presents ...
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Salvation on the Small Screen: 24 Hours of Christian Television
ISBN: 9781596270862 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A book for every person who's ever flipped past the religious channel on cable and thought, "I haven't the faintest clue what's going on there," or "that church doesn't seem like my church at all," or even, "wow, so that's what happened to Kirk Cameron." With the personalities of Christian broadcasting constantly in the news talking about every major issue from abortion to culture to war and with the amount of influence their movements have on the the political discourse in this country, to under stand more about the stop on the television dail is to understand more about American and...
A book for every person who's ever flipped past the religious channel on cable and thought, "I haven't the faintest clue what's going on there," or "t...
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107,42 zł |