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Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice > General
Have you ever wondered where God was when things seem to be
going wrong in your life? Maybe you have even asked why. In A
Father's Love, author James Sienkiewicz takes you on a journey
seeking the answers to those questions as the storms of life
hit.
The excitement of the spiritual life is as fulfilling as
friendship, as mysterious as the soul, and as infinite as the
universe. This book is a jumpstart in the faith for those who have
tried religion and not found the spirit, or have tried pleasure and
not found joy, or have chased after life and not found deep
meaning, or thought God to be imagined and not been awakened.
The book includes chapters on the infinite interior life,
expectant faith, mystery traveler, sex in God's creation, beautiful
simplicity, storytelling, difficulties connecting with God,
religion unfettered, the New Evangelization, with humor throughout.
The final chapter, titled "Evolutionary Christogenesis," includes
quotes from Teilhard de Chardin.
The author, a Catholic priest, writes unabashedly of
straitjacket rituals, institutional stonewalling, and the cynicism
of people. Positively, he conveys an enthusiasm in the surge of
goodness that is present in this generation. He conveys how you can
become a fully rigged ship with sails unfurled in the sea of God's
spirit. The divine force has never been absent from nature's scene
or from human relational ways. We are called to be faith
rebels.
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and
thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an
extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods.
Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of
three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal
battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of
geopolitics and religion. At the core of their analysis are topics
and issues developed by the European Research Council-funded
project "Opening Jerusalem Archives: For a Connected History of
Citadinite in the Holy City, 1840-1940." Drawn from the French
vocabulary of geography and urban sociology, the concept of
citadinite describes the dynamic identity relationship a city's
inhabitants develop with each other and with their urban
environment.
The Festschrift Darkhei Noam: The Jews of Arab Lands presented to
Norman (Noam) Stillman offers a coherent and thought-provoking
discussion by eminent scholars in the field of both the history and
culture of the Jews in the Islamic World from pre-modern to modern
times. Based on primary sources the book speaks to the resilience,
flexibility, and creativity of Jewish culture in Arab lands. The
volume clearly addresses the areas of research Norman Stillman
himself has considerably contributed to. Research foci of the book
are on the flexibility of Jewish law in real life, Jewish cultural
life particularly on material and musical culture, the role of
women in these different societies, antisemitism and Jewish
responses to hatred against the Jews, and antisemitism from ancient
martyrdom to modern political Zionism.
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Insanity!
(Hardcover)
Kerry D. McRoberts
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In The Magnificent Defeat, Frederick Buechner examines what it means to follow Christ, the lessons of Christmas and Easter, the miracles of grace, and "the magnificent defeat" of the human soul of God.
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Elsie
(Hardcover)
Jenne Ila Moersch Kostial
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Discovery Miles 7 740
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