Author: Marcus J. Borg
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Keywords: bible, seriously, literally, taking, time, first, reading
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2002-02-05
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0060609192
ISBN-13: 9780060609191

One of the vital challenges facing thoughtful people today is how to read the Bible faithfully without abandoning our sense of truth and history. Reading the Bible Again for the First Time provides a much-needed solution to the problem of how to have a fully authentic yet contemporary understanding of the scriptures. Many mistakenly believe there are no choices other than fundamentalism or simply rejecting the Bible as something that can bring meaning to our lives. Answering this modern dilemma, acclaimed author Marcus Borg reveals how it is possible to reconcile the Bible with both a scientif

Author: David Nive
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Keywords: scientists, learned, people, happy, secrets, simple
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $11.95
ISBN-10: 0062516507
ISBN-13: 9780062516503

Experts have spent their careers investigating what makes people happy. While their methods are sound and their conclusions valuable, the results often remain hidden in obscure scholarly journals. At last, social scientist and psychologist David Niven, Ph. D., has cut through the scientific gobbledygook. After examining over a thousand of the most recent and important scholarly studies into the psychological traits of happy people and uncovering their most promising discoveries into the causes of happiness. Dr. Niven presents 100 easy-to-digest nuggets of advice: `Enjoy what you have.’ `

Author: Thomas Cleary
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Keywords: islam, heart, koran, essential
Number of Pages: 203
Published: 1994-03-11
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0062501984
ISBN-13: 9780062501981

This collection of readings from the Quran is designed to help non-Muslim Westerners approach this sacred book and savor something of its amazing power through a selection of chapters and verses encapsulating some of its central ideas and essential beauties. A "rosary of readings and recitations," the excerpts chosen represent the "six aims" of the Quran (which range from knowledge of God to refutations of unbelievers’ arguments), all of which point to the need for intelligent, considered faith in order for humans to come to a true knowledge of God. The selections, from hymns of praise t

Author: Richard J. Foster
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Keywords: growth, spiritual, path, discipline, celebration
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 1998-10-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0060628391
ISBN-13: 9780060628390

In the twenty years since its publication, Celebration of Discipline has helped over a million seekers discover a richer spiritual life infused with joy, peace, and a deeper understanding of God. For this special twentieth anniversary edition, Richard J. Foster has added an introduction, in which he shares the story of how this beloved and enduring spiritual guidebook came to be.Hailed by many as the best modern book on Christian spirituality, Celebration of Discipline explores the "classic Disciplines," or central spiritual practices, of the Christian faith. Along the way, Foster shows that i

Author: Richard P. McBrien
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Keywords: catholicism, encyclopedia, harpercollins
Number of Pages: 1349
Published: 1995-05-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0060653388
ISBN-13: 9780060653385

With 1 billion Catholics in the world -- and 57 million in the United States alone -- Catholicism is the world’s most familiar religion. Yet many facets of this varied and dynamic tradition remain unknown or poorly understood. Now The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism offers a one-volume comprehensive and authoritative guide to the people, doctrines, history, worship, art, spirituality, literature, theological developments, and changes that have shaped the Church over nearly two millennia.Led by general editor Richard P. McBrien, bestselling author of Catholicism, an editorial te

Author: Wayne A. Meeks
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Keywords: version, apocryphal, deuterocanonical, books, standard, revised, study, bible, new, harpercollins
Number of Pages: 2368
Published: 1997-08-27
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0060655275
ISBN-13: 9780060655273

In the tradition of excellence created by the SBL comes a study Bible for the 21st century. A revolutionary, in-depth, general reader reference Bible, The HarperCollins Study Bible offers the full text of the New Revised Standard Version, coupled with state-of-the-art notes by 60 leading experts on books of the Bible. Reflecting a diversity of scholarship without a religious agenda, this peerless reference work is presented in a lively form for a new generation of readers. "[The] HarperCollins [Study Bible] emerges as by far the front-runner’the most nearly complete and up-to-date."--Chr

Author: Lynn V. Andrews
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Keywords: woman, medicine
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1983-10-26
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0062500260
ISBN-13: 9780062500267

A fascinating Castaneda-like spiritual journey into the wilderness of Manitoba, where Lynn Andrews meets Agnes Whistling Elk, the Native American "heyoehkah," or shaman, who will change her life.