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How did our forebears begin to think about religion as a distinct domain, separate from other activities that were once inseparable from it? Starting at the birth of Christianity - a religion inextricably bound to Western thought - Jack Miles reveals how the West's "common sense" understanding of religion emerged and then changed as insular Europe discovered the rest of the world. Finally, in a moving postscript, he shows how this very story continues today in the minds and hearts of individual religious or irreligious men and women.

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 055 Professor Andrew Louth explores the essential interdependence of theology (even in its most academic form) and spirituality. Each interprets, informs and perfects the other, and both meet in contemplation - which in turn leads to love for our neighbour in God, and to compassion.

Tra altare e deserto, un nome si colloca al centro di un enigma antico: Azazel. Il destinatario del capro espiatorio nel giorno di Jom Kippur resta volutamente aperto nella Torah — demone, luogo o simbolo? Questo libro prende sul serio tale vuoto interpretativo e segue la traccia di Azazel da Levitico 16 e Genesi 6,1–4 fino alle voci che, per secoli, hanno accompagnato il testo biblico. Per mettere a fuoco il quadro, lo studio mette la Scrittura in dialogo con testimonianze extracanoniche e storiche: 1 Enoch e i Giubilei, gli scritti di Qumran, il Midrash e il Talmud rabbinici, lo Zohar...

Free Grace and the Gospel Call: God’s Offer and the Work of His Sovereign Love A Classic Defense Of Divine Grace, For All Who Long To Understand How God Calls, Redeems, And Transforms His People. In every age, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is freely offered to the world—but it is only through the power of divine grace that any heart is truly moved to believe. This timeless work, first written to clarify the harmony between God’s sovereign grace and His universal call to sinners, speaks with remarkable freshness to believers today. Free Grace and the Gospel Call shows that the message of ...

Who Exactly Was Jesus—not just in spirit and divinity—but in skin, ethnicity, and culture during His earthly ministry? In The Case for Christ’s Color, David Dare confronts a deeply rooted and often overlooked question with boldness, clarity, and reverence: What did Jesus actually look like? This groundbreaking work brings biblical evidence to the forefront, uncovering Jesus’ true racial and ethnic identity as a Galilean Semite. Combining Scripture, historical records, and cultural insights, Dare strips away centuries of artistic misrepresentation to reveal a more accurate image of ...

The book of Genesis opens with the Trinity. It opens in one sublime statement that seeps aside atheism by asserting His existence, polytheism by declaring Himself to be one, and pantheism by separating Himself from matter. The structure of the first chapter is amazing. On day one the light was was created. On the corresponding day four there came the sun and moon to rule the light. On day two God created the expanse that He called the sky, separating the waters above from the waters below. On the parallel day five God filled the sky and waters with fowl and fish. On day three God separated ...

Until you understand Jesus was not simply a man who died, but the sovereign Son of God who offered His life for us, you cannot completely appreciate the spectacle of Calvary. The same being that provoked the angels to hide their faces and cover their feet out of respect in Isaiah 6 is the same being who descended to earth to put on swaddling clothes, a crown of thorns, and nails through His hands. The descent of the Son from heaven’s majesty to earth’s depravity displays the boundless depth of His love. And His love calls us to commit to follow him and his example. Just before beginning...

Homily Seventeen "Explaining the Mystery of the Sabbath and of the Lord's Day". And Referring to the Gospel of New Sunday.

The Hub Self-Study Bible Course declares the Bible's central message with simplicity and clarity: Jesus, the Savior of the world, was a real person who was born to die on the cross and win humanity back to God so that he might shower us with his love forever. This life affirming message is worth knowing well. Knowing the Word of God makes it possible to know the God of the Word, which is life's highest aim and purpose. Learn the verses in this study well and you will have a rock-solid foundation that will never fail you. There is no need to go into eternity only to end up saying, "If only I...

Viewing human nature as one that seeks the dichotomy of both imagination and reason, he argues that the Christian faith is the only true fulfillment of both of those needs. Chesterson explains that Christianity is the only faith that can answer the basic needs and desires of all humans because it has both in its very structure. A rigid morality combined with an allowance for some interpretation of truth and way of life, Christianity resolves the human need for a life that follows both logic and romance.

La foi est-elle rationnelle ? Dans « Il n'y a que Dieu » , le Dr H. Peter Warmbier montre que la foi en Dieu est en fait raisonnable et absolument nécessaire. Cet ouvrage surprenant et provocateur s'adresse aussi bien aux athées, aux agnostiques et aux sceptiques qu'aux croyants, et incite à une profonde réflexion sur la nature de l'existence et la nature du divin. À l'aide d'explications claires et faciles à comprendre sur des idées philosophiques, des faits scientifiques et des points de vue religieux actuels, le Dr Warmbier fournit des raisons étonnantes de combiner foi et ...

This is a book about a new beginning. After 20 years of teaching and preaching with the churches of Christ in West Virginia, Andrew Burns left the tradition and found a new home in the Orthodox Church. In these pages, you will read about the issues with which he struggled, the solutions he found, and the reasoning he went through that eventually led him away from the churches of Christ. This is neither is a condemnation of the churches of Christ nor an apology for Orthodox Christianity. Instead, it is Burns' offering to those struggling with their faith that and they who suspect there may ...

Due pellegrini guidati da un profeta s'incamminano sulla 'scala mistica' che conduce al trono di Dio. Uno di loro verrà premiato con la gioiosa contemplazione dei misteri delle sfere planetarie, mentre il secondo accumulerà "tristezza su tristezza" e dovrà fermarsi al settimo cielo, senza poter proseguire l'ascensione verso la visione beatifica del Trono. Qual è la ragione di questo diverso destino? La chiave del mistero è nella 'giusta misura' dell'Elisir alchemico, che consente al mistico di ottenere l'Oro spirituale. In ciò consiste il segreto dell'"Alchimia della felicità", che ...

God Wants Me Closer to Him. Do I want that? Paul did. Brothers and sisters, I do not regard myself as having taken hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14 I am trying to walk with God by faith but facts, real or fake, draw me away from my faith. Is there more to this faith-life? Can I press on toward God like Paul writes, even if I seem stuck where I am, mired in a hard life here? Can God be real when so much around me is ...

Who were the wise men, and how many wise men were there? Why did they journey to Jerusalem from the east, and what did they hope to find at their journey’s end? How did the wise men know to look for a star, and what caused them to understand the meaning of the star when they observed its appearance in the night sky? Finally, what are the truths that God intends for us to learn from their brief appearance in the Scriptures? These and many other related questions are asked and answered in this practical study about the lives of a unique group of individuals who are referred to in the ...

FAIRACRES PUBLICATIONS 098 Amidst the conflicts and concerns of modern life our zeal and hope for Christian Unity has flagged. We need a fresh vision and this requires growth in prayer. 'It is the purpose of this essay to seek to root our prayer for unity more deeply in the life of God himself, in the unceasing intercession of the Praying Christ, in the Blessed Trinity who is life-in-communion,' writes Bishop Tomkins, whose prayerful, scholarly examination of the High Priestly Prayer in John 17 and the Rublev icon of the Trinity will surely enlarge our vision of the circulating life of the ...

Maria Maddalena è una delle figure più presenti nei racconti della Passione e della Risurrezione. Eppure, nel corso dei secoli, è stata spesso confusa con altre donne menzionate nei Vangeli — con effetti duraturi sul modo in cui molti cristiani hanno imparato a guardarla. Questo libro ripercorre con sobrietà e rigore ciò che i quattro Vangeli attestano realmente: la sua presenza presso la croce, l’attenzione al luogo della sepoltura, il cammino verso il sepolcro alle prime luci del mattino e l’incarico di portare il primo annuncio della Risurrezione. In seguito mostra come ...

The Book of Acts is far more than a historical narrative — it is the missionary manifesto of the Church. In twenty-eight inspired chapters, Luke describes how the Holy Spirit transformed timid disciples into bold witnesses, and how the Good News, born in Jerusalem, crossed borders and reached Rome — the symbol of the entire world. In this work, Dr. Jean Marc Désiré leads us to the heart of the spiritual dynamic that gave birth to the expansion of the Gospel. With clarity, depth, and biblical rigor, he highlights the four essential pillars of Christian mission: The power of the Holy ...

In Una Storia della Religione, Bob Kowalski compie l’impresa di sintetizzare millenni di ricerca spirituale umana in una narrazione coerente e coinvolgente. Non si tratta semplicemente di un’ulteriore cronologia di dèi e rituali, ma di un’indagine profonda su come il fenomeno religioso abbia plasmato, e sia stato plasmato, dal cammino umano, dagli albori della coscienza fino ai dilemmi del XXI secolo. L’ampiezza dell’opera è notevole. Kowalski avvia la sua narrazione nei tempi più remoti, esplorando con sensibilità le prime manifestazioni di spiritualità nel Paleolitico, la ...

This book will challenge you, will help you understand Biblical prophecy and end times, and will bring you hope that the future is fully ordered and will occur in a specific sequence as described in the Bible. It will help you develop a solid foundation on the future of God's Plan for Humankind.