It is necessary to enter into some explanation as regards the contents of this work, originally published in 1880. It does not fall in with its pla...

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books-- Great Learning , Analects , Mencius , and Maintaining Perfect Ba...

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books-- Great Learning , Analects , Mencius , and Maintaining Perfect Ba...

Pascal Boyer argues that religion is largely an illusion. The anthropologist traces religion's cognitive and evolutionary aspects. By "religion" he...

For most of the front pages that follow, my inspiration has been twofold - to elaborate some touching story from my everyday life experience, howev...

"Written by a group of internationally acclaimed researchers in empirical theology and religious studies, this book presents the reader with a stat...

Often the birth of a child can prompt parents to turn more intentionally to God. They think about nurturing their child's faith, but soon discover ...

Children are denied basic human rights worldwide. The cultural and social disadvantage is an ethical and political scandal! A closer look reveals t...

Alfredson has many moods, many dictions, many themes. He at once glories in and laments the ephemeral, the only lasting quality in his world. This ...

For many decades, Sr Veronica Brady, IBVM, has been a gadfly to political and ecclesiastical princes and their entourages. For those parched for re...

In recent decades New Testament scholarship has developed an increasing interest in how the Gospel of John interacts with literary conventions of g...

The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (T12P), one of the longest texts of the so-called Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, presents the fictitious far...

There is an old fundamentalist argument that the world will eventually be destroyed in the Apocalypse, so there is no point in caring for it. When ...

"The reissue of Guttmann's edition of Rabin's translation is a welcome event. There has long been a need for a readable, judicious edition, for cla...

This classic book, long out of print in English, challenges accepted ideas of illness by suggesting it’s not an enemy to be fought. When you see yo...

We are all spiritual beings. Our spirituality is an inborn part of our nature †the essence of who we are as aware and intuitive human beings. Hav...

Until recently, most non-biblical manuscripts attested in the Qumran library were regarded as copies of texts that were composed after the books of...

This book is a passionate and reasoned plea for re-examining the traditional teaching that unbelievers are consigned to eternal punishment in Hell....

It has long seemed very desirable that a brief, comprehensive, and readable narrative of the origin of Christianity, and of its struggles and trium...

The book analyses under what conditions was it possible to develop scientific atheism which was by the contemporaries in the Soviet Union and Czech...

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that consti...

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that consti...

Focusing on relationship, parenting and sexuality, The Intelligence of Love puts into words how profound honesty changes life from the inside out, ...

Daniel Kalaj (d.1681) was a Polish Reformer of Hungarian background, born in Little Poland (Malopolska) and trained in Franeker, Friesland, under s...

This study of the Isaianic Denkschrift (Isaiah 6:1-9:6) is both a traditional and an innovative one. It defends the integrity of the Denkschrift, y...

This user-friendly family Haggadah is perfect for those of any background. Featuring the full Hebrew text, together with an easy-to-read translatio...

In this rare firsthand account of an individual's pursuit of sagehood, the early Ming dynasty scholar and teacher Wu Yubi chronicles his progress a...

In this rare firsthand account of an individual's pursuit of sagehood, the early Ming dynasty scholar and teacher Wu Yubi chronicles his progress a...

The Hackett edition of this classic of medieval philosophy and mysticism--a plan of pilgrimage for the learned Franciscan wishing to reach the apex...

The just war theory is a doctrine, which is related to and at times interchangeable with such concepts as military tradition, military ethics, the ...

The fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda (literally ‘ancient sagas of the northern lands’, but often referred to in English as ‘mythical-heroic’ or ‘legendar...

The Life and Legends of St. Francis of Assisi by Father Candide Chalippe, O.F.M., was first published in Paris in 1727. It is not only well written...

This biography of Joseph Smith is especially interesting because to was written by a man who knew him, George Q. Cannon, and drawn from first hand ...

Dr. McNally critically examines well over 150 years of Oblate and general Catholic history in Canada's western-most province with special emphasis ...

Ekaterin Matusova offers a new approach to the old problems of interpretation of the "Letter of Aristeas". Chapter 1 deals with the question of the...