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Religion and American Culture

ISBN: 9780155055322

297,22 PLN (BRUTTO)
RELIGION AND AMERICAN CULTURE focuses on the relationship of religion to the social and cultural dynamics of American history. Because most survey texts provide only brief coverage of this topic, Marsden's narrative is designed to explore the role of religion in American culture.

Moral Issues and Christian Responses

ISBN: 9780155058958

567,25 PLN (BRUTTO)
The seventh edition of MORAL ISSUES AND CHRISTIAN RESPONSES provides an introduction to contemporary moral issues from decidedly, yet diverse, Christian moral perspectives. This popular anthology explores a variety of pressing topics, including sexuality, prejudice, biomedical ethics, the environment, terrorism, and war.

The New Testament: History, Literature, and Social Context

ISBN: 9780155078567

567,25 PLN (BRUTTO)
The latest edition of THE NEW TESTAMENT: PROCLAMATION AND PARENESIS, like its predecessors, takes it primary orientation from recent developments in the social sciences. With reference to the most seminal anthropological models, sociological perspectives, and archaeological discoveries, this text provides a rigorous, yet readily engaging, introduction to the New Testament and the early development of the Christian faith. Incorporating, too, the most current hermeneutic schemes, this title illuminates the Ne

A Journey Through the New Testament: A Listening Guide

ISBN: 9780155131392

186,76 PLN (BRUTTO)
The New Testament is one of the best-known books ever written. Yet, many who read it have difficulty understanding it. A Journey Through the New Testament tells the story of Christ and His people. It is not a dusty history lesson, but an exciting journey into the lives of New Testament heroes who have influenced history.

The History of Hell

ISBN: 9780156001373

76,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
A "lively...generously illustrated" (Washington Post Book World) survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religious leaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, and inhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.

Light on Aging and Dying: Wise Words

ISBN: 9780156004961

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
A treasury of wisdom on growing old gracefully-featuring the words of Ovid, Thomas Jefferson, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Henry James, Carlos Castenada, Annie Dillard, Anatole Broyard, and many others-compiled by the renowned coauthor of Living the Good Life just before her death at age 91.

Learning to Dance Inside

ISBN: 9780156005241

66,67 PLN (BRUTTO)
"Meditation", says Publishers Weekly, "is back" and in this refreshingly simple but wise little book, former Trappist monk George Fowler writes eloquently and persuasively about the many benefits to be gained from it: peace, lightheartedness, self-respect, fulfillment, a deep feeling of security and wholeness, freedom from guilt about the past, release from anxiety about the future. Fowler assures readers that meditation doesn't require esoteric knowledge, a gift for concentration, a quiet temperament, or a

Hidden Encyclical of Pius XI

ISBN: 9780156006316

89,06 PLN (BRUTTO)
Drafted by american Jesuit Father John LaFarge and buried in the Vatican's archives since 1938, this engrossing narrative sheds new light on the Church's failure in the 1930s to alert the world to the nature of fascism and its inherent racism and anti-Semitism. Introduction by Garry Wills. Translated by Stephen Rendall.

The Invisible Voice: Meditations on Jewish Themes

ISBN: 9780156012942

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
Written over the last two decades, the essays in this collection speak to what it means to be Jewish-historically, theologically, ideologically, philosophically-within the context of the Holocaust and the disintegration of Communism. George Konrad, a Diaspora Jew, espouses Zionism, he tells us, as one who might, if he chooses, move to Jerusalem, just as he might, if he chooses, move to Paris. Konrad, one of Europe's preeminent essayists and novelists, covers much ground in The Invisible Voice, from German c

When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity During the Last Days of Rome

ISBN: 9780156013154

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
The story of Jesus is well known, as is the story of Christian persecutions during the Roman Empire. The history of fervent debate, civil strife, and bloody riots within the Christian community as it was coming into being, however, is a side of ancient history rarely described. Richard E. Rubenstein takes the reader to the streets of the Roman Empire during the fourth century, when a fateful debate over the divinity of Jesus Christ is being fought. Ruled by a Christian emperor, followers of Jesus no longer

The Heart of Matter

ISBN: 9780156027588

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
The final volume of Teilhard's collected essays, containing two texts of key importance published for the first time: "The Heart of Matter" and "The Christic." Foreword by N. M. Wildiers; Index. Translated by Rene Hague. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer

ISBN: 9780156027663

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
In the form of warm, relaxed letters to a close friend, Lewis meditates on many puzzling questions concerning the intimate dialogue between man and God. Lewis also considers practical and metaphysical aspects of private prayer, petitionary prayer, the Lord's Prayer, and other forms of prayer.
"A beautifully executed and deeply moving book" (Saturday Review).

The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

ISBN: 9780156027717

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
In seven witty, lucid, tough-minded essays, Lewis considers questions that challenge the faith of modern Christians. He discusses such topics as the efficacy of prayer, the various uses of the phrase "I believe," the religious implications of life on other planets, the meaning of words like "culture" and "religion," and the idea of the Second Coming.

The Ascent to Truth

ISBN: 9780156027724

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
Merton defines Christian mysticism, especially as expressed by the Spanish Carmelite St. John of the Cross, and he offers the contemplative experience as an answer to the irreligion and barbarism of our times. "For those...curious about mysticism...this is an excellent book" (Catholic World).

No Man Is an Island

ISBN: 9780156027731

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
A recapitulation of his earlier work Seeds of Contemplation, this collection of sixteen essays plumbs aspects of human spirituality. Merton addresses those in search of enduring values, fulfillment, and salvation in prose that is, as always, inspiring and compassionate. "A stimulating series of spiritual reflections which will prove helpful for all struggling to...live the richest, fullest and noblest life" (Chicago Tribune).

The Great Code: The Bible and Literature

ISBN: 9780156027809

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all other epics and sacred writings. "No one has set forth so clearly, so subtly, or with such cogent energy as Frye the literary aspect of our biblical heritage" (New York Times Book Review). Indices.

A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis

ISBN: 9780156027830

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)

The Sign of Jonas

ISBN: 9780156028004

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
Begun five years after he entered the Abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani, The Sign of Jonas is an extraordinary view of Merton's life in a Trappist monastery, and it serves also as a spiritual log recording the deep meaning and increasing sureness he felt in his vocation: the growth of a mind that finds in its contracted physical world new intellectual and spiritual dimensions.

Christianity and Evolution

ISBN: 9780156028189

63,87 PLN (BRUTTO)
Nineteen essays concerned with the relationship of science and religion. As a believing scientist, Teilhard wrestled with the problem of presenting to the believer a scientific picture that would enlarge his religious vision and to the scientist a statement of religious ideas that would integrate with his understanding of reality. Foreword by N. M. Wildiers; Index. Translated by Rene Hague.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Journey of the Jihadist: Inside Muslim Militancy

ISBN: 9780156031707

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
Renowned Middle Eastern expert Fawaz A. Gerges takes us into the mind-set of the jihadi--or holy warrior--that lies behind so many headlines yet remains nearly impenetrable to us. Using his firsthand knowledge of the "Arab street," he brings to life the stories of Kamal al-Said Habib, a founder of the Jihadist Movement, as well as dozens of other Islamic fundamentalists, as they struggle with the battle being waged for the soul of Islam. Journey of the Jihadist puts a human face to events of the last thirty

A Church of Her Own: What Happens When a Woman Takes the Pulpit

ISBN: 9780156033329

57,85 PLN (BRUTTO)
Women have been among the most dynamic and successful ministers in all Protestant denominations; but in divinity school, Sarah Sentilles discovered that some of the best and brightest were having trouble and even leaving the church altogether. What was happening? To find out, she entered the lives of female ministers -- women of various ages, races, and denominations -- and emerged with the first real portrait of what it's like to lead as a woman of faith today.
Filled with humor, heartbreak, and triump

So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State

ISBN: 9780156034876

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
Today's dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a revelatory look at our nation's birth, Forrest Church re-creates our first great culture war--a tumultuous, nearly forgotten conflict that raged from George Washington's presidency to James Monroe's.

Religion was the most divisive issue in the nation's early presidential elections. Battles raged over numerous issues while the bible and the Declaration of Independence com


America's Saints: Rise of Mormon Power

ISBN: 9780156056588

80,66 PLN (BRUTTO)
After careful research and extensive interiviews, the authors have prepared this compelling and controversial portrait of the Mormon's organizational structure and economic empire-and the men who control both. Index.

Basic Judaism

ISBN: 9780156106986

50,23 PLN (BRUTTO)
Rabbi Steinberg identifies seven strands that weave together to make up Judaism: God, morality, rite and custom, law, sacred literature, institutions, and the people. A classic work directed to both the Jewish and the non-Jewish reader.

The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis

ISBN: 9780156148634

57,98 PLN (BRUTTO)
A journey through the ecclesiastical year with Christianity's most eloquent and inspiring spokesman.
"A potent anthology" (Los Angeles Times).
Edited and with a Preface by Walter Hooper.

Christianity and Culture

ISBN: 9780156177351

61,07 PLN (BRUTTO)
Two long essays: "The Idea of a Christian Society" on the direction of religious thought toward criticism of political and economic systems; and "Notes towards the Definition of Culture" on culture, its meaning, and the dangers threatening the legacy of the Western world.

Disputed Questions

ISBN: 9780156261050

69,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
These essays explore the coming together of the active and the contemplative life and the relationship of individuals to society. Merton's writing is both lively and profound as he leads the reader through the hard questions of modern existence. "Merton was...one of the most prophetic Catholic writers of our time" (New Republic). Preface by Father M. Louis.

The Four Loves

ISBN: 9780156329309

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
A candid, wise, and warmly personal book in which Lewis explores the possibilities and problems of the four basic kinds of human love- affection, friendship, erotic love, and the love of God. "Immensely worthwhile for its simplicity...a rare and memorable book" (Sydney J. Harris).

Last of the Fathers

ISBN: 9780156494380

55,47 PLN (BRUTTO)
Merton presents one of the most significant encyclical letters of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, together with an introduction to the life and teachings of the great mystic. "A study that will have to be on the shelves of all libraries and in the personal collections of all who are interested in spirituality" (Catholic World). Index.

Locked Rooms Open Doors:: Diaries and Letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1933-1935

ISBN: 9780156529563

97,46 PLN (BRUTTO)
A moving volume that reveals how the Lindberghs increasingly found themselves in the spotlight-a bittersweet record of achievements and hardships. Introduction by the Author; Index; photographs. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Reflections on the Psalms

ISBN: 9780156762489

52,81 PLN (BRUTTO)
Lewis writes here about the difficulties he has met or the joys he has gained in reading the Psalms. He points out that the Psalms are poems, intended to be sung, not doctrinal treatises or sermons. Proceeding with his characteristic grace, he guides readers through both the form and the meaning of these beloved passages in the Bible.

The Sacred and Profane

ISBN: 9780156792011

55,40 PLN (BRUTTO)
A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.

The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

ISBN: 9780156799805

50,23 PLN (BRUTTO)
The ancient Taoist text that forms the central part of this book was discovered by Wilhelm, who recognized it as essentially a practical guide to the integration of personality. Foreword and Appendix by Carl Jung; illustrations. Translated by Cary F. Baynes.A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Eucharist Family Guide

ISBN: 9780159004517

42,95 PLN (BRUTTO)
Celebrating Our Faith is an exciting new series for sacramental preparation. Following the Order of the Mass and the communal Rite of Reconciliation, each chapter incorporates a major movement of the rite, a Scripture story, an activity, and prayer.

The Family Guides were created for parishes where children are prepared for First Eucharist and First Reconciliation in neighborhood clusters or at home by adult family members. Each Family Guide contains:
-- family preparation pages that offer instruction


Reconciliation Family Guide

ISBN: 9780159004579

45,02 PLN (BRUTTO)
Celebrating Our Faith is an exciting new series for sacramental preparation. Following the Order of the Mass and the communal Rite of Reconciliation, each chapter incorporates a major movement of the rite, a Scripture story, an activity, and prayer.

The Family Guides were created for parishes where children are prepared for First Eucharist and First Reconciliation in neighborhood clusters or at home by adult family members. Each Family Guide contains:
-- family preparation pages that offer instruction


La Eucaristia: Guia Para la Familia = Eucharist Family Guide

ISBN: 9780159004630

42,95 PLN (BRUTTO)

Reconciliacion: Guia Para la Familia = Reconciliation Family Guide

ISBN: 9780159004692

40,54 PLN (BRUTTO)

Celebrating Our Faith Reconciliation Book

ISBN: 9780159004814

118,27 PLN (BRUTTO)

Celebrating Our Faith Mass Book

ISBN: 9780159004876

118,27 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living Our Faith God: Revelation and Relationship

ISBN: 9780159004883

68,75 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living Our Faith Jesus

ISBN: 9780159004944

63,58 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living Our Faith Church: A Community of Faith

ISBN: 9780159005002

68,75 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living Our Faith Sacraments

ISBN: 9780159005064

60,78 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living Our Faith Morality: Challenges and Choices

ISBN: 9780159005125

63,58 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living Our Faith Church History: Our Christian Story

ISBN: 9780159005187

68,75 PLN (BRUTTO)

Living Our Faith Jesus: Word Made Flesh

ISBN: 9780159005309

107,94 PLN (BRUTTO)

Growing in Love 1: Called to Communion with God, Who Is Love

ISBN: 9780159005590

36,23 PLN (BRUTTO)

Journey Through the Old Testament

ISBN: 9780159006917

145,19 PLN (BRUTTO)

Journey Through the Old Testament

ISBN: 9780159007587

43,15 PLN (BRUTTO)

Journey Through the New Testament Companion Workbook

ISBN: 9780159010884

65,73 PLN (BRUTTO)

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