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  The Case for God

  by Karen Armstrong

  Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own... (more)
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  Inhabiting the Cruciform God: Kenosis, Justification, and Theosis in Paul's Narrative Soteriology

  by Michael J. Gorman

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  How (Not) to Speak of God

  Marks of the Emerging Church

  by Peter Rollins

  With sensitivity to the Christian tradition and a rich understanding of postmodern thought, Peter Rollins argues that the movement known as the “emerging church” offers a singular, unprecedented message of transformation that has the potential to revolutionize the theological and moral architecture of Western Christianity. How (not) to Speak of God sets out to explore the theory and praxis of this... (more)
• The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth   [PHILOKALIA V01] [Paperback]G. E.(Author) ; Sherrard, Philip(Translator); Palmer, G. E. H.(Translator) Palmer

  

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  The Philokalia, Volume 1: The Complete Text; Compiled by St. Nikodimos of the Holy Mountain & St. Markarios of Corinth   [PHILOKALIA V01] [Paperback]

  by G. E.(Author) ; Sherrard, Philip(Translator); Palmer, G. E. H.(Translator) Palmer

• Too big for words : the transcendence of God and finite human speechMark Thompson

  

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  Too big for words : the transcendence of God and finite human speech

  by Mark Thompson

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  New Seeds of Contemplation

  by Thomas Merton

  A much-enlarged and revised version of Seeds of Contemplation--one of the late Father Merton's most widely-read and best-loved works--New Seeds of Contemplation seeks to awaken the dormant inner depths of the spirit so long neglected by Western man and to nurture a deeply contemplative and mystical dimension in our spiritual lives.
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  The Orthodox Way

  by Kallistos

  This book is a general account of the doctrine, worship and life of Orthodox Christians by the author of the now classic The Orthodox Church. It raises the basic issues of theology: God is hidden yet revealed; the problem with evil; the nature of salvation; the meaning of faith; prayer; death and what lies beyond. In so doing, it helps to fill the need for modern Orthodox catechism. Yet this book is not a mere... (more)
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  Revelations of Divine Love

  by Julian of Norwich

  Coming from a society where women were barred from serious writing and teaching, Julian, an anchorite of the great medieval city of Norwich, nevertheless uses her womanliness and the English vernacular of the day to describe a series of revelations which she received from God in the year 1373. She identifies the female nature of Christ's suffering and the motherhood of God, using images from domestic daily life,... (more)
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  Mystical Theology: The Integrity of Spirituality and Theology (Challenges in Contemporary Theology)

  by Mark Allen McIntosh

  MYSTICAL THEOLOGY reveals that the growing popularity of spirituality in all its forms is largely separated from theology. Through a study of exemplary writers such as Gregory of Nyssa, MYSTICAL THEOLOGY uncovers an understanding of the inner integrity of mystical consciousness and the difference between knowledge through direct experience and theological expression.
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  Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church

  by George E. Demacopoulos

  Five Models of Spiritual Direction in the Early Church explores the struggles of five clerics—Athanasius, Gregory Naziansen, Augustine of Hippo, John Cassian, and Pope Gregory I—to reconcile their ascetic idealism with the reality of pastoral responsibility. Through a close reading of Greek and Latin texts, George E. Demacopoulos explores each pastor's criteria for ordination, his supervision of subordinate... (more)
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  Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life (Cistercian Studies Series)

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  The Book Of Steps: The Syriac Liber Graduum

  Intentionally anonymous and lacking concrete details of historical and cultural setting--and for many years suspected of messalianism--this collection of thirty memre <discourses> has been long recognized as an important, yet understudied, work of the fourth-century Syriac Church.
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  The Kindness of God: Metaphor, Gender, and Religious Language

  by Janet Martin Soskice

  Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? If Christ is 'the second Adam' and the one on whom all Christian life must be patterned, then what about Eve? This book from a leading scholar of religious language and feminism opens up the Bible's imagery for sex, gender, and kinship and does so by... (more)
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  The Mystic Way of Evangelism

  A Contemplative Vision for Christian Outreach

  by Elaine A. Heath

  Although each generation searches for effective ways to be salt and light, Elaine Heath argues that the church is currently in an especially difficult place--a dark night of the soul. She calls the church to embrace, rather than ignore, its difficulties and find different ways of doing outreach. Heath brings a fresh perspective to the theory and practice of evangelism by approaching it through contemplative... (more)