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  Relationships: A Mess Worth Making

  by Timothy S. Lane

  Hope for messy, conflict-ridden relationships. Your best friend is suddenly cool and distant. Your spouse can t stop complaining about your bad habits. Your son refuses to talk to you. What are you supposed to do? Plans A, B, and C might be to shut down, lash out, or get out. But consider Plan D: Recognize that God has the last word on those messy, conflict-ridden relationships. He can use them to make you... (more)
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  St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics

  by Thomas Aquinas

  St. Thomas Aquinas on Politics and Ethics contains translations of carefully chosen and central selections from The Summa Against the Gentiles, On Kingship or The Governance of Rulers , and The Summa of Theology . The selections not only include St. Thomas Aquinas’s views on government, law, war, property, and sexual ethics, but also provide the theological, epistemological, and psychological background... (more)
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  Virgins of Venice: Broken Vows and Cloistered Lives in the Renaissance Convent

  by Mary Laven

  Venice in the late Renaissance was a city of fabulous wealth, reckless creativity, and growing social unrest as its maritime empire crumbled. It was also a city of walls and secrets, ghettos, and cloisters-including fifty convents housing three thousand nuns, many of them refined, upper-class women who had been immured against their will. In this utterly fascinating book, Cambridge historian Mary Laven uncovers... (more)
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  Conflict (VantagePoint Books) (VantagePoint Books)

  by Timothy S. Lane

  Everyone has their own style of dealing with conflict. Some people try to win at all costs and will do or say anything to get their own way. Others hate conflict and will do or say anything to avoid or end it. Sadly, neither fighting nor avoidance leads to genuine peace or restored relationships. Is there a better way?
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  A Calendar of Wisdom: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul Written and Selected from the World's Sacred Texts

  by Leo Tolstoy

  This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates the path of a life worth living with a brightness undimmed by... (more)
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  The Kingdom of God Is Within You (Dover Value Editions)

  by Constance Garnett, Leo Tolstoy

  The soul-searching book that inspired Gandhi to embrace the concept of passive resistance, Tolstoy's 1894 polemic outlines a radical, well-reasoned revision of traditional Christian thinking. The revered novelist and political thinker denounces violent revolution, calling upon readers to rely upon their inner divinity for the strength to effect social change.
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  A Confession (Dover Books on Western Philosophy)

  by Leo Tolstoy, Aleksei?. T?S?vetkov

  A Confession -- an essay by Leo Tolstoy on his religious thoughts -- shows the great author in process of looking for answers to profound questions that trouble all who take them on: "What will come of my life?" and "What is the meaning of life?": these are questions whose answers were an absolute requirement for Tolstoy. In the course of the essay, Tolstoy shows different attempts to find answers on the examples... (more)
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  Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The Old and New Testaments (2Vols. in One)

  by Isaac Asimov

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  The Confessions of St. Augustine

  by Augustine

  In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the... (more)
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  Irish Jesus, Roman Jesus: The Formation of Early Irish Christianity

  by Graydon F. Snyder

  Nearly two thousand years before the Roman Empire, a group of Celts wandered into the Mediterranean basin, establishing a home in the region of Galatia, modern-day Turkey. They brought with them their political and economic systems, their cultural practices, and—most significantly—their religious traditions. Paul of Tarsus visited Galatia and established churches there. But after his visit, troubling news... (more)
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  The Templars and the Assassins: The Militia of Heaven

  by James Wasserman

  An examination of the interactions of the Christian Knights Templar and their Muslim counterparts, the Assassins, and of the profound changes in Western society that resulted. * Restores the reputation of the secret Muslim order of the Assassins, disparaged as the world's first terrorist group. * Dispels many myths about the Knights Templar and provides the most incisive portrait of them to date. A... (more)
• Lift up your eyes;: The religious writings of Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy

  

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  Lift up your eyes;: The religious writings of Leo Tolstoy

  by Leo Tolstoy

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  The Battle for Christmas

  by Stephen Nissenbaum

  "Fascinating." --The New York Times Book Review Anyone who laments the excesses of Christmas might consider the Puritans of colonial Massachusetts: they simply outlawed the holiday. The Puritans had their reasons, since Christmas was once an occasion for drunkenness and riot, when poor "wassailers extorted food and drink from the well-to-do. In this intriguing and innovative work of social history,... (more)