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  Standing in the Light

  by Sharman Apt Russell

  In a glorious new memoir, a prize-winning natural science writer meditates on the history and meaning of pantheism. "Everything is connected, and the web is holy." So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell's wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and inclusive as pantheism. What is , right now, is divine; there... (more)
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  The Odyssey

  by Homer

  If The Iliad is the world's greatest war epic, then The Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey though life. Odysseus's reliance on his wit and wiliness for survival in his encounters with divine and natural forces during his ten-year voyage home to Ithaca after the Trojan War is at once a timeless human story and an individual test of moral endurance. ...
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  Teilhard de Chardin: A New Synthesis of Evolution

  by Josef Vitalis Kopp

  In concise terms, keeping in mind the reader unfamiliar with his work, this is a thought-provoking description of scientist Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy and rightful place in the history of evolutionary thought.
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  A "Wonderful" Deception

  The Further New Age Implications of Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Movement

  by M.S.W. Warren Smith

  The Further New Age Implications of the Emerging Purpose Driven Movement - A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?--Jeremiah 5:30-31 Five years after writing Deceived on Purpose: the New Age Implications of the Purpose Driven Church, former New Age... (more)
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  The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

  by Emily Dickinson

  The only authoritative paperback collection of all of Emily Dickinson's poetry. The editor has assembled a reading text of the preferred forms of all 1,775 poems, and has included in his introduction an explanation of his selection of texts, plus a helpful outline of Emily Dickinson's career.
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  Wrestling With the Divine: Religion, Science, and Revelation (Theology and the Sciences)

  by Christopher C. Knight

  Christopher Knight uses the notion of revelation to ask whether scientifically literate people need to be as simplistic in their religion as they are sophisticated in their science. Knight extends the dialogue begun in John Polkinghorne’s and Arthur Peacocke’s work to explore new possibilities. Their stress on natural processes as the form of divine immanence and the locus of divine action opens the way to... (more)
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  Ethics

  by Benedictus de Spinoza

  Written in a highly personal style, Spinoza's "Ethics" presents to readers anordered vision of the universe as a unified whole--not as a lifeless world ofinnumerable separate entities.