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The Peaceable Kingdom: A Primer In Christian Ethics
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Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Karlfried Froehlich · 336 pages
The Varieties of Religious Experience
William James · 470 pages
This is one of the most remarkable books ever written about religious experience. James captures the reader’s attention with vivid instances of religious experience collected from diverse sources, including classical religious texts, newspaper articles, and clinical studies. In this collection of Gifford lectures given in Scotland in 1901, James analyzes religious experience, using wonderful examp
Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening
Stephen Batchelor · 136 pages
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
Mircea Eliade · 256 pages
Famed historian of religion Mircea Eliade observes that even moderns who proclaim themselves residents of a completely profane world are still unconsciously nourished by the memory of the sacred. Eliade traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times in terms of space, time, nature, and the cosmos. In doing so he shows how the total human experience of the religious man compares
Buddhism Plain and Simple
Steve Hagen · 192 pages
Presents an introduction to the fundamental teachings of the Buddha, explaining such concepts as true wisdom, the art of seeing, the freedom of the mind, and dependent arising.
What Makes You Not a Buddhist
Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse · 136 pages
So you think you're a Buddhist? Think again. Tibetan Buddhist master Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse, one of the most creative and innovative lamas teaching today, throws down the gauntlet to the Buddhist world, challenging common misconceptions, stereotypes, and fantasies. With wit and irony, Khyentse urges readers to move beyond the superficial trappings of Buddhism—beyond the romance with beads, ince
On Christian Doctrine
Augustine of Hippo · 1,278 pages
What's So Great about Christianity:
Dinesh D'Souza, Jeff Riggenbach · 200 pages
Examines the assumptions of Christianity and atheism, and argues, among other issues, that Christianity explains what modern science tells us about the universe and our origins better than atheism.
god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens · 307 pages
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloq
The Art of Happiness
Dalai Lama XIV, Howard C. Cutler · 322 pages
Summary:One of the world's greatest spiritual leaders teams up with a psychiatrist to share, for the first time, how he achieved his hard-won serenity and how readers can attain the same inner peace
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Victor J. Stenger · 310 pages
What the Buddha Taught: Revised and Expanded Edition with Texts from Suttas and Dhammapada
Walpola Rahula · 151 pages
Clarifies the fundamental principles of Buddhist doctrine by explicating the original Pali text of the Tipitaka.
The Bondage of the Will
Martin Luther · 328 pages
The Bondage of the Will is fundamental to an understanding of the primary doctrines of the Reformation. In these pages, Luther gives extensive treatment to what he saw as the heart of the gospel. Free will was no academic question to Luther; the whole gospel of the grace of God, he believed, was bound up with it and stood or fell according to the way one decided it. Luther affirms our total inabil
Is Christianity Good for the World?
Christopher Hitchens, Douglas Wilson · 67 pages
The gloves come off in this electric exchange, originally hosted by Christianity Today, as leading atheist Christopher Hitchens (author of God is not Great) and Christian apologist Douglas Wilson (author of Letter from a Christian Citizen) go head-to-head on this divisive question. The result is entertaining and provocative -- a glimpse into the ongoing debate. - Back cover.
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Shunryu Suzuki · 138 pages
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See https://openlibrary.org/works/OL464662W.
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism
Chogyam Trungpa · 250 pages
The Everlasting Man
G.K. Chesterton · 268 pages
The Everlasting Man is inspired by H. G. Wells’ The Outline of History, which explains the history of mankind and religion as solely a product of natural selection and other material causes. In contrast, G. K. Chesterton presents the case for Christianity throughout history, by illustrating firstly, the uniqueness of man amongst the animals, and secondly, the uniqueness of Christ and the Church am
The God Who is There
Francis A. Schaeffer · 191 pages
The Way of the Bodhisattva: A Translation of the Bodhicharyavatara
Santideva · 224 pages