Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey
Category: Religion
'In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. This sentence - and the words of all four gospels - is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature and language, and the Western mind.Yet in the years after the death of Christ there was not merely one ...Show more
God: an Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Category: Religion
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON PRIZE 2022'Rivetingly fresh and stunning' - Sunday Times'One of the most remarkable historians and communicators working today' - Dan SnowThree thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon o ...Show more
Bible Verses to Lift the Soul - Guided Journaling for Faith, Strength, Love and Truth by Mike Annesley
Category: Religion
52 Bible verses, from both the Old and New Testaments, each supported by practical prompts, reflections and summaries to help you unlock its universal message. There are also corresponding spaces for journalling, as a route to further self-discovery.
Prayers for Everyday Life by Zondervan
Category: Religion
God encourages us to approach Him with confidence each day, but sometimes we don't know what to say. We wonder if we'll pray the "wrong" way or not have the words to articulate what we need. Prayers for Everyday Life is a deck of 60 prayers that can be used every day--no matter what season of life you ...Show more
God or Nothing - A Conversation on Faith by Robert Cardinal Sarah & Nicolas Diat
Category: Religion
"The idea of putting Magisterial teaching in a beautiful display case while separating it from pastoral practice, which then could evolve along with circumstances, fashions, and passions, is a sort of heresy, a dangerous schizophrenic pathology. I therefore solemnly state that the Church in Africa is s ...Show more
Western Culture Today & Tomorrow Addressing the Fundamental Issues by RATZINGER JOSEPH
Category: Religion
Well known for his important scholarly contributions to dogmatic theology and biblical commentary, Joseph Ratzinger has also been an insightful, shrewd analyst of political modernity and its discontents. This work reveals Ratzinger's keen insight into the fundamental challenges confronting the twenty-fi ...Show more
Christianity is Good For Us by DONNELLY KEVIN
Category: Religion
Christianity is one of the foundation stones of Western civilisation and liberal democracies and its strengths and benefits far outweigh its sins. In his latest collection, Kevin Donnelly, one of Australia's leading conservative commentators, looks at how in an increasingly radical, secular society domi ...Show more
Christianity Matters: In These Troubled Times by Kevin Donnelly (Editor)
Category: Religion
In an increasingly secular, materialistic and individualistic age, the argument is put Judeo-Christianity is of little, if any, significance or relevance. In Western societies like Australia, Judeo-Christianity, for all its sins, underpins and safeguards our political and legal systems and contributes m ...Show more
The Power of Silence - Against the Dictatorship of Noise by Robert Cardinal Sarah (tr. Nicolas Diat)
Category: Religion
In a time when technology penetrates our lives in so many ways and materialism exerts such a powerful influence over us, Cardinal Robert Sarah presents a bold book about the strength of silence. The modern world generates so much noise, he says, that seeking moments of silence has become both harder and ...Show more
Introduction to Christianity Rev Ed by Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger)
Category: Religion | Series: Communio Books
One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second edition with an improved translation and an in-depth 20 page preface by the Cardinal. As he states in the preface, since this book was first published over 30 years ago, many changes and significant events ...Show more
Plans For Your Good: A Prime Minister's Testimony of God's Faithfulness by Scott Morrison
Category: Religion
Scott Morrison, Australia's 30th Prime Minister (2018-2022), offers a unique insider's account of a Christian who was open about his faith and operated at the top level of politics for more than a decade. During one of the toughest periods since the second world war, covering drought, wildfires, a globa ...Show more
The Koran by A.J. Arberry
Category: Religion | Series: Oxford World's Classics
The Koran is a book apart, not only as Holy Scripture for Muslims, but as the supreme classic of Arabic literature. In its 114 Suras, or chapters, it comprises the total of revelations believed to have been communicated to the prophet Muhammad as a final expression of God's will and purpose for man. The ...Show more