#catholic #catechism #theology #bible #philosophy 
No dust jacket but in like new condition with no markings in text. 
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I am selling my personal theological library of approximately 1500 volumes. They all have the Library of Congress classification number on the spine and most have my name stamped in them. Most are in like new or excellent condition. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Arkansas

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

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#hardcover #fiction #spiritual #theshack #religious #theology #eternity #bestseller 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Connecticut

Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation, and evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in this midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note, apparently from God, inviting him back to that shack for a weekend. Against his better judgment he arrives at the shack on wintry afternoon and walks back into his darkest nightmare. What he finds there will change his life forever.

The Shack

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#Jesus #Paul #Bible #theology #Borkhamm
Hardback with dust jacket in excellent condition. Questions?? Just ask. Thanks 

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Paul

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#philosophy #nonfiction #hardcover #history #Christian #theology #politics 

Pennsylvania

Religion, Politics, and the Modern West

Examines the relationship between religion and politics throughout Western history, the influence of political theology on Western thought, and the destructive results that sometimes occur when religion and politics are connected.

The Stillborn God

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#Christianity #religion #VirginMary #Jesus #Nazareth #spirituality #theology #revelations #gospels

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Maryland

The Autobiography of Mary, the Mother of Jesus

I Give You My Word

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#paperback #DugDownDeep #Christianity #JoshuaHarris #Theology #HolySpirit #Wisdom #Doctrine #Beliefs #Spirituality box 19

Texas

Unearthing What I Believe and Why It Matters

For the indifferent or spiritually numb, Harris's humorous and engaging reflections on Christian beliefs show that orthodoxy isn't just for scholars--it is for anyone who longs to know the living Jesus Christ.

Dug down Deep

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#hardcover #Jesu #Gospels #bible #theology #God 
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"Media coverage of the Jesus Seminar and a renewed interest in the "quest for the historical Jesus" have occasioned considerable unease among Christians of all traditions. From time to time we see new books and newsmagazine cover stories containing the latest deconstructionist interpretation of what Scripture says about Jesus. The questions at issue are all-important: What can we know about Jesus of Nazareth as he actually was? Is the Christ of faith the same as the man from Galilee? Can we match what we know about him with what we believe about him? Is he the way, the truth, and the life, or is he merely - as many believe today even within the church - a way, a truth, a life?" "Written by leading scholars from around the Anglican Communion, the essays in The Truth about Jesus explore and critique the current "quest for the historical Jesus," reaffirm he traditional biblical teaching about Jesus, and consider the proclamation of his gospel to our pluralistic world."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Truth about Jesus

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#hardcover #religion #Jesus #theology #bible #gospel 

Tennessee

The gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John are arguably the most important and influential books in Western history. Their accounts of Jesus do not simply add up to "The Greatest Story Ever Told," but "The Four Greatest Stories Ever Told." Why do they present such strikingly different versions of the same events? As the great filmmaker Akira Kirosawa demonstrated in his epic movie Rashomon, different witnesses can quite honestly remember the same event in very different ways. Now Oxford New Testament scholar Robin Griffith-Jones shows how the four gospels testify authentically yet very distinctly to Jesus' life, death, and message.

Jesus himself asked, 'Who do you say I am?' If his question has ever intrigued you--if it has ever just caught your imagination--then this book has been written for you.

In The Four Witnesses, Robin Griffith-Jones brings the stories of Jesus to life for the contemporary reader as he revives the original power and intent of the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John as individual witnesses. He presents a lively discussion of how and why each of the four gospels was written, considering the substance and style of the testimony itself as well as the unique context of each story. Rather than entering into the current historical Jesus debates, he offers a fresh reading of the texts with new questions in mind, the same questions, often highly personal, that each Gospel writer sought to address in his own work. For them, as for us, Jesus presented a enigmatic, challenging figure. By seeking insight into the mystery of his life and work, they hoped to find a new way to see the world and to understand our relationship with God.

"Who do you say I am?" Each gospel offers its own answer to Jesus' question, influenced by the context of its writing and the personality of its writer. By examining the distinct light shed by each gospel writer on Jesus' life, work, and death, readers can discover which perspective speaks most clearly to their own needs, hopes, and fears, and decide how to respond to Jesus' challenge. Most importantly, they can encounter in all four gospels taken together what one alone could not provide: a remarkably full and compelling presentation of Jesus and his powerful message.

The Four Witnesses - The Rebel, the Rabbi, the Chronicler, and the Mystic

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Florida

#hardcover #theology #religion #Christianity 
Book has under lining thoughout book. 

In a world riddled with disappointment, malice, and tragedy, what rationale do we have for believing in a benevolent God? If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why is there so much evil in the world? John Stackhouse takes a historically informed approach to this dilemma, examining what philosophers and theologians have said on the subject and offering reassuring answers for thoughtful readers.
Stackhouse explores how great thinkers have grappled with the problem of evil--from the Buddha, Confucius, Augustine, and David Hume to Martin Luther, C. S. Lewis, and Alvin Plantinga. Without brushing aside the serious contradictions posed by a God who allows incurable diseases, natural disasters, and senseless crimes to bring misery into our lives, Stackhouse asks if a world completely without evil is what we truly want. Would a life without suffering be a meaningful life? Could free will exist if we were able to choose only good? Stackhouse examines what the best minds have had to say on these questions and boldly affirms that the benefits of evil, in fact, outweigh the costs. Finally, he points to Christian revelation--which promises the transformation of suffering into joy--as the best guide to God's


Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil

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Book appears unread with tight, clean pages.  #religion #theology #hardcover #god (Shelf 2B) 

New Jersey

Finding the Marks of God's Grace in the World

These days, the loudest Christian voices seem very sure about many things that might still be thought open for discussion. But modern life has few, if any, clearly drawn lines, no rules that always hold true. For Patrick Henry, there are no answers without loose ends, and God is full of surprises. His book is a companion, not a how-to manual -- a spiritual resource that is also an antidote to boredom and a teaser of the imagination. It is a guide to living with faith in a postmodern world.

In interlocking essays, Henry muses on the ambiguities of time and place, on paying attention, on hope and prayer. His book is also a journal of life as a professor of religion, into which are woven the observations of other writers he has encountered on his metaphysical travels.

Like Kathleen Norris, Patrick Henry brings a questing intelligence, humor, and great writing to his investigation of the relevance of Christianity in the modern age. The Ironic Christian's Companion does not pretend to answer the big questions, but in lucid, engaging prose it sets out to identify what they are.

The Ironic Christian's Companion

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California

Principles of Teaching For Christian Teachers

#paperback #nonfiction #fiction #radical #faith #christian #NYTBestseller #americandream #church #theology 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Michigan

Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream

Examines the ways in which the gospel is contradicted by the American dream and challenges Christians to join in a one-year experiment in authentic discipleship that promises spiritual transformation through the word of God.

Radical

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A portrait of God as envisioned by early Israelites describes him as an accessible inhabitant of a parallel spiritual world who was human-like in appearance and who often made himself known to people.

The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible

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#hardcover #Vintage #Theological #karlrahner #Vintage #Theology #Christianity #Church #Catholic #Rare box 77 some pencil marks, but in good condition, 1967 copy

Volume 2 - man in the church

Theological investigations

#Jesus #disciples #Bible #theology 
Hardback with dust jacket in excellent condition  Questions?? Just ask. Thanks 

Character Sketches of the Disciples

The Master's Men

#hardcover #history #Christianity #Jesus #theology #Bible 
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Knowing Christianity Series 

The Early Church 

#paperback #DianaButlerBass #Christianityfortherestofus #Christianity, #congregation #Church #Transformational #Theology box 44

How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith





For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive churches across the country. Her surprising findings reveal just the opposite--that many of the churches are flourishing, and they are doing so without resorting to mimicking the mega-church, evangelical style.

Christianity for the Rest of Us describes this phenomenon and offers a how-to approach for Protestants eager to remain faithful to their tradition while becoming a vital spiritual community. As Butler Bass delved into the rich spiritual life of various Episcopal, United Methodist, Disciples of Christ, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, and Lutheran churches, certain consistent practices--such as hospitality, contemplation, diversity, justice, discernment, and worship--emerged as core expressions of congregations seeking to rediscover authentic Christian faith and witness today.

This hopeful book, which includes a study guide for groups and individuals, reveals the practical steps that leaders and laypeople alike are taking to proclaim an alternative message about an emerging Christianity that strives for greater spiritual depth and proactively engages the needs of the world.

Christianity for the Rest of Us

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#hardcover #religion #theology #religiousscience #cosmological 

In the modern age science has been winning its centuries--old battle with religion for the mind of man. The evidence has long seemed incontrovertible: Life was merely a product of blind chance--a cosmic roll of an infinite number of dice across an eternity of time. Slowly, methodically, scientists supplied answers to mysteries insufficiently explained by theologians. Reason pushed faith off into the shadows of mythology and superstition, while atheism became a badge of wisdom. Our culture, freed from moral obligation, explored the frontiers of secularism. God was dead. "Glynn's arguments for the existence of God put the burden of disproof on those intellectuals who think that the question has long since been settled." -- Andrew M. Greeley But now, in the twilight of the twentieth century, a startling transformation is taking place in Western scientific and intellectual thought. At its heart is the dawning realization that the universe, far from being a sea of chaos, appears instead to be an intricately tuned mechanism whose every molecule, whose every physical law, seems to have been design from the very first nanosecond of the big bang toward a single end--the creation of life. This intellectually and spiritually riveting book asks a provocative question: Is science, the long-time nemesis of the Deity, uncovering the face of God? Patrick Glynn lays out the astonishing new evidence that caused him to turn away from the atheism he acquired as a student at Harvard and Cambridge. The facts are fascinating: Physicists are discovering an unexplainable order to the cosmos; medical researchers are reporting the extraordinary healing powers of prayer and are documenting credibleaccounts of near-death experiences; psychologists, who once considered belief in God to be a sign of neurosis, are finding instead that religious faith is a powerful elixir for mental health; and sociologists are now acknowledging the destructive consequences of a value-free society. "God: The Evidence argues that faith today is not grounded in ignorance. It is where reason has been leading us all along.

God The Evidence

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#religion #christianity #judaism #jesus #jesusorigins #jesusresurrection #christianity-origins #christianity-controversy #religiousstudies #theology

New Hampshire

Myth or Reality?

A new look at Jesus' resurrection pinpoints five clues that help solve the mystery of Easter, offering a vital perspective on modern faith and the afterlife

Resurrection

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#hardcover #gospelofjudas #nonfiction #religion #theology #kasser #spiruaility 

New York

The Gospel of Judas

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#hardcover #Christian #Bible #deconstruction #scripture #theology #love #God 
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Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love

In the history of the Western World, the Bible has been a perpetual source of inspiration and guidance for countless Christians. However, this Bible has also left a trail of pain. It is undeniable that the Bible is not always used for good. Sometimes the Bible can seem overtly evil. Sometimes its texts are terrible.

Bishop John Shelby Spong boldly approaches those texts that have been used through history to justify the denigration or persecution of others while carrying with them the implied and imposed authority of the claim that they were the "Word of God." As he exposes and challenges what he calls the "terrible texts of the Bible", laying bare the evil done by these texts in the name of God, he also seeks to redeem these texts, hoping to recover their ultimate depth and purpose. Spong looks specifically at texts used to justify homophobia, anti-Semitism, treating women as second-class humans, corporal punishment, and environmental degradation, but he also delivers a new picture of how Christians can use the Bible today. As Spong battles against the way the Bible has been used throughout history, he provides a new framework, introducing people to a proper way to engage this holy book of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

The Sins of Scripture

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#theology #bible 
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A Personal Portrait

Leslie Weatherhead

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#hardcover #christian #christianity #faith #nonfiction #religion #theology 


Why I Am a Missional, Evangelical, Post/Protestant, Liberal/Conservative, Mystical/Poetic, Biblical, Charismatic/Contemplative, Fundamentalist/Calvinist Anabaptist/Anglican, Metho

A confession and manifesto from a senior leader in the emerging church movement--A Generous Orthodoxy calls for a radical, Christ-centered orthodoxy of faith and practice in a missional, generous spirit. Brian McLaren argues for a post-liberal, post-conservative, post-protestant convergence, which will stimulate lively interest and global conversation among thoughtful Christians from all traditions. In a sweeping exploration of belief, author Brian McLaren takes us across the landscape of faith, envisioning an orthodoxy that aims for Jesus, is driven by love, and is defined by missional intent. A Generous Orthodoxy rediscovers the mysterious and compelling ways that Jesus can be embraced across the entire Christian horizon. Rather than establishing what is and is not orthodox, McLaren walks through the many traditions of faith, bringing to the center a way of life that draws us closer to Christ and to each other. Whether you find yourself inside, outside, or somewhere on the fringe of Christianity, A Generous Orthodoxy draws you toward a way of living that looks beyond the us/them paradigm to the blessed and ancient paradox of we.

Libreria Editrice Vaticana Staff

The Catechism of the Catholic Church

William P. Young

The Shack

Gunther Bornkamm; David M. Stalker (Translator)

Paul

Mark Lilla

The Stillborn God

Patrick Donohue

I Give You My Word

Joshua Harris

Dug down Deep

Donald Armstrong (Editor)

The Truth about Jesus

Robin Griffith-Jones; Jesus Jesus 2000 Ltd.

The Four Witnesses - The Rebel, the Rabbi, the Chronicler, and the Mystic

William P. Young

The Shack

John G. Stackhouse

Can God Be Trusted? Faith and the Challenge of Evil

Patrick Henry

The Ironic Christian's Companion

C. B. Eavey

Principles of Teaching For Christian Teachers

David Platt

Radical

James L. Kugel

The God of Old: Inside the Lost World of the Bible

KARL RAHNER

Theological investigations

William Barclay

The Master's Men

W.H C. Frend

The Early Church

Diana Butler Bass

Christianity for the Rest of Us

Patrick Glynn

God The Evidence

John Shelby Spong

Resurrection

National Geographic Society; Bart D. Ehrman (Commentaries by)

The Gospel of Judas

John Shelby Spong

The Sins of Scripture

A. Kingsley Weatherhead

Leslie Weatherhead

Brian D. McLaren

A Generous Orthodoxy