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|  | Be Still & Know by Thich Nhat Hanh
Be Still and Know is a selection of meditations taken from the acclaimed bestseller Living Buddha, Living Christ, which is an exploration of the deep spiritual connections between Christianity and Buddhism. AUTHOR: Thich Nhat Hanh
PUBLISHER: Berkley Publishing Group
FORMAT: Other
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality 
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 | A Diary of Private Prayer by Donald M. Baillie
Description not available.Devotions express the individual's wish to worship and thank God, repent for everyday sins and failings, and gain divine intercession in personal and world problems AUTHOR: Donald M. Baillie
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | When Jesus Became God by Richard Rubenstein
This work of theology and early Church history centers around a debate involving the nature of Jesus Christ. During the 4th century of Constantine`s declining Roman Empire, a priest and a bishop--Arius and Athanasius--held opposing views on whether Jesus was human or divine. This so-called Arian controversy was and is an important event in Christian history, attracting the attention of Richard E. Rubenstein, a specialist in religious and social conflict. AUTHOR: Richard Rubenstein
PUBLISHER: Harcourt Trade Publishers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Contingency, Irony, & Solidarity by Richard Rorty
In this book, major American philosopher Richard Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature, or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable but it cannot advance Liberalism's social and political goals. In fact, Rorty believes that it is literature and not philosophy that can do this, by promoting a genuine sense of human solidarity. Specifically, it is novelists such as Orwell and Nabokov who succeed in awakening us to the cruelty of particular social practices and individual attitudes. Thus, a truly liberal culture would fuse the private, individual freedom of the ironic, philosophical perspective with the public project of human solidarity as it is engendered through the insights and sensibilities of great writers. Rorty uses a wide range of references--from philosophy to social theory to literary criticism--to elucidate his beliefs. AUTHOR: Richard Rorty
PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Our Posthuman Future by Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama revisits his thesis about the end of history by extrapolating on the role genetic technologies will play in our future. Seeing designer babies, agism, cloning, and genetic therapies all around him, Fukuyama argues that the integrity of scientific--and by consequence political--human rights depends on the maintenance of human dignity. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. AUTHOR: Francis Fukuyama
PUBLISHER: Picador
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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 | Mary Magdalene & Many Others by Carla Ricci
Seeking to discover whether Jesus` message of liberation had a word to say to me as a woman , Carla Ricci found the key in Luke 8:1-3, which mentions the women with Jesus at the outset of his public activity in Galilee, listed after the Twelve. This, she discovered, is a text the (male) exegetes have systematically ignored for 1900 years. She found a group of women who unswervingly followed Jesus - the only ones, when the male apostles and disciples fled - from Galilee to Jerusalem, through his passion and death, to be the messengers of the resurrection. In all lists of women with Jesus, Mary Magdalene is placed first. She is one woman whom it has been impossible to ignore. And what has commentary made of her? A prostitute, by falsely associating her with the sinful woman of the previous episode in Luke. Ricci examines how and why this happened, in a fascinating inquiry into history and culture. So this is an inquiry into the real nature of Jesus` relationship with women, shown to be truly radical in the context of his time - and truly liberative. It rediscovers Mary Magdalene, and the many others who deserve to be remembered with her, as an essential component of the original Jesus movement and the early church. AUTHOR: Carla Ricci
PUBLISHER: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: Religion & Spirituality
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