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The Augustine Way recovers Augustine's mature apologetic voice to address the challenges facing today's church. It offers a compelling argument for Christian witness that is rooted in tradition and engaged with contemporary culture. The book focuses on Augustine's best-known works, Confessions and The City of God, to retrieve his scriptural and ecclesial approach for a holistic apologetic witness.

Luis de Molina's Concordia liberi arbitrii (Harmony of Free Will), first published in 1588, is a landmark work in 16th-century philosophy and theology. Emerging from the revival of Iberian scholasticism during the Reformation era, it grapples with the perennial question of reconciling human freedom with divine grace, providence, foreknowledge, and predestination. This complex problem ignited the fierce De Auxiliis controversy, a major doctrinal dispute within the Catholic Church. This volume presents Part 1: On the Power of Free Will, where Molina lays the essential groundwork for his ...

El anticristo propugna la superación del nihilismo y del cristianismo.

Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his brother (a philosopher), a meditation on morality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.

In the essays of this book, the author continues his writings generally contemplating philosophy from the perspective of working class struggle in Technological Society and arguing for nihilism as the only sound morality for such struggle. Specifically in the essays of this book, the author deals with practical and specific questions of theodicy: what is the meaning of the word "God"; can this concept include attributes of love, hate, will, justice, fairness, and morality? Though some of these questions and answers build on the author's prior work such as "Existential Philosophy of Law"; "...

An Awesome Book of Magick and Spiritual Knowledge This book will blow your mind! If you ever needed answers about what your life’s purpose was or how to be truly happy, then this book is for you. If you want to learn a mystical yoga technique that will bestow you with awesome mystical powers or help connect you with the Super-soul, then this book is for you. If you ever pondered about the creation of the universe, then this book is for you. What’s this book about? It’s about the magickal and spiritual discussions between Lord Krishna and his devotee Uddhava before the Lord departed to...

Have you ever wondered…whether God exists? whether life has meaning? Whether pain and suffering have a purpose? This audiobook is my invitation to sit down with C. S. Lewis and me to think about some of the persistent questions and dilemmas every person faces in life. We’ll explore Lewis’s thoughts on everything from friendships to heaven, from the reasons for faith to the power of stories.

Dinner With God: The Last Supper is a look at man’s struggle to understand God and humanity. Why do bad things happen to good people? Where did we come from? Did God create us, or did we create God? Why are so many people unhappy with their lives? Is there life after death? Is religion causing more harm than good? The questions are as old as man and we struggle each day to answer them. In Dinner With God, is the story of 12 people are invited to a dinner for their birthday but this is no ordinary party. The 12 come face to face with God and are asked to answer for the crimes we commit ...

What if Nothing was not the absence of meaning, but its birthplace? What if divinity was not found in certainty, but in the unknowable, the untouchable, and the undefinable space beyond it? This is not a book of answers. The Gospel of Nothing is a journey into paradox, an exploration of the void from which all things emerge. It dares to ask: Is the sacred something we can hold, or is it the space left untouched? Is the divine a presence—or an absence? We are creatures obsessed with meaning, weaving it into the fabric of existence, unable to escape the instinct to search.

Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the 21st century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God. In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks explores the roots of violence and its relationship to religion, focusing on the historic tensions between the three Abrahamic faiths: Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Luis de Molina's Concordia of Free Will (Parts 2 and 3) Luis de Molina’s Concordia liberi arbitrii, first published in 1588, stands as a cornerstone of 16th-century theology and philosophy, born amidst the vibrant intellectual currents of Iberian scholasticism and the Catholic response to the Reformation. This seminal work tackles the profound challenge of reconciling human free will with divine grace, foreknowledge, providence, predestination, and reprobation, sparking the intense De Auxiliis controversy within the Catholic Church. This volume presents Parts 2 and 3 of the Concordia, ...

In Volume One, Lambert pulled back the veil on the secrets hidden within the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Now he turns his attention to the Holy Gospels. Using various texts from the Nag Hammadi library, including the Gospel of Thomas, Lambert identifies a list of seven key parables found within the Synoptic Gospels. According to the texts, the successful interpretation of these seven parables is enough to unlock the mysteries hidden within the teachings of Jesus. "... my primary desire was to find a map, if you will, which would lead to the next section of the Synoptic Gospels we ...

In a world thirsting for authenticity, The Mandate: A Handbook for Unlocking the Secrets of Our Salvation shatters the boundaries between ancient wisdom and modern spirituality. This groundbreaking audiobook isn't just another religious text—it's a roadmap to rediscovering the explosive power that once defined the early Church.

What is the esoteric significance of the beheading of John the Baptist? What is the nature of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene? Can we identify the biological father of Jesus? What mysteries are concealed within the two conflicting genealogies of Jesus? Completing the investigation begun in Volume Two of The Gnostic Notebook, the author is finally ready to decipher the seventh and final parable identified within The Secret Book of James. According to that apocryphal text, this parable, identified only as "The Woman," will lead the seeker to the secret teachings of Jesus. "...

What is the relationship between charity and knowledge in the theology of Thomas Aquinas? Did Aquinas in his mature thought portray charity's act as antecedent to and independent of practical reasoning? Did he view charity's motion as rendering us morally good before God, apart from whether or not we do what is right in our actions? A dominant stream in contemporary Catholic ethics holds for precisely such a concept of charity, and many recent commentators on Aquinas maintain that this is his position as well.

Questions of what happens after death were vital in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living.

Eternal Wisdom explains the connection between art, mythology, spirituality, and religion through the language of symbols. These concepts are taken outside of the context of religious philosophy to explain how these ideas should be revised to achieve a positive cultural outlook for the increasingly bleak modern era. Archetypes and mystical experiences possess an inherent immortal existence in the collective human subconscious. They are eternally existent in artistic symbolism and spiritual traditions. Part earthly and part-other worldly, these hidden forces interact with humanity by ...

After several millennia living as a lone sentinel in the Garden of Eden, the angel Tesque is contemplating leaving his post in rebellion against God. Meanwhile, in another time and place, a professor of mathematics isolates herself in remote Iceland as she finds herself increasingly at odds with society. The connection between these two characters? A letter, a sentient dog, and a deep-seated resistance to the demands of love.

Medicine for the Heart is a guide to the extraordinary richness of Scripture seen through Kierkegaard's eyes. He wrote about Scripture as none other, a literature of surpassing artistry and rare moral power. Kierkegaard described a new believer who discovered that life was beautiful, that it was a new gloriousness of faith that no human being can give to another, but that every human being has what is highest, noblest, and most sacred in humankind. It is original in him, and every human being has it if he wants to have it.

What is the Fruit of Knowledge? Is it connected with carnal knowledge, or is there a deeper meaning? What is the significance of the angel with the flaming sword that guards the way to Eden? How did the vengeful and jealous God of the Old Testament become the loving and forgiving God of the New Testament? What does the word 'Jehovah' actually mean and why does its nature change throughout the Biblical narrative? In the previous volume, Lambert revealed the mysteries hidden in the Bible's first creation account. Now he returns to Genesis and continues with the second story of creation. ...