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Rage of Poseidon
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ISBN: 1770461280 9781770461284 Year: 2013 Publisher: Montréal, Québec Drawn & Quarterly

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A wise and funny collection of modern-day parables about the ties between humans and their gods. Imagine you are Poseidon at the dawn of the twenty-first century. The oceans are dying and sailors have long since stopped paying tribute. They just don't need you anymore. What do you do? Perhaps, seeking answers, you go exploring. Maybe you end up in Wisconsin and discover the pleasures of the iced latte. And then, perhaps, everything goes wrong. Anders Nilsen, the author of Big Questions and Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, explores questions like these in his newest work, a darkly funny meditation on religion and faith with a modern twist. Rage of Poseidon brings all the philosophical depth of Nilsen's earlier work to bear on contemporary society, asking how a twenty-first-century child might respond to being sacrificed on a mountaintop, and probing the role gods like Venus and Bacchus might have in the world of today. Nilsen works in a unique style for these short stories, distilling individual moments in black silhouette on a spare white background. Above all, though, he immerses us seamlessly in a world where gods and humans are more alike than not, forcing us to recognize the humor in our (and their) desperation. Rage of Poseidon is devastating, insightful, and beautifully hewn; it's a wry triumph in an all-new style from a masterful artist.

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Essence of the Dhammapada
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ISBN: 1586380982 1586380974 9781586380984 9781586380977 Year: 2013 Publisher: Tomales, CA Nilgiri Press

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Eknath Easwaran, translator of the best-selling edition of the Dhammapada, sees this powerful scripture as a perfect map for the spiritual journey. Said to be the text closest to the Buddha's actual words, it is a collection of short teachings memorized during his lifetime by his disciples. Easwaran presents the Dhammapada as a guide to spiritual perseverance, progress, and ultimately enlightenment -- a heroic confrontation with life as it really is, with straight answers to our deepest questions. We witness the heartbreak of death, for instance -- what does that mean for us? What is love? How does karma work? How do we follow the spiritual life in the midst of work and family? Does nirvana really exist, and if so, what is it like to be illumined? In his interpretation of Buddhist themes, illustrated with stories from the Buddha's life, Easwaran offers a view of the concept of Right Understanding that is both exhilarating and instructive. He shares his experiences on the spiritual path, giving the advice that only an experienced teacher and practitioner can offer, and urges us to answer for ourselves the Buddha's call to nirvana -- that mysterious, enduring state of wisdom, joy, and peace.


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Firmly I believe and truly : the spiritual tradition of Catholic England (1483-1999)
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ISBN: 9780199677948 0199677948 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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An Anthology of Writings from 1483 to 1999 Firmly I Believe and Truly celebrates the depth and breadth of the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of the Post-Reformation English Roman Catholic tradition in an anthology of writings that span a five hundred year period between William Caxton and Cardinal Hume. Intended as a rich resource for all with an interest in Roman Catholicism, the writings have been carefully selected and edited by a team of scholars with historical, theological, and literary expertise. Each author is introduced to provide context for the included extracts and the chronological arrangement of the anthology makes the volume easy to use whilst creating a fascinating overview of the modern era in English Catholic thought. The extracts comprise a wide variety writing genres; sermons, prayers, poetry, diaries, novels, theology, apologetics, works of controversy, devotional literature, biographies, drama, and essays.

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Emplazados para una nueva evangelización
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ISBN: 9788415027409 8415027400 Year: 2013 Publisher: Madrid: Ediciones Universidad San Dámaso,

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Healing the soul : finding peace and consolation when life hurts
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ISBN: 9781585959211 1585959219 Year: 2013 Publisher: New London: Twenty-Third Publications,

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In thirty years of ministry, Deacon Eddie Ensley has seen pain. The prayer experiences he shares here can "feed our deeper selves with affirmations of God's love" so we can heal and be made whole again. These simple but startling powerful prayer methods can bring hope to spouses, parents, teens, professionals, the unemployed, the lonely, and anyone who suffers from physical pain, grief, depression, anxiety, family hurts, and even violence. When we enter this kind of deep prayer, Deacon Eddie says, "We are grasped by God's affirmation. We experience his love at the very heart of things; a love that cannot and will not let us go. And that love makes all things fresh and new." Even us.


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Learning to believe
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ISBN: 9789350151556 9350151553 Year: 2013 Publisher: Mumbai St Pauls

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Libri tres de moribus
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ISBN: 9788884505392 8884505399 Year: 2013 Volume: 33 14 Publisher: Firenze : SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo,

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The Awakening of the Soul
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ISBN: 1627936483 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lanham : Start Classics,

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It is to two English scholars, father and son, Edward Pococke, senior and junior, that the world is indebted for the knowledge of one of the most charming productions Arabian philosophy can boast of. Generally looked upon as a subject of repulsive aridity, in its strange combination of the most heterogeneous philosophical systems, devoid of the grace and charm of attractive style, unbrightened by brilliancy of wit or spirit, Arabian philosophy has, for centuries past, been subject to sad and undeserved neglect. Yet I cannot imagine a better and more eloquent refutation of this erroneous view t


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Voorbij de muur : spiritualiteit en uitzichtloosheid
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ISBN: 9789461960375 Year: 2013 Publisher: [Leuven] TGL

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Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI, Volume 16 : Works of Love
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ISBN: 1299462081 140084701X Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series, is also the monumental high point, because of its penetrating, illuminating analysis of the forms and sources of love. Love as feeling and mood is distinguished from works of love, love of the lovable from love of the unlovely, preferential love from love as the royal law, love as mutual egotism from triangular love, and erotic love from self-giving love. This work is marked by Kierkegaard's Socratic awareness of the reader, both as the center of awakened understanding and as the initiator of action. Written to be read aloud, the book conveys a keenness of thought and an insightful, poetic imagination that make such an attentive approach richly rewarding. Works of Love not only serves as an excellent place to begin exploring the writings of Kierkegaard, but also rewards many rereadings.

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