Jesus + Nothing = Everything

By Tullian Tchividjian

It’s really easy to disregard what the Christian religion is all about. We fight quite a bit, paintings so tough, and fail so usually that we regularly feel anything within the equation of existence has to be missing.

Tullian Tchividjian argues that what we're lacking is the gospel—a fuller, extra strong knowing of Jesus and what his comprehensive paintings ability for daily life.

During a 12 months of significant turmoil, Pastor Tchividjian stumbled on the facility of the gospel in his personal existence. Sharing his tale of the way Jesus turned extra actual to him, Tchividjian delves deeply into the basics of the religion, explaining the results of Christ’s sufficiency—a revelation that units us loose and retains us anchored via life’s storms.

Ultimately, Tchividjian reminds us that Jesus is the full of the equation as he boldly broadcasts that Jesus plus not anything quite is everything.

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Simply Jesus: A New Vision of Who He Was, What He Did, and Why He Matters

By N. T. Wright

In Simply Jesus, bestselling writer and top Bible pupil N.T. Wright summarizes 2 hundred years of contemporary Biblical scholarship and types how Christians can most sensible retell the tale of Jesus at the present time. In a mode just like C.S. Lewis’s well known works, Wright breaks down the obstacles that hinder Christians from totally attractive with the tale of Jesus. For believers confronting the problem of connecting with their religion this present day, and for readers of Timothy Keller’s The explanation for God, Wright’s Simply Jesus deals a provocative new photo of the way to appreciate who Jesus was once and the way Christians should still relate to him today. 

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The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine (Veritas Books)

2008 Christian Bookseller's Covention booklet of the yr Award winner! World-renowned scientist Richard Dawkins writes in The God Delusion: "If this e-book works as I intend, spiritual readers who open will probably be atheists after they placed it down." the amount has acquired extensive insurance, fueled a lot passionate debate and prompted no longer a bit confusion. Alister McGrath, with his spouse, Joanna, are excellent to guage Dawkins's rules. as soon as an atheist himself, he won a doctorate in molecular biophysics prior to happening to develop into a number one Christian theologian. He wonders how humans, who've mirrored at size on considerably an analogous global, might be able to have come to such varied conclusions approximately God. McGrath matters Dawkins's critique of religion to rigorous scrutiny. His exhilarating, meticulously argued reaction bargains with questions equivalent to

  • Is religion highbrow nonsense?
  • Are technology and faith locked in a conflict to the death?
  • Can the roots of Christianity be defined away scientifically?
  • Is Christianity easily a strength for evil?

This publication might be warmly obtained by way of these searching for a competent evaluate of The God Delusion and the numerous questions it raises--including, specially, the relevance of religion and the hunt for which means.

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Spiritual Defiance: Building a Beloved Community of Resistance

A major voice of revolutionary Christianity makes a strong case for religion as an intensive means of being within the world

in the course of his thirty-year profession as a parish minister and professor, Robin Meyers has considering renewing the church as an software of social swap and private transformation. during this provocative and passionate e-book, he explores the decline of the church as a group of believers and calls readers again to the church’s roots as a group of resistance. transferring the dialog approximately church renewal clear of theological purity and advertising concepts that include cultural norms, and towards “embodied noncompliance” with the dominant tradition, Meyers urges a go back to the progressive spirit that marked Jesus’s ministry.
 

Framing his dialogue round 3 poems by way of twentieth-century Polish poet Anna Kamienska, Meyers casts the character of religion as a strength that stands opposed to whatever and every little thing that engenders dying and indignity. He demands active—sometimes even subversive—defiance of the ego’s temptations, of what he phrases “the heresy of orthodoxy itself,” and of an uncritical recognition of militarism and capitalism. every one bankruptcy is a poignant and pressing invitation to recuperate the Jesus move as a loved group of Resistance.

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The Confessions of St. Augustine (Paraclete Essentials)

By Augustine of Hippo

The 1st autobiography ever written, and some of the most profound testaments of religion, ever.

"This ebook is the masterpiece from which all different Christian memoirs circulation. Augustine's remarkable tale is still as clean because it did while he wrote it within the overdue fourth century. The Confessions nonetheless speaks with a transparent, vibrant and altogether precise voice to believers and seekers trying to find the one that will provide leisure to their stressed hearts."
—James Martin, SJ, writer of My lifestyles with the Saints

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The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments In Political Theology

By Simon Critchley

The go back to faith has arguably turn into the dominant topic of up to date tradition. by some means, the secular age turns out to were changed by means of a brand new period the place political motion flows without delay from theological, certainly cosmic, clash. The religion of the Faithless lays out the philosophical and political framework of this concept and seeks to discover a fashion past it. should still we safeguard a model of secularism or quietly settle for the slide into theism? Or is there in a different way?

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The Dionysian Mystical Theology (Mapping the Tradition)

The Dionysian Mystical Theology introduces the Pseudo-Dionysian "mystical theology," with glimpses at key levels in its interpretation and important reception throughout the centuries. partly one, the elusive Areopagite's personal miniature essay, The Mystical Theology, is quoted in its entirety, sentence via sentence, with statement. Its cryptic contents will be nearly impenetrable with out really appropriate connection with the remainder of the Dionysian corpus: The Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchy, The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, and the 10 Letters. Of distinct significance is the Dionysian use of negations in an "apophatic" theology that acknowledges the transcendence of God past human phrases and concepts.

Stages within the reception and critique of this Greek corpus and subject matter are sketched partly : first, the preliminary sixth-century advent and marginal reviews (Scholia) by means of John of Scythopolis; moment, the early Latin translation and observation through the ninth-century Carolingian Eriugena and the twelfth-century statement by means of the Parisian Hugh of St. Victor; and 3rd, the severe response and competition by means of Martin Luther within the Reformation. In end, the Dionysian apophatic is gifted along other kinds of unfavorable theology in gentle of recent and postmodern pursuits within the subject.

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The "Book of Common Prayer": A Biography (Lives of Great Religious Books)

By Alan Jacobs

While many folks are conversant in such well-known phrases as, "Dearly liked, we're accumulated jointly right here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, airborne dirt and dust to dust," we won't comprehend that they originated with The Book of universal Prayer, which first seemed in 1549. just like the phrases of the King James Bible and Shakespeare, the language of this prayer ebook has saturated English tradition and letters. the following Alan Jacobs tells its tale. Jacobs exhibits how The Book of universal Prayer--from its beginnings as a way of social and political keep an eye on within the England of Henry VIII to its around the globe presence today--became a venerable paintings whose cadences exhibit the guts of spiritual existence for many.

The book's leader maker, Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, created it because the authoritative handbook of Christian worship all through England. yet as Jacobs recounts, the booklet has had a variable and dramatic profession within the advanced heritage of English church politics, and has been the point of interest of celebrations, protests, or even prison phrases. As time handed, new different types of the publication have been made to fit the various English-speaking countries: first in Scotland, then within the new usa, and at last anywhere the British Empire prolonged its arm. through the years, Cranmer's booklet was once tailored for various personal tastes and reasons. Jacobs vividly demonstrates how one publication turned many--and the way it has formed the devotional lives of guys and girls around the globe.

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The Book of God

Translated by means of Dr. A. Wolf from the Dutch [version of the author’s Tractatus de Deo et homine] and edited and with an advent via Dagobert D. Runes.
 
Spinoza is at the present time thought of the thinker of contemporary occasions, as Aristotle was once the thinker of Antiquity. inspite of which, he is still the easiest recognized and least learn of the good thinkers.

The ebook of God, one in every of his earliest works, got here to mild just a hundred years in the past in just a little various Dutch manuscripts. Its younger writer lived in turbulent instances, whilst the Western global was once torn via civil and non secular strife, and bullies, bigots and pseudo-prophets vied for the ear of a worried humans. whereas Europe used to be in an uproar over the proper church, Spinoza was once looking definitely the right God. This ebook is the 1st identified record of his findings. showing like a draft for his later Ethics, it's a consultant for the Bewildered. those that see in philosophy not more than an highbrow workout could have no hassle brushing aside it. yet these imbued with the eager for a greater and freer existence will locate right here a such a lot lucrative fountain of faith.

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