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New York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores how people are changed by meeting Jesus personally—and how we can be changed encountering him today.
The people who met Jesus Christ in person faced the same big life questions we face today. Like most of us, the answers handed down to them didn’t seem to work in the real world. But when they met Jesus, things immediately started...
The people who met Jesus Christ in person faced the same big life questions we face today. Like most of us, the answers handed down to them didn’t seem to work in the real world. But when they met Jesus, things immediately started...
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Urano
Pub. Date
[2010]
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241 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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Este libro expone como se puede vivir hoy la forma de vida que Jesus representa, mostrando que Jesus es una figura vibrante cuyas ensenanzas pueden ser debidamente integrada en la vida espiritual e intelectual del siglo XXI. Moore tambien revela el misterio de Jesus en el pasado y el presente, lo que esta oculto y codificado en los libros de los Evangelios.
Writing in the Sand sets forth how we can today live the way of life that Jesus represents,...
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2006.
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English
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In what are billed as "culture wars, " people on the political right and the political left cite Jesus as endorsing their views. Wills argues that Jesus subscribed to no political program--He was far more radical than that. It is only by dodges and evasions that people misrepresent what Jesus plainly had to say against power, the wealthy, and religion itself. Jesus came from the working class, and he spoke to and for that class. This book will challenge...
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2012.
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English
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Historians know virtually nothing about the two decades following the crucifixion of Jesus, when his followers regrouped and began to spread his message. During this time the man we know as the apostle Paul joined the movement and began to preach to the gentiles.Using the oldest Christian documents that we have-the letters of Paul-as well as other early Christian sources, historian and scholar James Tabor reconstructs the origins of Christianity....
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Time Books
Pub. Date
2015.
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xiv, 298 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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Jesus has been described in many ways: divine and human, a man of peace and justice, a faith healer--and paramount among all, a teacher. He engaged his followers as well as skeptics in dialogue, posing powerful questions to guide them to examine their personal faith and to teach them how to think after his own heart. Here, more than 70 of today's most prominent spiritual writers, religious leaders, and artists offer modern meditations on the questions...
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Almost two thousand years after his death, Jesus continues to be front-page news in the United States. Yet American Christians are deeply divided about what it means to follow him. Bible scholar Borg takes us on a journey to discover who Jesus was, what he taught, and why he still matters today. Borg argues that how we see Jesus affects how we see Christianity and reveals a new way of seeing--a new perspective that can overcome the differences between...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
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First edition.
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343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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Looks at the science behind the ancient practices of Buddhism through the story of the spiritual life and teachings of Siddhartha, the man who would become the Buddha, and how his discoveries anticipated the findings of modern neuroscience. --Publisher
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