الاثنين، 18 مايو 2015
Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?
Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial
?
. . .
and Other Questions from the Astronomers In-box at the Vatican Observatory
Guy Consolmagno SJ
Witty and thought provoking, two Vatican astronomers shed provocative
light on some of the strange places where religion and science meet.
“Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?”
– Pope Francis, May, 2014
Pope Francis posed that question – without insisting on an answer! – to provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But it's not the first time that question has been asked.
“Imagine if a Martian showed up, all big ears and big nose like a child’s drawing, and he asked to be baptized. How would you react?”
– Pope Francis, May, 2014
Pope Francis posed that question – without insisting on an answer! – to provoke deeper reflection about inclusiveness and diversity in the Church. But it's not the first time that question has been asked.
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The Francis Miracle
The Francis Miracle
Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church
John L. Allen
There is no other organization whose inner workings are more secretive
than the Vatican - the spiritual and physical center - of the Catholic
Church. Now, with a dynamic new leader in Pope Francis, all eyes are
upon the church, as this immensely popular Pope seeks to bring the
church back from the right to center, in what can almost be described as
a populist stance, blurring the lines between politics, religion and
culture. With topics including women, finance, scandal, and reform at
the fore, never before have so many eyes been upon the church in what
could be its defining moment for modern times.
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The Jesus Papers
The Jesus Papers
Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History
Michael Baigent
What if everything we have been told about the origins of Christianity is a lie?
What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden . . . until now?
What if there is evidence that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion?
In Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and his co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. The book became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with two additional decades of research behind him, Baigent's The Jesus Papers presents explosive new evidence that challenges everything we know about the life and death of Jesus
What if a small group had always known the truth and had kept it hidden . . . until now?
What if there is evidence that Jesus Christ survived the crucifixion?
In Holy Blood, Holy Grail Michael Baigent and his co-authors Henry Lincoln and Richard Leigh stunned the world with a controversial theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene married and founded a holy bloodline. The book became an international publishing phenomenon and was one of the sources for Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code. Now, with two additional decades of research behind him, Baigent's The Jesus Papers presents explosive new evidence that challenges everything we know about the life and death of Jesus
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Killing Jesus Christ
Killing Jesus Christ
Nicholas Notovitch, Bill OReilly
"One day, while visiting a Buddhist convent on my route, I learned from a
chief lama, that there existed in the archives of Lhassa, very ancient
memoirs relating to the life of Jesus Christ and the occidental nations,
and that certain great monasteries possessed old copies and
translations of those chronicles." So begins this remarkable history of
the life of Jesus Christ as revealed by newly unearthed documents.
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Between Pagan and Christian
Between Pagan and Christian
Christopher P. Jones
Who and what was pagan depended on the outlook of the observer, as
Christopher Jones shows in this fresh and penetrating analysis. Treating
paganism as a historical construct rather than a fixed entity, Between
Christian and Pagan uncovers the fluid ideas, rituals, and beliefs that
Christians and pagans shared in Late Antiquity.
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Sufism Today
Sufism Today
Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community
Catharina Raudvere, Leif Stenberg
This book offers the first sustained treatment of Sufism in the context
of modern Muslim communities. It is also innovative, in that it broadens
the purview of the study of Sufism to look at the subject right across
international boundaries, from Canada to Brazil, and from Denmark to the
UK and USA. Subjects discussed include: the politics of Sufism, the
remaking of Turkish Sufism, tradition and cultural creativity among
Syrian Sufi communities, the globalization of Sufi networks, and their
transplantation in America, Iranian Sufism in London, and Naqshbandi
Sufism in Sweden. In its thorough examination of how Sufi rituals,
traditions and theologies have been adapted by late-modern religiosity,
this volume will make indispensable reading for all scholars and
students of modern Islam.
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Losing the Bond with God
Losing the Bond with God
Sexual Addiction and Evangelical Men
Kailla Edger-Peoples
Losing the Bond with God: Sexual Addiction and Evangelical Men offers a
humane and constructive understanding of this issue, treating it from an
objective perspective rather than the Christian perspective that is
common to writings on the subject. Based on her own qualitative study of
self-identified evangelical sex addicts, the author shows how these men
must overcome the compartmentalization of their lives and improve the
integration of religion, marriage, and sexuality if they are to break
their destructive patterns.
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