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The Religion of the Aryo-Germanic Folk: Esoteric and Exoteric
A general outline of the religious philosophy of Guido von List originally published in the 1920s and a companion volume to The Secret of the Runes. There is an introductory essay by Stephen E. Flowers on the roots of Lists ideas and philosophy.
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Advent Lights: A Journey through Advent with the Advent Wreath
Covering the period from Advent Sunday to Christmas Day, this thought-provoking daily reading book explores Christian themes inspired by the tradition of the Advent wreath.
Designed to fit into busy lives, daily entries include a bible passage, short reflection and prayer, accompanied by original artwork.
Step back from the bustle of festive preparations for a few minutes each day, and take time to connect spiritually with Christmas.Read more
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Superstition and Science: Mystics, sceptics, truth-seekers and charlatans
‘A dazzling chronicle, a bracing challenge to modernity’s smug assumptions’ – Bryce Christensen, Booklist
‘O what a world of profit and delight
Of power, of honour and omnipotence
Is promised to the studious artisan.’
Christopher Marlowe, Dr FaustusBetween the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Europe changed out of all recognition. Particularly transformative was the ardent quest for knowledge and the astounding discoveries and inventions which resulted from it. The movement of blood round the body; the movement of the earth round the sun; the velocity of falling objects (and, indeed, why objects fall) – these and numerous other mysteries had been solved by scholars in earnest pursuit of scientia.
This fascinating account of the profound changes undergone by Europe between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment will cover ground including folk religion and its pagan past; Catholicism and its saintly dogma; alchemy, astrology and natural philosophy; Islamic and Jewish traditions; and the discovery of new countries and cultures.
By the mid-seventeenth century ‘science mania’ had set in; the quest for knowledge had become a pursuit of cultured gentlemen. In 1663 The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge received its charter. Three years later the French Academy of Sciences was founded. Most other European capitals were not slow to follow suit. In 1725 we encounter the first use of the word ‘science’ meaning ‘a branch of study concerned either with a connected body of demonstrated truths or with observed facts systematically classified’. Yet, it was only nine years since the last witch had been executed in Britain – a reminder that, although the relationship of people to their environment was changing profoundly, deep-rooted fears and attitudes remained strong.
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Ten Theories of Religion
Why do human beings believe in divinities? Why do some seek eternal life, while others seek escape from recurring lives? Why do the beliefs and behaviors we typically call “religious” so deeply affect the human personality and so subtly weave their way through human society?
Ideal as a supplementary text in introductory religion courses or as the main text in theory and method in religious studies or in sociology of religion courses, Ten Theories of Religion, Fourth Edition, offers an illuminating treatment of this controversial and fascinating subject.Read more
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Apologia: A Memoir
Aidan Nichols has been contributing to theological literature since the beginning of the 1980s. Now in his seventy-fifth year, he looks back not only at his writings but at the three-quarters of a century of life from which they came. He explains how, despite a nominally Anglican background, his early sense of the transcendent was really of God in nature. Only through an experience in the Russian church in Geneva did he become a confessing Christian. Back home, where he was left a teenage orphan, he moved from Anglo-Catholicism into the Roman Catholic Church. After reading Modern History at Oxford, that led by a natural progression to becoming a Religious and a priest. In this book Nichols describes the wide variety of situations in which he has lived in Scotland, Norway, Rome, France, Ethiopia, and Jamaica, as well as England and the United States. Over the years, drawing on not only Catholic but also Orthodox and Anglican sources, he has produced a small library of books, touching on many areas of theology and culture while also seeking, at different times, to bind them together into a coherent unity, inspired by, principally, two great giants: Thomas Aquinas, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Aidan Nichols, the pontificates of John Paul II and Benedict XVI were a halcyon time. Things have been more difficult under the successor to these popes. He explains the problems he has encountered, both theoretical and practical, and his search for a resolution that is satisfactory both theologically and autobiographically. He ends his apologia with a raft of proposals for the stabilization and enrichment of ecclesial life in the decades to come.Read more
£12.30Apologia: A Memoir
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A Doubter’s Guide to World Religions: A Fair and Friendly Introduction to the History, Beliefs, and Practices of the Big Five
The world is a very religious place. Wherever you look, people are worshipping, praying, believing, following, even dying for their faith. But are all religions the same? Do they all call on the same God simply using different names? Are their beliefs and practices simply cultural expressions of the same spiritual longings?
Written in John Dickson’s characteristically engaging and readable style, this book presents each of the world’s five major religions in their best light, carefully outlining the history, belief systems and spiritual practices of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam so that the interested doubter can explore their similarities and differences. For believers and doubters alike, A Doubter’s Guide to World Religions provides a fair and friendly introduction.
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people’s experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.“A mighty and momentous book: a book to be read and re-read, pondered and revered; a subtle, profound book written with passion and eloquence, and with masterly control.”―J. J. Scarisbrick, The Tablet
“Revisionist history at its most imaginative and exciting. . . . [An] astonishing and magnificent piece of work.”―Edward T. Oakes, Commonweal
“A magnificent scholarly achievement, a compelling read, and not a page too long to defend a thesis which will provoke passionate debate.”―Patricia Morison, Financial Times
“Deeply imaginative, movingly written, and splendidly illustrated.”―Maurice Keen, New York Review of Books
Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award
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The Meaning and End of Religion
Wilfred Cantwell Smith, maintained in this vastly important work that Westerners have misperceived religious life by making “”religion”” into one thing. He shows the inadequacy of “”religion”” to capture the living, endlessly variable ways and traditions in which religious faith presents itself in the world.
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Discovering Daniel Workbook: Finding Our Hope in God’s Prophetic Plan Amid Global Chaos
A Deeper Dive into Daniel
In Daniel, we see God’s faithfulness to His own on brilliant display, as well as His incredible and perfect plans for the future. This workbook companion to Discovering Daniel offers a wealth of additional content to further enrich your study of Daniel, highlighting its strong ties to the book of Revelation and helping you abide in God’s sovereignty and love.In this illuminating resource, you will find
- guidance on how to best interpret and understand the book of Daniel in connection with other the prophetic parts of Scripture, especially Revelation
- opportunities to gain a deeper understanding of God’s purposes and plans for both today and the future
- wisdom, from Daniel’s bold example, for engaging today’s contentious cultural climate with unwavering faith
In a culture fraught with fear and discord, Bible prophecy helps soothe our anxious hearts while deepening our trust in God’s providence and care. The Discovering Daniel Workbook will help you apply the remarkable insights of Daniel to your daily life, emboldening you to live with hope and confidence.
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Discovering Daniel: Finding Our Hope in God’s Prophetic Plan Amid Global Chaos
Our Lives and the Future Are in His Hands
While the world appears to be in dire straits, the book of Daniel paints a vivid picture of the many ways God guides our lives and world events, providing us with great reason to hope.Using the same deep but easy-to-understand style found in his standout seller Revealing Revelation, bestselling author Amir Tsarfati reveals how Daniel’s prophecies–and his unwavering faith in a contentious culture–provide vital insights for living out these last days with hope and wisdom. As you explore the deep connection between Daniel and Revelation, you will learn how
- 2,500 years of future history unfolded exactly the way God said it would, demonstrating how all things are in His hands
- prophetic mysteries in Daniel reveal crucial insights into the signs, timeline, and events of the last days
- God’s ability to use Daniel’s faith in powerful ways shows how He can work through us too
Discovering Daniel reveals how the words, actions, and visions of the prophet Daniel can provide you with purpose and hope in today’s chaotic world, encouraging you to live with confidence in God’s supreme sovereignty and love in the time we have left on this earth.
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Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference (Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs)
Original Sin and the Evolution of Sexual Difference develops an interdisciplinary conversation between evolutionary biology, feminist philosophy, and theology in order to illuminate the entanglement of Christian thinking about original sin with theologies of sexual difference. It then assesses the opportunities for rethinking original sin and its implications for theologies of sexual difference in light of developments in evolutionary biology and feminist theology and philosophy.Despite some resistances in the present age to conceptions of both original sin and meaningful sexual differences, this study argues that both can provide essential insights that help to make sense of some of the features of human life in the twenty-first century, especially the stubborn persistence of inequality, poverty, environmental degradation, and the pernicious patterns of sexual violence and abuse that have been uncovered by the #MeToo movement. To this end, Megan Loumagne Ulishney marshals resources from a variety of places-Augustine of Hippo, feminist theology, the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, John Paul II, and a new group of feminist philosophers known as the New Feminist Materialists-to develop an analysis of original sin and sexual difference that is grounded in both scientific and theological insights about creaturely life. The project cultivates a sense of wonder at the diversity and unpredictability of human biology, a value for the role of creativity in the human participation that partially shapes our ongoing evolution, and humility about the extent to which we can predict and control the future of the evolution of our species. It illuminates the interdependencies that define creaturely life, the persistent entanglement of nature and culture, the centrality of desire to human identity and behaviour, and the role played by biology in the transmission of sin. It develops a vision of material life as evolving, generative, and imbued with activity, but also as simultaneously infected with sin and saturated with the divine.
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Philosophy of Religion for OCR: The Complete Resource for Component 01 of the New AS and A Level Specification
Philosophy of Religion for OCR is an ideal guide for students taking the Philosophy of Religion component of the OCR Religious Studies AS and A Level course. Drawing on insights gained from many years of teaching experience, Dennis Brown and Ann Greggs’ landmark book follows the OCR specification closely and includes:
·clear and comprehensive discussion of each topic in the specification
·discussion of both historical and cutting-edge philosophical approaches
·use of excerpts from primary sources to engage students in philosophical debate
·profiles of important philosophical and religious thinkers, a glossary and helpful chapter summaries
·discussion questions, activity boxes, thought points and suggestions for further reading
·practical ideas on study skills, essay-writing and assessment objectivesPhilosophy of Religion for OCR provides a clear, accessible and comprehensive introduction to each of the topics on the course, including ancient philosophy, mind, body and soul, arguments for and against God’s existence, religious experience and religious language. Written by two experienced teachers and textbook authors, Philosophy of Religion for OCR will assist students of every ability to achieve their best.
This book, which covers component 01 of the OCR H173 and H573 specifications, should be paired with Religion and Ethics for OCR by Mark Coffey and Dennis Brown, which covers component 02, and Developments in Christian Thought for OCR by Dennis Brown and Ann Greggs, which covers component 03.
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Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation, disgraced leaders, and covered-up scandals. Left behind are millions of believers who counted on the church to be a place of belonging and hope. As greater and greater numbers of younger Americans bleed out from the church, even the most rooted evangelicals are wondering, ‘Can American Christianity survive?’ In Losing Our Religion, Russell Moore calls his fellow evangelical Christians to conversion over culture wars, to truth over tribalism, to the gospel over politics, to integrity over influence, and to renewal over nostalgia. With both prophetic honesty and pastoral love, Moore offers a word of counsel for how a new generation of disillusioned and exhausted believers can find a path forward after the crisis and confusion of the last several years. Believing the gospel is too important to leave it to hucksters and grifters, he shows how a Christian can avoid both cynicism and complicity in order to imagine a different, hopeful vision for the church. The altar call of the old evangelical revivals was both a call to repentance and the offer of a new start. In the same way, this book invites unmoored and discouraged Christians to step out into an uncertain future, first by letting go of the kind of cultural, politicized, status quo Christianity that led us to this moment of reckoning. Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what’s dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again.Read more
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They Flew: A History of the Impossible
An award-winning historian’s examination of impossible events at the dawn of modernity and of their enduring significance
“Historically rich and superbly written.”―David J. Davis, Wall Street Journal
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era―tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft―even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals.
Eire observes how levitating saints and flying witches were as essential a component of early modern life as the religious turmoil of the age, and as much a part of history as Newton’s scientific discoveries. Relying on an array of firsthand accounts, and focusing on exceptionally impossible cases involving levitation, bilocation, witchcraft, and demonic possession, Eire challenges established assumptions about the redrawing of boundaries between the natural and supernatural that marked the transition to modernity.
Using as his case studies stories about St. Teresa of Avila, St. Joseph of Cupertino, the Venerable María de Ágreda, and three disgraced nuns, Eire challenges readers to imagine a world animated by a different understanding of reality and of the supernatural’s relationship with the natural world. The questions he explores―such as why and how “impossibility” is determined by cultural contexts, and whether there is more to reality than meets the eye or can be observed by science―have resonance and lessons for our time.Read more
£24.10£28.50They Flew: A History of the Impossible
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The Enigmas of History: Myths, mysteries and madness from around the world
History is replete with unanswered questions regarding rumoured past events, objects, and cultures that often turn into the stuff of legends.Each chapter in this engaging study examines a particular mystery; they come from locations across the globe and throughout the annals of human history. The topics addressed include the lost city of Atlantis; the Ark of the Covenant; the legend of the crystal skulls; and the enigma of the indecipherable Voynich manuscript.
Entertaining and informative, The Enigmas of History is an unbiased review of historical puzzles and bewildering discoveries that is perfect for the historian and curious sceptic alike.
Praise for The Enigmas of History:
’The Enigmas of History is an enjoyable romp through familiar material (bible mysteries, witchcraft, conspiracy theories) with some surprising new takes (an interesting comparison between belief in fairies back then and aliens more recently). It’s a good starting place for anyone who hasn’t read such a book before’ – Books from Scotland
Alan K. Baker was born in Birmingham. Having left university, he embarked on a series of unpleasant jobs, including a stint in a sausage factory which he credits with stimulating his interest in the bizarre and macabre. Since 1997 he has written several non-fiction books about the paranormal and popular history.
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Vintage Christmas Coloring Book: Cute And Fun Vintage Christmas Coloring Pages For All Ages To Relax And Enjoy The Holiday. Gift Idea For Special Occasions
Unleash your creativity with the Vintage Christmas Coloring Book Immerse yourself in a world of captivating designs that will both inspire and relax you.
Features:
- Variety of Abstract Designs: Explore a diverse array of abstract designs that invite you to let your imagination run wild as you fill them with color.
- Therapeutic Art: Take a break from the daily hustle and discover solace in the therapeutic art of coloring. It’s a wonderful way to unwind and destress.
- Versatile Coloring Tools: Use your favorite coloring tools, whether it’s pens, pencils, markers, or watercolors, to breathe life into these enchanting designs.
- Single-Sided Printing: Each page is printed on one side, preventing ink bleed-through and allowing you to easily frame your finished masterpieces.
- Generous Size: With dimensions of 8.5×11 inches, this coloring book provides ample space for intricate coloring and creative expression.
Indulge in a coloring experience that not only soothes the soul but also ignites your artistic flair. Let’s Coloring be your companion on a journey of relaxation and self-expression.
Discover the perfect gift for a friend, co-worker, or children, and create lasting memories together!!
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National Gallery: Trafalgar Square at Christmas Advent Calendar (with stickers)
Enjoy the countdown to Christmas! Open a numbered window every day in December until the big day and reveal a seasonal image to help you get in the festive spirit! Produced in partnership with the National Gallery, each window reveals a masterpiece from their incredible collection, including works from George Stubbs, Claude Monet, Raphael and many more. Printed on FSC-certified paper.Read more
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The Time Traveler’s Oracle: A 44-Card Deck and Guidebook
A mystical adventure through space and time beckons you! Each journey through The Time Traveler’s Oracle can activate secret messages from the depths of your soul―and from the Universe. Simply stepping through the space-time continuum sparks profound, positive shifts and changes within you.
Time traveling–which is the ability to travel from one temporal locale to another–beckons us to learn and grow. While traditionally we think of this as a journey into the past or future, from a spiritual perspective, it can also be lateral travel into a different locale at a different time. It’s a sacred pilgrimage that allows you to see the world, the Universe, and yourself with new meaning and new perspectives.
From the earliest history of humankind, people turned to visionaries to gain insight into their lives, and these seers stepped through mystic gateways into other realms–and other time periods–to bring back answers and give meaning to the seemingly random events of life. These seers were the earliest time travelers. It’s no longer necessary to turn to a seer; you have the innate capacity to travel through divine entryways to obtain an understanding of the circumstances of your life.
Deepen your connection to the mysterious, natural forces around you, and find the long-sought answers to your most heartfelt questions, as you take an extraordinary voyage to different locales and time periods. Using the power of your consciousness/imagination–with oracle cards as guideposts along the way–you will be transported to powerful sites, such as:
– The Venice Renaissance in Italy
– Uluru in Australia
– The River Nile in Egypt
– The Amazon Rainforest in Brazil
– The Taj Mahal in India
– The Northern Lights in Iceland
– A Zen Monastery in Japan, and so much more.These oracle cards can help you deepen your connection to the mysterious, natural forces around you, as well as to the far past of our planet and beyond . . . and provide profound inner wisdom. Whether they take you to an event in history or a general locale on the planet, each trip carries a personal message for you, such as creativity, growth, courage, patience, and more. The cards can be used to gain information about the future, help you make decisions, show you where you are presently, and help you discover your inner truth.
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Alice: A Christmas Ghost Story
Praise for Shani Struthers’ books:***** One of the best books in this genre. (Wildacre)
***** One of the best Christmas Ghost Stories I have ever read. (Eve)
***** It reminds me of the old black and white British ghost story films. (Rosamund)
***** Another instant classic from Shani Struthers. (The Damned Season)
***** A meloncholy masterpiece. (Carfax House)
***** Shani Struthers is my Queen of Horror. (Highgate)From the author of the bestselling Psychic Surveys series comes a Christmas Ghost Story like no other!
Is anyone ever who they seem?
After suffering the tragic loss of her best friend, Lottie Beck is struggling. Aged eighteen, she’s flunked school and spends her days lying in a darkened room, doing nothing. Finally, she is forced to get a job at Silver Birches Care Home.
Once there, and after meeting the residents, particularly the feisty, no-nonsense Bobby, she settles in, appreciating how much history lies behind each person. A history she can read, in her own special way, via the touch of a hand.
Alice is another resident, aged ninety-two, and mute. A woman who has always been institutionalised and is now near the end of days. It is she who intrigues Lottie the most, but whom she also fears. All she knows is something happened to make her the way she is, an event on Christmas Eve, way back, something sinister.
Surely she deserves peace, but if together they aren’t brave enough to confront what lurks in the darkest recesses of her mind, she’ll die in anguish.
It’s Christmas Eve again, 2023, and as Lottie is about to find out: not all ghosts are dead.
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Psychic Surveys Series:
Psychic Surveys Book One: The Haunting of Highdown Hall
Psychic Surveys Book Two: Rise to Me
Psychic Surveys Book Three: 44 Gilmore Street
Psychic Surveys Book Four: Old Cross Cottage
Psychic Surveys Book Five: Descension
Psychic Surveys Book Six: Legion
Psychic Surveys Book Seven: Promises to Keep
Psychic Surveys Book Eight: The Weight of the Soul
Psychic Surveys Book Nine: The Devil’s Liar
Psychic Surveys Companion Novels:
Eve: A Psychic Surveys Prequel
Blakemort (Corinna’s story)
Thirteen (Ness’s story)
Rosamund (Rosamund Davis – Ruby’s great-grandmother’s story)
Jed (the story of one of Psychic Surveys most loved and mysterious characters)
This Haunted World Series:
This Haunted World Book One: The Venetian
This Haunted World Book Two: The Eleventh Floor
This Haunted World Book Three: Highgate
This Haunted World Book Four: Rohaise
This Haunted World Book Five: Resistance
Reach for the Dead Series:
Reach for the Dead Book One: Mandy
Reach for the Dead Book Two: Cades Home Farm
Reach for the Dead Book Three: Walker
Jessamine Series:
Jessamine
Comraich
Summer of Grace – A Standalone Mystery Thriller
Christmas Ghost Stories
Carfax House
The Damned Season
Wildacre
Alice
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Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
A fascinating journey through the history of “Amazing Grace,” one of the transatlantic world’s most popular hymns and a powerful anthem for humanity. Sung in moments of personal isolation or on state occasions watched by millions, “Amazing Grace” has become an unparalleled anthem for humankind. How did a simple Christian hymn, written in a remote English vicarage in 1772, come to hold such sway over millions in all corners of the modern world? With this short, engaging cultural history, James Walvin offers an explanation. The greatest paradox is that the author of “Amazing Grace,” John Newton, was a former Liverpool slave captain. Walvin follows the song across the Atlantic to track how it became part of the cause for abolition and galvanized decades of movements and trends in American history and popular culture. By the end of the twentieth century, “Amazing Grace” was performed in Soweto and Vanuatu, by political dissidents in China, and by Kikuyu women in Kenya. No other song has acquired such global resonance as “Amazing Grace,” and its fascinating history is well worth knowing.Read more
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