An Analysis of St. Augustine's the City of God Against the Pagans (Teubner Jonathan D.)(Paperback)

An Analysis of St. Augustine's the City of God Against the Pagans (Teubner Jonathan D.)(Paperback)

City of God (Augustine of Hippo)(Paperback)

St Augustine, bishop of Hippo, was one of the central figures in the history of Christianity, and City of God is one of his greatest theological works. Written as an eloquent defence of the faith at a time when the Roman Empire was on the brink of collapse, it examines the ancient pagan religions

Augustine's City of God: A Reader's Guide (O'Daly Gerard)(Paperback)

The most influential of Augustine's works, City of God played a decisive role in the formation of the Christian West. Augustine wrote City of God in the aftermath of the Gothic sack of Rome in AD 410, at a time of rapid Christianization across the Roman Empire. Gerard O'Daly's book remains the

Orosius: Seven Books of History Against the Pagans (Fear A. T.)(Paperback)

This book is a new annotated translation of Orosius's Seven Books of History against the Pagans. Orosius's History, which begins with the creation and continues to his own day, was an immensely popular and standard work of reference on antiquity throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. Its importance

Brief History of the Vikings (Clements Jonathan)(Paperback / softback)

The last pagans or the first modern Europeans? A consice history of the

The Missionaries: God Against the Indians (Lewis Norman)(Paperback)

The Missionaries was intended to be the concluding book of an autobiographical trilogy (beginning with Voices of the Old Sea and Jackdaw Cake) but instead was transmuted into a deeply searing examination of the extermination of indigenous tribes by North American fundamentalist missionaries. Lewis

Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (Berman Morris)(Paperback)

Presents an analysis of the 'nomadic' consciousness of our ancestors, and the forces --religious and political --that overwhelmed it during the Neolithic era, and considers its revival in the twentieth

The Trinity (Augustine St)(Paperback)

Augustine's long exposition of the doctrine of theTrinity was written after the Council of Constantinople (381) had settled the matter of the consubstantiality of the three Persons of the Trinity. Augustine began this work around the year 400 and completed it in 416. Taking the image of God in the

142 Ostriches (Davila April)(Paperback)

Set against the unexpected splendor of an ostrich ranch in the California desert, April D vila's beautifully written debut conjures an absorbing and compelling heroine in a story of courage, family and forgiveness. When Tallulah Jones was thirteen, her grandmother plucked her from the dank Oakland

Joy in God: Rekindling an Inner Fire (Hartmann Joachim)(Paperback)

Contemplative prayer and the contemplative way of life are the central themes of this book. Against the backdrop of their rich experience of accompanying those coming on retreat to House Gries, Germany, the authors talk about what happens in silence: healing and wholeness, suffering and

The Problem of God: Answering a Skeptic's Challenges to Christianity (Clark Mark)(Paperback)

The Problem of God explores answers to the most difficult questions raised against Christianity.A skeptic who became a Christian and then a pastor, author Mark Clark grew up in an atheistic home. After his father's death, he began a skeptical search for truth through the fields of science,

God Is Dead Volume 2 (Costa Mike)(Paperback)

Jonathan Hickman's vision for the end of the world through divine retribution continues with an electric new chapter from writer Mike Costa! After the cataclysmic battle of gods, the human religions are left in tatters and civilization in ruin. The human-born goddess Gaia has laid claim to Earth

The Mystical City of God: A Popular Abridgment (Agreda Mary)(Paperback)

The Mystical City of God by Venerable Mother Mary of Jesus of Agreda (1602-1665) is a monumental four-volume, 2,676-page history of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, as revealed by Our Lady to this 17th-century Spanish nun. Venerable Mary saw in ecstasy all the events recorded here. Later, Our

August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean (Wilson August)(Paperback)

Set in 1904, August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean begins on the eve of Aunt Esther's 287th birthday. When Citizen Barlow comes to her Pittsburgh's Hill District home seeking asylum, she sets him off on a spiritual journey to find a city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Gem of the Ocean is the ninth

Confessions: St Augustine (O'Rourke Benignus)(Paperback)

'A canticle to God, and full of psychological insights that might have been written yesterday, the Confessions are the story of a soul, and also the story of God, and how he is constantly at work seeking us.' Confessions is perhaps the most important spiritual autobiography of all: it chronicles

The History of English: An Introduction (Gramley Stephan)(Paperback)

The History of English: An Introduction provides a chronological analysis of the linguistic, social, and cultural development of the English language from before its establishment in Britain around the year 450 to the present. Each chapter represents a new stage in the development of the language

The Twenty-Seventh City (Franzen Jonathan)(Paperback)

The debut novel of New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Franzen, The Twenty-Seventh City is 'a startling, scathing first novel about American ambition, power, politics, money, corruption and apathy' (People). St. Louis, Missouri, is a quietly dying river city until it hires a new police

St. Augustine's Confessions (Augustine Saint)(Paperback)

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a

Cry the Beloved Country (Paton Alan)(Paperback / softback)

Set against a background of apartheid, this is the story of Kumalo, an elderly clergyman who goes to Johannesburg in search of his

Shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer (Masters Brian)(Paperback / softback)

An extraordinary analysis into the mind of a notorious killer which set the standard in true crime

The Big Book of Pagan Prayer and Ritual (Serith Ceisiwr)(Paperback)

A complete guide to the practice of prayer and ritual for Pagans of all traditions.Here is an extraordinarily comprehensive collection of payers and rituals for contemporary Pagans from a variety of traditions to turn to again and again. The Big Book of Pagan Prayer and Ritual includes the

Blue of Noon (Bataille Georges)(Paperback / softback)

Set against the backdrop of Europe's slide into Fascism, this title provides an account of depravity and violence. Exploring the dark forces beneath the surface of civilization, it is torn between identifying with history's victims and being seduced by the monstrous glamour of its terrible

Essentials of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (Smith Jonathan a.)(Paperback)

The brief, practical texts in the Essentials of Qualitative Methods series introduce social science and psychology researchers to key approaches to to qualitative methods, offering exciting opportunities to gather in-depth qualitative data and to develop rich and useful findings. Essentials of

Life: An Exploded Diagram (Peet Mal)(Paperback / softback)

A brilliant coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Cold War and events leading up to the Cuban Missile