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Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion

10 best books like Luminous Web: Essays on Science and Religion (Barbara Brown Taylor): Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening, Death: The Final Stage of Growth, Praying Our Goodbyes, Miracle Detective, The Book: A History of the Bible, Your Powerful Prayers: Reaching the Heart of God with a Bold and Humble Faith, Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation, Sisters in the Wilderness, Orthodox Psychotherapy

Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul
AuthorCathleen Medwick
ISBN0385501293
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.

From the very beginning of her life in a convent, following the...
Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening
AuthorCynthia Bourgeault
ISBN1561012629
Practitioners of Centering Prayer are known for the great enthusiasm they bring to the practice of this ancient discipline. Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening is a complete guidebook for all who wish to know the practice of Centering Prayer. Cynthia Bourgeault goes further than offering an introduction,...
Death: The Final Stage of Growth
AuthorElisabeth Kübler-Ross
ISBN0671622382
Ours is a death-denying society. But death is inevitable, and we must face the question of how to deal with it. Coming to terms with our own finiteness helps us discover life's true meaning.Why do we treat death as a taboo? What are the sources of our fears? How do we express our grief, and how do we accept...
Praying Our Goodbyes
AuthorJoyce Rupp
ISBN0877933707
Everyone has unique goodbyes--times of losing someone or something that has given life meaning and value. With the touch of a poet, Joyce Rupp offers her wisdom on "these experiences of leaving behind and moving on, the stories of union and separation that are written in all our hearts." Praying Our...
Miracle Detective
AuthorRandall Sullivan
ISBN0751530220
In a tiny, dilapidated trailer in northeastern Oregon, a young Mexican woman saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in an ordinary landscape painting hanging on her bedroom wall. After being met with skepticism from the local parish, the Catholic diocese officially placed the matter "under investigation."...
The Book: A History of the Bible
AuthorChristopher de Hamel
ISBN0714837741
Finally, after reading several non-fiction books of great interest but lesser quality writing, a good match of both subject and quality.

The Bible as a book is the subject of this history, which is not explicitly (or explicitly is not) a religious or spiritual work, and the author announces...
Your Powerful Prayers: Reaching the Heart of God with a Bold and Humble Faith
AuthorSusie Larson
ISBN0764213326
How to Reach God's Heart with Bold, Humble Prayers

The all-powerful God of the universe loves you and wants to talk with you! Drawing from thirty years of journaling, trusted author and radio host Susie Larson shares the secrets to effective prayer. She will help you put into action the powerful...
Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
AuthorMartin Laird
ISBN0195307607
Sitting in stillness, the practice of meditation, and the cultivation of awareness are commonly thought to be the preserves of Hindus and Buddhists. Martin Laird shows that the Christian tradition of contemplation has its own refined teachings on using a prayer word to focus the mind, working with...
Sisters in the Wilderness
AuthorDelores S. Williams
ISBN1570750262
In this landmark work of emerging African American womanist theology, Delores Williams finds in the biblical figure of Hagar -- mother of Ishmael, cast into the desert by Abraham and Sarah, but protected by God -- a prototype for the struggle of African-American women. African slave, homeless exile,...
Orthodox Psychotherapy
AuthorHierotheos Vlachos
ISBN9607070275
الكتاب رائع جدا جدا ويقدم ليس نظرية جديدة ولكن خبرة ورؤية جديدة لمشكلة مرض النفس الانسانية
يعتمد الكاتب على كتابات الاباء الولين فى فهم النفس الانسانية...
The Triads (Classics of Western Spirituality Series)
AuthorGregory Palamas
ISBN0809124475
Part 1: Philosophy does not save.

In this first chapter (and by chapter that is the division that Pelikan and Meyendorrf are using, and so I will use) Palamas critiques the Baarlamite notion that we have to know in order to be saved. Or more precisely and better put, we have to have a good grounding...
Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind
AuthorElizabeth Lloyd Mayer
ISBN0553803352
In 1991, when her daughter’s rare, hand-carved harp was stolen, Lisby Mayer’s familiar world of science and rational thinking turned upside down. After the police failed to turn up any leads, a friend suggested she call a dowser—a man who specialized in finding lost objects. With nothing to...
Where Are You Going?: A Guide to the Spiritual Journey
AuthorMuktananda
ISBN0911307605
Where are you going? What is the purpose of life?

Sometimes it seems that we have been sidetracked and have lost sight of our true destination. One of the great spiritual masters of the modern age, Swami Muktananda, tells us, "Now is the time to get back on the main road." In the essays, stories,...
Will and Spirit
AuthorGerald G. May
ISBN0062505823
This book is a curative for easy answers, and a goad to further inquiry into one's existing conclusions about spirituality.

The central dichotomy of willingness and willfulness in relation to the divine may seem a bit simplistic, but in Gerald May’s hand it becomes a tool for fruitful inquiry....
Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary
AuthorFrederick Buechner
ISBN0060611405
I am me. I am a sinner. ” “Hi, you. ” Hi, every Sadie and Sal. Hi, every Tom, Dick, and Harry. It is the forgiveness of sins, of course. It is what the Church is all about. No matter what far place alcoholics end up in, either in this country or virtually anywhere else, they know that there will be an A.A....
Truth vs. Falsehood: How to Tell the Difference
AuthorDavid R. Hawkins
ISBN0971500738
The exploration into the truth of man's activities is unique, intriguing, and provocative. From a new perspective, one quickly grasps the levels of truth expressed by the media, the arts, writers, painters, architecture, movies, TV, politics, and war, as well as academia and the greatest thinkers...
Everything Starts from Prayer: Mother Teresa's Meditations on Spiritual Life for People of All Faiths
AuthorMother Teresa
ISBN1883991374
At the Home for the Dying in Calcutta, Mother Teresa often cared for the residents as they approached the end. As she was ministering to one illness-ravaged man, a visitor overheard her whisper a few words to him. These few words embody some of Mother Teresa’s most wonderful wisdom. This is what she...
Christ Is Passing by
AuthorJosemaría Escrivá
ISBN0933932049
Christ Is Passing By collects 18 homilies given by St. Josemaria between 1951 and 1971, on the occasion of various liturgical feast days. The guiding thread is divine filiation, and the universal call to holiness entailed by this reality. Other important themes are the sanctification of ordinary...
Beyond Death's Door
AuthorMaurice S. Rawlings
ISBN0553229702
All through recorded history people have predicted life after death. But only now, with modern resuscitation methods, are we beginning to see "Beyond Death's Door." Does death represent the end of this life or the beginning of another? Does anyone know what happens after death? Has anyone been there?...
God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic Church
AuthorGeorge Weigel
ISBN0060937599
George Weigel's bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict XVI as well as an unflinching view of the Catholic Church at...
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