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10 best books like Original Blessing (Matthew Fox): The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination, Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind, Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life, A Woman's Journey to God, Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings, A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying How a New Faith is Being Born, A Book of Hours, Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel, God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now

The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious Imagination
AuthorEsther de Waal
ISBN0385493746
Esther de Waal, one of Celtic Christianity's preeminent scholars, shows how this tradition of worship draws on both the pre-Christian past and on the fullness of the Gospel. It is also an enlightening glimpse at the history, folklore, and liturgy of the Celtic people.

Esther de Waal introduces...
Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian
AuthorPaul F. Knitter
ISBN1851686738
Being a Christian isn’t easy. Sustaining belief without any doubts for one’s entire life is a very rare accomplishment. Indeed, many would say that examining one’s faith at least once is a central part of the Christian condition. In this landmark work, esteemed theologian Paul Knitter explains...
The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind
AuthorCynthia Bourgeault
ISBN1590305809
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative...
Spiritual Literacy: Reading the Sacred in Everyday Life
AuthorFrederic Brussat
ISBN0684835347
A book that belongs in every seeker's home, Spiritual Literacy answers the universal question, "How can I live a spiritual life every day?" Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat reveal a way to read the texts of our lives and of the world around us for sacred meaning.
Using more than 650 brief examples from...
A Woman's Journey to God
AuthorJoan Borysenko
ISBN1573228354
“Women’s spirituality is as wild and free as that little girl. It is natural, earthy, relational, mystical, embodied, intuitive, sensuous, and compassionate. Slowly but surely, women’s poems, psalms, songs and liturgy are being written and prayed, sung and danced in a way of our own, suitable...
Celtic Devotional: Daily Prayers and Blessings
AuthorCaitlín Matthews
ISBN1592330436
Mirroring the ancient formulaic prayers to the elements found in the Celtic tradition, along with the wondrous invocations and declarations of the bards of the Scottish, Irish and Welsh traditions, Celtic Devotional provides a mystical doorway through which the modern person can re-invest their...
A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying How a New Faith is Being Born
AuthorJohn Shelby Spong
ISBN0060670630
In his bestselling book Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Bishop John Shelby Spong described the toxins that are poisoning the Church. Now he offers the antidote, calling Christians everywhere into a new and radical reformation for a new age. Spong looks beyond traditional boundaries to open new...
A Book of Hours
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN1933495057
This book is set up in the daily liturgical cycle, but instead of prayers from a lectionary or scripture readings, it is entirely composed of Thomas Merton's thoughts on silence, contemplation, nature, and listening to God. It's a great way to silence your soul to listen to God, and a good balance to something...
Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel
AuthorThomas Keating
ISBN0826406963
First published in 1986 and in print--and immensely popular--ever since, Open Mind, Open Heart, by the Trappist Monk Thomas Keating, remains one of the best introductions to a specifically Christian form of meditation. Father Keating gives the reader an overview of what contemplative prayer both...
God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
AuthorJohn Dominic Crossan
ISBN0060843233
At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America.

From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to...
Living the Questions: The Wisdom of Progressive Christianity
AuthorDavid L. Felten
ISBN0062109367
Ministers David Felten and Jeff Procter-Murphy, along with an all-star cast of Bible scholars and top church teachers, provide a primer to a church movement that encourages every Christian to “live the questions” instead of “forcing the answers.” Based on the bestselling DVD course of the...
Honest to God
AuthorJohn A.T. Robinson
ISBN0664244653
A LAUGH, A SONG, AND A HAND GRENADE

John Robinson was a Bishop, no less, and this little hand grenade of a book was published in 1963, and can be bracketed with The Silent Spring (1962), The Feminine Mystique (1963) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (finally published in 1960) – all books which kickstarted...
Prayers of the Cosmos: Reflections on the Original Meaning of Jesus's Words
AuthorNeil Douglas-Klotz
ISBN0060619953
Neil Douglas-Klotz offers a radical new translation of the words of Jesus Christ with Prayers of the Cosmos. Reinterpreting the Lord’s Prayer and the Beatitudes from the vantage of Middle Eastern mysticism, Douglas-Klotz, the Sufi Founder of the worldwide network of the Dances of Universal Peace,...
On Job: God-Talk and the Suffering of the Innocent
AuthorGustavo Gutiérrez
ISBN0883445522
It took awhile to warm up to Gutierrez. For some reason I'm not exactly sympathetic to the label "liberation theology" at the moment. Some reservations about the use of "innocent" with regards to the poor. But the last three chapters cleared some of that up.

Gutierrez maintains that the point...
The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN0060610352
How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an authentic...
Ordinary People as Monks and Mystics: Lifestyles for Self-discovery
AuthorMarsha Sinetar
ISBN0809127733
This book is a bit dated, but I enjoyed it, especially the final chapter. The study was, in my opinion, very flawed, especially with the selection of the so-called mystics. There were some LOL moments--particularly the "mystic" stay at home yoga-loving mom --but there were also some revealing moments...
Celtic Prayers from Iona: The Heart of Celtic Spirituality
AuthorJ. Philip Newell
ISBN0809104881
J. Philip Newell and his wife Ali were cowardens of the lay religious community of Iona Abbey in the Western Isles of Scotland. There Philip developed this book as an aid to daily prayer. Here is a weekly cycle of morning and evening prayers in the Celtic tradition, with gospel and psalm readings taken...
Original Self: Living with Paradox and Originality
AuthorThomas Moore
ISBN0060953721
In Original Self, spiritual pioneer Thomas Moore guides readers back to their God-given personalities through fifty heart-lifting meditations. This inspiring collection offers fresh interpretations of living with originality rather than conformity, presenting multidimensional portraits...
Christianity and Evolution
AuthorPierre Teilhard de Chardin
ISBN0156028182
Nineteen essays concerned with the relationship of science and religion. As a believing scientist, Teilhard wrestled with the problem of presenting to the believer a scientific picture that would enlarge his religious vision and to the scientist a statement of religious ideas that would integrate...
Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising
AuthorStarhawk
ISBN0865714568
“Notes From the Global Uprising”, this 2002 books recounts Starhawk’s internet posts from protests in Seattle, Quebec, D.C., Genoa, and from nonviolence trainings Brazil and elsewhere, as well as new text, a look at globalization, nonviolence vs. violence (and moving beyond this dichotomy),...
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