Philosophy and Theology
10 best books like Philosophy and Theology (John D. Caputo): The Lottery and Other Stories, The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings, The Little Match Girl, The Gift of the Magi, The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion, Listening & Caring Skills: A Guide for Groups and Leaders, Your Brain On Porn, Climbing Parnassus: A New Apologia for Greek and Latin, Creating a Healthier Church: Family Systems Theory, Leadership and Congregational Life (Creative Pastoral Care & Counseling), Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care
The Lottery and Other Stories
| Author | Shirley Jackson |
| ISBN | 0374529531 |
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. "Power and haunting," and "nights of unrest" were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson's lifetime, unites...
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0553212281 |
Edgar Allan Poe remains the unsurpassed master of works of mystery and madness in this outstanding collection of Poe's prose and poetry are sixteen of his finest tales, including "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Fall of the House of Usher," "The Pit and the Pendulum," "William...
| Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
| ISBN | 0439643635 |
Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne = The little match Girl, Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Match Girl (Danish: Den Lille Pige med Svovlstikkerne, meaning "The little girl with the matchsticks") is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story, about a dying child's...
One dollar and eight-seven cents is all the money Della has in the world to buy her beloved husband a Christmas present. She has nothing to sell except her only treasure -- her long, beautiful brown hair. Set in New York at the turn of the twentieth century, this classic piece of American literature tells...
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 3: Hotel Oblivion
| Author | Gerard Way |
| ISBN | 1506711421 |
With a new Netflix series, the best-selling graphic novels return--with the original creators!
Gerard Way (My Chemical Romance, Doom Patrol) and Gabriel Bá (Two Brothers, Casanova) have earned awards and accolades on their separate projects, and finally return to their breakout 2007...
Listening & Caring Skills: A Guide for Groups and Leaders
| Author | John Savage |
| ISBN | 0687017165 |
The secret to leadership and transformation of a group--or of another person--is the quality of the relationship one person has with another. The effective group leader or counselor will be the person who learns how to listen to other people. By studying and employing listening skills, church leaders...
When high speed internet became widely available a few years ago, growing numbers of people began to worry that their porn use was running out of control. Far from preparing them for fulfilling relationships, viewing an endless stream of porn videos led to unexpected symptoms. Perhaps most surprisingly,...
| Author | Tracy Lee Simmons |
| ISBN | 1882926730 |
Discussions of educational reform often involve windy talk of a "return to the classics," yet rarely do would-be reformers go so far as to advocate a return to education in the classical languages themselves. That is a program that strikes even the most stalwart critics of contemporary educational...
| Author | Ronald W. Richardson |
| ISBN | 0800629558 |
Ronald W. Richardson helps us to understand how congregations function emotionally. Without being simplistic, he gives clear directions on how to improve their quality of life together and function more effectively in achieving mission goals. This book offers: A theory about human behavior that...
Injustice and the Care of Souls: Taking Oppression Seriously in Pastoral Care
| Author | Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook |
| ISBN | 0800662350 |
Pastoral care is often focused on individual problems, but much of what harms and impedes us stems from the larger social maladies at work in our lives. This unprecedented gathering of two dozen essays discusses the realities of racism, sexism, heterosexism, ageism, ableism, and classism prevalent...
In Living Color: An Intercultural Approach to Pastoral Care and Counseling
| Author | Emmanuel Y. Lartey |
| ISBN | 1843107503 |
The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged and re-examined from a pluralistic, global perspective in this book. Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order to effectively counsel, guide and empower...
A Brief History of Spirituality
| Author | Philip Sheldrake |
| ISBN | 1405117710 |
A Brief History of Spirituality tells the story of Christian spirituality from its origins in the New Testament to the present day.
Charts the main figures, ideas, images and historical periods, showing how and why spirituality has changed and developed over the centuries Draws out the distinctive...
Forged in the Fiery Furnace: African American Spirituality
| Author | Diana L. Hayes |
| ISBN | 1570754721 |
A text for Brite Spring 2016 course, "Spiritual Life and Leadership"--From the Publisher: African American spirituality was forged in the fiery furnace of slavery, segregation, and ongoing racial discrimination in both church and society. But African Americans are a people who are strengthened...
Simone Weil: Attention to the Real
| Author | Robert Chenavier |
| ISBN | 0268023735 |
How can we articulate the intimate demand of the spiritual life and the struggle for solidarity? These two issues have often been treated separately; in Simone Weil: Attention to the Real, however, Robert Chenavier explores the work of Simone Weil (1909–1943) and demonstrates how she brought them...
Dying for a Drink: What You Should Know about Alcoholism
| Author | Anderson Spickard Jr. |
| ISBN | 0849904676 |
In the United States, alcoholism leads to 100,000 unnecessary deaths per year. Nearly 3 in 10 American adults are "risky drinkers." 18 million Americans are abusing alcohol regularly. More than 1/2 of Americans have a close family member who is an alcoholic. Despite the scope of this problem, there...
Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us
| Author | Simone Weil |
| ISBN | 0874868300 |
Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.
Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today's spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to...
The Experience of God: Icons of the Mystery
| Author | Raimon Panikkar |
| ISBN | 0800638255 |
In this beautiful meditation, Panikkar charts the paradoxes and possibilities of our experience of God. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from the Bible and Western mystics to the Vedas and the Bhagavad Gita, he probes human language and silence, adoration and alienation, to find the root of all our...
