The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus
10 best books like The Five Gospels: What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus (Robert W. Funk): Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, Twelfth Night, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith, Her Blue Body Everything We Know: Earthling Poems 1965-1990 Complete, Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World, Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile, The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life., A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying How a New Faith is Being Born
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
From the internationally bestselling author of No god but God comes a fascinating, provocative, and meticulously researched biography that challenges long-held assumptions about the man we know as Jesus of Nazareth.
Two thousand years ago, an itinerant Jewish preacher and miracle worker...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743482778 |
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays with love and power. The Countess Olivia, a woman with her own household, attracts Duke (or Count) Orsino. Two other would-be suitors are her pretentious steward, Malvolio, and Sir Andrew Aguecheek.
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| Author | Marcus J. Borg |
| ISBN | 0060609176 |
Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our...
| Author | Alice Walker |
| ISBN | 0156028611 |
This is one of the volumes I had hoarded for National Poetry Month. Alice Walker is better known as the author of The Color Purple, but she has written quite a few poems. These span from 1965 and are highly biographical, from her trip to Kenya to her work in voter registration in Mississippi, through relationship...
Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World
| Author | Jane McGonigal |
| ISBN | 0224089250 |
More than 31 million people in the UK are gamers. The average young person in the UK will spend 10,000 hours gaming by the age of twenty-one. What's causing this mass exodus? According to world-renowned game designer Jane McGonigal the answer is simple: videogames are fulfilling genuine human needs....
Why Christianity Must Change or Die: A Bishop Speaks to Believers In Exile
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060675365 |
An important and respected voice for liberal American Christianity for the past twenty years, Bishop John Shelby Spong integrates his often controversial stands on the Bible, Jesus, theism, and morality into an intelligible creed that speaks to today's thinking Christian. In this compelling and...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0060616296 |
"He comes as yet unknown into a hamlet of Lower Galilee. He is watched by the cold, hard eyes of peasants living long enough at a subsistence level to know exactly where the line is drawn between poverty and destitution. He looks like a beggar yet his eyes lack the proper cringe, his voice the proper whine,...
The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation
"A remarkable work of slowed-down journalism...They are doing their jobs as journalists and writing the first draft of history." --Jill Filipovic, The Washington Post
"...Generous but also damning." --Hanna Rosin, The New York Times
From two New York Times reporters, a deeper...
Elizabeth Warren: Her Fight. Her Work. Her Life.
| Author | Antonia Felix |
| ISBN | 1492665282 |
"Nevertheless, she persisted." These three words became an inspiring battle cry across the United States in 2017, but the woman to whom they refer has been fighting passionately all her life. Raised in a tough working-class home in Oklahoma, Elizabeth Warren went on to become a revered scholar, law...
| Author | John Shelby Spong |
| ISBN | 0060670630 |
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...
| Author | John Dominic Crossan |
| ISBN | 0060616628 |
Crossan does a textual analysis of canonical gospels, non canonical gospels and other extrabiblical texts using fields of study such as medical anthropology, cultural anthropology, and biblical archaeology to create a reconstruction of the historical Jesus. What i appreciate most about this...
The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore
| Author | Deepak Chopra |
| ISBN | 0307338312 |
Who is Jesus Christ?
In The Third Jesus, bestselling author and spiritual leader Deepak Chopra provides an answer to this question that is both a challenge to current systems of belief and a fresh perspective on what Jesus can teach us all, regardless of our religious background. There is not...
The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
New York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus’s divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed...
