The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church
10 best books like The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery, and Meaning in an Ordinary Church (Margaret Visser): Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics), Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World, Selected Works, Maiden Voyages: Writings of Women Travelers, Stalking the Divine, Practicing Our Faith: A Way of Life for a Searching People, The Shaping of a Life: A Spiritual Landscape, Breathing Space: A Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx, Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a Living Faith, God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible---A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal
| Author | Cyril Charles Richardson |
| ISBN | 0684829517 |
This selection of writings from early church leaders includes work by Clement of Rome, Ignatius, Polycarp, Irenaeus, Athenagoras and Justin Martyr.
Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides...
Replenishing the Earth: Spiritual Values for Healing Ourselves and the World
An impassioned call to heal the wounds of our planet and ourselves through the tenets of our spiritual traditions, from a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
It is so easy, in our modern world, to feel disconnected from the physical earth. Despite dire warnings and escalating concern over the...
| Author | Bernard of Clairvaux |
| ISBN | 0809129175 |
Here in a new translation by G.R. Evans are the writings that have had such a major role in shaping the Western monastic tradition and influencing the development of Catholic mystical theology. Together with an introduction by the master of Bernard studies, jean Leclercq, they comprise a volume that...
| Author | Mary Morris |
| ISBN | 0679740309 |
This is a collection of women's travel writings, including work by Joan Didion, Edith Wharton, Mildred Cable, Willa Cather, Isak Dinesen, and others. In wry, lyrical, and sometimes wistful voices, they write of disguising themselves as men for safety, of longing for family left behind or falling...
| Author | Kristin Ohlson |
| ISBN | 0452286409 |
I picked up this book because I recently read an interesting essay written by Kristin Ohlson and thought I'd like to see what else she had written. (The essay, by the way, about memories in childhood, is here:
http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/wh... )
From the cover, I see that this...
| Author | Dorothy C. Bass |
| ISBN | 0787938831 |
Many Christians are looking for ways to deepen their relationship with God by practicing their faith in everyday life. Some go on retreats but are often disappointed to find that the integrated life they experienced in a place apart is difficult to recreate in their day-to-day world. Many thoughtful,...
| Author | Phyllis A. Tickle |
| ISBN | 0385497563 |
In The Shaping of a Life, Phyllis Tickle recounts her life with honesty and humor, richly conveying both the external events and the internal insights and emotions. As Tickle chronicles her deepening understanding of prayer and the rewards of marriage, family, and spiritual life, she reaches across...
| Author | Heidi B. Neumark |
| ISBN | 0807072575 |
Breathing Space is the story of Heidi Neumark and the Hispanic and African-American Lutheran church-Transfiguration-that took a chance calling on a pastor from a starkly different background. Despite living and working in a milieu of overwhelming poverty and violence, Neumark and the congregation...
| Author | Jimmy Carter |
| ISBN | 1578562902 |
For Jimmy Carter, Holy Scripture has been a constant companion, a source of inspiration and strength in both good times and bad. A lifetime of devoted Bible reading has taught him that the truths of Scripture have the power to enrich and transform our daily lives in unexpected ways. Sources of Strength...
| Author | Brian Moynahan |
| ISBN | 0312314868 |
The English Bible---the mot familiar book in our language---is the product of a man who was exiled, vilified, betrayed, then strangled, then burnt.
William Tyndale left England in 1524 to translate the word of God into English. This was heresy, punishable by death. Sir Thomas More, hailed...
| Author | Jan L. Richardson |
| ISBN | 0835810305 |
Jan starts with Eve and asks the readers to engage the story without the lens of interpretation that has defined the story of the fall of man, an explanation of how sin entered the world. She invites the readers - as women - to trace our own lines of longings, our own reaching, and taking, and tasting, and...
| Author | Paula Fredriksen |
| ISBN | 0300084579 |
In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. A new introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on...
| Author | Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon |
| ISBN | 1595479260 |
Madame Guyon was a French noblewoman who was born in an unprincipled time fated to its corruption. She grew up in a church as licentious as the world in which it was established: spiritually despondent and plagued by ignorance. Regardless of these tormenting conditions, she rose to the inimitability...
| Author | Fiona Maddocks |
| ISBN | 0747273987 |
Among Catholic saints, the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen perhaps best fits the description of wild womanhood offered by Cole Porter's "The Lady Is a Tramp." That is, Hildegard did it all, she did it her way, and everyone who hears about her is amazed. Such is a fair summary of the evidence...
| Author | Belden C. Lane |
| ISBN | 0195315855 |
In the tradition of Kathleen Norris, Terry Tempest Williams, and Thomas Merton, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes explores the impulse that has drawn seekers into the wilderness for centuries and offers eloquent testimony to the healing power of mountain silence and desert indifference.
Interweaving...
The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, Volume I
| Author | Jacobus de Voragine |
| ISBN | 0691001537 |
Depicting the lives of the saints in an array of both factual and fictional stories, "The Golden Legend" was perhaps the most widely read book, after the Bible, during the late Middle Ages. In his new translation, the first in modern English of the complete text from the Graesse edition, William...
The Ascent of Mount Carmel
| Author | Juan de la Cruz |
| ISBN | 1428614001 |
Written between 1578 and 1579 in Granada, Spain, after John's escape from prison, the Ascent is illustrated by a diagram of the process outlined in the text of the Soul's progress to the summit of the metaphorical Mount Carmel where God is encountered. The work is divided into three sections and is set...
The Rock That Is Higher: Story as Truth
| Author | Madeleine L'Engle |
| ISBN | 0877887268 |
We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes… –Madeleine L’Engle, from The Rock That Is...
The Mystical City of God (4 Volume Set)
| Author | Mary of Agreda |
| ISBN | 0895558254 |
Written by Venerable María de Jesús de Agreda, a 17th century Spanish nun, after years of private revelations from God the Father and Most Holy Mary, Mística Ciudad de Dios (The Mystical City of God) is a marvelous and life-changing narrative of most wonderful and hidden mysteries about the life...
The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Morality and Law
| Author | Alan M. Dershowitz |
| ISBN | 0446676772 |
This is a curious book to read as someone from a Christian background. I have read Genesis many times, and I have heard many sermons and written analyses about these stories, but I was still challenged by Professor Dershowitz's approach to the material. Essentially, he analyzes the book of Genesis as...
The Life of Mary As Seen By the Mystics
| Author | Raphael Brown |
| ISBN | 0895554364 |
A masterpiece that combines the visions of four great Catholic mystics into one coherent story on the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Based primarily on the famous revelations of Ven. Anne Catherine Emmerich and Ven. Mary of Agreda, it also includes many episodes described in the writings of St. Bridget...
| Author | Henri J.M. Nouwen |
| ISBN | 0385126166 |
According to Henri Nouwen, the bestselling spiritual writer, every Christian is a minister—trying to live his life in the light of the Gospel. Creative Ministry is a thoughtful examination of the various complex tasks that are part of that way of life.Separate chapters treat each of the five areas...
| Author | Alfonso María de Liguori |
The Glories of Mary
by St. Alponsus Ligouri (1696-1787) is one of the greatest Catholic books ever written.
Actually, it is five complete books in one volume. Here the great Doctor of the Church has assembled the very finest information about Our Lady that he could find, all taken from many...
| Author | Augustine Thompson |
| ISBN | 0801450705 |
Among the most beloved saints in the Catholic tradition, Francis of Assisi (c. 1181-1226) is popularly remembered for his dedication to poverty, his love of animals and nature, and his desire to follow perfectly the teachings and example of Christ. During his lifetime and after his death, followers...
