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10 best books like The Gospel According to Jesus (Stephen Mitchell): Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith, The Healing of America, Mystics and Zen Masters, The Book of Job, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS Series), The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version, A Woman's Journey to God, Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day

Womanspirit Rising: A Feminist Reader in Religion
AuthorCarol P. Christ
ISBN0060613777
This text had been low on my Feminist Theology To-Reads simply because it was so often quoted since that I thought it might be redundant to read. But I kept feeling nudged to sit down with it on its own terms instead of others' summaries. My reading of it is strangely bittersweet.

As one of the foundational...
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time: The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN0060609176
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...
The Healing of America
AuthorMarianne Williamson
Noting a spiritually motivated political activism now emerging in America, Marianne Williamson claims that traditional political activists increasingly look to spiritual wisdom for inspiration while spiritual contemplatives are increasingly eager to extend their service to the world into...
Mystics and Zen Masters
AuthorThomas Merton
ISBN0374520011
Thomas Merton was recognized as one of those rare Western minds that are entirely at home with the Zen experience. In this collection, he discusses diverse religious concepts-early monasticism, Russian Orthodox spirituality, the Shakers, and Zen Buddhism-with characteristic Western directness....
The Book of Job
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0060969598
The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight.

Now, The Book of Job has been rendered into English by the eminent translator and scholar Stephen Mitchell, whose versions of Rilke, Israeli...
The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
AuthorMatthew Fox
ISBN0060629150
The idea that an omnipotent, conscious entity would will the universe into existence and populate it with free-willed beings only to fixate on their hygienic and sexual proclivities and punish offenses with death and damnation is ridiculous on its face, and yet in the United States (the "most Christian"...
Genesis: A Living Conversation (PBS Series)
AuthorBill Moyers
ISBN0385490437
People need stories to make sense of the world--to hold their lives together, and to fasten on to those values that last. The greatest stories are found in the Bible, enduring through the centuries. In "Genesis, " acclaimed television journalist Bill Moyers brings together some of the world's liveliest...
The Complete Gospels: Annotated Scholar's Version
AuthorRobert J. Miller
ISBN0944344496
The Complete Gospels includes all twenty of the known gospels from the early Christian era, clearly presented for the scholar, student and general reader alike. The new Scholars Version translation captures the full spirit and vitality of the original texts. This gospel picture of early traditions...
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...
Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day
AuthorDavid Steindl-Rast
ISBN1569752974
Read this little book in preparation for and on a Quiet Retreat. It was a helpful overview of the monastic hours of the day and the gifts each hour brings. A great book to read to help re-cover a sense of the rhythms of our days and years.

I particularly like the chapter on the hour of Prime in that it...
From Jesus to Christianity: How Four Generations of Visionaries and Storytellers Created the New Testament and Christian Faith
AuthorL. Michael White
ISBN0060816104
The path from Jesus to Christianity is not as straight as we might think. Now, for the first time, L. Michael White, one of the world's foremost scholars on the origins of Christianity, provides the complete, astonishing story of how Christianity grew from the personal vision of a humble Jewish peasant...
An Introduction to the New Testament
AuthorRaymond E. Brown
ISBN0385247672
Every generation needs a comprehensive, reliable Introduction to the New Testament that opens the biblical text to the novice. Raymond E. Brown's "An Introduction to the New Testament" is the most trustworthy and authoritative guidebook for a generation seeking to understand the Christian Bible.Universally...
Liberating the Gospels: Reading the Bible with Jewish Eyes
AuthorJohn Shelby Spong
ISBN0060675578
In this boldest book since Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism, Bishop John Shelby Spong offers a compelling view of the Gospels as thoroughly Jewish tests.Spong powerfully argues that many of the key Gospel accounts of events in the life of Jesus—from the stories of his birth to his physical...
Meditations: On the Monk Who Dwells in Daily Life
AuthorThomas Moore
ISBN0060927003
What a great book! So much things to consider afresh! Absolutely great meditations with humour but also some serious truth to consider and actually to apply in your life. I do have a respect for the life of a monk through reading this book and one can clearly see the benefits of these people in a society by...
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...
Jesus' Plan for a New World: The Sermon on the Mount
AuthorRichard Rohr
ISBN0867162031
When Jesus talked about the Kingdom of God, he was talking about an utterly different way of relating to human society as we know it. He was talking about a new world order, a term recently on the lips of politicians. What a false sense of the term they have used, contends popular preacher and author Richard...
The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q and Christian Origins
AuthorBurton L. Mack
ISBN0060653752
If you are a Christian and wavering in your faith, then this book may tip you over the edge. There are points the author raises that will challenge your beliefs and your understanding of many traditions that exist today. Q does not actually exist, but the contents have been reconstructed and is a collection...
Essential Sacred Writings from Around the World: A Thematic Sourcebook on the History of Religions
AuthorMircea Eliade
ISBN0062503049
Originally published as From Primitives to Zen, this comprehensive anthology contains writings vital to all the major non-Western religious traditions, arranged thematically. Here are colorful descriptions of deities, creation myths, depictions of death and the afterlife, teachings on...
The New Being
AuthorPaul Tillich
ISBN0803294581
These twenty-three meditations on key passages from the Bible were originally delivered as addresses at colleges and universities. They are short, powerful, and persuasive examinations of the effect of God’s love on the life of the believer and the challenges of living the New Creation—“the...
Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living
AuthorThich Nhat Hanh
Last month I attended a women's retreat. At the retreat center, they had these little cards up all over the building with these great little meditations on daily living. All day, the meditations prompted me to pause and reflect as I washed my hands or looked in the mirror or took a step outside the front...
Healing Into Life and Death
AuthorStephen Levine
ISBN0385262191
In "Healing Into Life And Death," Stephen Levine deals directly with the choice and application of treatment, offering original techniques for working with pain and grief, and discusses the development of a merciful awareness as a means of healing, as well as how to encourage others to do the same....
Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God
AuthorJack Miles
ISBN0679781609
With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken promise–God’s ancient covenant with Israel–and of its strange, unlooked-for...
Meister Eckhart, from Whom God Hid Nothing: Sermons, Writings, and Sayings
AuthorMeister Eckhart
ISBN1590302796
Like any book on spirituality, this volume of Meister Eckhart's sermons and other works will appeal to some people, confuse some people, and probably bother others. Certain people might even have all of these reactions, depending on which selection they are reading and how much time they spend puzzling...
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