The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths

10 best books like The Woman Who Named God: Abraham's Dilemma and the Birth of Three Faiths (Charlotte Gordon): Teresa of Avila: The Progress of a Soul, Outdated: Why Dating Is Ruining Your Love Life, The 14th Dalai Lama: A Manga Biography, Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths, The Wisdom Jesus: Transforming Heart and Mind, The Book: A History of the Bible, Travels in a Veil: A Journey Into The Lives of Islamic Women, The Egyptian Myths: A Guide to the Ancient Gods and Legends, The World of Jesus: Making Sense Of The People And Places Of Jesus' Day, The Quotable Amelia Earhart

AuthorCathleen Medwick
ISBN0385501293
A refreshingly modern reconsideration of Saint Teresa (1515-1582), one of the greatest mystics and reformers to emerge within the sixteenth-century Catholic Church, whose writings are a keystone of modern mystical thought.

From the very beginning of her life in a convent, following the...
AuthorSamhita Mukhopadhyay
ISBN1580053327
Romance and love are in a state of crisis: Statistically speaking, young women today are living romantic lives of all kinds--but they're still feeling bogged down by social, cultural, economic, and familial pressures to love in a certain way. Young women in the modern world have greater flexibility...
AuthorTetsu Saiwai
ISBN0143118153
This graphic novel biography is an introduction to the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile. Born in 1935 to a peasant family in a small village, Tenzin Gyatso was recognized at the age of two as the reincarnation of his predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama. In 1950, His Holiness assumed full...
AuthorBruce Feiler
ISBN0060838663
Both immediate and timeless, Abraham is a powerful, universal story, the first-ever interfaith portrait of the man God chose to be his partner. Thoughtful and inspiring, it offers a rare vision of hope that will redefine what we think about our neighbors, our future, and ourselves.

In this...
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...
The Book: A History of the Bible
AuthorChristopher de Hamel
ISBN0714837741
Finally, after reading several non-fiction books of great interest but lesser quality writing, a good match of both subject and quality.

The Bible as a book is the subject of this history, which is not explicitly (or explicitly is not) a religious or spiritual work, and the author announces...
AuthorApril Fonti
Alternate cover edition for ASIN: B00QAH7RLW

I bought a headscarf to cover my short and spiky hair... and so begins the story of a young woman arriving in Peshawar, a volatile city on the border of Afghanistan.
It is 1998, little is known about this part of the world and she is just a backpacker...
AuthorGarry J. Shaw
ISBN0500251983
This survey of Egyptian mythology explores how the ancient Nile-dwellers explained the world around them. It delves into the creation and evolution of the world and the reigns of the gods on earth, before introducing us to the manifestations of Egypt's deities in the natural environment; the inventive...
AuthorWilliam H. Marty
ISBN0764210831
Popular Author Provides the Market's Most Accessible Introduction to the World of Jesus' Time
To understand Jesus' life and ministry, we need to understand the history and culture of his world. Marty, author of the popular "The Whole Bible Story," provides readers with a thoroughly readable,...
The Quotable Amelia Earhart
AuthorMichele Wehrwein Albion
"Adventure is worth while in itself."--Amelia Earhart, 1932

A fearless pioneer and a record-breaking pilot, Amelia Earhart engaged the nation and the world when she became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Today people remember her most for her disappearance on the last leg...
AuthorJohn Daido Loori
ISBN1590304799
Through Zen meditation it is possible to find stillness of mind, even amidst our everyday activities—and this practical book-and-CD set reveals how. John Daido Loori, one of America's leading Zen teachers, offers everything needed to begin a meditation practice. He covers the basics of where...
AuthorAvivah Gottlieb Zornberg
ISBN0385483376
Turn the Scriptures over to Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg and what do you get? A unique blend of brilliant literary insights and theological wisdom, derived from a lifelong immersion in rabbinic traditions and lore. With amazing literary sensitivity, Zornberg ingeniously breathes new life into Adam...
AuthorClifford A. Pickover
ISBN1454914343
Throughout history, the nature and mystery of death has captivated artists, scientists, philosophers, physicians, and theologians.

This eerie chronology ventures right to the borderlines of science and sheds light into the darkness. Here, topics as wide ranging as the Maya death gods,...
AuthorChristopher Stevens
Half the world’s population speaks a language that has evolved from a single, prehistoric mother tongue. A mother tongue first spoken in Stone Age times, on the steppes of central Eurasia 6,500 years ago. It was so effective that it flourished for two thousand years. It was a language that spread from...
AuthorSusie Larson
ISBN0764213326
How to Reach God's Heart with Bold, Humble Prayers

The all-powerful God of the universe loves you and wants to talk with you! Drawing from thirty years of journaling, trusted author and radio host Susie Larson shares the secrets to effective prayer. She will help you put into action the powerful...
AuthorJürgen Moltmann
Winner of Grawemeyer Award In this remarkable and timely work - in many ways the culmination of his systematic theology - world-renowned theologian Jurgen Moltmann stands Christian eschatology on its head. Moltmann rejects the traditional approach, which focuses on the End, an apocalyptic finale,...
AuthorMarcus J. Borg
ISBN1569751897
The image of the historical Jesus takes form in the words of the Gospel Q. The Lost Gospel Q represents the very first Gospel, older than the traditional Gospels and written by Jesus' contemporaries. It preserves Jesus' original words — the Sermon on the Mount, Beatitudes, the Lord's Prayer, parables,...
AuthorJoan D. Chittister
ISBN1933346345
What I Can Tell You: I have never heard of Joan Chittister and this is one of the most wonderful things about being a book reviewer. Sometimes things cross my desk that would have never been on my radar.

I am one of those people who go by the motto "everything happens for a reason" and I do believe there...
Women Who Kill
AuthorAnn Jones
I. The American legal system: grotesque and ludicrous double standard between white men and everybody else, with modifiers for class, race, gender, and whether or not you have connections (see Borden, comma, Lizzie). This is especially clear in (although by no means unique to) the definition of "self-defense,"...
AuthorGerald Schroeder
ISBN0061710156
“This is as important a book on this subject as I recall ever having read.”
— Huston Smith

“Brilliant.... Schroeder’s book demands the attention of anyone who wonders if God must be exiled from the modern, enlightened mind.”
— David J. Wolpe, author of Why Faith Matters

In...
Does God Exist? An Answer for Today
AuthorHans Küng
ISBN1597528013
The Jesuit institution of higher learning from which I graduated required a certain number of theology courses. So a good father laid this bulky tome onto us, and yes, I read the whole thing. Kung tirelessly and tiresomely goes through all the arguments in favor of the existence of God and when it comes...
Walking With the Enemy: A Testimony
AuthorC. Read
ISBN0967282594
“Walking With the Enemy: A Testimony,” by C. Read, is the true story about the author’s involvement with a Bible study group that turned out to be a cult remarkably similar to the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas, led by David Koresh.

As of 28 February 1993, Read had been with them for some...
AuthorAlice K. Turner
ISBN0156001373
PEEP BOOTHS IN HEAVEN

“Abominable fancy” is the Christian theological idea that one of the pleasures of the blessed in Heaven is the contemplation of the torments of the sinners in Hell. I was thinking about that, and it seemed to me that it might be considered a little embarrassing to be...
AuthorKaren Armstrong
ISBN0345391683
"SPLENDID . . . Eminently sane and patient . . . Essential reading for Jews, Christians, and Muslims alike."
--The Washington Post

Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city...
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