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Publisher
Hodder
Pub. Date
2016
Description
In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks tackles the thorny issue of violence committed in the name of God - and draws on arguments from science, philosophy, and many other disciplines to show how religion, rightly understood, is hardwired to be part of the solution, not just the problem.
Author
Publisher
The Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Countering the atheist claim that believers are by default violent fanatics and religion is the cause of all major wars, Karen Armstrong demonstrates that religious faith is not inherently violent. In fact, the world's major religions have throughout their history displayed ambivalent attitudes towards aggression and warfare. At times they have allied themselves with states and empires for protection or to further their influence; at others they have...
Author
Publisher
Piatkus
Pub. Date
2015
Description
In 1979 Jon Kabat-Zinn popularised the Buddhist practice of mindfulness when he revealed that it could alleviate depression. While mindfulness is a powerful tool, it will only take us so far. Now the highly acclaimed thought leader and English translator for His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Thupten Jinpa Langri (known as Jinpa) teaches us to take the next step. He shows us that compassion correlates strongly with happiness, stress reduction, a sense of...
Author
Publisher
Inter-Varsity
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Paul Tripp brings many years of counselling, growth as a husband, and the discovery of the power of grace to this realistic and challenging guide to God's engagement in redeeming marriages that are threatened by misunderstanding and selfishness.
12) The book of joy
Author
Publisher
Hutchinson
Pub. Date
2016
Description
'The Book of Joy' is the first ever collaboration between the two Nobel Peace Prize laureates. The book will comprise answers to questions posed to the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu via their Facebook pages; the pair will answer a selection of them with writer Douglas Abrams, who has written a children's title, 'God's Dream' with Tutu.
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2024
Description
What if your best life is a sober life? Double-certified sobriety coach Christy Osborne discovered this in her own life and has helped countless clients realize the same. Now, in this highly practical guide, she brings together the psychology of habits and triggers, truth and hope from Scripture, and the science of alcohol?s effect on the body for a forty-day alcohol reset. Experience the gifts of sobriety through enhanced sleep, clearer thinking,...
Author
Publisher
Bodley Head
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Drawing on a wide range of material, from the spiritualities of world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience, Karen Armstrong argues that compassion is hardwired into our brains, yet is constantly pushed back by our more primitive instincts for selfishness and survival.
16) The four loves
Author
Publisher
Collins
Pub. Date
2012
Description
C.S. Lewis' famous work on the nature of love divides love into four categories - affection, friendship, Eros and charity. Lewis observes how each merges into the other, without losing sight of the necessary and real difference between them.
Author
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Description
This title explores how evolution has provided a new understanding of reality, with revoutionary consequences for Christianity. In an evolutionary perspective the incarnation involved God entering the evolving human species to help it imitate the trinitarian altruism in whose image it was created.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Description
Every human endeavour, from a primary school to the MoD, needs leadership. The Church believes itself to have a clear understanding of what constitutes Christian leadership, but advocates of leadership have been unable to give a clear, concise and universally accepted definition of the term. Justin Lewis-Anthony argues that our understanding of both secular and religious leadership has been fatally compromised by the unconscious functioning of 'mythic'...