St Francis of Assisi's embrace of a life of poverty revolutionized Christianity even as it transformed the ethics of the West. This text preserves the legend of St Francis, combining stories of miracles with portraits of his first disciples who were no less human for having been touched by God.

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A journey of the soul through the map of Christian time. The liturgical year, beginning on the first Sunday of Advent and carrying through the following November, is the year that sets out to attune the life of the Christian to the life of Jesus, the Christ.

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Bestselling author and Bible teacher Sheila Walsh unpacks the deepest longings of a womans heart and encourages readers to discover Gods relentless pursuit of them through those very longings---now in paperback.

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Bestselling author and Bible teacher Sheila Walsh unpacks the deepest longings of a womans heart and encourages readers to discover Gods relentless pursuit of them through those very longings.

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Demonstrates the importance of social location and cultural presuppositions in the interpretation of cultic texts and acts.

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The fruit of many years of personal experience and seminars on disciple making, this is an extremely helpful book for Christian leaders and laypersons desiring to have personal discipling ministries.

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This group of feminist readings of parables about women and their work aims to fill a gap in the scholarly literature on parables. It brings to life vignettes from ancient Mediterranean women's lives, covering the place of women in the ministry of Jesus, the early church and Christian theology.

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In The Lost Discipline of Conversation, spiritual formation professor and author Joanne Jung introduces the forgotten Puritan practice of purposeful, transparent spiritual conversations - called conference - that can renew our spiritual lives today.

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A gripping exploration of the life of the world's oldest and most famous printed book.

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A fresh look at Jesus that will stir thoughtful debate, pose new questions and hopefully create a deeper understanding of Jesus and his message.

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The Lost Spot.is a short but powerful vignette-type book, designed specifically to draw readers to the cross of Christ, through child-like verse. Yet it is the simplicity of the book that makes salvation so approachable and readily obtainable.

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A study of Lutheran history with increased attention to the activities and contributions made by the laity, by women, and by persons from outside the dominant ethnic groups.

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A study of Lutheran history with increased attention to the activities and contributions made by the laity, by women, and by persons from outside the dominant ethnic groups.

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Rushing's seminal work addresses the ways in which modern women struggle with holistic spirituality, sexuality, and anger. The Magdalene, known as the apostle to the apostles, has remained tainted through repressive scholarly action and deliberate distortion.

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This comprehensive, psychological, and naturalistic analysis of prayer offers an alternative to William James's model of prayer, represented in his work The Varieties of Religious Experience, which links supplication to the divine or supernatural realm.

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In reaction to massive membership decline, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America looks to postdenominational Christianity for inspiration on how to transform and attract people to the pews. But is this pluralization of the faith in late modernity compatible with its confessional, liturgical tradition

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This volume explores the idea that survival of the Christian faith depended upon the making of these communities, of which the Christians of this period were themselves acutely - and sometimes acrimoniously - aware.

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Uses the lens of medieval preaching to examine the mendicant friars' transformation of Mary Magdalen, a shadowy gospel figure, into an emblem of action and contemplation, a symbol of vanity and lust, a model of perfect penance, and the embodiment of hope and salvation.