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Craddock examines the letters of 1 and 2 Peter and Jude. Shows the similarities and differences in how Christ is portrayed in these epistles as opposed to the depiction found in other New Testament writings.

Examines what happened to Newton's science as it was interpreted by his major followers. Also looks at the scientific culture that he helped to create and the impact that his ideas had on the rapidly developing technology that led to the Industrial Revolution.

Popcorn, one of America's leading trend forecasters, shows that no one can succeed in business or successfully start one without understanding how to market to women.

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This is a diary of my great-great-grandfather, Enoch Carter Cloud, who as a young man ran away to find adventure at sea. Thus begins the introduction by Cloud's great-great-granddaughter, Elizabeth McLean, to the personal log of a young sailor on a 19th-century whaling vessel. The author journeys around the world giving richly detailed narratives of encounters with native peoples in Portugal, Africa, New Zealand, the Pacific islands, and the W...

Following the vicissitudes of friendship between the sexes in some of England's key writers, the author traces a history of idioms for today's friendships--their vulnerability, limits, and potential for change.

A review of the literature on ministerial ethics reveals scant reflection on it among Catholics. So this book is a modest attempt to make a Catholic contribution to stimulate a conversation within the Catholic Church on professional ethics in pastoral ministry.

Rejecting the many magical solutions offered for human problems, Chester Dolan unmasks the folly that has passed for religion throughout history and the many dangers it poses to the human community. After recounting the hate and insecurity that religious systems have introduced in our lives, he urges that the world would be a far better place if we could exorcise our presumptous gods, reject the religion of the mystics, and realize that our de...

This volume makes available and accessible the writings of the crucial early period of Islamic mysticism during which Sufism developed as one of the world's major mystical traditions. The texts are accompanied by commentary on their historical, literary and philosophical context.

The Doubting Disease by Joseph W. Ciarrocchi brings to the fore the most current information available today on religion and scruples, scrupulosity, and obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD). In this book he helps us clearly appreciate the interior anguish suffered by thousands of people of faith who have this symptomatology and what we can do about it.

El exitoso devocional de 365 días de Neil y Joanne Anderson pone una chispa en las lecturas devocionales y los tiempos de silencio con su énfasis en la identidad del creyente en Cristo. Un desafío motivador para vivir como Cristo. Neil and Joanne Anderson's bestselling 365-day devotional puts a spark into devotional readings and quiet times with its emphasis on a believer's identity in Christ. A motivating challenge for Christlike living.

This basic and engaging theology of God, human relationships and service assists readers in reflecting more faithfully and more theologically on their own lives, particularly if they are involved in pastoral ministry or service projects.

The next best thing to having a doctor in the house... From the editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books comes the most complete, practical, and easy-to-follow guide to good health ever written. Here, in one volume, nearly 700 of America's top health-care professionals offer their better doctor-tested remedies for hundreds of the most common health complaints, from angina to varicose veins, asthma to warts. these are the remedies that docto...

Yarbro's novels about the mysterious, immortal Saint-Germain, among the very best of vampire literature, have a huge and devoted fan following. "Underliningthis absorbing work is a deep melancholy, reflecting both the vampires lost past and the tortured workings of the Russian soul".--Publishers Weekly.

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Also by the author: • THE CULT OF THE RIGHT HAND, (Doubleday, 1991, ISBN 0-385-41812-4)

The "Concise Encyclopedia of Preaching" is the most comprehensive reference work on preaching available in the English language. No other book so richly combines concerns for the practice of preaching with theological themes and historical tradition. Its scope ranges from the technical tasks of sermon preparation to thoughtful essays on such topics as narrative preaching, African American preaching, style, and prophetic preaching, as well as a...

Linger's book is a rare and exceptionally worthwhile treatment of the role played by violence in the lives of ordinary Brazilians. . . . Engagingly written, handsomely printed, with excellent photographs . . . and richly illustrated with several dozen interview statements that attain a life of their own, the book provides an indispensable analysis of the unwritten rules of Brazilian social intercourse. . . . A model study of use not only to sp...

Deuteronomy is more than a relic of ancient history. It is a living document that deals with issues relevant to the modern-day reader. They include justice and the vision of the Great Society, individual responsibility versus the importance of community, and the nature of loyalty to God and to the world. By examining these and other issues in this ancient work, readers will find striking parallels between the world of Israel several millennia ...