In the distinctive and admired style that made Gordon famous, the writer explores the creative power unleashed in the place of prayer. Gordon leads readers out of the habitual, forced patterns of prayer into a realm where prayer lives as it is activated by the Spirit of God. ...

Elie tells the story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for God: Thomas Merton; Dorothy Day; Walker Percy; and Flannery OConnor. ...

The volume is divided into five books which contain notices of the chief Christian writers from the beginning till what is known as the Middle Ages, that it, from the great Tertullian at the end of the 1st century of the Christian era to St. Isidore of Seville at the close of the 6th. The books are divided into chapters, prefaced by bibliographical notices & enriched by notes of anything which could serve to inform the reader on the subject ...

1871. A collection of tales and legends on the finding of the cross. Contents: Discovery of the Sacred Cross; Pe Holy Rode; The Story of the Holy Rood; Finding of the Cross; The Uplifting of the Holy Rood; How Pe Hali Cros was fundin be Seint Elaine; Exposition of the Holy Rood; Dispute between Mary and the Cross; With an O and an I; The Invention of the Holy Cross; The Exaltation of the Cross; and The Symbols of the Passion. ...

The treatise "Of the Imitation of Christ" appears to have been originally written in Latin early in the 15th century. Its exact date and its authorship are still a matter of debate, however the most probable author is Thomas Haemmerlein, known also as Thomas a Kempis. ...

With the exception of the Bible, no Christian writing has had so wide a vogue or so sustained a popularity as this. And yet, in one sense, it is hardly an original work at all. Its structure it owes largely to the writings of the medieval mystics, and its ideas and phrases are a mosaic from the Bible and the Fathers of the early Church. But these elements are interwoven with such delicate skill and a religious feeling at once so ardent and so ...

Several years of unbiased technical biblical research uncovers data largely missed by mainstream religion. This book is a study of the Apostle Paul and what he actually wrote and its implications for today's believer that is often lost in the haze of modern day denominational religion but deserves to be heard. Although somewhat technical, it is also moving on a personal, spiritual level. In short, "A Walk Through The Pauline Epistles" is a book ...

In the twentieth century a number of novelists, artists, and filmmakers, resurrected the life of Jesus genre, made so popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by Renan, Strauss, and others. In addition, novelists Norman Mailer, Jose Saramago, and Ricci have written their own "gospels." Burns' collection explores the ways in which these portraits of Jesus continue to fulfil the familiar observation that people tend to depict Jesus in ...

The Scriptures our only Guide - God's Procedure in Election - The Sovereignty of God - The Fallen State of Man - God's Remedy - The Universal''Call'' - The Ministry of the Spirit - God's Controversy with Man - The Convenanted Terms - Who are the Elect and when they are Elected - God's '' Purpose'' to Elect and his ''Act''of Electing - God's Fore-Knowledge and Dcrees - Principle of Election - Faith the Gift of God - ''Jacob have I Loved, but Esau ...

Before the existence of modern medicine, hundreds of years ago Christ gave instruction that the flesh of beasts should not be eaten by mankind. Before the first cases of meat-related parasitic illnesses, heart disease, clogged arteries and high cholesterol it was written in the Gospel of Peace and the Gospel of the Holy Twelve that whoso eats the flesh of slain beasts, eats the body of death. The Gospel of Peace instructed by Christ teaches ...