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Thursday, January 29, 2009

Spiritual liberation : fulfilling your soul's potential

by Michael Bernard The dynamic spiritual leader who touched millions of readers and viewers in The Secret and through the spiritual community he founded, the Agape International Spiritual Center -- is now sharing his transforming central message and his powerfully accessible means for embodying that message in daily life, a process he calls "aspiring toward spiritual liberation." (Check Catalog)

Monday, January 26, 2009

The order of things

by James V. Schall. Father James Schall, the well-known author and professor of philosophy at Georgetown University, inquires about the various orders found in the cosmos, the human mind, the human body, the city, and he seeks to reflect upon the unity of these orders.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Each moment is the universe : Zen and the way of being time

by Gainin Katagiri. We often speak of time as a commodity—as something we “save” or “spend”—or as something that slips through our fingers before we can accomplish what we want. The Zen view is radically, wonderfully different: time is a creative, dynamic process that continuously produces the world and everything in it. (Check Catalog)

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The existential Jesus


by John Carroll. "Upending Christianitys popular notion of Jesus the comforter, the good shepherd, the Lord, and the Savior, this completely new exploration of Mark's Life of Jesus reexamines the image presented in this earliest of the New Testament gospels - the mysterious stranger, the singular, abandoned, and solitary figure - and rethinks the current role of Western culture through a radically altered view of Christianity. (Check Catalog)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Tender warrior


248.8 WEB by Stu Weber. Written in a warm, personal style, Weber presents the characteristics of tender warriors, including learning to speak the language of women, watching out for what lies ahead, and keeping commitments in an upfront, straightforward style that challenges readers to realize God's plan for men. (Check catalog)

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Oneness with all life : inspirational selections from a new earth


by Eckhart Tolle. An illustrated edition of the best-selling Oprah Book Club Pick features author-selected inspirational passages from the original work enhanced by four-color commissioned artwork, a ribbon marker, and a gift-appropriate design. (Check catalog)

Friday, January 2, 2009

Phenomenology of the Human Person


by Robert sokolowski. This rich metaphysical text is heavily indebted to Aristotle and Husserl, but at the same time refreshingly novel in its approach to such traditional philosophical topics as language, truth, knowledge, and selves. Stimulating discussions of the importance of absence, the value of wishing (versus wanting), and the very human phenomenon of "taking in" culminate in a successful defense of an "alternative way of thinking about mental imagery." (Check catalog)