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How to Read the Bible and Still Be a Christian John Dominic Crossan · 2015 · ★ 4.0 · 263p · ≈ 8h · Moderate The acclaimed Bible scholar and author of The Historical Jesus and God & Empire -- "the greatest New Testament scholar of our generation" (John Shelby Spong) -- grapples with Scripture's two conflicting visions of Jesus and God, one of a loving God, and one of a vengeful God, and explains how Christians can better understand these passages in a way that enriches their faith. Many portions of the… Shares: Theology, Criticism, Bible, Religion

Poems Francis Thompson · 1893 · ★ 5.0 · 328p · ≈ 10h · Challenging It is a poetry book. Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, 'of celestial vision', and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of 1907. His life—always a fragile one—doubtless owed its prolongation to 'man's unconquerable mind', in him so invincible through all vicissitude that he seemed to add a new significance to Wordsworth's phrase. To… Shares: God, Theology, Religion

Bible Various authors · 1200 · ★ 4.6 · 1284p · ≈ 42h · Demanding The purpose of The Original African Heritage Study Bible is to interpret the Bible as it relates specifically to persons of African descent and thereby to foster an appreciation of the multiculturalism inherent in the Bible. The Original African Heritage Study Bible offers a number of unique features which reveal the African/Edenic contribution to Judaism and Christianity, including: 1)… Shares: Theology, Bible, Religion

The Gospel of Thomas Marvin W. Meyer · 1992 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Moderate "In this fresh and masterful translation, Marvin Meyer presents one of the world's best-loved sacred texts. Honed over the last twenty years through a dozen versions, Meyer's Thomas promises to remain the definitive translation for decades to come." "Widely regarded by scholars as containing many of the original sayings of Jesus, The Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945 among the gnostic texts… Shares: Critique, Criticism

Confessions of the Critics H. Aram Veeser · 1995 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The Confessions of the Critics shatters a certain silence. Autobiographical criticism has until now skated relatively free from the challenges that usually assail a new literary critical method. It has had this immunity from critique largely because feminists and third-world liberation fighters--such as Alice Walker, Adrienne Rich and Jane Gallop--ushered it to the North American academic… Shares: Critique, Criticism

The Jefferson Bible Thomas Jefferson · 1902 · 276p · ≈ 9h · Challenging This edition of The Jefferson Bible includes Jefferson's original Letter to the Danbury Baptists about the separation of church and state. The Jefferson Bible, or The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, as it is properly titled was Thomas Jefferson's version of the New Testament. Jefferson adapted the teachings of Jesus by removing sections of the New Testament containing supernatural… Shares: Criticism, Bible, Religion

Evolution of the Word Marcus J. Borg · 2012 · 593p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Analyzes the New Testament chronologically through each book of the Bible, detailing how the core values of Christianity took shape and developed over time. Shares: Criticism, Bible, Religion

Reading the Bible Again For the First Time Marcus J. Borg · 2001 · ★ 3.6 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate PerfectBound e-book exclusive extras: Extensive hyperlinking allows the reader to move easily from Professor Borg's text and footnotes to the full text of the actual Biblical passages he cites (including the entirety of the Book of Job); "Seriously but Not Literally," an interview in which Borg discusses his own journey as a scholar and a person of faith and his membership in the controversial… Shares: Criticism, Bible

Myth, Legend and Custom in the Old Testament Theodor Herzl Gaster · 1911 · 899p · ≈ 29h · Challenging Shares: Critique, Criticism, Bible

Principles of literary criticism I. A. Richards · 1900 · 298p · ≈ 9h · Challenging please, I can not open this book online . Thank you ,I hope to hear from you soon. alaa Shares: Critique, Criticism

The tenth muse Herbert Edward Read · 1957 · 330p · ≈ 11h · Moderate This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read’s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. Shares: Critique, Criticism

Answer to Job Carl Gustav Jung · 1952 · ★ 3.9 · 194p · ≈ 6h · Moderate Considered one of Jung's most controversial works, Answer to Job also stands as Jung's most extensive commentary on a biblical text. Here, he confronts the story of the man who challenged God, the man who experienced hell on earth and still did not reject his faith. Job's journey parallels Jung's own experience--as reported in The Red Book: Liber Novus--of descending into the depths of his own… Shares: Criticism, Bible, Religion

Seytanla Dans Anne Rice · 1995 · ★ 3.9 · 434p · ≈ 14h · Moderate Lestat is searching for Dora, the beautiful and charismatic mortal daughter of a drug lord. Dora has moved Lestat like no other mortal ever has, and he cannot get her out of his visions. At the same time, he is increasingly aware that the Devil knows who he is and wants something from him. While torn betwen his vampire world and his passion for Dora, Lestat is sucked in by Memnoch, who claims to… Shares: Theology, Bible

Bible myths and their parallels in other religions Thomas William Doane · 1800 · 636p · ≈ 21h · Demanding 1910 Being a comparison of the Old & New Testament myths & miracles with those of heathen nations of antiquity. Considering also their origin & meaning with numerous illustrations. Some of the contents: the Creation & Fall of Man; the Deluge; Tower. Shares: Criticism, Bible

De Natura deorum Cicero · 1718 · 236p · ≈ 7h · Demanding De Natura deorum (The Nature of the Gods) is a philosophical dialogue by Roman orator Cicero written in 45 BC. It is laid out in three books, each of which discuss the theology of different Roman and Greek philosophers. The dialogue uses a discussion of Stoic, Epicurean, and skeptical theories to examine fundamental questions of theology. The dialogue is on the whole narrated by Cicero himself,… Shares: God, Theology, Religion

Ich und du Martin Buber · 1922 · ★ 4.1 · 134p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "Martin Buber, heavily influenced by the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, unites the proto-Existentialist currents of modern German thought with the Judeo-Christian tradition, powerfully updating faith for modern times.". "This work is the centerpiece of Buber's philosophy. It lays out a view of the world in which human beings can enter into relationships using their innermost and whole being to… Shares: God, Theology, Religion

A reader's guide to contemporary literary theory Raman Selden · 1985 · ★ 3.7 · 314p · ≈ 10h · Moderate xii, 244p. : 22cm Shares: Critique, Criticism

The Sins of Scripture John Shelby Spong · 2005 · ★ 3.5 · 325p · ≈ 10h · Moderate In the history of the Western World, the Bible has been a perpetual source of inspiration and guidance for countless Christians. However, this Bible has also left a trail of pain. It is undeniable that the Bible is not always used for good. Sometimes the Bible can seem overtly evil. Sometimes its texts are terrible. Bishop John Shelby Spong boldly approaches those texts that have been used… Shares: Criticism, Bible

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