This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis's revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside.

Augustine of Hippo's 'Confessions' recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers.

Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man is one of the most debated of Lewis’s extraordinary works. Both astonishing and prophetic, The Abolition of Man remains one of C. S. Lewis's most controversial works.

A provocative study of the gnostic gospels and the world of early Christianity as revealed through the Nag Hammadi texts.

Father John's inspiring introduction to the spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers brings their words to life for the modern reader.

This comparative religion book contains a startling perspective of the extraordinary history of the Egyptian religion and its profound influence upon the later Christian faith.

"--Robert A. Orsi, Harvard University "This is a fascinating, authoritative, and accessible look at one of America's most important subcultures.

So, if many of the books inthe Bible were not in fact written by Jesus’s innercircle—but by writers living decades later, withdiffering agendas in rival communities—whatdoes that do to the authority of Scripture?

In seinem epischen Werk "Masnavi" entführt uns der renommierte persische Dichter Dschalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi in eine Welt der spirituellen Poesie und mystischen Lehren.

Explores, in lucid, meditative prose, the crossroads of compassion and holiness at which contemplative Christianity and Buddhism meet.