Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+5970 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1657500 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1260704 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393600 A book of essays based on the popular lecture series in New York City offers inspirational and intellectually rigorous thoughts about the great questions surrounding life, and includes contributions by Dr. Francis Collins, N.T. Wright, Os Guinness, and George Weigel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1304014 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037341 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1037491 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679019 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651210 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631576 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=658771 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=687282 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=418660 After examining the ideas of great thinkers from Socrates to Kafka, a philosophers radical approach to spirituality blends emotion, intellect, science, and common sense and urges a passionate enthusiasm for the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=431237 There is no adequate understanding of contemporary Jewish and Christian theology without reference to Martin Buber. Buber wrote numerous books during his lifetime (1878-1965) and is best known for I and Thou and Good and Evil. Buber has influenced important Protestant theologians like Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, Paul Tillich, and Reinhold Niebuhr. His appeal is vast--not only is he renowned for his translations of the Hebrew Bible but also for his interpretation of Hasidism, his role in Zionism, and his writings in psychotherapy and political philosophy.In addition to a general introduction, each chapter is individually introduced, illuminating the historical and philosophical context of the readings. Footnotes explain difficult concepts, providing the reader with necessary references, plus a selective bibliography and subject index. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=393823 Rosenak (Jewish education, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem) examines a variety of life issues in this text. Viewing education through the prism of the Torah, the text considers education through the stages of life. Topics include education as it occurs in the home, through the parent- child relationship; the education of a communitys members through its institutions, such as schools; questions about education for identity, commitment, and for openness; and the self-education of the individual in the later stages of life, and the responsibilities which accompany it. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=375314 From the celebrated author of When Bad Things Happen to Good People, a profound and practical book about doing well by doing good. For decades now, from the pulpit and through his writing, Harold Kushner has been helping people navigate the rough patches of life: loss, guilt, crises of faith. Now, in this compelling new work, he addresses an equally important issue: our craving for significance, the need to know that our lives and our choices mean something. We sometimes do great things, and sometimes terrible things, to reassure ourselves that we matter to the world. We sometimes confuse fame, power, and wealth with true achievement. But finally we need to think of ourselves as good people, and we are troubled when we compromise our integrity in the pursuit of what we think of as success. Harold Kushner tells us that the path to a truly successful and significant life is through friendship, through family, and through acts of generosity and self-sacrifice. He describes how, in affecting the life of even one person in a positive way, we make a difference in the world, and prove that we do in fact matter. Persuasive and sympathetic, anecdotal and commonsensical, Living a Life That Matters inspires and uplifts. Book jacket.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=383217 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678602 Ren Girard holds up the gospels as mirrors that reveal our broken humanity, and shows that they also reflect a new reality that can make us whole. Like Simone Weil, Girard looks at the Bible as a map of human behavior, and sees Jesus Christ as the turning point leading to new life. The title echoes Jesus words: I saw Satan falling like lightning from heaven. Girard persuades us that even as our world grows increasingly violent the power of the Christ-event is so great that the evils of scapegoating and sacrifice are being defeated even now. A new community, Gods nonviolent kingdom, is being realized - even now.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=774575 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=392517 This fourth volume in the series exploring religions and the environment investigates the role of the multifaceted Hindu tradition in the development of greater ecological awareness in India. The twenty-two contributors ask how traditional concepts of nature in the classical texts might inspire or impede an eco-friendly attitude among modern Hindus, and they describe some grassroots approaches to environmental protection. They look to Gandhian principles of minimal consumption, self-reliance, simplicity, and sustainability. And they explore forests and sacred groves in text and tradition and review the political and religious controversies surrounding Indias sacred river systems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=409232 An ideal resource to be used in conjunction with don Miguel Ruizs The Four Agreements. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292001 For Hegels preoccupations have turned out to be our own. The isolation of the individual adrift in society, the yearning of the divided self for an integrated wholeness: these are the anxieties his successors have shared. The rival claims of the personal and the public, the immediate instant and the wider historic narrative: these have remained pressing problems through two hundred years of change. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=293609 American political life has long honored the separation of church and state as the best way to protect religion from control by the state, and the state from control by religion. Yet religion has been a critical resource for the moral foundations without which the state crumbles. This same paradox is reflected in the relation between religion and peace. Religion has probably been the single most significant cause of warfare in human history and, at the same time, the single most significant force for peace. The essays in Religion, Politics, and Peace will not untangle the paradox, even though they recognize it. For the most part, they are concerned to explore ways in which religion has both enhanced political life and served the cause of peace.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=367703 Inspire and enrich yourself every day. The wisdom presented here-- the peace and knowledge of the ages--blended with classically beautiful illustrations will awaken your inner being as never before. Youll want to read this collection from cover to cover. Then concentrate on the introductions to different thoughts on your daily life. Start with first light, going with the flow, detachment, and harmony. Turn to a quote each day as a focus for meditations like these: * Being a good listener spares one the burden of giving advice. * A thousand-mile journey starts with one step. * Waking thoughts and sleeping dreams are both equally illusionary. The wise pay little attention to either. * Trying to understand is like straining to see through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=300387 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311883 The principal theological struggle in Islam has taken place between traditionalist theologians and rationalist ones. Professor Abrahamov examines the foundations of both traditionlism and rationalism in classical Islamic thought, the criticism levelled by each system of thought against the other and the attempts which have been carried out to reconcile reason and tradition. The materials studied cover the third/ninth century to the tenth/sixteenth century.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=368068 Rowe (philosophy, Purdue U.) provides a critical study of the ancient argument for the existence of God, examining and interpreting historically significant versions of the argument from Aquinas to Samuel Clarke and exploring the major objections that have been advanced against it. Paper edition (unseen), $18.00. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=22109 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27005 Each volume begins with a simple, inspiring introduction to the subject and concludes with a list of recommended readings. Illustrated with expertly chosen and stunning art, these books will delight anyone moved by the delicacy and perfection of Zen arts and philosophy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=968469 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=2255 Donald Moore, in this study of Bubers life and work, presents not a critical analysis or an historical development of Bubers thought; rather, he focuses in on Bubers central message about what it means to be a human being, a person of faith, a community of faith, and about what mankind can do to overcome the eclipse of God. Moore enters into a dialogue with Buber and explores Bubers belief that religion and community are as essentially interrelated as the Thou spoken to God and the Thou spoken to other human beings. This new edition, with a foreword by Maurice Friedman, contains a new preface by the author. The preface addresses the new generation of readers who will be introduced to Buber. In addition, textual changes represent an increased awareness of gender, a recognition of important Buber scholarship since the first edition, and a strengthening of the authors original thesis - that Buber, the critic of religion, was, in the mold of the biblical prophets, a man of profound religious faith. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=32029 Abraham Joshua Heschel was one of the most revered religious leaders of this century, and God in Search of Man and its companion volume, Man Is Not Alone, are two of his most important books and classics of modern Jewish theology. In God in Search of Man, Heschel discusses in rich and lucid prose the nature of biblical thought, how that thought becomes faith, and how faith draws man to God. His words have inspired readers from every tradition since the book was first published almost fifty years ago. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=164427 An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion is the standard account of the subject for students, philosophers, and general readers. This new, completely revised and updated edition places particular emphasis on matters which have recently become philosophically controversial. Brian Davies also provides a critical examination of the fundamental questions of religion and the ways in which they have been treated by such thinkers as Anselm, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Karl Barth, and Wittgenstein. Must a belief be based on argument or evidence in order to be a rational belief? Can one invoke the Free-Will Defence if one believes in God as maker and sustainer of the universe? Is it correct to think of God as a moral agent subject to duties and obligations? What is the significance of Darwin for the Argument from Design? How can one recognize God as an object of ones experience? The author debates all these problems and more, sometimes proposing provocative answers of his own, more often leaving readers to decide for themselves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=53415 This is Thomas Clearys translation of two classic Chinese books describing the essential philosophy and practice of Tao, written long ago as maps of the Way: Tao Te Ching and Chuang-tzu. Clearys bold new translations restore, as no other translations have yet done, the remarkable power and mind-opening distinctiveness of the original Chinese. Composed in China over two thousand years ago and widely regarded as classics of world literature as well as honored for their practical wisdom, the Tao Te Ching and Chuang-tzu cover a wide range of subjects, from politics and economy to psychology and mysticism, from strategies for managing stress and maintaining health to ways to strengthen ones consciousness in a turbulent world. Together, these texts present the philosophical and practical core of classical Taoism while making Taoisms teachings more accessible than ever before to the western reader. Few of the worlds great books, writes Cleary in his Introduction, have achieved the perennial currency of these writings. Countless readers have found endless fascination and enlightenment in the pregnant aphorisms and fantastic allegories of these ancient classics. Over the centuries the Tao Te Ching in particular has inspired many social and spiritual movements as well as a vast body of exegetical literature. At one time, state colleges of mysticism were established by the Chinese government for the study of the philosophy of the Tao Te Ching, and individuals who had mastered it were sought as advisers by people of all classes, from emperors to peasants. Even when the Taoist canon was torched by order of the Mongol ruler of China in 1280, the Tao Te Ching alone was spared destruction. Here is wonderful, insightful reading, richly enhanced by Clearys introduction and commentary.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27567 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=201376 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33625 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=190167 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687227