Combines the findings of split-brain research and the mind's symbolic processes to examine the implications for understanding subjective experience of the religious and the sacred.
Containing contributions by Carl Sagan, Martin Gardner, Philip J Klass, Marc Medoff, J Gordon Melton, and many others, this book presents the analysis and examination of the New Age, along with multi-faceted and balanced explanations about the movement.
The doggedness and tenacity of America's neo-fundamentalists have resulted in wave after wave of attacks on rational inquiry and the scientific method. This collection of papers attests to the deep concern of these humanists for the fate of reason and free inquiry within the human community.
Demonstrates how the Gospels surpassed the expectations of their authors and influenced generations by creating an understanding of the nature of Jesus of Nazareth.
Presents a study of the Gospels based upon a demonstrable literary theory. This book presents the work of the four evangelists as the 'supreme fictions' of our culture, self-conscious works of art deliberately composed as the culmination of a long literary and oral tradition. It analyses the best-known and the most powerful of these fictions.
Edwards discusses spiritual gifts from a biblical perspective, and guides us in the discovery of our particular spiritual gifts through step-by-step exercises and challenging self-evaluation.
Develops a point of view in the philosophy of liberal religion. This book explores the reasons for personal religious freedom, the limits of this freedom, and the possibilities it offers to intelligent, thoughtful human beings.
Part 1, "The Ego" is one of Paul Brunton's greatest and most unique gifts to the literature of realisation -- a truly earth-shaking piece of work for serious spiritual seekers. With no holds barred, it exposes, at an existential level, the most fundamental problems that obstruct achieving a life of unfailing self-integrity. Part 2, "From Birth to ......
The author overviews the theological and spiritual background of the sacrament of reconciliation, and offers practical suggestions for the practice of hearing and making a confession.
Explores the dangers of ultrafundamentalist cults by presenting selected case histories, by explaining the significance of the central tendencies of ultrafundamentalism, and by suggesting why such groups are flourishing in this particular society.
A collection of essays, which offers a reasoned defence of one of the most venerable ethical, scientific and philosophical traditions within Western civilisation.
