West of Jesus

West of Jesus
Author: Steven Kotler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2008-12-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1596918357
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After spending two years in bed with Lyme disease, Steven Kotler had lost everything: his health, his job, his girl, and, he was beginning to suspect, his mind. Kotler, not a religious man, suddenly found himself drawn to the sport of surfing as if it were the cornerstone of a new faith. Why, he wondered, when there was nothing left to believe in, could he begin to believe in something as unlikely as surfing? What was belief anyway? How did it work in the body, the brain, our culture, and human history? With the help of everyone from rebel surfers to rocket scientists, Kotler undertakes a three-year globetrotting quest. The results are a startling mix of big waves and bigger ideas: a surfer's journey into the biological underpinnings of belief itself.

Cross and Culture

Cross and Culture
Author: Kurt Mahlburg
Publisher: Australian Heart Publishing
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2020-12-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1922480096
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Is There Hope in the Chaos? Our civilisation is unstable. Everyone can feel it. We face a looming mental health crisis. Slavery, censorship and superstition are back. Our politics are polarising. All the affluence in the world can’t seem to quench our thirst for meaning and purpose. But maybe there is hope—if we know where to look. In this timely book, Kurt Mahlburg shows how profoundly the West has been shaped by the life and teachings of Jesus—from our democratic freedoms and our pursuit of reason and science to our belief that every life is precious. Could rediscovering Jesus be the answer to our crisis?

Jesus and the Quest for Meaning

Jesus and the Quest for Meaning
Author: Thomas H. West
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451419078
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A new approach to introducing theology As God's self-communication to humans, Jesus is the key to the human search for meaning, argues Thomas West. He therefore introduces the practice of theology through Christology. From the question of personal meaning and self-constitution and their relationship to transcendent meaning and value, he proceeds to discuss the figure and import of Jesus and then the ethical imperative engendered through encounter with him. Fresh and clear, West's book is an invitation to grapple with one's religious commitments, especially in light of recent insights in biblical studies and Continental, feminist, and liberation theologies. This new text will prove an engaging and effective introduction to theological thinking for both undergraduates and Christian adults.

Jesus' Little Instruction Book

Jesus' Little Instruction Book
Author: Thomas Cahill
Publisher: Bantam
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-11-02
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0307807584
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Jesus' teachings have reached across two millenia, inspiring, informing, and uplifting people from all walks of life. In this elegant little volume, a noted religious publisher and biblical student has collected Jesus' key messenges, culled from the Gospels. Organized thematically, Jesus' words speak directly to contemporary lives and convey a man unlike any other man whose life contains a message for all. Engaging and nondoctrinal commentary throughout places the sayings in their historical context and drawn to this simple and beautiful rendering of Jesus' unique--an, even today, unconventional--message for the heart.

Four Gospels, One Jesus?

Four Gospels, One Jesus?
Author: Richard Burridge
Publisher: SPCK
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2013-03-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0281070318
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First published in 1994, and revised in 2005, this classic edition includes updated suggestions for further reading at the end of the book.

Far West Record

Far West Record
Author: Donald Q. Cannon
Publisher: Shadow Mountain
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1983
Genre: Religion
ISBN:
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"...Minutes of various kinds of Church-related meetings (general conferences, high council and priesthood quorum meetings, and special councils) for the period 1830-1844 ... held in New York, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, and Nauvoo, Illinois...Nevertheless, a full 80 percent of the total entries are from the Missouri period"--Introd., p. xi-xii.

Lightning East to West

Lightning East to West
Author: James W. Douglass
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 119
Release: 2006-04-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 159752610X
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We live in that final time which offers humans the clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust, Jim Douglass writes. Either end is a lightning east to west: the nuclear holocaust a lightning fire, the kingdom of Reality a lightning spirit. We will choose lightning east to west today as either nuclear fire or the kingdom of God, as either despair and annihilation or transformation through nonviolence. If we look to Jesus and Gandhi, and what they point to, we can hope to choose the lightning fire of nonviolence.

The Unknown God

The Unknown God
Author: Mathew P. John
Publisher: David C Cook
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0830781013
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We live in the age of religious pluralism where all religions are considered the same and different paths lead to the same spiritual destination. It is important for Christians to learn how to affirm Jesus Christ as the only way to God—while also paying due respect to people of other faiths and worldviews. In The Unknown God: A Journey with Jesus from East to West, Mathew P. John explores the redemptive revelations lurking in the darkness outside the boundaries of Christian tradition. In this spiritual journey through six major world religions, readers encounter a variety of symbols that point to the Jesus of the Bible. From Hindu avatars and Buddhist bodhisattvas, to Sikh gurus and Muslim prophets, and the Jewish messiah, consider how different religions attempt to answer the deep longing for a savior ingrained in the collective conscience of humanity.

Seeing Jesus from the East

Seeing Jesus from the East
Author: Ravi Zacharias
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310531292
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Encounter Jesus Like Never Before through Eastern Eyes Throughout these pages, Ravi Zacharias and Abdu Murray invite readers to rediscover the cultural insights we often miss when we ignore the Eastern context of the Bible. They offer a refreshing picture of Jesus, one that appeals to Eastern readers and can penetrate the hearts and imaginations of postmodern Westerners. In Seeing Jesus from the East, Ravi Zacharias and Abdu Murray show us why a broader view of Jesus is needed - one that recognizes the uniquely Eastern ways of thinking and communicating found in the pages of the Bible. Zacharias and Murray capture a revitalized gospel message, presenting it through this Eastern lens and revealing its power afresh to Western hearts and minds. Incorporating story, vivid imagery, and the concepts of honor and shame, sacrifice, and rewards, Seeing Jesus from the East calls believers and skeptics, both Eastern and Western, to a fresh encounter with the living and boundless Jesus.