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St. Augustine Confessions (Oxford World's Classics)
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Augustine's confessions are confessions to God, and thus, prayer. Augustine bares his soul--his doubt, fear, guilt, as well as his joy, peace, and love. All this is addressed to God as prayer. Like the Psalms, these prayers are shockingly intimate--you can't read these properly from a comfortable distance.
I am grateful to Augustine for... »
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The Bible: A Biography (Books That Changed the World)
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I love this book! Speaking as an avid, lay-person, at-home student of Western Religion, I have never read a book with as much scholarly detail.
BUT - it is NOT a primer. The average reader will want to have some kind of background in biblical studies already - Bart Ehrman, Pagels, et al - including some idea of the cultural anthropology of the ... »
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The Great Transformation: The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
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Extremely well-written record of the Axial ages, of the Axial people and the Axial spirituality. This book traces the history of the Aryans, the vedic people in India; the Greeks and their times; the Jews and their spirituality and rituals; the Chinese people and their history. This book is the precursor of Karen Armstrong's book "The history of God".
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The Battle for God
About 40 years ago popular opinion assumed that religion would become a weaker force and people would certainly become less zealous as the world became mo... »
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