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A Skeptic Explores the Science Behind Spiritual Experiences

Not long before the death of her beloved mother-in-law, Harriet Brown had a vision that was both confounding and deeply comforting. Inspired by that revelation, she set out to explore the theories and neuroscience behind it all.

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Worship

This book is a study of how Christian worship, viewed in its deepest sense, is a response of the human to the Eternal. There is first an examination of the basic characteristics, in ritual, symbol, sacrifice, and sacrament. The nature and significance of the Eucharist are thoroughly treated.

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Evelyn Underhill
2002
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Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Howard Thurman, minister, philosopher, civil rights activist, has been called ‘one of the greatest spiritual resources of this nation.’ His encounters with Gandhi in India helped instill his commitment to nonviolence. This book features some of his writings.

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Howard Thurman
2006
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The Divine Milieu

The essential companion to Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenom of Man, The Divine Milieu expands on the spiritual message so basic to his thought.

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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
2001
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A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life

A spiritual advisor to Martin Luther King, Jr.; the first black dean at a white university; cofounder of the first interracially pastored, intercultural church in the United States, Howard Thurman offered a transcendent vision of our world.

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Howard Thurman
1999
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When Religion Meets New Media

This lively book focuses on how different Jewish, Muslim, and Christian communities engage with new media. Rather than simply reject or accept new media, religious communities negotiate complex relationships with these technologies in light of their history and beliefs.

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Heidi Campbell
2010
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The Ignatian Lecture

Is the universe 'catholic'? Sensitive to our world of religious pluralism, this lecture focuses on catholicity as a dynamic principle of attraction or 'whole-making' that marks the Big Bang cosmos, biological evolution, and religious evolutionary consciousness, and which breaks open in the life of...

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Ilia Delio
2014
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Evolution - A Christian Perspective

A summary of some of Teilhard de Chardin's views on evolution and its relation to humanity from a Christian perspective. Lecture by Ilia Delio from Georgetown University

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Ilia Delio
2012
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Evolution and the Primacy of Love

According to Teilhard de Chardin, evolution ushered in a new understanding of reality based on love-energy. This year's annual lecture explores Teilhard's philosophy of love and the import of conscious love for the direction of human evolution.

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Ilia Delio
2016
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The Dark Night: Psychological Experience and Spiritual Reality

Reading St. John of the Cross’s Dark Night can be daunting; living the dark experience of purification it describes can be much more so. The description of the dark nights (yes, there is more than one!) which St.

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Marc Foley
2019
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