Mad Monk Improper Parables

Author: Larry Littany Litt
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780998956886
Category : Advice in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 138

Book Description
"Mad Monk Improper Parables" offers enlightening life, love and work inspirations from a Zen/Chan monk who traveled On and Off The Way. Here are sixty inspiring short stories whose Eastern wisdom can be used anytime and anywhere today. Each parable brims with Larry Littany Litt's unique wit, wisdom, and practical advice as channeled through the adventurous life of Mad Monk. This intriguing timeless figure is a non-conforming yet dedicated Buddhist, successful artist, caring lover, avowed hedonist and above all social moralist. He's a respected community hero and conversely a renowned trickster.

Against Jovinianus

Author: St. Jerome
Publisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN: 1987022882
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Jovinianus, about whom little more is known than what is to be found in Jerome's treatise, published a Latin treatise outlining several opinions: That a virgin is no better, as such, than a wife in the sight of God. Abstinence from food is no better than a thankful partaking of food. A person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin. All sins are equal. There is but one grade of punishment and one of reward in the future state. In addition to this, he held the birth of Jesus Christ to have been by a "true parturition," and was thus refuting the orthodoxy of the time, according to which, the infant Jesus passed through the walls of the womb as his Resurrection body afterwards did, out of the tomb or through closed doors.

Buddhist Parables

Author:
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN: 9788120807389
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 394

Book Description

Sophie's World

Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466804270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 735

Book Description
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

From Unconciousness to Consciousness

Author: Osho
Publisher: Fivestar
ISBN:
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
After one thousand, three hundred and fifteen days of silence, it feels as if I am coming to you from a totally different world. In fact it is so. The world of words, language, concepts, and the world of silence are so diametrically opposite to each other, they don’t meet anywhere. They can’t meet by their very nature. Silence means a state of wordlessness; and to speak now, it is as if to learn language again from ABC. But this is not a new experience for me; it has happened before too.

The Works of Saint Augustine

Author: Saint Augustine (of Hippo)
Publisher: New City Press
ISBN: 156548049X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 261

Book Description
"In this work, traditionally translated as On Christian Doctrine, Augustine combines the pedagogical methods he learned from Greek and Roman writings with the content of the Christian faith to help preachers present biblical teachings in an effective manner. This new translation is lively and accessible." Library Journal

Scots Confession

Author: John Knox
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781522865865
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 64

Book Description
"Scots Confession" from John Knox. Scottish religious reformer who played the lead part in reforming the Church in Scotland in a Presbyterian manner (1510-1572).

Before Religion

Author: Brent Nongbri
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300154178
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

Book Description
Examining a wide array of ancient writings, Brent Nongbri dispels the commonly held idea that there is such a thing as ancient religion. Nongbri shows how misleading it is to speak as though religion was a concept native to pre-modern cultures.

The Lost Books of the Bible and The Forgotten Books of Eden

Author: Rutherford Hayes Platt
Publisher: Nelson Bibles
ISBN:
Category : Apocryphal books
Languages : en
Pages : 660

Book Description
Presented here are two volumes of apocryphal writings reflecting the life and time of the Old and New Testaments. Stories told by contemporary fiction writers of historical Bible times in fascinating and beautiful style.

Stories of the Prophets

Author: Ismāʻīl ibn ʻUmar Ibn Kathīr
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Prophets, Pre-Islamic
Languages : en
Pages : 544

Book Description