Títulos en Religiones

Christians Are Revolting: An Infidel's Progress is the story of an unremarkable young man and his thirst for truth. Charming, witty, and bright, you will wonder where these characteristics appear as the author recounts his unique experiences in the drudgery of radical faith.

Born Helena Kowalska on a clear August day in 1905, to a poor Polish family, she was the third of 10 children. When Helena turned 19, she felt called by Jesus to go to Warsaw and enter a convent. After arriving, she was turned down by convent after convent, until finally, one accepted her. She took the name Faustina and stayed in the convent until her death in 1938.

Nie zuvor hat ein Papst seine persönliche Sicht der aktuellen Probleme in Kirche und Gesellschaft in dieser Form dargelegt...

Over a quarter of a century after its first publication, the great and simple wisdom in this book continues to influence women's lives...

« Es posible que varios de nosotros hayamos experimentado una coincidencia, una ‘casualidad’ tan poco probable que nos pareciera mágica o hasta epifánica. Y cuando estos acontecimientos tienen un hilo conductor que no persigue la acumulación de dinero ni de poder, sino que el único...

The first definitive biography of Moses Maimonides, one of the most influential intellects in all of human history, illuminates his life as a philosopher, physician, and lawgiver. Recalling such bestsellers as David McCullough's John Adams and Walter Isaacson's Einstein, Maimonides is a biography on a grand scale, brilliantly explicating one man's life against the background of his time.

רגע לפני מותו נושא משה רבנו את נאום חייו. הנאום הזה טומן בחובו הגות נועזת, המציעה פרשנות מהפכנית ביחסה לאנושיות, לדת ולכוח. כמו שני הספרים הקודמים של הד'ר מיכה גודמן...

Blasfemo, jugador, mujeriego, y parrandero, pero también culto e ilustrado, músico, dramaturgo, y hasta torero. El retrato de un hombre que estuvo destinado a cambiar la historia. El muchacho imparable y curioso que está por convertirse en un sacerdote sibarita, afecto al placer de las camas ajenas, voraz lector de la literatura de la Ilustración y apasionado defensor de la libertad y de los derechos de los criollos y de los nacidos en la Nueva España.

Considered one of the greatest novels of simple and triumphant religious faith to be published in the 20th century, how the The Song of Bernadette came to be written is an inspirational - even miraculous - story in its own right. In June 1940, famed Austrian author Franz Werfel and his beautiful wife, Alma Mahler, were on a desperate flight across France, seeking to escape certain death at the hands of the Nazi invaders. Franz had written many articles and given many radio speeches denouncing their tyranny.

How did one man-a humble monk and Bible professor-spark a religious rebellion that changed the course of history? What made Martin Luther's theology so explosive in 16th-century Europe? How did this late-medieval man launch the Protestant Reformation and help create the modern world? And how should we think of him: hero or heretic, rebel or tormented soul? Find out the answer to these questions and more in this series of 24 engaging lectures.

James the Just is one of the most important and enigmatic figures in the history of early Christianity. He is best remembered for being the brother of Jesus, as documented by several sources, including the Gospels, the Epistle of James, and other noncanonical texts. He was also the first bishop of Jerusalem before he was put to death in AD 62 or 69. Biblical scholars have long been fascinated by James as a historical figure, especially in trying to determine his relationship to Jesus.

The name Pontius Pilate is instantly familiar to anyone who has read the Bible or has heard of the passion of Christ, but the man himself has mostly eluded biblical scholars and historians. As the Roman prefect in Judaea during Christ's life and death, Pilate played a central role in the ultimate crucifixion of Jesus, but he is best remembered for literally washing his hands as a symbol that he did not consider the blood to be on his hands.

Este libro es un crudo relato autobiográfico que se asemeja al bestseller internacional La cruz y el puñal. Casey Díaz llegó a este país cuando tenía dos años, siendo el hijo mayor de inmigrantes salvadoreños que se establecieron en los suburbios del centro de Los Ángeles en la década...

Eknath Easwaran grew up in Gandhi's India and was deeply inspired by him. As a young man, he read Gandhi's weekly articles and visited his ashram, walking with Gandhi and observing him in deep meditation during his prayer service. What fascinated Easwaran was Gandhi's magnificent spiritual transformation - from a shy, ineffectual lawyer to the Mahatma, the "great soul" who led millions of Indians in their successful nonviolent struggle for independence.

När Carinas dotter väljer att konvertera till islam tvingas hon möta både sina egna och omgivningens fördomar och rädslor. Upplevelsen av att förlora sitt enda barn till en religion som hon inte har något gemensamt med får konsekvenser både till vardags och vid högtider, när gamla familjetraditioner bryts med något okänt. Närheten de alltid haft till varandra förbyts till frånvaro och saknad. Känslorna av skuld och skam växer till en ständigt närvarande ryggsäck av sorg. Men det innebär också att Carina måste finna en ny väg, genom förnekelse och livsförändringar, till acceptans.

The staggering story of the most important Chinese political dissident of the Mao era, a devout Christian who was imprisoned, tortured, and executed by the regime Blood Letters tells the astonishing tale of Lin Zhao, a poet and journalist arrested by the authorities in 1960 and executed eight...

A lo largo de treinta años de servicio infatigable, la mística hindú Amma, el personaje cuya biografía trataremos en esta oportunidad, ha aconsejado y consolado a personas de todas las procedencias geográficas, culturales o sociales. Todos los que la han conocido, dicen lo mismo: El contacto personal, el afecto, la compasión, la ternura y la profunda atención que manifiesta hacia todos, y el carisma espiritual, la inocencia y la humildad que le son naturales, son únicos.

La biografía de uno los hombres más importantes no sólo en cristianismo, sino también en el judaísmo y el Islam. Hijo de Amram y su mujer Iojebed, es descrito por la Biblia y el Torá (el texto sagrado del judaísmo) como el hombre encomendado por el Dios Hashem (Yahvé) para liberar al bíblico pueblo hebreo de la esclavitud en Egipto y como su máximo profeta y legislador.

Victor Farwell was without doubt a slow starter in monastic life. To his contemporaries he seemed an unremarkable also-ran, whose lack of academic talents would hold him back. Instead it spurred him on, and he developed rare gifts of human insight and understanding. In time this slow starter led the way, gaining the confidence of his own community and the other monasteries who followed his lead for decades.

A revelatory account of how the family behind Hobby Lobby rose to political prominence and used their influence—and fortune—to push a radical religious agenda Hobby Lobby is a multibillion-dollar craft store chain with more than a thousand US locations, founded and owned by the Greens—an...