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by Khara M Bromiley
Product Group: Book
Publisher: AuthorHouse (2001-06-26)
ISBN: 0595187854
EAN: 9780595187850
Dewy Decimal #: 200
Paperback: 163 pages
Release Date: 2001-06-26
SKU: 033108AC33
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: ..personal greeting written inside..edge wear on cover
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A straightforward look at the spiritual aspects of healing"In Search of a Miracle¿ is a tremendous resource of information, encouragement and practical guidance, whether you are seeking physical, emotional or spiritual healing. If you would like to experience healing in your life and want direction, "In Search of a Miracle¿ guides you on the path to healing, providing direction and support. This book is for anyone interested in exploring the possibility of healing through the power of prayer and faith. ¿¿- Explore the powerful connection between spiritual and physical health¿¿
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by Cynthia Heald
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson (2001-10-09)
ISBN: 0785272429
EAN: 9780785272427
Dewy Decimal #: 242
Paperback: 180 pages
SKU: 091308010
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on cover
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In this new book, Cynthia Heald takes women deep into the Word to explore God's relentless, passionate pursuit of those He Loves. She begins with God's question to Adam and Eve, "Where are you?" and ends with Jesus offer, "I stand at the door and knock." In between she leads her readers into listening and responding to the words with which God earnestly seeks the hearts of His loved ones. With strong Bible teaching, compelling insights, and personal stories, Cynthia helps women understand that these words are evidence of the Lord's great love -- designed to lead them out of the trees into freedom, out of guilt into forgiveness, out of darkness into His light. Whether you are in hiding from God and others or ready to go deeper into your faith and relationships, In the Secret Place of the Most High will help you answer God's loving call, "Where are you?"
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by Jay Edward Adams
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Timeless Texts (2004-07)
ISBN: 1889032298
EAN: 9781889032290
Paperback: 134 pages
SKU: 083008022
Condition: Used: Good
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by Ford Lewis Battles (Editor: Robert Benedetto) (Corporate Author: H. H. Meeter Center for Calvin Studies)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Baker Book House (1996-12)
ISBN: 0801020972
EAN: 9780801020971
Dewy Decimal #: 230.42092
Hardcover: 375 pages
SKU: 051008024
Condition: Used: Acceptable
Comments: ...No Underlining or Highlighting...corner of cover is very beat up...big tear out of dustjacket
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Foreword by Richard Gamble. A leading Calvin scholar explores the origin, method, and structure of Calvin's theology.
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The Calvinian Legacy of Ford Lewis Battles
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-03-27
17 out of 18 customers found this reveiw helpful
This is a splendid collection of pieces by the late Ford Lewis Battles, one of the 20th century's premier Calvin scholars. Battles was the translator of the Library of Christian Classics edition of Calvin's '1559 Institutes' as well as translator of his '1536 Institutes.' The pieces here have been gathered from Battles' contributions to scholarly literature on Calvin over a number of years. The value of the collection is that it places these hard to find pieces together in one convenient place. The two introductory essays convey the scope of Battles' contributions as a Calvin scholar. Two of the most important essays in the collection should be noted. One is Battles', 'Calculus Fidei' in which he puts forth his view of the structure of Calvin's overall theology. This piece will be one with which Calvin scholars will interact for years to come. The second piece on 'Accommodation' conveys one of the most imporant interpretive aspects of Calvin's thought. It has been an important piece in the years since it was published in drawing attention to the principle of accommodation as an interpretive tool in Calvin's understanding of divine revelation. Editor Benedetto has done a masterful job in assembling these pieces, providing the helpful Battles' diagrams and producing an important resource for Reformation scholars as well as scholars of Calvin. Ford Battles was my teacher and was a Calvin scholar without peer. It is a pleasure to commend this book with the highest commendation.
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by E. P. Sanders
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Trinity Pr Intl (1992-02)
ISBN: 1563380153
EAN: 9781563380150
Dewy Decimal #: 296.09014
Paperback: 599 pages
SKU: 111408008
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: name written on first page...crease in spine...edge wear on cover
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Good Study
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-08-18
E. P. Sanders has headed the study of first century Judaism in the right direction with this book and "Paul the Law and the Jewish People". This work discusses the differences between Sadducees, Pharisees, Essenes, and Zealots, as well as High Priests, priests, and Levites. Also, there is a heavy emphasis on the fact that the common Jew was not in any of these groups. Sanders begins the idea of a collective worldview shared by most first century Jews (N. T. Wright in his book "The New Testament and the People of God" carries this through more completely). There are excellent discussions on sacrifices, the tithing system, and synagogue life. There is no way to read this book without coming away knowing more about first century Judaism. The author pushes hard to show that the Pharisees were more liberal than is often supposed. Sanders ascribes more weight to Josephus as a source, and treats the New Testament as less reliable (for me this was a weakness in his presentation). Nevertheless, I do recommend this work along with Wright's.
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GOOD INTRODUCTION TO PRE 70 JUDAISM
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-04-15
1 out of 1 customers found this reveiw helpful
Sanders presents a balanced account of Judaism before the fall of the temple in 70 AD. Although he points out where he believes others have gone wrong, he treats all viewpoints fairly.
Among his views; that too many scholars have wrongly pitted the Phairisees against the aristocratic elite (p 339). He feels the Essenes were "not major players in politics and society" (p 341). He argues in favor of Jewish belief in covenantal nomism and that "suffering and death atone" (p 417) for sin. He also believes that a large majority of Jews at the time believed in some form of an afterlife, or, perhaps, renewed existence. The Sadducees were alone in opposing this view.
Don't miss: his discussion of pietist literature, including the Psalms of Solomon and the Testament of Moses. And anyone interested in the trial of Jesus will want to read his discussion of synedrions and how they judged.
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"Turning on the lights" of ancient Judea
Rating (5)
Date: 2000-06-27
11 out of 15 customers found this reveiw helpful
As a Christian I had to wade through Sanders secular viewpoint which doesn't always represent the spiritual points accurately. Believing students of the Bible will see where Sanders misses what is being said, like those listening to Jesus state we "must eat His flesh and blood" missed the real meaning. This having been said, Sanders is very fair and gentlemanly about his treatment of spiritual concepts, a refreshing occurrence. For anyone who is not familiar with ancient Judaic history and practices, this is as good as any place, and better, to jump in and start studying. His illumination of these beliefs and practices are very helpful for the Christian trying to get a better feel for what is happening in detail in the Bible. I will never read the Bible in quite the same way, now that I understand many things Sanders explained.
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Outstanding depiction of Judaism during the time of Jesus
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Date: 1999-05-27
10 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
It is easy to overlook the fact that Jesus was a pious Galilean Jew during the First Century. Anyone interested in the "historical Jesus" must keep that in mind. Professor Sanders does not discuss Jesus very much in this book (for that, see his excellent "Historical Figure of Jesus") Rather, he shows us what life was like for most Jews in Palestine during this time. Sanders makes this time and place come vividly alive.
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Product Group: Book
Publisher: Kabbalah Learning Center (1987-06)
ISBN: 0943688825
EAN: 9780943688824
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SKU: 081808029
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...shelf wear on dustjacket
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by Dalai Lama
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications (1984-08-25)
ISBN: 0937938181
EAN: 9780937938188
Dewy Decimal #: 294.34
Paperback: 232 pages
SKU: 081608003
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: few markings..shelf wear on cover
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Though [the Dalai Lama] is one of the most erudite scholars...he has a gift for reducing his doctrine to a core of lucid practicality, crystallized in the title of his book, Kindness, Clarity and Insight.--Time Magazine
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TRULY HARD TO UNDERSTAND
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-01-21
THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF THIS BOOK I FIND SPECTACULAR. I MEAN THAT HAVE ALTERED MY LIFE BUT THE MAJORITY OF IT IS SO INCREDIBLY HARD TO FOLLOW. I HAD TO READ SOME PARAGRAPHS 3 TIMES AND STILL DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT AND I'M AN EDUCATOR!!! THE TERMINOLOGY IS DIFFICULT AND THERE ARE WORDS IN THERE THAT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF. THE MEANING BEHIND THE BOOK IS WONDERFUL AND I SIMPLY WISH I COULD COMPREHEND IT ALL :-(.
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The Dalai Lama in America
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-02-08
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
In 1979, after substantial political effort, H.H. the Dalai Lama made his first visit to the United States. He travelled across the country and delivered a series of lectures. The Dalai Lama visited Canada in 1980 and returned to the United States in 1981 and many times thereafter. In 1981, the Dalai Lama and his editor and translator, Professor Jeffrey Hopkins, published a book of the Dalai Lama's early lectures in North America, "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight." It was the first of many books that have since been published based upon the Dalai Lama's lectures or upon meetings and discussions with him. Happily, the book was reissued in 2006 to celebrate the 25th year of its publication as well as the anniversary of Snow Lion Publications, an American publishing house devoted exclusively to books on Tibet.
"Kindness, Clarity, and Insight" is among the best of the Dalai Lama's books in presenting his major themes and in showing the scope of his teachings, from the most fundamental and accessible to the difficult. The book consists of a series of 20 lectures delivered during the Dalai Lama's first three visits. The lectures are arranged in a progressing order of complexity, with the opening lectures giving an introduction to the Dalai Lama's thought that requires no special interest in Tibetan Buddhism while the latter lectures focus on complex, difficult matters that arise within the various Tibetan Buddhist schools. The book is fascinating to read as it moves forward.
Throughout the book, the Dalai Lama emphasizes the importance of kindness and of developing a good heart through introspection and meditation rather than through pursuit of material gain and pleasure. He emphasizes the importance of altruism -- of showing concern for and working towards the well-being of others --- and he takes a broadly ecumenical approach towards religion. In his ecumenical approach, the Dalai Lama stresses that human beings everywhere are essentially alike, despite superficial differences in culture, religion, or race, and that everyone wishes to attain happiness and avoid suffering. He stresses that every religion -- and that secularism too for that matter -- shares these goals and that the differences in doctrine and philosophy among different creeds should not obscure recognition of their underlying unity of purpose. The Dalai Lama does not force his creed or any creed on anyone.
Among the best of the earlier lectures in the book are the opening talk given at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. "Religious Values and Human Society", the lectures "Religious Harmony" and "Compassion in Global Politics" and "Buddhism East to West" which gives the Dalai Lama's early thoughts on the spread of Buddhism to the West.
But in addition to these broadly-based talks, the book includes a series of lectures providing great detail on the nature of Tibetan Buddhism. Many readers will find these lectures difficult both because the subject matter and terminology may be unfamiliar and also because the Dalai Lama's teachings make clear how different the philosophical teachings of Tibetan Buddhism are from both Western religions and Western secularism at many points. The reader should keep in mind in reading these essays the Dalai Lama's teachings earlier in the book that the fundamental goals of religion are similar while the philosophical and conceptual underpinnings differ.
The latter essays in the book that I found important include "Eight Verses for Training the Mind" in which H.H. the Dalai Lama presents eight verses written by Kadma Geshe Langri Thangpa, a Tibetan monk of the Eleventh Century, A.D. and offers a detailed commentary upon them. The goal of the verses is to create calmness in the heart and a feeling of love and compassion towards others.
The central and most difficult teaching in this book consists of a lengthy essay, "The Path to Enlightenment". This essay, based on a combination of lectures, is a discussion of a Tibetan text by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) and includes as well discussions of other important Buddhist thinkers. The Dalai Lama presents the text and offers detailed commentary. The theme of the text is the attainment of enlightenment, and the Dalai Lama expounds upon Tsongkhapa's teachings as they pertain to 1. developing the desire to be free of cyclic existence, 2. wishing to attain enlightenment for the purpose of benefitting others, and 3. developing wisdom by understanding the nature of emptiness. Each of these three steps is highly difficult and runs counter to many Western ways of understanding and behavior. Thus, these texts will be rewarding and challenging but difficult especially to readers unfamiliar with Tibetan Buddhism.
Other lectures in which the Dalai Lama discusses teachings specific to Tibetan Buddhism include "Tibetan Views and Dying" and the final lecture "Union of the Old and New Translation Schools" in which the Dalai Lama considers and tries to synthesize the views of various Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the ultimate nature of reality.
Even in the lectures most concerned with the specific teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama empasizes throughout the importance of kindness and of developing a good heart. Thus, he concludes his lecture on "The Path to Enlightenment" with these words:
"It is essential to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."
The Dalai Lama's teachings have been an inspiration to me and to many other Americans. May you find something in this book that will inspire you.
Robin Friedman
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An Amazing Book, Brimming Over With Wisdom and Compassion
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-09-27
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
There was a time when I dismissed the Dalai Lama as the latest celebrity fad. But the more I read of him, the more I studied the man's books, the more I came to realize how wrong I was.
The Dalai Lama is the real deal. He's a geniune man of compassion in a world often full of hate, anger, and violence.
In short, his life story has become an inspiration to me. If one can let go of and rise above a past as fraught with injustice as his is, one can overcome any kind of past.
In this book -- the 25th anniversary edition of his groundbreaking work -- the Dalai Lama radiates everything the title claims that he will within its pages.
If you're new to the Dalai Lama's works, this would be a great place to start. Sure, some of his other books may be meatier. Some may even be easier to understand. But this book is solid and well worth your time.
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Offering remarkably enduring insights into the wit and wisdom of the Dalai Lama
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-06-04
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
The newly revised and updated twenty-fifth year anniversary edition of Kindness, Clarity, Insight by The Fourteenth Dalai Lama His Holiness Tenzino Gyatso, is expertly translated and co-edited by Jeffery Hopkins and Elizabeth Napper. Offering remarkably enduring insights into the wit and wisdom of the Dalai Lama., Kindness, Clarity, And Insight deftly covered many diverse subjects ranging from "Karma", to "Meditation", to "Eight Verses for Training the mind", to "The Path to Enlightenment", to "Tibetan Views on Dying", and so much more. An essential addition to any personal, academic, or community library Buddhist Studies reference collection and supplemental reading list, Kindness, Clarity, Insight offers a Buddhist perspective which is very strongly recommended for all students of the teachings of the Dalai Lama.
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The best author, but not the best book!
Rating  (4)
Date: 2006-02-22
Everything by the Dalai Lama is amazing, but I have to say that this is probably his worst book. This is the one I started reading his works on, but I would recommend reading The Art of Happiness or Ethics for the New Millenium over this one. It was only good as a starter book.
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by Dalai Lama
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Snow Lion Publications (1984-08-25)
ISBN: 0937938181
EAN: 9780937938188
Dewy Decimal #: 294.34
Paperback: 232 pages
SKU: 081608003
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: few markings..shelf wear on cover
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Though [the Dalai Lama] is one of the most erudite scholars...he has a gift for reducing his doctrine to a core of lucid practicality, crystallized in the title of his book, Kindness, Clarity and Insight.--Time Magazine
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TRULY HARD TO UNDERSTAND
Rating (3)
Date: 2008-01-21
THERE ARE SOME PARTS OF THIS BOOK I FIND SPECTACULAR. I MEAN THAT HAVE ALTERED MY LIFE BUT THE MAJORITY OF IT IS SO INCREDIBLY HARD TO FOLLOW. I HAD TO READ SOME PARAGRAPHS 3 TIMES AND STILL DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT AND I'M AN EDUCATOR!!! THE TERMINOLOGY IS DIFFICULT AND THERE ARE WORDS IN THERE THAT I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF. THE MEANING BEHIND THE BOOK IS WONDERFUL AND I SIMPLY WISH I COULD COMPREHEND IT ALL :-(.
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The Dalai Lama in America
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-02-08
9 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
In 1979, after substantial political effort, H.H. the Dalai Lama made his first visit to the United States. He travelled across the country and delivered a series of lectures. The Dalai Lama visited Canada in 1980 and returned to the United States in 1981 and many times thereafter. In 1981, the Dalai Lama and his editor and translator, Professor Jeffrey Hopkins, published a book of the Dalai Lama's early lectures in North America, "Kindness, Clarity, and Insight." It was the first of many books that have since been published based upon the Dalai Lama's lectures or upon meetings and discussions with him. Happily, the book was reissued in 2006 to celebrate the 25th year of its publication as well as the anniversary of Snow Lion Publications, an American publishing house devoted exclusively to books on Tibet.
"Kindness, Clarity, and Insight" is among the best of the Dalai Lama's books in presenting his major themes and in showing the scope of his teachings, from the most fundamental and accessible to the difficult. The book consists of a series of 20 lectures delivered during the Dalai Lama's first three visits. The lectures are arranged in a progressing order of complexity, with the opening lectures giving an introduction to the Dalai Lama's thought that requires no special interest in Tibetan Buddhism while the latter lectures focus on complex, difficult matters that arise within the various Tibetan Buddhist schools. The book is fascinating to read as it moves forward.
Throughout the book, the Dalai Lama emphasizes the importance of kindness and of developing a good heart through introspection and meditation rather than through pursuit of material gain and pleasure. He emphasizes the importance of altruism -- of showing concern for and working towards the well-being of others --- and he takes a broadly ecumenical approach towards religion. In his ecumenical approach, the Dalai Lama stresses that human beings everywhere are essentially alike, despite superficial differences in culture, religion, or race, and that everyone wishes to attain happiness and avoid suffering. He stresses that every religion -- and that secularism too for that matter -- shares these goals and that the differences in doctrine and philosophy among different creeds should not obscure recognition of their underlying unity of purpose. The Dalai Lama does not force his creed or any creed on anyone.
Among the best of the earlier lectures in the book are the opening talk given at Constitution Hall, Washington, D.C. "Religious Values and Human Society", the lectures "Religious Harmony" and "Compassion in Global Politics" and "Buddhism East to West" which gives the Dalai Lama's early thoughts on the spread of Buddhism to the West.
But in addition to these broadly-based talks, the book includes a series of lectures providing great detail on the nature of Tibetan Buddhism. Many readers will find these lectures difficult both because the subject matter and terminology may be unfamiliar and also because the Dalai Lama's teachings make clear how different the philosophical teachings of Tibetan Buddhism are from both Western religions and Western secularism at many points. The reader should keep in mind in reading these essays the Dalai Lama's teachings earlier in the book that the fundamental goals of religion are similar while the philosophical and conceptual underpinnings differ.
The latter essays in the book that I found important include "Eight Verses for Training the Mind" in which H.H. the Dalai Lama presents eight verses written by Kadma Geshe Langri Thangpa, a Tibetan monk of the Eleventh Century, A.D. and offers a detailed commentary upon them. The goal of the verses is to create calmness in the heart and a feeling of love and compassion towards others.
The central and most difficult teaching in this book consists of a lengthy essay, "The Path to Enlightenment". This essay, based on a combination of lectures, is a discussion of a Tibetan text by Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) and includes as well discussions of other important Buddhist thinkers. The Dalai Lama presents the text and offers detailed commentary. The theme of the text is the attainment of enlightenment, and the Dalai Lama expounds upon Tsongkhapa's teachings as they pertain to 1. developing the desire to be free of cyclic existence, 2. wishing to attain enlightenment for the purpose of benefitting others, and 3. developing wisdom by understanding the nature of emptiness. Each of these three steps is highly difficult and runs counter to many Western ways of understanding and behavior. Thus, these texts will be rewarding and challenging but difficult especially to readers unfamiliar with Tibetan Buddhism.
Other lectures in which the Dalai Lama discusses teachings specific to Tibetan Buddhism include "Tibetan Views and Dying" and the final lecture "Union of the Old and New Translation Schools" in which the Dalai Lama considers and tries to synthesize the views of various Tibetan Buddhist teachings on the ultimate nature of reality.
Even in the lectures most concerned with the specific teachings of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama empasizes throughout the importance of kindness and of developing a good heart. Thus, he concludes his lecture on "The Path to Enlightenment" with these words:
"It is essential to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."
The Dalai Lama's teachings have been an inspiration to me and to many other Americans. May you find something in this book that will inspire you.
Robin Friedman
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An Amazing Book, Brimming Over With Wisdom and Compassion
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-09-27
2 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
There was a time when I dismissed the Dalai Lama as the latest celebrity fad. But the more I read of him, the more I studied the man's books, the more I came to realize how wrong I was.
The Dalai Lama is the real deal. He's a geniune man of compassion in a world often full of hate, anger, and violence.
In short, his life story has become an inspiration to me. If one can let go of and rise above a past as fraught with injustice as his is, one can overcome any kind of past.
In this book -- the 25th anniversary edition of his groundbreaking work -- the Dalai Lama radiates everything the title claims that he will within its pages.
If you're new to the Dalai Lama's works, this would be a great place to start. Sure, some of his other books may be meatier. Some may even be easier to understand. But this book is solid and well worth your time.
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Offering remarkably enduring insights into the wit and wisdom of the Dalai Lama
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-06-04
5 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
The newly revised and updated twenty-fifth year anniversary edition of Kindness, Clarity, Insight by The Fourteenth Dalai Lama His Holiness Tenzino Gyatso, is expertly translated and co-edited by Jeffery Hopkins and Elizabeth Napper. Offering remarkably enduring insights into the wit and wisdom of the Dalai Lama., Kindness, Clarity, And Insight deftly covered many diverse subjects ranging from "Karma", to "Meditation", to "Eight Verses for Training the mind", to "The Path to Enlightenment", to "Tibetan Views on Dying", and so much more. An essential addition to any personal, academic, or community library Buddhist Studies reference collection and supplemental reading list, Kindness, Clarity, Insight offers a Buddhist perspective which is very strongly recommended for all students of the teachings of the Dalai Lama.
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The best author, but not the best book!
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-02-22
Everything by the Dalai Lama is amazing, but I have to say that this is probably his worst book. This is the one I started reading his works on, but I would recommend reading The Art of Happiness or Ethics for the New Millenium over this one. It was only good as a starter book.
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by Michelle Goldberg
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton (2006-05-11)
ISBN: 0393060942
EAN: 9780393060942
Dewy Decimal #: 277.3083
Hardcover: 224 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 091308021
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on dustjacket
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Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the national budget, and poorly disguised self-interest had been reinstated, Goldberg traveled through the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the mega-church to the federal court, she saw how the growing influence of dominionism-the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers-is threatening the foundations of democracy.
In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America, we meet military retirees pledging to seize the nation in Christ's name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country's social problems.
With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind this movement, Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a Christian nation run according to their interpretation of scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide between believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces that are remaking much of America.
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Do you want a Christian Taliban on our hands?
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-10-31
I don't. It's counter to freedom and democracy-- it's a theocracy of one nation under Jesus Christ.
Apparently, a lot of people in the U.S. want just that.
Canada: looking better and better every day.
Thanks to Goldberg for writing about this. Other writers need to draw our attention to this menace.
Come the rapture, there'll be more room for us.
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The Christo-Fascists Want To Take Over The World - Yikes!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-22
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Another great book documenting the malignant and rapidly-spreading tumor that threatens to destroy not only our great SECULAR nation but the entire modern ( read ADVANCED ) world and all the painstaking progress we humans have made over the past 500 years. Make no mistake: these so-called Christian nutjobs want to turn back the clock to a romanticized vision they have of something called "Biblical Times", when everyone - especially women and slaves - knew their place, and all was right with the world. Of course these modern-day religious freaks are enjoying the fruits of the Enlightenment and scientific progress by living much longer and healthier lives; they fly in airplanes and go to medical doctors, neither of which existed in the good old days. Many of these people live in the deep south, where the heat and humidity are legendary but, thanks to SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS they are comfortable in their air conditioned cars and houses and HUGE Mega-churches - again, none of that in Biblical times. I say let these people live ouit their visions and dreams: send them back to where they think they came from, the roaring-hot Middle East, with no technologies invented after the year 1. See how much they like that, and then they can get back to the rest of us with an update - presumably written on parchment. But - wait! Most people there and then were illiterate. They'll have to make it an Oral Tradition for a few generations before somebody - the world's first used car dealer? - figures out "writing" and "paper". But then that would be "progress", and progress ( and of course Progressives ) is Bad, very Bad.
This book is a great clarion call for all rational and reasonable and patriotic citizens to wake up and turn back the tide of these idiots, before it's too late.
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Scary Look at the Fringe Becoming Mainstream
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-05-26
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Christian fundamentalism has been a national problem at least since the Scopes Monkey trial; it is more or less a development of the past quarter-century, however, that such fundamentalism has gained political clout. Michelle Goldberg, a secular liberal Jewish feminist (one wonders if her being a lesbian would significantly increase the right-wing paranoia these labels provoke) has assembled a terrifying factbook of the history, agenda, and methods of the religious right, all with considerable humanity, felicitous writing, and minimal elitism.
All of her subjects, from Focus on the Family to the wretchedly misnamed Discovery Institute (the main thinktank behind "intelligent design") are easy to oppose. Goldberg's feat is to show how such groups, so naturally objectionable to secularists and the mainstream religious, have ascended to heights previously unthinkable within the Republican party. Her analysis is well-documented and journalistically sound (though plenty of outside sources are used, she also spent much time with primary material, including conference calls with important religious right figures).
I must admit to find it a depressing read. I am, however, cautiously optimistic that the type of lunacy described in the book is at a high water mark; this was written before the 2006 congressional elections, and John McCain (to say nothing of Obama or Hillary) doesn't have near the influence in religious right circles as Bush does. Still, as Goldberg points out, some of their most important advances were made during the Clinton years.
Though an unabashed secularist, Goldberg refreshingly does not withhold support for sensible religious leaders. Most prominent among them is Jim Wallis, the evangelical progressive who has become something of a go-to man for churches that are tired of their right wing captivity.
Topical and urgent, it will also stand as a fine history of a peculiarly American political movement. Read it, wake up, and turn your faith, whether in humanity or the divine, into action.
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Incredible Compilation of Facts
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-05-11
23 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
The organized push from Evangelicals to dissolve the separation between church and state is currently one of the most potent threats to individual rights in the United States. With 'Kingdom Coming', Michelle Goldberg presents a detailed intellectual history of Christian Nationalism as well as documents how Evangelicals have permeated American culture.
This book is rich in intellectual history. In the first chapter, Goldberg explains Dominionism, which holds that Christians have the god-given right and duty to be sovereign over one's country, if not the entire world. This idea derives from Christian Reconstructionism, which argues that American law should be replaced by Biblical law.
You will learn about many important figures in the intellectual origins of Christian Nationalism. This includes the following thinkers and writers:
* R. J. Rushdoony, the profoundly influential prolific writer who wrote that homosexuals, blasphemers and unchaste women should be sentenced to death as well as insisted that Jesus Christ would not return until Christians establish a thousand-year reign on Earth. Rushdoony is the father of Christian Reconstructionism.
* Francis Schaeffer, whose 'Christian Manifesto' argued that history is a contest between two antipodal forces: the Christian worldview and a materialist (secular) worldview, that the U.S. was founded on a Christian Consensus and that any public official who "commands what is contrary to God's Law [abrogates his authority]." Unfortunately, Goldberg only speaks of Schaeffer for a little over two pages.
* David Barton, a Christian revisionist historian who writes extensively on how the separation between church and state is a myth and that the founding fathers intended for basic biblical principles to permeate public life.
* Marvin Olasky, a prolific writer who is considered the founder of Compassionate Conservatism. One of Olasky's major works, 'The Tragedy of American Compassion', argues that there was a golden age of social services provided by churches until the secular government of Franklin Delano Roosevelt made social welfare the government's responsibility. President George W. Bush cites Olasky as his leading influence for funding faith-based initiatives.
This book also thoroughly documents how Evangelicals are changing American culture. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
* Many widely-read revisionist history books such as Barton's 'Original Intent'.
* Textbooks designed to bring Christian science and morality into classrooms such as the intelligent design championing text 'Of Pandas and People'.
* Television shows that promote Christian ideology such as Pat Robertson's '700 Club'.
* Rock concerts and campus clubs intended to convert and recruit the younger generation.
* Highly influential political activists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson and Ralph Reed and their respective non-profit political organizations.
* Active Christian think-tanks such as Answers in Genesis, Discovery Institute and the Family Research Council.
* Media moguls such as the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
* Many recent/current legislators with openly pro-Evangelical agendas such as Sam Brownback, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Rick Santorum, Jesse Helms and former House Majority Leader Tom Delay.
After the first, each chapter is organized around a specific political campaigns that the Religious Right has embraced: against gays, for intelligent design, for faith-based initiatives, for abstinence-only education and against "activist" judges. The ongoing war on abortion rights is also thoroughly treated.
My only complaint is that, like a waitress who seasons your food without asking, the author rudely inserts her socialist views throughout the book. She even explicitly celebrates FDR's New Deal for "[bringing] socialism to America." As if everyone who is anti-religion is also pro-socialism! Irritating as this is, it does not ruin an otherwise informative book.
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Terrifying and enlightening
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-04-28
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
In this excellent, fascinating, and frightening book, Michelle Goldberg brings up the well-known fact that abstinence-only sex education programs for teenagers don't work. But an abstinence-only educator emphatically insisted that it doesn't matter that these programs don't work. What matters, she said, is that these programs tell "the TRUTH" that sex outside of marriage is "a SIN." Apparently, most abstinence-only programs are less concerned with preventing pregnancy and disease than with pushing a religious ideology.
I can't tell you how many times I raised my eyebrows over what I read in this book, nor how many times I had to put the book down in order to digest what I'd just read. Some of what Goldberg writes seems incomprehensible, yet she thoroughly documents all of it.
The Reverend Moon's tremendous clout with the D.C. establishment and the religious right came as quite a surprise to me. I always dismissed him as a crackpot, but no more.
Goldberg's book is about a parallel reality that is alive, well, and growing in the U.S. today--thanks to generous subsidies from the Bush administration and an unquestioning, incurious press. Goldberg is to be commended for providing much-needed insight into this subculture, which is making alarming progress towards the mainstream. This book is also a whole lot scarier than anything by Steven King--because it's true. With all due respect to King, even he couldn't make this stuff up.
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by Michelle Goldberg
Product Group: Book
Publisher: W. W. Norton (2006-05-11)
ISBN: 0393060942
EAN: 9780393060942
Dewy Decimal #: 277.3083
Hardcover: 224 pages
Edition: 1
SKU: 091308021
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...no markings or highlighting...minor wear on dustjacket
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Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com, has been covering the intersection of politics and ideology for years. Before the 2004 election, and during the ensuing months when many Americans were trying to understand how an administration marked by cronyism, disregard for the national budget, and poorly disguised self-interest had been reinstated, Goldberg traveled through the heartland of a country in the grips of a fevered religious radicalism: the America of our time. From the classroom to the mega-church to the federal court, she saw how the growing influence of dominionism-the doctrine that Christians have the right to rule nonbelievers-is threatening the foundations of democracy.
In Kingdom Coming, Goldberg demonstrates how an increasingly bellicose fundamentalism is gaining traction throughout our national life, taking us on a tour of the parallel right-wing evangelical culture that is buoyed by Republican political patronage. Deep within the red zones of a divided America, we meet military retirees pledging to seize the nation in Christ's name, perfidious congressmen courting the confidence of neo-confederates and proponents of theocracy, and leaders of federally funded programs offering Jesus as the solution to the country's social problems.
With her trenchant interviews and the telling testimonies of the people behind this movement, Goldberg gains access into the hearts and minds of citizens who are striving to remake the secular Republic bequeathed by our founders into a Christian nation run according to their interpretation of scripture. In her examination of the ever-widening divide between believers and nonbelievers, Goldberg illustrates the subversive effect of this conservative stranglehold nationwide. In an age when faith rather than reason is heralded and the values of the Enlightenment are threatened by a mystical nationalism claiming divine sanction, Kingdom Coming brings us face to face with the irrational forces that are remaking much of America.
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Do you want a Christian Taliban on our hands?
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-10-31
I don't. It's counter to freedom and democracy-- it's a theocracy of one nation under Jesus Christ.
Apparently, a lot of people in the U.S. want just that.
Canada: looking better and better every day.
Thanks to Goldberg for writing about this. Other writers need to draw our attention to this menace.
Come the rapture, there'll be more room for us.
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The Christo-Fascists Want To Take Over The World - Yikes!
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-06-22
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Another great book documenting the malignant and rapidly-spreading tumor that threatens to destroy not only our great SECULAR nation but the entire modern ( read ADVANCED ) world and all the painstaking progress we humans have made over the past 500 years. Make no mistake: these so-called Christian nutjobs want to turn back the clock to a romanticized vision they have of something called "Biblical Times", when everyone - especially women and slaves - knew their place, and all was right with the world. Of course these modern-day religious freaks are enjoying the fruits of the Enlightenment and scientific progress by living much longer and healthier lives; they fly in airplanes and go to medical doctors, neither of which existed in the good old days. Many of these people live in the deep south, where the heat and humidity are legendary but, thanks to SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS they are comfortable in their air conditioned cars and houses and HUGE Mega-churches - again, none of that in Biblical times. I say let these people live ouit their visions and dreams: send them back to where they think they came from, the roaring-hot Middle East, with no technologies invented after the year 1. See how much they like that, and then they can get back to the rest of us with an update - presumably written on parchment. But - wait! Most people there and then were illiterate. They'll have to make it an Oral Tradition for a few generations before somebody - the world's first used car dealer? - figures out "writing" and "paper". But then that would be "progress", and progress ( and of course Progressives ) is Bad, very Bad.
This book is a great clarion call for all rational and reasonable and patriotic citizens to wake up and turn back the tide of these idiots, before it's too late.
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Scary Look at the Fringe Becoming Mainstream
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-05-26
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
Christian fundamentalism has been a national problem at least since the Scopes Monkey trial; it is more or less a development of the past quarter-century, however, that such fundamentalism has gained political clout. Michelle Goldberg, a secular liberal Jewish feminist (one wonders if her being a lesbian would significantly increase the right-wing paranoia these labels provoke) has assembled a terrifying factbook of the history, agenda, and methods of the religious right, all with considerable humanity, felicitous writing, and minimal elitism.
All of her subjects, from Focus on the Family to the wretchedly misnamed Discovery Institute (the main thinktank behind "intelligent design") are easy to oppose. Goldberg's feat is to show how such groups, so naturally objectionable to secularists and the mainstream religious, have ascended to heights previously unthinkable within the Republican party. Her analysis is well-documented and journalistically sound (though plenty of outside sources are used, she also spent much time with primary material, including conference calls with important religious right figures).
I must admit to find it a depressing read. I am, however, cautiously optimistic that the type of lunacy described in the book is at a high water mark; this was written before the 2006 congressional elections, and John McCain (to say nothing of Obama or Hillary) doesn't have near the influence in religious right circles as Bush does. Still, as Goldberg points out, some of their most important advances were made during the Clinton years.
Though an unabashed secularist, Goldberg refreshingly does not withhold support for sensible religious leaders. Most prominent among them is Jim Wallis, the evangelical progressive who has become something of a go-to man for churches that are tired of their right wing captivity.
Topical and urgent, it will also stand as a fine history of a peculiarly American political movement. Read it, wake up, and turn your faith, whether in humanity or the divine, into action.
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Incredible Compilation of Facts
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-05-11
23 out of 24 customers found this reveiw helpful
The organized push from Evangelicals to dissolve the separation between church and state is currently one of the most potent threats to individual rights in the United States. With 'Kingdom Coming', Michelle Goldberg presents a detailed intellectual history of Christian Nationalism as well as documents how Evangelicals have permeated American culture.
This book is rich in intellectual history. In the first chapter, Goldberg explains Dominionism, which holds that Christians have the god-given right and duty to be sovereign over one's country, if not the entire world. This idea derives from Christian Reconstructionism, which argues that American law should be replaced by Biblical law.
You will learn about many important figures in the intellectual origins of Christian Nationalism. This includes the following thinkers and writers:
* R. J. Rushdoony, the profoundly influential prolific writer who wrote that homosexuals, blasphemers and unchaste women should be sentenced to death as well as insisted that Jesus Christ would not return until Christians establish a thousand-year reign on Earth. Rushdoony is the father of Christian Reconstructionism.
* Francis Schaeffer, whose 'Christian Manifesto' argued that history is a contest between two antipodal forces: the Christian worldview and a materialist (secular) worldview, that the U.S. was founded on a Christian Consensus and that any public official who "commands what is contrary to God's Law [abrogates his authority]." Unfortunately, Goldberg only speaks of Schaeffer for a little over two pages.
* David Barton, a Christian revisionist historian who writes extensively on how the separation between church and state is a myth and that the founding fathers intended for basic biblical principles to permeate public life.
* Marvin Olasky, a prolific writer who is considered the founder of Compassionate Conservatism. One of Olasky's major works, 'The Tragedy of American Compassion', argues that there was a golden age of social services provided by churches until the secular government of Franklin Delano Roosevelt made social welfare the government's responsibility. President George W. Bush cites Olasky as his leading influence for funding faith-based initiatives.
This book also thoroughly documents how Evangelicals are changing American culture. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
* Many widely-read revisionist history books such as Barton's 'Original Intent'.
* Textbooks designed to bring Christian science and morality into classrooms such as the intelligent design championing text 'Of Pandas and People'.
* Television shows that promote Christian ideology such as Pat Robertson's '700 Club'.
* Rock concerts and campus clubs intended to convert and recruit the younger generation.
* Highly influential political activists such as Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, James Dobson and Ralph Reed and their respective non-profit political organizations.
* Active Christian think-tanks such as Answers in Genesis, Discovery Institute and the Family Research Council.
* Media moguls such as the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.
* Many recent/current legislators with openly pro-Evangelical agendas such as Sam Brownback, Tom Coburn, Jim DeMint, Rick Santorum, Jesse Helms and former House Majority Leader Tom Delay.
After the first, each chapter is organized around a specific political campaigns that the Religious Right has embraced: against gays, for intelligent design, for faith-based initiatives, for abstinence-only education and against "activist" judges. The ongoing war on abortion rights is also thoroughly treated.
My only complaint is that, like a waitress who seasons your food without asking, the author rudely inserts her socialist views throughout the book. She even explicitly celebrates FDR's New Deal for "[bringing] socialism to America." As if everyone who is anti-religion is also pro-socialism! Irritating as this is, it does not ruin an otherwise informative book.
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Terrifying and enlightening
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-04-28
3 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
In this excellent, fascinating, and frightening book, Michelle Goldberg brings up the well-known fact that abstinence-only sex education programs for teenagers don't work. But an abstinence-only educator emphatically insisted that it doesn't matter that these programs don't work. What matters, she said, is that these programs tell "the TRUTH" that sex outside of marriage is "a SIN." Apparently, most abstinence-only programs are less concerned with preventing pregnancy and disease than with pushing a religious ideology.
I can't tell you how many times I raised my eyebrows over what I read in this book, nor how many times I had to put the book down in order to digest what I'd just read. Some of what Goldberg writes seems incomprehensible, yet she thoroughly documents all of it.
The Reverend Moon's tremendous clout with the D.C. establishment and the religious right came as quite a surprise to me. I always dismissed him as a crackpot, but no more.
Goldberg's book is about a parallel reality that is alive, well, and growing in the U.S. today--thanks to generous subsidies from the Bush administration and an unquestioning, incurious press. Goldberg is to be commended for providing much-needed insight into this subculture, which is making alarming progress towards the mainstream. This book is also a whole lot scarier than anything by Steven King--because it's true. With all due respect to King, even he couldn't make this stuff up.
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