Special edition including the complete text of the Gospel of ThomasElaine Pagels, one of the world's most important writers and thinkers on religion and history, and winner of the National Book Award for her groundbreaking work The Gnostic Gospels, now reflects on what matters most about spiritual and religious exploration in the twenty-first century. ...

Today's rapidly changing global business arena has made undaunted leadership as fleeting as yesterday's software. Yet the wisdom of one reluctant leader - Moses - has grown more relevant with each passing millennium. In Moses on Management, Rabbi David Baron - a nationally renowned spiritual leader and successful entrepreneur - draws surprising parallels between the world of Moses and our own. Through Bible passages, amusing anecdotes, interviews with visionary leaders, and his own insights, Rabbi Baron conveys fifty powerful lessons for today's business managers.

This is a major study of Kierkegaard and love. In Kierkegaard's works, the characters are, as in real life, complex and incomplete, and the conclusions are perplexing. Hall argues that a spiritual void brings each text into being, and her interpretation is as much about faith as about love.

Addressing many of the social issues of his day, Hugo wrote this epic tome that traces the path of Valjean as he changes from convict to saint. Hugo believed in the spiritual possibilities of human beings and has chosen the story of the poor and outcast to illustrate this 'perfectibility of man.'

A national bestseller, The Way is helping countless people discover the sacred wisdom of Kabbalah. The spiritual way of Kabbalah has grown from a hidden treasure into a widespread mainstream movement that has helped people from every walk of life, all around the world. With this book, Michael Berg of the Kabbalah Centre - the leading educational institution on the subject of Kabbalah - shows readers how to recognize and understand the key spiritual laws while learning how to use them for self-improvement. At once groundbreaking and so clearly written that it is accessible to anyone following any spiritual path, The Way provides the power tools to attain true fulfillment and happiness.

Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research — and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction — this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the consequences of sexual addiction and dependency. With practical wisdom and spiritual clarity, it points the way out of the shadows of sexual compulsion and back into the light and fullness of life.

Ordinary Girl is legendary singer-songwriter Donna Summer’s delightfully candid memoir about her journey from singing in a Boston church to her unexpected reign as the Queen of Disco—and the tragedy and spiritual rebirth that followed. Donna Summer was born on New Year’s Eve in Boston. Her childhood was filled with music. Inspired by Mahalia Jackson, ...

This book explores the intellectual foundations of the Benedictine reform in tenth-century England. It examines the importance of the vernacular at Bishop Æthelwold's influential Winchester school. Æthelwold's early career is also examined, showing the influence King Æthelstan's court had on intellectual and spiritual thought.

Loewenstein's book is a wide-ranging exploration of the interactions of literature, polemics and religious politics in the English Revolution. Loewenstein highlights the powerful spiritual beliefs and religious ideologies in the polemical struggles of Milton, Marvell and their radical Puritan contemporaries during these revolutionary decades.

This book describes power and politics in Rome and the role of the papacy in early modern European politics. It attempts to overcome the traditional historiographical approach to the papacy during this period by focusing on the actual mechanisms of power in the papal court - political, personal, spiritual and ceremonial.

This book shows how the search for personal supernatural power lay at the heart of the so-called eighteenth-century English evangelical revival, and rejects the view that the Wesleys rescued the British from moral and spiritual decay by reviving primitive Christianity.