Philosophy / Religious

The Kingdom of God is Within You

von Leo Tolstoy

Published in 1884, 'The kingdom of God is within you' is perhaps Tolstoy's most significant work of non-fiction. Due to the Russian censors, it was first published in Germany, but its dominant idea of non-violence...

The Confessions of St. Augustine

von Saint Augustine

The Confessions of St. Augustine is the collection of St. Augustine's thirteen autobiographical books, each singly known as Confessions. In these books he details his sinful youth, his conversion to Christianity,...

On Life

von Leo Tolstoy

'On Life' and 'What is religion?' were published by the Fee Age Press in England; a publishing house set up to side-step the censorship of Tolstoy in Russia, and to give him an international voice. So what is...

Christ: A Crisis in the Life of God

von Jack Miles

With the same passionate scholarship and analytical audacity he brought to the character of God, Jack Miles now approaches the literary and theological enigma of Jesus. In so doing, he tells the story of a broken...

The Monk and the Philosopher: A Father and Son Discuss the Meaning of Life

von Jean Francois Revel & Matthieu Ricard

Jean Francois-Revel, a pillar of French intellectual life in our time, became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. Twenty-seven years ago, his son, Matthieu Ricard, gave up a promising...

The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life

von Armand Nicholi

"This elegantly written and compelling comparison of the worldviews of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis provides a riveting opportunity to consider the most important questions mankind has ever asked: Is there...

The Twelve Conditions of a Miracle: The Miracle Worker's Handbook

von Todd Michael

Author R. Todd Michael discovers within the original Greek text twelve practical rules for living a life of meaning and power.

In meticulously retranslating the parable of the loaves and fishes, Michael made...

The Hidden Parables: Activating the Secret of the Gospels

von Todd Michael

The Hidden Parables is a complete retranslation of the parables used by Jesus to illustrate critical lessons about the nature of reality. These thiry-two enigmatic parables spoken by Christ reveal a hidden layer...

Spiritual Writings: A New Translation and Selection

von Soren Kierkegaard & George Pattison

In this new collection, Oxford theologian George Pattison translates and selects Søren Kierkegaard's previously neglected writings on spirituality—works that greatly deepen our understanding of the influential...

Yoga: Discipline of Freedom: The Yoga Sutra Attributed to Patanjali

von Barbara Miller

Dating from about the third century A.D., the Yoga Sutra distills the essence of the physical and spiritual discipline of yoga into fewer than two hundred brief aphorisms. It is the core text for any study of...

Death as Gateway to Eternity: Nature's Hidden Message

von Hans Kury

In the spirit of the great German mystics, Hans Kury seeks to discover whence we have come and whither we are going. In these conversations of a solitary man with the mountains, the stars, the animals, the plants-in...

Sadhana

von Rabindranath Tagore

All the great utterances of man have to be judged not by the letter but by the spirit-- the spirit which unfolds itself with the growth of life in history. We get to know the real meaning of Christianity by...

Garden of Sufi: Insights into the Nature of Man

von Jim Aghevli

Over the centuries, religion has inspired some of civilization's most beautiful poetry, and certain Persian Muslims, the Sufi, have created intricately wrought poems celebrating peace and harmony. The world...

World Government: A Blueprint For A Univ

von Nicholas Hagger

The dream of world government is becoming a reality. A Universalist blueprint for a philanthropic, democratic supranational World State.

The Freethinker's Prayer Book: And some word to live by

von Khushwant Singh

An inclusive, eclectic prayer book for every humanist. Compiled and introduced by India's most celebrated, fearless and compassionate agnostic and one of its best-known writers. An inclusive, eclectic prayer...

The Inner Life

von Thomasa Kempis

Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves—and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged,...

Atheism For Dummies

von Dale MCGOWAN

The easy way to understand atheism and secular philosophy

For people seeking a non-religious philosophy of life, as well as believers with atheist friends, Atheism For Dummies offers an intelligent exploration...

Hymns of Hermes: Ecstatic Songs of Gnosis

von G. R. S. Mead & Stephan A. Hoeller

These writings are attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, an ancient Egyptian sage, the founder of all arts and sciences, both mundane and spiritual. Rather than being an actual person, Hermes is the Egyptian personification...

Isis Unveiled: Vol. I & II

von H. P. Blavatsky

Isis Unveiled is a master key to the mysteries of ancient and modern science and theology. With the help of this book you will be able to make sense of how so many of the world's peaceful and beautiful religions...

The Teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg: Vol. II

von Emanuel Swedenborg

The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine is a wonderful introduction to the beliefs of the New Church and an overview of its theological foundations. Here Emanuel Swedenborg discusses faith, love, goodness...