Frederick W. Schmidt is an Episcopal priest and the Rueben P. Job Chair in Spiritual Formation at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of several books, including The Dave Test: A Raw Look at Real Faith in Hard Times. He lives in Arrington, Tennessee.
54 Ebooks by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong: Short History of Myth
Human beings have always been mythmakers. So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrongs concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperatel …
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Frederick W. Schmidt: The Changing Face of God
In 1999, five scholars presented lectures at Washington National Cathedral about our images of God and what difference they make. This book is ideal for parish study groups and individuals to conside …
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€9.99
Karen Armstrong: The Great Transformation
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of wha …
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€12.99
Karen Armstrong: Bible
The renowned religious historian “preaches the gospel truth . . . explaining how the spiritual guide . . . came into being and evolved over the centuries” (V …
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€19.32
Rev. Dr. Joan Brown Campbell: Living into Hope
Step beyond the walls of the church and into the thick of humanity. ‘Joan Brown Campbell’s career can be regarded as prophetic. For Joan, faith has meant engagement with the world and its pain. Her w …
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€17.99
Karen Armstrong: If We Could Fly
‘The beautifully quirky title of Karen Armstrong’s first collection of poetry maps the final journey of a friend who is dying of cancer. These poems capture the warmth of unselfish love; of a relatio …
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€2.99
Karen Armstrong: St Paul
St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Misundersto …
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€6.99
Karen Armstrong: The Bible
The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years …
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€6.99
Karen Armstrong: Muhammad
From the bestselling writer of ‘The History of God’ and the widely acclaimed ‘Islam – A Short History’ comes Karen Armstrong’s ‘Muhammad’.Muhammad was born in 570 C.E., and over the following sixty y …
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Karen Armstrong: Spiral Staircase
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world’s great commentators on religion.After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an exper …
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Karen Armstrong: Through the Narrow Gate
Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with h …
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Karen Armstrong: Battle for God
This edition does not include illustrations.Britain’s greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religio …
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€3.01
Karen Armstrong: History of Jerusalem
Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet.’A History of Jerusalem should be read, not only by travellers and potential travellers in Jerusalem, but by all of us.’ Stephen Tummin, D …
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€10.59
Karen Armstrong: Muhammad
New York Times-Bestselling Author: This biography of the man who inspired the world’s fastest-growing religion "paints a portrait of a very human prophet" (The Wall Street Journal).Muhammad …
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€30.87
Karen Armstrong: Short History of Myth (Myths series)
What are myths? How have they evolved? And why do we still so desperately need them? A history of myth is a history of humanity, Karen Armstrong argues in this insightful and eloquent book: our stori …
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€27.75
Karen Armstrong: Islam
One of the world’s foremost commentators on religious affairs on the history (and destiny) of the world’s most misunderstood religion.In the public mind, Islam is a religion of extremes: it is the wo …
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€3.99
Karen Armstrong: A Short History Of Myth
As long as we have been human, we have been mythmakers. In A Short History of Myth, Karen Armstrong holds up the mirror of mythology to show us the history of ourselves, and embarks on a journey that …
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Karen Armstrong: Case for God
There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history, a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Militant atheists preach a gospel …
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Karen Armstrong: Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life
Drawing on a wide range of material – ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience – Karen Armstrong argues that compassion is hardwired in …
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€14.99
Karen Armstrong: In the Beginning
The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories – Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. These ancient tales …
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Karen Armstrong: Fields of Blood
It is the most persistent myth of our time: religion is the cause of all violence. But history suggests otherwise. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of relig …
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Karen Armstrong: History of God
The idea of a single devine being – God, Yahweh, Allah – has existed for over 4, 000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclai …
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Karen Armstrong: Lost Art of Scripture
‘An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world’s religious texts can be a force for good today’ John Barton, author of A History of the Bible In our increasingly secular world, holy texts ar …
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Karen Armstrong: Religion
Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is God and do we need Him in our mod …
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€4.99
Karen Armstrong: The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to The Hebrews
Hebrews marks a parting of the ways for Jews and Christians of the first century. It makes a case for the superiority of the new Christian ‘faith’ over old Hebrew orthodoxy and draws on the Old Testa …
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€1.99
Karen Armstrong: Remembering Karelia
In June 1944, after two wars with the Soviet Union, the Finnish region of Karelia was ceded to the Soviet Union. As a result, the Finnish population of Karelia, nearly 11% of the Finnish population, …
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Karen Armstrong: Breve historia del mito
La historia del mito es la historia de la humanidad. Nuestras narraciones y creencias, nuestra curiosidad y nuestras tentativas de comprender el mundo nos vinculan directamente con nuestros antepasad …
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Karen Armstrong: Angel Eyes
Angel Eyes: Releasing Fears and Following Your Soul Path At a very young age, Karen experienced seeing entities that had crossed over to the other side. She put away those gifts for many years becaus …
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Karen Armstrong: Sacred Nature
‘A rich and subtle exploration of the sacredness of nature, filled with a timeless wisdom and deep humanity’ Guardian In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that it isn’t enough to chan …
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€9.49
Karen Armstrong: 12 passos para uma vida de compaixao
Com base em um material extenso e variado – que abrange desde as crenças de diferentes religiões às descobertas da neurociência do início do século XXI -, Karen Armstrong busca sustentar neste livro …
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€3.94
Karen Armstrong: Muhammad
A life of the prophet Muhammad by bestselling author Karen Armstrong.’Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to its fundamentals, without over-simplif …
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€3.99
Jonathan Magonet: Talking to the Other
Suicide killings – both in America and Israel – have focused world attention on international terrorism. The involvement of people claiming that their Islamic faith justified murderous suicide action …
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