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Abraham is the father of three major religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. In "The God of Abraham," Christopher Bamford explores the central role of Abraham in the evolution of humanity's relationship with God and His Creation.
Clearly, Abraham, who received the “h” into the spelling of his name to indicate his unique status as initiating the cycle of the Complete Human, occupies a special place in our history, one perhaps we should pay greater attention to.... [more]
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As a barrage of books by atheists denouncing God and religion assault bestseller lists, Huston Smith, the dean of American religious scholars, offers a believer's response.
God is winning the God-war. He is winning it even though he is playing uphill on an unlevel playing field that the media has tilted sharply upward toward secularism. A single example should suffice to make this obvious.... [more]
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Few mystics speak so clearly to both the mind and heart than the medieval theologian Meister Eckhart. From storyteller Barbara Helen Berger comes an inspiring imagining of Meister Eckhart's meeting a young child who may be Jesus.
There is a legend about Meister Eckhart meeting a naked child. It appears in Raymond B. Blakney’s translation of Meister Eckhart’s sermons and other works. The book doesn’t say where the legend came from—did it spring from a vision, a dream, an episode told by a follower? Most likely, no one knows.... [more]
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God's love for Moses, and Moses' love for God, have intrigued seekers for ages. Drawing from Jewish oral legends (the Midrash) and the Bible, Diane Wolkstein explores the dance between the Divine and the human, and its implications for both.
My version of the meeting of God and Moses, from their first to their last encounter, is based on the Hebrew Bible and Ginsberg’s legends. Certain elements of this midrashic version may be shocking, but that is the nature of story—to surprise us....[more]
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