Secondhand Religion & Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP4187

Secondhand Religion & Philosophy Bargain Book Box SP4187

Fifteen books on God, from both sides: Karen Armstrong’s The Case for God, Paul Davies’s The Mind of God, Richard Carrier’s Sense and Goodness Without God, Tawney’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, Kübler-Ross’s On Death and Dying, Philip Yancey, Gordon Fee, Tony Campolo, Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church, and John Romer’s Testament. Believers, sceptics and the undecided.

1. The God of Intimacy and Action — Tony Campolo & Mary Albert Darling — The evangelical sociologist and a spiritual director on reconnecting contemplative prayer with social justice. Campolo at his most mystical.
2. Listening to the Spirit in the Text — Gordon D. Fee — The Pentecostal New Testament scholar on reading the Bible as a believer and a critic at once. From the author of How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth.
3. The Case for God — Karen Armstrong — Religion was never about believing propositions; it was a practice, and modern fundamentalism and modern atheism both misunderstand it. Armstrong’s biggest argument, and her answer to Dawkins.
4. The Faces of Forgiveness — F. LeRon Shults & Steven J. Sandage — A theologian and a psychologist on what forgiveness is and how it works. Academic, with the Picasso-style cover.
5. Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church — Bishop Geoffrey Robinson — The Sydney auxiliary bishop who ran the Church’s response to abuse argues that the abuse came from the Church’s own structures of power and teaching on sex. The Vatican told him to stop; he didn’t. The most important Australian Catholic book of its decade.
6. Sense and Goodness Without God — Richard Carrier — A defense of metaphysical naturalism: how to have ethics, meaning and beauty with no god at all. Carrier’s complete worldview, in one volume.
7. God Is Undead — Lorenzo Chiesa & Adrian Johnston — Psychoanalysis for unbelievers: Lacan, Žižek and what atheism actually requires. Bloomsbury.
8. Ephesians: A Message to the Glorious Church, Volume II — Rick Joyner — A verse-by-verse study of chapters 5 and 6, from the MorningStar Ministries founder.
9. On Death and Dying — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross — Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance: the 1969 book that gave the world the five stages, from interviews with dying patients. Still the foundation text for hospice care.
10. God Without Religion — Andrew Farley — Can it really be this simple? The Naked Gospel author on grace without church machinery. Leonard Sweet calls him a 21st-century Bonhoeffer.
11. Reaching for the Invisible God — Philip Yancey — What can we expect to find? Yancey on doubt, silence and the problem of a God who doesn’t answer. His most honest book.
12. Religion and the Rise of Capitalism — R.H. Tawney — The Puritan ethic didn’t just permit capitalism, it blessed it: Tawney’s 1926 reply to Weber, and the most influential book on the subject in English. Pelican, one shilling and sixpence.
13. Land of the Spirit? The Australian Religious Experience — Muriel Porter — Why Australians are the least religious people in the West, and what they believe instead. The World Council of Churches survey.
14. The Mind of God — Paul Davies — Science and the search for ultimate meaning, from the physicist who won the Templeton Prize for it. The argument that the universe is comprehensible is itself the mystery.
15. Testament: The Bible and History — John Romer — The Channel Four series book: how the Bible was written, copied and argued over, by the archaeologist-presenter. Illustrated.