Parkhurst – Francis & Edith Schaeffer

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Schaeffer

Author     Parkhurst, Louis Gifford, 1946-
Title     Francis and Edith Schaeffer / L.G. Parkhurst, Jr
Published     Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House Publishers, c1996
Description     155 p. ; 18 cm
Contents     L’Abri — In search of answers — Do opposites attract? — Serving God together — With eyes toward Europe — Making difficult decisions — Troubles bring new opportunities — Living by faith alone — God gives them growth — Fighting the good fight — From strength to strength — Unfolding rose
Subject     Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August)
Schaeffer, Edith
L’Abri (Organization) — Biography
Christian biography — United States
Christian biography — Switzerland
Series     Women and men of faith

Kantonen – Life after death

CELC

236.2 K

Kantonen

Personal author

Kantonen, Taito Almar

Title:

Life After Death / Taito Almar Kantonen

Publication info:

Philadelphia:  Muhlenberg Press, c1962

Physical description:

54 p.; 19 cm.

Subject term:

Eschatology—Doctrinal Theology, Apologetics

Tags:

Apologetics, Christian doctrine, Christianity, Faith, Life after Death, Theology

Lewis – Great Divorce

CELC

236.2 L

Lewis

Personal Author:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

Title:

The great divorce, by C. S. Lewis.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication info:

New York : The Macmillan company, 1946.

Physical description:

128 p.

Summary:

What if anyone in Hell could take a bus trip to Heaven and stay there forever if they wanted to?

In The Great Divorce C. S. Lewis again employs his formidable talent for fable and allegory. The writer finds himself in Hell boarding a bus bound for Heaven. The amazing opportunity is that anyone who wants to stay in Heaven, can. This is the starting point for an extraordinary meditation upon good and evil, grace and judgment. Lewis’s revolutionary idea is the discovery that the gates of Hell are locked from the inside. In Lewis’s own words, “If we insist on keeping Hell (or even earth) we shall not see Heaven: if we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.”

Subject term:

Good and Evil

Subject term:

Future Life

Tags:

allegory, apologetics, Christian, Christian Fiction, Christianity, fantasy, heaven, hell, Inklings,  philosophy, religion, spirituality, theology

Kushner – Who needs God

CELC

296.7 K

Kushner

Personal Author:

Kushner, Harold S.

Title:

Who needs God / Harold Kushner.

Publication info:

New York : Summit Books, c1989.

Physical description:

208 p.

Summary:

If you have lost faith or have never known it, or if you have ever wondered “What can religion offer?” here are wise and thoughtful answers. With the warmth, insight, and understanding that distinguished his phenomenal bestsellers When Bad Things Happen to Good People and How Good Do We Have to Be?,Harold Kushner addresses a critical issue in the lives of many: a spiritual hunger that no personal success can feed. Rabbi Kushner shows how religious commitment does have a place in our daily lives, filling a need for connection, joy, and community.For anyone who has ever wanted a more fulfilling life or wished to make a difference in the lives of others…for anyone who has ever felt guilty, afraid, or alone…Rabbi Kushner shares a path to faith that offers new sources of comfort and strength for all of us. Powerful, provocative, and persuasive, Who Needs God is a message of universal appeal.

Subject term:

God (Judaism)–Worship and love.

Subject term:

Jewish way of life.

Subject term:

God–Worship and love.

ISBN:

0671680269 : 18.95

Yancey – Where is God when it hurts?

CELC

248.86 Y

Yancey

Personal Author:

Yancey, Philip.

Title:

Where is God when it hurts? / Philip Yancey.

Publication info:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan Pub. House, c1990

Physical description:

286 p.

Summary:

If there is a loving God, then why is it that … ? You’ve heard that question, perhaps asked it yourself. No matter how you complete it, at its root lies the issue of pain. Does God order our suffering? Does he decree an abusive childhood, orchestrate a jet crash, steer a tornado through a community? Or did he simply wind up the world’s mainspring and now is watching from a distance? Yancey reveals a God who is neither capricious nor unconcerned. Using examples from the Bible and from his own experiences, Yancey looks at pain—physical, emotional, and spiritual—and helps us understand why we suffer. Where Is God When It Hurts? speaks to those for whom life sometimes just doesn’t make sense. It also helps equip anyone who wants to reach out to someone in pain but just doesn’t know what to say.

Subject term:

              Personal growth.

Subject term:

Suffering–Religious aspects–Christianity.

ISBN:

0310245729

Johnson – Finding God in the Questions

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230 J

Johnson

Personal Author:

Johnson, G. Timothy, 1936-

Title:

Finding God in the questions : a personal journey / Timothy Johnson.

Publication info:

Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c2004.

Physical description:

216 p.: Rdg., Notes, Biblio. (pp.201-216)

Summary:

Don’t shy away from your questions, says Dr. Timothy Johnson, medical editor for ABC News. He believes that’s where God meets you—in the midst of honest grappling with heartfelt issues.

In this remarkable book, Dr. Johnson discloses his deeply personal journey of faith. With the same keen mind accustomed to medical and scientific examination, he investigates the plausibility of God’s existence and explores the significance of the person of Jesus. Despite all the difficulties of faith, he explains what he believes and why. He writes,

“As a physician, I have committed my professional life to healing and wellness. But my public work is only a small part of who I really am—or rather, who I want to be. This book is, in a sense, ‘the rest of the story.’

“For many people, religion provides answers to the big questions of life. For others, the absolute claims of religion raise more questions than they answer. I have lived on both sides—and in some senses, I still do. My path of faith has wandered through both doubt and belief, often at the same time.

“Doubt doesn’t have to tear down belief, however; it can purify it. When it does, the beliefs on the other side become more certain. This is why I would like to affirm that it is possible to find God even while you are still asking the big questions.”

Come join a fellow pilgrim on the journey. Ask your questions—and perhaps find God behind them.

Subject term:

Apologetics.

Subject term:

Religion and science.

Subject term:

Christian life.

ISBN:

0830832149

Tags:

Apologetics, belief, biography, Christian, Christian Living, Christian Nonfiction, Christianity, faith, God, memoir, religion, science, science and religion, Spiritual Growth, spirituality

 

Enroth – Lure of the cults & new religions

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291 E

Enroth

Personal Author:

Enroth, Ronald M.

Title:

A guide to cults & new religions / Ronald Enroth & others.

Publication info:

Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, c1987.

Physical description:

140 p. ;  Notes )pp.131-137);  Index (pp.139-140)

Contents:

What is a cult? / Ronald Enroth — The Baha’i faith / John Boykin — Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh / Eckart Floether with Eric Pement — Eckankar / Mark Albrecht, Brooks Alexander & Woodrow Nichols — est / John Weldon — Hare Krishna (ISKCON) / J. Isamu Yamamoto — Jehovah’s Witnesses / Wesley Walters & Kurt Goedelman — Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) / Donald S. Tingle — Transcendental meditation / David Haddon — Unification Church (Moonies) / J. Isamu Yamamoto — The way / Joel MacCollam — Evaluating cults and new religions / LaVonne Neff.

Subject term:

Cults–United States.

Subject term:

Sects–United States.

ISBN:

0830817085

Tags:

Apologetics, belief, comparative religion, cults, faith, Hinduism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormonism, mysticism, mythology, new age, religion, World Religions

Tada – When God weeps

CELC

248.8 T

Tada

Personal Author:

Tada, Joni Eareckson.

Title:

When God weeps : why our sufferings matter to the Almighty / Joni Eareckson Tada, Steven Estes.

Publication info:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : ZondervanPublishing House, c1997.

Physical description:

254 p. ; 24 cm.

Summary:

If God is loving, why is there suffering? What’s the difference between permitting something and ordaining it? When bad things happen, who’s behind them–God or the devil? When suffering touches our lives, questions like these suddenly demand an answer. From our perspective, suffering doesn’t make sense, especially when we believe in a loving and just God. After more than thirty years in a wheelchair, Joni Eareckson Tada’s intimate experience with suffering gives her a special understanding of God’s intentions for us in our pain. In When God Weeps, she and lifelong friend Steven Estes probe beyond glib answers that fail us in our time of deepest need. Instead, with firmness and compassion, they reveal a God big enough to understand our suffering, wise enough to allow it—and powerful enough to use it for a greater good than we can ever imagine

Subject term:

Suffering–Religious aspects–Christianity.

Subject term:

Theodicy.

Added author:

Estes, Steven.

Gregory – Dinner with a perfect stranger

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Gregory

Personal Author:

Gregory, David, 1959-

Title:

Dinner with a perfect stranger : an invitation worth considering / David Gregory.

Edition:

1st Waterbrook Press ed.

Publication info:

Colorado Springs, Colo. : Waterbrook Press, 2005.

Physical description:

100 p. ; 20 cm.

Summary:

You are Invited to a Dinner with Jesus of Nazareth

The mysterious envelope arrives on Nick Cominsky’s desk amid a stack of credit card applications and business-related junk mail. Although his seventy-hour workweek has already eaten into his limited family time, Nick can’t pass up the opportunity to see what kind of plot his colleagues have hatched.

The normally confident, cynical Nick soon finds himself thrown off-balance, drawn into an intriguing conversation with a baffling man who appears to be more than comfortable discussing everything from world religions to the existence of heaven and hell. And this man who calls himself Jesus also seems to know a disturbing amount about Nick’s personal life.

Personal subject:

Jesus Christ–Fiction.

Subject term:

Dinners and dining–Fiction.

Subject term:

Imaginary      conversations.

Geographic term:

Cincinnati (Ohio)–Fiction.

ISBN:

1578569052

Tags:

Apologetics, Christ, Christian, Christian Fiction, Christian Living, Christianity, Evangelism, faith, inspiration, inspirational, Jesus, Jesus Christ, personal growth, religion, spirituality

Lewis – Screwtape letters

CELC

248.4 L

Lewis

Personal Author:

Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

Uniform title:

[Screwtape letters]

Title:

The screwtape letters / C. S. Lewis.

Publication info:

New York : Macmillan, 1962, [c1959]

Physical description:

172 p.

Summary:

C. S. Lewis was one of the greatest Christian Writers of our age. His “Screwtape Letters” still stirs considerable controversy. He wrote from the perspective of a devil giving advice to another devil in how to tempt a Christian. In doing so, he reveals to us how we let evil into our own lives. Lewis’s work has influenced three generations of Christian thinkers and will continue to be a seminal Christian work.

Subject term:

Christianity–20th century.