Strange Gods

2013-05-06 Religion

Author : Elizabeth Scalia
Release : 2013-05-06
Genre : Religion
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Book Rating : 57X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Strange Gods written by Elizabeth Scalia. This book was released on 2013-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned in the blogosphere as The Anchoress and as Catholic Portal editor of the popular Patheos.com, Elizabeth Scalia offers a powerful critique of the “gods” we worship today, reminding readers that life’s deepest desires can be satisfied only in Christ. Strange Gods, Scalia's debut book, is packed full of the iconoclastic vim and vigor that has won her a large, faithful Internet following. She presents readers with a surprising look at the ways in which modern people still commit the sin of idolatry in their everyday lives. While literal golden calves no longer dot the landscape, Scalia describes how legitimate loves become obsessively twisted into idols. She unmasks idolatry in a number of everyday experiences—friendships that become needy or possessive, commitments political and religious that grow so intense they lead to hatred of others, to name a few—and points to the incarnation of Christ and authentic worship of him as a way out of idolatry and into peace, happiness, and love.

Strange Gods

2017-03-21 History

Author : Susan Jacoby
Release : 2017-03-21
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 391/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Strange Gods written by Susan Jacoby. This book was released on 2017-03-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a groundbreaking historical work that focuses on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam with an uncompromising secular perspective, Susan Jacoby illuminates the social and economic forces that have shaped individual faith and the voluntary conversion impulse that has changed the course of Western history—for better and for worse. Covering the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, American plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—along with individual converts including Augustine of Hippo, John Donne, Edith Stein, Muhammad Ali, George W. Bush and Mike Pence—Strange Gods makes a powerful case that nothing has been more important in struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether.

Strange Gods

2016-02-02 Fiction

Author : Peter J Daly
Release : 2016-02-02
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 490/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Strange Gods written by Peter J Daly. This book was released on 2016-02-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Archbishop of New York fell down dead. Michael Manning was the sixth cardinal among the international Catholic clergy to die under violent and suspicious circumstances. Somebody is killing cardinals. But what is going on and why? With the latest death, the Vatican is forced to act. The Church pulls Nate Condon, a young New York attorney, into the investigation. As the history of the crimes unfolds, we are drawn inside the magnificent city of Rome, her ancient secrets, and the most privileged inner sanctums of the Catholic hierarchy. In the midst of Nate’s investigation, more tragedy befalls the Church: The pope dies, a Vatican cardinal commits suicide, and the Mafia murders Nate’s primary contact, a self-loathing gay monsignor who is knee-deep in scandal. Soon after, an American cardinal, determined to change the corruption deep within the Church, is elected as the new pope. Will he be able to narrow the divide that is destroying everything he holds dear, or will the schism that separates the Church win out? Strange Gods was written by two priests with firsthand knowledge of the degree to which the Church will go to cover up financial corruption, abuse of power, sexual scandal, and evil. With an eye on the holiness and grace of ordinary people who keep the Church alive and want to change her future, Strange Gods promises is an exciting, engaging and thought-provoking read.

Strange Gods

2021-06-20

Author : Alice Kimble
Release : 2021-06-20
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Book Rating : 145/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Strange Gods written by Alice Kimble. This book was released on 2021-06-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Strange Gods

2009 Animism

Author : Keith M. Bailey
Release : 2009
Genre : Animism
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Strange Gods written by Keith M. Bailey. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strange Gods brings to life the reality of a growing mission field on our doorsteps and provides tools to vanquish the demons in our neighborhoods. Animism (spirit worship) is moving across North America with an insatiable appetite for destroying our culture, the Church, and our souls. Nothing less than the eternal salvation of millions is at stake. People are increasingly turning to the occult and darkness, but only the glorious and revealing light of Jesus Christ provides true answers. What once was practiced in secrecy is now in the mainstream. This trend is the result of the resurgence of Native American religions, the proliferation of New Age teachings, and the increase of animist immigrants. Dr. Bailey is eminently qualified to write this book. He contends that only through a Spirit-filled Church armed with sound doctrine and the integrity of practical holiness can animistic spirit worship be defeated.

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