Loveday, Simon
Summary: 'The Bible for Grown-Ups' neither requires, nor rejects, belief. It sets out to help intelligent adults make sense of the Bible - a book that is too large to swallow whole, yet too important in our history and culture to spit out. Why do the creation stories in Genesis contradict each other? Did the Exodus really happen? Was King David a historical figure? Why is Matthew's account of the birth...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Icon Books Ltd 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 LOVAsimov, Isaac
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avenel Books Distributed by Crown Publishers 1981
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.95 ASIBarton, John
Summary: "In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy Scripture," a non-negotiable authority straight from God, has prevailed in Western society for some time. And while it provides a firm foundation for centuries of Christian teaching, it denies the depth,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.9 BAREvans, Rachel Held
Summary: If the Bible isn't a science book or an instruction manual, then what is it? What do people mean when they say the Bible is inspired? When Rachel Held Evans found herself asking these questions, she began a quest to better understand what the Bible is and how it is meant to be read. What she discovered changed her--and it will change you too. Drawing on the best in recent scholarship and using...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nelson Books, an imprint of Thomas Nelson 2018
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Summary: Raised in a secular family but interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to attempt to obey the Bible as literally as possible for one full year. He vows to follow the Ten Commandments. To be fruitful and multiply. To love his neighbor. But also to obey the hundreds of less publicized rules: to avoid wearing clothes made of mixed fibers; to stone adulterers....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 220 JacSummary: Penn and Teller debunk a number of dubious enterprises, including PETA, the war on drugs, the myth of monogamy, twelve-step programs, the FCC's crusade against profanity, the New Age movement, the anti-aging industry, recycling, Biblical claims, the exercise industry, and hypnosis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV PENBrown, William P.
Summary: All too often Scripture is read only to find answers to life’s perplexing questions, to prove a theological point, or to formulate doctrine. But William Brown argues that if read properly, what the Bible does most fundamentally is arouse a sacred sense of life-transforming wonder. In this book Brown helps readers develop an orientation toward the biblical text that embraces wonder. He explores...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.6 BROGomes, Peter J.
Summary: The Good Book is a brilliant and inspiring look at the Bible today from the preacher to Harvard University, a man Time magazine called one of the seven best preachers in America. "The theme of this book," writes Peter Gomes in his introduction, "is the risk and the joy of the Bible: risk in that we might get it wrong, and joy in the discovery of the living Word becoming flesh. It is around this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 GOMMacArthur, John
Contents: Observing how God cares for you -- Avoiding anxiety through prayer -- Casting your cares on God -- Living a life of faith and trust -- Knowing others are looking out for you -- Dealing with problem people -- Having peace in every circumstance -- Doing all things without complaining -- Learning to be content -- Appendix: Psalms for the anxious -- Discussion guide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: David C Cook 2012
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Summary: Welcome to A.S.K - Ask. Seek. Knock. We all have questions about Jesus, the Bible, the Christian faith and our culture today. The great news is that Jesus gives answers. These questions were gathered from teenagers in fifteen countries in five different continents. All of them are real questions from real teenagers. 52 short chapters. Each contains a question, a Bible passage, a Bible verse, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CF4K 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 248.83 ROBBorg, Marcus J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.61 BORSchmid, Konrad
Summary: "The Bible is full of ancient texts long predating the assembly of Judaism's and Christianity's sacred books. Why these texts, and how were they transformed on the journey from folk tale to holy writ? Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter unearth the history,in the process overturning assumptions about the relationship between the Old and New Testaments"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 220.1 SCHPlotz, David.
Contents: Genesis: God's first try -- Exodus: Let my complaining, whining, no-goodnik people go! -- Leviticus: Lovers and lepers -- Numbers: the source of all Jewish comedy -- Deuteronomy: The Bible's 5th Beatle -- Joshua: Why so many Bible hookers? -- Judges: The meathead and the left-handed assassin -- 1 Samuel: The Bible's Bill Clinton -- 2 Samuel: God's favorite king -- 1 Kings: Kings of pain -- 2...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 221.6 PLOSpong, John Shelby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSanFrancisco 1992