Being human isn't easy. Consciousness and free will give control over life, but the mind is an unpredictable place. People are susceptible to forces that are not fully understood. In his thought-provoking new book Richard Holloway holds a mirror up to the human condition. By drawing on a colorful and eclectic selection of writings from history...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841956411
First published in 2001, Richard Holloway has produced a scholarly and accessible work in which he sets out to interrogate traditional ways of understanding the Bible and Jesus. He deconstructs the doctrines of Christianity to craft from the past a usable ethic for our own time...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841953823
Arguing that it is better to use Christianity as good poetry than as bad science, Holloway sets out to deconstruct its doctrines. His intention...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841950075
Reacting against those who use God to back up their own prejudices, Bishop Holloway argues that we should see morality as human. Like the civil law...more details
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841955780
The use of God in moral debate is so problematic as to be almost worthless. We can argue with one another as to whether this or that alleged claim genuinely emanated from God...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9780862419097
Richard Holloway's highly acclaimed analysis of contemporary morality has met with great success in the U.K., while causing a great deal of controversy with its broadminded and refreshingly unhypocritical and honest views on life in modern society...more details Format:Paperback Pages:163
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9780393329544
The "How to Read" series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:134
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781862078932
The trouble with reading the Bible is that it claims to be God's autobiography, so the first thing readers must do is decide what they understand by God and how they are going to interpret his role in the rambling library of books that claim his authorship...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
At fourteen, Richard Holloway left his working-class home north of Glasgow and travelled hundreds of miles to an English monastery to be trained for the priesthood. By twenty-five...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:408
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841955353
As with all his books, Holloway peppers his lively prose with an eclectic selection of pithy writings from poets, philosophers and novelists from around the world and across the centuries. The resulting book presents a brilliantly argued thesis that is both challenging and empowering. In the manner of the best work by Alain de Botton...more details Format:hardback Pages:227
In the twenty first century, organised religion would seem to have lost its grip on humanity, and yet people seek spiritual guidance as much as...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841957364
Looking in the Distance celebrates the possibilities that life affords us and fearlessly ponders its end, all while examining how doubts too often paralyze people...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:227
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841953588
This examination of forgiveness explores the topic in the widest context, but underpinning it is the belief that religion has given us many of the best stories and metaphors for the act. It is a discourse on how forgiveness works and where it came from...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841957487
Collected together, this anthology of these introductions features a diverse group of writers, each of whom provides considered, personal and sometimes controversial responses to individual books of the Bible...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:416
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781841955087
This anthology features a diverse group of writers, each of whom provides considered, personal and sometimes controversial responses to individual books of the Bible. The authors include: Ruth Rendell...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781920885151
Imagine that some of the most popular and celebrated writers of our times are each commissioned to write a commentary on a book of the Bible. Like: Louis de Bernieres on the book of Job the Dalai Lama on the Epistles P.D. James on Acts. Other contributors to the diverse and sometimes controversial book include Charles Frazier...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:352
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781853394287
This book explains the role currently played by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Bangladesh and answers the questions: Why are Bangladeshi NGOs praised throughout the development world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:238
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9780252074196
"Together Let Us Sweetly Live" offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ring shout tradition began in Chesapeake Bay country in the early nineteenth century...more details Format:Mixed media product Pages:231
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9780252031700
"Together Let Us Sweetly Live" offers a rare look at the unique grassroots African American religious institutions called the Singing and Praying Bands. This folksong and ring shout tradition began in Chesapeake Bay country in the early nineteenth century...more details Format:Mixed media product Pages:264
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Richard Holloway
ISBN:9781853837739
* Invaluable handbook for all voluntary and charitable organizations on raising money* Sets out the strategies and tactics for mobilizing resources from available sources* Published with the Aga Khan FoundationA clear and practical guide aimed at the managers of non-governmental and civil society organizations...more details Format:Paperback Pages:254
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Richard Holloway Steele
ISBN:9781148999319
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors...more details Format:Paperback Pages:238
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Richard Holloway Steele
ISBN:9781150145452
Title: Historical Discourse Delivered at the Celebration of the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Reformed Dutch Church, New Brunswick...more details Format:Paperback Pages:76
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Richard Holloway;Canongate Books
ISBN:9781841957371
Featuring: Charles Frazier on the Book of Job Thomas Cahill on the Gospel According to Luke Bono on the Book of Psalms E. L. Doctorow on the First Book of Moses (Genesis) Fay Weldon on the Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Corinthians Darcey Steinke on the Gospel According to John A...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:403
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Steele Richard H (Richard Holloway)
ISBN:9781113312570
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process...more details Format:Paperback Pages:36
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Holloway Richard
ISBN:9781921520112
Provocative, wide-ranging and full of wisdom, Between the Monster and the Saint is a brilliant book about our place in the world. Being human isn't easy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Holloway Richard
ISBN:9781849710435
The absolutely poor, who are mostly rural people, are a large part of the developing world's population and their numbers are growing. Government development programmes...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:250