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Sacramental theology

Advantages: Well done historical and theological treatment from an Anglo-Catholic perspective
Disadvantages: For scholars, seminarians and theologians, not really general reading

...John Macquarrie begins his discussion of the way in which sacraments are thought about in Anglo-Catholic thought (which as often is liturgical as it is strictly theological). The idea of a sacrament as ‘an outward and visible sing of an inward and spiritu ...

frkurt 04.08.2004 · Read full review
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Review of A Guide to the Sacraments - John Macquarrie

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Discover your True Nature

Advantages: Find the secret to life itself !!
Disadvantages: None that I can see

...As an avid fan of Eckhart Tolle and pretty much a follower of this type of path to enlightenment I waited in anticipation for this, his newest book. A New Earth is essentially a book that combines all idea's from his previous publications and ties up a fe ...

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A must read for a changed world

Advantages: Challenges the reader to take ownership of the state of our world, and ourselves
Disadvantages: The same!

I received this book as a gift but found that the knowledge gained, rather than the book itself, was the gift. I found it well timed, identifying the problems of ego in a materially driven world, in trying to address our global issues of consumption and ...

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The unquestionable truth of the human condition

Advantages: A user friendly ultimate explanation of the greatest human mystery
Disadvantages: This book should be as cheap to buy as possible so eveyone can get to read it

...Put quite simply this book is like no other book, it stands alone in presenting a concise unbiased account of the truth of our behaviour and attitudes to one another. What Eckhart speaks about is real and incredible, he explains in a way that anyone can ...

Insemis 07.12.2010 · Read full review
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Augustine rediscovered

Advantages: A good companion to this important book
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...Augustine's 'Confessions' is among the most important books ever written. One of the first autobiographical works in the modern sense, it also represents the first time a psychological and theological enterprise were combined. It also helps to bridge the ...

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Review of A Reader's Guide to Augustine's Confessions - Kim Paffenroth, Robert Peter Kennedy

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