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1 Enoch:  A New Translation 2 Peter, Jude 90 Minutes in Heaven:  A True Story of Death and Life Accountable:  Making America as Good as its Promise    Biography of a Painting African Politics in Comparative Perspective The Africans An Ordinary Man (Paul Rusesabagina)    The Ancient Sun Kingdoms of the Americas The Arabs    An Argument for Mind    The Atomic Bazaar:  The Rise of the Nuclear Poor Atomic Obsession    Austin City Limits:  25 Years of American Music The Balance of Consciousness:  Eric Voegelin's Political Theory    The Barbarian Way    Bearer of the Light, Vassula The Beautiful Cigar Girl:  Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe and the Invention of Murder Being the Body Believers:  A Journey into Evangelical America    Beyond Belief! The Bible as Improv:  Seeing and Living the Script in New Ways    The Bible Unearthed:  Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts    The Biology of the Spirit Blessèd Assurance:  At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas    Blood Ties    Bono (in conversation with Michka Assayas)    The Book of Arthur:  Lost Tales from the Round Table The Books of Haggai and Malachi Breaking Free:  Making Liberty in Christ a Reality in Life    Business and Faith:  Integrating Life    Business Loans from Family and Friends    Byzantine and Medieval Cyprus:  a Guide to the Monuments    A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the World's Greatest Empire    Can a Smart Person Believe in God?    A Case of Crooked Letters    The Case for a Creator Christ, a Crisis in the Life of God Christ in a Pluralistic Age Christian Assurance Christian Spirituality and the Culture of Modernity:  the Thought of Louis Dupré Christian Spirituality in South Africa Christianity and the Postmodern Turn    Christianity is Jewish Real-Life Church in the Lower East Side    The Coming Insurrection    Communicating Christ in Animistic Contexts The Confederate States of America:  What Might Have Been Cracking the Code Creation Still Goes On:  A Scientist on the Track of Genesis The Creationists    The Cultural Imperative:  Global Trends in the 21st Century A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered Desafio da Umbanda a Comunidade Evangelica - o Baixo Espiritismo Brasileiro:  Implicações Teológicas e Pastorais       Also published as Os Deuses da Umbanda English title:  The Challenge of Umbanda - Brazilian Low Spiritism - To the Christian Community:  Its Theological and Pastoral Implications The Deuteronomistic History Devils and Demons and the Return of the Nephilim Diffusion of Innovations    Dimensions of Time:  The Structures of the Time of Humans, of the World and of God The Discovery of Genesis:  How the Truths of Genesis Were Found Hidden in the Chinese Language The Divine Conspiracy:  Rediscovering our Hidden Life in God    Eaters of the Dead    The Emerging Church The End of Liberal Theology:  Contemporary Challenges to Evangelical Orthodoxy Ephesians:  Free to Be One Etruscans Fields of Wonder    Finding Faith:  A Search for What is Real    The First Polish Americans    Folktales from the Irish Countryside    Four Views of Hell The Fourfold Gospel Francis:  A Call to Conversion From the Straight Path to the Narrow Way The Future of Spacetime The Genius of Paul:  A Study in History God, a Biography The Goddess in the Gospels:  Reclaiming the Sacred Feminine God's Many-Splendored Image:  Theological Anthropology for Christian Formation    God's Trustworthiness in a Misbelieving World Gods and the One God The Gospel According to Lost    The Gospel According to Starbucks:  Living a Grande Passion    The Gospel of Barnabas The Gospel of Judas The Great Theft:  Wrestling Islam from the Extremists    He Started the Whole World Singing Head and Heart Hebrew Myths:  The Book of Genesis    Here:  A Biography of the New American Continent    The Hidden Book in the Bible Home to Big Stone Gap    The Holy City How Shall They Be Saved? How to Build a Time Machine I Am Hutterite    I Sold My Soul on eBay:  Viewing Faith through and Atheist's Eyes    Ichabod Toward Home:  The Journey of God's Glory The Dust Diaries:  Seeking the African Legacy of Arthur Cripps    Ichabod Toward Home:  The Journey of God's Glory Imams and Emirs:  State, Religion and Sects in Islam    In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs:  A Memoir of Iran In Other Rooms, Other Wonders    In the Stone Circle    Increasing Your Financial IQ The Independent Venda The Incredible Coverup:  Exposing the Origins of Rapture Theories The Inferno, by Dante    Infinity and the Mind:  The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite Invisible Forces and Powerful Beliefs:  Gravity, Gods, and Minds Islamic Society in Practice    It is Enough    Jazz Notes:  Non-Religious Thoughts on Christian Inspiration Jefferson and Religion    Jesus, Liberation and the Biblical Jubilee:  Images for Ethics and Christology    Jesus and the Essenes Jesus:  An Historian's Review of the Gospels The Jesus of Suburbia:  Have We Tamed the Son of God to Fit Our Lifestyle?    The Jesus Papers    The Journey of Man:  A Genetic Odyssey Kabul 24 Kandahar Cockney:  A Tale of Two Worlds Karl Rahner, A Brief Introduction The Karma of Jesus:  Do We Really Reap What We Sow?    Keeping Faith:  Memoirs of a President Khayelitsha:  uMlungu in a Township The Kingmakers Krsna [Krishna] Consciousness and Christianity:  East-West Dialogues The Last Sin Eater    Lead Like Jesus Study Guide Learn Faster and Remember More:  Tap the Full Powers of the Most Sophisticated Learning Machine in the World!    Being Legally Prepared for Business    Legends of the Bible Liberal Protestantism    Liberating the Gospels:  Reading the Gospels with Jewish Eyes Like A Rolling Stone:  Bob Dylan at the Crossroads Link Listening to the Beliefs of the Emerging Churches:  Five Perspectives    Listening to the Text:  Oral Patterning in Paul's Letters Lord of Song:  The Messiah Revealed in the Psalms Lords of the North    Lost in Transmission?: What We Can Know about the Words of Jesus Lost Pulse The Lucky Ones:  One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese Americans The Magdalene Legacy:  The Jesus and Mary Bloodline Conspiracy Man-Eaters of Kumaon    Mangoes or Bananas:  The Quest for an Authentic Asian Christian Theology Maturing Dead Sea Scrolls Scholarship Meet Those Who Met the Master 'The Messenger, The Message and the Community:  Three Critical Issues for the Cross-cultural Church Planter   The Mind and the Machine: What it means to be Human and Why it Matters    The Mirage of Peace: Undertstanding the Never-Ending Conflict in the Middle East Music Law: How to Run Your Band's Business My Descent into Death Nephilim:  The Truth is Here New Approaches to Jesus and the Gospels:  A Phenomenological and Exegetical Study of Synoptic Christianity The New Testament in Its Social Environment Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl:  Wild-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World Notes from the Universe:  New Perspectives from an Old Friend The Obama Victory:  How Media, Money, and Message Shaped the 2008 Election    Obstacles Welcome: Turn Adversity to Advantage in Business and Life    Of the Imitation of Christ One Church Four Generations: Understanding and Reaching All Ages in Your Church    One Name, Two Lives    Open Cage:  Murder and Survival in the Jungles of Irian Jaya    Oral Gospel and the Written Gospel:  The Hermeneutics of Speaking and Writing in the Synoptic Tradition, Mark, Paul, and Q Origins The Orthodox Septuagint Dialogue Church to Non-Church - Let's Listen    The Particle Garden:  Our Universe as Understood by Particle Physics Paul, Thessalonica, and Early Christianity People of the Mesa The Personifid Project    A Place of Their Own: Creating the Deaf Community in America    The Point of Christology Practical Use of the Greek New Testament The Practice of the Presence of God with Spiritual Maxims Predestination and Free Will:  Four Views of Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom The Prince of the Marches (and Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq)    The Problem of History in the Book of Mark and other Marcan Studies Profiting from the Path of Most Resistance The Ptolemies (Book One:  The House of the Eagle) Reclaiming Pleasure    The Purpose Driven Life Quanah — The Last Comanche Chief Race    Reading Judas    Really the Blues Reforming the Center:  American Protestantism, 1900 to the Present Religion and the Scientific Future:  Reflections on Myth, Science and Theology Religions of the Stars    Restoration in Place of Rejection    Return from Tomorrow Rescue    Resurrection Revelation    Revelations of Divine Love Revolutionary Management    The Revolutionary Communicator:  Seven Principles Jesus Lived to Impact, Connect and Lead    The Rise of the Greeks The Road to Assisi:  The Essential Biography of St. Francis Road Warrior Rock and Roll Jihad: A Muslim Rock Star's Revolution Rome, Inc    Sacred Clowns (Native American Fiction by Tony Hillerman) Sacred Desire:  Growing in Compassionate Living    Saddam's Secrets Santería:  African Spirit in America Science and the Supernatural Adventures in Honey and Health    Searching for God Knows What    The Secret Message of Jesus:  Uncovering the Truth that Could Change Everything    The Secret Sayings of Jesus The Second Foundation Trilogy The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love    The Selfless Gene:  Living with God and Darwin    The Star Chamber: How Celebrities Go Free and Their Lawyers Become Famous    The Shack    Shadow and Light    Shadows on the Aegean Shirley, Goodness and Mercy:  A Childhood Memoir    Skylife:  Space Habitats in Story and Science Sonic Boom:  Globalization at Sonic Speed    Soul of a Lion    Souls and the Universe:  A Scientific Enquiry The Sound of Freedom    Star Trek:  The Ashes Of Eden Star Trek:  Captain's Blood The Stone Virgins    Supersymmetry    Tall Man:  The Death of Doomadgee    Tek Secret Time Travel in Einstein's Universe:  Physical Possibilities of Travel Through Time Timewarps Touching the Soul of Islam Trading from Your Gut: How to Use Right Brain Instinct and Left Brain Smarts to Become a Master Trader    The Truth About Angels The Truth About Angels (Followup)    The Truth with Jokes Under the Overpass:  A Journey of Faith on the Streets of America    Understanding Spiritual Power:  A Forgotten Dimension of Cross-Cultural Mission and Ministry The Universe Next Door:  The Making of Tomorrow's Science Unveiled    The Vicar of Baghdad:  Fighting for Peace in the Middle East    The Virtues of Capitalism:  A Moral Case for Free Markets The Voice of Luke:  Not Even Sandals    The Wereling    What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did They Know It?:  What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality of Ancient Israel What Happened (Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception)    What the Bible Really Says:  Casting New Light on the Book of Books Where Did You Sleep Last Night?:  A Personal History    Where the Light Shines:  Discerning God in Everyday Life Who Can Be Saved?:  Reassessing Salvation in Christ and World Religions Who Moved My Cheese? Whose Religion is Christianity?    Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement    Why Christianity Must Change or Die:  a Bishop Speaks to Believers in Exile Why We Need the Pope:  The Necessity and Limitations of Papal Primacy Wicca's Charm: Understanding the Spiritual Hunger Behind the Rise of Modern Witchcraft and Pagan Spirituality The Word:  Imagining the Gospel in Modern America    A World Lit Only By Fire:  The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance World out of Balance:  Navigating Global Risks to Seize Competitive Advantage A World Without Islam Worldview:  The History of a Concept The Wound of Knowledge:  Christian Spirituality from the New Testament to Saint John of the Cross The Years of Lyndon Johnson:  Means of Ascent Yeshua: A Guide to the Real Jesus and the Original Church See all my reviews on Amazon.com See my reading lists since 2003 Reading notes for books not yet reviewed here occur in the entry for each book reviewed.

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