In The Jesus Legend, G. A. Wells explains how the story of Jesus developed through telling and re-telling, from an early version in the letters of Paul (who does not mention Jesus in connection with any specific time or place) to the more elaborate and detailed pictures later presented in the New Testament gospels.
The crowning achievement of any professional writer is to get paid twice for the same material: write a piece for one publisher and then tweak it just enough that you can turn around and sell it to someone else. While it’s specious to accuse Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke of this, fans of both […]
This (posthumous) volume contains a comprehensive review of the principal arguments for and against the existence of God. It ranges from the classical philosophical positions of Descartes, Anselm, Berkeley, Hume et al., through the moral arguments of Newman, Kant and Sidgwick, to the recent restatements of the classical theses by Plantinga and Swinburne. It also […]
Writen long before “Day 9-11,” this book explores in depth the new terrorist movement that the United States has now declared war against. In the shock and horror of the recent attack, the prior (and less successful) 1993 attack goes largely unmentioned. However, as the evidence mounts that the recent attack was sponsored by the […]
Contains chapters on (among other things) the nature and objectivity of morality, morality without religion, and morality with religion. The book is written at an intermediate level, so that it is accessible to laymen but there is plenty of meat for the scholar as well. Anyone interested in the relationship between religion and morality will […]
More than one hundred years ago Western scholars began to investigate the origins of Islam, using the highest standards of objective historical scholarship of the time. Their aim was to determine what could be known about Muhammad and the rise of early Islam quite apart from the pious and totally unobjective traditions preserved by the […]
Book Description The open, secular society is in retreat. From Washington to Rome to Tehran, religion is a public matter as never before, and secular values–personal autonomy, toleration, separation of religion and state, and freedom of conscience–are attacked on all sides and defended by few. The godly claim a monopoly on the language of morality […]
Set in a medieval European village where three itinerant Jewish actors put God on trial to answer for His silence during a pogrom, a powerful drama considers historical and especially post-Holocaust issues surrounding faith. While interred in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel witnessed a trial. While such things are not unusual, this trial was. It was unusual […]
‘Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: “Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I’d disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That’s […]
Subtitled: Eyewitness to Evolution With his new book Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey confirms his status as one of the best communicators of science around today. His hugely enjoyable previous book, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, […]
Written by Rev. Amy Long, with contributions from a variety of other authors, this book represets the spectrum of different faiths and belief systems. The book has a black, leatherette cover with gold foil printing. It’s elegant and professional. The must have book for any celebrant, officiant or minister! Over 270 pages of new wedding […]
In Who Was Jesus?, G.A. Wells presents a survey of critical scholarly findings on the New Testament, in each case explaining the reasons for the scholars’ conclusions, and describing those issues where scholars still disagree. By lucidly recounting the principles on which New Testament criticism is based, this book enables readers to make up their […]
Is Darwinian evolution established fact, or a dogma ready to be overtaken by the next scientific revolution? The intelligent design movement argues the latter. Why Intelligent Design Fails assembles a team of physicists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and archaeologists to examine intelligent design from a scientific perspective. They consistently find grandiose claims without merit. Contributors […]
Description 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists. • Features a truly international cast of contributors, ranging from public intellectuals […]
Atack exposes Hubbard’s bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard’s death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.
In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling–and imperiling–the United States. Now, Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the political coalition, led by radical religion, that is driving America to […]
At the Water’s Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life’s transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we […]
Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which had immediately preceded it, Beyond Good and Evil represents Nietzsche’s attempt to sum up his philosophy–but in less flamboyant and more systematic form. The nine parts of the book are designed to give […]
There’s only one real taboo left in 21st Century America, and Jack Kassel’s got it bad. He doesn’t believe in God. And even that might be all right if he didn’t teach at the College of Saint Bernadette. Nothing is more important to Jack than reason, the triumph of truth over comforting fantasies, but Saint […]
SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child — unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar — Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippled master . . . OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked […]
Critiques of God is a hard-hitting, comprehensive anthology of essays by leading atheist philosophers. However, the book is somewhat dated: it does not address recent developments in the philosophy of religion (e.g., the kalam cosmological argument, the fine-tuning argument, and the evidential argument from evil).
Description In his bestselling book, The Language of God, Francis Collin–the scientist who led the National Institutes of Health’s Human Genome Project–attempted to harmonize the findings of scientific research with Christian belief. In this response to Collins’s work, fellow geneticist George C. Cunningham presents a point-by-point rebuttal of The Language of God, arguing that there […]
Book Description DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was 19th-century America’s most controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Bennett founded the “blasphemous” New York periodical The Truth Seeker in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands long before the expression “banned in Boston” was heard. In less than a decade, the former Shaker and self-described […]
This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer’s last work, Parerga and Paralimpomena, which he published in 1851. No German philosopher had written so well or so readably before him, and none had propounded the atheistic view that everything may not be all for […]
As pertinent today as when it was first published more than a decade ago, this engaging and highly praised study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the […]
Description It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that “writing in the name of another” was widely accepted in antiquity. But New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as it is today. In […]
Until he came to the part about “handsome of face and figure,” Scar Gordon thought the ad was aimed straight at him by someone who knew his habit of reading the personals. When on a whim he answered it, the gorgeous Amazon who examined him seemed to think his looks were fine. Now Scar Gordon, […]
Gold is Asimov’s first original collection of SF since 1982, and contains all of his uncollected stories that have never before appeared in book form. It is also his final collection, following his death in 1992, after a 50 year career as a world famous writer who transcended any and every genre. Gold is the […]
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