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The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming

Author: Henri J. M. Nouwen
ASIN : 0385473079
Sales Rank : 2146
Studio : Image Books / Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780385473071
ISBN : 0385473079
Number Of Pages : 160
Publication Date : December 01, 1994
Release Date : December 01, 1994
Publisher : Image Books / Doubleday Publishing Group
Manufacturer : Image Books / Doubleday Publishing Group
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Seeing a reproduction of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son catapulted Henri Nouwen on a long spiritual adventure. Here he shares the deeply personal meditation that led him to discover the place within where God has chosen to dwell.

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The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming is a spiritual adventure story. A chance encounter with a poster depicting a detail of Rembrandt's The Return of the Prodigal Son set in motion a chain of events that enabled Nouwen to redefine and claim his vocation late in his life. In this book, which interweaves elements of art history, memoir, Midrash, and self-help, Nouwen brings the parable to life with empathic analyses of each character. Nouwen's absorption in the story (and the painting) is so complete that the father's challenge to love the son, and the son's challenge to receive that love, become Nouwen's own. And Nouwen's writing is so clear and his tone is so appealingly frank and humble that readers--no matter how far from home--will find hope for themselves in the prodigal peace Nouwen ultimately achieves. --Michael Joseph Gross

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Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light: 2009 Wall Calendar

Author: Thomas Kinkade
ASIN : 0740774336
Sales Rank : 7182
Brand : BIGT
Studio : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Binding : Calendar
EAN : 9780740774331
ISBN : 0740774336
Number Of Pages : 24
Publication Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Thomas Kinkade is the most collected artist in the world. Known as the Painter of Light, he creates glorious paintings from simple inspirations: family, tradition, community, and the beauty and goodness of God's creation. A devout Christian, Thom uses his gift as a vehicle to communicate and spread inherent life-affirming values. These heartwarming motivations are evident in this 2009 Thomas Kinkade calendar.

* 2009 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Thom's first published limited edition artwork.

Twelve classic pieces of Thomas Kinkade artwork are presented in this beautiful monthly calendar packaged in a printed keepsake folio envelope ideal for gift giving.

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The Sistine Secrets: Michelangelo's Forbidden Messages in the Heart of the Vatican

Authors: Benjamin Blech, Roy Doliner
ASIN : 0061469041
Sales Rank : 13323
Studio : HarperOne
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780061469046
ISBN : 0061469041
Number Of Pages : 336
Publication Date : December 01, 2008
Release Date : December 29, 2008
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Five hundred years ago Michelangelo began work on a painting that became one of the most famous pieces of art in the world—the Sistine Chapel ceiling. Every year millions of people come to see Michelangelo's Sistine ceiling, which is the largest fresco painting on earth in the holiest of Christianity's chapels; yet there is not one single Christian image in this vast, magnificent artwork.

The Sistine Secrets tells the fascinating story of how Michelangelo embedded messages of brotherhood, tolerance, and freethinking in his painting to encourage "fellow travelers" to challenge the repressive Roman Catholic Church of his time.

"Driven by the truths he had come to recognize during his years of study in private nontraditional schooling in Florence, truths rooted in his involvement with Judaic texts as well as Kabbalistic training that conflicted with approved Christian doctrine, Michelangelo needed to find a way to let viewers discern what he truly believed. He could not allow the Church to forever silence his soul. And what the Church would not permit him to communicate openly, he ingeniously found a way to convey to those diligent enough to learn his secret language."—from the Preface

Blech and Doliner reveal what Michelangelo meant in the angelic representations that brilliantly mocked his papal patron, how he managed to sneak unorthodox heresies into his ostensibly pious portrayals, and how he was able to fulfill his lifelong ambition to bridge the wisdom of science with the strictures of faith. The Sistine Secrets unearths secrets that have remained hidden in plain sight for centuries.

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Thomas Kinkade Gardens of Grace: 2009 Wall Calendar

Author: Thomas Kinkade
ASIN : 0740774344
Sales Rank : 6915
Studio : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Binding : Calendar
EAN : 9780740774348
ISBN : 0740774344
Number Of Pages : 24
Publication Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Thomas Kinkade is the most collected artist in the world. Known as the Painter of Light, he creates glorious paintings from simple inspirations: family, tradition, community, and the beauty and goodness of God's creation. A devout Christian, Thom uses his gift as a vehicle to communicate and spread inherent life-affirming values. These heartwarming motivations are evident in this 2009 Thomas Kinkade calendar.

* 2009 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Thom's first published limited edition artwork.

An inspirational quote accompanies each monthly image by Thomas Kinkade, in which he artfully depicts a garden brimming with nature's beauty.

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Twenty-five Years of Thomas Kinkade: Special Collector's Edition 2009 Wall Calendar

Author: Thomas Kinkade
ASIN : 0740774301
Sales Rank : 52631
Studio : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Binding : Calendar
EAN : 9780740774300
ISBN : 0740774301
Number Of Pages : 24
Publication Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Thomas Kinkade is the most collected artist in the world. Known as the Painter of Light, he creates glorious paintings from simple inspirations: family, tradition, community, and the beauty and goodness of God's creation. A devout Christian, Thom uses his gift as a vehicle to communicate and spread inherent life-affirming values. These heartwarming motivations are evident in this 2009 Thomas Kinkade calendar.

* 2009 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Thom's first published limited edition artwork.

This calendar showcases Thom's all-time favorite twelve images handpicked by the artist himself, accompanied by personal anecdotes describing their inspiration. The calendar includes an individually numbered, collector's keepsake card in a velum envelope and is sold in a beautifully printed folio sleeve.

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Thomas Kinkade Painter of Light: 2009 Engagement Calendar with Scripture

Author: Thomas Kinkade
ASIN : 0740775529
Sales Rank : 27954
Studio : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Binding : Calendar
EAN : 9780740775529
ISBN : 0740775529
Number Of Pages : 120
Publication Date : December 01, 2008
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Thomas Kinkade is the most collected artist in the world. Known as the Painter of Light, he creates glorious paintings from simple inspirations: family, tradition, community, and the beauty and goodness of God's creation. A devout Christian, Thom uses his gift as a vehicle to communicate and spread inherent life-affirming values. These heartwarming motivations are evident in this 2009 Thomas Kinkade calendar.

* 2009 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Thom's first published limited edition artwork.

This full-color, hardcover calendar with a concealed spiral features a large Thomas Kinkade image each week accompanied by a Bible verse. It also has pockets, a ruler, and a place for names and numbers as well as notes.

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Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

Authors: Rita Nakashima Brock, Rebecca Ann Parker
ASIN : 0807067504
Sales Rank : 29372
Studio : Beacon Press
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780807067505
ISBN : 0807067504
Number Of Pages : 592
Publication Date : December 15, 2008
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When Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker began traveling the Mediterranean world in search of art depicting the dead, crucified Jesus, they discovered something that traditional histories of Christianity and Christian art had underplayed or sought to explain away: it took Jesus Christ a thousand years to die.

During their first millennium, Christians filled their sanctuaries with images of Christ as a living presence in a vibrant world. He appears as a shepherd, a teacher, a healer, an enthroned god; he is an infant, a youth, and a bearded elder. But he is never dead. When he appears with the cross, he stands in front of it, serene, resurrected. The world around him is ablaze with beauty. These are images of paradise—paradise in this world, permeated and blessed by the presence of God.

But once Jesus perished, dying was virtually all he seemed able to do.

Saving Paradise offers a fascinating new lens on the history of Christianity, from its first centuries to the present day, and asks how its early vision of beauty evolved into one of torture. In tracing the changes in society and theology that marked the medieval emergence of images of Christ crucified, Saving Paradise exposes the imperial strategies embedded in theologies of redemptive violence and sheds new light on Christianity's turn to holy war. It reveals how the New World, established through Christian conquest and colonization, is haunted by the loss of a spiritual understanding of paradise here and now.

Brock and Parker reconstruct the idea that salvation is paradise in this world and in this life, and they offer a bold new theology for saving paradise. They ground justice and peace for humanity in love for the earth and open a new future for Christianity through a theology of redemptive beauty.

"Only rarely is a single book an event. This book is such a rarity. Rita Brock and Rebecca Parker show that solid scholarship can be expressed with passion and literary grace as they recover the beauty of an earth-loving Christianity lost for a thousand years beneath dry creeds and formulae and poisonous myths of sacralized violence."
—Professor Daniel C. Maguire, author of A Moral Creed For All Christians

"Every Christian theologian and preacher should read this book and be profoundly challenged."
—Professor James H. Cone, author of Malcolm & Martin & America

"Saving Paradise challenges us to recover an ancient world view which is life transforming and earth affirming. It reminds us of a biblical perspective which does not reserve paradise for the dead, but invites the living to find grace, justice, peace and compassion--here and now--amid the jangling discords of violence and war. It may mark the beginning of a paradigm shift in contemporary Christian understanding and interfaith dialogue."
—Reverend James A. Forbes, Jr., President and Founder of the Healing of the Nations Foundation, Senior Minister Emeritus of the Riverside Church of New York City

"The message of Early Christian art is about God's miraculous intervention in the daily lives of Christian believers. How then did Christianity become a religion of finitude and guilt rather than one of promise and celebration? Brock and Parker ran with the evidence, showing us the importance of art, ritual, devotional practices, and liturgical space for early Christians. This tangible past transformed their research and led them to see that paradise in this world lies at the heart of Christianity."
—Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, author of Dictionary of Christian Art

"This powerful, unprecedented, and compelling book brings real Christianity out of the shadows. It lights up the religious roots of American society at a time when progressives need to challenge conservative politicians who use Christianity as a false prop for their ideology."
—George Lakoff, author of Don't Think of an Elephant!

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Praying in Color: Drawing a New Path to God

Author: Sybil MacBeth
ASIN : 1557255121
Sales Rank : 28636
Studio : Paraclete Press (MA)
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781557255129
ISBN : 1557255121
Number Of Pages : 103
Publication Date : December 30, 2007
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
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With paper and markers, you will draw closer to God.

Thousands of people have already discovered this truly simple, transformative spiritual practice. Now this companion to the surprise bestseller Praying in Color provides the perfect journal to help you experience a whole new way of talking with God--by "praying in color."

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Imagine: A Vision for Christians in the Arts

Author: Steve Turner
ASIN : 0830822917
Sales Rank : 35841
Studio : InterVarsity Press
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780830822911
ISBN : 0830822917
Number Of Pages : 131
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
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Imagine art that is risky, complex and subtle! Imagine music, movies, books and paintings of the highest quality! Imagine art that permeates society, challenging conventional thinking and standard morals to their core! Imagine that it is all created by Christians! This is the bold vision of Steve Turner, someone who has worked among artists--many Christian and many not--for three decades. He believes Christians should confront society and the church with the powerful impact art can convey. He believes art can faithfully chronicle the lives of ordinary people and equally express the transcendence of God. He believes that Christians should be involved in every level of the art world and in every media. Yet art and artists have not always been held in high esteem by conservative Christians. Art rarely seems to communicate clear propositional truth, rarely deals with certainties and absolutes. And the lifestyles of artists too frequently seem at odds with the gospel. So the arts have often been discouraged among Christians. Throughout this stimulating book, however, Turner builds a compelling case against such a perspective. He shows that if Jesus is Lord of all of life and creation, then art is not out of bounds for Christians. Rather it can and should be a way of expressing faith in creatively, beautifully, truthfully arranged words, sounds and sights. This stirring call is must reading for every Christian who has been drawn to the arts or been influenced by them. Features & Benefits

* a fresh and positive perspective on Christianity and the arts

* shows how art can faithfully represent both "real life" and divine truth

* challenges common Christian objections to the arts

* encourages Christians to be involved in every level of the art world and in every media

* written by a poet and journalist well-known in the popular music scene

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Thich Nhat Hanh - Paintings by Kirsten-Honshin 2009 Wall Calendar

Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
ASIN : 1602371024
Sales Rank : 66012
Studio : Amber Lotus Publishing
Binding : Calendar
EAN : 9781602371026
ISBN : 1602371024
Number Of Pages : 26
Publication Date : December 10, 2008
Publisher : Amber Lotus Publishing
Manufacturer : Amber Lotus Publishing
Label : Amber Lotus Publishing

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The Thich Nhat Hanh 2009 wall calendar combines the graceful paintings of Nicholas Kirsten-Honshin with the words of renowned Zen master, peace activist and author of over 60 books, Thich Nhat Hanh. Nicholas Kirsten-Honshin is influenced by the sacred meditational space of the transcendental archetypal symbols of Christianity, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism as well as the shamanistic practices of the world's perennial philosophies. Thich Nhat Hanh's words, appearing courtesy of Parallax Press, have inspired many over the years to embark on a more peaceful and mindful path.