Marcus: 2128 books
The Fearless Benjamin Lay
The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
The little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life
In The Fearless Benjamin Lay, renowned historian Marcus Rediker chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular man—a Quaker dwarf who demanded...
Speaking Christian
Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power—And How They Can Be Restored
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
In Speaking Christian, acclaimed Bible scholar Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, argues that the very language Christians use has become dangerously distilled, distorted, and disconnected from the beliefs which once underpinned it.
Stating a case that will resonate...
Convictions
How I Learned What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2014
On the occasion of his seventieth birthday, the renowned scholar Marcus J. Borg shares how he formed his bedrock religious beliefs, contending that Christians in America are at their best when they focus on hope and transformation and so shows how we can return to what really matters most. The result...
Evolution of the Word
The New Testament in the Order the Books Were Written
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
By presenting the New Testament books in the order they were written, bestselling Bible scholar Marcus Borg reveals how spiritually and politically radical the early Jesus movement began and how it slowly became domesticated. Evolution of the Word is an incredible value: not only are readers getting...
The Last Week
What the Gospels Really Teach About Jesus's Final Days in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Top Jesus scholars Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan join together to reveal a radical and little-known Jesus. As both authors reacted to and responded to questions about Mel Gibson's blockbuster The Passion of the Christ, they discovered that many Christians are unclear on the details of events...
The First Paul
Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church’s Conservative Icon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
“Borg and Crossan reveal a figure who, besides being neither anti-Semitic, anti-sex, nor misogynist, stresses social and political equality among Christians and between them and others. A refreshing and heartening exculpation of a still routinely maligned figure of the first importance to culture...
The Heart of Christianity
Rediscovering a Life of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
World-renowned Jesus scholar Marcus J. Borg shows how we can live passionately as Christians in today's world by practicing the vital elements of Christian faith.
For the millions of people who have turned away from many traditional beliefs about God, Jesus, and the Bible, but still long for...
Jesus
Uncovering the Life, Teachings, and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
From top Jesus expert Marcus Borg, a completely updated and revised version of his vision of Jesus—as charismatic healer, sage, and prophet, a man living in the power of the spirit and dedicated to radical social change.
Fully revised and updated, this is Borg's major book on the historial...
The God We Never Knew
Beyond Dogmatic Religion To A More Authenthic Contemporary Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
How to have faith—or even think about God—without having to stifle modern rational thought is one of the most vital challenges facing many of us today. Marcus J. Borg, author of the bestselling Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, traces his personal spiritual journey to the discovery of an...
Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time
The Historical Jesus and the Heart of Contemporary Faith
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Of the many recent books on the historical Jesus, none has explored what the latest biblical scholarship means for personal faith. Now, in Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, Marcus Borg addresses the yearnings of those who want a fully contemporary faith that welcomes rather than oppresses our...
Say It Plain
A Century of Great African American Speeches
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
A moving portrait of how black Americans have spoken out against injustice—with speeches by Thurgood Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Jesse Jackson, and more.
In “full-throated public oratory, the kind that can stir the soul”, this unique anthology collects the transcribed speeches of the...
by Ruth Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
"Caught up in the hubbub of living? Turn to any page in this little book and you'll find yourself reflecting, reassessing, reconsidering and refocusing your energies. (Yes, all of this inspired by just a few words and lines!) Great stocking stuffer for holiday giving, however, the "inspirations" are timeless. Share one in your correspondence." -- P. Anderson
Stoic Six Pack 2 (Illustrated)
Consolations from a Stoic, On the Shortness of Life, Musonius Rufus, Hierocles, Meditations in Verse and The Stoics
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
"To relax the mind is to lose it."
Stoic Six Pack 2 brings together six more essential texts for students of Stoicism:
Consolations from a Stoic by Seneca
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Lectures and Fragments of Musonius Rufus
Ethical Fragments by Hierocles
Meditations...
by Cicero Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
How many men and women who have lived more than 2,000 years ago have impressed us with their humanity? We tend to see the statuary, but rarely the person behind it. When you read this outstanding title, you see that Marcus Tullius Cicero has a human face -- and it shows in his work. The Roman Republic...