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The Return of the Gods
- By: Jonathan Cahn
- Narrated by: Lawrence Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 63
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 53
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Story5 out of 5 stars 54
In The Return of the Gods, Cahn takes the listener on a journey from an ancient parable, the ancient inscriptions in Sumer, Assyria, and Babylonia that become the puzzle pieces behind what is taking place in our world to this day, specifically in America. The mystery involves the gods. Who are they? What are they? And is it possible that these beings, whose origins are from ancient times, are the unseen catalysts of modern culture?
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5 out of 5 stars
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A much needed warning for our day
- By Mel J on 15-05-23
- The Return of the Gods
- By: Jonathan Cahn
- Narrated by: Lawrence Richardson
Staggering
Reviewed: 28-07-23
I’m still finding myself captured by much of the things I’ve learned and pieced together since reading this book a couple of months ago. If the thesis is correct (which on balance seemed to me to be highly likely), then it is required reading for any Christian serious about cultural engagement and the interaction with ancient biblical ideas such as “gods” and bridge the gap we Westerners often have.
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Grace Saves All: The Necessity of Christian Universalism
- By: David Artman
- Narrated by: George W. Sarris
- Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 5
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Grace is amazing. About this all Christians agree. Yet nearly all forms of Christianity put significant limits on grace. In Grace Saves All, David Artman argues that grace saves alone and goes to all. This inclusive approach to Christianity is variously called universal reconciliation, universal salvation, or perhaps most accurately, Christian universalism. He contends that the inclusive/Christian universalist approach is necessary because it offers the only Christian theology that successfully defends the goodness of God.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best introduction to Christian Universalism Yet?
- By R on 16-09-23
Very good introduction
Reviewed: 28-07-23
This was very enjoyable as it covered all the required bases needed, especially for someone who is perhaps coming to this profound theological idea for the first time.
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Is Atheism Dead?
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
- Length: 16 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story5 out of 5 stars 39
Is Atheism Dead? is an entertaining, impressively wide-ranging, and decidedly provocative answer to that famous 1966 Time cover that itself provocatively asked “Is God Dead?” In a voice that is by turns witty, muscular, and poetic, Metaxas intentionally echoes C. S. Lewis and G. K. Chesterton in cheerfully and logically making his astonishing case, along the way presenting breathtaking - and often withering - new evidence and arguments against the idea of a Creatorless universe.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Another Embarrassing Apologist
- By Kevin on 23-03-22
- Is Atheism Dead?
- By: Eric Metaxas
- Narrated by: Eric Metaxas
Superb
Reviewed: 20-01-22
This is a very important contribution and collection of all the evidence for any serious thinking person. Marvellous.
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Our Bodies Tell God's Story
- Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender
- By: Christopher West
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 5
Best-selling author, cultural commentator, and popular theologian Christopher West is one of the world's most recognized teachers of John Paul II's Theology of the Body. He specializes in making this teaching accessible to all Christians, with particular attention to evangelicals. As West explains, from beginning to end the Bible tells a story of marriage. It begins with the marriage of man and woman in an earthly paradise and ends with the marriage of Christ and the church in an eternal paradise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- By Cliente de Kindle on 14-04-24
- Our Bodies Tell God's Story
- Discovering the Divine Plan for Love, Sex, and Gender
- By: Christopher West
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
Holy Body Holy God
Reviewed: 19-08-21
Fantastic read. Loved the content and that West drew on Catholic and Protestant sources. Gonna get me that JP2 book now.
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A Secular Age
- By: Charles Taylor
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 42 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 30
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean - of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith, even for the staunchest believer, is only one human possibility among others.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Challenging, Complex and Intellectually Brilliant!
- By Jim Vaughan on 02-06-16
- A Secular Age
- By: Charles Taylor
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
A Staggering Achievement
Reviewed: 22-02-21
I have listened as I read to what is a barnstorm of a book about religion and its place in postmodern secularism. It is so thorough yet honest about what it leaves out, that I fear it’s sheer breadth will prevent some from reading it. I suppose that’s the way it goes. But if you have the time, will power and want to stretch your ability and understanding in these matters, then read it for yourself. The idea of The Buffered Self is simply brilliant.
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The Soul of the World
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today’s fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive - and to understand what we are - is to acknowledge the reality of sacred things.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sublime Philosophical Commrntary
- By RichardDM on 19-07-20
- The Soul of the World
- By: Roger Scruton
- Narrated by: Tom Stechschulte
Sublime Philosophical Commrntary
Reviewed: 19-07-20
This was my first Scruton book and it was magnificent. Don’t lose concentration for one second or you’ll end up in a metaphorical thicket of intellectual terror - it is exhilarating to read a guy who’s mastered his stuff and presented so methodically robust. Great book.
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The New Testament in Its World: Audio Lectures, Part 1 of 2
- An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians
- By: N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird
- Narrated by: N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird
- Length: 6 hrs and 21 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Story5 out of 5 stars 50
The New Testament in Its World: Audio Lectures, Part 1 of 2 by N. T. Wright and Michael F. Bird is the definitive seminary-level introduction to the New Testament, presenting the books as a literary, narrative, and social phenomena in the world of second temple Judaism and early Christianity covering the third to the mid-second centuries BCE.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I just wish it had been NT Wright only speaking...
- By ET on 17-09-20
- The New Testament in Its World: Audio Lectures, Part 1 of 2
- An Introduction to the History, Literature, and Theology of the First Christians
- By: N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird
- Narrated by: N. T. Wright, Michael F. Bird
Superb Introduction to Christianity
Reviewed: 28-05-20
Great work. Would be petect for, say, a followup to Alpha or some such popular level intro.
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The Everlasting Man
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins
- Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 54
Few people had a more profound effect on Christianity in the 20th century than G. K. Chesterton. The Everlasting Man, written in response to an anti-Christian history of humans penned by H.G. Wells, is considered Chesterton’s masterpiece. In it, he explains Christ’s place in history, asserting that the Christian myth carries more weight than other mythologies for one simple reason—it is the truth.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sheer brilliance
- By Tim Hutchinson on 19-02-17
- The Everlasting Man
- By: G. K. Chesterton
- Narrated by: John Franklyn-Robbins
A Pure Joy
Reviewed: 26-04-20
This was a magnificent account of origins, cultures, customs and religions, which all served to prove the incompatible and necessary nature of the truth of Christianity and the unlikely extent of its influence and survival. The reader made me imagine Chesterton himself was reading it. Brilliant choice.
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Morality
- Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
- By: Jonathan Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sacks
- Length: 14 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 102
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 90
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Story5 out of 5 stars 89
Talking to key modern influences and thinkers, and drawing inspiration from the Bible and the historical experience of the Jewish people, Sacks argues that there are eight key factors in establishing, maintaining and passing on resilient moral values within a broad group, among them attitudes of lifelong learning and of thanksgiving, the importance of family life and community, and a culture of positive argument in place of destructive conflict.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Is this what we’re missing ?
- By luke on 07-03-21
- Morality
- Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times
- By: Jonathan Sacks
- Narrated by: Jonathan Sacks
Superb
Reviewed: 13-04-20
The articulation of the question: Why is the world like it is? Or why are we like we are? is found here in Rabbi Sack’s marvellous book. The great content would set up anyone thinking of an undergraduate study in Ethics, Politics, Philosophy, Judeo-Christian impact, Cultural Studies, etc. It’s just great, as is his BCC Radio 4 podcast that I think he mentioned once or twice ;-).
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Living the French Revolution and the Age of Napoleon
- By: Suzanne M. Desan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Suzanne M. Desan
- Length: 24 hrs and 47 mins
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 265
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 232
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Story5 out of 5 stars 229
The 25 years between the onset of the French Revolution in 1789 and the Bourbon Restoration after Napoleon in 1814 is an astonishing period in world history. This era shook the foundations of the old world and marked a permanent shift for politics, religion, and society - not just for France, but for all of Europe. An account of the events alone reads like something out of a thrilling novel.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good, but get your facts right.
- By Andrew on 05-03-18
The French Revolution magnificently taught
Reviewed: 04-09-19
This lecture series of the French Revolution is utterly captivating, and read and taught by a great educator at the top of her field. There is so much more during these few years that it avoids simplistic reductions and overly complicated detail. Absolutely brilliant.
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