Br Damien-Joseph OSB
Monk • Saint Martin's Abbey
- Can't recommend this highly enough, for all readers--lay, clergy, religious, young, old. Schuchts knows how to guide the reader through the steps of healing through proper counseling and modern psychology in conversation with the truths of spiritual wisdom. Everyone is in need of Jesus as healer, and this book helps to open the wounded heart (in the discovery of wounds we may not remember we had) to His love and bring them through the process of healing. Everyone: read this!
- Nice to see this come out in a second edition! The pages to the first edition were getting worn and dog-eared and there wasn't any space left for highlights or notes. This book should be used in any study of ancient and early Judaism through the Second Temple period.
- Not including The Future of an Illusion was a bit of an oversight. That text is *the* psychological/philosophical critique of Christianity from a hardened atheistic perspective, and should be required reading for anyone interested in apologetics, religion, and understanding the widespread atheism of our age. Especially those asking "what does Freud have to do with Jesus" should read this short text (which is unfortunately not included at the time of this posting) and reflect on the state of contemporary Western culture.
- A decent little collection, worth the current discount. It is a strangely disparate collection. Spinoza without Leibnitz? No medieval philosophers, as if Anselm, Aquinas, Duns Scotus and Boethius never happened. In fact, any philosopher who ever tackled the problem of evil seems conspicuously missing (and this is true for the XL collection as well) (Dionysius, Plotinus, Philo...). But it's still a good collection.
- "Reader Edition"? Does this mean that this book, which is clearly loaded with citations and cross-references to other works in Logos, will not link to them? This is very obviously not a book you read cover-to-cover like a novel and is really primarily useful for theological research.
- Hello , thank you very much for your feedback on this resource. We tag Scripture references and some other basics but don't go too far into tagging resources. If you feel this is in error, you're welcome to submit feedback about it here: https://feedback.faithlife.com/
- As with so many Verbum resources, one has to search and find the citations in one's library and link it to the reference with a note anchor. Ditto for quite a few bad links and have to be corrected by the same process. Pretty sad and frustrating for such a capable platform, which is so touted by the Company as being a time-saver by virtue of the metadata and resource linkage. Send a correction edit request and get a validation response (we don't see anything here), putting the monkey back on the customer's back. BTW, there really needs to be more resources on the subject. How about Garrigou-lagrange and Bouyer books to compliment the Teilhard de Chardin, de Lubac, and Blondel stuff?
- This book really needs to be slowed down to 80% or at least 90% of the speed the reader reads it. Trouble is, as of the time of this review, the software does not allow the reading speed to slow down (only to speed up). Otherwise the content of this book is mostly good.
- Thank you for letting me know. I'll get it in paperback.
- A legitimately amazing library, with unexpectedly surprising new features. The thing runs faster than ever before, even if you're adding hundreds of new books. Well worth the price, and don't settle for less than this. Well done, Faithlife, this new package is incredible, deep, and robust.
- Next time this goes on sale I'll be getting it. Can't wait
- Unfortunately, this is the fourth edition from 1995, not the revised edition nor the later editions from '97, 2004, or 2011. That means that a majority of 4QMMT is missing, sections of the Temple Scroll are missing, and much of the apocryphon (where is Jubilees? Tobit?). To make things worse, this resource isn't digitally tagged, probably because Vermes (even in the 2011 edition) doesn't give accurate or useful citation information for passages in the scrolls, making linking the resource a nightmare. Either way, this resource will not be very useful to you for Dead Sea Scrolls research.
- A spiritual classic and a must-read for anyone interested in the spiritual life. This work, although a bit contemporary, sits among the foundation to the Christian life, along with S. Francis de Sales' Introduction to the Devout Life and Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ and the works of earlier mystics.
- A great book, entertaining and challenging. Simon Vance does a good job keeping you on the edge of your seat in the missionary adventures of Andrew in a hostile Soviet society.
