Saviors of God

Saviors of God
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1476706824

As a writer and philosopher, Nikos Kazantzakis struggled all his life with existential questions, once spending several months in a monastery in an attempt to attain a closer relationship with God. His relentless quest to understand the nature of life through travel, extensive reading, and constant conversation with a diverse array of compatriots ultimately led Kazantzakis to compose this book of "spiritual exercises" meant to help the reader achieve harmony between the countervailing human impulses toward an immortality-seeking asceticism and toward a more nihilistic and materialist view of death. As with all Kazantzakis’s philosophical works, The Saviors of God sheds light on a mind uniquely suited to a nuanced examination of what it means to be human, and establishes a hopeful vision for a dazzlingly syncretic approach to spiritual life.

God So Loved the World

God So Loved the World
Author: Eric D. Huntsman
Publisher: Deseret Book
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Atonement
ISBN: 9781606419755

Sharks in the Time of Saviours

Sharks in the Time of Saviours
Author: Kawai Strong Washburn
Publisher: Canongate Books
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2020-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1786896508

'As vivid as it is splendid' New York Times 'Beautifully written and completely absorbing' Sarah Moss, Guardian A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR, 2020 A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR in the NEW YORK TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OPRAH MAGAZINE and BBC CULTURE At seven years old, Nainoa falls into the sea and a shark takes him in its jaws – only to return him, unharmed, to his parents. For the next thirty years Noa and his siblings struggle with life in the shadow of this miracle. Sharks in the Time of Saviours is a brilliantly original and inventive novel, the sweeping story of a family living in poverty among the remnants of Hawai‘i’s mythic past and the wreckage of the American dream.

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors
Author: Kersey Graves
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Total Pages: 438
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1616409916

Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of: . the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods . stars that point out the time and place of a savior's birth . angels, shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior . the 25th of December as the universal birth date of gods . saviors who descend into Hell . and much more. This is essential reading for students of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers. Also available from Cosimo: Graves's The Biography of Satan and The Bible of Bible.

The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change

The Myth of Closure: Ambiguous Loss in a Time of Pandemic and Change
Author: Pauline Boss
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1324016825

How do we begin to cope with loss that cannot be resolved? The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss, losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our everyday lives. With a loss of trust in the world as a safe place, a loss of certainty about health care, education, employment, lingering anxieties plague many of us, even as parts of the world are opening back up again. Yet after so much loss, our search must be for a sense of meaning, and not something as elusive and impossible as "closure." This book provides many strategies for coping: encouraging us to increase our tolerance of ambiguity and acknowledging our resilience as we express a normal grief, and still look to the future with hope and possibility.

Saint Francis

Saint Francis
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476706832

Like The Last Temptation of Christ, Saint Francis is a fictionalized biography of a widely venerated Christian figure: Francis of Assisi, whose renunciation of his young man’s life of leisure and founding of a religious order dedicated to living in poverty and sharing the Gospels with all living things profoundly influence the ways in which Christians the world over worship and give service to their god even today. Recounted in Nikos Kazantzakis’s striking prose through the eyes of the saint’s brother, Leo, the life of Saint Francis shines in these pages as a heroic example of inspirational leadership and boundless love for God and all His creatures.

Zorba the Greek

Zorba the Greek
Author: Nikos Kazantzakis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1996-12-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0684825546

A stimulating excursion into the sunnier areas of the human spirit.

The Bird Saviors

The Bird Saviors
Author: William James Cobb
Publisher: Unbridled Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1609530705

Ruby Cole decides to abandon her baby rather than marry a man twice her age who already has two wives and sets off a series of reactions that involve an equestrian police officer, pawnshop clientele, and a grieving ornithologist.

American Savior

American Savior
Author: Roland Merullo
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2008-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781565126077

What if Jesus suddenly appeared and announced that he planned to run for President of the United States? Yes, that Jesus. And what if a well-meaning but utterly inexperienced band of disciples not only helped him mount a seat-of-the-pants campaign but also ran it well, getting millions of people to support him and in the process throwing the other two major party candidates—as well as the world's news media—into a frenzy as they scramble to discredit him? Roland Merullo's bitingly clever satirical novel about the state of American politics follows one man's campaign to bring back goodness and kindness (real goodness and kindness this time) in a country that has fallen into a divisive state of fear and hatred. Merullo takes us into the heart of "a nation in grave spiritual danger" as the Son of man sets out to make everyone realize that "politics as usual" is no longer an acceptable alternative. American Savior is a remarkably innovative novel that challenges our perceptions and beliefs while it wags a finger at the folly of our self-righteousness. It is sure to cause controversy among those for whom politics itself has become a kind of religion.

The Savior's Book Café Story in Another World (Manga) Vol. 2

The Savior's Book Café Story in Another World (Manga) Vol. 2
Author: Kyouka Izumi
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-04-19
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1638580383

A SPELLBINDING ADVENTURE! Since being transported to a new world Tsukina has made a cozy life for herself, doing magic and running a book café. She’s even grown closer to Il, a handsome soldier who also loves reading. But Tsukina is keeping a huge secret from him: she is a Savior, sent to this world to help protect it. By hiding away in her book café, is she neglecting her duties? And will Il hate her for it when he finds out?