Christianity Used Esoteric Books
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The Ephrata Commune: An Early American Counterculture
E. G. Alderfer
Soft Cover, 273 pp.
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995 Book Condition: Fine. A tight, clean copy, photographs. ID: 3183
Price: $15.00


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A Different Christianity: Early Christian Esotericism and Modern Thought
Robin Amis
Soft Cover, 388 pp.
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1995 Book Condition: Very Good+. Fine except for some underlining. ID: 4071
Price: $15.00


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Temple Theology: An Introduction
Margaret Barker
Soft Cover, 104 pp.
Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London, 2004 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread. Slight shelfwear. ID: 4080
Price: $15.00


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The Time Before You Die: A Novel of the Reformation
Lucy Beckett
Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft cover. 331 pp.
Antony Rowe Publishing Service, Eastbourne, UK, 2005 Book Condition: Fine. Signed by author on half title page, in excellent condition with clean unmarked pages. ID: 7493
Price: $38.00


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The Philosophy of Schleiermacher: The Development of His Theory of Scientific and Religious Knowledge
Richard B. Brandt
Hard Cover, 350 pp.
Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1941 First Edition Book Condition: Book: Very Good+. Clean covers, some bumping, tight binding, unmarked pages, owners stamp on front endpaper. DJ: Missing ID: 4096
Price: $25.00


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On the Prayer of Jesus: From the Ascetic Essays of Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov
Bishop Ignatius Brianchaninov; Father Lazarus, trans.
Soft Cover, 114 pp.
Element, Rockport, MA, 1993 Book Condition: Near Fine. Slight shelfwear. ID: 4118
Price: $15.00


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Serpent-Handling Believers
Thomas Burton
Soft cover, 208 pp.
University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, TN, 1993 Book Condition: Near Fine. Appears unread, slight shelfwear, crease to back corner. ID: 7187
Price: $27.00


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Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
Joseph Campbell
Hardcover, 136 pp.; Eugene Kennedy, ed.
New World Library, Novato, CA, 2001 Book Condition: Book: Fine. Appears unread, only a hint of shelfwear, pages are bright and unmarked. DJ: Fine. Not price clipped. ID: 7518
Price: $18.00


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The Eros of Repentance: Four Talks on the Theological Basis of Athonite Monasticism
George Capsanis
Soft Cover, 72 pp.
Praxis Institute Press, Newbury, MA, 1992 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread, slight shelfwear. ID: 7499
Price: $20.00


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The Heart of Matter
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Soft Cover, 276 pp.
Harcourt Brace, New York, 1978 Book Condition: Fine. Slight shelfwear, otherwise as new. ID: 6050
Price: $15.00


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The Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from the Patristic Era with Commentary
Olivier Clément
Soft Cover, 380 pp.
New City Press, New York, 1995 Book Condition: Fine. Bumping to top of front cover, otherwise as new. ID: 4115
Price: $19.00


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Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?...and Other Questions from the Astronomers' In-Box at the Vatican Observatory
Guy Consolmagno, SJ and Paul Mueller, SJ
Hard Cover, 293 pp.
Image, New York, 2014 Book Condition: Book: As New. DJ: As New ID: 6015
Price: $19.00


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Swedenborg and Esoteric Islam (Swedenborg Studies)
Henry Corbin
Soft Cover, 149 pp.; Leonard Fox, trans.
Swedenborg Foundation, West Chester, PA, 1995 Book Condition: As New. ID: 7188
Price: $12.00


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The First Paul: Reclaiming the Radical Visionary Behind the Church's Conservative Icon
Marcus J. Borg and John Dominic Crossan
Hard Cover, 230 pp.
HarperOne, New York, 2009 Book Condition: Book: Fine. Slight bumping, otherwise as new. DJ: As New. ID: 2765
Price: $14.00


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Meister Eckhart from Whom God Hid Nothing: Sermons, Writings, and Sayings
Meister Eckhart
Soft Cover, 128 pp.; Edited by David O'Neal
New Seeds Books, Boston, 2005 Book Condition: As New. Clean and crisp. ID: 7470
Price: $16.00


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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Bart D. Ehrman
Hardcover, 294 pp.
Oxford University Press, New York, 2003 Book Condition: Book: As New. DJ: Near Fine. Some edgewear at spine, not price-clipped. ID: 7071
Price: $18.00


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Christianity and Culture: The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes towards the Definition of Culture
T. S. Eliot
Soft Cover, 202 pp.
Harcourt Brace , New York, 1976 Book Condition: Book: As New. Appears unread. ID: 2634
Price: $12.00


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The Cathedral Builders of the Middle Ages
Alain Erlande-Brandenburg
Soft Cover, 175 pp.
Thames & Hudson, London, 1995 Book Condition: Fine. Slight shelfwear, unmarked pages. ID: 7143
Price: $8.00


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The Construction of Gothic Cathedrals
John Fitchen
Soft Cover, 344 pp.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1981 Book Condition: As New. ID: 4108
Price: $13.00


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Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures
Frances Fitzgerald
Hard Cover, 414 pp.
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986 First edition, signed and dated by author. Book Condition: Book: Fine. Cover slightly sunned, tight binding, clean pages. DJ: Fine. Clean, slight shelfwear. ID: 2474
Price: $20.00


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The Last Transfiguration: The Quest for Spiritual Illumination in the Life and Times of Saint Augustine
S. T. Georgiou
Soft Cover, 118 pp.
Phanes Press, Grand Rapids, MI, 1994 Book Condition: Near Fine. Unmarked pages. As new except for crease to back cover. ID: 7262
Price: $10.00


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Initiation and Spiritual Realization
Rene Guenon
Soft Cover, 187 pp.; Translated by Henry D. Fohr, edited by Samuel D. Fohr
Sophia Perennis, Ghent, NY, 2001 Book Condition: Near Fine. Tight binding, light shelfwear, unmarked pages. ID: 7103
Price: $19.00


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The Lord of the World
Rene Guenon
Soft Cover, 70 pp.
Coombe Springs Press, North Yorkshire, England, 1983 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread, slight shelfwear, clean pages. ID: 7105
Price: $30.00


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The Divine Liturgy: Insights into its Mystery
Jean Hani; Robert Proctor, trans.
First English Edition. Soft Cover, 161 pp.
Sophia Perennis, San Rafael, CA, 2008 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread. Clean covers, slight shelfwear, unmarked pages, b/w photographs. ID: 1516
Price: $18.00


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A Stay Against Confusion: Essays on Faith and Fiction
Ron Hansen
First Edition. Hardcover, 267 pp.
HarperCollins, New York, 2001 Book Condition: Book. Very Good. Tight binding, clean, bumping to spine, remainder mark. DJ. Good. Shelfwear, mylar protected. ID: 7178
Price: $9.00


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The Sculptural Programs of Chartres Cathedral: Christ, Mary, Ecclesia
Adolf Katzenellenbogen
Hard Cover, 8.5 x 11, 150 pp. plus 79 appended photographs
Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1968 Book Condition: Fine. Bright clean copy, appears unread, slight rippling on top quarter of pages, tight binding, illustrations. No DJ. ID: 0515
Price: $43.00


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A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization
Jonathan Kirsch
Hard Cover, 340 pp.
HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco, 2006 First Edition Book Condition: Book: As New. DJ: Fine. Slight shelf wear. ID: 3132
Price: $12.00


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The Gnostics
Jacques Lacarriere
First Edition. Soft Cover, 136 pp.; Foreword by Lawrence Durrell; Nina Rootes, trans.
E. P. Dutton, New York, 1977 Book Condition: Near Fine. Light shelfwear, unmarked pages. ID: 7549
Price: $18.00


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The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
Jean-Yves Leloup
Soft cover, 178 pp.; Foreword by Jacob Needleman
Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 2002 Book Condition: Fine. Slight edgewear, else as new. ID: 7147
Price: $10.00


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The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church
Vladimir Lossky
Soft cover, 252 pp.
St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood, NY, 1991 Book Condition: As New. Appears unread, no blemishes. ID: 2775
Price: $25.00


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Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries
Ramsay MacMullen
Softcover, 6 x 9, 282 pp.
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997 Book Condition: Fine. Corners bumped. ID: 3067
Price: $10.00


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Cathedral of the Black Madonna: The Druids and the Mysteries of Chartres
Jean Markale; Jon Graham, trans.
Soft Cover, 296 pp.
Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 2004 Book Condition: Very Good+. Clean covers, slight shelfwear, tight binding, bright unmarked pages, some dog-ears, b/w photos. ID: 1926
Price: $9.00


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The Foundations of Mysticism: Origins to the Fifth Century (The Presence of God: A History of Western Christian Mysticism, Vol 1)
Bernard McGinn
Soft Cover, 494 pp.
Crossroad Publishing, New York, 1997 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread. Slight soiling to edges, pages crisp and clean. ID: 1632
Price: $40.00


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In the Beginning
Alister McGrath
Soft Cover, 338 pp.
Anchor Books , New York, 2002 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread, slight rubbing to spine, clean pages, remainder mark. ID: 7496
Price: $9.00


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The Hymn of Jesus
G R S Mead
Hardcover, 56 pp. Translated with Comments by G R S Mead.
John M Watkins, London, 1963 Book Condition: Book: Near Fine. Clean boards, slight bumping to spine, pages crisp and unmarked. DJ: Fair. Clean, tears to back, mylar protected. ID: 7201
Price: $14.00


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The Ethiopic Liturgy: Its Sources, Development, and Present Form
Samuel A. B. Mercer
Hard Cover, 485 pp.
AMS Press, New York, 1970 Book Condition: Very Good. Tight binding, shelfwear, foxing to top edges, a few dog-ears, unmarked pages. ID: 5130
Price: $26.00


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Gnosis: An Esoteric Tradition of Mystical Visions and Unions
Dan Merkur
Hardcover, 387 pp.
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1993 Book Condition: Fine. Clean, slight bumping, crisp, unmarked pages. No dj as issued. ID: 7203
Price: $39.00


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Gnosis: Book Two, The Mesosteric Cycle (Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy)
Boris Mouravieff; Robin Amis, editor; S. A. Wissa, Manek d'Oncieu and Robin Amis, translators
Soft Cover, 262 pp.
Praxis Institute Press, Newbury, MA, 1992 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread, slight shelfwear, pages bright and clean. Sticker on back. ID: 5631
Price: $50.00


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Gnosis: Book Three, The Esoteric Cycle (Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy)
Boris Mouravieff; Robin Amis, editor; Manek d'Oncieu, E. and S. Witkin, translators
Soft Cover, 226 pp.
Praxis Institute Press, Newbury, MA, 1993 Book Condition: As New. ID: 5632
Price: $40.00


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The Price of Leadership
John Middleton Murry
Hard Cover, 189 pp.
Student Christian Movement, London, 1939 Book Condition: Book: Very Good+. Slightly cocked and tanned at spine. Pages bright, unmarked. Some foxing to first and last endpaper. DJ: Near Fine. Intact with small chips at spine top. Sun faded. ID: 5200
Price: $25.00


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Man and Nature: The Spiritual Crisis in Modern Man
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Soft Cover, 151 pp.
Unwin Paperbacks, London , 1990 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread, pages tanned but unmarked. ID: 7522
Price: $34.00


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Lost Christianity
Jacob Needleman
Hardcover, 228 pp.
Doubleday, Garden City, NY, 1980 Book Condition: Good+. Tight binding, bumping to spine, owner's embossed initials to endpaper, crisp unmarked pages. ID: 7210
Price: $18.00


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Powers of Imagining: Ignatius of Loyola: A Philosophical Hermeneutic Imagining Through the Collected Works of Ignatius De Loyola with a Translation of These Works
Antonio T. De Nicolas
Softcover, 390 pp.
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY, 1986 Book Condition: Near Fine. Shelfwear, bright, unmarked pages. ID: 2790
Price: $19.00


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The New Man: An Interpretation of Some Parables and Miracles of Christ
Maurice Nicoll
Soft Cover, 184 pp.
Penguin Books, Baltimore, MD, 1973 Book Condition: Near Fine. Light shelfwear, solid binding and clean unmarked pages. ID: 7473
Price: $16.00


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Jesus Before Christianity
Albert Nolan
Soft Cover, 196 pp.
Orvis Books, Maryknoll, NY, 2014 Book Condition: Fine. Slight shelfwear, else as new with pristine pages. ID: 7396
Price: $16.00


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Luther: Man Between God and the Devil
Heiko A. Oberman
Soft Cover, 380 pp.
Image Books, New York, 1992 Book Condition: Near Fine. Uncreased spine, light edgewear, clean pages. ID: 7196
Price: $9.00


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Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion
Ahmed Osman
Soft Cover, 270 pp.
Bear & Co., Rochester, VT, 2005 Book Condition: Very Good-. Clean, shelfwear, some creasing, pages unmarked. ID: 7331
Price: $10.00


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There Is Music in the Street
Franziska Raabe Parkinson
Hard Cover, 104 pp.
Philosophical Library, New York, 1950 First Edition Book Condition: Book: Near Fine. Tight binding, slight bumping and shelfwear, clean pages. DJ: Fair. Intact, spine in poor condition, now mylar protected. ID: 5879
Price: $12.00


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Adam, Eve and the Serpent
Elaine Pagels
Soft Cover, 189 pp.
Vintage Books, New York, 1989 Book Condition: Fine. Clean wrappers, uncreased spine and unmarked pages, a small nick to head of spine, otherwise as new. ID: 7545
Price: $10.00


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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Elaine Pagels
First Edition, Hardcover, 241 pp.
Random House,New York, 2003 Book Condition: Book: Fine. Slight bumping, otherwise as new. DJ: Fine. ID: 6053
Price: $18.00


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The Origin of Satan
Elaine Pagels
Soft Cover, 214 pp.
Vintage, New York, 1996 Book Condition: As New. Appears unread, no flaws. ID: 7436
Price: $11.00


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Writings from the Philokalia: On the Prayer of the Heart
Translated by E. Kadloubovsky and G.E.H. Palmer
Hardcover, 420 pp.
Farber and Farber Ltd., London, 1967 Book Condition: Very Good. A solid copy, a scrape to the front board, tight binding, underlining to a few pages, most are clear. DJ is missing. ID: 7494
Price: $28.00


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Ancient Egypt and Ancient Israel
W. M. Flinders Petrie
Soft Cover, 141 pp.
Ares Publishers, Chicago, 1980 Book Condition: Near Fine. Cover and spine as new, back cover and final pages appear warped by water, pages clean and unmarked. ID: 7180
Price: $48.00


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Commentary on the Fourth Gospel
Beryl Pogson
Soft Cover, 72 pp.
Eureka Editions, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2000 Book Condition: As New. ID: 2690
Price: $24.00


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Christian Zen: The Essential Teachings of Jesus Christ
Robert Powell
First Edition. Soft Cover, 111 pp. Robert Powell, compiler and commentary
North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA, 2003 Book Condition: Fine. Appears unread, slight shelfwear. The secret sayings of Jesus as related in the Gospel of Thomas. ID: 5670
Price: $12.00


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Born Again Bodies: Flesh and Spirit in American Christianity
R. Marie Griffith
First Edition. Softcover, 250 pp.
University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004 Book Condition: Fine. Slight shelfwear, sticker ghost. ID: 5829
Price: $28.00


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A Method of Prayer for Modern Times
Eugraph Kovalevsky (Bishop Jean of Saint-Denis)
Soft Cover, 134 pp.
Praxis Institute Press, Newburyport, MA, Book Condition: Near Fine. Bright and clean, creases to back cover, unmarked pages. ID: 3206
Price: $8.00


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How the Bible Became Holy
Michael L. Satlow
Hardcover, 350 pp.
Yale University Press, New Haven, CN, 2014 Book Condition: Book: As New. Brown boards, gilt spine title, pristine pages. DJ: Fine. Slight shelfwear, bookstore sticker on spine. ID: 7435
Price: $15.00


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Gothic Cathedrals: Our Legacy from the Age of Faith
William P. Scott, Jr.
Hard Cover, 179 pp.
Self-Published, San Francisco, CA, 1978 Book Condition: Author inscribed. Book: Near Fine. Some bumping and shelfwear. Unmarked pages, photo-illustrated plates. No dj as issued. ID: 2153
Price: $25.00


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Swaggart
Ann Rowe Seaman
Hardcover, 438 pp.
Continuum, New York, 1999 Book Condition: Book: Fine. Appears unread, slight shelfwear, clean unmarked pages. DJ: Fine. Clean, minor creases at tips, else as new, not clipped. ID: 7528
Price: $30.00


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Jesus the Magician
Morton Smith
Soft Cover, 6 x 9.25, 222 pp.
Harper and Row, San Francisco, 1981 Book Condition: Near fine. Tight binding, shelfwear, clean pages. ID: 0510
Price: $10.00


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Inner Christianity: A Guide to the Esoteric Tradition
Richard Smoley
Soft cover, 292 pp.
Shambhala, Boston, 2002 Book Condition: Near Fine. Some shelfwear, otherwise fine. ID: 2732
Price: $11.00


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Chartres: Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space
Gordon Strachan
Soft Cover, 111 pp.
Floris Books, Edinburgh, UK, 2005 Book Condition: Fine. Slight shelfwear. ID: 2108
Price: $17.00


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Letters to Léontine Zanta
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hard Cover, 127 pp.
Harper & Row, New York, 1969 Book Condition: Book: As New, except for price stamp on front endpaper. DJ: Fine. Slightly rubbed with minor edgewear. ID: 5466
Price: $18.00


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Beyond the Threshold: A Life in Opus Dei
Maria del Carmen Tapia
Hardcover, 364 pp.
Continuum, New York, 1997 Book Condition: Book: Very Good. Clean cover, tight binding, crisp pages with a few neat underlines. DJ: Fine. Slight shelfwear, else as new. ID: 7469
Price: $36.00


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Activation of Energy
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Soft Cover, 406 pp.
Harvest/HBJ Book, San Diego, CA, 1970 Book Condition: Very Good+. Tight binding, clean pages, shelfwear. ID: 1890
Price: $18.00


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The Future of Man
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Hard Cover, 309 pp.
Harper & Row, New York, 1964 First Edition Book Condition: Very Good. Tight binding, foxing on edges, bumping, clean pages. French inscription designating book being given to Edgar Berman from Teilhard de Chardin's legatee J. Mortier. No DJ. ID: 1891
Price: $20.00


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The Gospel According to Thomas: Coptic Text Established and Translated
A. Guillaumont, Henri-Charles Puech, Gilles Quispel, Walter Till
Hardcover, 62 pp. Yassah 'Abd Al Masih, trans.
Harper & Row, New York, 1959 Book Condition: Book. Very Good+. Brown linen boards, slight bumping to top corners, tight binding, unmarked pages, small rust stain to back pastedown. DJ. Very Good+. Clean, closed tear at top of spine, chip at lower edge, not price clipped. ID: 7482
Price: $20.00


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The Essential Tillich: An Anthology of the Writings of Paul Tillich
Paul Tillich
Soft Cover, 281 pp.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1999 Book Condition: Fine. Slight shelfwear, appears unread, bright clean pages. ID: 7434
Price: $20.00


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After Christianity
Gianni Vattimo; Luca D'Isanto, trans.
Hard Cover, 156 pp.
Columbia University Press, New York, 2002 Book Condition: Book: As New. DJ: Fine. Slight crease to flap. ID: 2100
Price: $38.00


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Letter to a Priest
Simone Weil
First Edition. Hard Cover, 83 pp.
Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1953 Book Condition: Book: Fine. Appears unread, gilt spine title, bright and pristine, slight shelfwear to cover. Vertical brown mark on endpapers. Pages clean and unmarked. DJ: Very Good+. One small open tear at top of spine. Not price clipped. Now mylar-wrapped. ID: 5268
Price: $55.00


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Christianity and the Doctrine of Non-Dualism
A Monk of the West
First Edition. Hard Cover, 136 pp. Alvin Moore, Jr. and Marie M. Hansen, trans.
Sophia Perennis, Hillsdale, NY, 2004 Book Condition: Book: As New. DJ: Fine. Slight bumping, otherwise as new. ID: 2680
Price: $40.00


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The Call to Heresy: The Prophetic, Charismatic and Mystical in Christian Religion
Robert Van de Weyer
Soft Cover, 138 pp.
Lamp Press, London, 1989 Book Condition: Very Good. Clean covers, shelfwear, unmarked pages. ID: 5894
Price: $8.00


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The Life of the World to Come: Near-Death Experience and Christian Hope: The Albert Cardinal Meyer Lectures
Carol Zaleski
Hard Cover, 98 pp.
Oxford University Press, New York, 1996 Book Condition: Book: Fine. Slight bumping. DJ: Fine. Slight shelfwear, price clipped. ID: 5754
Price: $9.00


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