The Face of Truth examines in depth the Vedantic theology of Ramanuja, the most important and well-known of the classical Hindu theologians. Julius Lipner clearly analyzes Ramanuja's theory of sacred language and divine predication, his views on the nature of the self, God, and the relationship between infinite and finite being. In addition to offering new insights into and analyses of religious matters, The Face of Truth exposes the theology of language -- the understanding of religious language and God. This is consistent with Lipner's other purpose -- the furthering of inter-religious dialogue, especially between Hindu and Christian points of view. Lipner has also translated several technical Sanskrit terms into English, making his point intelligible to non-Sanskrit readers. Drawing together the complex strands of Ra?ma?nujan thought, Lipner succeeds in increasing inter-religious understanding.

Most books are to be read, some are to be studied, but a few are meant to be lived in for a short time. Merlin's Star is of this last kind. A story that begins with Merlin, the wise and powerful wizard of Camelot. Trickery and the ultimate betrayal of another causes Merlin to divide a magical star among a chosen five, each pledging to use the power to bring joy and happiness to the children of the world. But all is not as it seems...and centuries later when the stars are stolen, disaster looms for Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, the Sandman and the last of the great sorcerers. Their fate rests with two of Santa's elves, Alfred and Henry, joining with two Haole to search for, and return the stars before it's too late. A journey that will lead them to Bitter Realm, and a final encounter with the wizard known only as Churilar.

Raymen Kristoff's dreams had always been of the same blond girl, one he looked forward to when he closed his eyes. But now those dreams were becoming dark, dangerous, and real. Just as he begins to question his sanity, a stalker appears, and makes him question his entire existence. The stranger tells Ray of a birthright demanding his return home, and those who will try to stop him at any price. Now he must run from the only life he's ever known, and plunge himself into a magical world where every problem is dealt with by the tip of a blade.

Answers the questions: Can God be known? Hasn't science disproved the Bible? How can a good God allow evil? Aren't all religions pretty much the same?

The question is, what constitutes truth in religion? Represented here is the whole spectrum of phenomenology--transcendental, existential, hermeneutic, ethical, and deconstructive--presented by some of the most respected names in the philosophy of religion today: Louis Dupré, Merold Westphal, and Edward Farley. Here is also engagement with a wide variety of twentieth-century thinkers such as Husserl, Scheler, and Heidegger; Ricoeur, Gadamer, and Derrida; Freud, van der Leeuw, and Eliade; and Rosenzweig, Tillich, and Schillebeeks. This volume provides unique sources for anyone interested in the philosophical, theological, or scientific study of religion.

Fiction, far from being the opposite of truth, is wholly bent on finding it out, and writing novels is a way to know the real world as objectively as possible. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Myra Jehlen develops this idea through readings of works by Flaubert, James, and Nabokov. She invokes Proust's famous search for lost memory as the exemplary literary process, which strives, whatever its materials, for a true knowledge. In Salammbô, Flaubert digs up Carthage; in The Ambassadors, James plumbs the examined life and touches at its limits; while in Lolita, Nabokov traces a search for truth that becomes a trespass. In these readings, form and style emerge as fiction's means for taking hold of reality, which is to say that they are as epistemological as they are aesthetic, each one emerging by way of the other. The aesthetic aspects of a literary work are just so many instruments for exploring a subject, and the beauty and pleasure of a work confirm the validity of its account of the world. For Flaubert, famously, a beautiful sentence was proven true by its beauty. James and Nabokov wrote on the same assumption--that form and style were at once the origin and the confirmation of a work's truth. In Five Fictions in Search of Truth, Jehlen shows, moreover, that fiction's findings are not only about the world but immanent within it. Literature works concretely, through this form, that style, this image, that word, seeking a truth that is equally concrete. Writers write--and readers read--to discover an incarnate, secular knowledge, and in doing so they enact a basic concurrence between literature and science.

One of the most complete and in-depth books ever written on the subject of terrorism from a Spiritual perspective! In this book you will receive a full spectrum prism consciousness understanding from Spirit and the Ascended Masters' perspective on terrorism in general and specifically on the soul's perspective of the terrorist bombing of the twin towers on 9/11. This is one of the most comprehensive overviews ever written on this subject and brings forth an absolutely brilliant and clear understanding of the entire sequence of events from a Spiritual, psychological and political or Earthly perspective. In truth, must reading for everyone in the world given the magnitude of the events we are all now experiencing in our world!