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Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
— published 2016 — 21 editions |
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The Sacred Journey: The Ancient Practices
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The Selfless Gene: Living with God and Darwin
— published 2009 — 7 editions |
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The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
— published 2006 — 6 editions |
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Medical Law: A Very Short Introduction
— published 2013 — 2 editions |
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Wired For God?: The Biology Of Spiritual Experience
— published 2010 — 5 editions |
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In the Hot Unconscious: An Indian Journey
— published 2012 |
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Stardust and Shadows: Canadians in Early Hollywood
— published 2000 — 6 editions |
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From Old Hollywood to New Brunswick
— published 2013 — 2 editions |
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What Do I Do Now?: Dr Fosters 30 Laws of Great Decision Making
— published 2001 — 2 editions |
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"One of the most disturbing books that I have read in a long time. Fascinating, disquieting, nauseating at points, it lingers long in the memory. It raises some really interesting questions about moral relativism, anthropology, science and research..."
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“All four gospel writers were no doubt enthusiastic members of their local churches. They went there every Sunday; sometimes they preached themselves; sometimes they listened to the sermon and nodded when the tradition was repeated accurately. And eventually they were prevailed on to write down their own or their sources’ recollections of the facts that had generated the tradition. This is why it is silly for X to say: “Mark wasn’t written until the 50s at the earliest. That’s a good twenty years after Jesus died. Mark couldn’t be expected to remember things clearly after all that time.” Mark didn’t hibernate between the death of Jesus and the time he wrote his gospel, then take out his pen, scratch his head, and say: “It was a long time ago, and I’m trying to remember this for the first time, but so far as I remember it went something like this.”31”
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
“The notion that Jesus, three days after his death, would arise alone—the firstfruits of the dead—was completely unprecedented in Jewish thought. It would never have occurred in the wildest dreams of the most eccentric first-century Jew. The only rational way to explain its appearance in the New Testament is that it actually happened.”
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
“[ Jesus] was probably crucified on a short Tau-cross, and died within 6 hours (probably even within 3 hours). This is not an exceptionally short period of time, and there is no reason to postulate unusual causes for his death. He probably died from the classical progressive asphyxia syndrome and hypovolaemic shock typical of the crucifixion process, finally ending in cardiac arrest as result of a vaso-vagal reflex. The latter could have been elicited by intense pain due to various causes, although hypoxaemia per se or various other less common conditions could also have pertained. The wound in Christ’s side from the spear which probably pierced his heart, was certainly inflicted after his death. The appearance of blood and water as an expected postmortem phenomenon is discussed. There is no reason to consider this as proof of a functioning blood circulation indicating apparent rather than true death.30”
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
― The Jesus Inquest: The Case For and Against the Resurrection of the Christ
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