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Title: The Prophet Muhammad

Subtitle: A Biography

Author: Barnaby Rogerson

Narrator: Kelly Hunter

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-06-12

Publisher: Hachette Audio UK

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Publisher's Summary:

The Prophet Muhammad is a hero for all mankind. In his lifetime he established a new religion, Islam; a new state, the first united Arabia; and a new literary language, the classical Arabic of the Qur'an, for the Qur'an is believed to be the word of God revealed to Muhammad by the angel Gabriel. A generation after his death he would be acknowledged as the founder of a world empire and a new civilisation. Any one of these achievements would have been more than enough to permanently establish his genius. To our early twenty-first century minds, what is all the more astonishing is that he also managed to stay true to himself and retained to his last days the humility, courtesy and humanity that he had learned as an orphan shepherd boy in central Arabia. If one looks for a parallel example from Christendom, you would have to combine the Emperor Constantine with St Francis and St Paul, an awesome prospect. Barnaby Rogerson's elegant biography not only looks directly at the life of the Prophet Muhammad, but beautifully evokes for western readers the Arabian world into which he was born in 570 AD.

Members Reviews:

Nice Listen.

Barnaby seems, a times, to contradict himself. He moves between one who is, using the Muslim term, Unbeliever, to one who is a Believer. In all, considering the belief of the Author, it is a fairly good account of the Greatest Man to walk the face of the Earth - Peace be upon him.

Kelly please narrate more Books. You were great. :-)

The life of the greatest person in history..

A sublime human being and the greatest prophet. Conquered Mecca through humility, kindness and reconciliation.

Poison within the honey

The author appears to be admiring the prophet, but portrays him as a person who would support his followers even if they are wrong. A man who chases after his love for women, to the point of a controversial revelation to get him to marry a woman already married to his previously adopted son.

The author describes prophet Mohamed peace be upon him as picking a fight with the jews in Madina, because he didn't like their presence. And skips the betrayal of the jews to the muslims in war and their attempts to assassinate the prophet to show the brutality of an undeserved punishment.

The description of how the Quran was revealed to the prophet is made to convey doubt within the wording of the Quran.

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Titolo: Confessioni [Confessions]

Autore: Agostino di Ippona

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 10 hrs and 16 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 09-26-12

Editore: Collina d'oro

Valutazioni: 5 su 5 su 1 voti

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Riepilogo Editore:

Le Confessioni (in latino Confessionum libri o Confessiones) è un'opera autobiografica in XIII libri di Agostino d'Ippona, padre della Chiesa, scritta intorno al 400. È unanimemente ritenuta tra i massimi capolavori della letteratura cristiana. In essa, Sant'agostino, rivolgendosi a Dio, narra la sua vita e in particolare la storia della sua conversione al Cristianesimo.

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Title: The Rebbe

Subtitle: The Life and Afterlife of Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Author: Samuel Heilman, Menachem Friedman

Narrator: David Cohen

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-19-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 9 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Publisher's Summary:

From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson - revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe - built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic Judaism into the powerful force in Jewish life that it is today. Swept away by his expectation that the Messiah was coming, he came to believe that he could deny death and change history.

Samuel Heilman and Menachem Friedman paint an unforgettable portrait of Schneerson, showing how he reinvented himself from an aspiring French-trained electrical engineer into a charismatic leader who believed that he and his Lubavitcher Hasidic emissaries could transform the world. They reveal how his messianic convictions ripened and how he attempted to bring the ancient idea of a day of redemption onto the modern world's agenda. Heilman and Friedman also trace what happened after the Rebbe's death, by which time many of his followers had come to think of him as the Messiah himself.

The Rebbe tracks Schneerson's remarkable life from his birth in Russia, to his student days in Berlin and Paris, to his rise to global renown in New York, where he developed and preached his powerful spiritual message from the group's gothic mansion in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. This compelling book demonstrates how Schneerson's embrace of traditionalism and American-style modernity made him uniquely suited to his messianic mission.

Members Reviews:

A moderately entertaining, though not even closely biographical, account a Great Spritual leader

ALERT: This book is not a biography by any academic standard. Is closer in fact to a tabloid.

You know, there are academic works that support theories with evidence and then there are educated tabloids that are well written but make supposition's based on loose evidence and hypotheses. This is the latter. The author's of this largely fictional novel have an agenda that is suspect.

Full Disclosure - I am not Lubavitch.

Make no mistake, this is an entertaining read but it's by no means an apparantly well research tome. IF it was by chance researched at all, the authors took so many literary liberties that it can't be considered as credible source for understanding the mindset of Chabad or nor it's Rebbe.

When I read "he MUST have been..." or variations on that theme, it tells me the author doesn't really know, nor have evidence to support the supposition's they are making. No, rather, they are make assertion's based on THEIR perspective, THEIR experiences, THEIR coloring of the evidence. How does one, or can one, stand in the shoes of a great spiritual leader and assume to understand what motivates them or inspires them? One can't. How can one stand in the shoes of a world-wide leader and assume to understand or know what they are thinking? One can't. Yet this book, unfortunately, presses theories, speculation and 'maybe's" as fact.

Like I said, it was entertaining to read...but it gave me very little insight into the thinking of spirit of the great Rebbe.

Four Stars

Very good

Great research and presentation

Seemed to cover many untouched aspects of Lubavitch, and posted a different, "outside", perspective to the Rebbe z"l.

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Titolo: Vita di Bernardo di Chiaravalle [The Life of Bernardo of Chiaravalle]

Autore: Giulio Barberis

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 2 hrs and 12 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 07-09-12

Editore: Collina d'oro

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Riepilogo Editore:

Bernardo di Chiaravalle, fu un monaco e abate francese cistercense, fondatore della celebre abbazia di Clairvaux e di altri monasteri. Viene venerato come santo dalla Chiesa cattolica. Canonizzato nel 1174 da papa Alessandro III, fu dichiarato Dottore della Chiesa, da papa Pio VIII nel 1830. Nel 1953 papa Pio XII gli dedicò l'enciclica Doctor Mellifluus. Questo racconto della vita si San Bernardo è stato scritto dal sacerdote Giulio Barberis, nel 1890. A conclusione dellopera, quattro preghiere di Bernardo di Chiaravalle. Cornice musicale di Kevin Mac Leod.

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Title: Paul: Bolinda Beginner Guides

Author: Morna D. Hooker

Narrator: Paul English

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins

Language: English

Release date: 06-28-12

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Publisher's Summary:

The Apostle Paul has shaped the course of Christian ethics for centuries and is widely regarded as the most influential theologian in the Christian tradition. In this authoritative introduction, Morna D. Hooker offers a female perspective on a figure usually portrayed as a conservative misogynist. Looking behind the epistles to reconstruct the real man and his beliefs, she places the scriptures in their original context and suggests a consistent and coherent Pauline theology. Original and thought-provoking, this concise study is essential for all who seek to learn more about the most controversial figure in Christianity.

Editorial Reviews:

This introduction to Paul and his gospel is clear, nuanced, and authoritative. Mora Hooker unravels the controversies surrounding Paul and his ethics, by placing the apostle's thoughts in the appropriate historical context. Hooker's analysis is illuminating and well researched; this results in an engaging recording that goes beyond the average summary-based introduction.

Narrator Paul English gives a thoughtful and coherent performance. Listeners who are confused about the moral legacy of Paul's teachings will find this to be a helpful lens through which to look at one of the most important historical figures in Christianity.

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Title: Saint Augustine

Subtitle: A Life

Author: Garry Wills

Narrator: Alexander Adams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-24-12

Publisher: Random House Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 8 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Publisher's Summary:

For centuries, Augustine's writings have moved and fascinated readers. With the keen eye of a writer whose own intellectual analysis won him a Pulitzer Prize, Gary Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his interpretation of Christian doctrine.

Saint Augustine explores Augustine's thought as well as the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions, including those regarding his early sexual excesses. It portrays Augustine as being "peripheral in his day, a provincial on the margins of classical culture" who didn't even know Greek. Here is a lively and incisive portrait of one who helped shape Western thinking.

Critic Reviews:

"Wills's agile mind matches the agility of Saint Augustine. He presents his subject with candor and with empathy." (New York Times Book Review)

Members Reviews:

Great Life of Augustine

Great Life -

Excellent, well written, enjoyable. Brings History to life without being over pious. Like me , he said he didn't 'know' Greek. Im sure he had as much Greek as I have.

I liked the picture on the first edition showing Augustine in his 'street' clothes. The new picture of a mitered bishop is a bit too much. Miters came in much later and maybe they should be dumped now. This is even mentioned in the text. EvXaristou!

Regards

Conn

Good primer in St. Augustine.

This relatively short book does and excellent job of explaining St. Augustine, for those of us who have always wanted to know a little bit more about him.

Good Book

Interesting look at Augustine's thoughts by a prolific writer who usually has a different take than usual. A well educated author who writes well.

Five Stars

The shipment was quick and the book is excellent reading.

Thanks,

John

St Augustine for Everyman

Garry Wills is an excellent writer. Saint Augustine: A Life is insightful yet not pedantic. Wills captures the life of a giant of a man who had a significant impact on religious history. It provides good reading for anyone.

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Title: Leaving Alexandria

Subtitle: A Memoir of Faith and Doubt

Author: Richard Holloway

Narrator: Richard Holloway

Format: Unabridged

Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-17-12

Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Publisher's Summary:

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013

At 14, Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. By 25, he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the following 40 years, Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church and in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless, unquiet heart and a constantly searching mind.

Critic Reviews:

A wonderfully honest and deeply moving reflection on the nature of doubt, saintly almost in its modesty - though Holloway might not like my saying so. A breath of fresh doubt that so many of us need, whether believer or nonbeliever, and I'm both. (MICHAEL MORPURGO)

Members Reviews:

An honest and moving memoir

An exceptional book. If you are interested in Anglo Catholicism and the dreadful knots and schisms it has experienced over the last thirty or forty years, Richard Holloway's account of his life within the church and the politics of religion is fascinating.

The tragedy of the 1998 Lambeth Conference, the decisions and divisions which resulted from that date, are laid bare and the church is seen in all its arrogance.

Richard Holloway reads his own book bravely, sings and recites poetry - lays himself bare to the reader/listener.

For anyone who has questioned his/her own faith, admired religious men and women for their dedication but worried about whether they also have crises of faith along the way, for believers and sceptics alike, this book illustrates and discusses the decisions we make in life and the trials and consequences we inevitably face.

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Titolo: Madre Teresa di Calcutta

Sottotitolo: Santa della carità

Autore: Riccardo Abati

Narratore: Orsola Boran, Gianmarco Ceconi, Mino Manni

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 1 hr and 14 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 05-11-12

Editore: GoodMood

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Riepilogo Editore:

La sua esile figura, avvolta nel sari bianco bordato di celeste, percorreva le strade di Calcutta per chinarsi sulle sofferenze di persone morenti. Ha difeso la vita nascente e si è battuta per alleviare le sofferenze dei lebbrosi e di tutti gli esclusi dalla società. Una suora, ma soprattutto una donna che dal Cristo crocifisso traeva la sua gigantesca forza interiore. Premio Nobel per la pace che ci ha lasciato un messaggio universale: AMA! La vita di Madre Teresa, i suoi pensieri, le sue opere di carità e amore nei confronti di chi più aveva bisogno, sono raccontate in questo audiolibro con la discrezione e la precisione che contraddistinguono Riccardo Abati, eclettico autore impegnato nella continua ricerca della verità.

©2012 Riccardo Abati (P)2012 GOODmood

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Title: Frontier Preacher: The Life of John Corbly, 1733 to 1803

Author: Sam Hossler

Narrator: Ron Babcock

Format: Unabridged

Length: 5 hrs and 34 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-08-12

Publisher: Granny Apple Publishing LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Publisher's Summary:

This book follows the amazing life of John Corbly, circa 1733 to 1803, from the time he was shanghaied in Ireland as a young teenager to the troublesome times of the Whisky Rebellion in frontier Pennsylvania.

Once in America, he experiences some good luck. Indentured to a good Christian family, he learns farming, believing it to be his destiny. But those were not God's plans for him, and this unassuming young man eventually becomes a lay preacher and evangelist.

Persecuted for his beliefs, he moves his family to the wild frontier of Pennsylvania. Once he reaches this untamed area, like the other frontiersmen, Corbly finds only pain and suffering as crops fail, there is no money, and Indian raids wipe out whole communities in a matter of minutes.

The Fledgling government has little respect for these rugged frontiersmen. The bureaucrats think this remote province across the mountains is good for only one thing - collecting taxes - that these poor, unfortunate frontier families are not able to pay. More fear and anguish results from the brutal actions of the Federal government who send troops and drag the suspected "insurrectionists" out of their beds in the dead of winter.

Yet, through it all, the indefatigable Rev. John Corbly never loses faith, establishes many churches throughout Pennsylvania, and continues to evangelize until his dying breath.

Members Reviews:

Fun Fun Funy

A very good book and quite humours. A little to much history and it made the preacher sound like he was for making moon shine. I would recommend the book to anyone black or white alike for its fun reading alone.

i love it

was a well written book i like books of long ago.we could use more books of this kind love it

Great book about a great man - but the Kindle version may not work

Purchased the kindle version. Unfortunately it's completely broken and borderline unreadable - it must have been processed automatically from a scan. Characters like apostrophes and quotation marks are missing in every location, and several places (in the first two chapters - so far) sentences are strangely jumbled - for example: "They weren t the high spirited pair he had learned on during the carriage ride, but a splendid pair of draft responded to his every animals that command." and another: "It was late afternoon when Applegate called John over and handed him a five pound her attendance and Mister the bride away" umm, what?

Needs work.

Update: The author contacted us and took care of our problem. =)

my review

interesting and kept my interest all they way through... a nice read! I enjoyed this book a lot! I am going to read all the books by this author.

Remove this book from this web page.

This book is pure fiction and does not portray Pastor John Corbly. It should not be listed in this selection of historian Don Corbly's books which are historically correct, fully documented and sourced, indexed, and authentic.

Amazon says it is shown here only because the words John Corbly appear in the title and is merged with other books which bear the name Corbly, even the name of the author, Don Corbly.

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Titolo: La leggenda aurea [The Golden Legend]

Sottotitolo: Vite dei Santi

Autore: Iacopo da Varagine

Narratore: Silvia Cecchini

Formato: Unabridged

Durata: 11 hrs and 5 mins

Lingua: Italiano

Data di pubblicazione: 03-08-12

Editore: Collina d'oro

Categoria: Bios & Memoirs, Religious Figures

Riepilogo Editore:

La leggenda aurea è una collezione di vite di santi scritta in latino da Iacopo da Varagine, vescovo di Genova e frate domenicano. Fu compilata a partire dal 1260 e lautore ci lavorò fino alla sua morte, avvenuta nel 1298. In questa edizione ridotta, sono narrate le vite di 80 santi, tra cuiSantAndrea, San Nicola, Santo Stefano, San Giovanni Evangelista, San Silvestro, SantAntonio, San Sebastiano, SantAgnese, San Vincenzo, SantAgata, Santa Maria Maddalena, San Cristoforo, Santa Marta, San Domenico, San Lorenzo, San Bernardo, San Pietro, San Paolo, SantAgostino, San Martino, Santa Elisabetta.Cornice musicale di Kevin Mac Leod.

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