Josh Albert has narrated 4 audiobooks on Listento.it by 5 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 2 ratings. The most-rated is A History of God.
A History of God
Summary
In this audiobook, we will look at the history of the three deities making up the bulk of the world's religions and the evolution of the religions formed from the worship of these three deities.
We will examine the history and development of Elohim, Yahweh, and Allah. In doing so, we will also look at the teachings of Jesus and Mohammed and their influence on the Christian and Islamic faiths respectively. By an objective examination of the Gods of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths, we shall see how man's views of these deities changed over time, and with those changes, we will examine how the faiths evolved.
No concept of God or religion exists in a vacuum. Ideas and beliefs build on previous ideas and beliefs, combining to form new insights and forms of worship. Customs change when exposed to other cultures. So, it is that religions and their gods grow and evolve as one religion or culture meets another. What and who God is has changed and morphed in time with these expanding views. What we see as God's focus and strength change according to what a tribe or nation needs at the time.
To begin our study, we must go back to a time before there were Jews, Christians, or Muslims. In the primitive mind of man, there was God. Whether God was conceived or recognized is a matter for discussion.
©2016 Joseph Lumpkin (P)2018 Joseph Lumpkin
The Prodigal Church
Summary
"In the beginning the church was a fellowship of men and women centering on the living Christ. Then the church moved to Greece where it became a philosophy. Then it moved to Rome where it became an institution. Next, it moved to Europe, where it became a culture. And, finally, it moved to America where it became an enterprise." (Richard Halverson)
Most would agree that the modern church has become a disgraceful place, which still houses an eternal truth. Even when faced with this knowledge it is difficult to break away from our traditions. How do we rescue our own spirituality from the church? We shall cut tradition away from truth and let truth stand on its own. Tradition is a prison housing truth and religion is the hangman of spirituality. Both truth and spirit can be rescued with the courage to question and still believe.
We will attempt to use the "double-edged approach" of faith in God and historical-political scrutiny of the church. The errors of religion are placed along side the beauty of the spiritual view of the mystical church. It is hoped that such a dual approach may lend itself to a more balanced view while mimicking the feelings many of us now harbor for the modern church.
We come to the church with fear and disdain of its judgment and greed, all the while seeking God's love and mercy. When the truth is revealed God can still be seen in the rumble of what has become the church. He is beckoning the individual soul. The personal path is made clear in this audiobook.
©2010 Joseph Lumpkin (P)2018 Joseph Lumpkin
The Odessa Legacy (Volume 1)
Summary
A world-weary man finds his career and personal life in shambles. To make matters worse, his wife has engaged in a rather heated affair with an attorney - a fact he discovers when his wife accidentally calls home and gives him a ringside seat to just how heated things are. Broke, disenchanted and numb, Rick takes a vacation he cannot afford to sort out his life, if possible. Vacationing in a run-down resort on a shark-infested island in the Caribbean, he goes exploring against the advice of a local preacher who isn’t really a preacher at all, but a former British undercover agent with a secret - a secret that Rick discovers while exploring, quite by accident and that will change his life forever; a secret that spans a century, beginning in a darkened chamber of the Kaisers palace to a dank bunker in war-torn Berlin and ending in a musty church where the Odessa Legacy is reawakened.
©2016 Dr. Richard L. Bend Jr. (P)2018 Dr. Richard L. Bend Jr.
Unblinded
Summary
Unblinded is the true story of New Yorker Kevin Coughlin, who became blind at age 36 due to a rare genetic disorder known as Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Twenty years later, without medical intervention, Kevin's sight miraculously started to return. He is the only known person in the world who has experienced a spontaneous, non-medically assisted regeneration of the optic nerve. Unblinded follows Kevin's descent into darkness and his unexplained reemergence to sight. "...An inherently fascinating read from beginning to end, Unblinded is an extraordinary story of an extraordinary man." (Midwest Book Review)
©2018 Traci Medford-Rosow and Kevin Coughlin (P)2018 Traci Medford-Rosow and Kevin Coughlin