Wills: 288 books

Book cover of Papal Sin

Papal Sin

Structures of Deceit

by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002

Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. "The truth, we are told, will make us free.   It is time to free Catholics, lay as well as clerical, from the structures of deceit that are our subtle modern form of papal sin.  Paler, subtler, less...
Book cover of Bomb Power

Bomb Power

The Modern Presidency and the National Security State

by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

**From Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills, a groundbreaking examination of how the atomic bomb profoundly altered the nature of American democracy and has left us in a state of war alert ever since. Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.** In...
Book cover of Augustine's Confessions
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011

In this brief and incisive book, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills tells the story of the Confessions--what motivated Augustine to dictate it, how it asks to be read, and the many ways it has been misread in the one-and-a-half millennia since it was composed. Following Wills's biography...
Book cover of What Jesus Meant
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2006

**“Garry Wills brings his signature brand of erudite, unorthodox thinking to his latest book of revelations. . . . A tour de force and a profound show of faith.” (**O, the Oprah Magazine) Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. In what are...
Book cover of What Paul Meant
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007

“If you think you knew Paul, get ready to have all sorts of cherished preconceptions exhilaratingly stripped away. If you've ever been vaguely curious, there is no finer introduction.” (Los Angeles Times) Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What The Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017. In...
Book cover of What the Gospels Meant
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2008

**“A remarkable achievement—a learned yet eminently readable and provocative exploration of the four small books that reveal most of what’s known about the life and death of Jesus.” (Los Angeles Times) Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.** In...
Book cover of At Home in New England

At Home in New England

Royal Barry Wills Architects 1925 to Present

by Richard Wills
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013

The now venerable firm of Royal Barry Wills was founded in a one-room office on Boston's Beacon Street in 1925. Initially fueled by word of mouth and occasional newspaper exposure, the firm gained admiration for Wills’s fresh take on various New England styles, including Georgian, Tudor, French...
Book cover of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Image of God
by Richard W. Wills
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2009

Scholars universally acknowledge the role that Christian belief played in the social movement engendered by Martin Luther King Jr. Yet few have actually delved into the complexity of King's theology itself. The centrality of one aspect of his theology in particular - imago Dei, the belief that human...
Book cover of Why I Am a Catholic
by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2003

An “intellectually satisfying, and spiritually moving,” argument for a questioning, conscience-driven faith, by a New York Times bestselling author (Booklist). Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills has been asked more than once why he remains in the Church, especially in the wake of his bestselling...
Book cover of Outside Looking In

Outside Looking In

Adventures of an Observer

by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010

**"One of the country's most distinguished intellectuals [and] one of its most provocative." -The New York Times Look out for a new book from Garry Wills, What the Qur'an Meant, coming fall 2017.** Bookish and retiring, Garry Wills has been an outsider in the academy, in journalism,...
Book cover of Southern Baptist Seminary 1859-2009
by Gregory A. Wills
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010

With 16.3 million members and 44,000 churches, the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Baptist group in the world, and the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Unlike the so-called mainstream Protestant denominations, Southern Baptists have remained stubbornly conservative,...
Book cover of Why Priests?

Why Priests?

A Failed Tradition

by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013

New York Times–bestselling author Garry Wills provides a provocative analysis of the theological and historical basis for the priesthood In a riveting and provocative tour de force from the author of What Jesus Meant, Pulitzer Prize winner Garry Wills poses the challenging question: Why did...
Book cover of Certain Trumpets

Certain Trumpets

The Nature of Leadership

by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013

This “beautifully written and reasoned” (Booklist) narrative by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills examines what constitutes meaningful leadership, and why it is so essential to society. What makes a leader? How do we identify effective leadership, and how should—and shouldn’t—that...
Book cover of What the Qur'an Meant

What the Qur'an Meant

And Why It Matters

by Garry Wills
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017

America’s leading religious scholar and public intellectual introduces lay readers to the Qur’an with a measured, powerful reading of the ancient text Garry Wills has spent a lifetime thinking and writing about Christianity. In What the Qur’an Meant, Wills invites readers to join him...
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