Christianity category: 72568 books
by Students' Academy
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Christianity has developed not only as a religion but as a way of life over the past two millenniums. It is the largest religion in the world, and half of the population of the world is Christian.
There is no doubt that there are various extraordinary complexities, as a religion, in this institution,...
Summary: The Victory of Reason - Rodney Stark
How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Complete summary of Rodney Stark's book: "The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success".This summary of the ideas from Rodney Stark's book "The Victory of Reason" argues that Christianity and its institutions are responsible for the most significant breakthroughs...
by Geoffrey Blainey
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Christianity has played a central role in world history, for better or worse, but beyond the story of Jesus, many people know little of this story. Geoffrey Blainey takes readers on a journey from the very beginnings of Christianity through to the current day. Looking at the development of the religion...
by Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The history of Christianity can seem dauntingly complex: it covers two thousand years and involves virtually every corner of the earth. It has shaped the world as we know it today. The Essential History of Christianity covers both the key historical events and the big picture. Miranda Threlfall-Holmes...
by Samuel Sharpe
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity
by Samuel Sharpe
With Their Influence on the Opinions of Modern Christendom. "When Christians shall at length acknowledge that many of those doctrines, which together now make up orthodoxy, or the religion of the majority, as distinguished from...
The Everything Christianity Book
A Complete and Easy-To-Follow Guide to Protestant Origins, Beliefs, Practices and Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
A complete and easy-to-follow guide to Protestant origins, beliefs, practices, and traditions
Christians make up about one third of the world’s population. Among those two billion followers, over 185 million are of the Protestant faith. What are the differences between Protestant and Catholic?...
Why Christianity and Bible-Belief Makes Sense
Does Faith Give Hope Beyond this Life?
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
SUBTITLE: "Does Faith Give Hope Beyond this Life?" This book contains over 22,000 words and 18 chapters of commentary and opinions about Christian faith and belief in the Holy Bible and how these make sense in today’s world. Among the subjects discussed are the arguments and debates that often...
Border Lines
The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before...
The Christian World
A Global History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2008
In this cogent volume, renowned Christian historian Martin Marty delivers a brief yet sweeping account of Christianity and how it spread from a few believers two thousand years ago to become the world’s largest religion.
Comprising nearly one third of the world’s population–more than...
Sceptical Christianity
Exploring Credible Belief
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
How can Christianity remain a credible religion in our current era of scepticism? Reviving the debates begun by John Robinson and the demythologisation movement over half a century ago, Sceptical Christianity considers the main reasons behind people's religious scepticism and posits the question:...
The Evolution of Faith
How God Is Creating a Better Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
"Noone raises provocative questions about Christianity more kindly than PhilipGulley. " —Diana Butler Bass,author of Christianity for the Rest of Us
“Everyserious Christian ought to read this book, ponder it,wrestlewith it, but above all, be grateful for its presence in today's...
The Celtic Way of Evangelism, Tenth Anniversary Edition
How Christianity Can Reach the West . . .Again
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Celtic Christianity–the form of Christian faith that flourished among the people of Ireland during the Middle Ages– has gained a great deal of attention lately. George G. Hunter III points out that while the attention paid to the Celtic Christians is well deserved, much of it fails to recognize...
by Robert Louis Wilken
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
This sweeping history begins with the life of Jesus and narrates the remarkable story of Christianity as it unfolded over the next thousand years. Unique in its global scope, the book encompasses the vast geographical span of early Christianity, from the regions around the Mediterranean Sea through the...
by Kevin W. Kaatz
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2012
Drawing from primary texts, Early Controversies and the Growth of Christianity reveals how the religion was formed through a series of conflicts that occurred primarily between Christian groups. Presenting a close examination of the first four centuries of Christian history through the lens of the...