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Where to Now Saint Paul?
Why We’Re Quitting Church
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The Church is Dying.  Is Christianity Dying?
Absolutely Not!
The Baptists expect to lose half their churches in the next 20 years. They revamp their message, but nothing works because they cant face the real problem that plagues all churches.
According...
The Decline of Established Christianity in the Western World
Interpretations and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
While Church attendance in the West is often cited as being in decline, it is argued that this applies primarily to the older established forms of Christianity. Other expressions of the faith are, in fact, stable or even growing. This volume provides multidisciplinary interpretations of and responses...
Twelve Step Christianity
The Christian Roots & Application of the Twelve Steps
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Twelve Step Christianity teaches Christians in recovery to connect their faith with their program--and shows any Christian a clear path to a more intimate relationship with Christ.
Genuine Christianity is more than a set of beliefs--it is a relationship with Jesus Christ that involves hearing...
by Abbot George Burke
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2018
The unique story of Jesus, Saint Thomas his Apostle, and how the Dharma of India became part of Saint Thomas Christianity
"Original Christianity" is the teaching of both Jesus of Nazareth and his Apostle Saint Thomas in India. Although it was new to the Mediterranean world, it was...
True Christianity
It May Not Be What You Think (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2015
True Christianity: It May Not Be What You Think seeks to define true Christianity and to help persons progress toward practicing it.
The second edition of the book contains seven new chapters, making a total of 51. In addition, the second edition includes several...
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity
A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 1996
While historians of Christianity have generally acknowledged some degree of Germanic influence in the development of early medieval Christianity, Russell goes further, arguing for a fundamental Germanic reinterpretation of Christianity. This first full-scale treatment of the subject follows a truly...
by K.A.G. Thackerey
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In his new book The Christianity Myth, K.A.G. Thackerey examines what little we know about first-century Christianity. He also examines what little we think we know about first-century Christianity. He concludes that there are two ways of explaining how Christianity started. One way is the traditional...
by Robert A. Markus
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2006
The history of Christianity has been marked by tension between ideas of sacred and secular, their shifting balance, and their conflict. In Christianity and the Secular, Robert A. Markus examines the place of the secular in Christianity, locating the origins of the concept in the New Testament and...
by Olivia Harris, Cecilia Busby, David Mosse
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell...
by David Fontana
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Is Christianity good for you? An interesting question when we consider that so much of Western culture is largely founded upon Christian thought and beliefs, and that Christianity is still a potent, if in many cases an indirect, influence upon how we live our lives. If Christianity is good for people...
Christianity and the World
Essays Philosophical, Historical and Cultural
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Illiteracy regarding Christianity’s impact upon the world is hardly limited to non-Christians. It is endemic throughout our culture. This mass ignorance is made that much more painful by the fact that, for the better part of the last two millennia, the collective consciousness of what is today known...
Christianity and the State in Asia
Complicity and Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2009
Christianity is one of the most rapidly growing religions in Asia. Despite the challenges of political marginalisation, church organisations throughout much of Asia are engaged in activities - such as charity, education and commentary on public morality - that may either converge or conflict with...
by Nkem Emeghara Udum Adah
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
The study presents to every searching mind a brief history of the coming of Christianity to Nigeria that began in the 1840s, and goes on to examine brief attempts at making the faith attractive and acceptable to the people. This practice of making the faith acceptable to the people came to a head...
Making African Christianity
Africans Reimagining Their Faith in Colonial South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Making African Christianity argues that Africans successfully naturalized Christianity. It examines the long history of the faith among colonial Zulu Christians (known as amaKholwa) in what would become South Africa. As it has become clear that Africans are not discarding Christianity, a number of...