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Masters of Preaching
The Most Poignant and Powerful Homilists in Church History
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
The history of Catholic homiletics is rich and layered with theology and spirituality. Every period of Church history contains preachers who have been blessed with oratorical skills and spiritual depth. They are saints, scholars, bishops, priests, and deacons from the Eastern and Western traditions....
by Socrates Scholasticus
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2012
"The Sacred Writings Of ..." provides you with the essential works among the Early Christian writings. The volumes cover the beginning of Christianity until before the promulgation of the Nicene Creed at the First Council of Nicaea. This work comprises the 'Ecclesiastical History'. Until...
Founding Sins
How a Group of Antislavery Radicals Fought to Put Christ into the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Covenanters, now mostly forgotten, were America's first Christian nationalists. For two centuries they decried the fact that, in their view, the United States was not a Christian nation because slavery was in the Constitution but Jesus was not. Having once ruled Scotland as a part of a Presbyterian...
The Virgin Mary Conspiracy
The True Father of Christ and the Tomb of the Virgin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2005
A convincing and cogent argument refuting the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Church dogma and revealing the true father of Jesus
• Provides historical and archaeological evidence of a tomb of the Virgin Mary
• Introduces the theory that Jesus's father was Antipater, son of Herod
What...
Church, State, and Race
The Discourse of American Religious Liberty, 1750–1900
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750–1900). Discussions of religious liberty in America during this time often revolved around the fitness...
Counterfeit Christianity
The Persistence of Errors in the Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
Historic heresies didn’t die or fade away. Each generation boasts its own. Even while these counterfeit teachings remain outside the accepted bounds of Christianity, modern-day versions plague churches.So how does a church leader or pastor understand and deal with these age-old controversies when...
by Avery Dulles
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In this volume, a noted theologian brings together an ecumenical roster of leading scholars to explore trinitarian faith as it is concretely experienced in the life of the church. Drawing upon and fostering renewed interest in trinitarian theology, the contributors--including Brian E. Daley, John...
Patron Saint and Prophet
Jan Hus in the Bohemian and German Reformations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The Bohemian preacher and religious reformer Jan Hus has been celebrated as a de facto saint since being burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. Patron Saint and Prophet analyzes Hus's commemoration from the time of his death until the middle of the following century, tracing the ways in which both...
So Beautiful
Divine Design for Life and the Church
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
More than 50 years ago scientists made a remarkable discovery, proclaiming, "We have found the secret of life ... and it's so pretty!" The secret was the discovery that life is helixical, two strands wound around a single axis—what most of us know today as the model for DNA.
Over...
Empowering the People of God
Catholic Action before and after Vatican II
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The early 1960s were a heady time for Catholic laypeople. Pope Pius XII’s assurance “You do not belong to the Church. You are the Church” emboldened the laity to challenge Church authority in ways previously considered unthinkable. Empowering the People of God offers a fresh look at the Catholic...
Doubting Thomas?
The Religious Life and Legacy of Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A religious historian argues that historical revisionism has distorted the religious views of Thomas Jefferson, making him appear far more skeptical than he was.
Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers intended a strict separation of church and state, right? He would have been very upset...
by Devon Dick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The Morant Bay Rebellion, otherwise known as the ‘Native Baptist War’ represents an important watershed in Jamaican history. Traditional historiography has often represented the actions of Paul Bogle the hero/villain Baptist Deacon and his followers when they marched on the Morant Bay court house...
Wesleyan-Holiness Churches in Australia
Hallelujah under the Southern Cross
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Most Wesleyan-Holiness churches started in the US, developing out of the Methodist roots of the nineteenth-century Holiness Movement. The American origins of the Holiness movement have been charted in some depth, but there is currently little detail on how it developed outside of the US. This book...