General Christianity category: 9124 books
by Ken Kapreilian
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2019
Newly revised for 2019. Since Jesus Christ has chosen not to over-come conflicts during his time on earth. Then the following question must be asked; “Is it realistic to think that we can over-come conflict during our time?” No it is not. But still, there is such a thing as the desire for order...
World Christianity Encounters World Religions
A Summa of Interfaith Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Synthesizing the thinking of the most prominent scholars, Professor Edmund Chia discusses practically everything that should be known about Christianity’s encounter with other religions in this comprehensive book. Topics include:
the invention of the idea of World Religions and World Christianity
the...
The Trouble with Christianity
A Psychological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
In this book, using Eric Fromm’s distinction between Humanistic and Authoritarian Religions whose implications for Christianity the author explored at some length in his recently published /The Two Faces of Christianity/, he identifies what he believes to be the fundamental psychopathology which has...
Christ's Resurrection in Early Christianity
and the Making of the New Testament
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Why is the Resurrection of Christ so remote, almost non-existent in many early Christian writings of the first 140 years of Christianity? This is the first Patristic book to focus on the development of the belief in the Resurrection of Christ through the first centuries A.D. By Paul, Christ's Resurrection...
Christianity and the University Experience
Understanding Student Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
What impact does the experience of university have on Christian students? Are universities a force for secularisation? Is student faith enduring, or a passing phase? Universities are often associated with a sceptical attitude towards religion. Many assume that academic study leads students away from...
Christianity and the Brain
Volume I: <Br>Faith and Medicine in Neuroscience Care
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2007
What are the basic understandings of the brain, the mind, and the soul of near-death experiences? In the first of three volumes, Christianity and the Brain, Volume 1: Faith and Medicine in Neuroscience Care delves into the fascinating aspects of the human brain-God's hidden treasure-and its development.
Inspired...
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures
The Revised and Updated Translation of Sacred Gnostic Texts Complete in One Volume
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2010
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures, edited by Marvin Meyer, is the most complete, up-to-date, one-volume, English-language edition of the renowned library of Gnostic manuscripts discovered in Egypt in 1945, which rivaled the Dead Sea Scrolls find in significance. It includes the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel...
The Pocket Book of What, When and Who on Earth
Fascinating Facts about Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
A compendium of fascinating information about Christianity, including important plants, symbolic animals, common variations on the cross, and much more
A concise and convenient book about Christianity, this pocket book is perfectly formatted for anyone interested in learning more...
Days of Awe and Wonder
How to Be a Christian in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Showcasing some of his most enduring and insightful writings, including many previously unpublished works, a concise and illuminating introduction to Marcus J. Borg, the late spokesman for progressive Christianity and one of the most revered and influential theologians of our time.
In his acclaimed...
Christianity for the Rest of Us
How the Neighborhood Church Is Transforming the Faith
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
For decades the accepted wisdom has been that America's mainline Protestant churches are in decline, eclipsed by evangelical mega-churches. Church and religion expert Diana Butler Bass wondered if this was true, and this book is the result of her extensive, three-year study of centrist and progressive...
A New Christianity for a New World
Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In his bestselling book Why Christianity Must Change or Die, Bishop John Shelby Spong described the toxins that are poisoning the Church. Now he offers the antidote, calling Christians everywhere into a new and radical reformation for a new age. Spong looks beyond traditional boundaries to open new...
by Nancy Koester
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
The history of Christianity in the United States is a fascinating and lively story. In this revised and expanded account, Nancy Koester introduces students to the major events and movements that influenced the tradition.
This comprehensive and highly accessible overview of Christian history...
Simply Christian
Why Christianity Makes Sense
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Not since C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity has such a wise and informed leader taken the time to explain what Christianity is and how it is practiced. In Simply Christian, renowned biblical scholar and Anglican bishop N.T. Wright makes a case for Christianity from the ground up. Walking the reader...
by Emanuel Swedenborg
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2014
The Spiritual Diary of Emanuel Swedenborg is a five volume work containing the private account of Emanuel Swedenborg's spiritual experiences in heaven and hell, which he experienced in full waking visions over a 27 year period. The Diary contains a chronological account of what he saw and experienced,...