General Christianity category: 9124 books

Most Christians understand the Reformation from only one perspective. Professor Karl Adam gives a historically sensitive and accurate analysis of the causes of the Reformation that stands as a valid and sometimes unsettling challenge to the presuppositions of Protestants and Catholics alike. This valuable...

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All the major works of St. Augustine are collected in this one book. An active Table of Contents has been compiled to make it easy to navigate. Included are the following works: Confessions Letters City of God Christian Doctrine On the Holy Trinity The Enchiridion On the Catechising...

The Harmony of the Gospels is a book by the 5th century saint, Augustine of Hippo. In the book (which has 4 separate parts) Augustine assumes that Matthew was the first Gospel, followed by Mark and that John was the last. He then analyzes and relates the specific passages between the Gospels,...

This ebook is one in a series of reviews that has been extracted in its entirety from M. James Ziccardi’s The Essence of Medieval Philosophy. It is intended to serve as a primer for students of medieval philosophy with an emphasis on some of the more important works of William of Ockham.

“So that ineverything He might have the supremacy.” —Colossians 1:18 Christians have made the gospel about so many things—thingsother than Christ. Religious concepts, ideas, doctrines, strategies, methods,techniques, formulas, "its" and "things" have all eclipsedthe...

Was Paul’s goal of writing to dictate doctrine, talk about himself or to persuade Gentiles to become believers in the Jewish Messiah in the acharit-hayamim, or End of Days? Did Paul see himself as a religious convert to a new religion, or as a Missionary to Gentiles? Did he see Torah as universally applicable, or did he differences between Jew and Gentile? Christians need to hear this.

From the bestselling author of Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: John Shelby Spong's original groundbreaking classic, now newly revised, reveals the Jesus "behind the language of myth, magic, and superstition." "In this study I found a Lord, a center for my being. Behind...

Mother Teresa of Calcutta was a twentieth-century icon, a living example of the power of love. She is now on the fast track to sainthood. This book marks the 100th anniversary of her birth on August 26th 1910. Irish people feel a special affinity with this tiny Albanian nun but it is often...

Après les attentes déçues à l’université, voici avec ce quatrième tome l’immersion dans les apprentissages de la vie... Apprentissages assez rudes et déstabilisants pour fonder à eux seuls cette quête de l’essentiel qui, à l’instar du Perceval de Chrétien, hante et oriente la vie du jeune héros.

Why is it so often that "the most valuable" gets "the most neglected"? We humans, including me, strangely do this all the time and yet seem to be confused when the end result is far less than we desired it to be. My hope is that "The Heart Is Sacred" brings to us all,...

A deeply thoughtful, deeply irreverent look at the mythology of play, Gods and Games ties together Joseph Campbell's approach to myth and religion with Johan Huizinga's view of our species as Homo ludens — "Man the Game-player" — suggesting that play is a central aspect of the human...

By popular demand—study guides to two of Bishop John Shelby Spong's bestselling and controversial works, including questions, reflections, and summaries for group and individual use.

Basic Human Ethics. Is the Decalogue still valid in the twenty-first century? A perceptive analysis of each precept of the decalogue.