Other Practices category: 2998 books
by Joscelyn Godwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2005
The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance recounts the almost untold story of how the rediscovery of the pagan, mythological imagination during the Renaissance brought a profound transformation to European culture. This highly illustrated book, available for the first time in paperback, shows that the pagan...
Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Maya
The Sacred Book of the Maya
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
The Popol Vuh is the most important example of Maya literature to have survived the Spanish conquest. It is also one of the world’s great creation accounts, comparable to the beauty and power of Genesis.
Most previous translations have relied on Spanish versions rather than the original K’iche’-Maya...
Angel in Goggles
Earthly Scriptures
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Angel’s earthly scriptures regard the earth from personal, secular perspectives. Like the Christian Bible, its canon admits a surprising variety of forms and lengths: There are Stories: a fateful lapse of weather-ethics; the confl ict between private and public property, the latter including humans...
The Secret Founding of America
The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for the New World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607. The Secret Founding of America...
Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail
Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Why do so many evangelicals flock to liturgical traditions today? An updated edition of the classic study.
With new testimonies from evangelicals who have joined the Anglican fold and discussion of the emerging/missional church movement, and an update to the conversation by evangelical scholar...
Welcome to Sunday
An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
The perfect book for newcomers who are often confused by the worship service, Welcome to Sunday is also an excellent book for those who have been sitting in the pews without fully understanding what happens on Sunday morning. Episcopal priest Christopher Webber takes the reader from the sidewalk outside...
In the Devil's Snare
The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had...
by Mark Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practise theology in their various contexts. It is a clear, insightful, and reliable guide which avoids technical jargon and roots its discussions in concrete examples. The book is primarily a work of historical theology, which...
Our Church
A Personal History of the Church of England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead. It offers its sacraments to a population that lives without rites of passage, and which regards the National Health Service rather than the National Church...
In Search of Authority
Anglican Theological Method from the Reformation to the Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Anglican theology has been a hotbed of debate about the
issue of authority since the Reformation. What do we really appeal to when
attempting to decide matters of doctrine, worship, ministry or ethics? The
debate is very much alive today, between Evangelical, Liberal and Catholic
Anglicans around...
Enlightenment and Modernity
The English Deists and Reform
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
The writers known as the English deists were not simply religious controversialists, but agents of reform who contributed to the emergence of modernity. This title claims that these writers advocated a failed ideology which itself declined after 1730. It argues for an evolution of their ideas into a more modern form.
by Frank Sargeant
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Peter Green is a legend in the Diocese of Manchester, and a figure held up as an example, whose writing featured in my confirmation preparation long ago. His writings emphasise the need for the Anglo-Catholic faith and devotion to go hand in hand with evangelism, resulting in personal commitment to...
The English Deists
Studies in Early Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Interprets the works of an important group of writers known as 'the English deists'. This title argues that this interpretation reads Romantic conceptions of religious identity into a period in which it was lacking. It contextualizes these writers within the early Enlightenment, which was multivocal, plural and in search of self definition.
Battling the Gods
Atheism in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh...