Christianity category: 72568 books
Chosen among Women
Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2008
Chosen among Women: Mary and Fatima in Medieval Christianity and Shi`ite Islam combines historical analysis with the tools of gender studies and religious studies to compare the roles of the Virgin Mary in medieval Christianity with those of Fatima, daughter of the prophet Muhammad, in Shi`ite Islam....
by Rose Publishing
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
God in Real Life explores:• Tough Questions About Christianity Answers difficult questions about God, Jesus, faith, love, good vs. evil, justice, pain, relationships, and life & death. • World Views ComparisonThis chapter addresses atheism, pantheism, panentheism, deism, finite godism, polytheism,...
The Future of Christianity
Reflections on Violence and Democracy, Religion and Secularization
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
This book offers a mature assessment of themes preoccupying David Martin over some fifty years, complementing his book On Secularization. Deploying secularisation as an omnibus word bringing many dimensions into play, Martin argues that the boundaries of the concept of secularisation must not be redefined...
by Robert Stearns, Chuck Pierce, Larry Kreider
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
Church trends fad or fine?Is the Church trending toward or away from authentic Christianity? Three Christian leaders present and discuss issues that every Christian needs to know.Return to Authentic Christianity is a thorough examination of some of the most critical issues affecting the modern Church.Written...
The Baptized Muse
Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. With the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire increasing numbers of...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Once considered as a Cinderella in church growth and mission in the post-Edinburgh Conference era, the Korean church is given its due in this book. As a guide to Korean Christianity, it contains more than thirty chapters, written by historians, missiologists, sociologists, mission practitioners, pastors,...
by Sharon Young
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2014
There was a time in my life when I found Christianity a mystery. I listened to different preachers and teachers, but there was nothing real to any of it. When I was seven years old I joined a church that seemed very spiritual to me. But there came a time when I needed more. I didn’t know where to...
Rising
The Amazing Story of Christianity's Resurrection in the Global South
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Pundits regularly declare that Christianity is dying. And in a way they are correct. Its golden age of influence is long gone in Western Europe, and similar trends are happening in North America. But while it slowly dies in the West, Christianity has been coming to life in Asia, Africa, and Latin...
Encountering the Mystery
Understanding Orthodox Christianity Today
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2008
As Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew is the symbol of unity for the self-governing national and ethnic Orthodox Christian churches throughout the world. He is well known for his commitment to protecting the environment, and for opening communications with other Christians as well as with Muslims and...
Union Made
Working People and the Rise of Social Christianity in Chicago
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2015
In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the sufferings of the poor not simply by saving their souls, but by transforming society. In Union Made, Heath W. Carter advances a bold new interpretation of the origins of American Social Christianity....
by Mary C. Blowers
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Christianity and Mysticism is a perusal of Christian Mysticism, Rosicrucianism, Hermeticism, Kaballah, psychic mediums, and other topics relating to the spiritual life and death. Four Spiritual Laws of Christianity are linked inside, as well as a link to the author's blog at http://maryblowers.com.
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Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
While the relationship between sport and religion is deeply rooted in history, it continues to play a profound role in shaping modern-day societies. This edited collection provides an inter-disciplinary exploration of this relationship from a global perspective, making a major contribution to the...
Sport, Psychology and Christianity
Welfare, Performance and Consultancy
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
The majority of sport psychology research to date has been underpinned and driven by a secular perspective. There is an urgent need for sport psychologists to better understand the relevance of Christian faith in athletes’ sporting experiences and day-to-day lives in order to improve their performance...
Hipster Christianity
When Church and Cool Collide
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
Insider twentysomething Christian journalist Brett McCracken has grown up in the evangelical Christian subculture and observed the recent shift away from the "stained glass and steeples" old guard of traditional Christianity to a more unorthodox, stylized 21st-century church. This change...