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by William Wilberforce
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2006
Just in time for the release of Amazing Grace, the movie about the life of William Wilberforce. This edition of his classic book from 1797, Real Christianity, is paraphrased in modern language and made more accessible to contemporary readers. This is the book that helped abolish the slave trade in...
by Frances Young
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
This collection of articles first brings together a number of working papers which were significant in the development of Frances Young's understanding of patristic exegesis, studies not included in her ground-breaking book, Biblical Exegesis and the Formation of Christian Culture (1997), though paving...
Christianity and the Culture of Relativism in the Anthropologies of Joseph Ratzinger and Stanley Hauerwas
(Rediscovering the Truth of Christianity)
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Joseph Ratzinger rates relativism as the greatest challenge of the Church today. What he describes is not a new phenomenon but his theology highlights its origins and magnitude. Stanley Hauerwas fights the same battle on the Protestant side. This book attempts to discover and streamline their deliberations,...
Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity
Continuity, Family Dynamics and the Rise of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
In Late Antiquity the emergence of Christian asceticism challenged the traditional Greco-Roman views and practices of family life. The resulting discussions on the right way to live a good Christian life provide us with a variety of information on both ideological statements and living experiences...
Medieval Christianity
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign—a miraculous, brutal, and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the Inquisition, the Crusades and the domination of the “Holy Land” come to mind. Yet the medieval world produced much that is part of our world...
Simple Faith
Biblical Christianity in the Culture of Religions and Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Man shares his 'Faith' in book
A simpler approach to the Bible
January 2, 2012
By Jason Raiche (jraiche@dailypress.net) , Daily Press
ESCANABA - Escanaba resident and Swedish native Bo Lange has recently released a book on Christian faith, now available online.
The book, called "Simple...
The Formation of Christianity in Antioch
A Social-Scientific Approach to the Separation between Judaism and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2003
Magnus Zetterholm uses theoretical insights from the social sciences to deal with the complex issues raised by the parting of Judaism and Christianity, and the accompanying rise of Christian anti-Semitism in ancient Antioch.
Unlike previous attempts to solve this problem have focused mainly...
by C. Matthew McMahon, Henry Hammond
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2015
Henry Hammond (1605-1660) was one of the most popular English Divines in his day, even being invited to sit on the Westminster Assembly of divines. The Christian must have an intellectual handle on everything that comes up against the Christian faith in order to glorify Jesus Christ as a faithful witness...
by John Neville Figgis
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
When one civilization has fallen and another is in its birth throes, people are apt to be seduced by the rushlights of a false leadership. The mind and mood of such a time of transition are intensely puzzling and those who would meet its needs must have insight and vision. The Epistle to the Hebrews...
by Emanuel Swedenborg
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
This work contains a summary of the doctrines of the Catholic and Protesant churches, and amazingly, from an analysis of the decrees from the Council of Trent and the the propositions of the Formula of Concord of the Protestants, Swedenborg shows how the the basic underlying theology of these two...
Holy Jumpers
Evangelicals and Radicals in Progressive Era America
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2010
In this groundbreaking book, William Kostlevy presents a fascinating study of the Metropolitan Church Association (MCA), a religious community founded in Chicago in the early 1890s. The MCA was one of the most controversial societies of the era. Its members were called "jumpers" because of their acrobatic...
Queer Theology
Beyond Apologetics
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
What do Christianity and queerness have to do with each other? Can Christianity be queered? Queer Theology offers a readable introduction to a difficult debate. Summarizing the various apologetic arguments for the inclusion of queer people in Christianity, Tonstad moves beyond inclusion to argue for...
Almost Christian:What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
What the Faith of Our Teenagers is Telling the American Church
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Based on the National Study of Youth and Religion--the same invaluable data as its predecessor, Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers--Kenda Creasy Dean's compelling new book, Almost Christian, investigates why American teenagers are at once so positive about Christianity...
Christian Encounters with Iran
Engaging Muslim Thinkers after the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2011
The interface between the current Shi'ite landscape and Christian thinking is of the greatest significance for the shifting political and religious dynamics of the Middle East. Sasan Tavassoli here examines Iranian Shi'ite thinkers' encounters with Christian thought since the Islamic revolution of...