General Christianity category: 9124 books

Are Masonry and Christianity truly compatible? Using their concise question–and–answer style, noted researchers John Ankerberg and John Weldon look at the basics of the issue, examining Masons’ claims and terminology and asking such critical questions as: Is Freemasonry a religion? What do Masons...

This book is as the result of an e-mail conversation with a person who asked me some questions and one of her questions upon my answer was “What else have they kept from us?” This was the question that led to this book because instead of answering people with small sections of answers I decided the...

Jesus once accused the Pharisees of breaking the commands of God for the sake of their religious traditions. We have done the same. We have held up beliefs and ways of life as more important than the true commands of God. In doing so, we’ve made Christianity about so many different things. We’ve...

Notions of which behaviours comprised sin, and what actions might lead to salvation, sat at the heart of Christian belief and practice in early modern England, but both of these vitally important concepts were fundamentally reconfigured by the reformation. Remarkably little work has been undertaken...

Following Zwingli explores history, scholarship, and memory in Reformation Zurich. The humanist culture of this city was shaped by a remarkable sodality of scholars, many of whom had been associated with Erasmus. In creating a new Christian order, Zwingli and his colleagues sought biblical, historical,...

2 works of Leonard Woolsey Bacon American clergyman, born in New Haven, Connecticut (1830-1907) This ebook presents a collection of 2 works of Leonard Woolsey Bacon. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - 1543 - The Hymns of Martin Luther - 1897 - A History of American Christianity

Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the second and third centuries AD, and is for the...

The story of Christ spread from Jerusalem all through the world known at that time. The farthest distances traveled on the journey were toward the east, and this was first undertaken by the Apostle Thomas. He reached southern India and reminders of his visit still exist. Over the centuries many missionaries...

The story of Christ spread from Jerusalem all through the world known at that time. The farthest distances traveled on the journey were toward the east, and this was first undertaken by the Apostle Thomas. He reached southern India and reminders of his visit still exist. Over the centuries many missionaries...

Mormonism: A Guide for the Perplexed explains central facets of the Mormon faith and way of life for those wishing to gain a clearer understanding of this rapidly growing world religion. As The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continues to grow in the United States and especially in other...

The Spiritual Diary of Emanuel Swedenborg is a 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, his dialogue with angelic beings, and discussions concerning the theology of true Christianity.

It is all about a Person, a rather amazing Person.Amazing Jesus will remind us why Christianity has survived more than 2,000 years and Jesus has more followers today than He has ever had. The most startling news of all was that God took on human form. God became a man and lived among men that...

The author argues that mysticism is not confined to Christianity, but the relation between the soul and Christ is a distinctive mystical experience; and it is specific in this sense, that this relation works out in a certain practice of life and certain development of character. It is this concrete effect of a true Christian mysticism which forms the subject of this book.

Can evangelical Christianity be postmodern? In The Next Reformation, Carl Raschke describes the impact of postmodernism on evangelical thought and argues that the two ideologies are not mutually exclusive. Instead, Christians must learn to worship and minister within the framework of postmodernism...