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Religious Imaginaries
The Liturgical and Poetic Practices of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Adelaide Procter
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
Religious Imaginaries explores liturgical practice as formative for how three Victorian women poets imagined the world and their place in it and, consequently, for how they developed their creative and critical religious poetics. In doing so, this new study rethinks several assumptions in the field:...
by Tony Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2018
The Bible teaches us that we are to contend for the faith that was given to us once and for all (Jude 3). Many critics of the Christian faith have emerged. The essential tenets of Christianity are being challenged at many, if not most, prominent universities in the U. S. and abroad. Ministers in training...
Sports and Christianity
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
This interdisciplinary text examines the sports-Christianity interface from Protestant and Catholic perspectives. In addition to a "systematic review of literature," field-pioneering contributors such as Michael Novak, Shirl Hoffman, Joseph Price and Robert Higgs address a wide range of...
The Divine Magician
The Disappearance of Religion and the Discovery of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
In this mind-bending exploration of traditional Christianity, firebrand Peter Rollins turns the tables on conventional wisdom, offering a fresh perspective focused on a life filled with love.
Peter Rollins knows one magic trick—now, make sure you watch closely. It has three parts: the Pledge,...
by J. Gresham Machen
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
AN account of personal experiences may be interesting for one or two reasons: (1) because the writer is in some way remarkable; (2) because, not being at all remarkable, he may be able to set forth in a concrete way the experience of a considerable body of men. It is for the latter reason, if at all,...
by Arthur Lillie
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2015
A volume that proves that much of the New Testament is parable rather than history will shock many readers, but from the days of Origen and Clement of Alexandria to the days of Swedenborg the same thing has been affirmed. The proof that this parabolic writing has been derived from a previous religion...
by Terry Swan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Welcome to A Faith Called Christianity.
Why is it that there are over two billion adherents to this all-encompassing belief system?
Why do the teachings of Jesus Christ still significantly impact the earth?
Why is the Bible still perennially the best selling book in the world?...
Queering Christianity: Finding a Place at the Table for LGBTQI Christians
Finding a Place at the Table for LGBTQI Christians
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
A fascinating read for anyone seeking to understand the conflict between Christianity and LGBTQI individuals, this book is, as its editors proclaim, "a fearlessly wide vision of queer Christians finding a place within Christianity—and claiming their authentic experience and voice."
ABCs of Christianity
An Outline for Living in the "Now" and Relating to God
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
THE ABCs OF CHRISTIANITY is a concise summary of the fundamental principles of the religion of Jesus, presented so today's generation will understand the Bible and experience the gift of knowing God.
Yes, this is Grandma's religion. The underpinnings are the same rock solid concepts taught...
Orthodox Christianity in Imperial Russia
A Source Book on Lived Religion
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
From sermons and clerical reports to personal stories of faith, this book of translated primary documents reveals the lived experience of Orthodox Christianity in 19th- and early 20th-century Russia. These documents allow us to hear the voices of educated and uneducated writers, of clergy and laity,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Winner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award
The collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist...
Byzantine Christianity
A Very Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
‘. . . I have sailed the seas and come
To the holy city of Byzantium.’
W. B. Yeats
From the foundation of Constantinople in 330 to its fall in 1453, this brief history explores the key components of Byzantine Christianity, including the development of monasticism, icons and iconoclasm,...
by Alvin J. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people todayhave little sense of how their lives have benefited fromChristianity’s influence, often viewing the church withhostility or resentment.How Christianity Changed the World is a topicallyarranged...
by John Ankerberg, Sandra Tanner, Lynn Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Is Mormonism the only true church and all of Christianity wrong? Being “temple worthy” is an important practice in the Mormon tradition, but do promises made in this process stand inconsistent with biblical Christianity? What about Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church? How did he receive...