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Beauty Will Save the World: Rediscovering the allure and mystery of Christianity
Rediscovering the allure and mystery of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
In today’s world we have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? For thousands of years, artists, sages, philosophers, and theologians have connected the beautiful and the sacred and identified art with our longing for God. Now we live in a day when...
by Augustine of Hippo,Marcus Dods (Translator)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The City of God (Latin: De Civitate Dei, also known as De Civitate Dei contra Paganos, "The City of God against the Pagans") is a book written in Latin by Augustine of Hippo in the early 5th century, dealing with issues concerning God, martyrdom, Jews, and other Christian philosophies.Augustine wrote...
by Ravi Zacharias
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2010
In 2006, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries (RZIM) held an open forum at the Fox Theater in Atlanta to address the subject: “Has Christianity Failed You?” Tickets were sold for the event and—to the complete surprise of everyone—the event was sold out with a capacity crowd of over 5,000....
The Essence of Christianity
Translated from the second German edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
Example in this ebook
§ 1. The Essential Nature of Man.
Religion has its basis in the essential difference between man and the brute—the brutes have no religion. It is true that the old uncritical writers on natural history attributed to the elephant, among other...
Am I Good Enough?
Preparing for Life's Final Exam
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
I Ask Myself Every Day...“Am I Good Enough?” Christians claim that Jesus is the only way to heaven. But how could a good God, who created the entire universe in all its diversity, be so limiting? Is Christianity unfair? Isn’t it more fitting to believe that good people from any religious or...
Holy Anime!
Japan's View of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2017
Christianity has been in Japan for five centuries, but embraced by less than one percent of the population. It’s a complicated relationship, given the sudden appearance in Japan of Renaissance Catholicism which was utterly unlike the historic faiths of Shinto and Buddhism; Japan had to invent a...
No Sympathy for the Devil
Christian Pop Music and the Transformation of American Evangelicalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
In this cultural history of evangelical Christianity and popular music, David Stowe demonstrates how mainstream rock of the 1960s and 1970s has influenced conservative evangelical Christianity through the development of Christian pop music. The chart-topping, spiritually inflected music created a...
by C. S. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2009
C. S. Lewis was a prolific letter writer, and his personal correspondence reveals much of his private life, reflections, friendships, and the progress of his thought. This second of a three-volume collection contains the letters Lewis wrote after his conversion to Christianity, as he began a lifetime...
The Myth of Persecution
How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture...
Turning Points
Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In this popular introduction to church history, now in its third edition, Mark Noll isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western experience.
Now organized around...
Parade of Faith
A Biographical History of the Christian Church
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Part storybook, part textbook, part historical overview, Parade of Faith in ebook format presents the history of Christianity in riveting fashion. Ruth Tucker adopts the metaphor of a parade, journey, or pilgrimage to explore the history of Christianity, which began as the Messiah marched out of the...
The Spreading Flame
The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginnings to Eighth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1958
This story of the early Christian church – from its infancy to the conversion of the English in about A.D. 800 – pictures a church that is an unquenchable spiritual force organized for tribulation. Its spiritual resources are never stronger than in times of seeming disaster. The book is divided into...
Christianity
An Introduction To The Catholic Faith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
A highly readable and accessible introduction to the Catholic Faith, this eBook, a classic text republished for the Year of Faith, takes the reader through Catholic beliefs about God, Jesus, the Church and how each Christian should live. Suitable in particular for university chaplaincies and youth groups.
by Mike Aquilina
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
We hear the voices of the early Church Fathers even today. Their teachings, their guidance, their insights, and their sacrifice shaped the Catholic Church. They defined the canon of Scripture. They developed our creeds and forms of worship. They defined Christianity's distinctive moral sense.But...