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Reading a Different Story (Turning South: Christian Scholars in an Age of World Christianity)
A Christian Scholar's Journey from America to Africa
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Christianity's demographics, vitality, and influence have tipped markedly toward the global South and East. Addressing this seismic shift, a noted Christian literary scholar recounts how her focus has shifted from American to African literature.
Susan VanZanten began her career working on nineteenth-century...
by Theodore Austin-Sparks
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
I am well aware that what will be said will represent for multitudes of Christians today no less an upheaval and revolution than that which was presented at the beginning by the transition from Judaism to a fully-fledged Christianity as presented by the Apostles when they were through that transition...
by James Orr
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
It is unnecessary at the commencement of these lectures to do more than refer to the changes which, within the last few decades, have taken place in the spirit and methods of the treatment of Church History. If there was a time within living memory when the charge could justly be brought against this...
Hard, Hard Religion
Interracial Faith in the Poor South
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle. Beneath the well-documented...
The New Filmgoer's Guide to God
From The Passion of Joan of Arc to Philomena
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
Tim Cawkwell’s knowledge and experience of the cinema has been poured into his writings about it. Originally published in 2004, this new edition sees some substantial revisions: some previous material has been dropped and a lot of new material has been added, especially on more recent films. The...
by Peter Dunoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
After his graduation from Drew University in 1892, Peter Dunov (Bulg. Петър Дънов/Беинса Дуно; Cz. Petar Danov; Ger. Petar Danow; Gr. Πέταρ Ντένωφ; Heb. פטר דנוב; Eng. Peter Deunov of the White Brotherhood)/ (long before he became known as Douno Bensa or the...
Is Christianity Sensible?
The Christian's Defence and Answers to the Critics of the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
Is the Christian faith an intelligent faith; Have Christians got some cogent proofs that Christ is the only true mediator between God and man; That the Bible is God's only true source of revelation to mankind; That God truly exists and Christianity can truly lead all genuine believers to heaven? This...
A Case for Christianity
Establishing a Foundation for Faith
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Becoming a Christian is easy, in the sense that there is no application to be completed, no rigorous training program, no requirement to matriculate through a series of classes, or any certifications to obtain. However, in the simplicity of becoming a Christian we often fail to understand some of...
by Jonathan Dymond
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
"Wars are often promoted from considerations of interest, as well as from passion. The love of gain adds its influence to our other motives to support them, and without other motives, we know that this love is sufficient to give great obliquity to the moral judgment, and to tempt us to many crimes....
by Jeremy M. Schott
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early...
The New Shape of World Christianity
How American Experience Reflects Global Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
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Eastern Orthodox Christianity and American Higher Education
Theological, Historical, and Contemporary Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Over the last two decades, the American academy has engaged in a wide-ranging discourse on faith and learning, religion and higher education, and Christianity and the academy. Eastern Orthodox Christians, however, have rarely participated in these conversations. The contributors to this volume aim...
by Otto F. A. Meinardus
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought according to tradition by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. Since its split...
Faith of the Ages
The Hebraic Roots of the Christian Faith
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
For centuries, most Christians have believed that Jesus was a fair-skinned, blue-eyed Gentile, and that because the New Testament was written in Greek the study of its Greek roots should take priority over the study of the Hebrew Scriptures. In recent decades, those conceptions have begun to change....