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Annie Besant: Contra Christianity
Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
There is no doubt that the majority of people in most parts of the world—save in those in which Buddhism is supreme—believe in the existence of a God. The kind of God may vary indefinitely, but there is generally “some God or other”. Now a growing minority in every civilised country finds...
Icons in the Western Church
Toward a More Sacramental Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Within the Eastern tradition of Christianity, the eikon, or religious image, has long held a place of honor. In the greater part of Western Christianity, however, discomfort with images in worship, both statues and panel icons, has been a relatively common current, particularly since the Reformation....
by Donald H. Carlson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
The pseudo-Clementine writings are one of the most intriguing and valuable sources for early Jewish Christianity. They offer a second- or third-century polemic against the form of Christianity that eventually won out, the Gentile-majority, law-free Christianity that took Paul as its champion. Carlson's...
Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches
A Concise History of the Religious Cultures of Greece from Antiquity to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Covering an expanse of more than three thousand years,Hellenic Temples and Christian Churches charts, in one concise volume, the history of Greece’s religious cultures from antiquity all the way through to present, post-independence Greece.
Focusing on the encounter and interaction between Hellenism...
Colonizing Christianity
Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Era of the Fourth Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
Colonizing Christianity employs postcolonial critique to analyze the transformations of Greek and Latin religious identity in the wake of the Fourth Crusade. Through close readings of texts from the period of Latin occupation, this book argues that the experience of colonization splintered the Greek...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
There is a paradox in American Christianity. According to Gallup, nearly eight in ten Americans regard the Bible as either the literal word of God or inspired by God. At the same time, surveys have revealed gaps in these same Americans' biblical literacy. These discrepancies reveal the complex relationship...
Christianity and Western Thought
Journey to Postmodernity in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Christianity & Western Thought, Volume 1: From the Ancient World to the Age of Enlightenment
The Gospel of Brian McLaren
A New Kind of Christianity for a Multi-Faith World
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
In The Gospel of Brian McLaren, Jeremy Bouma explains and engages the latest teachings of the grandfather of the Emergent Church movement, Brian McLaren.
As a former Emergent Church insider who left the movement after rediscovering the historic Christian faith, Bouma has dedicated his pastoral...
by Gerald Friedlander.
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Elibron Classics. Digitized replica of 1911 edition by George Routledge and Sons, Limited, London. This book is intended, in the first place, as a contribution to comparative theology. An attempt is made to set forth the relation of Christianity to Judaism, not only by way of contrast but also by...
A Shotgun Wedding
The Conflict Between Science and Religion Resolved
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
There is a long history of conflict between religion and science in the discussion of the creation of the earth and everything in it. In A Shotgun Wedding, author Philip S. Radcliffe examines this conflict and debunks the fallacy that there is not room for God in science.
A Shotgun Wedding...
by Larry G. Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This book is the story of two worldviews--humanism and Christianity--that are contending for supremacy in America's central cultural vision. The institutions of American life--religion, government, politics, economics, education, physical and human sciences, family, and popular culture (arts and the...
Why We Should Call Ourselves Christians
The Religious Roots of Free Societies
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The intellectual and political elite of the West is nowadays taking for granted that religion, in particular Christianity, is a cultural vestige, a primitive form of knowledge, a consolation for the poor minded, an obstacle to coexistence. In all influential environments, the widespread watchword...
An Introduction to Pentecostalism
Global Charismatic Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Pentecostalism has become the fastest growing Christian movement, particularly outside Europe, and Allan Heaton Anderson is one of the foremost scholars of this phenomenon. His innovative interpretation of Pentecostalism focuses on the serious contribution made by both western and Majority World participants...
Jesus Before Christ
Restoring a Jewish Context for Being Christian Today
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2013
Jesus was born a Jew, raised as a Jew and died as a Jew. He would never have understood the Christian belief system, because he was not founding a new religion. The earliest followers of Jesus were Jewish and called themselves people of the Way. They constituted a Jewish sect for more than 50 years after...