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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
As celebrations of the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's initiation of the most dramatic reform movement in the history of Christianity approach, 47 essays by historians and theologians from 15 countries provide insight into the background and context, the content, and the impact of his...
Saint Kateri
Lily of the Mohawks
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
This authoritative account of the first Native American woman to be declared a saint by the Church is sure to inspire you. Discover an extraordinary young woman who was called by Pope Blessed John Paul II, God's "bountiful gift" to His Church and a "sweet, frail yet strong figure of a young woman...
The Devil's Redemption : 2 volumes
A New History and Interpretation of Christian Universalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Will all evil finally turn to good, or does some evil remain stubbornly opposed to God and God's goodness? Will even the devil be redeemed? Addressing a theological issue of perennial interest, this comprehensive book (in two volumes) surveys the history of Christian universalism from the second to...
The Intellectual Crisis in English Catholicism
Liberal Catholics, Modernists, and the Vatican in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
This volume, first published in 1982, examines the attempts of English liberal Catholics to reconcile their Church with secular culture and provides an account of the development of liberal Catholicism in England in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This work was written not only...
The Lost Gospel
The Quest for the Gospel of Judas Iscariot
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2006
Judas Iscariot.
He’s been hated and reviled through the ages as Jesus Christ’s betrayer– the close friend who sells him out for 30 pieces of silver.
But history also records other information about Judas Iscariot. One such reference was written in 180 by an influential Church Father...
THE CHURCH COMMUNITY IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Evangelism and Engagement with Postmodern People
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
Once upon a time, Postmodernism was a buzz word. It pronounced Modernism dead or at least in the throes of death. It was a wave that swept over Christendom, promising to wash away sterile, dogmatic and outmoded forms of church. But whatever happened to postmodernism? It was regarded as the start of...
Forgetful of Their Sex
Female Sanctity and Society, ca. 500-1100
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
In this remarkable study of over 2,200 female and male saints, Jane Schulenburg explores women's status and experience in early medieval society and in the Church by examining factors such as family wealth and power, patronage, monasticism, virginity, and motherhood. The result is a unique depiction...
by John Bunyan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
John Bunyan (28 November 1628 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church...
by John Bunyan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
John Bunyan (28 November 1628 31 August 1688) was an English Christian writer and preacher, famous for writing The Pilgrim's Progress. Though he was a Reformed Baptist, in the Church of England he is remembered with a Lesser Festival on 30 August, and on the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church...
City of Christian Love
The History and Importance of Nazareth
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
City of Christian Love provides a detailed history of Nazareth from the dawn of the Christian Era until today with special focus on the religious communities found in this sacred city, including both the periods of tension and the periods of profound interreligious partnership and solidarity.
by Serenhedd James
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, George Errington (1804-1886) was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. He was involved in the resurgence of the English Catholic Church, and would have achieved the highest offices himself had not a dispute between...
by James Aitken Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2018
This eBook edition of "The History of Protestantism (Complete 24 Books in One Volume)" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "The History of Protestantism, which we propose to write, is no mere history of dogmas. The teachings...
A Reconciled Community of Suffering Disciples
Aspects of a Contextual Somali Ecclesiology
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Church members among the ethnic Somali population in the Horn of Africa constitute a culturally marginalized and persecuted minority. Despite more than a hundred years of Protestant missionary efforts, the growth of the church has remained slow and protracted. The very concept of «Somali Christian»...
by Alfred Edersheim
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2016
Alfred Edersheim was a Jewish convert to Christianity who wrote a massive multi-volume tome on the history of the Bible.
From the preface:
"THE history of Israel, viewed as the Theocracy, or Kingdom of God, consists of three periods:
First, that under...