Church History category: 3031 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity discusses the diverse cultural destinies of early Christianity, early Judaism, and other ancient religious groups as a question of social rivalry.
The book is divided into three main sections. The first section debates...
The Knights Hospitaller
A Military History of the Knights of St John
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2016
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervour and discipline made them an elite component of...
by John Pollen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
The Counter-Reformation in Scotland is a history of religion in Scotland from 1533-1658.
by Eugene Lawrence
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2012
Leo and Luther is a brief, well annotated history of the reformation and the clash between the two leaders of the religious world during the reformation.
Moral Combat
How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
From an esteemed scholar of American religion and sexuality, a sweeping account of the century of religious conflict that produced our culture wars
Gay marriage, transgender rights, birth control--sex is at the heart of many of the most divisive political issues of our age. The origins of these...
The Blessings of Business
How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2016
The Book of Matthew cautions readers that "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." But for at least a century conservative American Protestants have been trying to prove that adage wrong. In The Blessings of Business, Darren E. Grem argues that while preachers, activists, and politicians have all...
Theology, Creation, and Environmental Ethics
From Creatio Ex Nihilo to Terra Nullius
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Winner of the John Templeton Award for Theological Promise, 2009
This book argues that the Christian doctrine of creatio ex nihilo (creation out of nothing) sets up a support system for a "logic of domination" toward human and earth others. Conceptually inspired by the work of theologian...
Organized Freethought
The Religion of Unbelief in Victorian England
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This title, first published in 1987, explores the phenomenon of militant freethought among England’s working classes from 1840-1870. In particular, it is an effort to explain the peculiarly theological and evangelistic overtones of much Victorian working class radicalism, and the resulting emergence...
by William Reed Huntington
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
William Reed Huntington (September 20, 1838 – July 26, 1909) was an American Episcopal priest and author.
by E. A. Wallis Budge
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
The Book of the Cave of Treasures
translated from the Syriac by E. A. Wallis Budge
And in the days of Nimrod, the mighty man (or giant), a fire appeared which ascended from the earth, and Nimrod went down, and looked at it, and worshipped it, and he established priests to minister there, and...
The Sacred Journey
Pilgimage to the Stations of the Cross in Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
This volume takes the reader on a personal pilgrimage to the Jerusalem of Christ. It vividly depicts the most holy places of His last days on earth, culminating with the fourteen Stations of the Cross. This carefully researched, scholarly presentation brings the story of the Passion into vivid focus....
Signs of Virginity
Testing Virgins and Making Men in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Although the theme of bloodied nuptial sheets seems pervasive in western culture, its association with female virginity is uniquely tied to a brief passage in the book of Deuteronomy detailing the procedure for verifying a young woman's purity; it seldom, if ever, appears outside of Abrahamic traditions....
Introduction to the History of Christianity
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Combining the accuracy and readability of the first edition of this highly acclaimed text, Dowley has enhanced the second edition with new contributions from Pheme Perkins on “The Thought-World of Early Christianity” and Richard Burridge on “Jesus and the Gospels” as well as updated and revised...
The Family Tree of Jesus
The Master List That Leads to the Master
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Are the Old and New Testament accounts of Jesus lineage contradictory or complimentary?
Is the family tree of Jesus a calendar, and what may it tell us about our own generation?
Why was Adam old at 900, Abraham old at 150, and David an old man at only 70?
How long is a Biblical...