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The Path of Christianity
The First Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
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Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This volume, originally published in 1987, includes several of Edwards A. Park’s influential essays and sermons, including Connection between Theological Study and Pulpit Eloquence, Duties of a Theologian and Unity Amid Diversities of Belief, Even on Imputed and Involuntary Sin. Edwards Amasa Park,...
by Edwin A. Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Edwin A. Abbott was a well-known 19th century theologian who wrote both novels and religious works about the history of Christianity. This is one of his most famous works.
Taking the World for Jesus
The Remarkable Story of the Greatest Commission
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
This is the account of the most exciting story in all of human history. Something truly remarkable occurred when Jesus Christ rose from the dead and gave His disciples a great commission. The world would never be the same again. Kevin Swanson takes the reader through the 2,000-year, worldwide saga...
Being Christian in Vandal Africa
The Politics of Orthodoxy in the Post-Imperial West
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Being Christian in Vandal Africa investigates conflicts over Christian orthodoxy in the Vandal kingdom, the successor to Roman rule in North Africa, ca. 439 to 533 c.e. Exploiting neglected texts, author Robin Whelan exposes a sophisticated culture of disputation between Nicene (“Catholic”) and...
Abandoned to Lust
Sexual Slander and Ancient Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2005
Early Christians used charges of adultery, incest, and lascivious behavior to demonize their opponents, police insiders, resist pagan rulers, and define what it meant to be a Christian. Christians frequently claimed that they, and they alone were sexually virtuous, comparing themselves to those marked...
An Uncommon Faith
A Pragmatic Approach to the Study of African American Religion
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
With An Uncommon Faith Eddie S. Glaude Jr. makes explicit his pragmatic approach to the study of African American religion. He insists that scholars take seriously what he calls black religious attitudes, that is, enduring and deep-seated dispositions tied to a transformative ideal that compel individuals...
Paul
The Pagan's Apostle
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
A groundbreaking new portrait of the apostle Paul, from one of today’s leading historians of antiquity
Often seen as the author of timeless Christian theology, Paul himself heatedly maintained that he lived and worked in history’s closing hours. His letters propel his readers into two ancient...
The Vikings
From Odin to Christ
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2018
The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping only to ransack monasteries and burn longships. But the violent Vikings of the 8th century became the pious Christians of the 11th century, who gave gold crosses to Christian...
The Murder of Moses
How an Egyptian Magician Assassinated Moses, Stole His Identity, and Hijacked the Exodus
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
An investigation of how Moses was deceived and murdered by his father-in-law, Reuel
• Shows how the magician Reuel staged the Burning Bush that spoke to Moses and assumed Moses’ identity after his murder
• Explains how early scribes edited the Exodus story to cover Moses’ assassination...
Thanks be to God
A History of The Leprosy Mission Australia, 1989-2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2016
In Thanks be to God, Valerie Bock describes some of the changes that have taken place over the last quarter of a century within The Leprosy Mission Australia.
This history continues in the tradition of Percy Turnbull’s A Lifetime of Caring, which records the first 75 years of The Leprosy...
Virgin Nation
Sexual Purity and American Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
First taking hold of the American cultural imagination in the 1990s, the sexual purity movement of contemporary evangelicalism has since received considerable attention from a wide range of media outlets, religious leaders, and feminist critics. Virgin Nation offers a history of this movement that...
by Skene, William F.
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
The Highlanders of Scotland is a two-volume set by William F. Skene. Volume I contains the origin, history, and antiquities of the Higlanders as well as a sketch of their manners and customs. The second is an account of the clans into which they were divided and the state of society that existed among...
Our Southern Zion
A History of Calvinism in the South Carolina Low Country, 1690-1990
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2014
The South Carolina low country has long been regarded--not only in popular imagination and paperback novels but also by respected scholars--as a region dominated by what earlier historians called "a cavalier spirit" and by what later historians have simply described as "a wholehearted...