Church State category: 1367 books
A Heart on Fire
Catholic Witness and the Next America
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
"A genuinely Catholic life should feed the soul as well as the mind; should offer a vision of men and women made whole by the love of God, the knowledge of creation, and the reality of things unseen; should enable us to see the beauty of the world in the light of eternity; and should help us...
Faith and Treason
The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2014
In England, November 5 is Guy Fawkes Day, when fireworks displays commemorate the shocking moment in 1605 when government authorities uncovered a secret plan to blow up the House of Parliament--and King James I along with it. A group of English Catholics, seeking to unseat the king and reintroduce...
Holy Lands
Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
When the Ottoman Empire fell apart, colonial powers drew straight lines on the map to create a new region - the Middle East - made up of new countries filled with multiple religious sects and ethnicities. Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, for example, all contained a kaleidoscope of Sunnis, Kurds, Shias, Circassians,...
A Deadly Misunderstanding
Quest to Bridges the Muslim/Christian Divide
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Former Congressman and Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations Mark D. Siljander takes us on an eye-opening journey of personal, religious, and political discovery. In the 1980s, Siljander was a newly minted Reagan Republican from Michigan who joined Congress in the same generation as Newt Gingrich...
by Carl J. Richard
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
The religious beliefs of America’s founding fathers have been a popular and contentious subject for recent generations of American readers. In The Founders and the Bible, historian Carl J. Richard carefully examines the framers’ relationship with the Bible to assess the conflicting claims of those...
Vanishing Grace
Bringing Good News to a Deeply Divided World
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Christians have proclaimed the good news about Jesus for centuries. But the good news isn’t sounding so good these days, at least to some. More and more surveys show that people view Christians as bearers of bad news, judgment, and intolerance.
In Vanishing Grace, bestselling author Philip...
The Sacredness of Human Life
Why an Ancient Biblical Vision Is Key to the World's Future
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This authoritative book is the most comprehensive examination ever of the sacredness of human life. Never before has one volume explored this subject in such a multifaceted way, encompassing biblical roots, theological elaborations, historical cases, and contemporary ethical perspectives.
Tracing...
God's Jury
The Inquisition and the Making of the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
“From Torquemada to Guantánamo and beyond, Cullen Murphy finds the ‘inquisitorial impulse’ alive, and only too well, in our world” (Jane Mayer, author of Dark Money).
Established by the Catholic Church in 1231, the Inquisition continued in one form or another for almost seven hundred...
Ratzinger was afraid
The secret documents, the money and the scandals that overwhelmed the Pope
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
The news of Benedict XVI stepping down has come as a shock.
Perhaps the world will never know the real reasons behind a choice that will forever remain indelibly written in the history of the Church.
The Pope’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, has decided to reveal the thorny issues within the Roman Curia...
Pontiff
The Vatican, the KGB, and the Year of the Three Popes
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The story of Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II—and an assassination plot—by the New York Times–bestselling coauthors of The Day the World Ended.
The Vatican has remained one of the last unexamined mysteries of the modern world. For centuries, pomp and pageantry have hidden from view...
by Jamil Ammar, Songhua Xu
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
This book is designed to provide specialists, spectators, and students with a brief and engaging exploration of media usage by radical groups and the laws regulating these grey areas of Jihadi propaganda activities. The authors investigate the use of religion to advance political agendas and the...
Reclaiming Hope
Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Now with a new afterword from the author. "An important and extremely timely book...Get it, read it, and talk to others about it." --Timothy Keller
In this unvarnished account of faith inside the world’s most powerful office, Michael Wear provides unprecedented insight into the...
Courage to Stand
An American Story
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Long before he was considered a top prospective presidential candidate for 2012—even before he landed on John McCain’s short list of potential running mates in 2008—Governor Tim Pawlenty had already earned legendary status in conservative circles. In his hard-left-leaning home state of Minnesota,...
The Abominations of the Obama-Nation
The Audacity of Ruthless Ambitions Vs. the Hope of God’S Assurance
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Some people use the poor, minorities, and special interest groups as an excuse to take away rights from others who tend to be wealthy, white, or Christian or all of the above.
Betty Sue Prollock, a Christian and an American patriot, seeks to wake people up from their slumber and shine a spotlight...