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by Anatole France
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 10, 2014
L’Église de Rome est une puissance à la fois spirituelle et temporelle. Elle fonde ses droits à la souveraineté de l’Univers sur les évangiles canoniques, sur la tradition de l’Église primitive, sur la donation de Constantin, sur les sacrés...
Wenn du nicht brav bist, kommst du ins Heim
Zucht und Unzucht
Language: German
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Herr vergebe Ihnen den sie wissen nicht was sie tun…
Es waren meist nichtige Gründe, die zur Einweisung in die Erziehungsanstalten führten – Gründe, die ein gesellschaftliches Kartell bestimmte, zu dem Jugendbehörden, Gerichte, Lehrer, Nachbarn, Eltern und vor allem...
Stewards of Power
Restoring Africa’s Dignity
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Africa’s national leaders have failed the continent. So have Africa’s church leaders. In Stewards of Power: Restoring Africa’s Dignity, Dwight Mutonono identifies the leadership problems plaguing the continent and appeals for good leadership in the style of the biblical Joseph rather than the...
by Isaac Ezeh
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
ls There A DIVINE PURPOSE For the EXISTENCE of the NATIONS of the WORLD?
Do the disasters happening in different parts of the world indicate an unfolding of God 's end-time agenda for the nations?
In this prophetic book, Barrister Isaac Ezeh takes the reader on a journey into the...
Christian
The Politics of a Word in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Religious diversity has long been a defining feature of the United States. But what may be even more remarkable than the sheer range of faiths is the diversity of political visions embedded in those religious traditions. Matthew Bowman delves into the ongoing struggle over the potent word “Christian,”...
John Owen and the Civil War Apocalypse
Preaching, Prophecy and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum. Using Owen’s sermons from this period as a window into the mind of a self-proclaimed...
Across the Threshold, Into the Questions
Discovering Jesus, Finding Self
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Formatted in much the same way as the original volume, Finding Jesus, Discovering Self, this book includes new encounters with Jesus and his parables and teachings from the Gospel stories in Mark, Matthew, and Luke.
No Establishment of Religion
America's Original Contribution to Religious Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The First Amendment guarantee that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion" rejected the millennium-old Western policy of supporting one form of Christianity in each nation and subjugating all other faiths. The exact meaning and application of this American innovation,...
Chosen Nations
Pursuit of the Kingdom of God and Its Influence on Democratic Values in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
At the heart of the biblical myth of chosenness is the idea that God has blessed a people to be a blessing to others. It is a mission of solemn responsibility. The six British and American thinkers examined in this study embraced the myth of chosenness for their countries, believed that the liberties...
Wyclif
Trialogus
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
John Wyclif is known for translating the Vulgate Bible into English, and for arguing for the royal divestment of the church, the reduction of papal power and the elimination of the friars and against the doctrine of transubstantiation. His thought catalyzed the Lollard movement in England and provided...
by Steven D. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Familiar accounts of religious freedom in the United States often tell a story of visionary founders who broke from centuries-old patterns of Christendom to establish a political arrangement committed to secular and religiously neutral government. These novel commitments were supposedly embodied in...
Religion and Regimes
Support, Separation, and Opposition
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
This work is a collection of essays that describe and analyze religion and regime relations in various nations in the contemporary world. The contributors examine patterns of interaction between religious actors and national governments that include separation, support, and opposition. In general,...
The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth
Restoring Our Democratic Ideals
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
This book is the culmination of a lifelong scholarly inquiry into Christian history, religion as a social institution, and the role of myth in the history of religions. Mack shows that religions are essentially mythological and that Christianity in particular has been an ever-changing mythological engine...
by Teresa Forcades
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe’s leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she came to prominence for her eloquent condemnation of the abuses of some of the world’s biggest...