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The Faiths of the Postwar Presidents
From Truman to Obama
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
The Faiths of the Founding Fathers, an acclaimed look at the spiritual beliefs of such iconic Americans as Franklin, Washington, and Jefferson, established David L. Holmes as a measured voice in the heated debate over the new nation’s religious underpinnings. With the same judicious approach, Holmes...
God's Harvard
A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2008
Behind the scenes at Patrick Henry College: “A deft and honest narrative of evangelical education . . . historical background, close observation and skeptical wit” (Publishers Weekly).
One of the Christian Science Monitor’s annual “Books We Liked Best”
Take a walk down the...
The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America
A History in Documents
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011
Whether America was founded as a Christian nation or as a secular republic is one of the most fiercely debated questions in American history. Historians Matthew Harris and Thomas Kidd offer an authoritative examination of the essential documents needed to understand this debate. The texts included...
God and Empire
Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At the heart of the Bible is a moral and ethical call to fight unjust superpowers, whether they are Babylon, Rome, or even America.
From the divine punishment and promise found in Genesis through the revolutionary messages of Jesus and Paul, John Dominic Crossan reveals what the Bible has to...
The Way to the Spring
Life and Death in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
From an award-winning journalist, a brave and necessary immersion into the everyday struggles of Palestinian life
Over the past three years, American writer Ben Ehrenreich has been traveling to and living in the West Bank, staying with Palestinian families in its largest cities and its smallest...
Where God Was Born
A Daring Adventure Through the Bible's Greatest Stories
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
At a time when America debates its values and the world braces for religious war, Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers Walking the Bible and Abraham, travels ten thousand miles through the heart of the Middle East—Israel, Iraq, and Iran—and examines the question: Is religion...
Inventing a Christian America
The Myth of the Religious Founding
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Among the most enduring themes in American history is the idea that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. A pervasive narrative in everything from school textbooks to political commentary, it is central to the way in which many Americans perceive the historical legacy of their nation....
by Eran Shalev
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Bible has always been an integral part of American political culture. Yet in the years before the Civil War, it was the Old Testament, not the New Testament, that pervaded political rhetoric. From Revolutionary times through about 1830, numerous American politicians, commentators, ministers,...
Miracles of the American Revolution
Divine Intervention and the Birth of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Was the birth of the Republic an accident of history or part of a divine plan?Is God on America's side?Is it possible a providential hand intervened at critical junctures during the American Revolution?Larkin Spivey, a decorated Marine Corps officer and respected military professor,...
by John Alberger
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
This edition features a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. CATHOLICISM A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION
CHAPTER II. THE POLITICAL MACHINERY OF THE PAPAL POWER
CHAPTER III. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SOLITUDE
CHAPTER IV. THE MONASTIC VOW OF PERPETUAL SILENCE
CHAPTER V. THE MONASTIC...
by William P. Lazarus, Mark Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Understand the beliefs, customs, and rituals of each faith
The fun and easy way to know the common elements of these widespread religions
Want to know more about the faiths of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? This plain-English guide traces their evolution from their commonorigin -...
Father, Forgive
Reflections on peacemaking
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
For most of his ministry Canon Andrew White has been involved in reconciliation. -The kind of people I engage with are not usually very nice,- he writes. -On the whole, nice people do not cause wars.- In Baghdad he lives daily with violence, and has conducted too many funerals. He knows what peacemaking...
Whose Promised Land
The Continuing Conflict Over Israel and Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2015
The conflict between Israel and the Palestinians has profoundly affected the Middle East for almost seventy years, and shows no sign of ending. With two peoples claiming the same piece of land for different reasons, it remains a huge political and humanitarian problem. Can it ever be resolved? If...
A City Upon a Hill
How Sermons Changed the Course of American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Pivotal moments in U.S. history are indelibly marked by the sermons of the nation's greatest orators. America's Puritan founder John Winthrop preached about "a city upon a hill", a phrase echoed more than three centuries later by President Ronald Reagan in his farewell address to the nation;...