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This book investigates the 'owner portrait' in the context of late medieval devotional books primarily from France and England. These mirror-like pictures of praying book owners respond to and help develop a growing concern with visibility and self-scrutiny that characterized the religious life of the...

The Book of Revelation has fired the imaginations of theologians, preachers, artists, and ordinary Christians across the centuries. The resulting number of commentaries on the book is enormous, and most studies can only touch upon, at most, a representative sample of this vast literature. As a consequence,...

Joseph Smith, founding prophet and martyr of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, personally wrote, dictated, or commissioned thousands of documents. Among these are several highly significant sources that scholars have used over and over again in their attempts to reconstruct the founding...

This new edition expands and updates the only general interpretation of the rise and influence of perfectionist revivalism in America and Europe. Fifteen years of expanding research on the holiness movement reinforce this volume's continuing seminal value to cultural and social research. The new concluding...

The last fifty years have seen a rediscovery of the role of the visual arts in the lives of all Christians. In tune with this ecumenical age, this book shares the belief that beauty and art can bridge differences, unite people in "shared admiration," and possibly become an instrument of...

One of Canada’s most successful and enduring musical plays, Billy Bishop Goes to War was first published in 1982 and went on to win the Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Award and the Governor General’s Award for Drama. In 2010, the celebrated story of the World War I flying ace – credited with seventy-two...

Includes the following works: 95 Theses, A Treatise of Good Works, Twofold Use of Law & Gospel, The Large Catechism, The Small Catechism, Letter to Several Nuns, The Smalcald Articles, To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Disputation on the Divinity and Humanity of Christ, Preface to the Letter...

Martin Luther (1483-1546) needs no formal introduction, being one of the most recognizable religious figures in history. Luther was a German priest and theologian whose writings and teachings sparked the Protestant Reformation. Born shortly after the invention of the printing press, Luther became one...

The Blessed Effects of the Love of God in the Soul, a sermon by Robert Hawker "And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is she abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us." Romans 5:5 NOTHING can be more evident, from the general scope, and tendency,...

The coming of JESUS as the Saviour of HIS People, a sermon by Robert Hawker From whence we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ. Philippians 3:20 THERE is an infinite degree of sweetness, in those words of the Apostle, as they concern, the true believer in Jesus. From whence...

Religion a Personal Concern, a sermon by Robert Hawker "The Master is come, and calleth for thee." John 11:28 I HAVE been often led to admire, and in that admiration to adore, the divine goodness, when contemplating the wonderful display of grace, which God the Holy Ghost,...

Terry Eagleton’s witty and polemical Reason, Faith, and Revolution is bound to cause a stir among scientists, theologians, people of faith and people of no faith, as well as general readers eager to understand the God Debate. On the one hand, Eagleton demolishes what he calls the “superstitious”...

Contrary to popular opinion, there is more to Sikhism than the distinctive dress. First of all, there is the emergence of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, and the long line of his successors. There are the precepts, many related to liberation through the divine name or nam. There is a particularly...

‘Send Back the Money!’ is a thorough and gripping examination of a fascinating and forgotten aspect of Scottish and American relations and Church history. A seminal period of Abolition activity is exposed by Iain Whyte through a study of the fiery campaign ‘Send back the Money!’ named after...