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Liberal Christian theology is a big topic in today's churches and seminaries. But what does liberal theology really mean and why is it so controversial? What does it actually believe about truth, Scripture, and Jesus Christ? And where does it lead?The...

Personal narratives are powerful instruments for teaching, both for conveying information and for forming character. The martyrdom accounts preserved in the literature of early Christianity are especially intense and dramatic. However, these narratives...

Set within a wider socio-political and religious context this book takes a close look at the impact of the 1859 revival on the town of Coleraine on the north coast of Ireland. The salient features of the revival are outlined, the views of supporters as...

Over his illustrious career, Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Ph.D., was internationally regarded as a dean of New Testament scholars. He was Auburn Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He received...

Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991659951Author James M RenihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint RbapPublisher RbapWeight(grams) 440g

This early Anabaptist theologian stood up to the ruling powers, calling for freedom of religion and separation of church and state. During the sixteenth century's tumultuous years of religious reformation and revolution, Pilgram Marpeck consistently...

Church History, Volume One offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and grew from its development in the days of Jesus to the years leading up to the Reformation. Looking closely at the integral link between the history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063062153Author Erin VearncombeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

How the Anglican church responded to population growth and the need for more accommodation, with the building of 1500 new churches, many of the finest quality. This book is the first comprehensive study of late-Georgian church-building. After...

European Pentecostalism was fortunate in having the wise and balanced leadership of the evangelical Anglican Alexander Boddy at its disposal during the formative years of the early 1900s. This well-researched and vivid book tells the story of how Boddy...

Days after the assassination of his prime minister in the middle of Rome in November 1848, Pope Pius IX found himself a virtual prisoner in his own palace. The wave of revolution that had swept through Europe now seemed poised to put an end to the popes'...

The Eastern Christian "Love of the Beautiful" can be a companion on your own spiritual journey A collection of writings by monks from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, the Philokalia more than any other text reflects the Eastern Church's...

This unique biography reveals how C. S. Lewis's adolescent years shaped his later writing-tracing themes such as his delight in literature, his key relationships, his suffering and struggles, and his intense pursuit of joy. Volume 1 of a new trilogy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946307845Author Gerald L BrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint The Latimer TrustPublisher The Latimer TrustWeight(grams) 355gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637161777Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802872562Author W. Bradford LittlejohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400033805Author Charles FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Waterbrook Press (A Division of Random House Inc)Publisher Waterbrook Press (A...

Discover the writings of a leader in the Radical Reformation who sparred with Martin Luther, calling for change "from below." Although he was not an Anabaptist, the life and thought of Radical Reformer Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt...

This classic large print KJV Bible includes center-column references and uses Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print type, which was designed to be the most readable at any size.Enjoy the beauty of the King James Version in a large print format and...

Discovered in a secret Vatican archive, this is the true, never-before-told story of poison, murder, and lesbian initiation rites in a nineteenth century convent. In 1858, Katherina von Hohenzollern, a German princess recently inducted into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621381495Author Christopher A. FerraraFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666748154Author Nicholas DenysenkoFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984880352Author Henry Louis GatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Pamela Dorman BooksPublisher Penguin Adult

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908381125Author Lionel GreenFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 229gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Created as a companion guide to a Patristics textbook, From Nicaea to Chalcedon surveys a variety of writings to have occurred during one of the most significant periods in the formation of the Church, from 265-466. It does not aim to cover the subject...

For the better part of fifteen centuries, Christians read Scripture on two complementary levels, the literal and the spiritual. In the modern period, the spiritual sense gradually became marginalized in favor of the literal sense. The Bible came to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802418029Author Nathan BusenitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Moody PublishersPublisher Moody Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621384557Author Roberto De MatteiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

This revised and expanded volume brings together a carefully-selected collection of primary sources drawn from medieval and sixteenth-century texts. Notable for its comprehensive coverage, it consolidates a broad range of important documents, which until...

Awards 2021 IAN Book of the Year Awards, Finalist, First Non-Fiction 2021 IAN Book of the Year Awards, Finalist, Non-Fiction: Religion/Christian Some scholars have called the Gospel of Thomas "the fifth gospel," joining the four...

For many today the Church stands picturesquely in the background of modern life, but its time-honoured place has always been firmly in the foreground; it has been intimately woven into the unfolding fabric of English society and culture for one and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626543324Author Rutherford PlattFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

This book is a tool for teaching and studying the great Christian classic, Augustine's Confessions. It is a unique venture in which thirteen different scholars look at each of the thirteen books in the Confessions and interpret their chapters in light of...

This series presents, for the first time, a connected history of evangelical movements throughout the English-speaking world, from the 1730s to the 1990s. The five volumes are united by their use of a common definition of evangelicalism that stresses...

This book is one of the great classics of modern church history, and it is now reissued with substantial new material bringing it up to date to the end of the twentieth century. It will continue to be consulted as the first and most essential book for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532697555Author W H C FrendFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505113280Author Charles a CoulombeFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906327583Author Martin DavieFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Latimer TrustPublisher Latimer TrustWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm

"This book will make a profound difference for the church in this moment in history."- The Most Reverend Michael B. CurrySometimes it takes disruption and loss to break us open and call us home to God. It's not surprising that a global pandemic and...