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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780664238346Author William B Sweetser JrFormat HardbackPage Count 632Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451465525Author Theodore James WhaphamFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Taking up where Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great left off, 24 Reasons to Abandon Christianity reveals Christianity's cruelty, dishonesty, fear-mongering, hypocrisy, misogyny, homophobia, dogmatism, and authoritarianism, and all of the misery,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451497045Author Gregory B. GraybillFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506413556Author Kirsi I. StjernaFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506413532Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506413495Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506432472Author Timothy J. WengertFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451490077Author Robert KolbFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

Anyone with a better than cursory knowledge of politics knows that a people's deepest values - their religious values - are what determine whether a society will prosper or fail. And anyone with a more than cursory knowledge of history knows that there...

The fifty-second volume of Studies in Church History explores the myriad ways in which doubt has tested Christianity and the life of individual Christians. Men and women have always had doubts about ideas, or individual doctrines, if not faith itself;...

Before there was an immigrant American Church, there was a Native American Church. The Native American Catholic Studies Reader offers an introduction to the story of how Native American Catholicism has developed over the centuries, beginning with the age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800698515Author Benedict XVIFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

What does it mean for an historically colonial church to become the "church of the poor" in a world marked by pervasive and persistent coloniality? Re-membering the Reign of God addresses this question through historical and theological reflection on the...

What does it mean for an historically colonial church to become the "church of the poor" in a world marked by pervasive and persistent coloniality? Re-membering the Reign of God addresses this question through historical and theological reflection on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941106327Author Lisa SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Square Halo BooksPublisher Square Halo BooksWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Recent studies on the development of early Christianity emphasize the fragmentation of the late ancient world while paying less attention to a distinctive feature of the Christianity of this time which is its inter-connectivity. Both local and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532637827Author Stuart SquiresFormat HardbackPage Count 366Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498241731Author S T Kimbrough, JrFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The Folly of the Cross is the fourth book in Richard Viladesau's series examining the aesthetics and theology of the cross through Christian history. Previous volumes have brought the story up through the Baroque era. This new book examines the reception...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933184937Author Diane MoczarFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Sophia Institute PressPublisher Sophia Institute PressWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825443152Author Robert PlummerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

In much of the scholarship on Paul, activities such as speaking in tongues, prophecy, and miracle healings are either ignored or treated as singular occurrences. Typically, these practices are categorized in such a way that shields Paul and his followers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925612110Author James FranklinFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint ATF PressPublisher ATF PressWeight(grams) 274g

Between 1776 and the mid-1800s, the number of Baptists in the United States grew at a staggeringrate, rising from fifty thousand at the outbreak of revolution to more than a million as the nationedged toward civil war. As the Second Great Awakening swept...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877854739Author Dr. Jonathan S. RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Swedenborg FoundationPublisher Swedenborg FoundationWeight(grams)...

Christianization and Commonwealth in Early Medieval Europe re-examines the alterations in Western European life that followed widespread conversion to Christianity-the phenomena traditionally termed "Christianization". It refocuses scholarly paradigms...

"Ye cannot serve God and mammon," the Bible says. But conservative American Protestants have, for at least a century, been trying to prove that adage wrong. While preachers, activists, and politicians have all helped spread the gospel, Darren Grem argues...

The Old Testament book 1 Samuel (known as 1 Kings in modern Bibles) contains one of the most dramatic stories in the Old Testament, with its tense narrative about Israel's first attempts to govern itself by kingship, and a cast of famous characters who...

First published in 1921, this title examines the relationship between what the author labels the 'rationalist' element in Western culture on the one hand, derived from the ancient Greeks, and Christianity, on the other. Bevan contends that these two...

This book explores how the Virgin Mary's life is told in hymns, sermons, icons, art, and other media in the Byzantine Empire before AD 1204. A group of international specialists examines material and textual evidence from both Byzantine and Muslim-ruled...

This volume brings together scholars to explore the challenges of translating Christianity. Christianity has been the impulse behind the creation of more dictionaries and grammars of the world's languages than any other force in history. More people pray...

In this book, Cavan W. Concannon explores the growth and development of Christianity in the second century. He focuses on Dionysios of Corinth, an early Christian bishop who worked to build a network of churches along trade routes in the eastern...

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of American Catholicism's historical development and distinctive features. The essays - all specially commissioned for this volume - highlight the inner diversity of American Catholicism and trace the...

Coinciding with the four-hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Baptist movement, this book explores and assesses the cultural sources of Baptist beliefs and practices. Although the movement has been embraced, enriched, and revised by numerous...

Laura Nasrallah argues that early Christian literature addressed to Greeks and Romans is best understood when read in tandem with the archaeological remains of Roman antiquity. She examines second-century Christianity by looking at the world in which...

In 1593, in response to strict censorship in England, English Puritans in Scotland printed a volume of letters, petitions and arguments titled Parte of a Register, which was smuggled into England. Manuscripts for a second book were collected but never...

In 1823, the fourth-century basilica of St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome was destroyed by a catastrophic fire, prompting debate as to whether, and in what style, it should be reconstructed. Two years later, Pope Leo XII made the unprecedented...

The Age of Revolution has traditionally been understood as an era of secularization, giving the transition from monarchy to independent republics through democratic movements a genealogy that assumes hostility to Catholicism. By centering the story on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993154904Author Eric BeavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Miss Hilary BeavisPublisher Miss Hilary Beavis