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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781579830625Author Donna D'IngilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Origin Press,USAPublisher Origin Press,USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802877291Author Richard T HughesFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629221274Author Mary O'ConnorFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Akron PressPublisher University of Akron PressWeight(grams)...

The Great Schism divided Western Christianity between 1378 and 1417. Two popes and their courts occupied the see of St. Peter, one in Rome, and one in Avignon. Traditionally, this event has received attention from scholars of institutional history. In...

In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. The controversy over the specific differences in both doctrine and practice had taken on a new urgency in...

This book discusses hagiographic, historiographical, hymnological, and theological sources that contributed to the formation of the sacred picture of the physical as well as metaphysical Jerusalem in the literature of two Eastern Christian denominations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506488462Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint 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 9780825446061Author William SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Heresy in the Heartland is a narrative case study of the 'Heresy' Affair at the University of Dayton, a series of events predominantly in the philosophy department that occurred when tensions between the Thomists and proponents of new philosophies...

This volume is an important contribution to the field of Margaret More Roper studies, early modern women's writing, as well as Erasmian piety, Renaissance humanism, and historical and cultural studies more generally.Margaret More Roper is the learned...

Church Publishing Incorporated is pleased to offer this new and expanded volume of optional commemorations of significant figures in the history of The Episcopal Church. It replaces the popular Holy Women, Holy Men. By action of the 2015 General...

For pious converts to Christianity in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century New England, all reality was shaped by religious devotion and biblical text. It is therefore not surprising that earnest believers who found themselves marginalized by...

Once Henry VIII declared the Church of England free of papal control in the sixteenth century and the process of Reformation began, the Church of England rapidly developed a distinctive style of ministry that reflected the values and practices of the...

In 1521, the Catholic Church declared war on Martin Luther. The German monk had already been excommunicated the year before, after nailing his Ninety-Five Theses,which accused the Church of rampant corruption,to the door of a Saxon church. Now, the Holy...

Francis of Assisi's reported reception of the stigmata on Mount La Verna in 1224 is often considered to be the first account of an individual receiving the five wounds of Christ. The thirteenth-century appearance of this miracle, however, is not as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451487718Author Derek CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 354Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher Augsburg Fortress PublishersWeight(grams) 318g

The vast homiletic corpus of John Chrysostom has received renewed attention in recent years as a source for the wider cultural and historical context within which his sermons were preached. Scholars have demonstrated the exciting potential his sermons...

One of the books most central to late-antique religious life was the four-gospel codex, containing the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. A common feature in such manuscripts was a marginal cross-referencing system known as the Canon Tables. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506410784Author Daniel EppleyFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Since the 1830s, Holiness and Pentecostal movements have had a significant influence on many Christian churches, and they have been a central force in producing what is known today as World Christianity. This book demonstrates the advantages of analyzing...

The early accounts of one of the most famous scenes in Christian history, the death of Peter, do not present a single narrative of the events, for they do not agree on why Peter requested to die in the precise way that he allegedly did. Over time,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451465648Author Joel M. CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 656Imprint 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 9781931112178Author Lee Palmer WandelFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Truman State University PressPublisher Truman State University PressWeight(grams)...

The first three centuries of Christianity are increasingly seen in modern scholarship as sites of complexity. Sacred Ritual, Profane Space examines the Christian meeting places of the time and overturns long-held notions about the earliest Christians as...

This authoritative collection brings together the latest thinking on women's leadership in early Christianity. Patterns of Women's Leadership in Early Christianity considers the evidence for ways in which women exercised leadership in churches from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592219858Author Kapya J. KaomaFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 346g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950922826Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...

The Bible was the essence of virtually every aspect of the life of the early churches. The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Biblical Interpretation explores a wide array of themes related to the reception, canonization, interpretation, uses, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999608883Author Joe HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Pacem in Terris PressPublisher Pacem in Terris PressWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm)...

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You cannot understand China without meeting heroes like Samuel Lamb! In an age when secularism and materialism numb the human spirit, China's amazing Christians demonstrate the power of living faith. In 1950 China's Christians numbered about a million...

This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683595830Author Gerald BrayFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams) 358gDimensions(mm)...

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"This is a wonderful anthology . Its texts not only span the whole of Luther's reforming career, but also cover the theological, political, and social issues that mattered most to him and his age. Best of all, the original integrity of the texts...

The Reformation transformed England forever. From peasants in the lanes and fields to the court of Henry VIII, no life was left untouched as the Roman Catholic Church was replaced as the centre of the nation's religious life. Emerging from a dense mesh...

This Companion offers a comprehensive introduction to the life and work of a major figure of the modern world. Combining breadth of coverage with depth, the book opens with essays on More's family, early life and education, his literary humanism,...

The Gospel of Thomas is the most controversial of the non-canonical gospels and the most important source outside the Gospels for our understanding of the historical Jesus and Christianity's origins. Mark Goodacre makes a detailed and compelling case...

The Society of St John the Evangelist, otherwise known as the Cowley Fathers, was the first men's religious order to be founded in the Church of England since the Reformation, as a result of the spread and influence of the Oxford Movement and its...

This addition to the Crossway Short Classics series features 4 rarely published sermons from black Puritan minister Lemuel Haynes, along with his biography and a foreword by Jared C. Wilson.About the AuthorLemuel Haynes (1753-1833) was a Reformed...