History

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780825443299Author John FoxeFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams) 974gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830839421Author Laurie GuyFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 490gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

With all the pressing demands of modern ministry, why make time to learn church history? Is it relevant to worship and ministry today? Pastor Dayton Hartman argues that church history is not old news, but a vital component of a healthy ministry.In Church...

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...

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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