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The medieval church was founded on and governed by concepts of faith and trust--but not in the way that is popularly assumed. Offering a radical new interpretation of the institutional church and its social consequences in England, Ian Forrest argues...

Since Christianity is an ethical as well as a mystical religion and since individuals live in communities, the church is bound to be involved in politics and other social action that determines the quality of human life. So argues Trevor Beeson in...

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Centuries before the existence of the Islamic faith, there were Arabs who could be described as Christian. And there has been a Christian Arabism, an Arab Christianity, since Muhammad's day. Arab Christianity has survived Muslin dominance, and this...

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Arguing that all Pauline interpretation depends significantly on the ways in which readers formulate their own images of the apostle, Margaret M. Mitchell posits that John Chrysostom, the most prolific interpreter of the Pauline epistles in the early...

Branded as "the new Falun Gong" by local authorities, The Church of Almighty God is the most persecuted religious movement in China today. Thousands of police officers are deployed full time to identify and arrest its members. Hundreds of thousands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802871473Author Dr. Karin MaagFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Discover the Variety and Unity of the Early ChurchThe Christian church of the early centuries spread throughout much of Asia, Africa, and Europe, spoke many languages, was situated within diverse cultural settings, and had varied worship practices; yet...

The long 18th century was the age of revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, sexual toleration began and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both...

Patriarch Dioscorus of Alexandria: The Last Pharaoh of Alexandria and Ecclesiastical Politics in the Later Roman Empire offers a thorough revision of the historical role of Dioscorus as patriarch of Alexandria between 444 and 451 CE. One of the major...

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Is it possible we don't see God working in mighty ways because we don't ask him to work in mighty ways? Throughout history, God has used revival to build and renew his church. God-Sized Vision challenges us to pray expectantly to see his work in our own...

The complete works of one of the most significant theologians of the Reformation. This book contains the complete writings of Balthasar Hubmaier, including his discussion of three marks of a true church: water baptism of adults, the Lord's Supper, and...

An unusual perspective on the cultural and political milieu in existence at the time of the emergence of Christianity. Events such as the Persian Wars are examined with a view to understanding the spiritual struggles raging between those forces that...

This volume contains a critical edition and translation of the Coptic texts on Abraham of Farshut, the last Coptic orthodox archimandrite of the Pachomian federation in Upper Egypt. While past studies have focused on the origins and early years of this,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830841752Author Timothy LarsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 452gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 153mm *...

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Summarizes the history of the Bible and sheds light on biblical events through archaeological discoveries. A rigorous work of biblical history, interpretation, and criticism; Joseph P. Free's classic-first published in 1950-served an entire generation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506405957Author Romanus CessarioFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint 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 9781540966254Author Alistair C StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Baker AcademicPublisher Baker AcademicWeight(grams) 608gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Many of the key improvements to social conditions in the United Kingdom have been made by Christians. Most of us would be able to think of such key Anglican figures as William Wilberforce, Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury or Dr Thomas Barnardo,...

A revealing look at the identity and mission of the Black church What is the true nature and mission of the church? Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls, or to transform the social order? This question is especially fraught when the church is...

Essays offering insights into the ecclesiastical, political, cultural and social history in the north of England during the fourteenth century through an exploration of the administrative archives of archbishops. The period between 1304 and 1405 was...

Historical events have long been the standard lens through which scholars have sought to understand the theology of Christianity in late antiquity. The lives of significant theological figures, the rejection of individuals...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780359133710Author Hilaire BellocFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 9mm

The text edited and translated in this volume recounts the first century of the history of the Augustinian priory of Llanthony in Monmouthshire, from its origin around 1100 as an isolated hermitage, through the introduction of the Augustinian Order and...

This work marks a significant and tragic moment in the history of medieval Jewish-Christian relations, as it promulgates one of Europe's first allegations of Jewish ritual murder of a Christian child. Composed in stages between 1150 and 1173 by Thomas, a...

To Gain at Harvest celebrates the courage, intellect, humility and passion displayed by figures of all shades of opinion and belief during the English Reformation. Offering insights into the turbulent period of the English Reformation and its ideas,...

From its position at the heart of the ancient city of York, York Minster has for centuries formed the focus of a community, while performing a national role as the seat of Britain's second Archbishop. Today, nearly 1500 years after the earliest traces of...

Celsus penned the earliest known detailed attack upon Christianity. While his identity is disputed and his anti-Christian treatise, entitled the True Word, has been exclusively transmitted through the hands of the great Christian scholar Origen, he...

33 fascinating objects. 1 amazing story. Join author and pastor Tim Challies as he embarks on a three-year journey spanning multiple continents and some of the most unusual places in the world. Tim introduces you to thirty-three carefully selected...

Known as the "Father of Church History," Eusebius was bishop of Caesarea in Palestine and the leading Christian scholar of his day. His Ecclesiastical History is an irreplaceable chronicle of Christianity's early development, from its origin in Judaism,...

The third edition of Christianity Through the Centuries brings the reader up-to-date by discussing events and developments in the church into the 1990s. This edition has been redesigned with new typography and greatly improved graphics to increase...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626984349Author Roger P. SchroederFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)

St Theodore the Studite's Defence of the Icons provides an investigation of the icon-theology of St Theodore the Studite, mainly as it is presented in his three refutations of the iconoclasts, the Antirrhetici tres adversus iconomachos. Torstein Theodor...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802875396Author George M. MarsdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co