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Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography. In Jerome's Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake-toppled city and a haunted...

Henry VIII's Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, is credited with a pivotal role in the English Reformation. As well as playing a leading part, together with Henry's Chancellor, Thomas Cromwell, in securing the separation of the Church in England...

This volume introduces the early Christian ideas of history and history writing and shows their value for developing Christian communities of the patristic era. It examines the ways early Christians related and transmitted their history: apologetics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597527378Author Crawford GribbenFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 227g

Theology is no laughing matter. Usually. This book gives a concise history of Christian theology based on a mysteriously discovered set of seventy-four limericks. Readers who already know the history of theology will read about it from an unfamiliar...

Was the Reformation a mistake?In its actual historical context, it hardly seems fair to call the Reformation a "mistake." In 1517, the Church was in need of a spiritual and theological reform. The issues raised by Renaissance humanism - and by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780842339605Author J. I. PackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Bold and forceful in its condemnation of contemporary religion, Our Father Forsaken is a meticulously researched work that demands the attention of all Jews and Christians who seek the truth. In 120 A.D., Marcion of Sinope, a charismatic preacher,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506469263Author Hans SchwarzFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Fortress PressPublisher Fortress Press

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First published in 1880 and reprinted in 1987, this is a fascinating collection of essays by the nineteenth-century theologian and historian George P. Fisher, arranged into three key classifications. The first group comprises papers that relate to the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780813235349Author Anthony BriggmanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Catholic University of America PressPublisher Catholic University of America Press

Recent history has been marked by titans, those yearning for self-mastery in the face of death and denouncing modernity’s tendency to reduce the individual to the lockstep of need and gratification. But what of those few who rejected these militant...

The spirituality and immortality of the soul might seem to be an essential Christian doctrine, but in fact many early Christian writers held that the soul is material and that immortality is a gift. As Ernest Fortin's study of Claudianus Mamertus (d...

First published in 1907, this text provides a scientific treatment of New England theology and American dogmatic history. Frank Hugh Foster analyses the eighteenth-century rise of the school of New England theology, which became the dominant school of...

Tension between unity and diversity plagues any attempt to recount the development of earliest Christianity. Explanations run the gamut - from asserting the presence of a fully formed and accepted unity at the beginning of Christianity to the hypothesis...

We do not have many definitions of Christianity from late antiquity, but among the few extant is the brief statement of Gregory of Nyssa (335-395 CE) that it is "mimesis of the divine nature." The sentence is both a historical gem and theologically...

Matthew Briel examines, for the first time, the appropriation and modification of Thomas Aquinas's understanding of providence by fifteenth-century Greek Orthodox theologian Gennadios Scholarios. Briel investigates the intersection of Aquinas's theology,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438459370Author Daniel A. DombrowskiFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683595793Author Benjamin T. QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Faithlife CorporationPublisher Faithlife CorporationWeight(grams)...

Creation is the theater of God's glory. Scripture is like a pair of glasses that clarifies our vision of God. Justification is the hinge on which religion turns. These and other affirmations are often associated with John Calvin, the 16th-century French...

Hailed in Sacred Scripture as the "beginning of wisdom" (Ps 111:10), the "fear of the Lord" is seldom mentioned and little understood today. A gift of the Spirit and a moral virtue or disposition, the "fear of the Lord" also frequently entails emotional...

In this welcome new book Marcia L. Colish offers the only monograph-length study of the patriarch treatises of Ambrose of Milan (c. 340-397), in which he develops, for the first time in the patristic period, an ethics for the laity. Ambrose the ethicist...

This book considers the place of deification in the writings of Julian of Norwich and Richard Rolle, two of the fourteenth-century English Mystics. It argues that, as a consequence of a belief in deification, both produce writing that is helpfully viewed...

Material Mystery considers three apparently anthropocentric myths that are central to Abrahamic religions-those of the primal human, the incarnated and possibly divine redeemer, and the resurrected body. At first glance, these stories reinforce a...

This book shows how early economic ideas structured Christian thought and society, giving crucial insight into why money holds such power in the West. Examining the religious and theological sources of money's power, it shows how early Christian thinkers...

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Augustine of Hippo is history's best-known Christian convert. The very concept of conversio owes its dissemination to Augustine's Confessions, and yet, as Jason BeDuhn notes, conversion in Augustine is not the sudden, dramatic, and complete...

By 388 C.E., Augustine had broken with the Manichaeism of his early adulthood and wholeheartedly embraced Nicene Christianity as the tradition with which he would identify and within which he would find meaning. Yet conversion rarely, if ever, represents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812981483Author Reza AslanFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

What is a deacon? More than fifty years since the restoration of the permanent diaconate by the Second Vatican Council, the office of deacon is still in need of greater specificity about its purpose and place within the mission and organizational...

The Heidelberg Catechism, first approved in 1563, is a confessional document of the Protestant movement considered one of the most ecumenical of the confessions. Published to coincide with the catechism's 450th anniversary, this book explores the...

Concepts of predestination and reprobation were central issues in the Protestant Reformation, especially within Calvinist churches, and thus have often been studied primarily in the historical context of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830820207Author Chris BrunoFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 272g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687027880Author CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 523gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

The question of what it means for Christ to be the "image of God," or imago dei, lies at the heart of the Christological debates of the fourth century. Is an image a derivation from its source? Are they two separate substances? Does an image...