Denominations

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854481453Author Stephen McNeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society

After inquisitorial procedure was introduced at the Fourth Lateran Council in Rome in 1215 (the same year as England's first Magna Carta), virtually all court trials initiated by bishops and their subordinates were inquisitions. That meant that accusers...

Have you ever wished you could play piano in the spirited and rhythmic gospel style? This book will help you get started. Carl MaultsBy gives a brief history of the gospel style and describes the techniques used to embellish printed music. Ten written...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068319163Author A. DenauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters Publishers

New approaches to a central area of Latter-day Saint belief The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and other Christians have always shared a fundamental belief in the connection between personal salvation and the suffering, death, and...

Swimming against the Current comprises a collection of essays celebrating the career and achievements of Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, who served as Executive Director of Hillel at UCLA for forty years and continues to be an influential leader in the Los...

A study of Lancashire Quakers and the establishment between 1660 and 1730.Book InformationISBN 9781853310157Author Nicholas MorganFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Keele University PressPublisher Edinburgh University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592217687Author Toyin FalolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint Africa Research & PublicationsPublisher Africa World PressWeight(grams) 765g

Interview with Allan Carlson In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical...

Christianity Today 2024 Award of Merit (Academic Theology) Doctrine is central to Christian discipleship and maturity. Unfortunately, it is often sidelined in churches' teaching ministry as irrelevant or impractical. Countering this, leading church...

In this practical guide, seasoned pastors Ray Ortlund and Sam Allberry help weary leaders renew their love for ministry by equipping them to build a gospel-centered culture into every aspect of their churches.Book InformationISBN 9781433590573Author Ray...

In Critical Christianity, Courtney Handman analyzes the complex and conflicting forms of sociality that Guhu-Samane Christians of rural Papua New Guinea privilege and celebrate as "the body of Christ." Within Guhu-Samane churches, processes of...

Immigration and race are contentious issues in North America. As a result, immigrants from Ghana and other countries of West Africa confront major challenges in the social context of the United States, even as their experiences and accomplishments...

Studies of religion have a tendency to conceptualise 'the Spirit' and 'the Letter' as mutually exclusive and intrinsically antagonistic. However, the history of religions abounds in cases where charismatic leaders deliberately refer to and make use of...

Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simao Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements. The...

In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. "Socialism," he wrote, "has become a distinct substitute" for the church. He was not wrong. In the generation after the Civil War, few of the...

America was founded on the concept of the innate and inalienable rights of humankind. Many Christians see an echo of the imago Dei--that every human being carries the image of God--within those ideals. Yet these rights were systemically withheld from the...

Sowing the Sacred traces the development of Pentecostalism among Mexican-American migrant laborers in California's agricultural industry from the 1910s to the 1960s. At the time, Pentecostalism was often seen as a distasteful new sect rife with cultish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642895971Author R. C. SproulFormat PaperbackPage Count 129Imprint Ligonier MinistriesPublisher Ligonier Ministries

The United States is in the middle of an unprecedented spiritual, technological, demographic, political and social transformation-moving from an older, mostly white, mostly Protestant, religion-friendly society to a younger diverse, multiethnic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854481682Author Carl RobsahmFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher The Swedenborg Society

Ecumenism is generally done by theologians, but as Charles Morerod, OP makes clear in this groundbreaking book the divisions between Christians often have at their roots different philosophical pre-understandings. Furthermore, ecumenical dialogue itself...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866986298Author Anthony J GrubbsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)Publisher Arizona Center...

Most forms of religion are best understood in the con- text of their relationship with the surrounding culture. This may be particularly true in the United States. Certainly immigrant Catholicism became Americanized; mainstream Protestantism accommodated...

Interview with Allan Carlson In an ironic twist, American evangelical leaders are joining mainstream acceptance of contraception. Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, examines how mid-twentieth-century evangelical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398834187Author Benedict of NursiaFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

An in-depth account--grounded in new archival discoveries--of the most consequential development in Mormon history since the end of polygamy On June 9, 1978, the phones at the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were...

In this short, practical guide, Camryn Zamora helps believers esteem the role of pastors as commanded in Scripture, recognize their role in supporting church leadership, and follow through with simple, intentional acts of service.Book InformationISBN...

In this addition to the Church Questions series, Andy Johnson presents a clear-cut, gospel-centered standard for current and aspiring missionaries.Book InformationISBN 9781433591532Author Andy JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Crossway...

Morning and evening prayer for those seeking to respond to Pope Francis’s call for greater care for our common home. “God saw everything that was made, and indeed, it was very good.” Yet human disregard for creation endangers that goodness. In Living...

In The Challenge of Joseph H. Jackson, Jared Alcántara offers a definitive biography of one of the most controversial, complex--and, eventually, forgotten--luminaries of the twentieth century. Alcántara chronicles Jackson's rise to power as pastor of the...

Social Christianity in Scotland and Beyond explores the multifarious initiatives known variously as 'social Christianity', 'Christian socialism', or the 'social gospel', that spanned countries, continents, decades, and denominations. Building on the...