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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830851072Author Vince L. BantuFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 356gDimensions(mm) 227mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875089379Author Jessie Penn-LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 111Imprint CLC MinistriesPublisher CLC MinistriesWeight(grams) 91g

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Augustine's spiritual autobiography is not only a major document in the history of Christianity and a classic of Roman Africa: it also marks a vital moment in the history of Western culture. As Augustine explains how, when and why he became the man he is...

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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 9780825420481Author Roy E BeachamFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Kregel Publications,U.S.Publisher Kregel Publications,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The Bible is one book, not two separate testaments; so the Old Testament is essential for understanding the New. In this stimulating book on the Old Testament background to Christ, Alec Motyer shows how Jesus is the king expected, who brings in the...

The representation of sexual trafficking in the book of Esther has parallels with the cultural memories, histories, and materialized pain of African(a) girls and women across time and space, from the Persian Empire, to subsequent slave trade routes and...

There is a rich vein of writing within Anglican tradition that has helped to form the theology and spirituality of the contemporary church. For many readers, much of this material remains unfamiliar and is often difficult to access. Love's Redeeming Work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802867001Author Christopher A. BeeleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 149Imprint 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 9780979907371Author Frank BartlemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint RevivalSchoolPublisher RevivalSchoolWeight(grams) 216g

Don't sacrifice readability for portability with this KJV Giant Print Thinline Bible. The extra-large Bible text features Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print, which was designed to be the easiest to read at any size.Crafted with a highly durable...

A companion to John Cassian's well-received Conferences in the Ancient Christian Writers series, the Institutes, known also as The Institutes of the Cenobia and the Remedies for the Eight Principal Vices, is the first written work of John Cassian, who...

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In this definitive work, Thomas Talley draws on all the resources of historical scholarship to examine and unravel the complications brought to liturgical time by the blending of local traditions.Liturgical time, like all ecclesiastical structures, has...

Tells the fascinating, violent story of the Church's fifth century battles over 'right belief' that had a far greater impact on the future of Christianity and the world than the much-touted Council of Nicea convened by Constantine a century before.About...

The classic account of crisis and conversion.Aurelius Augustine (AD 354-430), one of the most important figures in the development of western Christianity and philosophy, was the son of a pagan, Patricius of Tagaste, and his Christian wife, Monnica...

Now in its fourth edition, this bestselling textbook (over 125,000 copies sold) isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a...

A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the storyIn the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and...

Dutch theologian Herman Bavinck (1854--1921) found himself between two eras. The end of the "long nineteenth century" and the experience of World War I marked how much the world around him had changed. This book examines Bavinck's theological methodology...

When Rome was at its height, an emperor's male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four...

The first comprehensive history of the most decisive military campaign of the Third Crusade and one of the longest wartime sieges of the Middle Ages The two-year-long siege of Acre (1189-1191) was the most significant military engagement of the Third...

The work of Professor Moody Smith has for many years been central to the advance of Johannine scholarship. Johannine Christianity brings together ten important essays on the sources, setting and theology of the Gospel of John. Together, they both...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557256393Author Father John Julian, OJNFormat PaperbackPage Count 450Imprint Paraclete PressPublisher Paraclete PressWeight(grams) 539gDimensions(mm)...

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sourcesIn the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060655815Author Marvin MeyerFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 225mm *...

The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience have intensified this conflict, particularly in relation to...

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The Bible contains four Gospels which tell the story of Jesus of Nazareth. And yet, many more Gospels once existed. Who, then, determined which Gospels would, for the next two thousand years, serve as the main gateways to Jesus and his teaching? ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597523899Author Bishop of Nyssa * GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594770432Author Jeffrey J. ButzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

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How did Jesus of Nazareth become the Christ of the Christian tradition? "Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."-Geza Vermes, Times Literary Supplement "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights...

This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day. Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621380931Author Max WeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

In the dark and turbulent centuries after the Roman occupation of Britain, and during the Anglo-Saxon colonisation, the light of heaven still shone through the work and witness of the monastic communities, 'villages of God', which dotted the land. One of...

This unique work - no other work yet available in English treats this subject - illustrates the contribution of these Councils in the development and formulation of Christian beliefs. It then shows how their legacies lingered throughout the centuries to...

Devotion to the crucified Christ is one of the most familiar, yet most disconcerting artifacts of medieval European civilization. How and why did the images of the dying God-man and his grieving mother achieve such prominence, inspiring unparalleled...

This lively and original account of early Celtic Christianity - which was of far greater importance in the development of Western culture than we often realize - is told against the background of European history of the first seven centuries A.D. It...