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The Oxford Handbook of Christology brings together 40 authoritative essays considering the theological study of the nature and role of Jesus Christ. This collection offers dynamic perspectives within the study of Christology and provides rigorous...

The Bible took shape over the course of centuries, and today Christian groups continue to disagree over details of its contents. The differences among these groups typically involve the Old Testament, as they mostly accept the same 27-book New Testament...

The Apostolic Fathers is an important collection of writings revered by early Christians but not included in the final canon of the New Testament. Here a leading expert on these texts offers an authoritative contemporary translation, in the tradition of...

The image of St George - the mounted, medieval knight slaying a dragon - seems so familiar to us all that it is tempting to assume this figure is easily understood. He is, in fact, one of the most significant and complex mythic figures in Christian...

Adam and Eve were not the first man and woman on Earth, but they were certainly the first of a kind. When the Israelites made their exodus from Egypt, their spiritual leader was not Moses, but Miriam - a queen and high priestess of the pharaonic...

Bart Ehrman--the New York Times bestselling author of Misquoting Jesus and a recognized authority on the early Christian Church--and Zlatko Plese here offer a groundbreaking edition of the Apocryphal Gospels, one that breathes new life into the...

This classic study placed the saint squarely among the outstanding theologians of the Middle Ages, and stripped away the sentimentality in which popular piety had wrapped him. Gilson demonstrates in Bernard's works his blend of monastic tradition and the...

To many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that survived in the East following the Great Schism of 1054 that split the Christian world into two camps--Catholic and Orthodox. However, as the second largest...

John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members-among them...

Despite religious claims of a spiritual egalitarianism in the heavenly kingdom, there was a definite tendency in the Middle Ages to organize the celestial realm according to the established customs, values, and hierarchy of earthly society. In this study...

In the two thousand years that have elapsed since the time of Christ, Christians have been as much divided by their faith as united, as much at odds as in communion. And the contents of Christian confession have developed with astonishing energy. How can...

An authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights Hospitaller of Saint John dedicated themselves to...

This important work is a detailed biblical investigation of the relationship of Jesus to the one God of Israel. The authors challenge the notion that biblical monotheism is legitimately represented by a Trinitarian view of God and demonstrate that within...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966805635Author Ted FlynnFormat PaperbackPage Count 554Imprint Maxkol Communications, Inc.Publisher Maxkol Communications, Inc.

'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Tyerman's book is fascinating not...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586170387Author Milton LomaskFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christianity Today Book Award (Missions/Global Affairs) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780802846914Author P. BergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 135Imprint William B...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434711397Author Les MoirFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint David C Cook Publishing CompanyPublisher David C Cook Publishing Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420964110Author G K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A best-selling history of the Third Crusade, when the Catholic Church waged war against heretics in its own ranksIn 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade against a country of fellow-Christians. The new enemy was Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830784219Author Lina AbujamraFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint David C Cook Publishing CompanyPublisher David C Cook Publishing Company

Leading historian of the early church, Bart Ehrman offers the first comprehensive account of the newly discovered Gospel of Judas, revealing what this legendary lost gospel contains and why it is so important for our understanding of Christianity. ...

How can an ordinary church become a community of people who help one another live out their whole life at home, work, church, in the neighbourhood as followers of Jesus in his mission to the world? This book is for those who want life together in...

The Desert Fathers and Mothers - those early Christian ascetics who withdrew from the world to seek God - have influenced the spiritual lives of many people, from Saint Augustine to Thomas Merton. Their words, sometimes inspiring and uplifting, sometimes...

In religious terms Pentecostalism was probably the most vibrant and rapidly-growing religious movement of the 20th century. Starting as a revivalistic and renewal movement within Christianity, it encircled the globe in less than 25 years and grew in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881415582Author JohnFormat PaperbackImprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.

A history of doctrines of the Early Church, written and arranged with exceptional clarity by a leading patristic scholar. Canon Kelly describes the development of the principal Christian doctrines from the close of the first century to the middle of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532657016Author Oscar CullmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064706Author Reverend Alexander RobertsFormat HardbackImprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1043g

In 1547, the young King Edward VI issued a series of religious injunctions that were intended to reform the Churches in England. Religious imagery was a tangible and permanent aspect of the landscape, both inside and outside churches. For many people, it...

'As informative as it is entertaining - read it, you won't regret it' Paula GooderBeards have had cultural and religious significance for thousands of years. A fascinating story is to be told of the religious significance of beards from the ancient...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802828613Author Larry W. HurtadoFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint 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 9781735786407Author Mary Nell WyattFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Royal Hill PressPublisher Royal Hill PressWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310114413Author Jennifer Powell McNuttFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781603863940Author JasherFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Merchant BooksPublisher Merchant BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063226883Author Tim AlbertaFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

In this all-embracing Christian church history, E. H. Broadbent details the growth, traditions and teachings of churches and denominations through the ages. Intended as an introduction to organized Christianity, the Pilgrim Church selects examples from...

This title offers an up-to-date picture of Jesus of Nazareth, highlighting the problems and pitfalls encountered in such a venture, and including a survey of current scholarship. The introduction to this new guide sets out the sources (Graeco-Roman,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781628370393Author Ilaria L E RamelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 524Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 30mm

In these firsthand accounts of the early church, the spirit of Pentecost burns with prophetic force through the fog enveloping the modern church. A clear and vibrant faith lives on in these writings, providing a guide for Christians today. Its stark...