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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621388746Author Viscount De ChateaubriandFormat PaperbackPage Count 766Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 1157gDimensions(mm)...

A Christian polymath embraces reason against misfortune in poetry and prose.Boethius (Boetius)-Anicius Manlius Severinus-Roman statesman and philosopher (ca. AD 480-524), was son of Flavius Manlius Boetius, after whose death he was looked after by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806531328Author H. Paul JeffersFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Citadel Press Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 236g

In this five-volume opus--now available in its entirety in paperback--Pelikan traces the development of Christian doctrine from the first century to the twentieth. "Pelikan's "The Christian Tradition" [is] a series for which they must have coined words...

Published to mark the 500th anniversary of the events of 1517, Reformation Divided explores the impact in England of the cataclysmic transformations of European Christianity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The religious revolution...

The Revolt that ripped apart the sixteenth-century Netherlands began as a rebellion against Habsburg authority but it eventually became a war of religion that resulted in the formation of two new states. Although the Southern Netherlands ultimately...

Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline of the Puritan world, while also examining the role of religion...

Church dedications are as widely used as they are little studied, yet their histories are often obscure and complicated. Frequently forgotten after the Reformation, they were revived on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with many guesses and...

"The Making of the Bible is invaluable for anyone interested in Scripture and in the intertwined histories of Judaism and Christianity."-John Barton, author of A History of the Bible: The Book and Its FaithsThe authoritative new account of the Bible's...

The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the...

Fathers, sons, brothers, kings. Does the predominantly masculine symbolism of the Biblical writings exclude women or overlook the riches of their spiritual life? If Christ is 'the second Adam' and the one on whom all Christian life must be patterned,...

With 16.3 million members and 44,000 churches, the Southern Baptist Church is the largest Baptist group in the world, and the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. Unlike the so-called mainstream Protestant denominations, Southern...

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 earliest Christian communities engaged in bold and imaginative rereadings of their Scriptures - none more astounding and potentially inflammatory than of the passages that focus upon the name and nature of Israel's God. In this volume, David B. Capes...

This book provides information from Church history concerning the recognition of the canonical status of the several books of the New Testament. Canonization was a long and gradual process of sifting among scores of gospels, epistles, and other books...

"Should do much to open up his hidden source of spiritual richness." George Malone, S.J. Fordham University Gregory Palamas: The Triads edited with an introduction by John Meyendorff translated by Nicholas Gendle preface by Jaroslav Pelikan ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800637255Author O. M. BakkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

A leading Catholic intellectual explains why the teachings of the Second Vatican Council are essential to the Church's future-and the world'sThe Second Vatican Council (1962-1965) was the most important Catholic event in the past five hundred years. Yet...

The Cappadocians are the 4th-century writers St Basil the Great, St Gregory Nazianzus and St Gregory of Nyssa. They were central to the defence of Christian Orthodoxy and should be of interest to students of the early Church.Book InformationISBN...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060872618Author Fellow and Chaplain N T WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint ZondervanPublisher ZondervanWeight(grams) 129gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881412574Author O MacariusFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Publisher St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Presents Father Columba's chapter-by-chapter commentary designed to help others share St Benedict's words and approach to living the Christian life. The book draws on the author's lifetime of living and teaching the Rule, of his mission experience and on...

The great German mystic Meister Eckhart remains one of the most fascinating figures in Western thought. Revived interest in Eckhart's mysticism has been matched, and even surpassed, by the study of the women mystics of the late13th century. This book...

Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are not available for purchase. The Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a defining moment in the Christological controversies that tore apart the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608687299Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 576Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879076900Author John WortleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 420Imprint Liturgical PressPublisher Liturgical PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974474892Author Jeff DolesFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Walking Barefoot MinistriesPublisher Walking Barefoot MinistriesWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565484467Author Edmund AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 471Imprint New City PressPublisher New City PressWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 220mm *...

Children of Lucifer explores the historical origins of Satanism, the "anti-religion" that adopts Satan, the Judeo-Christian representative of evil, as an object of veneration. Ruben van Luijk traces its development from a concept invented by the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594771668Author Jean-Yves LeloupFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802840967Author Eugene H. PetersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

This stimulating history of early Christianity revisits the extraordinary birth of a world religion and gives a new slant on a familiar story The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. A New History of Early...

Christianity depends on the belief that the Jesus of history is identical with the Christ of faith, and that God in the person of Jesus intervened finally and decisively in human history. But is the historical Jesus the same as the Christian Saviour? And...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592764433Author Matthew E. BunsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.

A study not of the institution of the Church but of Christianity itself, this book explores the Christian people, their beliefs, and their way of life, providing a new understanding of Western Christianity at the time of the Reformation. Bossy begins...

An earl's son, plotting murder by witchcraft; conjuring spirits to find buried treasure; a stolen coat embroidered with pure silver; crooked gaming-houses and brothels; a terrifying new disease, and the self-trained surgeon who claims he can treat it. ...

One of Scotland’s most popular theologians traces the theological debates and disagreements of the eighteenth century The eighteenth century saw many changes within the Scottish church. The Kirk was divided by the Patronage Act of 1712 into Moderates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993598258Author Simon WebbFormat PaperbackImprint The Langley PressPublisher The Langley PressWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570589546Author Ruben QuezadaFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.Publisher Our Sunday Visitor Inc.,U.S.

This unusual biographical work traces the life and career of Ademar of Chabannes, a monk, historian, liturgist, and hagiographer who lived at the turn of the first Christian millennium. Thanks to the unique collection of over one thousand folios of...