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From the end of the eighteenth century, throughout western Europe, the official clergy, champions of privilege and tradition, were challenged by religious dissenters and minorities. Chapel confronted church in Britain and Scandinavia; Catholics struggled...

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Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich set of imaginative traditions about death and the afterlife, using the dead as a point of entry for thinking about the self,...

"Biblical history, enriched by many religious and cultural traditions, flows into and is intertwined with our nation's epic, both for better and for worse. To ignore that history is to cut ourselves off from our roots and to deny the ancestral...

Today the Byzantine mystic, writer, and monastic leader Symeon the New Theologian (ca. 949 to 1022 ce) is considered a saint by the Orthodox Church and revered as one of its most influential spiritual thinkers. But in his own time a cloud of controversy...

The line that separated Eastern Christendom from Western on the medieval map is similar to the "iron curtain" of recent times. Linguistic barriers, political divisions, and liturgical differences combined to isolate the two cultures from each other...

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If you knew sudden destruction would fall upon the earth in the next twenty-four hours, how would you spend your last moments? Join New York Times bestselling author John Hagee as he uses Scripture as a guide to count down the prophetic minutes through...

A dictionary of over 1,400 alphabetical entries, which explain the many special days and annual customs in the calendar year celebrated by our ancestors, and sets them briefly in their historic, religious and social context. Also this dictionary is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063062153Author Erin VearncombeFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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Principles of the Liturgy is the first book of the newly revised and newly translated work THE CHURCH AT PRAYER, under the general editorship of A. G. Martimort, honorary dean of the faculty of theology, Toulouse.Principles of the Liturgy outlines the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513804835Author Anna WoofendenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Herald Press (VA)Publisher Herald Press (VA)Weight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 193mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781565480490Author Edmund AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint New City PressPublisher New City PressWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 240mm *...

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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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780310161134Author Sarah Irving-StonebrakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint ZondervanPublisher Zondervan

It is the dream of every publisher to hit upon a project that will win praise for contributing to the intellectual and cultural life. Theology Today Ignatius of Loyola: Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works edited by George E. Ganss, S.J. with the...

In the early twentieth century, a new, American scripture appeared on the scene. It was the product of a school of theological thinking known as Dispensationalism, which offered a striking new way of reading the Bible, one that focused attention squarely...

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The KJV Compact Reference Bible offers the literary beauty of the King James Version in a hand-sized volume that features Thomas Nelson's KJV Comfort Print, an exclusive font that was designed to be the easiest to read at any size.This edition is perfect...

Basics of Latin: A Grammar with Readings and Exercises from the Christian Tradition by Derek Cooper introduces students, independent learners, and homeschoolers to the basics of Latin grammar with all readings and exercises taken from texts in the...

In this year-long devotional, gain an insightful introduction to the heroes, saints, and martyrs of 20 centuries of Christianity. Perfect for sermon illustrations or personal devotions, these 365 vignettes include related Scripture readings and...

Hailed upon its publication as "history at its finest" by H. Larry Ingle and called "the essential foundation to explore early Quaker history" by Sixteenth Century Journal, Rosemary Moore's The Light in Their Consciences is the most comprehensive,...

This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively...

In The Rivers North of the Future David Cayley has compiled Ivan Illich's moving and insightful thoughts concerning the fate of the Christian Gospel. Illich's view, which could be summed up as "the corruption of the best is the worst," is that Jesus'...

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From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783190Author St. AugustineFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 629gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

An engaging account of the life of a nineteenth-century priest. The Revd Benjamin Armstrong, for many years vicar of the market town of East Dereham, Norfolk, is best-known for what have been described as "one of England's greatest clerical diaries",...

Imagine investigating a murder in which there was no crime scene, no physical evidence, and no victim's body. How would you identify a person of interest in such a case?Designed to be used alongside Person of Interest and the Person of Interest Video...

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The malign figure of the Antichrist endures in modern culture, whether religious or secular; and the spectral shadow he has cast over the ages continues to exert a strong and powerful fascination. Philip C. Almond tells the story of the son of Satan from...

This brilliant scholarly treatise succeeds in bringing to our consciousness women who played an important role in the origins of Christianity.Book InformationISBN 9780824513573Author Elisabeth Schussler FiorenzaFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint...

Contrary to popular belief, the medieval religious imagination did not restrict itself to masculine images of God but envisaged the divine in multiple forms. In fact, the God of medieval Christendom was the Father of only one Son but many...

"A magnificent history of doctrine."-New York Review of Books"In this volume Jaroslav Pelikan continues the splendid work he has done thus far in his projected five-volume history of the development of Christian doctrine, defined as 'what the Church...

For over a thousand years, Eastern Christendom had as its center the second capital of the Roman Empire-Constantinople, the "New Rome," or Byzantium. The geographical division between the Eastern and Western Churches was only one manifestation of deeper...

The main theme of this book is religion and identity - not only national identity, but also regional and local identities. David Hempton penetrates to the heart of vigorous religious and political cultures, both elite and popular, in the eighteenth and...

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