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A cultural history of how Christianity was born from its martyrs. Though it promises eternal life, Christianity was forged in death. Christianity is built upon the legacies of the apostles and martyrs who chose to die rather than renounce the name of...

No modern, well-versed literature lover can call their education complete without having read Augustine's Confessions. One of the most original works of world literature, it is the first autobiography ever written, influencing writers from Montaigne to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687171835Author Justo L. GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 532gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

From the Catholic martyrs at Auschwitz to Oscar Romero; from Ita Ford and her companions to the recent murders of Christians in India, it is estimated that more than one million Christians died for their faith in the "century of progress" we...

Sheila Delany's spirited translation of Osbern Bokenham's Legendys of Hooly Wummen (1443-1447) makes available in modern English the first all-female hagiography. Closely translated from elaborate, Latinate Middle English verse into fluent prose, A...

Protestant reformers sought to effect a radical change in the way their contemporaries understood and coped with the suffering of body and soul that were so prominent in the early modern period. The reformers did so because they believed that many...

Religions of the Constantinian Empire provides a synoptic review of Constantine's relation to all the cultic and theological traditions of the Empire during the period from his seizure of power in the west in 306 CE to the end of his reign as autocrat of...

Christianity is commonly held to have introduced an entirely new and better morality into the ancient world, a new morality that was decidedly universal, in contrast to the ethics of the philosophical schools which were only concerned with the...

What does it mean to contemplate? In the Middle Ages, more than merely thinking with intensity, it was a religious practice entailing utter receptiveness to the divine presence. Contemplation is widely considered by scholars today to have been the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586174149Author Louis De WohlFormat PaperbackPage Count 497Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius Press

A readable overview of the contemporary spiritual scene that defines, outlines, and advocates several models or methods for studying Christian spirituality with a respect for Scripture, tradition, and one's own personal and cultural experiences. Book...

Tracing the development of progressive Catholic approaches to political and economic modernization, Catholic Intellectuals and the Challenge of Democracy disputes standard interpretations of the Catholic response to democracy and modernity in the...

A comprehension of Paul's understanding of the law and justification has been a perennial problem for historians and theologians. The need for further clarity has given rise to this collection of essays by an international list of esteemed scholars who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684803883Author Thomas W PetriskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint TouchstonePublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 389gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830827039Author Nathan P. FeldmethFormat PaperbackPage Count 151Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 136g

This monograph bridges two discourses that so far have remained largely separate: debates about how and why secular modernity emerged, and Reformation studies. In telling the history of secularity, scholars have often focussed on late medieval shifts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883449868Author Jon SobrinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 199Imprint Orbis Books (USA)Publisher Orbis Books (USA)Weight(grams) 304g

The Apostolic Fathers is a critically important collections of texts for studying the first century of Christian history. Here a leading expert on the Apostolic Fathers offers an accessible, up-to-date introduction and companion to these diverse and...

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The New Testament accounts of Jesus' crucifixion have stood at the bedrock of Christianity since it's birth in the 1st century, and they remain among the essential foundations of Western culture in the 21st. These Gospel narratives of the Passion - the...

Cyflwynir yn y gyfrol hon holl syniadaeth athrawiaethol yr Apostol Paul a'i gefndir meddyliol mewn un bennod ar ddeg, ynghyd a swmp y farn ysgolheigaidd ddiweddaraf ar y pwnc. Trafodir perthynas yr Apostol a Iesu; cefndir syniadol Paul; natur ei...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597527880Author Carl R TruemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 371Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592446483Author Christopher ColumbusFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Ever since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in caves near the site of Qumran in 1947, this mysterious cache of manuscripts has been associated with the Essenes, a 'sect' configured as marginal and isolated. Scholarly consensus has held that an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942401261Author Juanita Feros RuysFormat PaperbackPage Count 131Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451472998Author Paul KollmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 Media

In The Reformation of Feeling, Susan Karant-Nunn looks beyond and beneath the formal doctrinal and moral demands of the Reformation in Germany to examine the emotional tenor of the programs that the emerging creeds-revised Catholicism, Lutheranism, and...

Embodiment in the theology of Gregory of Nyssa is a much-debated topic. Hans Boersma argues that this-worldly realities of time and space, which include embodiment, are not the focus of Gregory's theology. Instead, embodiment plays a distinctly...

The pace and extent of England's conversion to protestantism between 1530 and 1570 is a subject of lively controversy among historians. In this study the reader is guided through the interpretations of rival scholars, and the complex events of those...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532679162Author Bruce GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The study of the Reformation in England and Wales, Ireland and Scotland has usually been treated by historians as a series of discrete national stories. Reformation in Britain and Ireland draws upon the growing genre of writing about British History to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448373Author Peter MilwardFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing

A nuanced approach to the role played by clerics at a turbulent time for religious affairs. From the early percolation of Protestant thought in the sixteenth century through to the controversies and upheaval of the civil wars in the seventeenth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385029032Author John BeeversFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532669682Author Chris PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385098762Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Mark Lynton History Prize 2002.Book InformationISBN 9780375706059Author David I. KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random...

This book investigates the response of the Catholic Church in Northern Ireland to the conflict in the region during the late Twentieth Century. It does so through the prism of the writings of Cardinal Cahal Daly (1917-2009), the only member of the...

Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he taught about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Augustine expounded Christ's resurrection in his sermons, letters, Answer to Faustus the...