History

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In his sixth satire, Juvenal deplores the pastimes of Roman women, foremost of which is superstition. Speculating about how wives busy themselves while their husbands are away, the poet introduces a revolving door of visitors who include a eunuch of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316564670Author Candida MossFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and CompanyWeight(grams) 526g

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Does God exist? What is the nature of evil, and where does it come from? Are humans free? Responsible? Immortal? Does it matter? Saints, Heretics and Atheists offers a historical introduction to fundamental questions in the philosophy of religion...

In late antiquity the rising number of ascetics who joined the priesthood faced a pastoral dilemma. Should they follow a traditional, demonstrably administrative, approach to pastoral care, emphasizing doctrinal instruction, the care of the poor, and the...

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In Ritual Boundaries, Joseph E. Sanzo transforms our understanding of how early...

Explores the divergence in popular Evangelicalism between Highlands and Lowlands in late nineteenth-century Scotland Follows an accessible chronological and biographical structure Draws on primary sources, including Gaelic poetry in translation never...

In this highly acclaimed work, Bruce Winter gathers for the first time all the available evidence on the first-century sophistic movement from two major centers of learning in the East. Together with the writings of the contemporary Hellenistic Jews,...

Beginning in the twelfth century, clergy and laity alike started wondering with intensity about the historical and developmental details of Jesus' early life. Was the Christ Child like other children, whose characteristics and capabilities depended on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781592441877Author Martin HengelFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

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Exacting scholarship and balanced judgement of this biography will help ensure its place as the definitive work of its kind.Book InformationISBN 9780800628154Author Martin BrechtFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg...

In The Monk and the Book, Megan Hale Williams argues that Saint Jerome was the first to represent biblical study as a mode of asceticism appropriate for an inhabitant of a Christian monastery, thus pioneering the enduring linkage of monastic identities...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781939838292Author Everett FergusonFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Sunset PublicationsPublisher Sunset PublicationsWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm)...

The period from Thomas Aquinas to Duns Scotus is one of the richest in the history of Christian theology. The Metaphysics of the Incarnation aims to provide a thorough examination of the doctrine in this era, making explicit its philosophical and...

Church History, Volume Two chronicles the events, the triumphs, and the struggles of the Christian movement from the years leading up to the Reformation through the next five centuries to the present-day.Looking closely at the integral link between the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802866639Author Walter D. RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

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In seventeenth-century France, southwest of Paris, the Port-Royal convent became the center of the Jansenist movement and of its adherents' resistance to church and throne. Three abbesses from the Arnauld family spearheaded this resistance: Mere...

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How can the Body and Blood of Christ, without ever leaving heaven, come to be really present on eucharistic altars where the bread and wine still seem to be? Thirteenth and fourteenth century Christian Aristotelians thought the answer had to be...

The Church of the East is currently the only complete history in English of the East Syriac Church of the East. It covers the periods of the Sassanians, Arabs, Mongols, Ottomans, the 20th century, and informs about the Syriac, Iranian and Chinese...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802848031Author John WitteFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

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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...

A comprehensive history of the Calvinist movement.Book InformationISBN 9780195007435Author J.T. McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 642g

Journey Back to God explores Origen of Alexandria's creative, complex, and controversial treatment of the problem of evil. It argues that his layered cosmology functions as a theodicy that discerns deeper meaning beneath the apparent injustices of the...

This is a sequel to Richard Muller's The Unaccommodated Calvin (OUP 2000). In the previous book, Muller attempted to situate Calvin's theological work in its historical context and to strip away various twentieth-century theological grids that have...

A nonconformist, unifier, husband of three deceased wives, victim of religious persecution, and author of what has been collected into six volumes of reprinted Works, John Flavel (c.1630-1691) of Dartmouth, England not only had an immense following...

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The Didache (or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) is one of the earliest Christian writings, compiled between 50 and 70 CE. Thus, it probably predates the four Gospels. It offers a unique glimpse into how some of the earliest Christian communities...

By the time Christianity became a political and cultural force in the Roman Empire, it had come to embody a new moral vision. This wise and eloquent book describes the formative years-from the crucifixion of Jesus to the end of the second century of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982107567Author Dr William J BennettFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Howard BooksPublisher Howard BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 196mm * 147mm...

Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until the present day. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in...

Protestant Theology and Modernity in the Nineteenth Century Netherlands examines how Dutch Protestant thinkers and theologicans met the challenges of the rapidly modernizing world around them. It shows that the nineteenth-century saw theology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998148311Author Valerie BonhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 530Imprint Community of St John BaptistPublisher Community of St John BaptistWeight(grams)...

Christianity spread across North Africa early, and it remained there as a powerful force much longer than anticipated. While this African form of Christianity largely shared the Latin language and Roman culture of the wider empire, it also represented a...