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The Church of Jerusalem, the 'mother of the churches of God', influenced all of Christendom before it underwent multiple captivities between the eighth and thirteenth centuries: first, political subjugation to Arab Islamic forces, then displacement of...

Between Resistance and Martyrdom is the first comprehensive historical study of the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses during the Holocaust era. Refusing to perform military service under Germany's Third Reich due to their fundamental belief in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755204618Author Paul TobinFormat PaperbackPage Count 668Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams) 923g

On March 20, 1967, the Berlin Egyptian Museum acquired a collection of thirty-three parchment fragments written in Coptic. There they were given the simple designation P22220 and stored unceremoniously in paper folders. Almost thirty years later, two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802849403Author Professor George HunsingerFormat PaperbackImprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing CoWeight(grams)...

A provocative reassessment of religion and culture in the early days of the American republic"The so-called Second Great Awakening was the shaping epoch of American Protestantism, and this book is the most important study of it ever published."-James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780946206827Author Sergei O ProkofieffFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Wynstones PressPublisher Wynstones PressWeight(grams) 998gDimensions(mm) 241mm *...

In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to...

Christian Pilgrimage in Modern Western Europe is a commanding exploration of the importance of religious shrines in modern Roman Catholicism. By analyzing more than 6,000 active shrines and contemporary patterns of pilgrimage to them, the authors...

The first translation into English of the complete correspondence of the remarkable twelfth-century Benedictine abbess Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), this study consists of nearly four hundred letters, in four projected volumes. Addressed to some of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501819766Author Gary L. RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon Press

What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce sex or choose voluntary poverty become Christian? They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780829442601Author Stephen J. BinzFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Loyola University Press,U.S.Publisher Loyola University Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

The Episcopal Church has long been regarded as the religion of choice among America's ruling elite, helping to set the tone for the moral and social life of the nation during the twentieth century. Shaped by their experiences of the Great Depression and...

This is a sequel to Richard Viladesau's well-received study, The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance (2006). It continues his project of presenting theological history by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998142661Author Donna HowellFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint DefenderPublisher DefenderWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm * 15mm

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Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art-from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807013014Author Roland H. BaintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989150378Author Denver C Snuffer JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Denver C. Snuffer JR.Publisher Denver C. Snuffer JR.Weight(grams)...

During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and...

Jonathan Hill explores how Christian thinkers, as well as selected philosophers and other religious leaders, have addressed key issues over the centuries. Considering the arguments for and against each position, he encourages readers to think the issues...

The saint's cult casts light on relations between Cornwall and Brittany - and Henry II's empire - in the 12th century. The historical, political, ecclesiastical, and religious relationships between medieval Cornwall, Brittany, Wales, Ireland and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610975292Author Flora Lamson Hewlett Professor Philip L WickeriFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock...

Abraham Kuyper is known as the energetic Dutch Protestant social activist and public theologian of the 1898 Princeton Stone Lectures, the Lectures on Calvinism. In fact, the church was the point from which Kuyper's concerns for society and public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852441855Author Joanna BogleFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 418g

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American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about God and big business at the Moody Bible Institute. Founded in Chicago by shoe-salesman-turned-revivalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597522229Author William BrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780687006045Author Carl A. VolzFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Abingdon PressPublisher Abingdon PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Enjoy the unmatched beauty of the King James Version combined with the readability of Thomas Nelson's exclusive KJV Comfort Print typeface, all in a Bible that includes over 73,000 cross references.In this edition, the literary beauty of the King James...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830818556Author Bernard T. Adeney-RiskottaFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 454g

A selection of documents, translated primarily from medieval Latin but occasionally from Old French, that shows how religious women and their patrons managed resources to make monastic communities - particularly a variety of Cistercian communities - work...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439190708Author Darrell L BockFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780883686133Author Andrew MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Whitaker House,U.S.Publisher Whitaker House,U.S.Weight(grams) 254g

One of the most articulate and biblically grounded voices of the Radical Reformation, Peter Riedemann was only twenty-three when he penned this impassioned confession of faith in the gloom of a sixteenth-century Austrian dungeon. Already a noted...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615573014Author Eric ZuesseFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint Hyacinth EditionsPublisher Hyacinth EditionsWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692613474Author Mike AquilinaFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Lambing PressPublisher Lambing PressWeight(grams) 191g

In Apostles of Reason, Molly Worthen offers a sweeping intellectual history of modern American evangelicalism. Traditionally, evangelicalism has been seen as a cohesive--indeed almost monolithic--religious movement. Sometimes, religion drops out of the...