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A young girl's disappearance hints at a disturbing truth...When novice Emma Thorgold goes missing from Godstow Abbey in the summer of 1353, the hunt is on throughout the Oxfordshire countryside for any sign of where she could have gone. Bookseller...

Gnosticism - derived from the Greek word gnosis, to know - is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ and, at one time, it almost became the dominant form of Christianity. Yet some Gnostic beliefs...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940232020Author G. EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Sowers of Seed IncPublisher Sowers of Seed IncWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800632489Author Joseph H. HellermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800994867Author Anne HaywardFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y LolfaDimensions(mm) 215mm * 140mm * 17mm

The Apostolic Fathers is an important collection of writings revered by early Christians but not included in the final canon of the New Testament. Here a leading expert on these texts offers an authoritative contemporary translation, in the tradition of...

The Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology brings together leading scholars in the fields of theology and epistemology to examine and articulate what can be categorized as appropriate epistemic evaluation in theology. Part one focuses on some of...

John Henry Newman, one of the towering figures of the early Victorian Church of England, caused shock and outrage in equal measure when he announced his espousal of Roman Catholicism in 1845. His Apologia, written nearly twenty years later in response to...

The Reformation of the Landscape is a richly detailed and original study of the relationship between the landscape of Britain and Ireland and the tumultuous religious changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It explores how the profound...

We may think of the twenty-seven books of the New Testament as the only sacred writings of the early Christians, but this is not at all the case. Lost Scriptures offers an anthology of up-to-date and readable translations of many non-canonical writings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852448953Author Paul HaffnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint GracewingPublisher Gracewing

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For the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, a new translation of Martin Luther's most famous works by leading scholar and pastor William RussellThis volume contains selections from Martin Luther's most evocative writings, freshly translated for the...

Over 330,000 copies sold. This is the story of the church for today's readers.Bruce Shelley's classic history of the church brings the story of global Christianity into the twenty-first century. Like a skilled screenwriter, Shelley begins each chapter...

Bart Ehrman, author of the highly popular books Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, Lost Christianities, and the New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781598561685Author John CalvinFormat HardbackPage Count 1100Imprint Hendrickson Publishers IncPublisher Hendrickson Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780895550668Author Joan Carroll CruzFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Tan Books & Publishers Inc.Publisher Tan Books & Publishers Inc.

Although very little is known for certain about Pontius Pilate, the man who crucified Christ, this has not stopped writers in every age from imagining his life. In this extraordinary book, Ann Wroe recounts the lives of all our Pilates; among them the...

Jesus and Muhammad are two of the best known and revered figures in history, each with a billion or more global followers. Now, in this intriguing volume, F.E. Peters offers a clear and compelling analysis of the parallel lives of Jesus and Muhammad, the...

This selection of writings from the sixth and seventh century AD provides a powerful insight into the early history of the Christian Church in England and Ireland. From Bede's Life of Cuthbert and Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802864598Author Pope BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 179Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

As an authority on the religion of medieval and early modern England, Professor Eamon Duffy is preeminent. In his revisionist masterpiece The Stripping of the Altars, Duffy opened up new areas of research and entirely fresh perspectives on the origin...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910074459Author Denis DunstoneFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Umbria PressPublisher Umbria Press

This study brings three different kinds of readers of the Gospel of John together with the theological goal of understanding what is meant by Incarnation and how it relates to Pascha, the Passion of Christ, how this is conceived of as revelation, and how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807012055Author Rosemary Radford RuetherFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

The best of evangelical Christian theology has always paid attention to the key thinkers, issues and doctrinal developments in the history of the church. What God has done in the past is key to understanding who we are and how we are to live. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933919348Author Jimmy AkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Catholic Answers PressPublisher Catholic Answers Press

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Christianity Today Book Award Winner This work argues that the heart of patristic exegesis is the attempt to find the sacramental reality (real presence) of Christ in the Old Testament Scriptures. Leading theologian Hans Boersma discusses numerous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christianity Today Book Award (Top 25) 1999.Book InformationISBN 9780802844408Author Miroslav VolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint William B Eerdmans...

'Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.' Hugh Latimer's famous words of consolation to Nicholas Ridley as they are both about to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789874747Author Darwell StoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Pantianos ClassicsPublisher Pantianos ClassicsWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Renowned philosopher Kurt Flasch offers a full-scale reappraisal of the life and legacy of Meister Eckhart, the medieval German theologian, philosopher, and alleged mystic who was active during the Avignon Papacy of the fourteenth century and was tried...

In 50 brief chapters, originally delivered as public audiences to the faithful in St Peter's Square, Benedict XVI offers absorbing, perceptive, and often edifying sketches of some of Christianity's greatest thinkers and writers. The book is divided in...

"Gretchen Starr-LeBeau's Seven Myths of the Spanish Inquisition provides an excellent introduction to Habsburg Spain's most reviled and misunderstood institution. Drawn from archival sources and modern scholarship, this concise study presents the long...

This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply...

This book unravels a polyphony of silences from the history of Christianity and beyond. MacCulloch considers Judaeo-Christian borrowings from Greek explorations of the divine, and the silences which were a feature of Jesus's brief ministry. Besides...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506485225Author Carl McColmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 257Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

This Very Short Introduction offers a clear, accessible, and concise account of the apocryphal gospels - exploring their origins, their discovery, and discussing how the various texts have been interpreted both by the Church and beyond. Looking at...

Filled with discoveries, this is the dramatic story of Pope Pius XII's struggle to respond to the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Nazi domination of Europe. The Pope at War is the third in a trilogy of books about the papacy's response to the...