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Just in time for the release of Amazing Grace, the movie about the life of William Wilberforce. This edition of his classic book from 1797, Real Christianity, is paraphrased in modern language and made more accessible to contemporary readers. This is the...

'Wonderfully written and characteristically brilliant' Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads'Elegant, readable ... an impressive synthesis ... Not many historians could have done it' - Jonathan Sumption, Spectator'Tyerman's book is fascinating not...

How can an ordinary church become a community of people who help one another live out their whole life at home, work, church, in the neighbourhood as followers of Jesus in his mission to the world? This book is for those who want life together in...

This classic biography was first published forty-five years ago and has since established itself as the standard account of Saint Augustine's life and teaching.About the AuthorPeter Brown is Rollins Professor of History emeritus at Princeton University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596363281Author Timothy Paul JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Rose PublishingPublisher Rose Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802818379Author Malcolm MuggeridgeFormat PaperbackImprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

The early church spread with remarkable speed, impelled by joy, urgency, profound compassion, and the day-to-day experience of working in the power of the Holy Spirit. Despite opposition at all levels, the first Christians expressed their love and wonder...

Egypt's Copts make up one of the oldest and largest Christian communities in the Middle East. Yet despite the availability of a large number of books on aspects of Coptic culture, including art and architecture, monasticism, theology, and music, there is...

The recent National Geographic special on the Gospel of Judas was a major media event, introducing to tens of millions of viewers one of the most important biblical discoveries of modern times. Now, a leading historian of the early church, Bart Ehrman,...

International bestselling author Scott Hahn guides readers through the Catholic Church's rites, customs and traditional prayers. The book is divided into forty reflections each examining a traditional Catholic devotion or custom, including the Rosary,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980187717Author Laurie J WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Shorter Word PressPublisher Shorter Word PressWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 254mm...

Do you think that Jesus only surrounded himself with men? Think again. Inspired by their popular Channel 4 documentary Jesus' Female Disciples, historians Helen Bond and Joan Taylor explore the way in which Mary the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary,...

This tenth anniversary revised edition of the authoritative text on Christianity's first thousand years of history features a new preface, additional color images, and an updated bibliography. The essential general survey of medieval European...

From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints--the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days...

Uniting the whole history of God's activity in one encompassing divine economy, Irenaeus demonstrates that there is but one God, who has made Himself known through His one Son, Jesus Christ, by the one Holy Spirit, to the one human race.Book...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), or Vatican II, is arguably the most significant event in the life of the Catholic Church since the Reformation. The Council initiated, intentionally or not,...

Born in 1360, Jan Zizka was a formidable figure whose life and military career was set amidst the whirlwind of monumental revolutions - military, religious, political and social - that engulfed medieval Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The leader...

How to Be a Christian brings together the best of Lewis's insights on Christian practice and its expression in our daily lives. Cultivated from his many essays, articles, and letters, as well as his classic works. From the revered teacher and...

The cross of Christ has proven to be no less of a "stumbling blockfor Christians living in the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, than it was in the first century, when the newly established community of friends and...

Evangelicalism has rapidly become one of the most significant religious movements in the modern world. An umbrella term that encompasses many Protestant denominations that share core tenets of Christianity, evangelicalism is foremost defined by its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852441879Author Paul SpackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 444g

On Easter, 2014, Britain's best-loved vicar, the Rev. Richard Coles, led a pilgrimage to all the major historic sites of the Holy Land: from Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee in the North, via Jericho and the Jordan River, to Bethlehem and, finally,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087784441Author Katie McCoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint LifeWay Christian ResourcesPublisher LifeWay Christian Resources

Why did the young Protestant monarch William of Orange fail to make his mark on Scotland? How did a particularly hard-line 'Protester' branch of Presbyterianism (the last off-shoot of the Convenanting movement) become the established Church in Scotland?...

127 short chapters the story of one of the world's largest religions. A History of the Catholic Church tells in 127 short chapters the story of one of the world's largest religions from its roots in Jewish history to the pontificate of Benedict XVI...

This is a history of the King James Version of the Bible (known in Britain as the Authorised Version) over the four hundred years from its remote beginnings to the present day. Gordon Campbell, expert in Renaissance literatures, tells the fascinating...

The Renaissance and Reformation were exciting times of learning and discovery - they pushed the boundaries of accepted thought. The repercussions of this, however, were that they left in their wake a period of universal uncertainty. The centuries-old...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802843685Author Robert E.Van VoorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532657016Author Oscar CullmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

This book is intended as an introduction to the principal forms and orders of Western liturgy between about 900 and 1700, to explain their nature and basic historical origin, and to present in detail the contents and orders of principal services as well...

Christianity Today 2024 Book Award Finalist (Culture and the Arts) "Provides plenty of fodder for those wishing to explore what evangelicalism is and reimagine what it might become. It's an eye-opener."--Publishers Weekly "Akin to enjoying a lively...

This volume contains a critical edition and translation of the Coptic texts on Abraham of Farshut, the last Coptic orthodox archimandrite of the Pachomian federation in Upper Egypt. While past studies have focused on the origins and early years of this,...

The Cross is the universal symbol of the Christian faith. But what does the Cross mean? Why did Jesus have to die? In this magisterial and best-selling book, John Stott unpacks the significance of Christ's cross and answers objections commonly brought...

In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South--in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on...

The Renaissance was a reaction against the attitude of the Middle Ages. And the Reformation was the passionate, divisive argument that grew out of it. Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans, Anabaptists - our present-day divisions were the front-page headlines...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780830837052Author Thomas C. OdenFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Inter-Varsity Press,USPublisher InterVarsity PressWeight(grams) 268gDimensions(mm)...

This is the story of Mary Slessor, a petite redhead from the slums of Dundee who became one of the most influencing people in the land known to her compatriots as 'the white man's grave'. Despite her eccentricities, this woman truly understood and...

Many of us find the Old testament daunting. It seems long and very distant. If the Old Testament is unknown territory to you, here's just the book to get you into it. Alec Motyer leads us through six key themes of the Old Testament, history, religion,...

The differences and discrepancies in the Gospels constitute the foremost objections to their reliability and the credibility of their message. Some have tried to resolve Gospels contradictions with strained harmonization efforts. Many others conclude...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913518776Author E R ChamberlinFormat PaperbackPage Count 370Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...