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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981826029Author Michael HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint IsletPublisher IsletWeight(grams) 567g

Based on the highly acclaimed Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, this is an indispensable guide for both students and the general reader. Over 6,000 entries provide authoritative coverage of theology, patristic scholarship, churches and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784611743Author Huw EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

A source book for students of the patristic period and a companion volume to "Creeds, Councils and Controversies" and "Doctrine and Practice in the Early Church" This updated edition incorporates vital documents that were not available when the original...

Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647996321Author Maria MonkFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Bibliotech PressPublisher Bibliotech PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

First published in 1980, The Christian Mystery presents a new approach to considering the Mysteries of the Faith. The book examines the doctrines of Christianity, analysing them closely and showing how together they constitute an invisible whole. It...

Pioneering study of the role of the Christian churches in the Rwandan genocide of the Tutsi; a key work for historians, memory studies scholars, religion scholars and Africanists. Why did some sectors of the Rwandan churches adopt an ambiguous attitude...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439123324Author James D. TaborFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

'O day so ardently desired! O time of times the most memorable! O deed before all other deeds!'The fall of Jerusalem in the summer of 1099 to an exhausted and starving army of Western European soldiers was one of the most extraordinary events of the...

*A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020*'Brilliant and gripping, here is the full true Renaissance in a history of compelling originality and freshness' Simon Sebag MontefioreThe Italian Renaissance shaped Western culture - but it was far stranger and darker...

Following the publication of his revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English, 3rd ed., Michael Holmes, a leading expert on these texts, offers a thoroughly revised and redesigned bilingual edition, featuring Greek (or Latin) and English on...

We have misunderstood Paul, badly. We have read his words through our own set of assumptions. We need to begin with Paul's world view, to see things the way he saw them. - What if 'original sin' was never part of Paul's thinking? - What if the...

The Summa Contra Gentiles is not merely the only complete summary of Christian doctrine that St. Thomas has written, but also a creative and even revolutionary work of Christian apologetics composed at the precise moment when Christian thought needed to...

In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subjects were required to subscribe to a belief in the Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. This edict defined Christian orthodoxy and brought to an end a...

Since its first appearance in 1991, The European Reformation has offered a clear, integrated, and coherent analysis and explanation of how Christianity in Western and Central Europe from Iceland to Hungary, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into...

In this rousing book, David Adam celebrates the lives and interweaving stories of Aidan, Bede and Cuthbert. Recalling, in a personal introduction, his ordination to the pastoral ministry in Durham Cathedral (the burial place of Bede and Cuthbert) and his...

These books focus on the sayings of Jesus.Book InformationISBN 9780809106264Author St. Irenaeus of LyonsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Paulist Press International,U.S.Publisher Paulist Press International,U.S.Weight(grams) 272g

Newell explores the way Celtic spirituality is characterised by listening for God within ourselves, others and the whole of creation. He illustrates his book with writings such as the Carmina Gadelica, a collection of traditional folk poetry.About the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944967550Author Stephen de YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Ancient Faith PublishingPublisher Ancient Faith PublishingWeight(grams)...

The Order of the Temple, founded in 1119 to protect pilgrims around Jerusalem, developed into one of the most influential corporations in the medieval world. It has retained its hold on the modern imagination thanks to the dramatic events of the...

This study offers a fresh approach to reception historical studies of New Testament texts, guided by a methodology introduced by ancient historians who study Graeco-Roman educational texts. In the course of six chapters, the author identifies and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852441688Author St. BenedictFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint GracewingPublisher GracewingWeight(grams) 197g

In Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition, Roland Boer presents key moments in the 2,000 year tradition of Christian communism. Defined by the two features of alternative communal practice and occasional revolutionary action, Christian...

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...

An expansive guide to the medieval world, with new attention to women, ordinary parishioners, attitudes toward Jews and Muslims, and more For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign-an often brutal and seemingly irrational time of superstition,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532657740Author James CareyFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 689gDimensions(mm)...

A major new interpretation of how one of the great figures of Christian history came to write the greatest of all autobiographiesAugustine is the person from the ancient world about whom we know most. He is the author of an intimate masterpiece, the...

This book, which includes a new preface by the author, offers an engrossing portrayal of the early years of the Christian movement from the perspective of the Romans. "A fascinating . . . account of early Christian thought. . . . Readable and exciting...

The Knights Templar were the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land, they participated in the Crusades and rapidly gained wealth, lands and influence and were answerable to none save the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061497261Author Walter RauschenbuschFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperSanFranciscoPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 316g

Medieval Monasticism traces the Western Monastic tradition from its fourth-century origins in the deserts of Egypt and Syria through the many and varied forms of religious life it assumed during the Middle Ages. It explores the relationship between...

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...

Drawing on history, art history, literary criticism and theory, gender studies, theology and psychoanalysis, this interdisciplinary study analyzes the cultural significance of the Shrine of our Lady of Walsingham, medieval England's most significant...

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope. Praise for the earlier...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898704785Author Scott W. HahnFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 230mm * 134mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060560058Author Jeff SharletFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Geza Vermes, translator and editor of The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls and worldwide expert on the life and times of Jesus, tells the enthralling story of early Christianity and the origins of a religion. The creation of the Christian Church is one of the...

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