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'An absolute godsend ... Goodman has done both Jews and non-Jews a great service with this book, encapsulating most of Jewish thought over four millennia into one extraordinarily readable volume' Julia Neuberger, Literary ReviewA panoramic history of...

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life in the court of the House of Stuart has been...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602064690Author Reverend Alexander RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 848gDimensions(mm)...

John Finney's account of Celtic and Roman evangelism will challenge and change the way we evangeliseBook InformationISBN 9780232520835Author John FinneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Darton, Longman & Todd LtdPublisher Darton, Longman & Todd...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911184041Author Tom FeilingFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Explore Books (London)Publisher Explore Books (London)Weight(grams) 620g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783981826029Author Micahel HudsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint IsletPublisher Islet

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781930051263Author Keith AkersFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Lantern Books,USPublisher Lantern Books,USDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781170529744Author Samuel WesleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Gale Ecco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ecco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572930506Author David McCaslandFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Barbour & Co IncPublisher Barbour & Co Inc

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...

Maximos the Confessor (580-662) occupies a unique position in the history of Byzantine philosophy, theology, and spirituality. His profound spiritual experiences and penetrating theological vision found complex and often astonishing expression in his...

This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the least familiar periods in Britain's history. Ronald Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological,...

A true story of freedom and miraculous healing as a Muslim girl finds faith in Christ When Gulshan Esther, a devout Muslim girl, was six months old, typhoid left her a cripple. Her loving father took her from Pakistan to England to find a cure, but the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609804995Author Thomas BerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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)...

This is a text-only paperback edition of The Oxford History of the Biblical World. a comprehensive survey of the world from which the Bible emerged. Chronologically ordered, it is an authoritative synthesis written by leading scholars and incorporating...

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...

What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, fairies, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? This Very Short Introduction outlines some of the more prominent stories and speculations about...

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...

This is the first full-scale translation and commentary in English of Aurelius Victor's De Caesaribus, which provides a brief survey of the emperors of Rome from Octavian Augustus in 30 BC to Constantius II in AD 360.Book InformationISBN...

The issue of wealth and poverty and its relationship to Christian faith is as ancient as the New Testament and reaches even further back to the Hebrew Scriptures. From the beginnings of the Christian movement, the issue of how to deal with riches and...

During the Middle Ages, the Western world translated the incredible Arabic scientific corpus and imported it into Western culture: Arabic philosophy, optics, and physics, as well as alchemy, astrology, and talismanic magic. The line between the...

New in paperback by Laurence Gardner, the bestselling author of Bloodline of the Holy Grail. From the tombs of pharaonic Egypt, to the laboratories of modern science, comes the extraordinary account of gravity defiance and teleportation in the ancient...

'Masterfully opens up a little explored realm: how the quest for religion and spirituality drives hundreds of millions of Chinese' Pankaj Mishra'A fascinating odyssey ... a nuanced group portrait of Chinese citizens striving for non-material answers in...

The extraordinary life of the man who founded Islam, and the world he inhabited - and remade.Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of...

A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow...

Spirituality in the post-9/11 world is a complex topic. The detente between secular culture and religious faith that characterised the 20th century, the mutual ignorance pact, has been shattered. From the rise of Islamic extremism to the American...

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...

A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789592108Author Paul SevernFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Sacristy PressPublisher Sacristy PressWeight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

In 1213, Pope Innocent III issued his letter Vineam Domini, thundering against the enemies of Christendom-the "beasts of many kinds that are attempting to destroy the vineyard of the Lord of Sabaoth"-and announcing a General Council of the Latin Church...

How did Christianity become the dominant religion in the West? In the early first century, a small group of peasants from the backwaters of the Roman Empire proclaimed that an executed enemy of the state was God's messiah. Less than four hundred years...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640248Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams)...

Graeco-Roman religion in its classic form was polytheistic; on the other hand, monotheistic ideas enjoyed wide currency in ancient philosophy. This contradiction provides a challenge for our understanding of ancient pagan religion. Certain forms of cult...

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is widely regarded as the most authoritative text on yoga. It comprises a collection of 196 Indian sutras ("threads" - as sutra translates from Sanskrit) written 1,700 years ago. These threads or aphorisms were compiled by...

There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history, a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Militant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with the zeal of missionaries and find...

'An outstanding intellectual biography.' Eugene Rogan In 1813, high in the Lebanese mountains, a thirteen-year-old boy watches a solar eclipse. Will it foretell a war, a plague, the death of a prince? Mikha’il Mishaqa’s lifelong search for truth starts...

A panoramic exploration of peoples, objects and beliefs over 40,000 years from the celebrated author of A History of the World in 100 Objects and Germany, following the new BBC Radio 4 documentary and British Museum exhibition. One of the central facts...

Enduring and influential early Christian texts.The writings of the Apostolic Fathers give a rich and diverse picture of Christian life and thought in the period immediately after New Testament times. Some of them were accorded almost Scriptural authority...

'Paganism' is an evocative word that, even today, conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory term used by Christians to describe the non-Christian cultures confronted and vanquished by their Churches...