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Christian Fundamentalism in America: A Cultural History by David S. New 9780786470587
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €23.31Today the United States is plagued with cultural and political polarization--the Reds and the Blues. Because religion has been of great significance in America right from the first colonists who... -
Pragmatism and American Experience: An Introduction by Joan Richardson 9780521145381
RRP: €28.56Booksplease Price: €27.27Pragmatism and American Experience provides a lucid and elegant introduction to America's defining philosophy. Joan Richardson charts the nineteenth-century origins of pragmatist thought and its... -
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology: The Humanist Tradition in Peril by Avihu Zakai 9783319409573
Booksplease Price: €119.04This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach's life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual... -
Theology and Spirituality in the Works of Samuel Davies by Joseph C. Harrod 9783525573143
Booksplease Price: €103.09From his death in 1761 through the American Civil War, Samuel Davies was a recognized name among American Presbyterians, yet for more than a century he has remained far more obscure in discussions of... -
Against Slavery: An Abolitionist Reader by Mason Lowance 9780140437584
Booksplease Price: €23.06"An invaluable resource to students, scholars, and general readers alike."-Amazon.comThis colleciton assembles more than forty speeches, lectures, and essays critical to the abolitionist crusade,... -
Reframing the Doctrine of the Atonement Johnson 9781577997252
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.77In The Reconciling Wisdom of God: Reframing the Doctrine of the Atonement, Adam Johnson, already a leading scholar of the atonement, considers God's redemptive work in Christ through the atonement as... -
American Philosophy before Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman 9780198801535
Booksplease Price: €40.39Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin,... -
The Eighteenth Century: A World History John O. Voll 9780195338003
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €19.78The eighteenth century was a time of major global transitions. Movements of religious and intellectual revival challenged established ideas, European colonies emerged in the Western hemisphere,... -
Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine by Peter J. Thuesen 9780199832392
RRP: €37.47Booksplease Price: €24.63Winner of the Christianity Today 2010 Book Award for History/Biography, and praised in Christian Century as "witty...erudite...masterful," this groundbreaking history, the first of its kind, shows... -
The Work We Have to Do: A History of Protestants in America by Mark A. Noll 9780195154979
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €10.38A readable, far-reaching history of a multi-denominational, multi-regional, and multi-ethnic religious group, Protestants in America explores the physical and ideological roots of the denomination up... -
The Holy Trinity: Understanding God's Life: Understanding God's Life by Stephen R. Holmes 9781842277416
Booksplease Price: €18.20Taking the late twentieth-century revival of the doctrine of the Trinity as a context, this book examines the development of that doctrine from the biblical text to the present day. The book traces... -
A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America by Peter Gay 9780520365346
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €84.36A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America by Peter Gay offers a brilliant exploration of how early New Englanders wrote their history and what that writing reveals about the Puritan... -
The Undressed by Jemma L. King 9781909844803
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.28The Undressed is a poetry collection inspired by a cache of antique nude photographs of women. King studied the photographs ranging from the 1840s to the 1930s and attempted to return voices to these... -
Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present by John Gatta 9780195165067
RRP: €57.70Booksplease Price: €39.27In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for 'natural... -
American Philosophy: A Historical Anthology by Barbara MacKinnon 9780873959230
RRP: €37.31Booksplease Price: €35.85This anthology demonstrates the richness and diversity of the American intellectual heritage. In it we see how Jonathan Edwards grapples with the problem of how to reconcile freedom and... -
A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America by Peter Gay 9780520338487
RRP: €40.46Booksplease Price: €37.24A Loss of Mastery: Puritan Historians in Colonial America by Peter Gay offers a brilliant exploration of how early New Englanders wrote their history and what that writing reveals about the Puritan... -
Defending Sin: A Response to the Challenges of Evolution and the Natural Sciences by Hans Madueme 9780801098000
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €22.65The conflict between the natural sciences and Christian theology has been going on for centuries. Recent advances in the fields of evolutionary biology, behavioral genetics, and neuroscience have... -
Inventing Eden: Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England by Zachary McLeod Hutchins 9780199998142
RRP: €115.43Booksplease Price: €97.60As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal... -
God Incarnate: Explorations in Christology by Oliver Crisp 9780567033482
Booksplease Price: €44.99Oliver Crisp examines the doctrine of the incarnation as one of the central and defining dogmas of the Christian faith. The doctrine of the incarnation is one of the central and defining dogmas of... -
The World of the Haitian Revolution by David Patrick Geggus
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €22.06In January 1804, the once wealthy colony of Saint-Domingue declared its independence from France and adopted the Amerindian name "Haiti." Independence was the outcome of the extraordinary uprising of... -
The Rites of Assent: Transformations in the Symbolic Construction of America by Sacvan Bercovitch
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €57.24The Rites of Assent examines the cultural strategies through which "America" served as a vehicle simultaneously for diversity and cohesion, fusion and fragmentation. Taking an ethnographic,... -
Divine Hiddenness: New Essays by Daniel Howard-Snyder
RRP: €30.94Booksplease Price: €27.26For many people the existence of God is by no means a sufficiently clear feature of reality. This problem, the fact of divine hiddenness, has been a source of existential concern and has sometimes... -
Encounters: Authentic experiences of God by John Woolmer 9781854247704
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.07This book has been written to record the experiences of a wide variety of Christians which seem, to them, to establish the existence of God and in particular the truth of the risen Christ beyond... -
Preaching in the Last Days: The Theme of `Two Witnesses' in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by Rodney L. Petersen 9780195073744
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €100.23Among the enigmatic prophecies of the Book of Revelation is a passage (11.3-13) concerning `two witnesses' who will appear in the dark days of the church to preach or prophesy with powers like those... -
Issues in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion by Eugene Thomas Long 9789401038942
Booksplease Price: €107.77This collection of original articles, written by leading contemporary European and American philosophers of religion, is presented in celebration of the publication of the fiftieth volume of the... -
The Eighteenth Century: A World History by John O. Voll 9780195153187
Booksplease Price: €79.84The eighteenth century was a time of major global transitions. Movements of religious and intellectual revival challenged established ideas, European colonies emerged in the Western hemisphere,... -
The Lives of David Brainerd: The Making of an American Evangelical Icon by John A. Grigg 9780195372373
RRP: €104.72Booksplease Price: €88.38David Brainerd is one of the most enigmatic figures in American religious history. Born in Connecticut in 1718, he entered Yale at the age of 21. Expelled in 1741 for refusing to accept the... -
John Calvin's American Legacy by Thomas Davis 9780195390971
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €61.67John Calvin's American Legacy explores the ways Calvin and the Calvinist tradition have influenced American life. Though there are books that trace the role Calvin and Calvinism have played in the... -
Mallarme Poems, The by Matthew Jarvis
RRP: €5.94Booksplease Price: €5.43"The Mallarme Poems introduces a vibrant and exciting new voice in Welsh poetry. More than anything, I am struck by the way in which these poems are alive: through these black marks on the page, a... -
How to Carry Fire by Christina Thatcher 9781912681488
Booksplease Price: €15.04How to Carry Fire was born from the ashes of family addiction. Beginning with the burning down of her childhood home, Thatcher explores how fire can both destroy and cleanse. Her work recognises... -
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Emotion by John Corrigan 9780190608583
RRP: €58.89Booksplease Price: €52.80The academic study of religion recently has turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life. Researchers have set out in several directions to explore that new terrain... -
Divine Hiddenness: New Essays by Daniel Howard-Snyder 9780521803533
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €85.64For many people the existence of God is by no means a sufficiently clear feature of reality. This problem, the fact of divine hiddenness, has been a source of existential concern and has sometimes... -
The Future of Orthodox Anglicanism by Gerald R. McDermott
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €14.95In 11 essays by leading Anglican scholars, this book clarifies what sets Anglicanism apart from other denominations and offers clarity for the future of the communion.About the AuthorGerald R... -
A Nation with the Soul of a Church: How Christian Proclamation Has Shaped American History by O. C. Edwards, Jr. 9780313393853
Booksplease Price: €73.70From the very beginning, religious leaders have influenced the course of American history-sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. This book examines those Christian sermons that set or changed the... -
Heaven in the American Imagination by Gary Scott Smith 9780199738953
RRP: €52.35Booksplease Price: €39.63Does heaven exist? If so, what is it like? And how does one get in? Throughout history, painters, poets, philosophers, pastors, and many ordinary people have pondered these questions. Perhaps no... -
Pragmatism and Religion: CLASSICAL SOURCES AND ORIGINAL ESSAYS by Stuart E. Rosenbaum
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €21.71This distinctive collection of classical and contemporary readings comes at a time when pragmatism is undergoing a renaissance across a spectrum of disciplines. Pragmatism and Religion addresses an... -
Feeling Godly: Religious Affections and Christian Contact in Early North America by Caroline Wigginton
Booksplease Price: €93.68In 1746, Jonathan Edwards described his philosophy on the process of Christian conversion in A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections. For Edwards, a strict Congregationalist, true conversion is... -
American Philosophy before Pragmatism by Russell B. Goodman 9780199577545
RRP: €72.59Booksplease Price: €67.50Russell B. Goodman tells the story of the development of philosophy in America from the mid-18th century to the late 19th century. The key figures in this story, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin,... -
A History of Philosophy in America: 1720-2000 by Bruce Kuklick 9780199260164
RRP: €54.13Booksplease Price: €51.78Here at last is an American counterpart to Bertrand Russell's History of Western Philosophy. The eminent historian Bruce Kuklick tells the fascinating story of the growth of philosophical thinking in... -
The Spiritual Senses: Perceiving God in Western Christianity by Paul L. Gavrilyuk 9781107685949
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €52.98Is it possible to see, hear, touch, smell and taste God? How do we understand the biblical promise that the 'pure in heart' will 'see God'? Christian thinkers as diverse as Origen of Alexandria,...