Religion: general Books

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

WORK IS IN FRENCHThis book is a reproduction of a work published before 1920 and is part of a collection of books reprinted and edited by Hachette Livre, in the framework of a partnership with the National Library of France, providing the opportunity to...

First Presbyterian Church of Columbus, Indiana, has fashioned a long and rich history since it was chartered on July 3, 1824, by circuit rider John M. Dickey, with 17 members in attendance. Its first elder was a wounded Revolutionary War veteran. The Rev...

"We take great pleasure in presenting to the attention of students and investigators of the Secret Doctrines this little work based upon the world-old Hermetic Teachings. There has been so little written upon this subject, not withstanding the countless...

La presente publicación es un curso básico de Patrología. Está basada en las notas preparadas por el autor para sus alumnos de las clases de esa asignatura que impartió en su día en el Seminario de San Bernardo de Chile. El cuerpo de estos...

On the Deaths of the Persecutors is a work of considerable historical import containing details about the Roman Empire of the early 4th century AD that are found nowhere else. In this unique work, Lactantius creates a hybrid of history and...

Beginning's End is a contemporary outlook on the Sufi sciences of self-knowledge, intended for Muslims and non-Muslims alike. The author holds that truth has no end and is eternal, and that is why human beings will seek total freedom, of which...

An International Journal is a fully refereed academic journal aimed principally at providing an outlet for an ever expanding Bonhoeffer scholarship in Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific region, as well as being open to article submissions from...

Extracts from the Conclusions:…The book also tracks the modern day religious descendants of the first Christian converts –Jews, indigenous Aramaic and Coptic speaking gentiles, and even the Greek (Antiochian/Melkite) colonists living in the...

Through a diverse range of contributors and a global perspective, the book elucidates how opposition operates across different political contexts, making it an indispensable resource for comprehending the intricacies of executive-legislative relations in...

Ni Jesús ni sus primeros discípulos sabían exactamente cuándo él regresaría, pero después de que dejara la tierra, rabinos judíos y los principales líderes de la iglesia cristiana descubrieron que los profetas ciertamente habían revelado la respuesta,...

Neither Jesus nor his first disciples knew exactly when he would return, but not long after he left the earth, Jewish rabbis and the principal leaders of the Christian church discovered that the prophets had indeed revealed the answer, one which was...

In this companion book to Heaven and Hell, David Pawson continues with the subject of the life to come, which despite being integral to the Christian faith is too often neglected. David considers the biblical teaching on the last things (death, judgment,...

Philosophy of Ethics is a translation of the Persian book Falsafeh-ye Akhlaq by the great Muslim thinker and reformer Ayatullah Murtada Mutahhari. Some of the topics discussed in this book are as follows: what-ness of ethics, natural action and...

For his fifteenth-century followers, Jesus was everywhere - from baptism to bloodcults to bowling. This sweeping and unconventional investigation looks at Jesus across one hundred forty years of social, cultural, and intellectual history. Mystics married...

Marietta Davis was a young woman who, aged twenty-five, went into a deep slumber that lasted nine days: upon waking, she told those present of religious visions she had experienced whilst asleep.The visions Marietta attested to have experienced were...

The Waldensians, members of a dissident religious movement originating in twelfth-century France, are particularly significant for understanding early Church history. This collection discusses the construction and transmission of Waldensian identity...

Why should we want to go to Heaven? Is it just pie in the sky? Discover the difference that the Bible's story of the dimension of Heaven makes for life now.What happens to us when we die? Will heaven be a place of fluffy clouds, angels and cherubs...

What makes a space Jewish? This wide-ranging volume revisits literal as well as metaphorical spaces in modern German history to examine the ways in which Jewishness has been attributed to them both within and outside of Jewish communities, and what the...

Ce livre est destiné à la fois à ceux qui ont déjà une bonne connaissance de la culture indienne, et à ceux qui sont fascinés par ses aspects extérieurs, mais trouvent difficile d'y pénétrer. Et peut-être ici comprendre n'est pas si important que...

"Dear Millennials" is an illustrated adult children's book. It brings readers on a journey from outside to within through poetry and prose, allegory and illusion, language and image. Spaced across time and whimsical cadence,...

Can we create a Christian culture in a post-Christian world?There was a time when society itself was inspired by Christian principles. But for many, Christendom's failure to stop revolution and world war in the twentieth century have discredited...

This new biography of Henry viii tells the tale of one of the most influential monarchs in the world's history. Detailing Henry's assent to the throne of Britain and detailing his momentous break from the Roman Catholic church as a result of internal...

Questions relating to (im)migration are among the most heated topics on both sides of the Atlantic. Western societies have changed dramatically because of large-scale immigration in the last decades. Christians are also engaged in the discussion,...

The World Transparent examines the spiritual themes that have populated our Western and Christian tradition for many centuries. From a sacramental standpoint, and using forty well-loved films as illustrations, The World Transparent endeavors to guide the...

Is social enterprise yet another example of the expansion of the market into all areas of life and society, in this case the marketization of poverty? Or does it offer genuine hope as part of a solution to some of the challenges facing contemporary...

Although asserting one's ethnic identity is not morally wrong, the manner in which one ethnic group construes or relates to the ethnic other(s) can obliterate the bond of togetherness and create the insecurity of life. Ethiopia, which is home to...

With the world turned upside down by the global pandemic, people of faith aligned to the upside-down kingdom of Jesus, are asking, how do we sing the Lord's song in these times? How do we now live, worship, and serve amid such upheaval, insecurity, fear,...

In a world in which genuine forgiveness seems as rare a commodity as ever, this collection of essays offers an opportunity to explore where and in what forms forgiveness may be found in the Hebrew Bible--a text which is foundational for Western religions...

The legal and political scenario of Calvin's day involved upheavals deriving from the force of religion upon law. Whole cities, provinces, and states came under Reformation influence, ranging from quiet individual conversions to Protestantism to the...