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Die Reihe Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZNW) ist eine der ältesten undrenommiertesten internationalen Buchreihen zur neutestamentlichen Wissenschaft. Seit 1923 publiziert sie wegweisende Forschungsarbeiten zum frühen...

„Es handelt sich um ein von Liturgikern herzlich gern und immer noch verwendetes Standardwerk." Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christoph Markschies

« Je ne vois dans aucune littérature un procédé de composition qui puisse donner une idée exacte de la rédaction du Coran. Ce n’est ni le livre écrit avec suite, ni le texte vague et...

The fascination with the end times seems to be more popular today than ever. There is a constant stream of new books, movies, and TV shows dealing with the coming apocalypse, rapture, and the Lords return. With every news story coming out of the Mideast,...

The Pope of Rome is the best known and most influential moral and religious leader in the world. Pick up the paper, turn on the T.V., and there he is. Every government in the world has to deal with him somehow. Love him or hate him, there is no denying...

 This book explores the letters of Bishop Basil of Caesarea as instruments of communion. In particular, it examines how Basil used his letters as instruments for arriving at, maintaining and expressing communion within a pro-Nicene church. For...

The Basis of Union is a historic document, finalised in 1971, to provide the theological and biblical foundations for what was to become the Uniting Church in Australia. The fiftieth anniversary of its publication provided a fitting opportunity to review...

Uno de los signos más característicos y significativos de la hostilidad de los judíos hacia los europeos es su odio al cristianismo. Rosenberg da muestras de este odio a partir del Talmud, así como de la obra llamada Toledot Yeshu, que pretende dar...

From German unification in 1871 through the early 1960s, confessional tensions between Catholics and Protestants were a source of deep division in German society. Engaging this period of historic strife, Germany and the Confessional Divide focuses on...

Do you want to be on the cutting edge of the future of yoga?If you desire an authentic yoga practice embracing ancient yogic philosophy and traditions but don't know how to embody that knowledge with integrity in today's modern yoga culture, Embrace...

This book is a commentary on Love to the Lost, a pamphlet published by the early Quaker James Nayler in February 1656. It explores Nayler’s theology described in this pamphlet, which was written prior to his blasphemy conviction, as similar to that...

HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE BIBLE  is literally a "Handbook on Homosexuality"  because it contains two Sections that deal with all the Bible texts and Modern Topics related to the issue.  It contains a SCRIPTURAL SECTION that contains...

""I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one--as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the...

How do twenty-first century Christians communicate the Bible and their faith in today's mediascape? Members of the International Orality Network (ION) believe that the answer to that paramount question is: orality. For too long, they argue, presentations...

This was written by our author in confutation of certain heretics who denied the reality of Christ’s flesh, or at least its identity with human flesh—fearing that, if they admitted the reality of Christ’s flesh, they must also admit his...

De Principiis, which contains Origen’s views on various questions of systematic theology. The work has come down to us in the Latin translation of his admirer Rufinus; but, from a comparison of the few fragments of the original Greek which have...

The Pastor of Hermas is a Christian literary work of the 1st or 2nd century, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and considered canonical scripture by some of the early Church fathers such as Irenaeus. The Pastor or “The Shepherd of...

It is difficult to treat of the virtue of the soul, which is called Continence, in a manner fully suitable and worthy; but He, whose great gift this virtue is, will help our littleness under the burden of so great a weight. For He, who bestows it upon...

“I Addressed two books to the Illustrious Count Valerius, upon hearing that the Pelagians had brought sundry vague charges upon us—how, for instance, we condemned marriage by maintaining Original Sin. These books are entitled, On Marriage and...

In the fourteenth chapter of the second book of his Retractations, Augustin makes the following statement: “There is also a book of ours on the subject of the Catechising of the Uninstructed, [or, for Instructing the Unlearned, De Catechizandis...

“After the conviction and condemnation of the Pelagian heresy with its authors by the bishops of the Church of Rome, —first Innocent, and then Zosimus, —with the cooperation of letters of African councils, I wrote two books against...

Through the assisting mercy of God, the snares of the Manichæans having been broken to pieces and left behind, having been restored at length to the bosom of the Catholic Church, I am disposed now at least to consider and to deplore my recent...

Moreover now at Hippo-Regius as Presbyter I wrote a book on the Profit of Believing, to a friend of mine who had been taken in by the Manichees, and whom I knew to be still held in that error, and to deride the Catholic school of Faith, in that men were...

We know with certainty regarding Athenagoras, that he was an Athenian philosopher who had embraced Christianity, and that his Apology, or, as he styles it, “Embassy”, was presented to the Emperors Aurelius and Commodus about a.d. 177. He is...

To write the Book on the Work of Monks, the need which compelled me was this. When at Carthage there had begun to be monasteries, some maintained themselves by their own hands, obeying the Apostle; but others wished so to live on the oblations of the...

Whatever noxious vapors, accordingly, exhaled from philosophy, obscure the clear and wholesome atmosphere of truth, it will be for Christians to clear away, both by shattering to pieces the arguments which are drawn from the principles of things—I...

This treatise was written about 400 A.D. Concerning it Aug. in Retract. Book II. c. xviii., says: I have written seven books on Baptism against the Donatists, who strive to defend themselves by the authority of the most blessed bishop and martyr Cyprian;...

Not everyone has a dream, but everyone who has a dream wants to know what it means! This book helps you get to the meaning in a way that has YOUR signature on it. Many dreams are personal and have their own signature, a language all its own. Find your...

Raising Jesus from the grave changed everything for all people for all time. This most profound act of God sealed a divine trilogy of events which would provide entree to the divine life Jesus previously claimed He would make available.Now seated beside...

Einen Überblick über die Ursprünge von Mond- und Sonnenanbetung, Astrologie, Sex Symbolismus, Mystische Bedeutung der Zahlen, der Kabbala, und viele beliebte Bräuche, Sagen, Aberglaube und religiöser Glaube Wenn Sie dieses Buch...

Covers many who were considered heroes and icons, showing they were really human just like us. None of us are perfect and some, in positions of power or influence, can be downright stupid. This book is filled with good examples. Covers Aristotle and the...

The story of Wheeler Mission demonstrates the amazing things that can be accomplished by dedicated men and women who follow Gods leading in their lives. Beginning with the life of founder William Wheeler, the book reviews the history and growth of one of...

This study probes the American religious press between 1943 and 1945 to determine what was reported about Nazi death camps. Catholic and Protestant periodicals between 1945 and 1949 are also examined to evaluate the impact that the Holocaust had on the...

Ventura County has its roots in the founding of Mission San Buenaventura during the Spanish era (1769-1821). During the Mexican era (1822-1846), expansive mission lands were divided and granted out as ranchos for individual landownership to those with...

Authority lies at the very center of what it means to be called together in an ecclesial community and shapes how the Church understands its purpose and orders its activity. It can manifest itself as something owned and used by those in power, yet it is...

Heinrich Bullinger, the friend and successor of Huldrych Zwingli, led the Zurich church for almost fifty years after Zwingli's death and was largely responsible for the construction of the Reformed church in the sixteenth century. Nevertheless, Bullinger...

Chasing Paper is an important new collection of essays written by senior publishers from around the world who have spent their careers in Christian publishing. Here they discuss the dramatic changes witnessed by the Christian publishing industry over the...

From time to time, James L. Mayfield has used the Apostles' Creed as a catalyst for his personal meditation. The heart of his spiritual exercise was to respond in writing to what he was discovering about the gospel, life in general, and his life in...

This keepsake edition of Book of Zephaniah was taken from the King James translation of the Bible. The King James Translation is a masterwork of style, and the most important book in the English language, it  has been the driving force in shaping...

Things have changed a great deal in the past 3,500 years, and it may surprise you to read about the lives of long-dead biblical heroes with new details and fresh eyes. Your understanding of the people of the Bible, how they lived, what their concerns...

Masada Revisited II gives a different view of what happened at Masada in 73ce when the Jewish defenders, according to the only historical account as given by Josephus in his book "The Jewish War", committed mass suicide. Many Jewish people are...