History of religion Books

Women are given impossible choices every day. This is how we got here. Ronna Russell weaves a backward-in-time series of short stories depicting the violent oppression, complicity, and participation of white women, exposing individual choices that...

Ever heard this one? Revelation is impossible to understand, and anyone who says otherwise is lying to you.Of course, there's also the people who say this one: The events in Revelation are happening now! Or at the very least, they're about to happen. ...

Second EditionAs a missionary to West Africa, Grace Farrar recounts the joys and frustrations of family life in the field and tells about the struggles involved in establishing the Nigerian Christian Hospital. She chronicles their work from 1964, when...

How did ordinary Christians achieve extraordinary results while spreading the Gospel in Peru? By the power of the Holy Spirit!Each missionary knew he had been chosen by the grace of God and called to serve in Peru, leaving family, friends, and country to...

From the 1820s through the 1920s, nearly ninety percent of all Jews who left Europe moved to the United States. In this new book from Hasia Diner, she focuses on the realities of race, immigration, color, money, economic development, politics, and...

Places are chosen for purpose, even if they are covered with concrete for centuries. The land of Belgium has been given a mandate to bring counsel from a place of rest-for kings in the political and the spiritual realm. No wonder the enemy covets this...

This book is the first Encyclopedia of Famous and Historic Bells and gives details of some 270 bells. These range from those such as the Tsar Bell in Moscow, ‘Big Ben’, the Lutine Bell of Lloyds of London and the Independence Bell of...

As the boundaries between cultures and religions blur in an increasingly globalized world, the church finds itself in need of new approaches to understanding and embracing otherness - both inside and outside of its established communities.Southeast Asia...

This is the first book on Irving for many years that shows how his theology and pastoral practice were intricately linked, and how they developed over time. The 19th century Scottish theologian Edward Irving has been the subject of a remarkable...

Forces of division, conflict, and fear threaten to separate us from the neighbor who does not look, act, or pray like us. However, followers of Christ are charged with embodying a unity that celebrates difference rather than fleeing from it.Ethnic...

  Gli ebrei sono sparsi in tutti i Paesi del mondo, anche se risiedono principalmente nei Paesi di origine europea. La maggior parte di loro è di origine ashkenazita, cioè quelli provenienti dall'Europa centrale e orientale che sono partiti in...

  Jews are scattered in all countries of the world, although they reside mainly in countries of European origin. Most of them are of Ashkenazi origin, i.e. those from Central and Eastern Europe who left in successive waves from the end of the...

   Los judíos están diseminados en todos los países del mundo, aunque residen principalmente en los países de origen europeo. La mayoría de ellos son de origen "askenazí", es decir aquellos provenientes de Europa central y oriental que...

The Children of Israel were God's first chosen people but rejected the teachings of Prophets Jesus and Moses (peace be upon them both) and rebelled against God's will.God then chose the Arabs as His replacement people and sent Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to...

Just as it is today, conversion was also a contested religious, political, and personal phenomenon in the ancient world. Using Jewish and Christian primary sources, this volume discusses what this change could have meant for various individuals or groups...

Social and Cognitive Perspectives on the Sermon on the Mount introduces a broader group of scholars, students, and clergy to the relevance of social scientific and cognitive studies for interpretation of the Bible, by applying these approaches to what is...

Where are we going as a Canadian people? Given Augustine’s dictum that nations are ruled by what they love and desire, what is it that will shape the hearts and minds of Canadians in the days to come? Ever since the 1960s Canadian historians have...

The life of Lady Brilliana Harley of Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire, England, was marked by a deep and living relationship with God. A Puritan Presbyterian by conviction, Brilliana was shunned by her neighbours during the tumultuous English Civil Wars and...

"However deeply we immerse ourselves in Luther, we are no closer to exhausting the riches his mind and thought make available to us."So writes Victor Shepherd in this immensely readable and informative book - which aids in just such an immersion...

As the sun rose on the Twenty First Century, it was clear that something was wrong in the stuffy and traditional confines of the American Church: the church people within the building had lost connection with the community people outside of it. In so...

"The Two Hundred and Fifty -Year- Old Man" The Political and Striving Lives of the Infallibles (P.B.U.T.) in the Writings and Lectures of the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, His Eminence Ayatullah Ali Khamenei.

Illuminates a text that until now has intimidated the general reader.Focuses on seven themes that recur throughout the five-volume work-repentance, the heart, prayer, the Jesus Prayer, the passions, stillness, and theosis.

Making disciples is the primary calling of the church; however, in the past decades of American evangelicalism, there has been a breach of Christ's Great Commission (as found in Matt 28:19-20). Much of this failure can be attributed to the doctrine and...

Servanthood of Song is a history of American church music from the colonial era to the present. Its focus is on the institutional and societal pressures that have shaped church song and have led us directly to where we are today. The gulf which separates...

A thirteenth-century priest in the Iberian Peninsula reaches out to Muslims and Jews in order to convert them to Christianity. This was a time of great conflict between the Abrahamic faiths, so any communication between adherents was usually difficult...

The Quest for Early Church Historiography explores how early church historiography underwent a significant shift beginning with the thought of Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792-1860), a shift that eventually culminated in the current extreme...

The Biblical book of Revelation is a rich treasure trove for those who explore it. Revelation is equally exciting for the novice as for the expert of many years. It is a pool for a paddling baby or a swimming elephant. There is enough here for everyone...

Whether Alexander was called Λυκοπολίτης from his birthplace, or from his episcopal See, this is certain and acknowledged, that he of good right claims for himself a place among ecclesiastical writers, for he has given us an elaborate treatise against...

“We do not indeed forbid the union of man and woman, blest by God as the seminary of the human race, and devised for the replenishment of the earth and the furnishing of the world, and therefore permitted, yet singly. For Adam was the one husband...

As persecutions in increasing number threaten us, so the more are we called on to give earnest thought to the question of how faith ought to receive them, and the duty of carefully considering it concerns you no less, who no doubt, by not accepting the...

And so He gathered together a people for Himself, and fostered them with many liberal distributions of His bounty, and, after so often finding them most ungrateful, ever exhorted them to repentance and sent out the voices of the universal company of the...

No one deserves (favor) by availing himself of the indulgence, but by rendering a prompt obedience to the will, (of his master). The will of God is our sanctification, for He wishes His “image”—us—to become likewise His...

This among Christians is a season of persecution. When, therefore, faith is greatly agitated, and the Church burning, as represented by the bush, then the Gnostics break out, then the Valentinians creep forth, then all the opponents of martyrdom bubble...

There is no book quite like this if you know a little bit about St. Francis and want to know more. Each chapter describes a pilgrimage to a place in Italy that's central to Francis's biography written by one of his most literary modern biographers...

We need to know how we have gotten to this place in thehistory of Christianity, as Baptists. What sacrifices have been madeby Baptists that have shaped our distinct identity today.It is my concern that many of these cherished teachings may beforgotten,...

To differentiate between the "Sons of God" and the "Sons of Man," one must not only rely on the Word of the Lord, but must also be able to comprehend what actually transpired within the Roman Empire as the powerful Emperors ruled in...

The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 BCE to circa 50 CE).

All Oppression Shall Cease is an educational and rigorously researched era-by-era history of the Church's teaching and actions on slaveholding. Written for a general audience, All Oppression Shall Cease meets the urgent need in Catholic institutions for...

The Spirit of Jesus Unleashed on the Church is the third book in a series concerning the restoration of Jesus' people in a world where the marginalized classes longed for reconciliation to God. After Jesus' ascension the early Christians fulfilled Luke's...

Luther's oft-recounted life made a profound impact on his contemporaries. Some revered him; some hated him. This volume provides a brief narrative of the unfolding events that took place from his birth to a young entrepreneurial family through his...

The Parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart was established by Dennis Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, on April 17, 1919, among the beautiful rolling hills in the farming community of Hilltown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.