History of religion Books

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

2021 Reprint of the 1938 Edition. Facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. The author asserts in this pamphlet that the Japanese are one of the lost tribes of Israel, naming the Children of Ammon...

The name Jesus identified the Son of God as a man. It was a common Jewish name meaning savior or deliverer. Jesus grew up perceived as a member of the local community.It was his baptism at age 30 that marked his anointing and attaining the title of...

Orthodox Christianity is one of the world's major religions, and the Russian Orthodox Church is by far its largest denomination. Few know its history and spiritual richness, however. Neil Kent's comprehensive new book fills that gap. The Russian Orthodox...

Charles Wesley and early Methodist women shaped Wesleyan theology and practice just as much as John Wesley. All these pioneers in the renewal of the church engaged together in a quest for love divine. That journey led them to timeless discoveries related...

The cross has always been portrayed as the means of salvation and forgiveness for sinners, but does it have anything to say to those who have been sinned against? This book shows that the atonement of Christ has powerful potential to speak to those who...

Europe has a tremendously important role in the history of Christianity and was the continent with the most Christians from roughly the year 900 to 1980. However, Europe is now home to only 22 percent of all Christians in the world, down from 68 percent...

The Reformation put the grace of God in the right place in the salvation of man. Luther's proclamation of ""justification by faith"" brought the concept of grace to the fore and made it the centrality of Christian theology. But the overemphasis on the...

From the Retractations, Book II. Chap. 60. “Then also I wrote a Book against Lying, the occasion of which work was this. In order to discover the Priscillianist heretics, who think it right to conceal their heresy not only by denial and lies, but...

The work constitutes an exposition of the several clauses of the so-called Apostles’ Creed. The questions concerning the mutual relations of the three Persons in the Godhead are handled with greatest fullness; in connection with which, especially...

Edición renovada de esta famoso libro de teología bíblica utilizado en escuelas católicas durante años. Cubre los eventos más famosos narrados en la Biblia, y contiene mapas descriptivos e ilustraciones de los eventos bíblicos.Originalmente publicado...

This volume represents the Morgan Lectures delivered at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York in October 1897. The advances in the history of Christianity have come about not so much from the discovery of new materials--though of these also unremitting...

Feminist," with its modern interpretation, might not be the word Alma White would have chosen, but there is no doubt that this strong and independent woman fought all the definitions of what a woman was supposed to be at the end of the nineteenth and...

'Sacred Sacrifice' examines how analogous mythological ideas and the experience of sacred presence during the ritual act created similar ritual paradigms in two non-contiguous cultures. Vedic fire sacrifice, the Horse sacrifice in ancient India and the...

'Brothers In Christ', a reprint of a ground breaking study by Swiss church historian Fritz Blanke, details the origins of the Anabaptist movement in the little town of Zollikon, near Zurich.The author retraces the development of this fascinating...

From the Preface:Every year, during the month of July, thousands of Christians from all parts of the world gather for a Convention for the deepening of the spiritual life, lasting one week, in the little town of Keswick, which nestles at the foot of...

The purpose of this book is to describe the historical setting out of which dispensationalism has grown, to establish what dispensationalism is, and to point out its implications for contemporary church life. Beginning with a survey of the major features...

In the face of enormous disparities of wealth and despite brutal repression, Latin America is alive with movements for change. Struggles for human rights, community organization and political participation have enabled Latin Americans to assume their...

The journeys described in this volume cut across a number of diverse counties andrepresent very different experiences. They have one thing in common, however, thatbinds them together in the spirit of which they were written, namely SOUL. Whethervisiting...