History of religion Books

Friedrich Schleiermacher hielt zwischen 1804 und 1830 insgesamt zwölf Vorlesungen über die Dogmatik, davon acht in der Zeit, bevor seine Glaubenslehre als Buch erschien (1821/22). Drei dieser frühen Vorlesungen sind durch studentische Aufzeichnungen...

This collection of essays explores aspects of civil and criminal law in ancient Judaea. Whereas the majority of studies on Judaean law focus on biblical law codes (and, therefore, on laws related to sacrifice, cultic purity, and personal piety) this...

This volume examines two major controversies that captured the theological attention of Andrew Fuller. In the wake of the Enlightenment, traditional Christian doctrine was challenged by various rationalistic and philosophical alternatives. A notable...

This book provides a wealth of fascinating information about many significant and lesser-known nineteenth-century Christian authors, mostly women, who were motivated to write material specifically for children's spiritual edification because of their...

This book is a reappraisal of Anglican Church redundancy from a cultural perspective. It challenges long-held perceptions about the rationale for church redundancy, particularly secularisation. It argues that redundancy brought to the...

بين صفحات "الرضاب المعسول"، رحلةٌ آسرةٌ في سيرة النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم، من ميلاده الشريف إلى بعثته المباركة. سؤالٌ وجوابٌ، يرويان تفاصيلَ حياته، وصفاته الخُلقية والجسدية، مستقىً من مصادرٍ موثوقة، ليُضيءَ لنا نورُ سيرته العطرة دربَ الحياة. استعدّوا...

Histoire de la Réforme de Jules Michelet est une oeuvre magistrale qui plonge le lecteur au coeur du XVIe siècle, période charnière de l'histoire européenne. Dans cet ouvrage captivant, Michelet dépeint avec brio la naissance et l'essor du mouvement...

Journey to the West is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. The original Chinese novel written by Wu Chen'en in the 16th century s over a half million...

Uneasy about religion but not sure why? A God of Our Invention will make it clear. Daniel Kohanski has spent decades working on problems of religion. Starting from a solid background in Conservative Judaism, he has studied law, Talmud, history,...

A translation of a series of four sermons delivered by Ayatullah Mutahhari during the month of Muharram of 1389 H. (March 1969) on the topic of the meaning and significance of 'Ashura and the martyrdom of Imam al-Husayn (as) at Karbala.

The Historical Churches of the Caribbean Island of Antigua is a two-part book. Part one examines and analyses the complex relationship between the Older Established Churches, Slavery and their Black converts.Part two showcases 24 historic churches and...

Eulogy: Jerusalem 70AD is a poetic tribute to one of history's most devastating events-the fall of Jerusalem.Redmond Holt uses verse to lay bare the existential despair and fleeting hope of a city on the brink, with each poem inviting you to feel the...

内容简介：这不是一本有关安息日历史的书，也不是关于基督徒如何抛弃这第七日的历史的书，而是关于周日历史的书，记录了基督徒如何看待并遵守周日........

内容简介：这本书荣获1997年《今日基督教》图书奖，集结了这位著名的世界基督宗教历史学家的讲稿和文章，许多文章还是第一次对世界宣教方面的学者和学生开放。《基督教历史中的宣教运动》不仅检视了现代非洲宣教、本地基督教和殖民主义等诸多方面的特征，而且涉猎到一个更广博的领域。例如"福音：文化之囚徒和解放者"这样的文章，讨论了原初的地中海基督教是如何不同于早期天主教、凯尔特修道制度、改教运动后的基督新教和尼日利亚的灵性基督教，在这个过程中，它揭示了作为一个整体的基督教运动的种种矛盾。安德鲁·华尔斯展示了，基督教的核...

对或错？符合圣经或不符合圣经？我们往往草率地评断周围的世界，简单地以二元思维强调差异。我们把从初期教会直到今日大致保持不变的神学思想视为"正统的"神学，然而，这种做法似乎忽视了基督教两千年历史的复杂性。《基督教思想再探》尝试为基督徒理解基督教的历史轨迹提供一种更为细致的方式。如果我们思考中国新教的进程，同样可以看到上述三类主要的神学。不论我们思考基督教两千年的历史，还是基督教在中国大陆200年的历史，上述三类神学都以各自独特的方式于不同的处境中得以表达。本书能够帮助我们理清这些历史。更重要的是，冈萨雷斯为...

J’ai lu ce roman avec un grand plaisir et, bien que convaincu depuis longtemps de la toxicité de la Bible hébraïque, j’y ai trouvé bien des idées et des points de vue nouveaux. En abordant ce sujet...

Cuando pensemos de otro modo, ¿será tiempo todavía? Repitamos las palabras de Bernardo Lazare, cuyo testimonio es irrecusable: ''El día en que el judío ocupó una función civil, el estado cristiano se puso en peligro.''Nuestros judíos no creen,...

It is one of the commonplaces of history that adverse circumstances offer no obstacle to men of outstanding energy and ability. Douglas Reed, who described himself as "relatively unschooled", started out in life as an office boy at the age of thirteen...

The 'Kebra Nagast' (Glory of Kings) was written at least one thousand years ago, and takes its theme from much older sources, some going back to the first century AD. Written originally in the African classical language Ge'ez, the book tells...

There is a widespread myth that young people are feckless and irresponsible. To contradict this, Gavin and Simeon present twelve groups of real young people, and the adults who helped to form, nurture and develop them. Their book explores how these...

In 2003, a story shook the Anglican world in general and Anglican monastic life in particular. On August 8th, seven members of The Melanesian Brotherhood, an Anglican order of Christian brothers living a simple and prayerful life and known for their...

Do Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics share a common orthodoxy, as promoted by initiatives such as Evangelicals and Catholics Together? Or do the profound differences between Evangelical and Catholic theology and how they view the...

Shrî Râmana Maharshi (1879-1950), el gran sabio de la India del siglo XX, no fue únicamente un ser excepcional, sino también un hombre que, como tal, tuvo que hacer frente a las inclemencias de la vida terrenal y a la agitación de su entorno. Aquí, la...

This is the first full-length detailed survey and critique of modern Jerome scholarship, covering the crucial period 1880-2014. At one level, the author ably argues that, despite Jerome's faults, his work holds many important insights into the Early...

When Prophet Muhammad died in the year 11 AH, the Ummah was left with a question, what now? What is to happen to this religion? What path should we tread? Who is to carry the flag of leadership?These questions, over the course of centuries, would go on...

The present work is a collection of excerpts from Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei's statements about the personality, characteristics and be'that of the Holy Prophet of Islam (s.w.a.). The excerpts have been selected from among the speeches delivered from...

Why did Professor Norman Golb of the Oriental Institute need to be silenced? Why did a small clique monopolize access and publication rights to the Dead Sea Scrolls for more than four decades? Why does the truth matter about where the scrolls came...

Collected here in one oversized omnibus edition are all five of the books that compromise Ellen G. White's masterpiece: The conflict of the ages series. This is the greatest story ever told. This massive book chronicles the struggle between Satan and...

In this major revision and expansion of the classic 20th-Century Theology (1992), coauthored with Stanley J. Grenz, Roger Olson tells the full story of modern theology from Descartes to Caputo, from the Kantian revolution to postmodernism, now recast in...

El interés por la justicia social es palpable en América Latina, y Robert Chao Romero muestra la rica historia de esta tradición en la fe cristiana de este continente. Al recorrer esta historia de activismo y fe, lectores descubrirán que los cristianos...

Though the doctrine of theosis has been gaining interest among scholars for some time, most have focused on Roman Catholic or Orthodox traditions. In this constructive account of deification, biblical scholars and theologians focus on the work of major...

How can finite creatures know an infinite God? Retrieving key insight from Scripture and patristic, medieval, and modern theologians, Ronni Kurtz offers a rich analysis of divine incomprehensibility. While our language cannot capture the full mystery of...

How might we reclaim the universality of the church without losing its local situatedness? In this SCDS volume, C. Ryan Fields juxtaposes the Free Church tradition with its Episcopal counterpart, arguing that the Free Church tradition can helpfully...

The dynamic witness of the Black church is an essential part of Christian history. In this groundbreaking two-volume work, Walter R. Strickland II presents a theological-intellectual history of African American Christianity. Volume 2, an anthology of...

The attacks of September 11, 2001, changed the way the world looks at Islam. And rightfully so, according to M.A. Khan, a former Muslim who left the religion after realizing that it is based on forced conversion, imperialism, and slavery: the primary...

First published in 1959, this book was planned as a second contribution towards critique and apologetics of Quakerism. Not losing sight of that intention, the scope of the book widened in the writing. It was hoped that it would make a contribution from...

This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to 2004.

Immerse yourself in the profound era of Islamic history with Osman Nuri Topbas's Principles from the Lives of the Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs. This meticulously crafted book delves into the exemplary lives of Abu Bakr, Umar, 'Uthman, and Ali, offering...

This book presents a unique collection of papers on various philosophical aspects of the unknown and unvoiced truth and reality of the cosmic world. It offers a systematic analysis of the three philosophical theories of Quietism, Agnosticism and...