An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
by John Henry Cardinal Newman
Basil of Caesarea (329-379 AD) was a Greek Bishop in what is now Turkey. A thoughtful theologian, he was instrumental in the formation of the Nicene Creed. He fought a growing heresy, Arianism, that had found converts, including those in high positions of state. In the face of such a threat he showed courage, wisdom and complete confidence in God that we would do well to emulate today.About Early Church Fathers: this series relates the magnificent impact that these fathers of the early church...
Life And Times Of Arthur Hildersham - Prince Among Purit, Th
by Lesley A. Rowe
For nearly thirty years, James M. Kittelson's Luther the Reformer has been the standard biography of Martin Luther. Like Roland Bainton's biography of the generation before, Kittelson's volume is the one known by thousands of students, pastors, and interested readers as the biography that gave them the details of this dramatic man and his history. The accolades were well deserved. Fair, insightful, and detailed without being overwhelming, Kittelson was able to negotiate a "middle way" between th...
"In the humanities, if they are to remain alive, it is necessary to have a relationship to the thought as well as to the thinker from the past" (Karl Rahner). Rudolf Smend attempts to establish such a relationship for one single branch of the humanities, which however can be seen as particularly paradigmatic. He does this in rough descriptions of 15 scholars who had a certain share in contributing to the history of Old Testament scholarship. He begins with the French physician Jean Astruc and th...
The Life of St.Declan of Ardmore
With a foreword by Eric Metaxas, best-selling author of Bonhoeffer and Amazing Grace. The enthralling biography of the woman writer who helped end the slave trade, changed Britain’s upper classes, and taught a nation how to read. The history-changing reforms of Hannah More affected every level of 18th-Century British society through her keen intellect, literary achievements, collaborative spirit, strong Christian principles, and colorful personality. A woman without connections or status, More...
In nineteenth-century Britain, a large number of prominent Anglican and Presbyterian Evangelicals rejected the idea that salvation meant "going to heaven when you die". Instead, they proposed that God would establish his kingdom on earth, renewing the creation and reanimating embodied humans to live in a world of science and progress. This book introduces the writings and activities of these women and men, among whom were counted the ardent social reformer Lord Shaftesbury, the highly respected...
Why did the young Protestant monarch William of Orange fail to make his mark on Scotland? How did a particularly hard-line 'Protester' branch of Presbyterianism (the last off-shoot of the Convenanting movement) become the established Church in Scotland? And how did it come about that Scotland suffered a kind of 'cultural revolution' after the Williamite revolution, nipping in the bud the proto-Enlightenment? This book reviews the political events that led to the abolition of episcopacy in 1689 a...
100 Years 100 Treasures
by Diana Hunt, Marion Welhm, Tim Allen, Roy Tricker, and Michael Wilde
Five hundred years ago, Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses caught Europe by storm and initiated the Reformation, which fundamentally transformed both the church and society. Yet by Luther's own estimation, his translation of the Bible into German was his crowning achievement. The Bible played an absolutely vital role in the lives, theology, and practice of the Protestant Reformers. In addition, the proliferation and diffusion of vernacular Bibles-grounded in the original languages, enabled by a...
Die hohe Relevanz der Goetter- und Glaubenswelt in den Schriften Julians ist unubersehbar. Seine kaiserliche Stellung und Biographie haben dem vielfach artikulierten religioesen Gedankengut seit jeher Beachtung verschafft, denn sie machen Julian zu einer Schlusselfigur fur das Verstandnis der religioesen Kultur der Spatantike. In einer systematischen Analyse von Julians Gesamtwerk untersucht Sara Stoecklin-Kaldewey die Vorstellungen, die der Froemmigkeit des Kaisers zugrunde liegen, und eroerter...
Juden - Heiden - Christen? (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, #400)
Die Trias von Juden, Heiden, Christen scheint die religioese Welt der roemischen Kaiserzeit klar und uberschaubar zu ordnen. Bei naherem Hinsehen zeigt sich jedoch, dass dieses Modell zu sehr simplifiziert, da es weder den Selbst- und den Fremdbeschreibungen in ihrer Vielfalt gerecht wird, noch den jeweiligen Identitatskonzepten oder den Mechanismen diverser Exklusionen und Inklusionen. Der vorliegende Band verdeutlicht dies am Beispiel interdisziplinarer Einzelstudien aus Kleinasien, aber auch...
