Although the Gospels of Matthew and Luke support the tradition that there were two Jesus children, the idea was not adopted by the Church. Something of the idea lingered on in Christian art and symbolism, but the full tradition was preserved only in the literature of such esoteric sects as the Gnostics, who did not adopt all the official teachings of institutionalized Christianity. David Ovason explores the literature and art in which these symbols have been preserved, in particular, the ancient...
Historical Attitudes That Have Shaped the Church's Use of the Arts
by Matthew R S Todd
Puritanism and Modernist Novels (Literature, Religion, & Postsecular Stud)
by Lynne W Hinojosa
Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christendom, 1140-1560 (Material Texts)
by Thomas Burman
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Most of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the doctrines of others. Christian readings of the Qur'an have in consequence typically been depicted as tedious and one-dimensional exercises in anti-Islamic hostility. In Reading the Qur'an in Latin Christend...
The New Pilgrim's Progress (Easy Print Books)
by John Bunyan and Warren W. Wiersbe
Marcel, Girard, Bakhtin (European University Studies, Series 23: Theology, #788)
by Pius Ojara and Patrick Madigan
En su oeltimo libro, Reconstruye tu vida, el exitoso autor T.D. Jakes brinda consejos que ayudarn a los lectores a ajustarse a los muchos cambios que la vida trae. fste es un llamado a despertar y hacerte cargo de tu vida AAhora! Este libro no s-lo aborda las zonas donde la pasividad o incluso las decisiones torpes han ahogado la creatividad del lector, sino que tambiZn instruye sobre la manera de controlar los cambios y sacarle el mximo de provecho a la vida. ValiZndose del conocimiento adquiri...
Lord of the World (Dover Doomsday Classics)
by Msgr Robert Hugh Benson
Shadow and Substance (ReFormations: Medieval and Early Modern)
by Jay Zysk
Shadow and Substance is the first book to present a sustained examination of the relationship between Eucharistic controversy and English drama across the Reformation divide. In this compelling interdisciplinary study, Jay Zysk contends that the Eucharist is not just a devotional object or doctrinal crux, it also shapes a way of thinking about physical embodiment and textual interpretation in theological and dramatic contexts. Regardless of one's specific religious identity, to speak of the Euc...
Has Joab Foiled David? (Studies in Biblical Literature, #76)
by Michael a Eschelbach
Uses examples from great literature to present powerful, articulate discussions of the Catholic character For those who seek a moderately challenging, intellectual discussion of traditional Catholic morality, this book inspires readers to study and apply wisdom from trusted literary and spiritual masters in making honorable and morally upright choices. In this companion piece to "The Virtues We Need Again", Dr Mitchell Kalpakgian explores through Western literature the many aspects of Catholic c...
Raphael's School of Athens (Edizioni Musei Vaticani / Recent Restorations of the Vatican, ?)
by Arnold Nesselrath
Raphael's "School of Athens" has been copied, described, imitated, analyzed, and admired. This volume, documenting its restoration, is richly illustrated and carefully documented in minute detail. This monumental work of Renaissance art, painted as a tribute to the virtue of Truth, will be further understood and appreciated by art lovers and scholars.
Klerus, Gesellschaft, Literatur (Regensburger Arbeiten Zur Anglistik Und Amerikanistik / Rege, #24)
by Peter Lenz
O'Connor, O'Faolain und O'Flaherty gelten als die -Vater- der gesellschaftskritisch-realistischen Erzahlprosa des Irish Free State und spateren Eire. Ein Blick zuruck in die jungere irische Literaturgeschichte zeigt jedoch, dass u.a. schon Moore, O'Donovan und Joyce in diesem Genre die gesellschaftlichen Missstande, die vor allem durch den normativen Einfluss des katholischen Klerus auf die Volksmentalitat bedingt sind, kritisch analysiert haben. Den Protagonisten entsprechender Erzahlungen blei...
Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons, Saint Augustine