Protestantism after 500 Years
The world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation. Countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism face a daunting question: how should the Reformation be commemorated 500 years after the fact? Protestantism has been credited for restoring essential Christian truth, blamed for disastrous church divisions, and invoked as the cause of modern liberalism, capitalism, democracy, i...
Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise (Vigiliae Christianae, Supplements, #122) (Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae)
by Annewies Van Hoek and John Joseph Herrmann
These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entert...
Making Heretics is a major new narrative of the famous Massachusetts disputes of the late 1630s misleadingly labeled the "antinomian controversy" by later historians. Drawing on an unprecedented range of sources, Michael Winship fundamentally recasts these interlocked religious and political struggles as a complex ongoing interaction of personalities and personal agendas and as a succession of short-term events with cumulative results. Previously neglected figures like Sir Henry Vane and John Wh...
" , autrement dit, on ne saurait grimper sur un arbre avec un seul bras> " (Sagesse Beti/Cameroun, pour exprimer la notion de solidarite). Prenant comme point de depart l'hypothese que la notion de solidarite dans l'enseignement social de l'Eglise catholique connait un reseau d'influences et d'heritages historiques, philosophiques, sociologiques et ethiques; cette etude se propose de montrer en premier lieu, l'evolution du concept de solidarite ne en France au XIXeme siecle jusqu'a son usage dan...
Jesus was the leader of a radical faction of Essene priests. He was not of virgin birth. He did not die on the Cross. He married Mary Magdalene, fathered a family, and later divorced. He died sometime after AD 64. In this controversial version of Christ's life, theological scholar and bestselling author Barbara Thiering presents, after more than twenty years of close study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gospels, a revolutionary theory that, while upholding the fundamental faith of Christianity...
The Education of Henry Adams (Modern Library) (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
by Henry Adams
Adams was a historian, an intellectual born into the fourth generation of a family of distinguished politicians, diplomats and statesmen that included two presidents of the United States. His "Education" is thus steeped in history, that of his family and of the American politics, culture and identity they helped to shape. At the same time he elaborates his own 'dynamic theory of history' as the product of what he calls the conflict between the Virgin and the Dynamo: 'All the steam in the world c...
This is the first of a four-volume ground-breaking study of Christological origins. The fruit of twenty years' research, Jesus Monotheism lays out a new paradigm that goes beyond the now widely held view that Paul and others held to an unprecedented 'Christological monotheism'. There was already, in Second Temple Judaism and in the Bible, a kind of 'christological monotheism'. But it is first with Jesus and his followers that a human figure is included in the identity of the one God as a fully d...
Le Translateur La Grant Nef Des Folles Selon Les Cinq Cens de Nature, (Ed.1510-1520) (Religion)
by Bade J
John Alexander Dowie and the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion
by Rolvix Harlan
Die Beziehung des um 350 n. Chr. geborenen Johannes Chrysostomus zum Apostel Paulus wurde in der alteren Forschung mit "Paulusliebe" und "Seelenverwandtschaft" beschrieben. Jenseits solcher psychologisierenden Zugange zeichnet Andreas Heiser durch sprachliche und historische Analyse der Epitheta, die Chrysostomus fur Paulus verwendet, die Inszenierung des Apostels als Musterasketen nach. Die Analyse der Paulusepitheta in vorausgehender christlicher Literatur wirft ein Licht auf die Kontinuitaten...
Jonathan Edwards's Moral Thought and Its British Context (Jonathan Edwards Classic Studies, #3)
by Norman Fiering
Knights Hospitaller: A Military History of the Knights of St John
by John Carr
The Knights of St John evolved during the Crusades from a monastic order providing hostels for Christian pilgrims visiting the Holy Land. The need to provide armed escorts to the pilgrims began their transformation into a Military Order. Their fervour and discipline made them an elite component of most Crusader armies and Hospitaller Knights (as they were also known) took part in most of the major engagements, including Hattin, Acre and Arsuf. After the Muslims had reconquered the Crusader King...
Cold War Christians and the Spectre of Nuclear Deterrence, 1945-1959 (Histories of the Sacred and Secular, 1700-2000)
by Jonathan Gorry
Originally published in 1967, this book is a history of church puritanism as a movement and as a political and ecclesiastical organism; of its membership structure and internal contradictions; of the quest for 'a further reformation'. It tells the fascinating story of the rise of a revolutionary moment and its ultimate destruction.
Muslim Conversions to Christ
Muslim Conversions to Christ focuses on the so-called Insider Movement (as promoted by certain missiologists). Drawing on international scholars and practitioners in the fields of the history and nature of Islam, the Qur'an, Christian-Muslim relations, biblical theology, and practical missiology, this book presents a solid academic rejoinder to the IM phenomenon. Moreover, it brings into the conversation the voices of believers from Muslim backgrounds (BMBs), Middle Eastern scholars, and missiol...