Search results

" , 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...