The Quaker Invasion of Massachusetts (Heritage Books Reprint Classic)
by Richard P Hallowell
Cultures of Care (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
by Chris Langley
Cultures of Care: Domestic Welfare, Discipline and the Church of Scotland, c. 1600-1689 explores voluntary networks of charity and their interaction with the Reformed Church of Scotland. Whereas most previous histories have assessed the growth of institutional charity, this book contends that the Reformed Church of Scotland was heavily reliant on informal, domestic modes of self-help throughout the seventeenth century. The existence and widespread acceptance of informal care dramatically change...
Fundamentalists in the City (Religion in America)
by Margaret Lamberts Bendroth
Fundamentalists in the City is a story of religious controversy and division, set within turn of the century and early twentieth-century Boston. It offers a new perspective on the rise of fundamentalism, emphasizing the role of local events, both sacred and secular, in deepening the divide between liberal and conservative Protestants. The first part of the narrative, beginning with the arrest of three clergymen for preaching on the Boston Common in 1885, shows the importance of anti-Catholicism...
Toward a Theology of Evangelism (Julian Hartt Library)
by Julian Hartt
The History of the Society of Friends in America, Volume 1 - Primary Source Edition
by James Bowden
The History of the Society of Friends in America (Volume 1 PT.2)
by James Bowden
The History of the Society of Friends in America (1)
by James Bowden
Classical Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
by Bruce D. Chilton and Jacob Neusner
Among the world's religions, Christianity and Judaism are the most symmetrical. But in our day of religious tolerance, a tendency to overlook the vital differences between the two religions in the name of good will can undermine constructive Jewish-Christian dialogue. In this book, Bruce D. Chilton describes early Christian thought and Jacob Neusner describes early Judaic thought on fundamental issues such as creation and human nature, Christ and Torah, sin and atonement, and eschatology. At the...
Deliverance to the Captives. (Harper's Ministers Paperback Library)
by Karl Barth
These 18 sermons on the central themes of the Gospel were first published in 1961, with an introductory essay by Dr. John Marsh, Principal of Mansfield College, Oxford. 'Most of these sermons were in fact preached to inmates of Basel Prison, where the great theologian is a visitor. Wisdom, honesty, consideration and reverence shine through these pages' (Guardian). 'Here is evangelical preaching which has the surge and onward movement of a symphony. It should be read aloud, so that the tremendous...
Merit and Moses
by Andrew M Elam, Robert C Van Kooten, and Randall A Bergquist