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The Secret Founding of America
The Real Story of Freemasons, Puritans, and the Battle for the New World
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
The widely accepted story of the founding of America is that The Mayflower delivered the first settlers from Plymouth to the New World in 1620. Yet in reality, the Jamestown settlers had already become the first English-speaking outpost thirteen years earlier in 1607. The Secret Founding of America...
Reconciliation
Celebrating Gods Healing Forgiveness
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Here is a practical, pastoral book for all Catholic Christians--laity as well as clergy--to foster renewed understanding and practive of the sacrement of reconciliation. The most thorough and informative handbook of its kind, Reconciliation is at once informative, intstructive, and pastorally sound.
The...
Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail
Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Why do so many evangelicals flock to liturgical traditions today? An updated edition of the classic study.
With new testimonies from evangelicals who have joined the Anglican fold and discussion of the emerging/missional church movement, and an update to the conversation by evangelical scholar...
Celebrating the Mass
A Guide for Understanding and Loving the Mass More Deeply
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1999
Father McBride extends to all an earnest invitation to know and love the Mass more deeply. The Catechism calls the Eucharist "the heart and summit of the Church's life" (1407). Certainly we are called to participate as fully and enthusiastically as possible. Along with the official texts of...
The Special Service Worship Architect
Blueprints for Weddings, Funerals, Baptisms, Holy Communion, and Other Occasions
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This book takes the principles found in Constance Cherry's successful The Worship Architect--in which she provided dynamic blueprints for designing worship services--and applies them to special services in the life of the church. Cherry, a worship professor and practitioner, offers theological reflection,...
Welcome to Sunday
An Introduction to Worship in the Episcopal Church
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2003
The perfect book for newcomers who are often confused by the worship service, Welcome to Sunday is also an excellent book for those who have been sitting in the pews without fully understanding what happens on Sunday morning. Episcopal priest Christopher Webber takes the reader from the sidewalk outside...
How We Worship
The Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Hours
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
If you are new to the Catholic faith or if you are experienced in it, if you are curious about Catholic worship or if you've grown too used to it, it is time for you to read this book.
Rev. Paul Turner, author, pastor, and liturgist
Archdiocese of Kansas City, Missouri
Many people have not...
Gateways to God
Celebrating the Sacraments
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2011
Grace for Daily LivingTheologian Fr. Robert Hater explores the manifold ways sacraments work as gateways that lead us to encounters with God. All creation is sacramental because it is the gateway that reveals God's presence in the universe. Jesus described Himself as the gate to salvation and...
The Story Behind the Holocaust
Forgive and Forget?
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
What do we know about the Vatican Military Orders, the Johanniters, Freemasons, or other secret societies like the Bilderberg Group or the Trilateral Commission? What is the connection between these and other secret groups, World Wars, Globalization and International Free Trade Agreements of today?
During...
by Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2004
Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores his own views on these subjects, as a monotheist and member of the Academic School, and considers the...
In the Devil's Snare
The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Award-winning historian Mary Beth Norton reexamines the Salem witch trials in thisstartlingly original, meticulously researched, and utterly riveting study.
In 1692 the people of Massachusetts were living in fear, and not solely of satanic afflictions. Horrifyingly violent Indian attacks had...
Silence
A Christian History
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity
We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid...
by Mark Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2006
What is Anglicanism? How is it different from other forms of Christianity, and how did it come to have so many different versions throughout the world? Although originally united by location and a common belief, Anglicanism has gradually lost its pre-eminence as the English state church due to increasing...
by Mark Chapman
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
This book seeks to explain the ways in which Anglicans have sought to practise theology in their various contexts. It is a clear, insightful, and reliable guide which avoids technical jargon and roots its discussions in concrete examples. The book is primarily a work of historical theology, which...