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by Joel C. Rosenberg
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2016
The politics of the Middle East can be murky and confusing. But one thing is increasingly certain: The eyes of the nations are riveted upon Israel and her neighbors, the epicenter of the momentous events shaking our world and shaping our future. What does the future hold? How will it affect your world?...
Reality, Grief, Hope
Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Walter Brueggemann is one of the most highly regarded Old Testament scholars of our time; talk-show host Krista Tippett has even called him "a kind of theological rock star." In this new book Brueggemann incisively probes our society-in-crisis from the ground up.
Pointing out striking...
Gioventù Studentesca
Storia di un movimento cattolico dalla ricostruzione alla contestazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 15, 2016
A partire da un ampio ventaglio di fonti documentarie, in gran parte inedite, il volume ricostruisce la genesi e lo sviluppo del movimento di Gioventù Studentesca. Tale realtà, nata come esperimento di apostolato di ambiente dell’Azione Cattolica milanese (sulla scorta dell’esperienza della...
John Wesley and the Education of Children
Gender, Class and Piety
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
Scholars have historically associated John Wesley’s educational endeavours with the boarding school he established at Kingswood, near Bristol, in 1746. However, his educational endeavours extended well beyond that single institution, even to non-Methodist educational programmes. This book sets out...
Sympathetic Puritans
Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2015
Revising dominant accounts of Puritanism and challenging the literary history of sentimentalism, Sympathetic Puritans argues that a Calvinist theology of sympathy shaped the politics, religion, rhetoric, and literature of early New England. Scholars have often understood and presented sentimentalism...
Baseball Hits and Bible Bits
Trading a Diamond for a Crown
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
In Baseball Hits and Bible Bits, pastor and former Minor League pitcher Frank D. Minton shares unforgettable stories and anecdotes about two of his great loves in lifebaseball and the Bible. When Minton was eleven years old, God called him to preach; that call to serve the Lord would never leave his...
by Sami Shah
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
From hijabs to jihad and everything in between -- Muslims down under today
What is Halal? A country bordering Shariahland, or a method of preparing food?
Do the Five Pillars of Islam comply with modern building codes? Or are they simply a philosophy for living?
And if Muslims...
Black Flag Down
Counter-extremism, defeating ISIS and winning the battle of ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The West is facing a terror threat unprecedented since the Cold War: a revolution in the accessibility of violence as ISIS, al Qaeda and their allies set out to build a 21st-century theocracy of seventh-century values, stretching from Portugal to Pakistan.
We need to dramatically step up the...
The Divisions of French Catholicism, 1629-1645
'The Parting of the Ways'
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
For much of the sixteenth-century, France was wracked with religious strife, as the Wars of Religion pitted Catholic against Protestant. Whilst the conversion of Henri IV to Catholicism ended much of the conflict, the ensuing peace highlighted the fractious nature of French Catholicism and the many...
by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
'Government Angreizi aur Jihad' is an Urdu booklet written in 1900 by Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad(as), the Promised Messiah and the Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jama'at. In this booklet, he refers to the Holy Qur'an and the ahadith (sayings) of the Holy Prophet Muhammad(sa) in...
by Jewels Prophet
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
“We have seen the Lord”, declared Mary Magdalene. Everything G-D says and does is for a reason. The design for humans were for the sole purpose of bringing about a means in order to meet a particular need and to accomplish a specific task. Ultimately, this will bring the people into line with...
Homelands
Southern Jewish Identity in Durham-Chapel Hill and North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2007
Homelands blends oral history, documentary studies, and quantitative research to present a colorful local history with much to say about multicultural identity in the South. Homelands is a case study of a unique ethnic group in North America--small-town southern Jews. Both Jews and southerners, Leonard...
Spiritual Perspectives on Globalization (2nd Edition)
Making Sense of Economic and Cultural Upheaval
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
What is globalization anyway? What are spiritually-minded people—
on all sides of the issue—doing and saying about it?
The economic and cultural dynamic of globalization is transforming the world at an unprecedented pace. But what exactly is it? What are its origins? What is its impact...
by Peter Frankopan
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
According to tradition, the First Crusade began at Pope Urban II’s instigation and culminated in July 1099, when western European knights liberated Jerusalem. But what if the First Crusade’s real catalyst lay far to the east of Rome? Countering nearly a millennium of scholarship, Peter Frankopan reveals the First Crusade’s untold history.