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A History of Dartmouth Bible Church
The First Fifty Years (1963–2013)
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
This history of one local church demonstrates the prayerful determination of its membership over five decades to craft a meaningful place of ministry in a spiritually challenging community which dates to the Mayflower Pilgrims. These members purposed to honor God by growing in their relationship with...
Reformers and Babylon
English Apocalyptic Visions from the Reformation to the Eve of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Starting in the 1530s with John Bale, English reformers found in the apocalyptic mysteries of the Book of Revelation a framework for reinterpreting the history of Christianity and explaining the break from the Roman Catholic Church. Identifying the papacy with antichrist and the Roman Catholic Church...
Preventing the Future
Why was Ireland so poor for so long?
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2004
Between the years of the mid-thirties through to 1960, independent Ireland suffered from economic stagnation, and also went through a period of intense cultural and psychological repression. While external circumstances account for much of the stagnation – especially the depression of the thirties...
by Geoff Bardell
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
This book tells the story of how Saint John Paul II politically deployed sacred weapons and profane enemies in his war on communism. The effects of his deployment – chiefly during his three pilgrimages to communist Poland – were to evoke and refashion nationalist and religious cultural memories...
How to Cope with Life’S Struggles
Practical Advice for Victorious Christian Living
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
With the current economic crisis and the general rigors of life, we all face struggles. Regardless of race, gender, income, or age, we face challenges daily. Even countries face strugglesthe main one being the inability to pay their mounting debts. In his book How to Cope with Lifes Struggles: Practical...
The Givenness of Desire
Concrete Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan’s "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural...
by Dr Elizabeth Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
There is an increasingly intense interest in political theology amongst contemporary scholars and students. Yet, while there are many authors engaging in political theology, there are very few resources about political theology which aim to orient students and other recent new-comers to the field....
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Interest in political theology has surged in recent years, and this accessible volume provides a focused overview of the field. Many are asking serious questions about religious faith in secular societies, the origin and function of democratic polities, worldwide economic challenges, the shift of...
Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe
Crossing the Borders
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Since the beginning of the anthropology of pilgrimage, scant attention has been paid to pilgrimage and pilgrim places in central, eastern and south-eastern Europe. Seeking to address such a deficit, this book brings together scholars from central, eastern and south-eastern Europe to explore the crossing...
Catholicism and Citizenship
Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
The beginning of the twenty-first century has provided abundant evidence of the necessity to reexamine the relationship between Catholicism and the modern, global world. This book tries to proceed on this path with a focus on the meaning, legacy, and reception in today’s world of the ecclesiology...
Myth and Solidarity in the Modern World
Beyond Religious and Political Division
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2018
In the context of the rise of reactionary politics across the globe, this book seeks new ways of developing solidarity across religious, political and economic differences. Drawing on an increasingly influential Christian theological movement, postliberalism, it claims that the dominance of liberal,...
by SleuthQuests
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
The best way to get children excited about history is to make it fun! This book will take your child on an adventurous journey through San Francisco.
This book contains 50 clue-based questions that will send them on a scavenger hunt through all parts of the city; each question gives them factual information about the city.
God is in the House
Congressional Testimonies of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Members of Congress reflect on their deep faith and how it guides them as politicians and legislators in leadership, voting, and responding to our nation's crises.The book was compiled by Representative Virginia Foxx, who personally asked congressional colleagues who are devout in their Christian...
Lost Treasures of Arkansas's Waterways
Hidden Mines, Buried Fortunes, and Civil War Artifacts
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
From the earliest native inhabitants to Spanish explorers to early settlers, travelers have always followed the paths of Arkansas’s waterways. This collection includes 16 legends about Civil War artifacts, silver bullets, sealed caves, and collapsed mines—all set along the rivers and streams of Arkansas....