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by Jennifer A. Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2002
Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
This book gathers scholars from the three major monotheistic religions to discuss the issue of poverty and wealth from the varied perspectives of each tradition. It provides a cadre of values inherent to the sacred texts of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and illustrates how these values may be used...
Explorations in Asian Christianity
History, Theology, and Mission
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
Explorations in Asian Christianity
Ecumenism in Asia
The cruciform nature of Christianity
A missiology of place
The Christian view of time
Global migration
Explorations in Asian Christianity
The Histories of the Latin American Church
A Brief Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The story of Latin American Christianity is too often appended to the end of larger narratives and is rarely given the full consideration it deserves. And yet, the rich stories of Christianity in Latin America deserve our full attention. With this brief, engaging, and helpful overview, Joel M. Cruz...
Faith and War
How Christians Debated the Cold and Vietnam Wars
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Throughout American history, Christianity has shaped public opinion, guided leaders in their decision making, and stood at the center of countless issues. To gain complete knowledge of an era, historians must investigate the religious context of what transpired, why it happened, and how. Yet too little...
The Market-Driven Church
The Worldly Influence of Modern Culture on the Church in America
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2004
"In God we trust." "God bless America." "Attend the church of your choice." "The churches of this town welcome you." In no other country are Christianity and God so obviously part of the culture. There are street signs directing people to local churches. Worship services are broadcast on radio and...
Blood
A Critique of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western culture, politics, and social practices and their wide-ranging incarnations...
All Creation Waits
The Unfulfilled Promise of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2010
This book is for serious reflection by believers who believe that in Christ, God has truly come into our world, and are asking themselves - why has this coming not made a bigger difference? This book is for all kinds of Christians, and people curious about Christianity, and considers the failure of Christianity...
Christianity in the Second Century
The Case of Tatian
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Tatian is a significant figure in the early Church, his work both representing and revealing his second-century context. This study offers a detailed exploration of his thought. It is also a valuable introduction to the entire period, particularly the key developments it witnessed in Christianity.
Emily...
Why This New Race
Ethnic Reasoning in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2005
Why This New Race offers a radical new way of thinking about the origins of Christian identity. Conventional histories have understood Christianity as a religion that from its beginnings sought to transcend ethnic and racial distinctions. Denise Kimber Buell challenges this view by revealing the centrality...
10.The Lord Explains Christianity, Compilation
Compilation of 9 volumes in one package
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
#10.The Lord explains Christianity. The author who has taken the pen name "The Lord's Scribe" had a deep faith crisis and asked. Answers came to the faith issues and the author then thought the faith crisis was over. However, the Lord then came back again and again and has EXPLAINED that...
The Idol of Our Age
How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2018
This book is a learned essay at the intersection of politics, philosophy, and religion. It is first and foremost a diagnosis and critique of the secular religion of our time, humanitarianism, or the “religion of humanity.” It argues that the humanitarian impulse to regard modern man as the measure...
The Path of Christianity
The First Thousand Years
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2017
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Christianity and Cosmic Consciousness
A Commentary on the Words of Jesus
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Born in the Ukraine, educated in Munich, and having practiced medicine in the United States, author Alexis Georg Hoen has been exposed to widely differing political systems and religious beliefs, and he has always maintained an interest as to the origin of these beliefs and their relation to the innermost...