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Heresy
Ten Lies They Spread About Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
Bestselling author Michael Coren explodes popular myths about the history, beliefs, and culture of Christianity.
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Michael Coren explores why and how Christians and Christian ideas are caricatured in popular media as well as in sophisticated society. He takes on, and debunks, ten great myths...
Making Sense of God
Finding God in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
We live in an age of skepticism. Our society places such faith in empirical reason, historical progress, and heartfelt emotion that it’s easy to wonder: Why should anyone believe in Christianity? What role can faith and religion play in our modern lives?
In this thoughtful and inspiring new...
by Christopher Dawson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
In a broad survey of a thousand years of religious history, Christopher Dawson stresses the non-European roots of medieval Christendom, but also its flourishing in lands beyond the frontiers of classical civilisation. This marriage of Mediterranean and near-Eastern culture with the barbarian peoples...
by Doug West
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
Pilot Light Christianity will challenge you to rethink your evangelism strategy and weigh its merits and shortcomings. What levels of evangelism are acceptable to God? Can a Christian not witness and please God? Following in the vein of the Old Testament prophets, this writing is a warning cry from a watchman to the Church that is at times “asleep in the Light.”
Saving Paradise
How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2008
During their first millennium, Christians filled their sanctuaries with images of Christ as a living presence-as a shepherd, teacher, healer, or an enthroned god. He is serene and surrounded by lush scenes, depictions of this world as paradise....
The Heresy of Orthodoxy (Foreword by I. Howard Marshall): How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2010
Beginning with Walter Bauer in 1934, the denial of clear orthodoxy in early Christianity has shaped and largely defined modern New Testament criticism, recently given new life through the work of spokesmen like Bart Ehrman. Spreading from academia into mainstream media, the suggestion that diversity...
Common Roots
The Original Call to an Ancient-Future Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2009
Common Roots turns the searchlight of historic Christianity on twenty-first-century evangelicalism. Originally published in 1978 as a clarion call to all evangelicals, this reprint presents Webber’s thoughts to a new generation and includes a foreword by David Neff, the executive director of the...
People's History of Christianity
From the Reformation to the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
On its release, the seven volume A People’s History of Christianity was lauded for its commitment to raising awareness of the ways in which ordinary Christians have lived throughout more than twenty centuries of Christian History. Now, the essential material from that important project is available...
Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe
New Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe, six historians explore how medieval people professed Christianity, how they performed gender, and how the two coincided. Many of the daily religious decisions people made were influenced by gender roles, the authors contend. Women's pious donations, for...
by Stephen Tomkins
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Worshipped by 2 billion Christians worldwide, Jesus Christ is the most famous human being ever. Stephen Tomkins takes the reader on a enlightening and enjoyable journey through the key stages of Christian development, covering the people, the events, the movements, the controversies and the expansion...
The Cabana Chronicles Conversations About God Judaism and Christianity
The Cabana Chronicles
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2018
The religions of Judaism and Christianity are discussed by retirees meeting each week under a cabana on a beach at South Padre Island, Texas. This book is one of a number of books comprising ***T******he Cabana Chronicles***series on comparative religion and apologetics, the systematic and logical defense of the Christian religion.
Jesus the Wicked Priest
How Christianity Was Born of an Essene Schism
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Decodes the Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal Christianity’s hidden Essene origins
• Reveals the Essenes as key figures behind Jesus’s trial, torture, and crucifixion
• Shows how Jesus, a former Essene himself, was deemed “the Wicked Priest” for his liberationist politics and humanist...
History of Christianity in Japan
Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, and Protestant Missions
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Despite the relatively small number of formal Christian believers in japan-less than one percent of the total population-Christianity has become and is likely to continue to be an important strand in modern Japanese culture.
The Christian social message of the early decades of the twentieth...
by William Paley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
According to Wikipedia: "Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity. The term means something quite different for each religious institution that sees...