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The Real Truth About Church History answers the following questions: Why is Christianity the way that it is today? And how did we go from one church to over 34,000 Christian denominations worldwide? This is a huge problem because the world has acknowledged this fact. And the fact is this: A church...

For over a thousand years Britain was defined by Christianity, with monarchs dedicating the country to God and national days of prayer that saved the nation in its darkest hours. Discover the continuing legacy of the Bible in Britain, how faith defined its nationhood and the challenges from the 1960s to the present day.

The Christian religion is deeply imbued with the imagery of water, and water plays a central role in its religious practices, not least in baptism. Yet the wider role of water in Christianity has been little explored. In this pioneering book, Terje Oestigaard uses the dramatic changes that took place...

The book provides a introduction to Paul's Letter to the Philippians as well as to the history, development, and foundation of the Church in Philippi. Verhoef expertly guides students through the key issues of interpretation surrounding Paul's writings to the Philippians, before covering the...

An introduction to the history of early Christianity, this reference provides roughly 60 primary source documents from the first five centuries of the Christian Era, each accompanied by explanatory material. • Offers a guide that helps readers to understand how to study primary documents...

Thomas Fuller, an English parson of the 17th century, was probably the first man ever to make a full-time living as a professional author. In one of his numerous books he wrote - Before the invention of printing, (books) came but singly into the public, which since that mystery is made common,...

For many Christians in America, becoming filled with Christ first requires being empty of themselves—a quality often overlooked in religious histories. In Emptiness, John Corrigan highlights for the first time the various ways that American Christianity has systematically promoted the cultivation...

An immense difficulty has to be encountered by those who have been deeply impressed by the value and beauty of Christianity when they are called upon to consider the claims of other faiths. Anyone who has had within his experience and under his observation such an exceptional case as that of a sincere...

A collection of the Lectures and Essays (Vols. I-IV) of Robert Green “Bob” Ingersoll (August 11, 1833 – July 21, 1899), nicknamed “The Great Agnostic” — one of outstanding orators, humanists, agnostics and freethinkers of his time — whose radical views on religion, superstition, slavery,...

Discover the astonishing secret of Christianity. Jesus Christ was reincarnated, not resurrected. This was the hidden teaching of the highest circles of Christianity. Resurrection was a Jewish idea deemed fit only for the simple masses that were ignorant of the philosophy of Plato. The Gospels in fact...

This new edition of Frithjof Schuon's fourteenth work, Christianity/Islam: Perspectives on Esoteric Ecumenism, is a fully revised translation of the original French edition of 1981, and contains an extensive new Appendix with previously unpublished selections from his letters and other private writings....

Nation-building processes in the Orthodox commonwealth brought together political institutions and religious communities in their shared aims of achieving national sovereignty. Chronicling how the churches of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia acquired independence from the Patriarchate of Constantinople...

Henry Drummond was a Scottish evangelical lecturer. Few men have exercised more religious influence than he has. In The Program of Christianity Henry Drummond sets forth how Christianity and society should interact.

Religion & Spirituality - Truthful Christianity, Judaism, and Islam is not a book on spiritualism and in fact it is a book of spirituality vs religion. It delineates what are the differences in religions and speaks about religion spirituality. It away the myths and misinformation and presents...