From its inception what came to be known as the Oxford Movement was always intended to be more than just an abstruse dialogue about the theoretical nature of Anglicanism.
El presente volumen analiza la autoría y autoridad literarias femeninas en el contexto del monacato hispánico, trazando un amplio panorama de la antropología cultural, política y religiosa de los Siglos de Oro.
Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject.
How Lincoln's Faith Shaped His Leadership Undoubtedly the most revered leader in American history, Abraham Lincoln has had more books written about him than all our nation's presidents put together.
What motivated Sodo-san to spend the last twenty years of his life in a “temple under the sky”— a corner of a public park where he taught passersby what it means to be forever young through the funky tunes he played on his grass flute?
The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition "e;In a series on Jewish Lives, this volume is about the Jewish life-the one that goes on forever.
The Pentateuch (or the Torah) consists of the first five books of the Bible and is a foundational scripture for millions of people, both Jews and Christians.
In post-World War II America and especially during the turbulent 1960s and 1970s, the psychologist Rollo May contributed profoundly to the popular and professional response to a widely felt sense of personal emptiness amid a culture in crisis.
Phillips Brooks, author of the carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, was the rector of the Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston for 22 years and the Bishop of Massachusetts for 15 months until his death in 1893.
Leben und Botschaft von Hermann-Josef WeidingerAls "Kräuterpfarrer der Nation" war er in Österreich und weit über dessen Grenzen hinaus bekannt: Hermann-Josef Weidinger.
On September 7, 1881, Matthew Simpson, Bishop in the Methodist Episcopal Church, in a London sermon asserted that, "e;As to the divisions in the Methodist family, there is little to mar the family likeness.
Uncommon Friendships explores the often-overlooked dynamic of interreligious friendships, considering their significance for how we think about contemporary religious thought.
Grace and Freedom addresses the issue of divine grace in relation to the freedom of the will in Reformed or "e;Calvinist"e; theology in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century.
Während der Weihnachtstagung zur Begründung der Allgemeinen Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft versenkte Rudolf Steiner gemeinsam mit den Anwesenden den spirituellen Grundstein dieser Gesellschaft «in die Herzen» der Menschen.
News of Mara of greda's exceptional attributes spread from her cloistered convent in seventeenth-century greda (Spain) to the court in Madrid and beyond.
Although much has been written on the Afro-Catholic syncretic religions of Vodou, Candomble, and Santeria, the Spiritual Baptists--an Afro-Caribbean religion based on Protestant Christianity--have received little attention.
At a time when Canadians were arguing about the merits of a new flag, the birth-control pill, and the growing hippie counterculture, the leaders of Canada's largest Protestant church were occupied with turning much of English-Canadian religious culture on its head.
Hugenotten sind die vom französischen Reformator Johannes Calvin geprägten, in ihrer Heimat Frankreich aber lange Zeit nicht geduldeten evangelischen Christen.
Father Duncan MacAskill has spent most of his priesthood as the 'Exorcist' - an enforcer employed by his bishop to discipline wayward clergy and suppress potential scandal.
Seit 3000 Jahren unvergessen: David – Hirte und Musiker, Krieger und Herrscher, Liebhaber und Liederdichter, Kämpfer und Beter, der Siegende, Leidende, Sterbende und Wiederkehrende.
