Biography: religious and spiritual

A Tidy Faith is distinctive as a work of systematic theology in that it comes out of a Reformed Baptist stable: this is especially relevant for the sections on the church, worship, and the sacraments.

2020 Book Award Winner, The Gospel Coalition (History & Biography)2020 For the Church Book AwardDutch Calvinist theologian Herman Bavinck, a significant voice in the development of Protestant theology, remains relevant many years after his death.

In 1969, Ann-Marie's parents did the unthinkable, leaving a Hutterite colony with their seven children to start a new life.

Jan Hus was a late medieval Czechuniversity master and popular preacher who was condemned at the Council ofConstance and burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415.

Charles Wesley's Journal is crucial to an understanding of the beginnings of the Wesleyan/Methodist movement.

The calling to parish ministry involves a journey leading through lowland thickets and high plateau vistas.

An eminent group of Episcopal scholars and bishops addresses the core issues raised in Bishop Spong's books and teachings on the Virgin birth, resurrection, sexuality, scripture, sin, Jesus, culture, and God.

The world today is filled with angry voices, voices that often call for isolation and even violence against those who differ from us by race, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, or lifestyle.

Current reception histories emphasize the world of Biblical readers, their socio-historical contexts, and the myriad effects of Biblical exegesis.

In a major biography of Blaise Pascal, James Connor explores both the intellectual giant whose theory of probability paved the way for modernity and the devout religious mystic who dared apply probability to faith.

He burst upon the fusty corridors of Victorian spirituality like a breath of fresh air, regaling the prime minister with his sense of humor, and touching the lives of seven presidents.

As a WWE wrestler with millions of fans, Shawn Michaels had adulation and all the attention he could ask for, but he found himself longing for something more.

The Disciples of Christ, one of the first Christian faiths to have originated in America, was established in 1832 in Lexington, Kentucky, by the union of two groups led by Alexander Campbell and Barton W.

Der weltbekannte LGBTQIA*-Mönch schreibt über die Kraft der Selbstliebe»Du trägst eine besondere Schönheit in dir, die nur du in die Welt bringen kannst.

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Auf dem Weg in den Süd-Sudan wird das Missionarsehepaar Hedi und Collin von Kindersoldaten angegriffen!

Originally published in 1988 Religious Higher Education in the United States is a selected bibliography of sources addressing how religion has changed and affected education in the United States.

The untold story of the people, the books, the lectures, and ultimately the God who formed and shaped the life of the late Timothy Keller.

Of particular interest to scholars and practitioners across the Anglican Communion with contributions from a wide breadth of scholars.

The Collected Meditations of Mrs.

The true story of a friendship between two very different men: Founding Father Ben Franklin and famed preacher of the Great Awakening George Whitefield.

In this book, Elizabeth S.

Drawing on the author's unusual background as a seminarian turned scientist and business executive, Boys of the Cloth presents a unique analysis of the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.

Like Ripples on Water is, first of all, a book about Russian Baptists and their preaching.

Seit 800 Jahren fasziniert Franziskus mit seiner Liebe zur Welt, der spirituellen Tiefe, aus der er schöpft, und der Freiheit, in der er gelebt hat.

To the pioneer folk of Upper and Lower Canada-Loyalists, "e;late"e; Loyalists, and the hordes of land-seekers-living in what seemed like religious destitution, various American Baptist missionary associations in Massachusetts, Vermont, and New York State sent missionary preachers in the decade after 1800.

This new study examines the relationship of atheism to religious tolerance from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment in a broad array of literary texts and political and religious controversies written in Latin and the vernacular primarily in France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

An African bishop shares his story and ministry.

A New York Times bestseller, The Sound of Gravel is the remarkable true story of one girl's coming-of-age in a polygamist Mormon Doomsday cult.

This book examines the evolution of post-colonial African Studies through the eyes of Africanists from the Anabaptist (Mennonite and Church of the Brethren) community.

John Paul Heil presents an original analysis of the theme of worship in the book of Revelation guided by a new illustration of its comprehensive chiastic structure.

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Read the best news the world has ever been given about the most significant life in all history-Jesus Christ.

Lise Bourbeau hat für ihre Autobiografie bewusst diesen frappierenden Titel gewählt, in dem Wissen, dass es eine kühne Entscheidung ist – denn anhand ihres eigenen Lebenswegs will sie uns vor Augen führen, dass das Göttliche wirklich in uns ist.

Wang Chin-yun, a Buddhist nun born in Taiwan in 1937 and now known as the Venerable Master Cheng Yen, is one of the world's most inspiring yet largely unrecognized women.

Love in a Time of Hate tells the gripping tale of Magda and Andre Trocme, the couple that transformed a small town in the mountains of southern France into a place of safety during the Holocaust.

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Mystical experiences are happening every day, yet--as amazing as the experiences can be--it is often difficult to integrate these experiences into the rest of life.

An insight on the life of Jesus Christ between the ages of 12 and 29 and the journey of the man who sought out, translated, and later published the details of these missing years.

A fresh account of the life of Martin Luther The sixteenth-century German friar whose public conflict with the medieval Roman Church triggered the Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther was neither an unblemished saint nor a single-minded religious zealot according to this provocative new biography by Scott Hendrix.