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How important was music to Martin Luther?

The Catholic Church has gone through more change in the last sixty years than in the previous six hundred.

In an age when fathers are more important than ever, how do you embark on your journey to manhood and know how to steer clear of the dangers along the way?

Hunt examines the apparent paradox that Jesus' earthly existence and post resurrection appearances are experienced through consummately physical actions and attributes yet some ascetics within the Christian tradition appear to seek to deny the value of the human body, to find it deadening of spiritual life.

This volume is a response to Pope Francis' environmental encyclical Laudato Si'.

From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times.

The Catholic intellectual tradition is broad, and covers a wide array of academic disciplines.

1714 was a revolutionary year for Dissenters across the British Empire.

Sociologist Jeffrey Guhin spent a year and a half embedded in four high schools in the New York City area -- two of them Sunni Muslim and two Evangelical Christian.

Is it possible that angels, saints, and even our departed ancestors support and inspire us throughout our lives?

On the north end of London lies an old nonconformist burial ground named Bunhill Fields.

In these sermons, Barabra Brown Taylor walks us through the church year from the expectancy of Advent to the fires of Pentecost and beyond.

For Christians living as a persecuted minority in the Middle East, the question of whether their allegiance should lie with their faith or with the national communities they live in is a difficult one.

Fresh, Useful Perspectives on the Spiritual Dynamics of Prayer Better music, better sermons and better prayer books can only go so far.

Marks of a Movement calls us back to the disciple-making mandate of the church through the timeless wisdom of John Wesley and the Methodist movement.

Im Hören auf das Evangelium entstanden in konkreten Situationen immer neue Bekenntnisse in der internationalen Gemeinschaft reformierter Kirchen.

Limericks are, like the Bible, often funny and sometimes obscene.

Born to a noble family in Tournai, Marie Dentiere (1495-1561) left her convent in the 1520s to work for religious reform.

A daily devotional inspired by the hymns of Charles Wesley, this book paves the way for spiritual pilgrimage throughout this sacred period of the Christian year.

It is difficult to find a surgeon like Enzo Piccinini.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of Protestant Christianity in Korea.

The Anglican church has been no stranger to controversy during its history but the debates raging at the moment are among the hottest it has known.

Ethics in the West too often equates morality with universal moral principles, thus imposing lifestyles and moral criteria that do not respect differences and local histories.

The Eastern Christian tradition is filled with theological and spiritual riches.

In Today Everything Is Different Dirk Lange does not fail to deliver the "e;unexpected"e; in helping readers gain both a greater understanding of Christian spirituality and a path to it.

Drawing on a deep knowledge of Christian scripture as well as Hindu philosophy, musician and teacher Russill Paul reveals that the mystical core of religion offers us much more than the simple solace of unthinking dogma.

Important ecclesiastical documents have stressed the urgency of addressing world hunger and put in the foreground its natural and historical causes, from famine to global austerity measures and welfare.

David Hoyle explores the changing theologies of ministry during the Church's history with the aim of challenging the lack of theological reflection in some of today's understanding of ministry.

Grace at Table advocates prayer at table as a way to solve everything.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

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Subversive Spirituality links the practice and study of Christian spirituality with Christian mission.

Practicing hospitality is central to building a civil society, not to mention living a Christian life.

Michael Herbst teilt seine Vision von Gemeinde: Kirchen, die nicht nur Dienstleister sind, sondern der Ort, der Menschen fit für das Leben macht.

Discusses natural law as a traditional but highly contested source of canon law.

This book constitutes a pioneering and comprehensive text-in-context study of the translation of Christian tracts (from English into Chinese) by Protestant missionaries in nineteenth-century China.

Are congregations inevitably stuck during a change of pastoral leadership?

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In the 1960s, the Second Vatican Council enacted the most sweeping changes the Catholic Church had seen in centuries.

This book demonstrates that reading and writing catechisms were crucial sites of women''s literary engagements in early modern England.

They sought to transform the world, and ended up transforming twentieth-century AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world.

"An inspiring starting point for Christians looking to put their beliefs into action.

In Passing Over and Returning Paul O.

As profound as Martin Luther's ideas are, this giant of church history was concerned above all with practical instruction for daily Christian living.