Christianity

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.

Deborah Sawyer discusses this crucial yet unresolved question in the context of contemporary and postmodern ideas about gender and power, based on fresh examination of a number of texts from Hebrew and Christian scripture.

Scholars of Gregory of Nyssa have long acknowledged the centrality of faith in his theory of divine union.

Glimpses of Glory is the second in a three-volume collection of prayers and other resources based on the New Common Worship Lectionary used widely around the world.

"e;A cogent and persuasive plea for a return to the full catholic tradition which would make a critical contribution to the debate about gender in matters of faith.

This book understands, interprets, and critiques the theology of the American Empire that undergirds and bolsters U.

As with viewing a mosaic, the more closely the reader examines this book, the more it shows forth rich meaning and inspiration for preachers, lay readers, and all who desire to encounter Jesus Christ in the scriptures.

Theological conversations about violence have typically framed the discussion in terms of victim and perpetrator.

This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662).

Do you want to share your faith with others but think you might not know enough?

This book draws upon case studies of the Congolese Christian diaspora in the UK and US and an ethnography of religious urbanization in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to explore the making of religious spaces and moral landscapes in an era of globalization.

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

A journey from Burning Man to the Akashic Field that suggest how 5-MeO-DMT triggers the human capacity for higher knowledge through direct contact with the zero-point field *; Examines Bufo alvarius toad venom, which contains the potent natural psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT, and explores its entheogenic use *; Proposes a new connection between the findings of modern physics and the knowledge held by shamans and religious sages for millennia The venom from Bufo alvarius, an unusual toad found in the Sonoran desert, contains 5-MeO-DMT, a potent natural chemical similar in effect to the more common entheogen DMT.

Did the Bible only take its definitive form after Alexander conquered the Near East, after the Hellenisation of the Samaritans and Jews, and after the founding of the great library of Alexandria?

Die Geschichte des Religionspädagogischen Instituts Luzern ist zugleich die Geschichte des ersten kirchlichen Berufs für Laien.

Unlike the traditional terms Counter-Reformation or Catholic Reform, this book does not see Catholicism from 1450 to 1700 primarily in relationship to the Protestant Reformation but as both shaped by the revolutionary changes of the early modern period and actively refashioning itself in response to these changes: the emergence of the early modern state; economic growth and social dislocation; the expansion of Europe across the seas; the Renaissance; and, to be sure, the Protestant Reformation.

Draw near to God as you enjoy your baby's first year and create memories for a lifetime as you journal prayers and love notes for your new baby.

This is an informative and engaging book about monasticism, its history, practice, and relevance to contemporary life, combining personal insights with sound scholarship.

A study of archaeology and the early Church in Greece is long overdue.

Joyce Meyer provides a comprehensive guide to the range of emotions that we feel every day and shows how to manage them - instead of letting them manage you.

Spent Matches explores the possibility that a few small paradigm shifts within the church might make the difference between extinction and effectiveness.

Sex is worth celebrating.

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Filled with spiritual insights and stunning landscape photography, this devotional is for those who connect deeply with God through the beauty and splendor of the outdoors.

This book addresses how Christian leaders integrate faith into the workplace, through a love-based altruistic system of Christian Servant Leadership Spiritual Intelligence (CSLSI).

Steeped in the great tradition of Christian poetry, Bazyn offers a series of startling and highly personal interactions with the Four Gospels to break open Jesus' teachings and symbolic acts for our everyday lives.

In October 2010, Shane Clifton had a serious accident that left him a quadriplegic.

In a consumer-driven and technologized world, can we still experience the mystery of God?

A fascinating exploration of the urbanism at the heart of Utopian thinkingThe vision of Utopia obsessed the nineteenth-century mind, shaping art, literature, and especially town planning.

John Wesley boasted that he was a "e;man of one book,"e; but he was also a thoughtful student throughout his life and an author of many books.

Matthew wrote his Gospel from his perspective as a Jew.

In Revelation 21-22, John offered a resplendent portrayal of a new Jerusalem without a temple, in which he seemed to reference the final chapters of Ezekiel.

Gott spricht mit den Menschen - aber wie?

This book aims to be a reference for understanding an educational system throughout Latin America aligned with the Catholic Church.

This book examines the world of religious conservatism in Christianity and Islam through a comparison of two eighteenth-century traditionalist icons, Jonathan Edwards and Muhammad Ibn 'Abd al-Wahhab.