Christianity

Take your place in God's plan for the finale of the agesNow updated and expanded, with several brand-new chapters and reflection questions following every chapter, this landmark text offers the most important and practical guidance Derek Prince imparted to believers in his last years: how to prepare for and take their places in the ultimate, ongoing spiritual battle.

Focusing on philosophical method in Augustine''s early dialogues, explains their pedagogical program and its relevance to current debates.

It is a comprehensive and critical study of the normative status of human nature in biotechnology from a Christian perspective.

This comprehensive study of musical notation from early medieval Europe provides a crucial new foundational model for understanding later Western notations.

Analyzes the labor experience of Israeli Palestinian women, arguing that state policies and widespread discrimination hinder their labor force participation and success.

The angels feature prominently in Augustine''s works.

How a distinctive approach to social policy led democracy to flourish in the Federal Republic of Germany despite its past.

Develops a new account of historical injustice and redress, demonstrating why a consideration of history is crucial for gender equality.

A major illustrated collection offering a fresh interdisciplinary reading of Chinese women''s periodicals and history in the long twentieth century.

A wide-ranging analysis of grass-roots activism, migration, legal, political and religious changes as basis for social transformation.

Explores the social interactions and pathways that enabled Christianity to travel across Asia and to India.

The first book-length study of the outsider designations that early Christians used and what they reveal about the movement''s identity, self-understanding and character.

Women and Microfinance in the Global South is a grounded exploration of the intersections of neoliberal ideology and feminism.

This book challenges our assumptions about morality by explaining how industrialized philanthropy and universalized goodness came to dominate Chinese religious engagement.

This is study of the lived experience of monastic reform within the troubled and violent landscape of twelfth-century Germany.

This book applies and explores Catholic social thought, focusing on the relevance of the encyclical Laudato Si'' in an era of climate crises.

Examines how thirteenth-century clergymen used pastoral care - preaching, sacraments and confession - to increase their parishioners'' religious knowledge, devotion and expectations.

An original interpretation of the lives and social interactions of Quaker women in the British Atlantic between 1650 and 1750.

A major re-assessment of the Frankish historian Flodoard of Rheims, one of the tenth century''s most intriguing but neglected narrators.

While dominant narratives emphasize war''s destructive effects, this book demonstrates how war can open up unexpected opportunities for women''s political mobilization.

Argues that laywomen''s interactions with gendered theology, Catholic rituals, and church institutions significantly shaped colonial Mexico''s religious culture.

Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end.

This book provides a solution to one of the Bible''s notorious cruxes, the identity of the speaking ''I'' of Romans 7.

Re-evaluates the political integration and Christianization of Saxony following its violent conquest (772–804) by Charlemagne.

Redefines the role assigned education in the history of monasticism, by re-situating monasticism in the history of education.

Considers how to implement children''s rights in the twenty-first century through a child rights-based approach to sustainable development.

Explores gender and identity in fourth-century Cappadocia, where bishops used a rhetoric of contest to align with classical Greek masculinity.

Argues that Greek thinkers engaged with linguistic concepts developed by Mesopotamian scribes in a process leading to new discoveries.

Is it possible to learn valuable lessons about faith, family, and friendship through daily interactions with animals?

Fiction for classrooms, families, teens, and other thoughtful readers.