History of religion

After the close of the New Testament era AD 70, Christianity entered a literary dark age which lasted until the middle of the second century.

This book draws from the examples of God, that of Jesus Christ and of others like Joseph, Moses, Joshua, and Paul, who had been called into leadership, as recorded in the Bible, in order to show good leadership approaches, styles, best leadership practices, and the underlying guiding principles that today's leaders need to embrace in order to become more effective in their leadership roles.

Abraham Joshua Heschel remains one of the most creative Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century.

The skepticism holding sway in our public society practically screams that one cannot be serious and also be Christian.

This is the first comprehensive treatment of Charles Wesley's sojourn in the American colonies from March to October 1736.

Worship is dialogue.

Classical orthodoxy, the Reformational understanding of the gospel, and the Great Awakening beliefs and behaviors, including missions/missiology, reflect what the evangelical movement and its mission should be if it is to have a future.

We are living in a world desperately in need of hope.

In recent years the issue of domestic abuse and violence has gained a lot of attention as the extent of it has become known.

Exegesis and Sermonic Development: The Path from Text to Sermon, by the Rev.

Of the many influential religious-liberty cases with which the Rev.

In International Law Afloat on a Sea of World Religions, the Rev.

This book offers a new way of understanding Catholic social ethics.

For two thousand years countless people around the world viewed reality through a Christian lens that endowed their lives with meaning, purpose, and coherence.

The command of the risen Christ was to make students of all nations: "e;On this Rock I will build .

The American moral governmental theory of the atonement (MGT) was arguably the most contextualized doctrine of atonement in the history of the Protestant tradition.

Have you ever wondered how the Lord sustained Martin Luther through one of the most personally and spiritually intense times in the history of Christendom?

This prayer book is intended to build up your child's prayer life in a fun and relatable way.

We all know that healthy partnerships are essential to fruitful boundary-crossing ministries, but how exactly do we create them?

Making the Word of God Fully Known is a collection of essays on church, culture, and mission relevant for the Australian church in honor of the sixty-fifth birthday of Archbishop Philip Freier, archbishop of Melbourne.

This book is about WAR--not the causes and results, not the planning and the campaigns, not the artillery and the bombs.

Is being a good American the same thing as being a good Christian?

Various Christian traditions mark their calendars to reflect the biblical and ecclesial narrative and enhance public worship.

The new and different frontiers and factors discussed in missiology are reshaping the meaning of mission.

After thirty years of study and reflection, Lutheran philosopher Robert Koons joined the Catholic Church in 2007.

Theological education has historically placed a strong emphasis on Scripture as the source of principle and practice for ministry.

Women's Ordination in the Catholic Church argues that women can be validly ordained to ministerial office.

Pentecostals are often portrayed as emotional people who are driven largely by experience.

Love at Its Best When Church Is a Mess is a collection of fifteen meditations, drawn from 1 Corinthians 13, perhaps the most well-known passage about love in Holy Scripture, and certainly one of the most beloved passages found anywhere in the English language.

When is the last time you sat down for a meal, to break bread with other people, and experienced peace?

Africans' prevailing interest in the prosperity gospel is not only connected to the influence of American prosperity teachers reaching a worldwide audience through their imaginative use of the media, but is also related to the African worldview and African traditional religion, and its lasting influence on contemporary Africans and the way they think about prosperity, as well as their interest in prosperity in post-colonial Africa.

In the last fifty years, the history of World Christianity has been disproportionally shaped, if not defined, by African Pentecostalism.

Discovery Teaching Like Jesus critiques the current assumptions, models, and delivery methods of adult religious education.

What do we do when a formerly vibrant back-to-the-Bible movement drifts into a toxic swamp rimmed with attack dogs?

When the organization and structure of the church in America was altered in the early 1900s to meet modern demands, the role of the pastorate became more specialized to adapt to the burdens of the new, "e;efficient"e; structure.

The present collection of essays examines specific texts by Charles Wesley in multiple dimensions (theological, poetical, historical, biographical, etc.