History of religion

This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland.

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of The Wiley Blackwell Companion to the Qur' n offers an ideal resource for anyone who wishes to read and understand the Qur' n as a text and as a vital component of Muslim life.

This book reconsiders ways in which the cross of Christ was construed before "e;atonement theories"e; narrowed the categories.

Focused on Shi'ism and Sufism in the formative period of Islam, this book examines the development of the concept of walaya, a complex term that has, over time, acquired a wide range of relationships with other theological ideas, chiefly in relation to the notion of authority.

This concise and up-to-date assessment of Richelieu's career provides an enthralling introduction to the character and exercise of his power.

When Scottish lay theologian Thomas Erskine's book The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel was published in 1828, it provoked a storm of controversy throughout his Calvinist homeland.

Rather than pledging allegiance to the military effort as dictated by Prussian law in 1867, many devout Anabaptists deemed it prudent to become pioneers in Kansas.

This accessibly written volume examines the major periods of Jewish history around the world, from the Jews' distant origins in antiquity through the beginnings of the modern period and the emergence of secular culture.

Malleable Anatomies offers an account of the early stages of the practice of anatomical modelling in mid-eighteenth-century Italy.

Im Jahr 1945 entdeckten Bauern im ägyptischen Nag Hammadi eine antike Sammlung mysteriöser Schriften – darunter das Thomasevangelium, ein apokrypher Text, der die moderne Wissenschaft in Aufregung versetzte und das Verständnis des frühen Christentums nachhaltig veränderte.

Paperback edition of a prize-winning account of the reign of King James VI and I.

The Book of Revelation has fired the imaginations of theologians, preachers, artists, and ordinary Christians across the centuries.

Baptists are not often thought of as leading theologians and practitioners of worship.

A new account of the intellectual debates that created the German notion of the ''modern state'' under the Thirty Years War.

This book shows how Lewis was interested in the truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the public square.

Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early modern and Meiji Japan, 1600-1868.

Was meinen Christinnen und Christen aus den unterschiedlichen Konfessionen, wenn sie von Gott sprechen?

This book, first published in 1958, examines the life and works of Avicenna, one of the most provocative figures in the history of thought in the East.

World Faiths is a brief introduction to the major world religions.

Late antiquity was a perilous time for children, who were often the first victims of economic crisis, war, and disease.

The dominant activities of the eighteenth century Wesleyan Methodist Connexion, in terms of expenditure, were the support of itinerant preaching, and the construction and maintenance of preaching houses.

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy.

This is a study of a distinctive brand of modernism that first emerged in late nineteenth-century Germany and remained influential throughout the inter-war years and beyond.

No está todo dicho sobre Pablo de Tarso a pesar de que desde san Agustín, y principalmente desde Martín Lutero y la Reforma, se hayan escrito centenares de libros sobre él.

This book reconstructs the history of a group of British Quaker families and their involvement in the process of settler colonialism in early nineteenth-century Australia.

By the time of his death in 1933 Henri Bremond, priest and member of the elite Academie francaise, had established himself in France, and increasingly in England and the United States, as a distinguished historian of Christian spirituality and as a Catholic modernist who helped to shake the church out of its dogmatic slumbers by embracing "e;pure love,"e; artistic-poetic expression, and mystical prayer as the privileged manifestations of spiritual truth.

Originally published in 1935 and authored by a supporter of Scottish Nationalism, this book ascribes many of Scotland's misfortunes in history to the sectarian wars and those of Edward I, as well as the havoc wrought by the Industrial Revolution and the decay of Scotland's successive cultures.

The continued importance of Christian rhetorics in political, social, pedagogical, and civic affairs suggests that such rhetorics not only belong on the map of rhetorical studies, but are indeed essential to the geography of rhetorical studies in the twenty-first century.

Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy brings together some of the English-speaking world's leading Constantinian scholars for an interdisciplinary study of the life and legacy of the first Christian emperor.

Shinto - A Short History provides an introductory outline of the historical development of Shinto from the ancient period of Japanese history until the present day.

Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) was a pastoral counselor and theologian of hope.

Historians and the Church of England explores the vital relationship between the Church of England and the development of historical scholarship in the Victorian and Edwardian era.

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Essential to Methodist revivalism was the personal conversion experience, which constituted the basis of salvation and church membership.

In Calvin's Company of Pastors, Scott Manetsch examines the pastoral theology and practical ministry activities of Geneva's reformed ministers from the time of Calvin's arrival in Geneva until the beginning of the seventeenth century.

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Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a striking account of the transformation of the individual in the course of the Christian life.

First published in 1993, Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia covers every aspect of the region during the Middle Ages, including rulers and saints, overviews of the countries, religion, education, politics and law, culture and material life, history, literature, and art.

Eli Washington Caruthers's unpublished manuscript, American Slavery and the Immediate Duty of Southern Slaveholders, is the arresting and authentic alternative to the nineteenth-century hermeneutics that supported slavery.