History of religion

The Recovery Rosary shows you how to pray and meditate on the mysteries of the Rosary to strengthen your spiritual life as a Catholic working the Twelve Steps of recovery or accompanying a loved one who is.

Many Christians profess that Jesus died as a sacrifice for sins.

Shortlisted for the 2025 Wolfson History PrizeLonglisted for the 2025 Women's Prize for Non-fictionA Times Best History Book of the Year 2024'Every page glittering with insight.

Many Christians profess that Jesus died as a sacrifice for sins.

As our nation has experienced a renewal of reckoning with the reality of slavery in our past and the continued struggle for equality and liberation in the present, many previously untold stories have come to light.

The author is the current president of Jews for Jesus, a ministry dedicated to reaching Jews with the Gospel.

Trained as a cultural historian, Thomas R.

Resplendent icons, brilliant vestments, fragrant incense, and sonorous chants - the sights and sounds of the Orthodox Church have captured the imagination of people for centuries.

Die Figur des Baruch, des treuen Begleiters des Propheten Jeremia, birgt bis heute ein besonderes Geheimnis in der apokalyptischen Literatur.

A TIMELESS CLASSIC OF SPIRITUAL LITERATUREInterior Castle, written in the 16th century, is a book that was inspired by a mystical vision that came upon the revered St.

This book reveals the medieval Mediterranean region as a richly nuanced space of places and peoples connected by a body of water, but far from unified-and seeks to challenge what we think we know about the medieval Mediterranean and the world it influenced.

This book explores the Jesuit order of its origins, historical evolution, missionary endeavors, and global dynamics, with a specific focus on Portugal and the challenges arising from changes in the former Portuguese Empire.

This book highlights the writings of the young (or early) Martin Luther, which separates it from other books on Martin Luther's theology.

First published in 1980, but then out of print for several years, this collection, together with The History of Ideas and Doctrines of Canon Law in the Middle Ages, presents a series of fundamental articles by the acknowledged master of medieval canon law studies.

From the Preface: The 1163 council at Tours met amidst the most protracted conflict between a pope and a secular ruler in medieval history, the eighteen-year struggle between Alexander III and Frederick Barbarossa.

Let's get practical how do real women live out God's plan in 21st-century marriages?

Why does antisemitic messaging strike a chord in certain communities without Jews but fall flat in neighboring communities equally without Jews?

Why does antisemitic messaging strike a chord in certain communities without Jews but fall flat in neighboring communities equally without Jews?

Can joy come from suffering?

This book presents cultural representations of Christ embedded in the imagination and the contested myths of Australian life.

Winner of two 2025 CMA Book Awards from the Catholic Media Association: Front Cover Artwork (Second Place), and Pastoral Ministry Catechetical (Honorable Mention).

The story of Nazi Germany is one of conflict between two saviors and two crosses.

"Prüft alles" - Die Jahreslosung 2025 fordert uns auf, die Dinge nicht einfach hinzunehmen, sondern uns ein eigenes Urteil zu bilden: Auch bei großen Lebensvorbildern kritisch die Schattenseiten sehen.

Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.

First published in 1985, Shamans, Lamas and Evangelicals tells the little known yet fascinating story of a missionary venture to Eastern Siberia in the year 1818.

The particular interest of Professor Spitz has been the close relationship and synergy between humanism and religious reform in the transformation of European culture in the 16th century.

Das Etschmiadsin-Evangeliar, geschaffen im Jahr 989 n.

This book integrates secular literature such as psychology, sociology, management, and organization studies with Christian and spiritual biblical literature.

This edited volume offers an incisive exploration of the intersection between Islam and evolutionary theory - a topic that remains a focal point of vigorous academic debate and inquiry.

This book presents cultural representations of Christ embedded in the imagination and the contested myths of Australian life.

When hopes for motherhood are deferred.

Instead of an Anxious Parent, Become a Praying ParentAny Christian mother and father, or grandmother and grandfather, desires what is spiritually best for their children.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt des frühen Christentums und entdecken Sie eine der bemerkenswertesten apokryphen Schriften: Das Armenische Kindheitsevangelium.

In this Lenten devotional, let Padre Pio guide you through the profound mysteries of the faith, sharing his unique ';way of the Cross' as a spiritual father, warrior, and beloved son of God.

First published in 1956, God and Man in Early Israel deals with Old Testament history from Abraham to Solomon in the light of modern archaeological research and biblical scholarship, and in terms of the Christian belief in divine revelation.

A major new history of medieval monasticism, from the fourth to the sixteenth century From the late Roman Empire onwards, monasteries and convents were a common sight throughout Europe.

In a day fascinated with questions of historiography and with explicating a distinctive Christian philosophy of time and history, Henri-Charles Puech's (1950s) work on Gnosis and time found an audience.

The history of biblical interpretation has attracted considerable attention in recent decades.

The Spanish Inquisition has become such a byword for injustice that many forget it was also a judicial system capable of acquittal.