History of religion

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) stood apart from the other philosophers of his day.

This collection of essays examines the polyvalent concept of "e;New Worlds"e; in the context of medieval and early modern sermon studies.

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare?

This book presents a new model for understanding the christological relationship between Luke 1–2 and the rest of Luke-Acts.

'In this compelling and thoroughly researched book, Benjamin Huskinson demonstrates that just as there is broad diversity within evangelicalism, so too there is broad diversity among "e;creationists.

In this collection of compelling personal stories and theological reflections, noted spiritual guides Nancy Reeves and Bernadette Gasslein team up to revitalize Catholic appreciation of the Eucharist as the communal center of the faith.

For much of the sixteenth-century, France was wracked with religious strife, as the Wars of Religion pitted Catholic against Protestant.

Henry VIII and the Reformation Parliament transforms students into English lords and commoners during the tumultuous years of 1529 to 1536.

The Canso d'Antioca is a fascinating text which deserves more attention than it has received.

Originally published in 1931, The English Medieval Feast examines the act of feasting and food during the medieval period.

Provides new perspectives on the increasingly complex relationships between media forms and formats, materiality, and meaning.

Religion, Culture, and Sacred Spaces is a comparative exploration into the nature of the human relationship to physical space advancing the startling thesis that the human capacity for narrative and identity imbues landscapes with meaning and sacredness.

As the millennium approached, the number of independent African Pentecostal churches in Britain increased rapidly.

Read the story of two worlds that converge: one of Hindu immigrants to America who want to preserve their traditions and pass them on to their children in a new and foreign land, and one of American spiritual seekers who find that the traditions of India fulfil their most deeply held aspirations.

Dieses Buch räumt mit der gängigen Sicht auf, die Kreuzzüge seien ein brutaler, imperialistischer, räuberischer Feldzug des christlichen Abendlandes gegen einen gebildeten, toleranten und friedlichen Islam gewesen, geführt, um sich zu bereichern und das Christentum zu verbreiten.

This book presents the fundamental elements of Athanasius' response to the central questions of the identity of Jesus and the nature of his relationship with God.

Conflicting claims to authority in relation to the translation and interpretation of the Bible have been a recurrent source of tension within the Christian church, and were a key issue in the Reformation debate.

Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany has shifted both chronologically and thematically toward an interest in the 'long' or 'delayed' Reformations, and the structure and operation of the Holy Roman Empire.

Visionary strength was given to the piety, polity, and political activity of Protestantism in its formative periods through the way in which the Apocalypse was read.

In früheren Zeiten war Gott kein abstraktes Wesen, sondern hatte eine stark physische Komponente.

In 1974 nearly 3,000 evangelicals from 150 nations met at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization.

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What did medieval authors know about their world?

Samuel Wesley and the Crisis of Tory Piety, 1685-1720 uses the experiences of Samuel Wesley (1662-1735) to examine what life was like in the Church of England for Tory High Church clergy.

';Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics.

Commonly perceived as a direct threat to the practice of liberal democracy, the global reemergence of theocratic claims to political rule is a misunderstood development of twenty-first-century politics.

Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts.

Out of a deep concern for our nation and its drift away from its Christian roots, Glover Shipp presents powerful proofs that it was founded on faith in God.

The Instant Sunday Times BestsellerLearn how to recognise and resist the daily attempts to control and manipulate your mind.

John Owen was one of the most significant figures in Reformed Orthodox theology during the Seventeenth Century, exerting considerable religious and political influence in the context of the British Civil War and Interregnum.

'In this compelling and thoroughly researched book, Benjamin Huskinson demonstrates that just as there is broad diversity within evangelicalism, so too there is broad diversity among "e;creationists.

John Wesley created an independent Methodist Church in 1784 in order to provide the sacraments to its members in America.

John Nemec examines the beginnings of the non-dual tantric philosophy of the famed Pratyabhij?

'The Zohar' was compiled and composed in Spain in the thirteenth century, and exerted a powerful influence on Jewish life in medieval ghettoes.

The mid-nineteenth century is a gold mine for contemporary scholars interested in American Protestant ecclesiology.

A revelatory account of a spiritual leader who dared to assert the value of rabbinic doubt in the face of messianic certaintyIn 1665, Sabbetai Zevi, a self-proclaimed Messiah with a mass following throughout the Ottoman Empire and Europe, announced that the redemption of the world was at hand.

In this fascinating book Kathleen M.

In October 1307 all the brothers of the military religious Order of the Temple in France were arrested on the instructions of King Philip IV and charged with heresy.

"e;The object of the present work is to determine what is central in the Christian proclamation.

The book is an anthropological study of a phenomenon observed within the range of contemporary Polish Catholic religiosity.

Between the later middle ages and the eighteenth century, religious orders were in the vanguard of reform movements within the Christian church.

The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (13321406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds.

Uncover the scandalous, corporeal origins of God in this groundbreaking and controversial journey through religious history.

In the past quarter-century, David Hartman has established himself as one of the pre-eminent religious and Jewish thinkers of our age.