History of religion

The book looks into the liturgy of the Mar Thoma Church.

The book investigates a riveting, richly documented conflict from thirteenth-century England over church property and ecclesiastical patronage.

Ancestry played a continuous role in the construction and portrayal of Roman emperorship in the first three centuries AD.

Blaise Pascal, the force of whose intellect has never been in doubt, could have given us the most challenging apologia for the Christian faith that post-Renaissance man had known.

The long-standing debate about whether the State of Israel can be both Jewish and democratic raises important questions about the rights of Palestinian Arabs.

Elizabeth Wilson is one of our most radical cultural critics.

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The late nineteenth century was a time of rapid industrialization, mass politicization, and modern philosophy.

Many missionary societies established mission schools in the nineteenth century in the British Empire as a means to convert non-Europeans to Christianity.

We live in an era in which relations are considered to be of the utmost importance in almost every field of science and society.

Despite its title, this is not a morbid or depressing book, but one that it is hoped will bring encouragement and comfort to all who are experiencing life's difficulties, even to the point of wondering if they wish to continue living.

What was it like to be poor in the Middle Ages?

Being angry at God is full of pain, confusion, and loneliness.

Charting the first six hundred years of the Christian movement, THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CENTURIES carries the reader from the world of second-temple Judaism to the Byzantine age, the rise of Islam, and the beginnings of medieval European polities.

This book explores why and how Paul uses Scripture (Old Testament) in Phil 2:10-16.

This book examines the rise and demise of the psychology of religion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe and the United States.

The New Atheist Novel is the first study of a major new genre of contemporary fiction.

First published in 1992.

This study examines third- and fourth-century portraits of married Christians and associated images, reading them as visual rhetoric in early Christian conversations about marriage and celibacy, and recovering lay perspectives underrepresented or missing in literary sources.

Joanna Southcott (1750 1814) remains one of the most significant and extraordinary religious figures of her era.

This study of English Benedictine nuns is based upon a wide variety of original manuscripts, including chronicles, death notices, clerical instructions, texts of spiritual guidance, but also the nuns' own collections of notes.

Die neuere Paulusauslegung ist durch die Diskussionen um die Neue Paulusperspektive geprägt.

This collection of essays considers topics in pastoral theology, pastoral care and counseling, pastoral leadership, and social work, and attends to challenges and opportunities pertaining to the support and care of persons in need.

This book addresses a growing need in apologetic literature.

Since its publication in 2000, The Early Christian World has come to be regarded by scholars, students and the general reader as one of the most informative and accessible works in English on the origins, development, character and major figures of early Christianity.

The papers in this volume derive from the 28th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, held for the Society for the promotion of Byzantine Studies at the Univesity of Birmingham in March 1994.

The Bohemian preacher and religious reformer Jan Hus has been celebrated as a de facto saint since being burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415.

The Cistercian Order in Medieval Europe offers an accessible and engaging history of the Order from its beginnings in the twelfth century through to the early sixteenth century.

A concise and accessible history of four of the monastic orders in the middle ages.

This volume includes 20 articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muhammad and the history of early Islam, covered in five sections: Arabia on the Eve of Islam, Muhammad at Medina, Muhammad and the Jews, Muhammad ibn Ishaq and the sira and studies on early Islamic literature.

Few countries provoke as much passion and controversy as Israel.

Enrich each day with wisdom from our greatest spiritual thinkers.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleMost of what we know about attitudes toward Islam in the medieval and early modern West has been based on polemical treatises against Islam written by Christian scholars preoccupied with defending their own faith and attacking the doctrines of others.

Paul Snell, novice reporter, gets assigned a weekly column on chess, mostly because of his faux-filial attachment to the Hane Tribune's owner Waldo Turner.

Missiologists and theologians do not often talk to each other, which has resulted in increased ignorance of each others questions and concerns about how to do theology in ways that effectively serve the Churchs mission.

How far can religion play a part in the public sphere, or should it be only a private matter?

Explore the interwoven lives of King Herod and Mary, Mother of Jesus as New York Times bestselling author Kathie Lee Gifford brings these biblical figures into a new light.

This work is an academic study of marriage in the lives and theologies of eighteenth-century English Baptists.

The Crusades and the Expansion of Catholic Christendom, 1000-1714 is a fascinating and accessible survey that places the medieval Crusades in their European context, and examines, for the first time, their impact on European expansion.

The history of the church is full of revivals.

What Makes You See Red?

The "e;Long Middle Ages"e; indicates a span of time extending from Antiquity, across the Middle Ages, to the Early Modern period.