History of religion

From the Preface:"e;Get real"e; was a slang term that became popular in the 1960's when Michael Hickey was growing up in East Boston.

Während Luther 1521/22 auf der Wartburg war, begann in ganz Kursachsen eine rege Reformtätigkeit.

The story of Jesus of Nazareth, as recounted in the New Testament, has always been understood by the church to be historically true.

Ibn al-'Arabi (d.

This book asks why tax policy is both attracted to and repelled by the idea of justice.

A century before Martin Luther and the Reformation, Jan Hus confronted the official Church and helped to change the face of medieval Europe.

The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) is small by anyone's definition, with only about 300,000 members worldwide, but its impact has been widely felt.

Harry Freedman recounts the fascinating and bloody history of the Bible.

Since its founding in 1924, the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) has grown to span five synods across Central, Eastern, and Southern Africa.

"e;Why,"e; an exasperated Jonathan Edwards asked, "e;can't we be contented with.

Born in 1934 in Dresden, Germany, Theo Lehmann lived through both the Nazi era and the Communist-ruled German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Richard Crouter illustrates how Schleiermacher''s life work draws from the Enlightenment and Romanticism.

The Hebrew Bible is a philosophical testament.

This volume presents selected papers read at the first meeting of the Society for Jewish and Biblical Studies in Central Europe, in Piliscsaba, Hungary, February 2009, but does not publish the proceedings of this meeting (for a clarification see here).

Examines the interdisciplinary development of law and religion, with a particular focus on Professor Norman Doe''s pioneering role.

Wine in the Ancient World (1957) examines wine in all its forms in, primarily, ancient Greece and Rome.

How nineteenth-century Protestant evangelicals used print and visual media to shape American cultureIn nineteenth-century America, "e;apocalypse"e; referred not to the end of the world but to sacred revelation, and "e;geography"e; meant both the physical landscape and its representation in printed maps, atlases, and pictures.

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

Does Martin Luther have anything to say to us today?

For the first time, Thomas Oden's Systematic Theology classic series (individually titled The Living God, The Word of Life, and Life in the Spirit) is available in one complete volume.

This books highlights the impact of Christianity on the history of law and societal policies in the Low Countries.

This book explores the long history of the evolution of Arab political identity, which predates the time of the Prophet Muhammad and is characterized by tolerance, compassion, generosity, hospitality, self-control, correct behaviour, equality and consensus.

Brian Davies offers the first in-depth study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's thoughts on God and evil, revealing that Aquinas's thinking about God and evil can be traced through his metaphysical philosophy, his thoughts on God and creation, and his writings about Christian revelation and the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation.

Thomas Merton is one of the most important spiritual voices of the last century.

Roman Tales: A Reader's Guide to the Art of Microhistory explores both the social and cultural life of Renaissance Rome and the mind-set and methods of microhistory.

When strange signs appeared in the sky over Quebec during the autumn of 1660, people began to worry about evil forces in their midst.

How will the world end?

Just before she died of brain cancer in April 2020, Macrina Wiederkehr gifted her friend and coauthor Joyce Rupp with one of the many journals she kept over the years where she reflected on scripture and her own spirituality.

The world in which early Christianity developed consisted of a complex of distinct communities and cultural 'layers', which interacted with one another, sometimes co-operatively, and sometimes in confrontation.

Rodney Stark's provocative new book argues that, whether we like it or not, people acting for the glory of God have formed our modern culture.

Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon.

'Secularization' sounds simple, a decline in the power of religion.

Published in 1998.

Despite being a pillar of belief in the Judeo-Christian tradition, the idea of revelation was deeply discredited over the course of the Enlightenment.

The Conquest of al-Andalus: A Translation of Fath al-Andalus provides the first English-language in-depth study and complete English translation of the work Fath al-Andalus ("e;The Conquest of al-Andalus"e;), which covers the history of Muslim Spain from the time of the initial conquest in 711 CE until the rise of the Almoravids and unification of the territories of Muslim Spain.

Qur'anic exegesis has become the battleground of political Islam and theological conflict among various Muslim schools of thought.