Vor 500 Jahren, im Sommer 1519, trafen Martin Luther, sein Wittenberger Kollege Andreas Bodenstein von Karlstadt und der Ingolstädter Theologe Johannes Eck in der Hofstube des herzoglichen Schlosses in Leipzig zu einem akademischen Streitgespräch zusammen.
Avenues of Faith documents how religion flourished in southern cities after the turn of the century and how a cadre of clergy and laity created a notably progressive religious culture in Richmond, Virginia.
This book is a history of the Whore of Babylon image found in the book of Revelation, with an emphasis upon the use and influence of the text on the Brethren of the nineteenth century.
Christians throughout the ages have longed for a deeper, more intimate experience of Jesus' love, to connect with him in a way that is impactful, satisfying, and touches the innermost places of the heart.
The monograph series Oxford Studies in Medieval Literature and Culture showcases the plurilingual and multicultural quality of medieval literature and actively seeks to promote research that not only focuses on the array of subjects medievalists now pursue in literature, theology, and philosophy, in social, political, jurisprudential, and intellectual history, the history of art, and the history of science but also that combines these subjects productively.
Historians have long relied on Bede's Ecclesiastical History for their narrative of early Christian Anglo-Saxon England, but what material lay behind Bede's own narrative?
The articles in this volume trace the development of the theory that humanity forms a single world community and that there exists a body of law governing the relations among the members of that community.
In this rich and multi-layered deconstruction of German colonial engagement with Islam, Jorg Haustein shows how imperial agents in Germany's largest colony wielded the knowledge category of Islam in a broad set of debates, ranging from race, language, and education to slavery, law, conflict, and war.
The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Salah al-Din) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187.
Given the central role played by religion in early-modern Britain, it is perhaps surprising that historians have not always paid close attention to the shifting and nuanced subtleties of terms used in religious controversies.
The early Christian writer Tertullian first applied the epithet "e;bride of Christ"e; to the uppity virgins of Carthage as a means of enforcing female obedience.
The recent 'turn to the Trinity' in modern and contemporary systematic theology has been inundated with models and proposals for construing the concepts of personhood, persons, and relations in connection to a proper understanding of the Trinity.
Over the past few decades, whilst evading severe governmental restrictions in Iran, the Iranian Evangelical diaspora has grown across Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands, the US and the UK.
First published in 1968, this book provides an introduction to the subject of anti-Catholicism in Victorian England and a selection of illustrative documents.
OVER 500,000 SOLD IN THE PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES SERIESThere is no need we will face in parenting--or that our kids will confront in their lives--that God hasn't already thought of and provided for in his Word.
Mentioned by Pope Francis as a writer whom everyone should read, Robert Hugh Benson, author of Lord of the World, shares his spiritual journey from being an Anglican and son of the archbishop of Canterbury to becoming a Roman Catholic priest.
