John Wesley, eighteenth century Church of England priest and founder of Methodism, was strongly influenced by the works of Roman Catholic mystics early in his ministry.
For many in the Middle Ages, pilgrimages were seen to represent a clear risk of moral and religious perdition for women, and they were strongly discouraged from making them; this exhortation would have been universally disseminated and generally followed, except, of course, in the case of the virtuous 'extraordinary women', such as saints and queens.
Contrary to the monolithic impression left by postcolonial theories of Orientalism, the book makes the case that Orientals did not exist solely to be gazed at.
This volume spans the fourteenth to nineteenth centuries, across Europe and its empires, and brings together historians, art historians, literary scholars and anthropologists to rethink medieval and early modern ritual.
This work explores the religious experiences of five cloistered nuns in Bogota and Tunja, New Granada (present day Colombia), during the 17th and 18th centuries.
This book presents a revolutionary new reading of manuscript records left by puritan minister Thomas Shepard in Cambridge, Massachusetts that have been studied for decades as his on-the-spot recording of oral relations of faith delivered by candidates for church membership.
The history of Christian literature took a new turn in the 8th century when monks in the monasteries of Palestine began to write theology and saints' lives in Arabic; they also instituted a veritable programme for translating the Bible and other Christian texts from Greek (and Syriac) into the language of the Qur'an, the lingua franca of the Islamic caliphate.
Christine Valters Paintner, author of Water, Wind, Earth, and Fire, invites readers to discover and develop their creative gifts in a spirit of prayer and reflection.
Die Neue Paracelsus Edition vervollständigt das Gesamtwerk des Paracelsus (1493-1541), indem sie dessen noch unerschlossene theologische Schriften in 8 Bänden herausgibt.
Now presented in a new edition, Apologia Pro Beata Maria Virgine: John Henry Newmans Defense of the Virgin Mary in Catholic Doctrine and Piety discusses an important theme within Cardinal Newmans Mariology: namely, his apologetic defense of the place of the Virgin Mary in Catholic doctrine and piety.
During the Second Vatican Council, the Roman Catholic Church went through a period of liberal reform under the stewardship of Popes John XXIII and Paul VI.
This book focuses on the transformative journey of Methodism and tackles a profound question: How did a radical revival movement evolve into an established mainstream Church?
Delving into a traditionally underexplored period, this book focuses on the treatment of Greek Jews under the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas in the years leading up to the Second World War.
Contrary to the portrayals of Chrysostom as a theologically impaired, moralizing sophist, this book argues that his thinking is remarkably coherent when it is understood on his own terms and within his culture.
Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, David Nash outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept - from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity.
The story of the prophet Elijah's transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition "e;In a series on Jewish Lives, this volume is about the Jewish life-the one that goes on forever.
The trial of the seven bishops in 1688 was a signifcant prelude to the Glorious Revolution, as popular support for the bishops led to a widespread welcome for William of Orange's invasion.
Die Frage des Umgangs mit digitalen Medien, gerade auch in Richtung "Detox", prägt derzeit den wissenschaftlichen, pädagogischen und journalistischen Diskurs.
The Antinomian controversy-a seventeenth-century theological crisis concerning salvation-was the first great intellectual crisis in the settlement of New England.
