History of religion

Dan Barker, ex-preacher and co-founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, travels widely, arguing in debates and speaking on his beliefs that Christianity is false, God does not exist, and the Bible is filled with errors and mythology.

Theological education has historically placed a strong emphasis on Scripture as the source of principle and practice for ministry.

After the close of the New Testament era AD 70, Christianity entered a literary dark age which lasted until the middle of the second century.

Said to contain the words of the Buddha on the nature of ultimate wisdom, the Lankavatara was influential in the general doctrines of Mahayana Buddhism, in particular Zen.

A boy doesn't become a man by accident.

Trinity and Creation explores Scripture and the Reformed confession on the doctrine of creation as they relate to the triune God.

You may have heard that churches in Europe are vanishing.

Human beings seek meaning and purpose.

Americans are often baffled by France's general indifference to religion and laws forbidding religious symbols in public schools, full-face veils in public places, and even the interdiction of burkinis on French beaches.

William Stringfellow, activist lawyer and advocate for the underprivileged of New York, was either embraced warmly or rejected as a radical by Christians in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s when he was writing.

This book is a complete study of practical hypnotism.

Did Luther get Christian freedom right?

Historic Church Serves Big City explores what a small congregation can do with the blend of developmental leadership and societal needs within their own backyard.

The Nightingale, attributed to the early Franciscan mystic and philosopher St.

Techno-Sapiens gathers together leading scholars of technology, theology, and religion in order to explore the ways in which modern technology is neither solely a dehumanizing force in the world nor a mere instrument for evangelizing the world, but rather the very means by which incarnation happens--the media in and through which humans love the (digital) other.

As we evolve, so do our prayers; as our prayers evolve, so do we.

From the deserts of Egypt to the emergence of the great monastic orders, the story of late antique and medieval monasticism in the West used to be straightforward.

The scientific debates on border crossings and cultural exchange between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have much increased over the last decades.

Pioneer missionary Timothy Richard served forty-five years in China and became a household name among educated Chinese.

This book contains two stories, but the first one is nested in the second one.

Today the "e;land of promise"e; is a spark in the tinder dry atmosphere of Middle Eastern affairs.

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What do you do with your money?

The Greeks and Romans often exposed their babies, especially if the child was of the wrong gender, malformed or from the wrong father--or, more simply, when a child was not needed.

We have all had the experience of being at church and hearing the pastor say, "e;And now with the confidence of children we are bold to pray, 'Our Father .

"e;Why do we have to learn this?

From Labor to Reward is a pioneering, epic, and groundbreaking book that fills a huge void in American religious history, black religious history, and traditions of the black church.

Recovery of Paul and Luther's theology of the cross has been an enduring legacy of twentieth-century theology, and in our own day the topic has continued to expand as more and more global voices join the conversation.

The Christian faith stands or falls with the confession that Jesus Christ is risen.

Christianity must be understood not as a religion of private salvation, but as a gospel movement of universal compassion, which transforms the world in the power of God's truth.

This book is aimed at those Christians who have begun to question the conventional understandings of Jesus, and Christianity, and even of what we mean by "e;God,"e; and have become discomforted by the dissonance between their own thinking and the church's stance.

The most fruitful and most profound understandings of vision and visioning processes are not in organizational theories or management techniques.

In nineteenth-century Britain, a large number of prominent Anglican and Presbyterian Evangelicals rejected the idea that salvation meant "e;going to heaven when you die.

A Postmodern Theology of Ritual Action is a unique work that seeks to explore where we find meaning within ritual and actions within the church.

Is the God of the Bible the most unpleasant character in all fiction, as Richard Dawkins claims in The God Delusion?

The necessity for meaningful change and reform in the Roman Catholic Church is not just the opinion of the few but a consensus of the many.

To many people, the four Gospels are seen as biographies of Jesus of Nazareth, who was declared by God to be his Son.

Perichoresis (mutual indwelling) is a concept used extensively in the so-called Trinitarian revival; and yet no book-length study in English exists probing how the term actually developed in the "e;classical period"e; of Christian doctrine and how it was carefully deployed in relation to Christian dogma.

In How the Spirit Became God, Kyle Hughes tells the often-neglected story of how and why the early church came to recognize that the Holy Spirit was a distinct divine person.

In the Fray collects David Gushee's most significant essays over twenty years as a Christian intellectual.

In 1984 Evangelicals for Social Action founder Ron Sider posed the questions, "e;What would happen if we in the Christian church developed a new nonviolent peacekeeping force ready to move into violent conflicts and stand peacefully between warring parties?

A leading scholar of ascetical studies, Richard Valantasis explores a variety of ascetical traditions ranging from the Greco-Roman philosophy of Musonius Rufus, the asceticism found in the Nag Hammadi Library and in certain Gnostic texts, the Gospel of Thomas, and other early Christian texts.

We humans are capable of great relationships.

"e;My people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge"e; (Hosea 4:6).

An Atheist's Letters to Heaven is for seekers of truth and anyone interested in being acquainted with the Christian perspective on modern controversies hotly debated in the media, press, academia, and beyond.

Many of us long to see God move mightily in response to our prayers.

This book reconsiders ways in which the cross of Christ was construed before "e;atonement theories"e; narrowed the categories.

The Apostolic Fathers Commentary Series aims to complement the study of early Christianity through historical, literary, and theological readings of the Apostolic Fathers.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.

This new book has proven to be a key component in getting many people; parents, teens, priests, religious educators, men and women of all ages excited about the true meaning of Confirmation as Knighthood in the Kingdom of God.