Religious and ceremonial art

Gustave Doré, der Meister des Lichts und der Schatten, hat mit seinen atemberaubenden Illustrationen Klassiker der Weltliteratur wie Dantes Göttliche Komödie, Miltons Paradise Lost und Cervantes' Don Quijote auf unvergessliche Weise zum Leben erweckt.

Much has been written about Spenser's theological allegory and its sources but, until now, no one has suggested sustained patristic influence.

Reconciling Practice and TheologyWhat does reconciliation have to do with the work of missions?

River of God is an introduction to world missions aimed at undergraduate students.

In this centennial year of China's 1911 Revolution, Volume 3 in the Salt and Light series includes the life stories of influential Chinese who played a political or military role in the new Republic that emerged.

Conflict and Conversion explores how Catholic missionaries, merchants, and adventurers brought their faith to the strategically and commercially crucial region of Southeast Asia in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

This volume provides a detailed account of the tireless, dedicated work of a small group of missionaries sent to China by the American Churches of Christ early in the twentieth century.

All over Canada, from coast to coast, there is new life in the Christian church.

On to the Sanumas is a firsthand account of Don and Barb Borgman's forty-year effort and achievement to place the word of God into the hands of the Sanumas, a tribe of the Yanomami people of Brazil.

The Paul W.

Islamic art is not the art of a nation or of a people, but that of a religion: Islam.

Shows how the Reformation''s focus on God influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Shows how the Reformation''s focus on God influenced the rise of realistic theater, lyric poetry, landscape painting, and architecture in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

We are witnessing an unprecedented technological revolution.

The first in-depth presentation and analysis of the imagery for Hell from the Byzantine and post-Byzantine world.

Vincent Donovan is best known as the author of the influential bestseller, Christianity Rediscovered (1978).

Missiology Permeated with Theological ReflectionThis volume is the culmination of Van Engens teachings, but takes us to an even deeper level.

Die islamische Kunst ist weder die Kunst einer Nation noch eines Volkes, sondern die Kunst des Islam.

This book provides a close-up account of a singular woman's life and work.

Effective communication with the African society in the field of missions, church planting, and social development work has been and continues to be a great challenge, particularly to people from western cultural and language orientation.

The Eastern Christian "e;Love of the Beautiful"e; canbe a companion on your own spiritual journey A collection of writings by monks from the fourth to fifteenth centuries, the Philokalia more than any other text reflects the Eastern Church's interpretation of the Bible's meaning.

How do pastors live their spiritual lives, both as private persons and as professionals?

The person of exile may be considered a wanderer, a nomad, a refugee, or a rebel.

Nearly every form of religion or spirituality has a vital connection with art.

There is a complex relationship between the meaning of Scripture and the ways it is used.

The Victorian encounter with Africa contains many micro-narratives that call for a questioning of an old consensus.

Even a casual observer can spy traces of Islamic architecture and design on buildings all over the world, a reminder that artistic traditions and visual culture have never been limited to their region or country of origin, but rather are highly diffusible.

Between Iraq and a hard place.

Traveling two and a half months and one thousand miles along the ancient route through southern France and northern Spain, Conrad Rudolph made the passage to the holy site of Santiago de Compostela, one of the most important modern-day pilgrimage destinations for Westerners.

In 1508, Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

Though immediately recognizable in public discourse as a modern state in a political "e;hot zone,"e; Armenia has a material history and visual culture that reaches back to the Paleolithic era.

God loves just economies, but sadly the invisible hand of the market has chiseled huge cracks in our communities.

Eine Gesamtdarstellung der vielfältigen Beziehungen zwischen Kunst und Religion vom Spätmittelalter bis ins 18.

The publication of William J.

Helping Children Serve as Agents of ChangeChildrens voices are often overlooked in development efforts, yet their insights are vital for shaping their futures.