Churches & Church Leadership
mobi |eng | 2014-11-11 | Author:Simcha Jacobovici & Barrie Wilson

14 THE VILLAIN We have seen that the main political player in the Galilee during Jesus’ entire life was a man named Herod Antipas. We have also seen that Jesus ...
( Category: Christianity December 16,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-04-16 | Author:David Brakke [Brakke, David]

Ritual: Baptism and Mystical Ascent A person did not have to be born to other descendants of Seth to become one of the chosen ones. Rather, one of the most ...
( Category: Christianity December 15,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-15 | Author:Jenkins, John Philip [Jenkins, John Philip]

The Year of the Sword Such conflicts provide the essential prehistory for the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-29 | Author:Hill, C. E. [Hill, C. E.]

Crescens In what is known as Justin’s Second Apology we are introduced to the name of Crescens, a self-professed philosopher and opponent of Christianity in Rome who pursued a public ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

By the end of the gospel, Jesus’ epiphany will have accomplished in human society what God accomplished cosmologically in creation: the separation of light from darkness—that is, of the “sons ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-10-07 | Author:Hans Josef Klauck

At a later date, the Church fathers drew above all on the Bible in their polemic against astrology (cf. Riedinger). The very fact that they continually had to fight a ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-04-08 | Author:Ellerbe, Helen [Ellerbe, Helen]

Chapter Eight The Witch Hunts: The End of Magic and Miracles 1450 - 1750 C.E. The Reformation did not convert the people of Europe to orthodox Christianity through preaching and ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-02-19 | Author:Jenkins, John Philip [Jenkins, John Philip]

The Last Romans? By the 440s, the generation that had dealt with the Nestorian crisis was fading away. New leaders were in power in Rome, where Pope Leo succeeded in ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Moss, Candida [Moss, Candida]

THERE’S NO DOUBT THAT Christians thought they were persecuted; they ruminate on it, theologize about it, bewail, lament, protest, and complain. Nor should we underestimate the reality of their experiences. ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-08-09 | Author:Rubenstein, Richard E. [Rubenstein, Richard E.]

As Athanasius's star fell in the East, Arius's rose. In 335, while the bishops conferred in Tyre, he was in Constantinople with his friend, Euzoius, and a group of followers. ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2005-01-03 | Author:Sharan Newman [Newman, Sharan]

The connection to Isis is especially important because in some of her temples there was a ritual slaying of a bull, as in the image of Mithras. The genitals of ...
( Category: United States November 23,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Franklin Toker

The exposure of Fallingwater in the magazines was important and unprecedented, but an even greater tsunami of publicity came in the newspapers. The New York Times could not even wait ...
( Category: Architecture November 22,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-02-03 | Author:Witmer, Timothy Z. [Witmer, Timothy Z.]

For Further Reflection Work through the Shepherding Matrix together as officers and answer the following questions related to knowing the flock: Are we stronger in macro-knowing or micro-knowing shepherding? Macro-knowing ...
( Category: Family & Relationships November 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Nadia Bolz-Weber [Bolz-Weber, Nadia]

CHAPTER 11 Pirate Christian You have heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, “Love your enemies and pray ...
( Category: Alcoholism November 13,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-06 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. WOLSEY AND THE CHURCH He recognized and largely exemplified the abuses that still survived in the ecclesiastical life of England: absentee bishops, worldly clergymen, idle monks, and priests snared ...
( Category: Christianity November 11,2014 )