Churches & Church Leadership
epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Rodney Stark [Stark, Rodney]

IF MOST MEDIEVAL EUROPEANS did not attend church, a primary reason was that for many centuries only the nobility and those living in towns and cities had a local church ...
( Category: Sociology December 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-26 | Author:James Hughes Reho

Let us go forward with the heart completely attentive and the soul fully conscious. For if attentiveness and prayer are daily joined together, they become like Elias’ fire-bearing chariot, raising ...
( Category: New Age & Spirituality December 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-08-14 | Author:Harvey, Richard S. [Harvey, Richard S.]

27. Some scholars also talk about “non-rational antijudaism” and “irrational” anti-Semitism—but again, according to Langmuir, this is a step too far, and is not necessary or helpful. See Langmuir, “From ...
( Category: History December 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

For truly by a great stretch of power the plant of virginity was sent down to men from heaven, and for this reason it was not revealed to the first ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

1. Others, again, portentously declare that there exists, in the power of Bythus, a certain primary light, blessed, incorruptible, and infinite: this is the Father of all, and is styled ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

After these matters this Jew of Celsus, instead of the Magi mentioned in the Gospel, says that "Chaldeans are spoken of by Jesus as having been induced to come to ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

Sixth Book 1. The Work is Taken Up After a Violent Interruption, Which Has Driven the Writer from Alexandria. He Addresses Himself to It Again, with Thanks for His Deliverance, ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

One of the Jews, stepping up, asked leave of the procurator to say a word. The procurator says: If thou wishest to say any thing, say on And the Jew ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

As touching the propriety of His names, it has already been seen1532 that both of them"1533 are suitable to Him who was the first both to announce His Christ to ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

The Mosaic philosophy is accordingly divided into four parts,-into the historic, and that which is specially called the legislative, which two properly belong to an ethical treatise; and the third, ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Early Church Fathers [Fathers, Early Church]

Some few days after, the portrait of Constantine, adorned with laurels, was brought to the pernicious wild beast, that, by receiving that symbol, he might acknowledge Constantine in the quality ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-02-16 | Author:Kristi Upson-Saia [Upson-Saia, Kristi]

Not only did the cross-dressers’ lack the body parts that would firmly root them in the male category, but they displayed bodily signs that traditionally identified them as women. For ...
( Category: History December 21,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-21 | Author:Jennifer Lin [Lin, Jennifer]

In 1948, months before two of the Lin sons departed for the United States, the family posed for a final portrait. Ni Guizhen tucked a copy of the photo inside ...
( Category: Ethnic & National December 21,2017 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-05-01 | Author:Cruz, Joan Carroll [Cruz, Joan Carroll]

CHAPTER 32 THE TWO MIRACLES OF STICH, WEST GERMANY 1970 Stich is the smallest of three hamlets that form a parish located in the Bavarian region of West Germany near ...
( Category: Catholicism December 19,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-02 | Author:Geza Vermes [Vermes, Geza]

LUKE’S ACCOUNT LK 2:1–7 In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. This was the first enrollment, when Quirinius was governor ...
( Category: Theology December 17,2017 )