Church History
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, 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 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

III. THE LAW OF PERSONS “All law,” says the precise Gaius, “pertains to persons, to property, or to procedure.”3 The word persona had signified an actor’s mask; later it was ...
( Category: Christianity November 11,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-03-04 | Author:John Cornwell

Nine Seminary Sexology Immodest acts, however slight they may be, that are done from the motive of exciting lust, even though it do not ensue [sic], are grievous sins. —H. ...
( Category: Christianity October 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Parish, Martin [Parish, Martin]

We begged a couple of passer-by for money and this time we got lucky; after half an hour we had eight nationals. Not a fortune but enough to buy us ...
( Category: Christianity October 28,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Eisner

New York, November 20, 1938 LaFarge’s magazine, America, condemned Kristallnacht in a sharp editorial. “Germany, once counted among the civilized nations, has put herself beyond the pale. . . . ...
( Category: Judaism October 16,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Beam [Beam, Alex]

THAT SAME MORNING, JOSEPH WROTE HIS LAST LETTER TO EMMA, and to the Saints in Nauvoo: DEAR EMMA.— The Governor continues his courtesies, and permits us to see our friends. ...
( Category: General September 22,2014 )