History
azw3 |eng | 2009-01-03 | Author:Gregory A. Wills

Toward the end of the century, when Baptists more frequently joined other denominations, excommunication became a routine affair, espe cially in town and city churches, which handled most of these ...
( Category: Christianity December 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2004-12-01 | Author:John Binns [Binns, John]

'I trust they won't boil over.' Reid gazed at him levelly. 'A range of interests that includes even yourself, Doc tor. ' 'Yes, she knows all about you,' spat Guzman ...
( Category: Anthologies December 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2006-10-26 | Author:Tyerman, Christopher [Tyerman, Christopher]

BYZANTIUM AND THE CRUSADE No such thing as a ‘western attitude’ to Byzantium existed in the twelfth and early thirteenth century. It remains a myth of crusading historiography. Instead, a ...
( Category: General December 27,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

17 A House Divided (1517-1660) A DOOR IN WITTENBERG Two incidents stick in the popular consciousness from Martin Luther's career: first, that he nailed some theses to a door in ...
( Category: Christianity December 21,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-08 | Author:Michael Haag

* * * Lonely Outposts The fall of the Crusader castles to the Mamelukes needs some explanation. How could such magnificent structures, built at such vast cost and effort, incorporating ...
( Category: Christianity December 19,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Lawrence Wright

THE TIME STORY WAS a turning point in the church’s history. The embarrassment for Scientology celebrities undercut the church’s strategy of making the religion appear to be a spiritual refuge ...
( Category: Christianity December 19,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-06-30 | Author:Meyer, Marvin W. [Meyer, Marvin W.]

They embrace his head, which is rest for them, and they hold him close so that, in a manner of speaking, they have caressed his face with kisses. But they ...
( Category: Gnosticism December 15,2014 )
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 | 2011-09-18 | Author:Harpur, Tom [Harpur, Tom]

My own view, expressed in newspaper columns at the time, was that both sides in this ongoing debate should be aware of the salient truth about all ancient bibles and ...
( Category: New Testament 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 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-07-07 | Author:Robert M. Price

Luke 7:41-43 constitute a miniature parable (the Two Debtors) tucked into the heavily redacted Lukan version of the anointing. Luke has made the original into another lesson of the superior ...
( Category: General 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 )