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Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900 (Religion in America) by Gregory A. Wills
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 )
A History of the Crusades-Vol 2 by Steven Runciman
epub |eng | 1987-07-14 | Author:Steven Runciman [Runciman, Steven]

1146: Murder of Zengi In May 1146 Zengi moved to Aleppo to prepare for his Syrian expedition. As he passed through Edessa he learnt of an attempt by the Armenians ...
( Category: Christianity December 29,2014 )
God's War: A New History of the Crusades by Tyerman Christopher
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 )
The Last Man in Russia by Oliver Bullough
epub |eng | | Author:Oliver Bullough [Bullough, Oliver]

WINTER 8 It’s like a plague A Russian train in winter is a far better place than the same train in summer. With snow and the long dark night outside, ...
( Category: Christianity December 27,2014 )
Christianity: The First 3000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch
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 )
The Templars: The History and the Myth by Michael Haag
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 )
Going Clear-Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright
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 )
The Lost Gospel: Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene by Simcha Jacobovici & Barrie Wilson
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 )
The Social Gospel of Jesus by Malina Bruce J
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-08-28 | Author:Malina, Bruce, J [Malina, Bruce, J]

4. Face-to-Space Modes of Social Interaction Disembodied-extended integration maintains the integration of persons by means of networks of connections where modalities of face-to-face interaction, clientelism, and the continuing practices of ...
( Category: New Testament December 15,2014 )
The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (Biblical Resource Series) by Smith Mark S
epub |eng | 2010-04-12 | Author:Smith, Mark S. [Smith, Mark S.]

CHAPTER 7 Postscript: Portraits of Yahweh 1. Processes Leading to Divine Portraiture in Israel The development toward monotheism in Israel involved complex processes of convergence and differentiation of deities. The ...
( Category: General December 15,2014 )
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity by David Brakke
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 )
Gods in the Desert: Religions of the Ancient Near East by Holland Glenn S
epub |eng | 2009-07-16 | Author:Holland, Glenn S. [Holland, Glenn S.]

CHAPTER NINE Mesopotamia: The World of the Dead The Realm of the Dead in the Ancient Mediterranean World Ancient Mesopotamian beliefs about the afterlife and the situation of the dead ...
( Category: General December 15,2014 )
The Lost History of Christianity by Jenkins John Philip
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 )
Fighting Words: The Origins Of Religious Violence by Hector Avalos
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Hector Avalos [Avalos, Hector]

Yoder's violence to the plain meaning of the text is as arbitrary as any encountered from fundamentalists. Indeed, how does one come to understand "the point" of a passage except ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
Who Chose the Gospels?: Probing the Great Gospel Conspiracy by Hill C. E
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 )

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