Home > History > World > Religious
Religious
Heaven: Our Enduring Fascination with the Afterlife by Miller Lisa
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-03-04 | Author:Miller, Lisa [Miller, Lisa]

NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES Carol Zaleski is the mother of modern heaven studies. A practicing Roman Catholic, she became fascinated with heaven as a young child. “Heaven has always been the best, ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics by Pagels Elaine
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 )
The Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide to Graeco-Roman Religions (Studies of the New Testament and Its World) by Hans Josef Klauck
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 )
Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? by Robert M. Price
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 )
The Dark Side of Christian History by Ellerbe Helen
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 )
End of Christianity, The by [.]
epub |eng | 2011-10-20 | Author:. [.]

NO FORWARDING ADDRESS As I read John's Easter account in 20:11–15, I do not need to impose some sort of Jesus hating skepticism in order to “escape” the implications of ...
( Category: Christianity December 2,2014 )
Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years by Jenkins John Philip
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 )
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom by Moss Candida
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 )
When Jesus Became God: The Epic Fight over Christ's Divinity in the Last Days of Rome by Rubenstein Richard E
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 )
Inerrant the Wind: The Evangelical Crisis in Biblical Authority by Robert M. Price
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-08-26 | Author:Robert M. Price

EVANGELICAL DEMYTHOLOGIZING As is well known, Bultmann contended, "It is impossible to use electric light and the wireless and to avail ourselves of modern medical and surgical discoveries, and at ...
( Category: General December 2,2014 )
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-13 | Author:Jonathan Haidt

FIGURE 9.3. Lyudmila Trut with Pavlik, a forty-second generation decendant of Belyaev’s original study. (photo credit 9.2) In the 1980s the geneticist William Muir used group selection to get around ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 25,2014 )
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys Into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East by Russell Gerard
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2014-10-20 | Author:Russell, Gerard [Russell, Gerard]

The Samaritans have preserved carefully over the generations their ancient scrolls, which record a Torah that differs somewhat from the Jewish one. Here in 1905 a Samaritan priest displays one ...
( Category: Ethnic & Tribal November 24,2014 )
The Reformation by Durant Will
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 )
Caesar and Christ by Durant Will
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 )
The Age of Faith by Durant Will
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-03 | Author:Durant, Will [Durant, Will]

II. THE PROGRESS OF INDUSTRY The development of industry kept pace with the expansion of commerce; wider markets stimulated production, and mounting production nourished trade. Transport progressed least. Most medieval ...
( Category: Christianity November 11,2014 )

First Prev [33] [34] [35] [36] 37 [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] Next Last