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Prisoner of the Vatican by David I. Kertzer
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:David I. Kertzer [Kertzer, David I.]

13. The Pope's Body A FEW DAYS BEFORE he was elected pope, Gioacchino Pecci, in his role as chamberlain, called in the dead pontiff's relatives for a reading of his ...
( Category: Christianity March 3,2015 )
1453 by Roger Crowley
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-02-16 | Author:Roger Crowley

11 Terrible Engines APRIL 25–MAY 28, 1453 There is a need for machines for conducting a siege: different types and forms of tortoises … portable wooden towers … different forms ...
( Category: Islam March 3,2015 )
The Gnostic Gospels by Pagels Elaine
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-29 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Tacitus interprets Nero’s action in terms of his need for a scapegoat. As yet, the government may have considered the Christians outside Rome—if it considered them at all—too insignificant to ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
A New History of Early Christianity by Charles Freeman
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Charles Freeman [Freeman, Charles]

HERE COULD HAVE BEEN FEW BACKDROPS MORE CONDUCIVE TO intellectual creativity than the great city of Alexandria. Founded by Alexander in 332 BC, Alexandria flourished as the major port of ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
Jesus Outside the New Testament: An Introduction to the Ancient Evidence (Studying the Historical Jesus) by Van Voorst Robert E
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-29 | Author:Van Voorst, Robert E.

Table 3 The Contents of the Signs Source in John Fortna gives a brief discussion of the character of SQ.304 It was a written book, as its conclusion, now in ...
( Category: New Testament February 15,2015 )
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity by Pagels Elaine
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-04 | Author:Pagels, Elaine [Pagels, Elaine]

Gregory also understood how people suffer through their natural desire for children: There is pain always, whether children are born, or can never be expected; whether they live or die. ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
How the Bible Became Holy by Satlow Michael L
epub |eng | 2014-04-15 | Author:Satlow, Michael L [Satlow, Michael L]

And you know that we have separated from the mass of the people . . . and from mingling with them in these matters and from being in contact with ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
Doubting Jesus' Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box? by Komarnitsky Kris D
epub |eng | 2009-04-16 | Author:Komarnitsky, Kris D. [Komarnitsky, Kris D.]

If the ascension tradition arose in order to explain why the appearances stopped after a short time in the early Christian community, the reason an extra-mental Jesus does not appear ...
( Category: Christianity February 15,2015 )
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople by Phillips Jonathan
epub, azw3 |zho | 2015-02-09 | Author:Phillips, Jonathan [Phillips, Jonathan]

CHAPTER TEN ‘I should like you to know that a number of my people do not love me’ Triumph and Tensions at Constantinople, July—August 1203 IN SPITE OF the crusaders’ ...
( Category: Christianity February 12,2015 )
Operation Gladio by Paul L. Williams
epub |eng | 2015-01-08 | Author:Paul L. Williams

THE RAID'S RESULTS The raid at Arezzo produced another devastating result: the loss of power for the Christian Democrats in Italy. Since 1947, the CIA had bolstered the party with ...
( Category: Christianity February 9,2015 )
The 40 Most Influential Christians . . . Who Shaped What We Believe Today by Daryl Aaron
mobi |eng | 2013-08-01 | Author:Daryl Aaron

Therefore, salvation can only come through the gracious work of God—sola gratia—received by faith—sola fide—based on the sacrificial work of Christ on the sinner’s behalf—solus Christus. This is none other ...
( Category: Christianity February 9,2015 )
The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-10 | Author:Michael Haag [Haag, Michael]

* * * 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 February 8,2015 )
Devil, The by Almond Philip C
epub |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Almond, Philip C. [Almond, Philip C.]

The Devil’s Mark In Protestant theology, and Calvinist thought in partic­ular, the relationship established between God and man was a covenantal one in which the terms were established by God ...
( Category: Christianity February 3,2015 )
David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Finkelstein Israel & Silberman Neil Asher
epub, azw3 |eng | 2007-04-03 | Author:Finkelstein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher [Finkelstein, Israel]

CREATING THE SOLOMONIC MYTH The stories of Solomon in the Bible are uniquely cosmopolitan. Foreign leaders are not enemies to be conquered or tyrants to be suffered; they are equals ...
( Category: Christianity January 29,2015 )
The Gunpowder Plot (History/16th/17th Century History)
epub |eng | 2011-11-08 | Author:Haynes, Alan [Haynes, Alan]

EIGHT After Midnight It soon proved impossible to withhold news of the discovery and arrest, and by five o’clock on Tuesday morning Thomas Winter was alerted by the younger of ...
( Category: England January 29,2015 )

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