mobi, epub |eng | 2009-10-21 | Author:Marshall, Peter [Marshall, Peter]

Paths to resistance If grudging official acceptance of religious minorities was a messy, pragmatic, and unexpected consequence of religious conflict, the Reformation also challenged the established status of political authority ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-11-26 | Author:O'Collins, Gerald [O'Collins, Gerald]

Christ as fulfilment The life of glory that the life of grace initiates is centred on the final coming of Christ in glory, the ultimate gift of God to human ...

mobi |eng | 2009-09-23 | Author:Diarmaid MacCulloch

STRASSBURG, ENGLAND AND GENEVA (1540–60) One of the most apparently promising solutions to the relationship of Church and temporal power in the first three decades of the Reformation was developed ...

mobi |eng | 2013-06-05 | Author:David Bentley Hart

The Early Crusades The idea of a ‘holy war’ is alien to Christian theological tradition. It is self-evidently incompatible with the recorded teachings of Christ, and would have been abhorrent ...

mobi |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Howard F. Vos

Part 6 - The Church in America Twenty-Five - An Era of Settlement The Seventeenth Century The Spanish WHEN Columbus sailed westward in 1492, he was not merely looking for ...

epub |eng | 2005-03-01 | Author:Christopher Tyerman [Tyerman, Christopher]

15. The medieval ideal of the crusader knight. An English illustration from a mid-thirteenth-century psalter; piety and power. As holy war addressed fundamental issues of Christian identity and, it was ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Christopher Tyerman [Tyerman, Christopher]

Jihad, a pillar of the Muslim faith, means “struggle.” The greater jihad is the internal or personal struggle, and the lesser jihad is the struggle in the believer’s daily activity. ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Thomas F. Madden [Madden, Thomas F.]

Illustration 1. Peter the Hermit leading the First Crusade. Miniature from Egerton Manuscript 1500, f. 45v. © De Agostini/The British Library Board. Illustration 2. Templar riding into battle. Fresco from ...

epub |eng | | Author:John Cornwell [Cornwell, John]

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. ...

epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Prince, Derek [Prince, Derek]

7 HEARING AND OBEYING We now come to a fifth way to complete the sentence, “If you want God’s best….” You must learn to hear and obey God’s voice. This ...

epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2013-06-08 | Author:Douglas van Dorn [Dorn, Douglas van]

Fig. 3.3. “Montauk Monster” It may seem like such an idea as ancient heavenly beings tinkering with human and animal DNA belongs to the world of science fiction, but the ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-28 | Author:Michael White

And as Bruno concluded the recounting of this part of his story, his words trailed off into a heavy silence. The room had grown dark around him as his tale ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2006-01-29 | Author:Elaine Pagels [Pagels, Elaine]

[THIS PAGE WAS UNINTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] The pages 104-105 are missing from the available source jpegs. LUKE AND JOHN CLAIM ISRAEL’S LEGACY / 105 [THIS PAGE WAS UNINTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK] ...

epub, azw3, 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 ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2010-02-11 | Author:John Philip Jenkins [Jenkins, John Philip]

SOURCE: E. B. Pusey, preface to E. B. Pusey and P. E. Pusey, eds., St. Cyril of Alexandria: Five Tomes Against Nestorius (Oxford: James Parker, 1881), xi–xiii. 6 The Death ...