epub |eng | 2014-08-19 | Author:Martin Luther [Martin Luther]

I must break off here and leave the last part of Haggai to others, the section in which he prophesies that the Lord, as he says, "will give peace in ...

azw3 |eng | 2013-07-25 | Author:Norenzayan, Ara [Norenzayan, Ara]

We’re among Friends and Family (and Sometimes a Few Strangers) Why are interventionist and moralizing Big Gods rare in the supernatural worlds of the Hadza, the San, and most other ...

epub |eng | 2011-06-07 | Author:Karen Armstrong [Armstrong, Karen]

The Dome of the Rock, built by Caliph Abd al-Malik and completed in 691. By restoring the Temple Mount and erecting the first major Islamic building there, Muslims expressed their ...

epub |eng | 2000-06-16 | Author:Armstrong, Karen [Armstrong, Karen]

PROTESTANT FUNDAMENTALISTS in the United States would eventually launch a counteroffensive against the modernity that had defeated them, but during the period currently under discussion, they concentrated, like Haredi Jews, ...

epub |eng | 2010-07-14 | Author:Darrell L. Bock [Bock, Darrell L.]

The Coming of the Eschatological Kingdom How will the eschatological kingdom come? Some texts simply state that the Lord will establish, create, or raise it up in the last days ...

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 | 2000-06-24 | Author:Robert Payne

Three Letters EXCERPTS FROM A LETTER FROM TERENCE, MASTER OF THE TEMPLE, TO ALL COMMANDERS AND BRETHREN OF THE ORDER, FROM TYRE, NOVEMBER 1187 BROTHER TERENCE, known as Grand Master ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-19 | Author:Eric Kaufmann

Conclusion Fundamentalist Islam has enjoyed an extraordinary resurgence since the late 1960s, caused by the demise of socialism and secular nationalism. The movement has been carried by competing Islamisms –some ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2011-05-26 | Author:Stephen O'Shea [O'Shea, Stephen]

fires of hell. A discouraged Fulk, who had not been allowed to return to his city since he had taken part in the siege of Lavaur in 1211, tried unsuccessfully ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-04 | Author:Starr, S. Frederick

TURKIC VICTORY TOWERS Specialists have long known that such tall, cylindrical towers or minarets originated in Central Asia and Afghanistan, and that they spread from there to India in the ...

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, mobi |eng | 2009-10-06 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

5 ORIGINALS THAT MATTER In this chapter we will examine the methods that scholars have devised to identify the “original” form of the text (or at least the “oldest attainable” ...

epub |rus | 2007-06-30 | Author:Farris, Michael [Farris, Michael]

Cobbet scoured the writings of various church fathers and more recent authors for passages buttressing his opinion. One source he cited was Beza's De Haereticis, published in defense of the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1953-01-02 | Author:Joseph Smith Jr.

CHAPTER 25 Lamanite aggressions spread—The seed of the priests of Noah perish as Abinadi prophesied—Many Lamanites are converted and join the people of Anti-Nephi-Lehi—They believe in Christ and keep the ...

mobi, azw3, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-03-24 | Author:Wendy Doniger

The ambivalent moral status of the sages in this version of the myth is evident from Vishnu’s statement: The sages are evil and doomed to hell, but the gods must ...