General
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2014-03-16 | Author:Thomas F. Madden

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 ...
( Category: Christianity June 9,2016 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-01-22 | Author:St. John of the Cross & Wyatt North

6. The second way in which the soul suffers pain is by reason of its weakness, natural, moral and spiritual; for, when this Divine contemplation assails the soul with a ...
( Category: General April 14,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Bruce Feiler

We entered Nebuchadnezzar II’s palace. Reconstructed walls of caramel-colored bricks climbed forty feet high, topped with hundreds of small pyramidal merlons. The walls were interrupted with elongated arches, more than ...
( Category: General March 14,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2016-02-16 | Author:Susan Jacoby

The intelligent designer, then, accounts for miracles and the ordinary workings of nature, for the demonstrable and the undemonstrable. Boyle’s work laid the foundation for the most famous argument for ...
( Category: General March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-02-15 | Author:Susan Jacoby

* * * *1 A group of twelve men, including Robert Boyle and Christopher Wren, met and resolved to form an organization “for the Promoting of Physico-Mathematical Experimental Learning.” In ...
( Category: General March 4,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2015-01-27 | Author:Rodney Stark

HERESY AS WITCHCRAFT In some parts of Europe the word for witch was gazarius, which is a corruption of Cathar, and in many areas it was wuadensis or vaudois, both ...
( Category: Christianity February 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-31 | Author:Philip Gardiner & Gary Osborn [Gardiner, Philip & Osborn, Gary]

Our British ancestors, under the tuition of the venerable Druids, were not only worshippers of the solar deity, symbolized by the serpent, but held the serpent, independent of his relation ...
( Category: General February 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Eddie S. Glaude Jr. [Jr., Eddie S. Glaude]

African Americans from every sector of life were drafted to fight the battle against fascism in World War II. More than 3 million African American men enlisted in the armed ...
( Category: African-American Studies January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-28 | Author:Jolyon Mitchell

Reforming martyrdom in historical context King Henry VIII (1491–1547) bequeathed to his children a nation divided over religion. Henry had effectively made a declaration of independence from the pope’s authority ...
( Category: General January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-30 | Author:Darren Oldridge [Oldridge, Darren]

For the evil one, this was a matter of strategy rather than desire. As a disembodied spirit, he was not impelled by physical needs. In this respect, his sexual activities ...
( Category: Christianity January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-01-04 | Author:Philip Jenkins

The “Hate Song” remained popular throughout both world wars. Yet despite receiving high praise from the court and the army, the song’s fanatical sentiments made it controversial among the Far ...
( Category: General January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-07-07 | Author:Segal, Robert A. [Segal, Robert A.]

Chapter 5 Myth and literature The relationship between myth and literature has taken varying forms. The most obvious form has been the use of myth in works of literature. A ...
( Category: General January 5,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-26 | Author:Jones, David Albert [Jones, David Albert]

Angels at the beginning of life When the three angels visit Abraham, they inform him that, by the time they return next year, Sarah will have given birth to a ...
( Category: General January 5,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-11-26 | Author:Hitchcock, James [Hitchcock, James]

10 Reason and Revolution Religion and Politics Religion never exerted greater influence in Europe than in the period 1500 to 1660, and perhaps at no time in history was it ...
( Category: Christianity December 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-24 | Author:Smith, George D. [Smith, George D.]

Young was named president of the LDS Church on December 5, 1847, near Winter Quarters, where he had returned after investigating the Salt Lake Valley.[103] Colonization had been delayed through ...
( Category: General November 25,2015 )