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Catholicism For Dummies by Trigilio John & Brighenti Kenneth
mobi |eng | 2011-10-13 | Author:Trigilio, John & Brighenti, Kenneth [Trigilio, John]

Ever wonder why some Catholics go to Mass on Saturday evening instead of Sunday morning? Using the Hebrew method of time reckoning, after sundown on Saturday evening is actually the ...
( Category: General August 20,2015 )
Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials by Brian Pavlac
epub |eng | 2009-05-22 | Author:Brian Pavlac [Pavlac, Brian]

The Dccrcc of 1682 These efforts culminated in a royal decree in July 1682 that reformed the laws of France concerning witch hunting. It declared that "those who call themselves ...
( Category: Witchcraft July 31,2015 )
Memoirs of God by Mark S. Smith
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-03 | Author:Mark S. Smith [Smith, Mark S.]

PLACE: VERTICAL SPACE Heaven PLACE: HORIZONTAL SPACE SUPERNATURAL Just as the center bears a subdivision, the periphery likewise shows a distinction between what humans experience in the periphery and what ...
( Category: Judaism July 31,2015 )
2000 Years of Disbelief by James A. Haugt
epub |eng | 2010-01-29 | Author:James A. Haugt [Haugt, James A.]

Writers "My parents never bound us to any church."-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), American novelist (Noyes) "We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. ...
( Category: General July 31,2015 )
Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Robin Le Poidevin
mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Robin Le Poidevin [Le Poidevin, Robin]

Something can be descriptively good, i.e. in our best interests, whether or not God wills it, and so in this sense is good independently of God's will. Of course, if ...
( Category: General July 31,2015 )
Slavery in Early Christianity by Jennifer A. Glancy
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-11-11 | Author:Jennifer A. Glancy [Glancy, Jennifer A.]

Body Language: Metaphors of Enslavement, Sale, and Liberation in Christian Theological Discourse The Acts of Thomas, likely composed in the early third century, opens with a scene that spins a ...
( Category: History July 31,2015 )
The Spanish Inquisition by Henry Kamen
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Henry Kamen [Kamen, Henry]

Graph 1. Prosecutions in the tribunal of Toledo, 1483–1700. The number of acquittals, though few, was an improvement on the medieval tribunal, which as a rule never acquitted. In its ...
( Category: Christianity July 31,2015 )
Jesus: The Great Debate by Grant R. Jeffrey
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-21 | Author:Grant R. Jeffrey [Jeffrey, Grant R.]

Where Was the Shroud Before 1357? While the history of the Shroud in Europe from 1357 to the present is relatively clear, the location and history of the linen cloth ...
( Category: Old Testament July 28,2015 )
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David
epub |eng | 2009-09-07 | Author:Rosalie David

THE ROYAL FAMILY AT AMARNA There has been speculation that Akhenaten’s cult grew out of his father’s own policy of identification with the sun’s disc and his personal deification; in ...
( Category: General July 26,2015 )
Ages in Chaos by Immanuel Velikovsky
epub, pdf |eng | 1974-04-14 | Author:Immanuel Velikovsky [Velikovsky, Immanuel]

God's Land and Rezenu 1 The present chapter shows the conquest of Palestine by Thutmose III to have taken place, not in the Canaanite period, but in the days of ...
( Category: Egypt July 21,2015 )
Tantra by Urban Hugh
epub |eng | | Author:Urban, Hugh

His concern is for the rest of he world, which he characterizes as humanity sunk in its ignorance. . . . Considering the far reaching crises of contemporary times, he ...
( Category: General July 20,2015 )
The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
epub, pdf |eng | 2003-10-02 | Author:Bart D. Ehrman [Ehrman, Bart D.]

"Orthodox" Christianity understood that God would redeem this sinful world, create it anew as a Utopian place of eternal life. This Gospel states that once saving knowledge comes to souls ...
( Category: New Testament June 17,2015 )
The American Religion by Bloom Harold
epub |eng | 2013-05-14 | Author:Bloom, Harold [Bloom, Harold]

The you and we are Mrs. Stetson’s own italics, helping acutely to emphasize the authentic accent of the enthusiast. Alas, Mrs. Stet-son was not saved from the inevitable rejection endured ...
( Category: United States June 17,2015 )
America's Prophet by Bruce Feiler
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Bruce Feiler

ON A GRAY approach from Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty doesn’t quite stir the soul as the postcard images would suggest. Her mint color seems more chilly than star-spangled. She ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
The A to Z of Islam by Ludwig W. Adamec
epub |eng | 2009-06-12 | Author:Ludwig W. Adamec

MATN. The text of a hadith, a report, supported by a chain of transmitters (isnad). It relates an action or pronouncement of the Prophet. MATURIDI, ABU MANSUR AL- (d. 944). ...
( Category: History June 13,2015 )

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