This contextual study of the predominantly female saints’ lives in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 argu......more
Over the course of its growth in modern China, Christianity has faced twists and turns in its embedding in Chinese socie......more
Surely the most deeply-rooted need of the human soul, its purest aspiration, is for the closest possible union with God.......more
IN THE SHADOW OF SINAI: A STORY OF TRAVEL AND RESEARCH FROM 1895-1897 and HOW THE CODEX WAS FOUND: A NARRATIVE OF TWO VI......more
John Calvin, a beacon for the Puritans, receives considerable attention in this volume of Puritan Papers. J. I. Packer c......more
This first book-length study of Marguerite Porete s important mystical text, The Mirror of Simple Souls, examines Porete......more
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In Gilded Age America, rampant inequality gave rise to a new form of Christianity, one that sought to ease the suffering......more
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Winner of the Fr. Paul J. Foik Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditio......more
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Biblical interpretation, writings on the contemplative/mystical life and a continuing deep reflection on the nature and ......more
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The church of Our Lady in Tongeren, probably founded in the later fourth century, is the oldest church in the Low Countr......more
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Protestant Nonconformity in the Twentieth Century by Alan Sell and Anthony Cross is in the Studies of Christian History ......more
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Das Grundlagenwerk bietet erstmals einen umfassenden und reich bebilderten Uberblick zur klosterlichen und stiftischen K......more
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This volume examines the Birgittine Order of nuns as producers and readers of texts in Britain from the fifteenth to the......more
This study examines Vaucelles’ political, social, and economic life in order to explain how the Cistercian house (a dire......more
In Rewriting Magic, Claire Fanger explores a fourteenth-century text called The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching. Written by......more
English summary: Adolf von Harnack, a church historian and academic organizer in Berlin, was one of the most influential......more
This volume collects studies on the role of monastic institutions in the exchange of cultural and socio-economic capital......more
English summary: The Franciscan theologian Wilhelm von Ockham (1347), the "most brilliant of all scholastics" (Luther) p......more
Das Corpus Dionysiacum Areopagiticum ist eine mit Randkommentaren (sogenannten Scholien) versehene Sammlung von vier Abh......more
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English summary: Being a Reform Catholic Martin Luther is rooted in a permanent way in his church, the Latin Church. Sha......more
Die reformatorische Bewegung im 16. Jahrhundert hat nicht nur die kirchlichen, sondern auch die politischen Verhaltnisse......more
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This book centers on a Greek text that was likely compiled in Constantinople, in 1105, for use in one of the monasteries......more
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Drawing on New Testament studies and recent scholarship on the expansion of the Christian church, Gary B. Ferngren prese......more
A Trusted Introduction to the Church Fathers This concise introduction to the church fathers connects evangelical studen......more
A multi-angled investigation of this enigmatic manuscript provides a unique window into the world of early medieval Bava......more
Thomas Watson was one of the most famous Puritan preachers in history, and his seventeenth-century writings are still re......more
Thomas Watson was one of the most famous Puritan preachers in history, and his seventeenth-century writings are still re......more
Mixed Blessings transforms our understanding of the relationship between Indigenous people and Christianity in Canada fr......more
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The Latin psalms figured prominently in the lives of the Anglo-Saxons, whether sung in the Divine Office by clerics, stu......more
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The Holy See and the Emergence of the Modern Middle East examines the originality of Pope Benedict XV s diplomacy (1914-......more
This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium’s turbulent seventh century, th......more
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John Owen was a leading theologian in seventeenth-century England. Closely associated with the regicide and revolution, ......more
After resolving to become a Catholic Christian, Augustine spent a decade trying to clarify his understanding of "contemp......more
How and why did the early church grow in the first four hundred years despite disincentives, harassment, and occasional ......more
A major narrative history of Christianity s first thousand years by acclaimed educator and #1 New York Times bestselling......more
A major narrative history of Christianity s first thousand years by acclaimed educator and #1 New York Times bestselling......more
Sometime in April 1285, five Muslim horsemen crossed from the Islamic kingdom of Granada into the realms of the Christia......more
When Rome was at its height, an emperor s male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empi......more
Metapher - Narratio - Mimesis - Doxologie - in diesem Band werden die Vortrage der vier Symposien der Mainz Moral Meetin......more
Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought--according to tradition--by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first......more
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An independent teacher, based in Alexandria throughout the second half of the fourth century, Didymus appealed to many w......more
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The Apostles in Early Christian Art and Poetry presents the first in-depth analysis of the origins of the representation......more
A fresh reassessment of the wall paintings on the third-century house-church at Dura-Europos, Syria, by award-winning sc......more
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, conversion took on a new importance within the Catholic world, as its leader......more
Religions of the Constantinian Empire provides a synoptic review of Constantine’s relation to all the cultic and theolog......more
Melanchthon and Calvin were late medieval people, stemming from a world of order and unity, and at the same time they fu......more
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What does it mean for Christ to be the "image of God"? And, if Christ is the "image of God," can the human person also u......more
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It seems that ever since mankind was kicked out of the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit, we ve been trying ......more
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Aristotle in Aquinas’s Theology explores the role of Aristotelian concepts, principles, and themes in Thomas Aquinas’s t......more
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Jacopo da Varagine (c. 1228-1298) is remembered today primarily for his immensely popular work The Golden Legend, a mass......more
John Boswell s National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian......more
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English summary: The history of the interpretation of the Reformation and the Peasant s War, of Martin Luther and Thomas......more
The story of Japan s hidden Christians is the subject of a major motion picture by director Martin Scorsese, based on Sh......more
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For most of his sixty-year career, the Reverend Carl McIntire was at the center of controversy. The best-known and most ......more
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This second volume of Opera minora by Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) contains six works of various interest. The first ......more
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