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In Angelomorphic Christology author Charles Gieschen demonstrates that angel and angel-related traditions, especially th......more
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A fascinating new study of the symbolic power of food and its role in forming kinship bonds and religious identity in ea......more
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In this new edition of a classic work, the great Catholic apologist and historian Hilaire Belloc examines the five most ......more
The Pope and the Professor tells the captivating story of the German Catholic theologian and historian Ignaz von Dolling......more
Despite an enormous amount of literature on St Augustine of Hippo, this work provides the first examination of what he t......more
This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement identifies a network of black......more
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The eleven books of poetry by Venantius Fortunatus include well-loved hymns, figure poems, epigrams on miracles, and ele......more
Created in the tenth century, most likely as an imperial commission, the Menologion is a collection of rewritings of sai......more
What is the relationship between our isolated and our social selves, between aloneness and interconnection? Constance M.......more
This is a landmark work, providing the first complete collection of the remaining excerpts from the writings of Diodore ......more
Asia is the birthplace of Christianity. If Christianity is not usually seen as an Asian religion, that is because the hi......more
John Anthony McGuckin, one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient Christianity, has synthesized a lifetime of work t......more
Scholars are divided on the number of gospels to which fragmentary Jewish-Christian gospel traditions should be attribut......more
The narrative of Civil Rights often begins with the prophetic figure of Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. City square......more
This comprehensive reference volume covers every country in Sub-Saharan Africa, offering reliable demographic informatio......more
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When Cecil B. DeMille’s epic, The Ten Commandments, came out in 1956, lines of people crowded into theaters across Ameri......more
Silly, stupid, irrational, simple. Wicked, hateful, obstinate, anti-social. Extravagant, perverse. The Roman world rende......more
The year is 1140. Inside an imposing cathedral in France s Champagne region, two of the most recognized men in the world......more
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Chr......more
Babatha’s Orchard tells a story that has gone untold for nearly two thousand years. It is a story that would have perish......more
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Heresy and Dissent in the Carolingian Empire recounts the history of an exceptional ninth-century religious outlaw, Gott......more
How churches in Northern Europe reinvented their role as providers of social relief. Charity is a word that fits well in......more
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A New York Times Bestseller! "Who do you say that I am?" Uttered by Jesus Christ, this profound question has presented a......more
In honour of the 500-year anniversary of the Reformation, this small book goes through some of the key events and charac......more
Catherine McAuley (1778-1841), the founder of the Sisters of Mercy in 1831, frequently gave oral instructions to the fir......more
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In this dazzling global history that charts five centuries of innovation and change, Alec Ryrie makes the case that Prot......more
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At a time when men and women were prepared to kill-and be killed-for their faith, the Protestant Reformation tore the We......more
Knowledge, Love, and Ecstasy in the Theology of Thomas Gallus provides the first full study of Thomas Gallus (d. 1246) i......more
Dating back to 1785, the Moravian "Instructions for the Choir Helpers" contain detailed advice for the spiritual counsel......more
In The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the Jewishness of Jesus so that......more
In The Misunderstood Jew, scholar Amy-Jill Levine helps Christians and Jews understand the Jewishness of Jesus so that......more
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Dating back to 1785, the Moravian "Instructions for the Choir Helpers" contain detailed advice for the spiritual counsel......more
Thirteenth-century England was a special place and time to be a bishop. Like their predecessors, these bishops were key ......more
Drawing upon the most recent discoveries and scholarship in archaeology and the first-century Near East, The Dawn of Chr......more
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The Disruption of Evangelicalism is the first comprehensive account of the evangelical tradition across the English-spea......more
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Lucid, authoritative overview of a major movement in American history The history of American evangelicalism is perhaps ......more
In addition to being a prolific spiritual writer and the abbot of the premier Cistercian monastery in northern England, ......more
Church History, Volume Two Video Lectures features 22 lessons (on 3 DVDs) and offers a unique contextual view of how the......more
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A preeminent scholar explores the evolution of the Christian worldview and argues that it no longer offers a satisfactor......more
For seventy years, we have been taught that Jesus died on the cross from asphyxiation (strangulation) because in the han......more
For seventy years, we have been taught that Jesus died on the cross from asphyxiation (strangulation) because in the han......more
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Many Europeans saw Africa’s colonization as an exhibition of European racial ascendancy. African Christians saw Africa’s......more
In Christianity: The Biography Ian Shaw charts the story of Christianity from its birth and infancy among a handful of f......more
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Were slavery and social injustice leading to dire poverty in antiquity and late antiquity only regarded as normal, "natu......more
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This book is the first publication of a very early collection of Christian monastic rules from Roman Egypt. Designed for......more
Manolis Papoutsakis explores the conception of "vicarious kingship," a theme in Syriac political theology in Late Antiqu......more
The incomplete state in which many Coptic writings have survived makes them difficult to assess, and the text studied in......more
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