New Haven, [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2004. — 1192 p. — ISBN: 0-300-10012-4. This classic work, winner of the 1973 National Book Award in Philosophy and Religion and Christian Century’s choice as the Religious Book of the Decade (1979), is now issued with a new chapter by noted religious historian David Hall, who carries the story of American religious history forward to...
Brill, 2013. — 452 p. The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany, from 13th-century Helfta to the 15th-century Lüneburg convents. The mystical and devotional writing of Northern Germany is contextualised through chapters on the Netherlands, Scandinavia and East Prussia. The seminal influence of the liturgy on these texts and...
Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. — 624 p. — (Oxford Handbooks). — ISBN: 978-0-19-958213-6. This volume brings together the latest scholarship on the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Christian Church between 400 and 1500 AD. The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Christianity is about the beliefs, practices, and institutions of the Roman Church between 400...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2014. - 819 p. - (Studia in Veteris Testamenti Pseudepigrapha 25). The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective comprises a collection of essays on apocalyptic literature in the Armenian tradition. This collection is unprecedented in its subject and scope and employs a comparative approach that situates the Armenian apocalyptic...
Brill, 2015. — 695 p. This book is the fruit of the first ever interdisciplinary international scientific conference on Matthew's story of the Star of Bethlehem and the Magi, held in 2014 at the University of Groningen, and attended by world-leading specialists in all relevant fields: modern astronomy, the ancient near-eastern and Greco-Roman worlds, the history of science, and...
From Inter-Church Aid to Jubilee. A brief history of ecumenical diakonia in the World Council of Churches [Edited by: Alexander Belopopsky]. – Geneva, 2002. – 24 p.
Brill, 2013. — 323 p. In The Tale of the Prophet Isaiah. The Destiny and Meanings of an Apocryphal Text Ivan Biliarsky proposes an edition of the original text of the medieval apocryphon, together with images of the single manuscript copy. The author also includes a large commentary on the otherwise quite unclear narrative concerning its origins, its development, a...
Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2008. — 248 p. For centuries, the Bible has been used by colonial powers to undergird their imperial designs--an ironic situation when so much of the Bible was conceived by way of resistance to empires. In this thoughtful book, Mark Brett draws upon his experience of the colonial heritage in Australia to identify a remarkable range of areas where God...
Blackwell, 2005. — 192 p. A Brief History of Saints follows the rise of the cult of saints in Christianity from its origin in the age of the martyrs down to the present day. Refers to both well-known saints, such as Joan of Arc, and lesser-known figures like the ‘holy fools’ in the Orthodox tradition Ranges over subjects as diverse as the history of canonization processes, the...
Introducere. I. Scurt rezumat istoric al Bisericii. - istoria Bisericii din primele trei secole. - dela anul 300 la anul Marea Schizma. - Reforma Protestanta. - epoca "moderna". - unitatea Bisericii ?!? - care este adevarata Biserica? II. Biserica Ortodoxa Rasariteana. - o prezentare istorica. - "Boscorodirea". - Biserica Unita. - Oastea Domnului. III. Miscarea Baptista. -...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1999. — 245 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 137). This volume deals with several figures of spiritual authority in Christianity during late antiquity and the early middle ages, and seeks to illuminate the way in which the struggle for religious influence evolved with changes in church and society. A number of literary portraits are examined,...
Ashgate Publishing Company, 2015. — 331 p. Mary Tudor's reign is regarded as a period where, within a short space of time, an early modern European state attempted to reverse the religious policy of preceding governments. This required the use of persuasion and coercion, of propaganda and censorship, as well as the controversial decision to revive an old statute against heresy....
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 336 p. While working as a Research Officer at the School of Oriental and African. Studies I resolved to write a history of modern African Christianity. It became part of the project I was engaged upon in association with Professor Richard Gray, the core of which was the running of a series of seminars to consider the evolution of the...
Oxford University Press. 1994 - 706 p. This book is about the Churches within black Africa. The history of Churches on the Mediterranean coast or in the south when composed principally of white people is excluded except in so far as it forms part of the story of a black Church. I have also, with regret, excluded Madagascar. Its Church history is exceptionally interesting but it...
Little and Brown, 2019. — 624 p. Christianity is the most enduring and influential legacy of the ancient world, and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history. Even the increasing number in the West today who have abandoned the faith of their forebears, and dismiss all religion as pointless superstition, remain recognizable its heirs. Seen...
London: Sheed and Ward, 1993. — 478 p. History of West Roman christian church in its signifficant time of institutialization and creation of dogmatizm by the western church`s most notable thinkers. Introductions The Church in the West during the last century of the imperial unity The Church and disruption of the imperial unity St. Gregory the Great and the beginning of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015. — 437 p. — (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion 9) The Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Themes and Developments in Culture, Politics, and Society maps the transformations, as well as the continuities, of the largest of the major religions - engaging with the critical global issues which relate to the faith in a fast changing...
Cambridge University Press, 2008. — 312 p. The majority of the world’s Christians now live outside Europe and North America, and global Christianity is becoming increasingly diverse. Interest in the history and theology of churches in nonwestern contexts is growing rapidly as ‘old world’ churches face this new reality. This book focuses on how Asian Christian theologies have...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 308 p. John Henry (later Cardinal) Newman is generally known to have been devoted to reading the Church Fathers. In this volume, Benjamin King draws on archive as well as published material to explore how Newman interpreted specific Fathers at different periods of his life. King draws connections between the Alexandrian Fathers Newman was...
Milano: RCS Libri S.p.A., 2009. — 91 p. ISBN: 9788817029926 Cosa vuol dire oggi credere? Qual è il posto della fede cattolica nella vita degli uomini e delle donne del terzo millennio? Hans Küng, il celebre teologo ribelle tedesco, che per primo ha messo in dubbio il dogma dell'infallibilità del papa, lo spiega in questo libro, intimamente legato allo spirito del Concilio...
Milano: RCS Libri S.p.A., 2009. — 91 p. ISBN: 9788817029926 Cosa vuol dire oggi credere? Qual è il posto della fede cattolica nella vita degli uomini e delle donne del terzo millennio? Hans Küng, il celebre teologo ribelle tedesco, che per primo ha messo in dubbio il dogma dell'infallibilità del papa, lo spiega in questo libro, intimamente legato allo spirito del Concilio...
Milano: RCS Libri S.p.A., 2009. — 91 p. ISBN: 9788817029926 Cosa vuol dire oggi credere? Qual è il posto della fede cattolica nella vita degli uomini e delle donne del terzo millennio? Hans Küng, il celebre teologo ribelle tedesco, che per primo ha messo in dubbio il dogma dell'infallibilità del papa, lo spiega in questo libro, intimamente legato allo spirito del Concilio...
Berlin: Springer, 2008. — 126 p. — ISBN10: 0792368479; ISBN13: 978-0792368472. This is the first book to bring together studies of a wide variety of millenarians who were active in the 17th and 18th centuries in France, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, and eastern Europe. It provides much food for thought for students and teachers of early modern ideas, the history of...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 229 p. How did the New Testament writers and the earliest Christians come to adopt the Jewish scriptures as their first Old Testament? And why are our modern Bibles related more to the rabbinic Hebrew Bible than to the Greek Bible of the early Church? The Septuagint, the name given to the translation of the Hebrew scriptures between the third...
London: J.B. Shears and Sons, 1939. — 110 p. Edited by Father Lev Gillet of the Russian Church, Paris The author Paul Levertoff was born in 14 of October 1878 in Orsha, Belarus in family of a Hasidic rabbi and studied in a Yeshiva religious school. During his living in London in 11 December 1896 he recognised for first time the doctrine of the Messianic Judaism and accepted the...
Penguin Books, 2014. — 352 p. — ISBN: 978-1-101-63806-4. A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are...
Penguin Group, 2009. — 984 p. Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most...
Penguin Group, 2009. — 984 p. Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most...
Penguin Group, 2009. — 984 p. Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most...
Penguin Group, 2009. — 984 p. Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most...
Penguin Group, 2009. — 984 p. Diarmaid MacCulloch's epic, acclaimed history A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years follows the story of Christianity around the globe, from ancient Palestine to contemporary China. How did an obscure personality cult come to be the world's biggest religion, with a third of humanity its followers? This book, now the most...
London: Routledge, 2008 — 704 p. — ISBN10: 0415374200; ISBN13: 978-0415374200. The nature and story of the Christian church is immensely important to theology students and scholars alike. Written by an international team of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive book introduces students to the fundamental historical, systematic, moral and ecclesiological aspects of the...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. — 393 p. A major new introduction to the global history of Christianity, written by one of the world’s leading theologians and author of numerous bestselling textbooks. — Provides a truly global review by exploring the development of Christianity and related issues in Asia, Latin America and Africa, and not just focusing on Western concerns — Spanning...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2003. — 480 p. This volume provides researchers and students of religion with a valuable reference work on the history, cultural impact and reshaping of Christianity in Japan. Divided into three parts, part 1 focuses on Christianity in Japanese history and includes studies of the Roman Catholic mission in pre-modern Japan, the "hidden Christian"...
Yale University Press, 1993. - 379 p. Natural Theology as Apologetics Classical Culture and Christian Theology Natural Theology as Apologetics The Language of Negation God and the Ways of Knowing The Many and the One The Universe as Cosmos Space, Time, and Deity The Image of God The Source of All Good From Tyche to Telos Natural Theology as Presupposition Christian Theology and...
University Of Chicago Press, 1971. - 442 p. Primary Sources Some Definitions Praeparatio Evangelica The True Israel The Christian Dispute with Classical Thought The Triumph of Theology The Expectation of the Nations Outside the Mainstream The Separation of Law and Gospel Systems of Cosmic Redemption The New Prophecy Criteria of Apostolic Continuity The Faith of the Church...
University Of Chicago Press, 1974. - 358 p. Primary Sources Ex Oriente Lux The Authority of the Fathers The Changeless Truth of Salvation The Norms of Traditional Doctrine The Councils and Their Achievements Knowing the Unknowable Union and Division in Christ Duality of Hypostases One Incarnate Nature of God the Logos Actions and Wills in Unison Christ the Universal Man Images...
University Of Chicago Press, 1978. - 364 p. Primary Sources The Middle Ages as "Age of Faith" The Integrity of the Catholic Tradition The Faith and the Creed Faith, Hope, and Love The Spirit and the Letter The City of God Beyond the Augustinian Synthesis The Reconsideration of Dogma The Rule of Prayer The Sovereignty of Grace The Claims of Reason The Plan of Salvation The...
University Of Chicago Press, 1983. - 478 p. Primary Sources Reformation Defined Doctrinal Pluralism in the Later Middle Ages Beyond the Augustinian Synthesis The Plan of Salvation The Communication of Grace The One True Faith One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic? The Unity of the Church The Holy Church Catholic Concordance In Defense of Apostolic Obedience The Gospel as the...
BRILL, 2010. — 196 p. — (Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture). The study of early Syriac Christianity has for decades been steadily expanding, yet its scope still lags way behind that of research relating to Greek and Latin Christianity. One of the intriguing and understudied topics here is the nature of Syriac Christianity's autonomous identity in late antiquity. This...
To the End of the Thirteenth Century. — Roma: Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 1993. — 471 p. This is the first of four projected volumes covering the history of the Church in Ukraine from the tenth century to the present. The plan is ambitious and timely. This volume appears just two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the emergence of Ukraine as Europe's second...
4th Ed. — Thomas Nelson, 2013. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-1-401676-31-6. With more than 315,000 copies sold, this is the story of the church for today’s readers. The fourth edition of Shelley’s classic one-volume history of the church brings the story of Christianity into the twenty-first century. This latest edition of the book takes a close look at the rapid growth of evangelical...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 504 p. — (The Princeton History of Christianity (Book 1). — ISBN 9780691157108, 978-0691157108, ASIN 0691157103. A history of unparalleled scope that charts the global transformation of Christianity during an age of profound political and cultural change. Christianity in the Twentieth Century charts the transformation of one of the world's...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 504 p. — (The Princeton History of Christianity (Book 1). — ISBN 9780691157108, 978-0691157108, ASIN 0691157103. A history of unparalleled scope that charts the global transformation of Christianity during an age of profound political and cultural change. Christianity in the Twentieth Century charts the transformation of one of the world's...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 504 p. — (The Princeton History of Christianity (Book 1). — ISBN 9780691157108, 978-0691157108, ASIN 0691157103. A history of unparalleled scope that charts the global transformation of Christianity during an age of profound political and cultural change. Christianity in the Twentieth Century charts the transformation of one of the world's...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 1252 p. The vast inquiry into a history of Christian church in Africa throughout Middle Ages, and Modern times to contemporary situation.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. — 192 p. A paperback edition of this well-known study. Since its first publication in 1967 this book has aroused a lively debate among theologians and practicising clergy. The author had since returned to the discussion (The Remaking of Christian Doctrine, SCM Press 1974) and has stressed the contemporary need to define and develop...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 168 p. The idea of saints and sainthood are familiar to all, irrelevant of religious faith. In this Very Short Introduction , Simon Yarrow looks at the origins, ideas, and definitions of sainthood, sanctity, and saints in the early Church, tracing their development in history and explaining the social roles saints played in the ancient,...
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