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Vatican IIby Matthew L Lamb; Matthew Levering
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 29.95From 1962 to 1965, in perhaps the most important religious event of the twentieth century, the Second Vatican Council met to plot a course for the future of the Roman Catholic Church. After thousands of speeches, resolutions, and votes, the Council issued sixteen official documents on topics ranging from divine revelation to relations with non-Christians. In many ways, though, the real challenges began after the council was over and Catholics began to argue over the interpretation of the documents. Many analysts perceived the Council's far-reaching changes as breaks with Church tradition, and soon this became the dominant bias in the American and other media, which lacked the theological background to approach the documents on their own... more...
I'm Perfect, You're Doomedby Kyria Abrahams
Simon & Schuster 2009; US$ 16.99I'm Perfect, You're Doomed is the story of Kyria Abrahams's coming-of-age as a Jehovah's Witness -- a doorbell-ringing "Pioneer of the Lord." Her childhood was haunted by the knowledge that her neighbors and schoolmates were doomed to die in an imminent fiery apocalypse; that Smurfs were evil; that just about anything you could buy at a yard sale was infested by demons; and that Ouija boards -- even if they were manufactured by Parker Brothers -- were portals to hell. Never mind how popular you are when you hand out the Watchtower instead of candy at Halloween. When Abrahams turned eighteen, things got even stranger. That's when she found herself married to a man she didn't love, with adultery her only way out. "Disfellowshipped" and... more...
Institutes of the Christian Religionby John Calvin
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99Institutes of the Christian Religion is John Calvin's seminal work on Protestant systematic theology. Highly influential in the Western world and still widely read by theological students today, it was published in Latin in 1536 and in his native French in 1541, with the definitive editions appearing in 1559 (Latin) and in 1560 (French).The book was written as an introductory textbook on the Protestant faith for those with some learning already and covered a broad range of theological topics from the doctrines of church and sacraments to justification by faith alone and Christian liberty, and it vigorously attacked the teachings of those Calvin considered unorthodox, particularly Roman Catholicism to which Calvin says he had been "strongly... more...
Selected Essaysby Samuel Butler
Electric Book Company 1999; US$ 4.95Transcribed by R.N. Robinson from the Traveller?s Library Edition (Jonathan Cape 1927) this edition of Butler's Selected Essays contains a sketch of his life by Henry Festing Jones. Butler (1835-1902) contributed numerous articles and letters to various periodicals, some of which are reprinted here. more...
Jehovah's Witnessesby Andrew Holden
Routledge 2002; US$ 43.95This major study reveals the dependency of this movement on the physical and cultural resources which have caused the privatisation of religion, the erosion of community, the separation of 'fact' from supernatural faith and their expansion. more...
Leadership in the Wesleyan Spiritby Jr. Lovett H. Weems
Abingdon Press 2003; US$ 10.00The purpose of this book is simple - to reclaim a vision for church leadership from the great spiritual awakening known as the Wesleyan movement. Yet the way one goes about this work, contends Lovett H. Weems, Jr., is anything but simple. It involves walking a tightrope between continuity and change. The task is neither to repeat the past, nor to ignore it. more...
Women in a Medieval Heretical Sectby Shulamith Shahar; Yael Lotan
Boydell & Brewer 2001; US$ 45.00Agnes and Huguette were two Waldensian women who were interrogated by the inquisitional court of Pamiers, in southern France, in 1319 and subsequently burnt at the stake for their heretical beliefs. Shahar uses the records of their inquisition as a basis for an examination of the Waldensian sect's attitude towards its women members, and their role within the sect, comparing their lives with women in the Catholic church and in other sects. more...
Waking to God's Dreamby Dick Willis
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 10.00The demands of congregational ministry are many, the rewards sometimes seem few, and burnout becomes a real possibility. more...
John Wesley's Sermonsby Albert C. Outler; Richard P. Heitzenrater
Abingdon Press 2002; US$ 15.00Adapted from Albert Outler's 4 volume work The Works of John Wesley this anthology of 50 of Wesley's finest sermons are presented in an affordable, convenient paperback. Arranged chronologically with introductory commentary by Richard Heitzenrater. more...
Russian Society and the Orthodox Churchby Zoe Knox
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 44.95This book examines the Russian Orthodox Church's social and political role and its relationship to civil society in post-Communist Russia. more...









