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The Heads of Religious Housesby David M. Smith
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 78.00Final volume of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales takes the lists from 1377 to 1540. more...
Works of Charles Haddon (C.H.) Spurgeonby Charles Haddon Spurgeon
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 5.99This collection was designed for optimal navigation on Kindle and other electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically, chronologically and by category, making it easier to access individual books. This collection offers lower price, the convenience of a one-time download, and it reduces the clutter in your digital library. All books included in this collection feature a hyperlinked table of contents and footnotes. The collection is complimented by an author biography.This Collection Includes:According to PromiseAll of GraceExposition to the Gospel According to MatthewFaith's CheckbookMorning and Evening: Daily ReadingsA Puritan CatechismThe Soul WinnerTill He ComeAppendix:Charles H. Spurgeon Biography more...
Sparks from the Anvil of Oppressionby Robert Gregg
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 27.95While assuming the importance of churches within black communities, social historians generally have not studied them directly or have treated the black denominations as a single unit. Gregg focuses on the African Methodist churches and churchgoers in Philadelphia during the Great Migration and the concurrent rise of black ghettoes in the city to show the variety and richness of African American culture at that time. more...
Harvesting the Fruitsby Walter Kasper
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 14.95The Second Vatican Council declared the restoration of unity among Christians to be one of its principal concerns. Division among the Churches scandalises the world and damages that most holy cause, the preaching of The Gospel to every creature. A key figure to have worked tirelessly at these aims is Cardinal Walter Kasper, one of the most experienced, authoritative, and respected members of the Vatican hierarchy. Here Cardinal Kasper summarises the results of the Catholic Church’s official dialogues with Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican and Methodist Churches over forty years, sets out a blueprint for 'consensus and convergence', and sets out a map for the way forward for ecumenism. From such a source, this document is therefore... more...
The Pastorby Eugene H. Peterson
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99In The Pastor , Eugene H. Peterson, the translator of the multimillion-selling The Message and the author of more than thirty books, offers his life story as one answer to the surprisingly neglected question: What does it mean to be a pastor? When Peterson was asked by his denomination to begin a new church in Bel Air, Maryland, he surprised himself by saying yes. And so was born Christ Our King Presbyterian Church. But Peterson quickly learned that he was not exactly sure what a pastor should do. He had met many ministers in his life, from his Pentecostal upbringing in Montana to his seminary days in New York, and he admired only a few. He knew that the job's demands would drown him unless he figured out what the essence of the... more...
The Question of Huby Jonathan D. Spence
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 9.99This lively and elegant book by the acclaimed historian Jonathan D. Spence reconstructs an extraordinary epsiode in the early intercourse between China and Europe. It is the story of John Hu, a lowly but devout Chinese Catholic who in 1722 accompanied a Jesuit missionary on a journey to France−a journey that ended with Hu's confinement in a lunatic asylum. At once a triumph of historical detective work and a gripping narrative, The Question of Hu deftly probes the collision of two cultures, with their different definitions of faith, madness, and moral obligation. more...
Catholic Church and the World Religionsby Gavin D'Costa
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 27.95There is no single standard textbook that outlines the official Roman Catholic theological position in relation to other religions which then explicates this orientation theologically and phenomenologically in relation to the four main religions of the world and the flowering of new religious movements in the west. The present project will cover this serious gap in the literature. After outlining the teaching of Vatican II and the magisterium since then (chapter one), each subsequent chapter will be divided equally between (a) an exposition of the history and features of the religion or movement being studied; and (b) a serious theological analysis of these features, showing how these religions do have elements in common, as well as how they... more...
New Short History of the Catholic Churchby Norman Tanner
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 22.95Here is a one-volume history of the Christian people from Pentecost to the present day, with principal focus on the Catholic Church. Having passed AD 2000 it seems appropriate and necessary to have a new short history of the first two millennia of the Christian era. In the last half century there has been a massive amount of research into Church history, published in learned articles and in multi-volume works. Full notice is taken of these recent scholarly initiatives in writing this short account, which is also eminently readable. In each section there is a balance between the institutional and the more directly religious dimensions of the Church - here are some of the elements: bishops, canon law, charity, councils crusades,... more...
The Jesus Bookby Michael Koulianos
ReadHowYouWant 2011; US$ 9.99Author Michael Koulianos challenges the reader to go deeper in a personal relationship with Jesus and to know Him as Savior . more...
Generation of Identity in Late Medieval Hagiographyby Gail Ashton
Routledge 1999; US$ 198.00In this interdisciplinary and boundary breaking study, Gail Ashton examines the depiction of female saints in a wide range of medieval texts. more...