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The Imposing Preacher
Fortress Press 2013; US$ 28.99Samuel DeWitt Proctor?s voice is essential to understanding the black social gospel. Proctor brought a black middle class understanding of America to his preaching and had a notion of faith that presented an alternative reality to the pervasive racism in the United States and sought to honor the inherent dignity of all humanity. more...
An Ancient Commentary on the Book of Revelation
Cambridge University Press 2013;New critical edition of the Scholia in Apocalypsin, which include extensive sections of Didymus' lost fourth-century commentary on Revelation. more...
Celtic Saints of Ireland
The History Press 2013; US$ 21.86Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, is based upon our earliest surviving information: a study of the sites where these early Christians lived and worked. Archaeology, combined with early inscriptions and texts, offers us important clues which help us to piece together something of the fascinating... more...
Nag Hammadi Deutsch
De Gruyter 2013; US$ 560.00This student edition provides a complete German translation of the approx. 50 manuscript texts discovered in Nag Hammadi as well as the text of the Codex Berolinensis 8502. For this third edition, the volume was corrected and updated, and it has also been expanded by the inclusion of two texts from the Codex Tchacos first published in 2007. These texts,... more...
Trying Biology
University of Chicago Press 2013; US$ 30.00In Trying Biology , Adam R. Shapiro convincingly dispels many conventional assumptions about the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial. Most view it as an event driven primarily by a conflict between science and religion. Countering this, Shapiro shows the importance of timing: the Scopes trial occurred at a crucial moment in the history of biology... more...
Vincent of Lérins and the Development of Christian Doctrine ()
Baker Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.99This introduction to the thought of Vincent of Lérins and its reception in Christian history sheds light on the nature of doctrine for contemporary readers. more...
Writings of Henry Barrow, 1587-1590
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 365.00Henry Barrow and John Greenwood are the fathers of Elizabethan Separatism. Unlike Robert Browne, they refused to compromise their beliefs or conform to Anglicanism and as a consequence they died in 1593 - as martyrs for their steadfast adherence to the principles of English Congregationalism. Volumes three and four include c. 40 items derived from... more...
The End of a Road
Andrews UK 2013; US$ 21.49In 1970, John M. Allegro published The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross, arguing that the early Christians belonged to a drug cult, their sacrament consisting of hallucinogenic mushrooms. The book contained a large amount of linguistic data to support Allegros speculations. In his follow-up book, The End of a Road, Allegro considered the philosophical... more...
Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 29.95This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of conflicting... more...
The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 116.00First full edition and English translation of the 'Anonymous' collection of The Tales and Sayings of the Desert Fathers. more...









