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History of specific doctrines and movements. Heresies and schisms

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  • The Gnosticsby Sean Martin

    Oldcastle Books 2010; US$ 11.99

    Gnosticism is the name given to various religious schools that proliferated in the first centuries after Christ, nearly becoming the dominant form of Christianity, but was eventually branded as heretical by the emerging Christian church. The long and diverse history of Gnosticism is recounted here, as well as reasons for its continued relevance... more...

  • The Laughing Jesusby Timothy Freke; Peter Gandy

    Crown Publishing Group 2005; US$ 15.99

    Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, authors of The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Lost Goddess , return with a powerful indictment of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic fundamentalism and a passionate reinterpretation of Gnostic spirituality. According to Freke and Gandy, religiously inspired acts of violence, such as the attacks on 9/11, are nothing... more...

  • Manichaean Texts from the Roman Empireby Iain Gardner; Samuel N. C. Lieu

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 41.00

    This is the first ever single-volume collection of sources for Manichaeism, a world religion founded by Mani which spread rapidly from Mesopotamia into the Roman Empire in the third and fourth centuries AD and became one of the most persecuted heresies under Christian Roman emperors. more...

  • God's Greater Gloryby Bruce A. Ware

    Crossway 2009; US$ 15.99

    This exploration of the historical-Scriptural model of the doctrine of God and His relationship with us also presents a careful refutation of the open theism stance. more...

  • Adolf Harnack: Marcionby Friedemann Steck

    De Gruyter 2003; US$ 210.00

    The Dorpat (Tartu) prize paper by the 19-year-old Adolf Harnack (1851-1930) with the title "Marcion. Der moderne Gläubige des 2. Jahrhunderts, der erste Reformator" (Marcion. The Modern Believer of the 2nd Century, the First Reformer) was awarded the Gold Medal by the Theological Faculty in Tartu and recommended for publication. However, it remained... more...

  • God, Chance and Purposeby David J. Bartholomew

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 25.00

    The thesis of this book is that chance is an integral part of God's creation. more...

  • The Gnostic Gospels of Jesusby Marvin W. Meyer

    HarperCollins 2009; US$ 17.99

    For all those readers curious to read the actual texts of the Gnostic Gospels, here is the definitive collection of all the Gnostic Gospels and Gospel?like texts. o Marvin Meyer, premier scholar of Gnostic and other Christian literature outside the New Testament, presents every Gnostic Gospel and Jesus text with a brilliant overall introduction,... more...

  • Will, Action and Freedomby Serhiy Hovorun

    BRILL 2008; US$ 116.00

    Explores Christological contests of the seventh century on the issues of will and actions in Christ. This book is based on acts of the western and eastern Church councils and writings of the theologians of the time. It examines the preceding theological traditions associated with the names of Apollinarius of Laodicea and Theodore of Mopsuestia. more...

  • Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and the Transformation of Divine Simplicityby Andrew Radde-Gallwitz

    OUP Oxford 2009; US$ 99.99

    Divine simplicity is the idea that, as the ultimate principle of the universe, God must be a non-composite unity not made up of parts or diverse attributes. The idea was appropriated by early Christian theologians from non-Christian philosophy and played a pivotal role in the development of Christian thought. Andrew Radde-Gallwitz charts the progress... more...

  • Reason and Religion in the English Revolutionby Sarah Mortimer

    Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 79.00

    Examines the reception of Socinian ideas in England, providing a rereading of political and ecclesiastical developments during the English Revolution. more...