Christianity
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Coptic Christianity in Ottoman EgyptIn this book, Febe Armanios explores Coptic religious life in Ottoman Egypt (1517-1798), focusing closely on manuscripts housed in Coptic archives. Ottoman Copts frequently turned to religious discourses, practices, and rituals as they dealt with various transformations in the first centuries of Ottoman rule....
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A Modest Apostle: Thecla and the History of Women in the Early ChurchScholars and mainline pastors tell a familiar narrative about the roles of women in the early church-that women held leadership roles and exercised some authority in the church, but, with the establishment of formal institutional roles, they were excluded from active leadership. Evidence of...
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Sex and the Soul, Updated Edition: Juggling Sexuality, Spirituality, Romance, and Religion on America's College CampusesFirst published in 2008, Donna Freitas's Sex and the Soul revealed what college students -- at institutions large and small, public and private, secular, Catholic, and evangelical -- really think about sex, dating, religion, and spirituality. Based on face-to-face interviews with students across the...
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C. S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis SocietyFor over thirty years, the Oxford C. S. Lewis Society has met weekly in the medieval colleges of the University of Oxford. During that time, it has hosted as speakers nearly all those still living who were associated with the Inklings-the Oxford literary circle...
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Waters of SiloeAn examination of the roots of the Cistercian Order, founded in 1098, its development and waning, and the seventeenth-century reforms by the Abbé de Rancé, which began the second flowering that continues today. Throughout, Merton illuminates the purposes of monasticism. Index; photographs.Author: Thomas Merton,...
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So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and StateToday's dispute over the line between church and state (or the lack thereof) is neither the first nor the fiercest in our history. In a revelatory look at our nation's birth, Forrest Church re-creates our first great culture war--a tumultuous, nearly forgotten conflict that...
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The Soul of Politics: Beyond Religious Right and Secular LeftWallis draws on his experience in urban ghettos to show why traditional liberal and conservative options that emphasize either social justice or personal values fall short. He looks outside the traditional corridors of power to find solutions. Foreword by Garry Wills; Preface by Cornel...
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Christ Actually: Reimagining Faith in the Modern AgeAn exploration of transcendent faith in modern times--from the author of the New York Times-bestselling Constantine's Sword What can we believe about--and how can we believe in--Jesus Christ in light of the Holocaust and other atrocities of the twentieth century and the drift from...
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Defenders of the Faith: Christianity and Islam Battle for the Soul of Europe, 1520-1536A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager...
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Martin Luther: A LifeCalled 'The most influential interpreter of American religion' by Bill Moyers, renowned historian and Lutheran pastor Martin Marty portrays the religious reformer Martin Luther as a man of conscience and courage who risked death to ignite the historic reformation of the Church. Luther's arguments,...
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Stigmata: A Medieval Mystery in a Modern AgeA ten-year-old black girl in California bled from her palms, feet, right side, and the middle of her forehead for nineteen days in 1972, until good Friday, when the bleeding stopped. A Washington, D.C., priest experienced spontaneous bleeding from his writsts, feet, and right...
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A History of Christian Missions: Second EditionA History of Christian Missions traces the expansion of Christianity from its origins in the Middle East to Rome, the rest of Europe and the colonial world, and assesses its position as a major religious force worldwide. Many of the world's religions have not...
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Speaking Christian: Why Christian Words Have Lost Their Meaning and Power - And How They Can Be RestoredIn Speaking Christian, acclaimed Bible scholar Marcus Borg, author of Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time, argues that the very language Christians use has become dangerously distilled, distorted, and disconnected from the beliefs which once underpinned it.Stating a case that will resonate with...
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The Promise: God's Purpose and Plan for When Life HurtsThe Fox News Commentator and Catholic Priest Explores the Central Question for Hard Times: Why Does God Allow Us to Suffer?Author: Jonathan MorrisPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 02/03/2009Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.30w x 0.60dISBN: 9780061353420About the AuthorMorris, Jonathan: - Father Jonathan Morris is a...
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A City Upon a Hill: How Sermons Changed the Course of American HistoryThe Words That Stirred a NationFrom colonial times to the present, from Abraham Lincoln to Billy Graham, the sermon has been the dynamic medium through which America conducts its most important debates, motivating us to fight wars as well as fight for peace and...
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The Secrets of Judas: The Story of the Misunderstood Disciple and His Lost GospelThe discovery of a previously lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot has electrified the Christian community. What Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell us about Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is inconsistent and biased. Therefore, the revelation of an ancient gospel that portrays this...
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Jesus LPRediscovering the Original "Way" of Jesus the ChristLeading Bible scholar Marcus Borg takes us on an incredible journey to discover who Jesus was, what he taught, and why he still matters today. In the definitive book of his career, Borg argues that how we...
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What Have They Done with Jesus?: Beyond Strange Theories and Bad History--Why We Can Trust the BibleStrange theories about Jesus seem to ooze from our culture with increasing regularity. Ben Witherington, one of the top Jesus scholars, will have none of it. There were no secret Gnostic teachings in the first century. With leading scholars and popular purveyors of bad...
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God's Choice: Pope Benedict XVI and the Future of the Catholic ChurchGeorge Weigel's New York Times bestselling biography of Pope John Paul II, Witness to Hope, set the standard by which all portraits of the modern papacy are now measured. With God's Choice, he gives us an extraordinary chronicle of the rise of Pope Benedict...
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The Quest for God: Personal Pilgrimage, aIn this probing, challenging and personal account of his feelings about God and religion, Paul Johnson shares with others the strength and comfort of his own faith. Informed by his great knowledge of history, The Quest for God is written with force, lucidity and...
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