Christian Literature category: 2036 books
Live
Experience Christ's Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Jesus Christ offers abundant life for everyone who asks. But how does a person receive Christ's life? This book clearly explains how. The first chapter, Finding God, explains how to have a personal relationship with Jesus. The subsequent chapters equip the believer to live a fruitful Christian life....
The Hands of Jesus
and Other Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
Dorothy Stock (1913-1990) grew up amidst the delightful countryside and natural beauty of Pendle Hill and Morecambe Bay. She explored and adored the natural beauty of Lancashire, and many of these experiences were later re-created in her early poetry.
Her later poetry was composed as a result...
Crispina and Her Sisters
Women and Authority in Early Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Discovering reliable information about women in early Christianity is a challenging enterprise. Most people have never heard of Bitalia, Veneranda, Crispina, Petronella, Leta, Sofia the Deacon, and many others even though their catacomb and tomb art suggests their authority was influential and valued...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Twelve Anglicists (from France, America, Poland, and Romania) who met in Bucharest to debate Religion and Spirituality in Literature and the Arts at the ACED Conference in June 2015 join their voices in demonstrating the vitally spiritual power of Christianity in the recently modern world (in twentieth...
by I'Ching Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Though the Christian faith is believed to have reached the shores of China way back in the 8th century, it is still generally perceived as a foreign or Western religion to many Cultural Chinese.
How does this perception of Christianity as a foreign approach to spirituality advance or hinder...
God in the Gallery (Cultural Exegesis)
A Christian Embrace of Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Is contemporary art a friend or foe of Christianity? Art historian, critic, and curator Daniel Siedell, addresses this question and presents a framework for interpreting art from a Christian worldview in God in the Gallery: A Christian Embrace of Modern Art. As such, it is an excellent companion to...
Art and Mysticism
Interfaces in the Medieval and Modern Periods
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018
From the visual and textual art of Anglo-Saxon England onwards, images held a surprising power in the Western Christian tradition. Not only did these artistic representations provide images through which to find God, they also held mystical potential, and likewise mystical writing, from the early...
Lit!: A Christian Guide to Reading Books
A Christian Guide to Reading Books
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
I love to read.
I hate to read.
I don’t have time to read.
I only read Christian books.
I’m not good at reading.
There’s too much to read.
Chances are, you’ve thought or said one of these exact phrases before because reading is important and in many...
by Obadiah Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This Treatise which now is presented to a publike construction, was (many yeers past) the subject of my private Meditations and Sermons. I did not affect any farther publication of it, then in the Pulpit; but the importunity of others hath compelled it thus to appear in Print. Not that the manner...
The Messiah Comes to Middle-Earth
Images of Christ's Threefold Office in The Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
How can we grasp the significance of what Jesus Christ did for us? Might literature help us as we seek to understand the Christian faith?
J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has generated much discussion about the relationship between Christianity and literature. It is well known that Tolkien...
Which Day Is the Christian Sabbath?
What the Bible says is the right day to worship God
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Many professing Christians take the Sabbath for granted. But does it make any difference which day of the week we observe—or whether we keep it at all? Does the Bible establish Sunday as the Lord's Day? Was the Sabbath given for the Jewish people only—while Christians are commanded to keep Sunday...
by Joseph H.J. Liaigh
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A short, personal reflection on the proper role of storytelling and fantasy in the culture of Christianity and in the life of a Christian, including a short discussion on the author's own motivation for writing (and reading) fantasy. It also includes a consideration of the history of storytelling...
by A. B. Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
In the name of the Lord, Jesus, the publishers and compilers would lay upon the altar of praise, and present to the household of faith the second volume of the Hymns of the Christian Life.
Our special acknowledgements are due to many musical composers and publishers for the use of valuable...
The Russians' Secret
The Survival of New Testament Christianity in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Martyrdom, in early Christian times, already appealed to believers intent on doing great things for Christ. The early Christians venerated martyrs, the dates of whose executions grew into a calendar of saints, and wearing a martyrs' halo is still extremely popular. But martyr's halos do not come in...