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Christianizing Egypt
Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017
How does a culture become Christian, especially one that is heir to such ancient traditions and spectacular monuments as Egypt? This book offers a new model for envisioning the process of Christianization by looking at the construction of Christianity in the various social and creative worlds active...
Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama
Faith and the Civic Life of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith—even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist—and whether this...
Christianity and Religious Diversity
Clarifying Christian Commitments in a Globalizing Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
This book explores how religions have changed in a globalized world and how Christianity is unique among them. Harold Netland, an expert in philosophical aspects of religion and pluralism, offers a fresh analysis of religion in today's globalizing world. He challenges misunderstandings of the concept...
The Forgotten Creed
Christianity's Original Struggle against Bigotry, Slavery, and Sexism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Long before the followers of Jesus declared him to be the Son of God, Jesus taught his followers that they too were the children of God. This ancient creed, now all but forgotten, is recorded still within the folds of a letter of Paul the Apostle. Paul did not create this creed, nor did he fully embrace...
Rational Faith
A Philosopher's Defense of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
If God exists, why doesn't he eliminate suffering and evil? Does evolution disprove Christianity? Can religion be explained by cognitive science? People have grappled for ages with these kinds of questions. And many in today's academic world find Christian belief untenable. But renowned philosopher...
by A. Hines
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2013
The author hopes this book will encourage you to seek Jesus Christ, a living, breathing, and amazing man, who promises all that seek Him will find Him and will never thirst again.
Secondly, it is hoped that you can get to know the author a bit. Unfortunately, we cannot share a two way dialog...
Christianity To Go
You Can't Share the Good News Until You Are the Good News. Church Doesn't Start Until You Leave the Building.
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Taking the beauty of Jesus out of our church buildings and into the world Church buildings are important. They give us a place where we can gather, but ultimately they’re just buildings. They’re not the real church. We are. Our impact shouldn’t end when we walk out the doors of the church. That...
Strangers or Co-Pilgrims?
The Impact of Interfaith Dialogue on Christian Faith and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book argues that interfaith dialogue begins with the basic goal of improving Christian relationships with people of other religious traditions. But gradually we become aware that this new ministry, when taken seriously, presents many new challenges, forcing us to reexamine our approach to religious...
Witnesses to Faith?
Martyrdom in Christianity and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
11 September 2001 in New York; 11 March 2004 in Madrid; 7 July 2005 in London: these dates remind us that suicide bombings, or 'martyrdom operations', have become the common coin of international politics in the West. What exactly is meant by 'martyrdom' today, whether in Islam or Christianity? This...
Christianity and Monasticism in Middle Egypt
Minya and Asyut
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
Christianity and monasticism have long flourished along the Nile in Middle Egypt, the region stretching from al-Bahnasa (Oxyrhynchus) to Dayr al-Ganadla. The contributors to this volume, international specialists in Coptology from around the world, examine various aspects of Coptic civilization in...
by Billy Crone
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2019
Roman Catholicism may have been around for over 1,600 years now, but it is one of the most deceptive ongoing religious cults on the planet. Not only are they not Christian, but they lead people away from true Biblical Christianity, and frankly, straight into hell. Therefore, this book, Roman Catholicism...
by Lee vanWesterborg
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2014
Is our modern religious institution merely a religious corporation and Christianity just another consumer product? Do our religious institutions actually follow scripture as professed? How much of modern Christianity is actually human tradition with no Biblical basis? Have our religious traditions...
by John Booth
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2013
After studying three of the world’s largest religious organizations and several cults; as a Christian, I hope to enlighten the Christian public and provide some background information and proof that will help them obtain a better understanding of the basic tenets of each religion.I will explain...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2018
The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Archaeology brings together expert work by leading scholars of the archaeology of Early Christianity and the Roman world in the Mediterranean and surrounding regions. The thirty-four contributions to this volume survey Christian material culture and ground the...