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Recovering the Margins of American Religious History
The Legacy of David Edwin Harrell Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2012
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Recovering the Margins of American Religious History, a celebration of the life and work of David Edwin Harrell Jr., brings together essays from Harrell’s colleagues, peers, and students that explore his impact and legacy in the field of American...
After Evangelicalism
The Sixties and the United Church of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
At a time when Canadians were arguing about the merits of a new flag, the birth-control pill, and the growing hippie counterculture, the leaders of Canada's largest Protestant church were occupied with turning much of English-Canadian religious culture on its head. In After Evangelicalism, Kevin Flatt...
Beyond Reformation?
An Essay on William Langland’s Piers Plowman and the End of Constantinian Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
The essay form that Aers has chosen for his book contributes to the effectiveness of the argument he develops in tandem with the structure of Langland’s poem: he sustains and tests his argument in a series of steps or “passus,” a Langlandian mode of proceeding. His essay unfolds an argument...
Out of Obscurity
Mormonism since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence. Mormonism is no longer merely a home-grown American religion, confined to the Intermountain West; instead, it has captured the attention of political pundits,...
American Christianity
The Continuing Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Christianity takes an astonishing variety of forms in America, from churches that cherish traditional modes of worship to evangelical churches and fellowships, Pentecostal churches, social-action churches, megachurches, and apocalyptic churches—congregations ministering to believers of diverse ethnicities,...
A Separate Canaan
The Making of an Afro-Moravian World in North Carolina, 1763-1840
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community's demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves...
by Ken Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2013
The Epistle of Barnabas is often quoted by the ancient church fathers. Although not considered inspired Scripture it was used to combat legalism in the first two centuries AD. Along with explaining why the Laws of Moses are binding on Christians, the Epistle explains how many of the Old Testament...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The Study Companion is a valuable additional resource for introductory courses in church history that use Tim Dowley’s popular Introduction to the History of Christianity. Packed with the essential primary readings for introductory courses in the history of Christianity, the Study Companion also...
An American Religious Movement
A Brief History of the Disciples of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
In an earlier volume, I recited the history of the Disciples of Christ under the title, Religion Follows the Frontier. The phrase was designed to emphasize the fact that this religious movement was born under pioneer conditions on the American frontier, in the days when the frontier was just crossing...
Philippi: How Christianity Began in Europe
The Epistle to the Philippians and the Excavations at Philippi
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
The book provides a introduction to Paul's Letter to the Philippians as well as to the history, development, and foundation of the Church in Philippi.
Verhoef expertly guides students through the key issues of interpretation surrounding Paul's writings to the Philippians, before covering the...
by Kevin W. Kaatz
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
An introduction to the history of early Christianity, this reference provides roughly 60 primary source documents from the first five centuries of the Christian Era, each accompanied by explanatory material.
• Offers a guide that helps readers to understand how to study primary documents...
Sanctuary Cinema
Origins of the Christian Film Industry
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Winner of the Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award for 2008
Sanctuary Cinema provides the first history of the origins of the Christian film industry. Focusing on the early days of film during the silent era, it traces the ways in which the Church came to adopt film making as...
The Good Women of the Parish
Gender and Religion After the Black Death
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
There was immense social and economic upheaval between the Black Death and the English Reformation, and contemporary writers often blamed this upheaval on immorality, singling out women's behavior for particular censure. Late medieval moral treatises and sermons increasingly connected good behavior...
by Very Rev Henry Hull
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2014
In this short book we visit St Patrick's Church Saul, near Downpatrick Co Down. The townland lies to the east of Downpatrick.