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Houses Divided provides new insights into the significance of the nineteenth-century evangelical schisms that arose initially over the moral question of African American bondage. Volkman examines such fractures in the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian churches of the slaveholding border state of...

DECONSTRUCTING THE CODE is a story of love and lost meaning, treachery and distrust, creative expression and blatant forgery, book burnings and the chance discovery of priceless writings of antiquity. In a new epic play by writer Jack Forbes, DECONSTRUCTING the Code tells the true story of the origins...

Understandings of the Church explores the ways imagery is used by biblical writers and early Christian teachers such as Cyprian, Ignatius of Antioch, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen to describe the concept of church. Ad Fontes: Early Christian Sources is a series designed to present...

This book is for Christians troubled by doubts and questions. It's for those who feel remorse for losing the "Faith of Our Fathers". It's for Christians willing to consider whether or not the Bible is literally true, and historically accurate. The author, once an ordained minister,...

This book looks closely and critically at the post-modern Church. It attempts to fill the historic gaps of why the church has produced so many disaffected and passionate persons, many who have sought truth in various directions but all bearing the marks of their encounters within faith-based organizations....

Latin American Christianity is too often presented as a unified story appended to the end of larger western narratives. And yet the stories of Christianity in Latin America are as varied and diverse as the lands and the peoples who live there. The unique political, ecclesial, social, and historical...

Slavery was widespread throughout the Mediterranean lands where Christianity was born and developed. Though Christians were both slaves and slaveholders, there has been surprisingly little study of what early Christians thought about the realities of slavery. How did they reconcile slavery with the...

From its inception what came to be known as the Oxford Movement was always intended to be more than just an abstruse dialogue about the theoretical nature of Anglicanism. Instead, it was meant to spread its ideas not only through college common rooms, but also bishop's palaces, and above all the parsonages...

A comprehensive record of the churches in Kensington, London in the early 1870s. Churches of all christian faiths are covered, with particular emphasis on the ecclesiastical, historical, clerical, architectural, religious and social information for each church and parish.

The story of Latin American Christianity is too often appended to the end of larger narratives and is rarely given the full consideration it deserves. And yet, the rich stories of Christianity in Latin America deserve our full attention. With this brief, engaging, and helpful overview, Joel M. Cruz...

Contrary to its popular image as dull and stodgy, the Victorian period was one of revolutionary change. In its politics, its art, its economic aff airs, its class relationships, and in its religion, change was constant. A half-century after Queen Victoria's death, it was said that she was born in...

THE SYMBOLISM  OF: Churches and Church Ornaments A TRANSLATION OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE: Rationale Divinorum Officiorum Author Preface: The interest which has lately been displayed, as on all subjects connected with Ecclesiology, so more especially on the symbolical bearing of...

In Preaching and Theology in Anglo-Saxon England, Professor Gatch deals with two aspects of the writings of Ælfric and Wulfstan that have been hitherto ignored by scholars of the period. First, he investigates the uses for which the two homilists prepared their sermons, analysing the homiliaries...

Though obviously a book written specifically for the Nazarene church, it would certainly serve as a great study for anyone attending (or interested in) a holiness or Pentecostal / Charismatic church. The Table of Contents are as follows: THE NAZARENE CREED IN BRIEF ARTICLES OF FAITH OF THE...