wired - Church History 5

The first history of the deaconess movement in the United States In the late nineteenth century, a new movement arose within American Protestant Christianity. Unsalaried groups of women began living……続きを見る

Few have consoled the church as ably as the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich. However, her prophetic gifts have received little scholarly attention. Drawing on contemporary homiletical th……続きを見る

This book describes the sociocultural context that shaped Christian initiation for many early Jamaican congregants within the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. Christian initiation in early-……続きを見る

This is the first critical study of the writings of the English Particular Baptist Benjamin Beddome (1718-1795), whose evangelical ministry stretched over the last half of the eighteenth century. Be……続きを見る

Christianity is dying--in parts of the world it is already dead. Yet there is hope, but it will require radical surgery that many are unprepared to accept as necessary. The vast behemoth that calls ……続きを見る

Recently, the immanent Trinity (God as in himself) has been criticized as abstract and impractical as opposed to the economic Trinity (God in relation to the world). Many scholars argue that the imm……続きを見る

Paul the apostle and historian Flavius Josephus spent considerable parts of their careers away from Jerusalem. They cultivated Roman audiences under very different circumstances: Paul with his Lette……続きを見る

Galileo once wrote that ‘the Bible tells us how to go to Heaven, but not how the heavens go’. From the Greeks to the present day, thoughtful people have struggled to reconcile the discoveries of sci……続きを見る

La vie de peu de réformateurs a fait l'objet d'autant de recherches historiques que celle de Jean Calvin : les pages qui lui sont consacrées se comptent par dizaines de milliers, nombre qui est à la……続きを見る

In 'Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave,' William Wells Brown provides readers with a harrowing firsthand account of his life as a slave and his journey to freedom. Brown's narrative is ……続きを見る

This book explores in unprecedented detail the theological thinking of John Witherspoon during his often overlooked ministerial career in Scotland. In contrast to the arguments made by other histori……続きを見る

“Luther and the Reformation - The Life-Springs of our Liberties” is an 1883 work by Joseph Augustus Seiss. Contents include: “Luther and the Reformation”, and “The Founding of Pennsylvania”. This vi……続きを見る

In 'Breaking with the Past; Or, Catholic Principles Abandoned at the Reformation', Francis Aidan Gasquet delves deep into the theological and historical roots of the Reformation and explores the Cat……続きを見る

In 'The English Church in the Middle Ages' by William Hunt, readers are taken on a insightful journey through the religious and political landscape of medieval England. This comprehensive work delve……続きを見る

A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashes Anointed with O……続きを見る

This book is the first in generations to examine writers in the early church in order to ascertain the original Christian intent as to how early Christian clergy were chosen, their powers and respon……続きを見る

There are many book studies of particular books of the Bible. There is also a myriad of devotional and inspirational books regarding the Bible, and many questions about it. Why are there different a……続きを見る

The following is a brief description of the prevailing spiritual and moral tides that were washing over much of Europe and America in the early eighteenth century--God's "righteous name had been int……続きを見る

La collana si apre con la straordinaria storia di san Simone Stock, giovane eremita vissuto per anni in un piccolo santuario che aveva costruito all’interno di una gigantesca quercia vicino alla cas……続きを見る

This is a narrative nonfiction account of a young man’s crisis of faith during the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation. It prompts him to explore the foundations and doctrines of Judaism, Christia……続きを見る

The record is clear that Baptists, historically, have prioritized conversion, Jesus, and God. Equally clear is that Baptists have never known what to do with the Holy Spirit. In Baptists and the Hol……続きを見る

This volume is a collection of essays on the early creeds by John Nevin and Philip Schaff, the two principal representatives of the Mercersburg Theology that was birthed in nineteenth-century Pennsy……続きを見る

The God of ancient Israel--universally referred to in the masculine today--was understood by its earliest worshipers to be a dual-gendered, male-female deity. So argues Mark Sameth in The Name. Need……続きを見る

What do we do when a formerly vibrant back-to-the-Bible movement drifts into a toxic swamp rimmed with attack dogs? Charles Redfern faces that grim question squarely. He discovers that American evan……続きを見る

This volume looks at how, as America went through the 1960s, its achievement of superpower status invited both deep “Progressive” political changes at home (Johnson’s Great Society) and aggressive “……続きを見る

Rural communities depend on the health of the agrarian cultures that compose them. These cultures grow out of the symbiotic relationship between a particular landscape and the human community that l……続きを見る

A leading spiritual teacher reveals how Celtic spiritualityーlistening to the sacred around us and inside of usーcan help us heal the earth, overcome our conflicts, and reconnect with ourselves. Joh……続きを見る

“The Most Beautiful Among the Children of Men” is a 1883 work by Abel Ram. It contains a number of 'meditations' related to the story of the life of Jesus Christ, which are in essence simplified des……続きを見る

The command of the risen Christ was to make students of all nations: "On this Rock I will build . . ." But the spread of the Pentecostal gospel disrupted the national values of eternal Rome, with he……続きを見る

History has been so often written and improved, either for party purposes, or mere amusement, that some serious persons have been ready to treat it as a thing foreign to religion, and of little serv……続きを見る