CK - History 2

Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely us……続きを見る

Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and is more present in America today than you might expect. Soccer moms get voodoo head washings in their backyards, young……続きを見る

This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Cynthia Tucker examines the Eliots, their religious tradition, and the Eliot wo……続きを見る

Ancient cultures were faced with two immense problems. Why is there something rather than nothing and why is the universe ordered rather than chaotic? To answer these questions, they invented cosmol……続きを見る

Ansgar and Rimbert, ninth-century bishops and missionaries to Denmark and Sweden, are fixtures of medieval ecclesiastical history. Rare is the survey that does not pause to mention their work among ……続きを見る

It was an upset Pope Francis who called his cardinals and bishops naughty. At Christmastime 2014 and again in 2015 Pope Francis scolded the cardinals and bishops of the Catholic Church for their van……続きを見る

Coauthor of the famous Scottish National Covenant, moderator of the Glasgow General Assembly that defied King Charles I, and member of the Westminster Assembly, Alexander Henderson (1583–1646) led S……続きを見る

Examensarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Inwiefern Max Joseph Bayern i……続きを見る

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Universität Basel (Theologische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Christentumsgeschichte von Asien, 8 Que……続きを見る

Essay aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Theologie - Historische Theologie, Kirchengeschichte, Note: sehr gut, Universität Basel (Theologische Fakultät), Veranstaltung: Grundkurs Kirchengeschichte, 0 ……続きを見る

Western Sufism is sometimes dismissed as a relatively recent "new age" phenomenon, but in this book Mark Sedgwick argues that it has deep roots, both in the Muslim world and in the West. In fact, al……続きを見る

Includes a foreword by Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury. The Cappadocian fathers of the fourth centuryーBasil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory Nazianzenーproduced thoughts on……続きを見る

Conventional wisdom holds that C. S. Lewis was uninterested in politics and public affairs. The conventional wisdom is wrong. As Justin Buckley Dyer and Micah J. Watson show in this groundbreaking w……続きを見る

The period covered by this book (AD 381–451) is the first in which the church can be said to have exercised a dominant role in political history. For some it is the period in which the church lost i……続きを見る

The image of a rough frontier – where working men were tempted away from church on Sundays by more profane concerns – was perpetuated by postwar church leaders, who decried the decline of religious ……続きを見る

Dr. Robert Stevick's Insular Art Forms: Their Essence and Construction emerges as the most innovative work of his long and illustrious career. Building on years of research into medieval manuscript ……続きを見る

Powerful imagery creates a 'you are there' immersion in the story of the post-Flood world. Kacy Barnett-Gramckow fans raved about her extraordinary job of bringing the Flood to life in the Heavens B……続きを見る

Muslim scholars are a vital part of Islam, and are sometimes considered 'heirs to the prophets', continuing Muhammad's work of establishing Islam in the centuries after his death. But this was not a……続きを見る

Origins of Our Faith is an historic look back to the Hebrew roots of Christianity which propells the reader through a paradigm shift. Rick Richardson explains how and why a small group of Jewish "be……続きを見る

Death by drowning or being burned at the stake. In the days of the Reformation, many Christians suffered this horrible fate. What was their crime? Simply being baptised, immersed into Christ as beli……続きを見る

Much has been said and written about faith in recent times, but do people of this generation really know what faith is? Why has raw faith, through the centuries, chosen Christianity in preference to……続きを見る

The papers assembled in this selection of studies range in subject matter from early Judaic magic to an inscribed monument of the Neo-Classical period. The principal emphasis of the collection is ne……続きを見る

A powerful devotional study of all existing pre-Iconoclastic icons that are still readable. In Encounters with God, Sister Wendy Beckett travelled to remote churches and monasteries to view the earl……続きを見る

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitabl……続きを見る

"Notre peuple existe par l'unique vertu de la Torah" Gaon Saadia. La Torah désigne les cinq premiers livres de la Bible hébraïque : la Genèse, l’Exode, le Lévitique, les Nombres et le Deutéronome. 続きを見る

By Cabala we understand that system of religious philosophy, or more properly, of Jewish theosophy, which played so important a part in the theological and exegetical literature of both Jews and Chr……続きを見る

"Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "One can hardly d……続きを見る

First published in German in 1905 as Das Wesen des Judentums, Leo Baeck’s The Essence of Judaism is perhaps the most widely read example of German Jewish scholarship in the 20th century. Written as ……続きを見る

John Locke was one of the most famous philosophers during the Age of Enlightenment. Locke is often referred to as The Father of Liberalism and his writings influenced other great philosophers includ……続きを見る

Medieval Welsh Pilgrimage, c.1100–1500 examines one of the most popular expressions of religious belief in medieval Europeーfrom the promotion of particular sites for political, religious, and finan……続きを見る