Author: Everett Ferguson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: christianity, studies, recent, social, society, world
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1999-05-01
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0815330685
ISBN-13: 9780815330684

Part of the series, "Recent Studies in Early Christianity", this volume focuses on the social world of the time.

Author: Michael Angold
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: christianity, eastern, volume, cambridge, history
Number of Pages: 742
Published: 2006-09-04
List price: $225.99
ISBN-10: 0521811139
ISBN-13: 9780521811132

This volume brings together in one compass the Orthodox Churches - the ecumenical patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Egyptian and Syrian Churches. It follows their fortunes from the late Middle Ages until modern times - exactly the period when their history has been most neglected. Inevitably, this emphasises differences in teachings and experience, but it also brings out common threads, most notably the resilience displayed in the face of alien and often hostile political regimes. The central theme is the survival against the odds of Orthodoxy in its many for

Author: Derek Krueger
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: christianity, history, people, byzantine
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2006-06
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0800634136
ISBN-13: 9780800634131

This third volume in the pioneering A People’s History of Christianity series focuses on the religious lives of ordinary people and introduces the religion of the Byzantine Christian laity by asking the questions: What did ordinary Christians do in church, in their homes and their workshops? How were icons used? How did the people celebrate, marry, and mourn? Where did they go on pilgrimage? Contributors include: Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro Vasiliki Limberis, Temple University Georgia Frank, Colgate University James Skedros, Holy Cross Greek Ortho

Author: Derek Krueger
Publisher: Fortress Press
Keywords: christianity, history, people, byzantine
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 2010-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0800697219
ISBN-13: 9780800697211

Author: Samuel J. Andrews
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: christianity, conflict, anti, final
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2003-02
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0766139174
ISBN-13: 9780766139176

1898. The work of a scholar of large erudition and deep devotion, the author know the scriptures and knows the times. As he takes us through the fields of philosophy, biblical criticism, science, literature, socialism and government, we are amazed at his full knowledge and masterly treatment. There is a sense of finality about his conclusions which is refreshing. A book for students and preachers alike, it is a key to these troubled days which the scriptures have so plainly foreshadowed, and strengthens faith in the Lord whose personal coming, rather than man’s devices, is the way of ho

Author: Matt Tomlinson
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: christianity, anthropology, fijian, metaculture, image, god
Number of Pages: 263
Published: 2009-03-10
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0520257774
ISBN-13: 9780520257771

Today, most indigenous Fijians are Christians, and the Methodist Church is the foundation of their social and political lives. Yet, as this thought-provoking study of life on rural Kadavu Island finds, Fijians also believe that their ancestors possessed an inherent strength that is lacking in the present day. Looking in particular at the interaction between the church and the traditional chiefly system, Matt Tomlinson finds that this belief about the superiority of the past provokes great anxiety, and that Fijians seek ways of recovering this strength through ritual and political action--Chris

Author: Jeffrey Mark
Publisher: Reasonable Press
Keywords: christianity, atheism, freethinking, embracing, debunking, leaving, christian
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-08-12
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0981631304
ISBN-13: 9780981631301

This book is for everyone: Atheists will find excellent arguments to help them defend their positions; Agnostics will appreciate the clarification it brings; Christians who are struggling will find this book a great help in breaking free from their shackles as they learn exactly why there’s no possible way Christianity is true and why they don’t have to worry ever again. The Bible says that the world’s languages began with the Tower of Babel. Today we know better. But how could the Bible contain stories that aren’t true? Author Jeffrey Mark was a devout Christian thr