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Do You Hear What I Hear?: An Unreligious Writer Investigates Religious Calling
By Minna Proctor. 2005
At the first revelation that her father, a sixtyish university professor, wants to become an Episcopal priest, Minna Proctor is…
flummoxed. She neither encourages nor disparages him because she simply doesn’t know what it means. Brought up primarily by her mother in a household without any religious expression or guidance, Proctor was surprised to learn that her unconventionally charming, intellectual father had a religious life, and what’s more, a higher calling. When he is summarily turned away, Proctor delves into the byzantine discernment process that rejected her father from the priesthood and the pivotal notion of calling.Monks, the Pope, and the Origins of the Crusades
By Diarmaid Macculloch. 2013
A fascinating history of the growth in monastic and papal power that preceded the Crusades--excerpted from Diarmaid MacCulloch's award-winning New…
York Times bestseller, Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years. A product of electrifying scholarship conveyed with commanding skill, Diarmaid MacCulloch's Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years stretches from the Greek Platonists and the origins of the Hebrew Bible to the present and encompasses the globe. In this excerpt, MacCulloch chronicles the rise of monasteries like the great Cluny Abbey, which formed orders that reached across secular kingdoms, enjoying exclusive papal privileges and encouraging their followers to make pilgrimages among towering cathedrals and far-flung shrines. Meanwhile, the introduction of the tithe, expanding control over marriage, and a new emphasis on Purgatory brought penitent parishioners even closer to the Church and dependent on ministry. By the time Pope Urban II launched the First Crusade, the practice of indulgences had made possible his grant that all who died in a state of repentance and confession while fighting would gain immediate entry into heaven. Holy War spawned whole new orders, most famously the Knights Templar and the Knights Hospitaller, as soldiers from across Europe joined the campaigns of conquest toward Jerusalem. The many causes and consequences of these clashes between Christianity and Islam are captured here in illuminating detail with elegance and wit. Diarmaid MacCulloch's latest book, Silence: A Christian History, is available from Viking.The Black-Bearded Barbarian
By Marian Keith.
Cambridge Companions to Religion: The Cambridge Companion to the Summa Theologiae
By Denys Turner, McCosker, Philip and Turner, Denys, Philip Mccosker. 2016
Arguably the most influential work of systematic theology in the history of Christianity, Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae has shaped all…
subsequent theology since it was written in the late thirteenth century. This Companion features essays from both specialists in Aquinas' thought and from constructive contemporary theologians to demonstrate how to read the text effectively and how to relate it to past and current theological questions. The authors thoroughly examine individual topics addressed in the Summa, such as God, the Trinity, eternity, providence, virtue, grace, and the sacraments, making the text accessible to students of all levels. They further discuss the contextual, methodological, and structural issues surrounding the Summa, as well as its interaction with a variety of religious traditions. This volume will not only allow readers to develop a comprehensive multi-perspectival understanding of Aquinas' main mature theological work, but also promote dialogue about the vital role of the Summa in theology today.The Evolution of Theology: An Anthropological Study
By Thomas Henry Huxley.
The Light in the City
By Janet Parshall. 2000
The numerous legal, moral, and social threats on the horizon in America have caused many Christians to wonder whether they…
can truly make a difference. Contrary to some current voices that have called for retreat, Janet and Craig Parshall explain why Christians must engage the culture as never before in order to fulfill the whole mission of the church. In The Light in the City, the Parshalls help readers understand the biblical basis for the need for Christians to be actively involved in the formation of public policy. Issues addressed in this book are as current as tabloid headlines. The Light in the City not only gives a biblical and historical basis for Christian involvement, but it also provides practical strategies and personal testimonies of encouragement.Teens, Religion & Values (Gallup Youth Survey: Major Issues and Tr)
By Hal Marcovitz. 2014
Most young people report that they believe in God, yet recent surveys by the Gallup Organization have shown that fewer…
than half of all teenagers in the United States regularly attend church. Is organized religion losing its influence on young people? How many teenagers think about careers in the clergy? This volume examines the influence of religion and values on young people today.101 Things the Devil Can't Do
By Maisie Sparks. 2000
The author who brought you the inspirational 101 Things God Can't Do now shows you 101 Things the Devil Can't…
Do. Filled with instant encouragement, this little treasure shows you thatThe Devil can't win.The Discourager can't keep you depressed.The Bad Habit can't ruin your life anymore.Satan can't get God's glory or God's children.101 Things the Devil Can't Do turns discouragement into encouragement, transforms trouble into an opportunity for overcoming, and reminds Christians that they can stand victorious in the love of God.History of the Moravian Church
By J. E. Hutton.
The University of Hard Knocks
By Ralph Parlette.
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa
By Ilana Van Wyk. 2014
The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG), a church of Brazilian origin, has been enormously successful in establishing…
branches and attracting followers in post-apartheid South Africa. Unlike other Pentecostal Charismatic Churches (PCC), the UCKG insists that relationships with God be devoid of 'emotions', that socialisation between members be kept to a minimum and that charity and fellowship are 'useless' in materialising God's blessings. Instead, the UCKG urges members to sacrifice large sums of money to God for delivering wealth, health, social harmony and happiness. While outsiders condemn these rituals as empty or manipulative, this book shows that they are locally meaningful, demand sincerity to work, have limits and are informed by local ideas about human bodies, agency and ontological balance. As an ethnography of people rather than of institutions, this book offers fresh insights into the mass PCC movement that has swept across Africa since the early 1990s.The Virgin Mary was one of the most powerful images of the Middle Ages, central to people's experience of Christianity.…
During the Reformation, however, many images of the Virgin were destroyed, as Protestantism rejected the way the medieval Church over-valued and sexualized Mary. Although increasingly marginalized in Protestant thought and practice, her traces and surprising transformations continued to haunt early modern England. Combining historical analysis and contemporary theory, including issues raised by psychoanalysis and feminist theology, Gary Waller examines the literature, theology and popular culture associated with Mary in the transition between late medieval and early modern England. He contrasts a variety of pre-Reformation texts and events, including popular mariology, poetry, tales, drama, pilgrimage, and the emerging 'New Learning', with later sixteenth-century ruins, songs, ballads, Petrarchan poetry, the works of Shakespeare, and other texts where the Virgin's presence or influence, sometimes surprisingly, can be found.Human Nature and Other Sermons
By Joseph Butler.
The Confutatio Pontificia
By J. M. Reu.
Moravians in Georgia, The 1735-1740
By Adelaide L. Fries.
The Jesuit Missions
By Thomas Guthrie Marquis.
Unfamiliar Territory
By James Judge. 2001
Ignoring the pleas of friends and colleagues and refusing to give in to nagging fears, Dr. James Judge divorced a…
life of privilege for an uncivilized village and an unknown people. Forever changed by a relief trip to Africa, he abandoned his practice, sold all his worldly belongings, and uprooted his family, giving up everything he once held dear to return to the remote village of Lamu, Kenya. In this unbelievably true story, Judge chronicles the remarkable people he encountered and what they taught him about mercy, compassion, and the power of the human spirit.Sanctity and Pilgrimage in Medieval Southern Italy, 1000-1200
By Paul Oldfield. 2014
Southern Italy's strategic location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean gave it a unique position as a frontier for the…
major religious faiths of the medieval world, where Latin Christian, Greek Christian and Muslim communities coexisted. In this study, the first to offer a comprehensive analysis of sanctity and pilgrimage in southern Italy between 1000 and 1200, Paul Oldfield presents a fascinating picture of a politically and culturally fragmented land which, as well as hosting its own important relics as important pilgrimage centres, was a transit point for pilgrims and commercial traffic. Drawing on a diverse range of sources from hagiographical material to calendars, martyrologies, charters and pilgrim travel guides, the book examines how sanctity functioned at this key cultural crossroads and, by integrating the analysis of sanctity with that of pilgrimage, offers important new insights into society, cross-cultural interaction and faith in the region and across the medieval world.Just in Time! Lenten Services (Just in Time)
By Lucy Lind Hogan. 2009
Based on the Revised Common Lectionary and broadly ecumenical, this addition to the Just In Time! series provides: Sitting with…
the Text: Scripture commentary for each of the three lectionary years; Worship and Preaching Themes; Creating the Environment: ideas for decorating and preparing the worship space; Shaping the Worship Service: prayers, liturgies, dramas, music suggestions; Scripture Index; and more.Beginning with Ash Wednesday, Lenten Services aids the reader in planning and implementing transformative worship services throughout the Lenten journey.Be My People: Sermons on the Ten Commandments (Protestant Pulpit Exchange Ser.)
By Ross W. Marrs. 1991
These are not ten simple rules that God gives us to follow so that God can love us and reward…
us with eternal life so much as they are a design for response to God's call for obedience and the formation of community. Here are reminders of what must exist in a nation if that nation is to endure.