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subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
Rodney Stark, a sociologist by training, has written a book that should end much of the Christian-bashing occuring in academia.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
The Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recounts how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle to become one of Christianity's most influential thinkers.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the belief that America is fundamentally and formally Christian originated in the 1930s.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
Reviews of the hardcover edition: "The publication of a new translation of Eusebius's The Church History is an important event.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
This, his greatest work, presents a defense in support of the monastic groups known as the "hesychasts," the originators of the Jesus Prayer.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
Each volume in the series is freshly retypeset, while thoughtful new prefaces explore their spiritual and historical contexts. For contemporary readers, here is an essential library of Christian wisdom through the ages.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
Actually, the book argues, Western paganism petered out much earlier and more rapidly than hitherto assumed.The subject of this book is not the conversion of the last pagans but rather the duration, nature, and consequences of their ...
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. But this is not what the original disciples believed during Jesus’s lifetime—and it is not what Jesus claimed about himself.
subject:"Religion / Christianity / History" from books.google.com
"highly entertaining and informative... This is a book worth arguing with, written with verve, wit and passion. It is also lavishly illustrated.