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Life Is Hard. God Is Good. Let's Dance.: Experiencing Real Joy in a
"Quirky and inviting essays on what it means to live joyfully in a world full of 'anger and anxiety'...This optimism booster has a light touch and a lasting impact."-Publishers WeeklyAn...
Beyond Our Control: Let Go of Unmet Expectations, Overcome Anxiety,
Realizing how little control we have over our lives can make us fearful and anxious--or it can lead to greater intimacy with God, a richer prayer life, and a joyful...
Family Unfriendly: How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder Than
The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now And why are the results so badOur...
Every Day a Miracle: Trusting the God Who Heals Us Inside and Out
We may know Jesus as Lord and Savior, but do we know him as Healer This book is for anyone asking for a miracle-whether physical, mental, relational, or spiritual-and how...
I Want to Trust You, but I Don't: Moving Forward When You're Skeptical
New York Times bestselling author Lysa TerKeurst shows you what to do with your skepticism and distrust so you can heal from past betrayals and move forward with strength and...
The Name of the Saint: The Martyrology of Jerome and Access to the
The Name of the Saint is a study of the spiritual, social, and liturgical practices of reciting, inscribing, collecting, and bearing saints' names from the seventh through the ninth century....
Prelude to the Modernist Crisis: The Firmin Articles of Alfred Loisy
Alfred Firmin Loisy (1857-1940) was a French theologian, biblical scholar, and Roman Catholic priest. Loisy's six articles appearing in the Revue de clerge francais from 1898 to 1900 (under the...
Mary, Music, and Meditation: Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine
Burdened by famine, the plague, and economic hardship in the 1500s, the troubled citizens of Milan, mindful of their mortality, turned toward the veneration of the Virgin Mary and the...
Philosophy Between Faith and Theology: Addresses to Catholic
Adriaan Theodoor Peperzak contends that while many Catholic philosophers try to practice a modern, autonomous style of thinking, their experience of a faith-guided life necessarily compels them to integrate their...
Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity
Early Christians spoke about themselves as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners, asserting that otherness is a fundamental part of being Christian. But why did they do so and to what...
Printing the Talmud: A History of the Individual Treatises Printed
Winner of the 1999 Association of Jewish Libraries Research and Special Libraries Division Award for Bibliographies. A scholarly study of the individual Talmudic tractates published in the first half of...
Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism, and the
In Shurat Legends, Ibadi Identities, Adam Gaiser explores the origins and early development of Islamic notions of martyrdom and of martyrdom literature. He examines the catalogs or lists of martyrs...
The Virgin of Chartres: Making History through Liturgy and the Arts
Medieval Christians knew the past primarily through what they saw and heard. History was reenacted every year in ritual observances particular to each place and region and rooted in the...
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
A cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a...
An Introduction to the History of Christianity: From the Early Church
An Introduction to the History of Christianity is a beautifully crafted and clearly written introduction to Christianity over its 2,000 year history concentrating on the interraction between the sacred and...
The Trial of the Gospel: An Apologetic Reading of Luke's Trial
For many years Luke-Acts has been studied as a work of history and theology. The Trial of the Gospel sets out to examine Luke's writings as an apologetic work, by...
By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam
A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while travelling along a comparative path of biblical,...
Muslim Rebels: Kharijites and the Politics of Extremism in Egypt
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community...
Bourgeouis Hinduism, or Faith of the Modern Vedantists: Rare
In 1839 a diverse group of Hindu leaders began gathering in Calcutta to share and propagate their faith in a non-idolatrous form of worship. The group, known as the Tattvabodhini...
Jeremiah and God's Plan of Well-being
In Jeremiah and God's Plan of Well-being, Barbara Green explores the prophet Jeremiah as a literary persona of the biblical book through seven periods of his prophetic ministry, focusing on...
The She-Apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa de Carvajal
Born into a great Spanish noble family, Luisa de Carvajal hankered from her early years to become a martyr for her faith. In 1605 - the year of the Gunpowder...
The Return of Splendor in the World: The Christian Doctrine of Sin and
The Return of Splendor in the World: The Christian Doctrine of Sin and Forgiveness
Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation Between
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The classic understanding of the notorious 1633 trial of Galileo by the Inquistition is that of Science and Reason persecuted by Ignorance and Superstition--of a lonely, courageous freethinker oppressed by...
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia: A Study of Manuscript
Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia, a groundbreaking study of the intellectual and monastic culture of the Main Valley during the eighth century, looks closely at a group of manuscripts...
St.Edmund of Abingdon
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St Edmund was the last Archbishop of Canterbury and the first Oxford master to have been officially canonized. This book offers a careful scrutinisation of the hagiographic tradition and the...
Pontius Pilate: Deciphering a Memory
The Roman prefect Pontius Pilate has been cloaked in rumor and myth since the first century, but what do we actually know of the man who condemned Jesus of Nazareth...
Partners of Zaynab: A Gendered Perspective of Shia Muslim Faith
How do pious Shia Muslim women nurture and sustain their religious lives? How do their experiences and beliefs differ from or overlap with those of men? What do gender-based religious...
The Book of Books: The Radical Impact of the King James Bible
The King James Bible is both the standard scriptural text and, for centuries, the bestselling book in the English-speaking world. Melvyn Bragg reveals the political, linguistic, and religious influences the...
The Followers of Jesus as the 'Servant': Luke's Model from Isaiah for
Luke models his portrayal both of Jesus and his disciples in Luke-Acts after the human agent of the Isaianic New Exodus in Isaiah 40-66, the servant. In the Isaianic New...
Bless You: Receiving and Sharing the Blessings of the Lord
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Sharing the Truth in Love: How to Relate to People of Other Faiths
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Precious Lord, Take My Hand: Meditations for Caregivers
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Right Color, Wrong Culture
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The Story Of God
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Muhammad: A Story of God's Messenger and the Revelation That Changed the World
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The World in a Book: Al-Nuwayri and the Islamic Encyclopedic Tradition
Shihab al-Din al-Nuwayri was a fourteenth-century Egyptian polymath and the author of one of the greatest encyclopedias of the medieval Islamic world--a thirty-one-volume work entitled The Ultimate Ambition in the...
The Pope's Army: The Papacy in Diplomacy and War
For much of its 2,000-year history, the Roman Catholic Church was a formidable political and military power, in contrast to its pacifist origins and its present concentration on spiritual matters....
Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians
Entering Islam through the same biblical door Muhammad did, this book introduces readers with Christian or Jewish backgrounds to one of the world's largest, most active, and - in the...
Christianity and Monasticism in Aswan and Nubia
Christianity and monasticism have flourished along the Nile Valley in the Aswan region of Upper Egypt and in what was once Nubia, from as early as the fourth century until...
Medieval Bosnia and South-East European Relations: Political,
The Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic and its vast Balkan hinterland were an integral part of medieval Europe, both in a geographical and historical sense. However, due to issues of...
The Eucharist in Medieval Canon Law
Thomas Izbicki presents a new examination of the relationship between the adoration of the sacrament and canon law from the twelfth to fifteenth centuries. The medieval Church believed Christ's glorified...
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922
Representations of Islam in United States Comics, 1880-1922 examines the depiction of Islam, Muslims, and the Islamic world in U.S. popular culture, particularly comics and related artifacts, between 1880 and...
The Sea in the Greek Imagination
The sea is omnipresent in Greek life. Visible from nearly everywhere, the sea represents the life and livelihood of many who dwell on the islands and coastal areas of the...
Islamic Empires: The Cities that Shaped Civilization?From Mecca to
Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes...
The Apostle of God: Paul and the Promise of Abraham
Most interpreters of Paul emphasize that for Paul, God, as universal lawgiver and judge, effects righteousness through Christ's saving death, that is, along lines entirely compatible with Paul's previously Pharisaic...
Tragedy in Hegel's Early Theological Writings
Tragedy plays a central role in Hegel's early writings on theology and politics. Hegel's overarching aim in these texts is to determine the kind of mythology that would best complement...
Whores of Babylon: Catholicism, Gender, and Seventeenth-Century Print
In Whores of Babylon, Frances E. Dolan offers a perceptive study of the central role that Catholics and Catholicism played in early modern English law, literature, and politics. She contends...
Christianity and Monasticism in Northern Egypt: Beni Suef, Giza, and
Christianity and monasticism have long flourished in the northern part of Upper Egypt and in the Nile Delta, from Beni Suef to the Mediterranean coast. The contributors to this volume,...