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Affirming the Apostles' Creed
The Apostles Creed is the oldest, most beautiful succinct summary of Christian beliefs. Though often recited in unison during worship services, the creed begins with the phrase "I believe," making it a deeply personal profession of faith. But when was the last time you examined it closely? In Affirming the Apostles' Creed, an excerpt from Growing in Christ, noted Bible scholar and author J. …
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- 9781433502101
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- Softcover; 155 hlm.; 12.3 x 17.7 cm
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- 238.11
Background of Early Christianity
Having long served as a standard introduction to the world of the early church, Everett Ferguson's Backgrounds of Early Christianity has been expanded and updated in this third edition. The book explores and unpacks the Roman, Greek, and Jewish political, social, religious, and philosophical backgrounds of a good historical understanding of the new testament and the early church. New to this ad…
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- 3
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- 9780802822215
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- Softcover; 647 hlm.; 16.59 x 24.13 cm
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- 270.1
Turning Points: Decisive Moments in the History of Christianity
This bestselling textbook (over 125,000 copies sold) isolates key events that provide a framework for understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western experience. This popular textbook is organized around 14 key moments in church history, providing contemporary Christians with a fuller understanding of God as he ha…
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- 3
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- 9780801039966
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- Softcover; 368 hlm.; 15.24 x 22.86 cm
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- 270.00
The Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Th…
Throughout these essays there runs a common theme: the need to place the Reformation movement in its medieval context, and to bridge the ideological gaps between late medieval Renaissance, and Reformation studies. The opening chapters consider late medieval thought and the emergence of the young Luther at the center of the Reformation movement. There follows a study of the impact upon Luther of…
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- 1
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- 0576292045
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- Softcover; 309 hlm.; 15 x 23 cm
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- 270.6
Eusebius: The Church History
Often called the "Father of Church History," Eusebius was the first to trace the rise of Christianity during its crucial first three centuries from Christ to Constantine. Our principal resource for earliest Christianity, The Church History presents a panorama of apostles, church fathers, emperors, bishops, heroes, heretics, confessors, and martyrs. This paperback edition includes Paul L. Maier'…
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- 9780825433078
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- Softcover; 368 hlm.; 13 x 20 cm
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- 270.1
Saint Augustine: A Life
Garry Wills examines this famed fourth-century bishop and seminal thinker whose grounding in classical philosophy informed his influential interpretation of the Christian doctrines of mind and body, wisdom and God. Saint Augustine explores both the great ruminator on the human condition and the everyday man who set pen to parchment. It challenges many misconceptions - among them the myth of Aug…
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- 9780143035985
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- Softcover; 173 hlm.; 12.7 x 18 cm
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- 270.2092
The Golden Door: The Life of Katharine Drexel
This is a biography of a member of the prominent Drexel family of Philadelphia who devoted her immense fortune and her life to the services of others, and in the black habit of a nun was content to walk “simple, silent and unknown.” Granddaughter of the first Francis Drexel, who built up one of the large financial empires of our country, Katharine Drexel grew up in ease, even in luxury.…
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- 1
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- Hardcover; 340 hlm.; 14 x 21 cm
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- 9781163699737 / 116369973X
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- 271.97
Augustus to Constantine: The Rise and Triumph of Christianity in the Roman World
This masterful study of the early centuries of Christianity vividly brings to life the religious, political, and cultural developments through which the faith that began as a sect within Judaism became finally the religion of the Roman empire. First published in 1970, Grant's classic is enhanced with a new foreward by Margaret M. Mitchell, which assesses its importance and puts the reader in to…
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- 9780664227722
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- Softcover; 392 hlm.; 15 x 23 cm
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- 270.1
Luther and Erasmus: Free Will and Salvation
This volume includes the texts of Erasmus's 1524 diatribe against Luther, De Libero Arbitrio, and Luther's violent counterattack, De Servo Arbitrio. E. Gordon Rupp and Philip Watson offer commentary on these texts as well. Long recognized for the quality of its translations, introductions, explanatory notes, and indexes, the Library of Christian Classics provides scholars and students with mode…
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- 9780664241582
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- Softcover; 348 hlm.; 13.5 x 21.5 cm
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- The Library of Christian Classics
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- 234.9
Sanctification
The holy has been defined existentially and sociologically, and churches too often allow their expectations regarding holiness to be prompted by existential aspirations or the social mores of the Christian community. Perhaps it is not surprising that many view holiness as accidental or expendable, even as a legalistic and conformist posture opposed to the freedom of the gospel. But sanctificati…
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- 9780310491460
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- Softcover; 302 hlm.; 15 x 22.8 cm
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- New Studies in Dogmatics
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- 234.8
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