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The Reformation: How a Monk and a Mallet Changed the World
Mention history and some might struggle to stifle a yawn. But when presented as a narrative it can often be compelling reading. Stephen J. Nichols takes a key period in time, the Reformation, and presents its major players in a fresh way. From Martin Luther, a simple monk who wielded the mallet, to kings and queens, this book goes behind the scenes to uncover the human side of these larger-than…
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- 9781581348293
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- Softcover; 159 hlm.; 14 x 21.5 cm
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- 270.6
Saint Agustine: Confessions
In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his "Confessions" is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascent from a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his s…
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- 3
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- 9780199537822
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- Softcover; 352 hlm.; 13.03 x 19.89 cm
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- Oxford World's Classics
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- 270.2092
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
Character Counts: Leadership Qualities in Washington, Wilberforce, Lincoln an…
"Character Counts" contains briefs biographical and reflective chapters about four remarkable world figures who not only withstood the extreme adversities of their offices and circumstances but flourished and grew under pressure to become people who made a difference in their times. Concerned citizens and all who eager to raise the level of character in this generation and the next will draw i…
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- 9780801058240 / 0801058244
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- Softcover; 160 hlm.; 14.43 x 21.54 cm
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- 270.80922
John Sung My Teacher
The story of John Sung is simply the story of Holy Spirit Revival, not of the spurious ecumenical sort currently infecting churches around the world. John Sung unequivocally rebuked the tongue speakers, the liberals, modernists, apostates and ecumenist of this day. Were he alive today, he would not spare these false prophets the reproof of God's Word.
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- 1
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- 9971991136
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- Softcover; 288 hlm.; 13.3 x 20.9 cm
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- 275.1
Calvin and the Reformation: Four Studies by Emile Doumergue, August Lang, Her…
The four studies that make up this book were originally prepared for the Princeton Theological Review in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Calvin's birth. The article by Emile Doumergue deals with Calvin's view of asceticism; Lang's study analyses Calvin's doctrine of natural law; Bavinck's essay discusses Calvin's understanding of common grace; Warfield analyses Calvin's teaching on the …
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- 9781592444786
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- Softcover; 260 hlm.; 14 x 21.5 cm
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- 230.4
Cornelius Van Til: Reformed Apologist and Churchman
This work contributes to an understanding of Van Til and his apologetic insights by placing him within the context of twentieth century developments in North American Reformed theology, including the formation of Westminster Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, the rise of neo-evangelicalism, and American reception of Karl Barth. The book includes extensive research from published sou…
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- 1
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- 9780875526652
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- Hardcover; 288 hlm.; 16 x 23 cm
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- American Reformed Biographies
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- 230.51092
A Pocket Guide To Charles Darwin: His life and Impact
How did Charles Darwin come to believe in evolution? Did his daughter's death turn him from Christianity? What is natural selection? Did humans really evolve from ape-like creatures? Has evolution been proven true? Couldn't God have used evolution? These and other questions are answered in this Pocket Guide to Charles Darwin. Looking at the course of his life, Darwin was influenced by many p…
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- 9781600922565
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- Softcover; 96 hlm.; 11.4 x 18 cm
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- 213
A Grief Sanctified: Through Sorrow to Eternal Hope: Including Richard Baxter'…
Their love story is not one of fairy tales. It is one of faithfulness from the beginning through to its tragic ending. Richard and Margaret Baxter had been married only nineteen years before she died at age forty-five. A prominent pastor and prolific author, Baxter sought consolation and relief the only true way he knew- in Scripture with his discipline of writing. Within days he produced a lov…
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- 1
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- 9781581344400
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- Softcover; 192 hlm.; 14.2 x 21.54 cm
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- -
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- 248.866092
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