What really happened to the dinosaurs? Did they live and then die out millions of years ago? Or have they lived recently, alongside man? Did dinosaurs evolve into birds? Are there dinosaurs alive today? More than any other subject, dinosaurs are used to promote the idea of evolution. Museums, media and schools all proclaim that dinosaurs died millions of years ago. They also teach that the bird…
Eusebius' account is the only surviving historical record of the Church during its crucial first 300 years. Bishop Eusebius, a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, traces the history of the Church from the time of Christ to the Great Persecution at the beginning of the fourth century, and ends with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine.
Confessions is one of the most moving diaries ever recorded of a man's journey to the fountain of God's grace. Writing as a sinner, not a saint, Augustine shares his innermost thoughts and conversion experiences and wrestles with the spiritual questions that have stirred the hearts of the thoughtful since time began. Starting with his childhood in Numidia, through his youth and early adulthood …
This volume is designed specifically 'for the general educated reader'. Here are great figures of the Reformation: Luther, Zwingli, Calvin, Knox, and Cramer. Here are great events: the Diet of Worms, the Institution of the Holy Commonwealth of Geneva, Henry VIII's break with Rome, William the Silent's struggle for Dutch independence. Here are great doctrines that created or grew out of the Prot…
The most penetrating and, indeed, prophetic book by an outsider taking a critical look at the Church.
Often called the "Father of Church History," Eusebius was the first to trace the rise of Christianity during its principal 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.
One of the most important theologians of the twentieth century illuminates the relationship between ourselves and the teachings of Jesus. What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bo…
This title of this book was inspired by the happy resolution of a problem of translation. A number of the Latin legal, ecclesiastical, and literary texts discussed below use the expression 'aliena misericordia' to describe the motivation of the person who rescued abandoned children.
Historians have credited—or blamed—Calvinism for many developments in the modern world, including capitalism, modern science, secularization, democracy, individualism, and unitarianism. These same historians, however, have largely ignored John Calvin the man. When people consider him at all, they tend to view him as little more than the joyless tyrant of Geneva who created an abstract theol…
This book recounts the Roman and Jewish context of New Testament times...the lives of John and Jesus, and the history of the first two generations of the Church.