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Sources And Contexts Of The Book Of Concord
$39.00Add to cartRelive the doctrinal controversies generated by Luther and the Reformers in this series of newly translated documents from the likes of Agricola and Eck, as well as rejoinders by Luther, Chemnitz, and Melanchthon. Includes articles and confessions that summarized points of agreement and disagreement.
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Puritan Papers 2
$24.99Add to cartJ.I. Packer’s chapters on Jonathan Edward’s theology of revival, the Puritan idea of communion with God, and the Puritan conscience serve as highlights of the second volume of Puritan Papers. Equally important are D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’s chapters on true and false knowledge and “Puritan Perplexities: Lessons from 1640-1662.” Biographical chapters feature, in addition to Edwards, Philip Doddridge, John Knox, William Perkins, Thomas Boston, and John Owen. Themes developed in these sixteen papers include Revival Apostasy Communion With God Christian Joy Missions Preaching Divine Intercession Casuistry Conscience Christology
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Pharisees Scribes And Sadducees In Palestinian Society
$35.99Add to cartWidely praised in its original edition and now part of the Biblical Resource Series, this volume offers a superb discussion of the role of the Pharisees, scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Jewish society. Applying a sociological approach to the biblical and literary sources, Anthony Saldarini accurately portrays these three most prominent groups of educated leaders in Jewish society and describes their relationship to other Jewish social movements from 200 B.C.E. to 100 C.E. Featuring a new foreword by James C. VanderKam, Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees in Palestinian Society will remain a standard point of reference for the continuing study of Judaism and Christian backgrounds.
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Who Killed Homer
$19.99Add to cartFor over two millennia, familiarity with the literature, art, philosophy, and values of the classical world has been synonymous with education itself. But today classical education is rapidly disappearing from American high school and university curricula, and as a result we are in danger of becoming illiterate about the ideas that created Western civilization.
In Who Killed Homer? acclaimed classicists Victor Davis Hanson and John Heath explain what has been sacrificed, who did it and why. Hanson and Heath argue that if we lose our knowledge of the Greeks, then we lose our understanding of who we are. With straightforward advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, the authors show how we might still save classics and the Greeks for future generations. Who Killed Homer? is must reading for anyone who agrees that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.
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Regnum Caelorum A Print On Demand Title (Reprinted)
$35.99Add to cartRegnum Caelorum is a groundbreaking book that explores the largely overlooked connection in early Christian thought between understandings of the millennium and beliefs about the intermediate state of the soul after death. Charles Hill traces Christian views of the soul’s fate in Jewish texts, the New Testament, and early Christian writersthrough the mid-third century A.D. His findings lead to a provocative new assessment of the development of Christian eschatology that corrects many misconceptions of earlier scholarly research. This second edition updates and substantially expands Hill’s highly respected work originally published be Oxford.
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Mimesis And Intertextuality In Antiquity And Christianity
$54.95Add to cartThis riveting and groundbreaking collection of essays, by a distinguished group of scholars, examines the ways in which early Christian writers practiced mimesis–the conscious imitation of literary models from the Greco-Roman world. While the study of intertextuality has deeply influenced the study of the Synoptic Gospels and other early Christian texts, few scholars of early Christian literature have enriched their observations with studies of mimesis. The apocryphal Acts of Andrew, for instance, contains extensive imitation of Homeric and Euripidean poetry, and both Luke-Acts and Mark contain extensive imitaion of the Homeric epics. These essays examine the phenomenon of mimesis and intertextuality through an in-depth examination of particular texts, ranging from the apocryphal book of Tobit to Luke-Acts and the Synoptic Gospel.
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Bible At Qumran
$29.99Add to cartThe Bible at Qumran puts the Dead Sea Scrolls to use in exploring two principal themes: the text and shape of the “Bible” at Qumran and the interpretation of these scriptures in this fascinating Jewish community. Written by leading scholars in the field, these informed studies make an important contribution to our understanding of the biblical text at a pivotal period in history.
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Christianity And The Roman Empire
$52.95Add to cartThe rise of Christianity during the first four centuries in the common era was a pivotal development in Western history, one that profoundly influenced the later direction of world history. Yet, for all that has been written about the early Christians, the source documents that teach us who they were have been widely scattered, difficult to find, and generally unknown beyond those specifically trained in the field. In Christianity and the Roman Empire, Ralph Novak interweaves these primary sources with a narrative text, and constructs a single continuous narrative account of how Rome and the early Christians inteeracted in these fascinating and critical centuries.
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Women Gifted For Ministry
$19.99Add to cartAn interactive workbook to help women realize their gifts and use them effectively.
*Presents the 9 tasks gifts–evangelism, helps, teaching, exhortation, giving, administration, showing mercy, prophecy, shepherding
*Recognizes that women may exercise their gifts in different ways from men
*Gives a biblical example of a woman with each of these gifts
*Identifies dangers or weaknesses associated with the gifts
*Shows what these gifts look like in today’s world, by giving individual examples
*Provides study questions for each chapter, tied to inductive Bible study
*Includes a “Spiritual Gifts Questionnaire”
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Recovering Judaism : The Universal Dimension Of Jewish Religion
$21.00Add to cart1. The Universalistic Message Of Judaic Monotheism
2. The Legal Medium: From The Case To The Governing Rule
3. The Legal Message: Restoring Eden Through Israel
4. The Narrative-Exegetical Medium: Paradigmatic Thinking
5. The Narrative-Exegetical Message: Restoring Adam To Eden, Israel To The Land
6. Rational Israel: God’s Justice, Humanity’s ReasonAdditional Info
Judaism today is too often thought to represent a religious backwater, a highly particularistic religion with its own esoteric tales and traditions, practices and norms. First Christians, then Jews themselves, have succumbed to this characterization, resulting in the dismissal of Judaism’s universal religious significance. Bereft of its religious import, Judaism is increasingly thought of as merely an ethnic designation_and a quickly dissipating one at that.Neusner pleas for vindication of “the universal character and appeal of Judaic monotheism in the mainstream of humanity.” Of the three great monotheistic religions, only Judaism has survived without political power, military might, or great numbers of adherents and has done so because its method and message aim to persuade the world of God’s dominion and the marks of God’s rule.
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Social Gospel Of Jesus
$20.00Add to cart1. Why Proclaim The Kingdom Of God?
2. Mediterranean Violence And The Kingdom
3. Hidden Social Dimensions Of The Kingdom
4. The Kingdom And Political Economy
5. The Kingdom And Jesus’ Self-Denying Followers
6. The Social Gospel Of Jesus And Its OutcomesAdditional Info
Scholars are agreed that the central metaphor in Jesus’ proclamation was the kingdom of God. But what did that phrase mean in the first-century Palestinian world of Jesus? Since it is a political metaphor, what did Jesus envision as the political import of his message? Since this is tied to the political economy, how was that structured in Jesus’ day? How is the violence of Jesus’ Mediterranean world addressed in the kingdom? And how does “self-denial” fit into Jesus’ agenda?Malina tackles these questions in a very accessible way, providing a social-scientific analysis, meaning that he brings to bear explicit models and a comparative approach toward an exciting interpretation of what Jesus was up to, and how his first-century audience would have heard him.
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Rivers Of Paradise Print On Demand Title
$58.99Add to cartMany of the major religious traditions of the world owe their existence to the vision of ancient founders – historical figures whose charismatic personalities, authoritative teachings, and organizational genius established the enduring faiths we encounter today. The Rivers of Paradise explores the lives of five such founders of world religions, chronicling what is actually known of these fascinating men and introducing readers to the cultural and religious worlds that originally heard their messages.
Carl S. Ehrlich (York University, Toronto) introduces Moses and the development of Judaism, the numerically smallest yet historically oldest world religion. Richard S. Cohen (University of California, San Diego) discusses the life and role of Shakyamuni as the historical founder of Buddhism. Mark Csikszentmihalyi (University of Wisconsin at Madison) explores Confucius the man as well as later portrayals of Confucius the exemplar. Michael J. McClymond (Saint Louis University) examine Jesus through the lens of recent developments in the scholarly “quest for the historical Jesus.” Daniel C. Peterson (Brigham Young University) discusses the life of Muhammad, founder of Islam, the world’s newest and fastest growing religious tradition. The aim of each author is to present each of the great prophetic (personality) religions in terms of its founder, its governing principles and beliefs, and its historical development from the time of its founding up to the present day. Each of these compelling figures is viewed in light of contemporary scholarship and in comparative perspective. Indeed, The Rivers of Paradise is the only recent work to examine all five of these religious founders together.
Accented throughout with informative photographs and illustrations, these superb biographical essays, together with a concluding discussion of Max Weber’s well-known model of religious founders, provide an ideal introduction for teachers, students, and general readers alike.
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Dictionary Of New Testament Background
$70.00Add to cart2001 GOLD MEDALLION WINNER
The final volume in InterVarsity’s landmark Dictionary series! A library of scholarship in summary form, this study encompasses the full scope of Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures, and features articles on such topics as the Dead Sea Scrolls and second-temple Jewish writings. Extensive bibliographies and cross-references to other volumes in the series makes this an indispensable resource.
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Unfolding The Deuteronomistic History
$49.00Add to cartThe Deuteronomistic History is the label used by scholars for the Old Testament books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings, as identified by Martin Noth. Campbell and O’Brien provide the biblical text with detailed notations on how this work came together, was modified, and was passed down to us in its present form, accounting for the shifts in Israel’s and Judah’s histories, their storytelling practices, and their ideological interests.
Identifying and explaining what accounts for these literary and social processes makes this volume a major step forward for the study of this major block of biblical texts.
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Spirited Women : Encountering The First Women Believers
$12.99Add to cart1. Lost And Found At The Table
2. Mary Magdalene
3. Maria, Sister Of Martha
4. Mary, Mother Of Jesus
5. Joanna
6. The Samaritan Woman
7. Martha
8. The MeetingAdditional Info
Combining biblical scholarship, midrash, and an imaginative, fictional approach, Mary Ellen Ashcroft takes a new look at seven biblical women: Mary Magdalene, Maria, Sister of Martha, Mary the Mother of Jesus, Joanna, The Samaritan Woman, and Martha.In this book Ashcroft views these women in light of Christ’s resurrection. What might they have thought, felt, and done, once they knew that Jesus had been raised from the dead? How did they influence and help build the early Christian movement?
Ashcroft maintains that these women have become “lost” in history, that their true identities have been obscured. By seeing them afresh, we can gain insights for our own discipleship. Ashcroft says, “Mentors and foremothers of the faith, have you been lost, or have we? You have sat, watching these many years, waiting to welcome us. Perhaps it is in finding you that we find our place in the faith.” Spirited Women includes spiritual exercises for meditation, reflection, prayer, and discussion.
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Wisdom Of The Sadhu
$15.00Add to cartOne of the first Indian Christian teachers to receive worldwide attention in modern times, Sundar Singh (1889-1929) wandered throughout Tibet and the Indian subcontinent as a sadhu, a penniless pilgrim wearing the traditional saffron robe. His distinctly Indian dedication and simple explanations of spiritual truths completely severed the link between Christian faith and western culture – so bringing to life the teachings of Jesus for millions of Indians.
Sundar Singh remains an unforgettable figure in the long tradition of religious pilgrims in India. Nearly every aspect of his life has become the stuff of legend for millions of people: his decision at age 16 to leave his wealthy home and live as a sadhu (beggar-saint), his intense bhakti (religious devotion), his miraculous experiences, his mystical encounters with Jesus, his simple yet profound parables, the peace that radiated almost tangiably from his presence.
No one who met him was unaffected. The fruits of his spiritual life. The uncompromising intesity of his message is a challenge – or scandal – to those satisfied with conventional Christianity.
In simple, readable prose, this brief anthology gives a tantalizing glimpse into the meditations and experiences of this man of God. His teachings are compiled and expressed in a language easily accessible to the modern reader. Interweaving Biographical and metaphysical, mystical and historical, the spirit of the gospel finds hands and feet in the life and words of Sadhu Sundar Singh. -
Way They Learn
$14.99Add to cart12 Chapters
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Sandee has three kids, none of them are alike. One studies on the floor with papers strewn everywhere, another lies on the bed with the radio blaring, and the third sits at the dinner table with cookies in hand! It used to drive her crazy. After all, this isn’t how she was raised! But it is The Way They Learn.In this enlightening resource, Cynthia Ulrich Tobias introduces the variety of learning styles that shape the way students interpret their world. Once these approaches are understood, parents and teachers can become far more effective in helping children grasp confusing concepts, stay interested in lessons, and utilize their strengths.
For instance, in teaching vocabulary words, some children respond best by using flash cards, while others need verbal drills, and a third group thrives on using body movements to help recall definitions. By recognizing a child’s learning preferences, you can reach them more efficiently and effectively! And with our nation in an educational crisis, there’s never been a better time for this book.
Tobias’ work is required reading for any parent or teacher who truly wants to see kids succeed in school. These concepts are powerful tools for drawing out the best in a child. Give your youngsters the best chance for success by coming to understand The Way They Learn.
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In Our Own Voices
$60.00Add to cart1. Catholic Women
2. Protestant Laywomen In Institutional Churches
3. Jewish Women
4. Black Women
5. Evangelical Women
6. Protestant Women And Social Reform
7. Women And Ordination
8. Utopian And Communal Societies
9. American Indian Women
10. Growing Pluralism New DialogueAdditional Info
In 1637 Anne Hutchinson spoke in her own voice declaring that she had received a revelation directly from God. This action led to her excommunication from the Massachesetts Bay Colony because the ordained clergy saw themselves as designated meditators of God’s word to laypeople. But Anne became her own person and a model of womanhood for us over four and one-half centuries later.
Sister Blandina Segale found her own voice when she stopped a lynch mob and kept the Billy the Kid gang from scalping doctors in Colorado in the 1870s.
At the turn of the century, Ida B Wells-Barnett claimed her own voice to expose the evil of lynching propagated against her African American brothers by white persons. Her forthrightness led to the burning of her office and to threats against her life, but she never allowed her voice to be silenced.
Sally Priesand gained her voice to preach and officiate at Jewish religious services when she became the first woman rabbi ordained in the Reform Movement of Judaism in 1972.
Pilulaw Khus, Native American elder of the Chumash tribe, found oil companies to prevent them from desecrating Chumash ceremonial areas in California in the 1980s.These are only a few of the stories told by women in their own voices in this book. Gender and multiculturalism intersect in every chapter as we share accounts of women trying to gain their full and equal stature as persons before God and their sisters and brothers. In Our Own Voices becomes a metaphor of women’s efforts to speak and act as persons with authority in their own right.
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Fingerprints Of God A Print On Demand Title
$21.99Add to cartIrascible and irreverent, Father Capon tracks down that most elusive of suspects, God, by the trail he’s left in history and Scripture, then critiques images drawn of him by Irenaeus, Athanasius, Anselm, Aquinas, Julian of Norwich, Luther, Calvin, and others, discarding the flimsier ones.
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Brightest Heaven Of Invention
$21.00Add to cartIntroduction: A Christian Approach To Literary Study
Section I: History
Introduction: History
The Mirror Of All Christian Kings: Henry V
Alas, Thou Has Misconstru’d Everything: Julius CaesarSection II: Tragedy
Introduction: Tragedy
The Serpent Now Wears The Crown: Hamlet
If It Were Done When ‘Tis Done: MacbethSection III: Comedy
Introduction: Comedy
Till She Stoop She Must Not Be Full-Gorged: The Taming Of The Shrew
May I Be So Converted And See With These Eyes? Much Ado About NothingAdditional Info
Shakespeare was a great observer, who was able to see deeply into the patterns of human character. Dare anyone say that these insights are irrelevant to living in the real world? For many in an older generation the Bible and the Collected Shakespeare were the two indispensable books.Leithart’s perceptive walk through these plays is written especially for a high school level course, but older students will benefit as well. The six plays discussed are: Henry V, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing.
Leithart’s commentary is really a guide for exploring the beauty and depth of each of the six plays and is far more than the superficial treatment typical of most study guides. It gets into philosophy, history, culture, and other significant factors.
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Forged Fire : A History And Tour Guide Of The War In The East From Manassas
$33.95Add to cartThe first volume in The Civil War Explorer Series to be set in the eastern theater of the Civil War, Forged in Fire describes the significant campaigns of 1861 and 1862 and provides an easy-to-follow tour guide of the battlefields today.
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Puritan Papers 1
$24.99Add to cartJ. I. Packer, D. M. Lloyd-Jones, lain Murray, and Ernest Kevan are among the distinguished contributors to this compilation of papers on a wide range of topics pertaining to Puritan and Reformed teaching, piety, and life. This volume, the first in a series, captures the principles and passion of Puritan belief as presented in the Puritan and Reformed Studies Conferences of 1956-1959.
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Madeline (Deluxe)
$9.99Add to cartNothing frightens Madeline – not tigers, not mice, not even getting sick. Even a trip to the hospital is a grand adventure. With its endearing heroine, cheerful humor, and famous paintings of Paris, it’s no wonder this Caldecott Honor Book is one of the best-loved children’s stories of all time. A true classic, Madeline continues to enchant readers after sixty years. A picture Puffin book. Recommended for ages 4 to 8. A 1940 Caldecott Honor Book.
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Biblical Philosophy Of History
$22.00Add to cartBy R.J. Rushdoony. For the orthodox Christian who grounds his philosophy of history on the doctrine of creation, the mainspring of history is God. Time rests on the foundation of eternity, rests on the foundation of eternity, on eternal decree of God. Time and history therefore have meaning because they were created in terms of God’s perfect and totally comprehensive plan. The humanist faces a meaningless world in which he must strive to create and establish meaning. The Christian accepts a world which is totally meaningful and in which every event moves in terms of God’s purpose; he submits to God’s meaning and finds his life therein. This is an excellent introduction to Rushdoony. Once the reader sees Rushdoony’s emphasis on God’s sovereignty over all of time and creation, he will understand his application of this presupposition in various spheres of life and thought.
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1950 : Crossroads Of American Religious Life
$45.00Add to cart1. Journey To The Heart Of A Century
2. Heir Of The 1930s And 1940s: Depression, World’s Fair, And War
3. Things Old And New: Intellectual Life In 1950
4. Lies, Spies, And The Junior Senator From Wisconsin
5. The Protestant Establishment
6. The Church Of The Triple Crown
7. The Week The World Might Have Ended
8. African American Religion Before The Beginning
9. Evangelicals On The Rise
10. Judaism In Midpassage
11. Getting Ready For The 1950s And 1960sAdditional Info
The year 1950 saw the height of the postwar religious boom in America and also the depths of the Cold War. It was a year when religious enthusiasm and postwar affluence coexisted with anxiety about global communism and an ever-present nuclear threat. McCarthyism, the advent of the hydrogen bomb, and the onset of the Korean War provoked ardent and diverse responses from religious leaders and occasioned lively debate in flourishing religious journalism.Ellwood’s 1950 is a cultural time capsule, recovering the impetus for many of today’s trends, remembering endings and beginnings, and documenting many other developments in American religious life fifty years ago. It highlights the parallels and divergences between religious culture then and now.
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Pocket Patriot : An Introduction To The Principles Of Freedom
$13.99Add to cartThe Pocket Patriot is a citizenship primer for a new generation of Americans. It includes such important documents as the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence, as well as sketches of the lives of the presidents, including the largely unknown American presidents.
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Sally Stuarts Guide To Getting Published
$21.99Add to cartEvery Writer Needs One Book that Jump-Starts a Writing Career. This Book Is It.
In this one-stop writing resources, Sally Stuart will tell you how to:
* Find the publisher you want
* Write a professional query letter or book proposal
* Approach and work with editors
* Decipher copyright and tax laws
* Negotiate contracts
* Manage the writing life
* Set up a home office
* Develop your book and article ideasWith practical tips and anecdotes, technical details and legal helps, this essential compendium provides the information every writer needs to get in print and stay in print. Whether you are just beginning or you have been published for years and want to polish up on a few fine points, this is your guide to publishing success.
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Home Schooling On A Shoestring
$17.99Add to cartSo you want to homeschool but don’t think you can afford it.
This book is a compendium of ideas for the family that wants to start or continue homeschooling on a tight budget. You’ll find it all here:
* Ideas for making money while staying at home.
* Sources for an inexpensive curriculum.
* Thousands of ideas for affordable teaching tools.
* Hundreds of suggestions for low-cost field trips.
* Ways to save on everything from housing to utilities.
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Pilgrims Progress : A Spiritual Guide For The Holy Land Traveler
$18.00Add to cartPilgrim’s Progress is a handy meditation book that takes actual and armchair travelers through the Holy Land, moving from Tel Aviv, northward along the coast, inland through Galilee, back to the southern area and finally going up to Jerusalem.
Each two-page devotional contains scripture references; a lyrical meditation on the locale, combining biblical, historical, and contemporary observations–be it ancient Joppa or modern Jerusalem; and a prayer.
This book is designed to supplement other handbooks for travelers by providing the biblical and religious background for exploring Israel. It is intended primarily for personal devotions, but can also be used for group worship.
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Never Give In
$33.99Add to cartWinston Churchill: The Character Of Leadership
Winston Churchill: The Pillars Of Leadership
Winston Churchill: The Legacy Of LeadershipAdditional Info
According to Henry Kissinger, “Our age finds it difficult to come to grips with Churchill. The politcal leaders with whom we are familiar generally aspire to be superstars rather than heroes. The distinction is crucial. Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgement of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of their inner values.”Winston Churchill was a hero.
In this incisive look at his leadership in action we see what it was that enabled him to do what few others have ever accomplished in the long annals of history: stand for principle and prevail.
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Give Me Liberty
$35.95Add to cartA biographical study of Patrick Henry, whose “”Give me liberty of give me death”” speech in 1775 at the second Virginia Convention has inspired since than all who treasure freedom. This book goes beyond the oratory and eloquence to portray Henry, whose whole life seemed to embody American courage and patriotism, as well as his family, ideas, and times.
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Prayer Book Parallels
$66.95Add to cartThe two volumes of Prayer Book Parallels are aids to the study of the development of the American book from as many points of view as possible. They include liturgical texts and related historical documents. Volume One contains the texts of the public services of the American Church arranged in parallel columns–from the colonial period to the present–to enable comparative study. The two volumes are of great value to seminarians, clergy, church historians, and anyone interested in the development of the present Prayer Book.
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New Combined Bible Dictionary And Concordance (Reprinted)
$15.99Add to cartPrepared by a number of biblical scholars working under the super-vision of a general editor, this handy reference work is a combination of two basic tools for Bible study: a Bible dictionary and a concordance of Bible words. A brief introduction on “How to Study the Bible” by Charles E Pfeiffer adds to the utility of the book.
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Decisions Of The Judicial Council Of The United Methodist Church 1993-1996
$26.99Add to cartFrom 1939 to 1968 the Judicial Council of the former Methodist Church rendered Decision Numbers 1-255. This and other volumes of decisions are listed below. These are generally published in book format each quadrennium following The General Conference. In the interim between the quadrennial editions the most recent decisions are included in The General Minutes each year. All Judicial Council Decisions can be found on the Internet at www.umc.org. DECISIONS JUDICIAL COUNCIL 1940-1968, 1-255, ISBN 9780687104055 DECISIONS JUDICIAL COUNCIL 1968-1988, 301-609, ISBN 9780687104109 DECISIONS JUDICIAL COUNCIL 1989-1992, 610-684, ISBN 9780687104116 DECISIONS JUDICIAL COUNCIL 1993-1996, 685-798, ISBN 9780687058143 DECISIONS JUDICIAL COUNCIL 1997-2000, 799-905, ISBN 9780687026968
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Schleitheim Confession
$7.99Add to cartIn the historic meeting held in 1527 at Schleitheim, Switzerland, an ad hoc group of Anabaptists worked through fundamental disagreements and emerged with a consensus on seven points of faith that became known as the Schleitheim Confession. Also known as the Brotherly Union, this text constitutes one chapter from The Legacy of Michael Sattler.
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This Rebellious House
$42.99Add to cartIVP Print On Demand Title
THIS REBELLIOUS HOUSE: AMERICAN HISTORY & THE TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY by Steven J. Keillor There was a day when the plausibility of Christianity was debated on a philosophical and metaphysical basis: Does God exist? Can a good God create and sustain a world marred by evil? Can peoples in all times and places take seriously the very particular claims made by and for Jesus Christ? But in the college classrooms of today, Christianity is often considered disproved on the basis of history. Rather than attack the supposed proofs of God’s existence, skeptics are more likely to point to slavery, patriarchalism, mistreatment of Native Americans and other historical examples of Christian oppression. Limiting himself to the United States, a country he never supposes to have been a genuinely “Christian nation,” historian Steven Keillor here meets the anti-Christian case head-on. He relies on basic Christian assumption and the best contemporary historical scholarship to present a provocative, compelling and robustly pro-Christian reading of American history. A significant book for historians, students, Christians and other citizens caught in the crossfire of America’s current-day culture wars.
