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Posted by admin | Mar 9th, 2010
Pelagius – Life and Letters
Pelagius Life and Letters
Collected together for the first time in one volume are the most important critical study of Pelagius to date, together with a selection of his letters. Arriving in Rome in the late 4th century, Pelagius soon acquired a considerable reputation as a reformer and spiritual adviser. In Palestine he became embroiled with Jerome and later with Augustine who had been alerted to the Pelagian...
Posted by admin | Mar 9th, 2010
Medieval Heresy – Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation
Medieval Heresy Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation
For the third edition, this comprehensive history of the great heretical movements of the Middle Ages has been updated to take account of recent research in the field.
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4 Stars Nothing new under the sun
Dr. Lambert has provided a wonderful historical summary of heretical movements just prior to the reformation...
Posted by admin | Mar 8th, 2010
Salvation at Stake – Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Historical Studies
Salvation at Stake Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe Harvard Historical Studies 134
Salvation at Stake Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe Brad S. Gregory Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Prize of Harvard University Press Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of those deaths are studied here...
Posted by admin | Mar 8th, 2010
Skeptics and Scoffers – The Religious World Looks at Azusa Street, 1906-1907
Skeptics and Scoffers The Religious World Looks at Azusa Street 1906 1907
"Skeptics and Scoffers" is a collection of articles published in religious articles during 1906 and 1907. Every article refers directly or indirectly to the Azusa Street Revival when the outpouring was at its height. Each author is critical of the Apostolic Faith Mission at 312 Azusa Street and its participants. Some attacks...
Posted by admin | Mar 7th, 2010
Massacre at Montsegur – A History of the Albiegensian Crusade
Massacre at Montsegur A History of the Albiegensian Crusade
In 1208 Pope Innocent III called for a Crusade—this time, against a country of fellow Christians. The new enemy: Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, prince of all the territories in southern France where the langue d’oc was spoken. Thus began the Albigensian Crusade, which culminated in 1244 at the mountain fortress of Montségur with the massacre...
Posted by admin | Mar 5th, 2010
Heresies, Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church
Heresies Heresy and Orthodoxy in the History of the Church
"The history of Christian theology is in large part a history of heresies, because Jesus and the claims he made . . . seemed incredible," writes the author.
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3 Stars Too convenient a theory
Dr. Brown at one point writes, "In a sense, the first heretics were the more sophisticated and more intellectual Christians....
Posted by admin | Mar 5th, 2010
The Perfect Heresy The Life and Death of the Cathars
The Perfect Heresy The Life and Death of the Cathars
Eight hundred years ago, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians from all walks of society, high and low, flourished in what is now the Languedoc in Southern France. Their subversive beliefs brought down on them the wrath of Popes and monarchs and provoked a brutal 'Crusade' against them. The final defeat of the Cathars was horrific with...
Posted by admin | Feb 23rd, 2010
Fire and Roses – The Burning of the Charlestown Convent 1834
Fire and Roses The Burning of the Charlestown Convent 1834
In the midst of a deadly heat wave during the summer of 1834, a woman clawed her way over the wall of an Ursuline convent on Mount Benedict in Charlestown, Massachusetts, and escaped to the home of a neighbor, pleading for protection. When the bishop, Benedict Fenwick, persuaded her to return, vicious gossip began swirling through the Yankee community...
Posted by admin | Feb 23rd, 2010
Patriotism and Fraternalism in the Knights of Columbus
Patriotism and Fraternalism in the Knights of Columbus
History of the Knight of Columbus.
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5 Stars A well documented history
This book was originally lent to me by a brother Knight as I contemplated joining the 4th degree of the Knights of Columbus. It is so well written and annotated, that I had to purchase one for myself. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in the...
Posted by admin | Feb 8th, 2010
Apostles of Disunion – Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War – A Nation Divided
Apostles of Disunion Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War A Nation Divided
In late 1860 and early 1861, state-appointed commissioners traveled the length and breadth of the slave South carrying a fervent message in pursuit of a clear goal: to persuade the political leadership and the citizenry of the uncommitted slave states...
Posted by admin | Feb 4th, 2010
A Stone of Hope – Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
A Stone of Hope Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow
The civil rights movement was arguably the most successful social movement in American history. In a provocative new assessment of its success, David Chappell argues that the story of civil rights is not a story of the ultimate triumph of liberal ideas.
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5 Stars No Sones Unturned
The Civil Rights Movement has been well...
Posted by admin | Jan 25th, 2010
Sin in the Second City – Madams, Ministers, Playboys and the Battle for Americas Soul
Sin in the Second City Madams Ministers Playboys and the Battle for Americas Soul
Step into the perfumed parlors of the Everleigh Club, the most famous brothel in American history–and the catalyst for a culture war that rocked the nation. Operating in Chicago’s notorious Levee district at the dawn of the last century, the Club’s proprietors, two aristocratic sisters named Minna and Ada Everleigh,...
Posted by admin | Jan 22nd, 2010
The Beginnings Of New England Or The Puritan Theocracy In Its Relations To Civil And Religeous Liberty
The Beginnings Of New England Or The Puritan Theocracy In Its Relations To Civil And Religeous Liberty
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Posted by admin | Jan 21st, 2010
The Beginnings of New England – The Puritan Theocracy in Its Relation to Civil and Religious Liberty
The Beginnings of New England The Puritan Theocracy in Its Relation to Civil and Religious Liberty
On Puritan theocracy and how such intolerance gave rise to concepts of civil and religious liberty – "…the principles at work in the history of New England down to the revolution in 1689." Chapter headings include: The Roman Idea And The English Idea, The Puritan Exodus, The Planting...
Posted by admin | Jan 21st, 2010
The Byzantine Theocracy – The Weil Lectures Cincinatti
The Byzantine Theocracy The Weil Lectures Cincinatti
The constitution of the Byzantine Empire was based on the conviction that it was the earthly copy of the Kingdom of Heaven. Just as God ruled in Heaven, so the Emperor, made in his image, should rule on earth and carry out his commandments. This was the theory, but in practice the state was never free from its Roman past, particularly the Roman law,...
Posted by admin | Jan 20th, 2010
Forgotten Kingdom – The Mormon Theocracy in the American West, 1847-1896
Forgotten Kingdom The Mormon Theocracy in the American West 1847 1896
A broad examination of early Mormon efforts to establish in Utah an independent, theocratic Kingdom of God. Those bold efforts resulted in struggles with national republican ideology, Mormon opponents within and outside of Utah, and the federal government.
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5 Stars Book of the Year
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Posted by admin | Jan 20th, 2010
Sacred Science – The King of Pharaonic Theocracy
Sacred Science The King of Pharaonic Theocracy
R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887-1961), one of the most important Egyptologists of this century, links the sacred science of the Ancients to its rediscovery in our own time. Sacred Science represents the first major breakthrough in understanding ancient Egypt and identifies Egypt, not Greece, as the cradle of Western thought, theology, and science.
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Posted by admin | Jan 7th, 2010
The Survival of the Pagan Gods
The Survival of the Pagan Gods
The gods of Olympus died with the advent of Christianity–or so we have been taught to believe. But how are we to account for their tremendous popularity during the Renaissance? This illustrated book, now reprinted in a new, larger paperback format, offers the general reader first a discussion of mythology in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, and then a multifaceted...
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