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Saving Jesus from the Church: How to Stop Worshiping Christ and Start Following Jesus

From One of America’s Leading Pastors, a Bold Call to Restore Christianity’s True Mission: Following Jesus The marriage of bad theology and hypocritical behavior by the church has eroded our spiritual lives. Taking the best of biblical scholarship, Meyers recasts … Continue reading

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The Miracles of Mary: Everyday Encounters of Beauty and Grace

Although she lived two thousand years ago, the Virgin Mary continues to inspire countless generations with miracles large and small. This wonderful collection of accounts by everyday people includes stories of the silently weeping statues of Mary in Japan; apparitions … Continue reading

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The Mysteries of Freemasonry: The Author Was Killed For Writing This Book

All Masonic ritual makes use of the architectural symbolism of the tools of the medieval operative stonemason. Freemasons, as speculative masons (meaning philosophical building rather than actual building), use this symbolism to teach moral and ethical lessons of the principles … Continue reading

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The Reformation of Feeling: Shaping the Religious Emotions in Early Modern Germany

In The Reformation of Feeling, Susan Karant-Nunn looks beyond and beneath the formal doctrinal and moral demands of the Reformation in Germany to examine the emotional tenor of the programs that the emerging creeds-revised Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism/Reformed theology-developed for … Continue reading

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The Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola (Tan Classics)

St. Ignatius of Loyola wrote the Spiritual Exercises between 1522 and 1524, and today, nearly five centuries later, Jesuits in training are still required to study it and follow its precepts during their first year in the novitiate. Not designed … Continue reading

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Double Agents: Women and Clerical Culture in Anglo-Saxon England (University of Wales Press – Religion and Culture in the Middle Ages)

First published in 2001, Double Agents was the first book-length study of women in Anglo-Saxon written culture that took on the insights provided by contemporary critical and feminist theory, and it quickly established itself as a standard. Now available again, … Continue reading

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The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus

The Ante-Nicene Christian library is meant to comprise translations into English of all the extant works of the Fathers down to the date of the first General Council held at Nice in A.D. 325. The sole provisional exception is that … Continue reading

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Jesus Our Priest: A Christian Approach to the Priesthood of Christ

In recent years many books have been published in the area of Christology (who is Jesus in himself?) and soteriology (what did he do as Saviour?). A number of notable, ecumenical documents on Christian ministry have also appeared. But in … Continue reading

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Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity

Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought — according to tradition — by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in … Continue reading

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Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine)

The rise of modern science and the proclaimed ‘death’ of God in the nineteenth century led to a radical questioning of divine action and authorship – Bultmann’s celebrated ‘demythologizing’. Remythologizing Theology moves in another direction that begins by taking seriously … Continue reading

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