Category Archives: Church Institutions, Organizations and Leadership

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

Posted on February 26, 2010 by singleton

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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A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

A Tale of Two Monasteries takes an unprecedented look at one of the great rivalries of the Middle Ages and offers it as a revealing lens through which to view the intertwined histories of medieval England and France. This is … Continue reading →

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Dominicans, Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Crown of Aragon (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton

With their active apostolate of preaching and teaching, Dominican friars were important promoters of Latin Christianity in the borderlands of medieval Spain and North Africa. Historians have long assumed that their efforts to convert or persecute non-Christian populations played a … Continue reading →

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Guide to Islamist Movements

Posted on February 26, 2009 by singleton
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Saint Cicero and the Jesuits (Catholic Christendom, 1300-1700)

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

In this commanding study, Dr Maryks offers a detailed analysis of early modern Jesuit confessional manuals to explore the order’s shifting attitudes to confession and conscience. Drawing on his census of Jesuit penitential literature published between 1554 and 1650, he … Continue reading →

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The Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales, III. 1377-1540

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

This final volume of Heads of Religious Houses: England and Wales takes the lists of monastic superiors from 1377 to the dissolution of the monastic houses ending in 1540 and so concludes a reference work covering six hundred years of … Continue reading →

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The New Christians: Dispatches from the Emergent Frontier

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

What the “Emergent Church Movement” is all about-and why it matters to the future of Christianity Following on the questions raised by Brian McLaren in A New Kind of Christian, Tony Jones has written an engaging exploration of what this … Continue reading →

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Youth Ministry 3.0: A Manifesto of Where We’ve Been, Where We Are & Where We Need to Go

Posted on February 26, 2008 by singleton

Over the past several decades there have been three significant shifts in youth culture; each new shift brought with it different values and priorities in the lives of teens. Youth ministries adapted and responded to the first two shifts, but … Continue reading →

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Sticky Church (Leadership Network Innovation Series)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

In Sticky Church, author and pastor Larry Osborne makes the case that closing the back door of your church is even more important than opening the front door wider. He offers a time-tested strategy for doing so: sermon-based small groups … Continue reading →

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Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy: Local Society, Italian Politics and the Abbey of Farfa, c.700-900 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series)

Posted on February 25, 2008 by singleton

Founded around the beginning of the eighth century in the Sabine hills north of Rome, the abbey of Farfa was for centuries a barometer of social and political change in central Italy. Conventionally, the region’s history in the early middle … Continue reading →

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