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Villa und christlicher Kult auf der Iberischen Halbinsel in Spätantike und Westgotenzeit
by Alexis Oepen
English Description: This volume examines important complexes of late antique and Visigothic villas in rural areas throughout the Iberian peninsula with regard to the process of Christianization, apart from the urban centres that have been the main subject of research so far. Thus, a discriminating survey of the various ways in which a Christian cult was established in the milieu of late antique and early medieval country seats is given. ...
Hardback. Price US$252.00

A Foreign and Wicked Institution?: The Campaign Against Convents in Victorian England
by Rene Kollar
Many in Victorian England harboured deep suspicion of convent life. In addition to looking at anti-Catholicism and the fear of both Anglican and Catholic sisterhoods that were established during the nineteenth century, this work explores the prejudice that existed against women in Victorian England who joined sisterhoods and worked in orphanages and in education and were committed to social work among the urban poor.

Women, according to ...
Paperback. Price US$47.00

Victorian Nonconformity
by David Bebbington
The Nonconformists of England and Wales, the Protestants outside the Church of England, were particularly numerous in the Victorian years. These Methodists, Congregationalists, Baptists, Quakers, Unitarians, and others helped shape society and made their mark in politics.

This book explains the main characteristics of each denomination and examines the circumstances that enabled them to grow. It evaluates the main academic hypothesis about ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00

Why Resurrection?: An Introduction to the Belief in the Afterlife in Judaism and Christianity
by Carlos Blanco
Few questions exert such a great fascination on human conscience as those related to the meaning of life, history, and death. The belief in the resurrection of the dead constitutes an answer to a real challenge: What is the meaning of life and history in the midst of a world in which evil, injustice, and ultimately death exist? Resurrection is an instrument serving a broader, more encompassing reality: the Kingdom of God. Such a utopian Kingdom ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00

Apostolic and Prophetic
by Gesa E. Thiessen
Apostolic, ecumenical and radical: these are the ecclesial characteristics highlighted by Gesa E. Thiessen while explaining her vision of the church. The author focuses on the meaning of each of these marks as well as on their intrinsic connections, an approach that leads her to delve deep into the history of the church, and to draw a wide span between the apostolic past and a radical perspective on the present and future ecumenical church. ...
Paperback. Price US$39.00

Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter
by Margaret R. Miles
In Augustine and the Fundamentalist's Daughter, Margaret Miles weaves her memoirs together with reflections on Augustine's Confessions. Having read and reread Augustine's Confessions, in admiration as well as frustration, over the past thirty-five years, Miles brings her memories of childhood and youth in a fundamentalist home into conversation with Augustine's effort to understand his life. The result is a fascinating work ...
Paperback. Price US$35.00

Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine: The Theology of Colin Gunton in Light of Augustine
by Bradley G. Green
Bradley G. Greens close reading of Augustine challenges Colin Guntons argument that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augustines particular construal of the doctrine of God led to fundamental problems in the relationship between creation and redemption. However, Green persuasively argues that Augustine did not sever the link between creation and redemption, but rather affirmed ...
Paperback. Price US$39.00

Hindiyya, Mystic and Criminal, 1720-1798: A Political and Religious Crisis in Lebanon
by Bernard Heyberger, translated by Renée Champion
An exploration of an important episode in Lebanon's history as well as an action-packed story of suspense; Heyberger draws together issues of faith, culture, gender and tradition in the eighteenth century on a variety of scales. From the individual, psychological scale of the mystic nun to the broader level of society in Aleppo and Mount Lebanon, Hindiyya considers the global reach of Roman Catholicism as it was in the eighteenth-century and what ...
Paperback. Price US$40.00

The L ord is the Spir Attributes
by Andrew K. Gabriel
"The Lord is the Spirit" (2 Cor 3:17) . . . and yet one might be excused for thinking otherwise when reading studies on God's attributes-omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, immutability, impassibility, and the like. Although Christians throughout the ages have defended the deity of the Holy Spirit, theologians have not adequately taken the doctrine of the Holy Spirit into account when formulating a theology of the divine attributes. The ...
Paperback. Price US$39.00

Luther's Revolution: The Political and Temporal Dimensions of Martin Luther's Univeral Priesthood
by Nathan Montover
Luthers understanding of the universal priesthood of believers was not simply another evangelical concept that dealt only with the office of ministry. In serving as a means for reordering the concepts of temporal authority and the temporal order it challenged the cosmological foundations of the political structure of his day. Till now history has neglected, what Montover argues, is the utterly radical nature of Luthers thought.164p (James ...
Paperback. Price US$30.00