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1	The Case for God more books like this by Karen Armstrong add to wishlist Focusing especially on Christianity but including other religions, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion during a time when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. see all copies from $15.00! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam more books like this by K Armstrong add to wishlist This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Armstrong's personal history includes time spent as a nun in her homeland of England; this fact makes her comparative ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $5.90! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth more books like this by Thomas Jefferson add to wishlist Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting and pasting from the gospels, a new narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus. see all copies from $2.74! new only from $2.74! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture more books like this by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan add to wishlist A discussion about how each age created Jesus in its own image, discovering in his life and teachings the answers to fundamental questions of human life and destiny. It studies the images of Jesus cherished by successive ages, suggesting that the depictions are key to understanding each era. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Christless Christianity: The Alternative Gospel of the American Church more books like this by Michael Scott Horton add to wishlist Is it possible that we have left Christ out of Christianity? Is the faith and practice of American Christians today more American than Christian? These are the provocative questions Michael Horton addresses in this thoughtful, insightful book. He argues that while we invoke the name of Christ, too often Christ and the Christ-centered gospel are ... see all copies from $12.78! new only from $12.78! \| SVS
6	Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions more books like this by Dr. Marcus J Borg, N T Wright add to wishlist In "The Meaning of Jesus" two leading Jesus scholars with widely divergent views go right to the heart of these questions and others, presenting the opposing visions of Jesus that shape our faith today. In alternating chapters, Marcus Borg, the most popular revisionist voice on Jesus and a member of the Jesus Seminar, and N.T. Wright, the most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.22! \| first editions \| SVS
7	From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ more books like this by Paula Fredriksen add to wishlist Paul Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. see all copies from $2.87! new only from $10.16! \| SVS
8	History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam more books like this by Karen Armstrong add to wishlist This erudite and thought-provoking book is an excellent introduction to three major religious faiths--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--and their differing views of God, as well as the way these views have shaped the world. Karen Armstrong's personal history includes time spent as a nun in her homeland of England; this fact makes her comparative ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization more books like this by Jonathan Kirsch add to wishlist From the fall of the Roman Empire to the Black Death, the Inquisition to the Protestant Reformation, the New World to the Great Awakening, this chronicle of the use and abuse of the book of "Revelation" captures the unfolding of history and the hopes, fears, dreams, and nightmares of all humanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture more books like this by Jaroslav Jan Pelikan add to wishlist The Virgin Mary has been an inspiration to more people than any other woman who ever lived. For Catholics, Protestants, Jews, and Muslims, for artists, musicians, and writers, and for women and men everywhere she has shown many faces and personified a variety of virtues. In this book, a scholar who is the author of numerous books - including the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	How Jesus Became Christian more books like this by Barrie Wilson add to wishlist Sure to be controversial, this is an exciting, well-written popular religious history that cuts to the heart of the differences between Christianity and Judaism, to the origins of one of the world's great religions and, ultimately, to the question of who Jesus Christ really was--a Jew or a Christian. see all copies from $6.98! new only from $6.98! \| signed copies \| SVS
12 view cover	The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity more books like this by Peter Brown add to wishlist First published in 1988, Peter Brown's The Body and Society was a groundbreaking study of the marriage and sexual practices of early Christians in the ancient Mediterranean and Near East. Brown focuses on the practice of permanent sexual renunciation-continence, celibacy, and lifelong virginity-in Christian circles from the first to the fifth ... see all copies from $3.37! new only from $16.50! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Willing to Believe: The Controversy Over Free Will more books like this by R C Sproul, Jr. add to wishlist What is the role of the will in believing the good news of the gospel? Why is there so much controversy over free will throughout church history? R. C. Sproul finds that Christians have often been influenced by pagan views of the human will that deny the effects of Adam's fall. In "Willing to Believe", Sproul traces the free-will controversy from ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.17! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus more books like this by John Dominic Crossan add to wishlist The death of Jesus has been a subject of intense debate throughout the history of Christianity. John Dominic Crossan states definitively that it was the Roman government that tried and executed Jesus for being a social agitator. Not only has the belief that the Jews killed Jesus served as the basis for rampant anti-Semitism throughout history, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Resurrection of the Body more books like this by Professor Caroline Walker Bynum add to wishlist In their study of Christian visions of the afterlife and of apocalypse, religious historians have concentrated almost exclusively on the fate of the soul. But for medieval people, the fate of the body in resurrection posed the most troubling questions: if my body is resurrected, which of the many possible bodies will return - the child, the young ... see all copies from $7.20! new only from $23.50! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Men and Women Equal Yet Different: A Brief Study of the Biblical Passages on Gender more books like this by Alexander Strauch add to wishlist This book defends, in easy-to-understand terms, the Biblical viewpoint of the gender issue with the Biblical evidence that Jesus Christ and the apostles taught that men and women are created equal, yet have been given different roles to fulfill in the family and in the church. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.40! \| SVS
17 view cover	Trinitarian Controversy more books like this by William G Rusch (Editor) add to wishlist This volume explores the development of the doctrine of the Trinity in the patristic church as a result of the Arian controversy: Arius -- Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia Arius -- Letter to Alexander of Alexandria Alexander of Alexandria -- Letter to Alexander of Thessalonica The Synodal Letter of the Council of Antioch, A.D. 325 The Creed of the ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $16.67! \| SVS
18 view cover	Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor more books like this by Susan Haskins add to wishlist In this "New York Times" Notable Book of the Year, Haskins traces nearly 2,000 years of art, literature, and history to construct a portrait of Mary Magdalen, the woman who witnessed Christ's crucifixion and resurrection and one of the most compelling figures in early Christian history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Christological Controversy more books like this by Richard A Norris, Jr. (Editor), William G Rusch (Editor) add to wishlist Series Foreword I. Introduction Early Christology Initial Problems Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian of Carthage, Origen of Alexandria Further Problems The Arians and Athanasius; Apollinaris of Laodicea; Theodore of Mopsuestia; Cyril, Nestorius, and Eutyches; Leo and Chalcedon II. Melito of Sardis A Homily on the ... see all copies from $3.17! new only from $14.87! \| SVS
20 view cover	The birth of purgatory more books like this by Jacques Le Goff add to wishlist In "The Birth of Purgatory," Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned "Annales" historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental structures, and with the historical role of the imagination. Le Goff argues that the doctrine of Purgatory ... see all copies from $12.75! new only from $23.95! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil more books like this by Bernard McGinn add to wishlist A history of Judeo-Christian religion's proclivity to personify evil, from 515 B.C.E., through the apocalyptic period of 70 C.E., early Christianity, the medieval period, the Reformation, Enlightenment, to the present time. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.65! \| first editions
22 view cover	A History of God more books like this by Karen Armstrong add to wishlist The idea of a single divine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4000 years, but the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organized religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice. This controversial account of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.91!
23 view cover	God Was in This Place & I, I Did Not Know: Finding Self, Spirituality, and Ultimate Meaning more books like this by Lawrence Kushner, Rabbi add to wishlist This illuminating journey into the nature of God's "self" and one's self opens a window into Jewish spirituality for people of all faiths and backgrounds. God Was in This Place joins Kushner's great classics, The Book of Letters, Honey from the Rock, and The River of Light as the product of a new and dynamic spiritual and literary genius. see all copies from $5.14! new only from $5.80! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Owen Chadwick add to wishlist The declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society represents a major shift in Western life and thought. Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace this movement in the nineteenth century, identifying and exploring both the social and the intellectual aspects of this momentous change. ... see all copies from $6.51! new only from $21.98! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Religion, War, Famine and Death in Reformation Europe more books like this by Dr. Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell add to wishlist This book offers an exciting interpretation of early modern European history (1490-1648). Cunningham and Grell's point of departure, and a prism through which events of the period are interpreted, is Durer's famous woodcut of The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. This image came to characterise the outlook and expectations of most early modern ... see all copies from $17.00! new only from $23.00! \| first editions \| SVS

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