wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Sunday: A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl
ISBN: 9780300167030 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 474 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The mere mention of "Sunday" will immediately conjure up a rich mix of memories, associations, and ideas for most anyone of any age. Whatever we think of-be it attending church, reading a bulky newspaper, eating brunch, or watching football-Sunday occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with such a singular set of traditions? Here, historian Craig Harline examines Sunday from its ancient beginnings to contemporary America in a fascinating blend of stories and analysis. For the earliest Christians, the first day of the week was a time to...The mere mention of "Sunday" will immediately conjure up a rich mix of memories, associations, and ideas for most anyone of any age. Whatever we th... |
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412,82 zł |
A World Ablaze: The Rise of Martin Luther and the Birth of the Reformation
ISBN: 9780190275181 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformation. At least, that's what the legend says. But with a figure like Martin Luther, who looms so large in the historical imagination, it's hard to separate the legend from the life, or even sometimes to separate assorted legends from each other. Over the centuries, Luther the man has given way to Luther the icon, a polished bronze figure on a pedestal. In A World Ablaze, Craig Harline introduces us to the flesh-and-blood Martin Luther....
October 2017 marks five hundred years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door in Wittenberg and launched the Protestant Reformatio...
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129,10 zł |
Conversions
ISBN: 9780300192445 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the Reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive situations today. Craig Harline begins with the story of young Jacob Rolandus, the son of a Dutch Reformed preacher, who converted to Catholicism in 1654 and ran away from home, causing his family to disown him. In the companion story, Michael Sunbloom, a young American, leaves his family's religion in 1973 to convert to Mormonism, similarly upsetting... This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how ... |
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301,95 zł |
The Burdens of Sister Margaret: Inside a Seventeenth-Century Convent
ISBN: 9780300081213 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complaints-of sexual harassment, fears of demonic possession, alliances among the other sisters against her-led to her banishment from the convent on two occasions. Highly acclaimed when it was first published as a revealing look at female religious life in early modern Europe, the book is now available in an abridged paperbound version with a new preface by the author. Reviews of the clothbound edition: "A window to the past. . . . I loved, just loved,...
Based on a treasure trove of letters, this fascinating book tells the history of a seventeenth-century nun in a convent in Leuven and how her complain...
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240,36 zł |
Way Below the Angels: The Pretty Clearly Troubled But Not Even Close to Tragic Confessions of a Real Live Mormon Missionary
ISBN: 9780802881946 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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116,59 zł |