wyszukanych pozycji: 10
John Wesley : A Biography
ISBN: 9780745950785 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This biography tells the story of John Wesley's colourful and dramatic life, beginning with his childhood and his family background, looking especially at the influence of his powerful and austere mother, Susannah. The author then goes on to examine Wesley's school and university careers (including the Holy Club), his mission to Georgia and finally his "conversion" and mission to England - including the organisation of methodist societies. Key issues in Wesley's life, such as his renunciation of wealth and the role of women, are given prominent treatment as is an assessment of Wesley's...
This biography tells the story of John Wesley's colourful and dramatic life, beginning with his childhood and his family background, looking especiall...
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56,88 zł |
A Short History of Christianity
ISBN: 9780802833822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Worshiped by 2 billion Christians worldwide, Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous human being ever. Yet grasping the vast story of his followers over the last 2,000 years can be a dizzying, difficult task.
In "A Short History of Christianity" Stephen Tomkins takes readers on an entertaining and enlightening journey through the key stages of Christian development, covering the people, the events, the movements, and the controversies of the church. Tomkins deals with the well-known (Augustine, Martin Luther), the unique (Simeon Stylites, the people's crusade, the Muggletonians), and the... Worshiped by 2 billion Christians worldwide, Jesus Christ is arguably the most famous human being ever. Yet grasping the vast story of his followers o...
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111,66 zł |
A Short History of Christianity
ISBN: 9780745951447 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Takes the reader on a journey through the key stages of Christian development, covering the people, the events, the movements, the controversies and the expansion of the Church in this 'warts and all' portrait. This book also provides a snapshot of the wor
Takes the reader on a journey through the key stages of Christian development, covering the people, the events, the movements, the controversies and t...
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54,52 zł |
David Livingstone: The Unexplored Story
ISBN: 9780745955681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 200 years after his birth, this book assesses David Livingstone's life, impact and legacy.
200 years after his birth, this book assesses David Livingstone's life, impact and legacy.
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William Wilberforce: A Biography
ISBN: 9780802825933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In the 1780s, around 40,000 slaves a year were taken from Africa in British ships, on the notorious -Middle Passage, - to the Caribbean. In 1787, under an oak tree in Kent, the British Prime Minister, William Pitt, invited his friend William Wilberforce to introduce a parliamentary bill outlawing the slave trade. Neither of them imagined a twenty-year political campaign that would consume the rest of Wilberforce's life.
Born in Hull, England, to wealthy middle-class parents, Wilberforce entered Parliament and became a political celebrity in his day. After undergoing a profound... In the 1780s, around 40,000 slaves a year were taken from Africa in British ships, on the notorious -Middle Passage, - to the Caribbean. In 1787, unde...
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The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce's Circle Transformed Britain
ISBN: 9780745953069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and promoted missionary work at home and abroad. The group centred on the church of John Venn, rector of Clapham in south London. Its members included William Wilberforce, Henry Thornton, James Stephen, Zachary Macaulay and others. Stephen Tomkins tells the fascinating story of the group as one of a web of family relations - father and son, aunt and nephew, husband and wife, daughter and father, cousins, etc. Within the story of the people are the...
The Clapham Sect was a group of evangelical Christians, prominent in England from about 1790 to 1830, who campaigned for the abolition of slavery and ...
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John Wesley: A Biography
ISBN: 9780802824998 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The life and work of John Wesley (1703-1791) have had an enormous influence on modern Christianity, including his role as founding father of the Methodists, now 33 million strong worldwide. In this lively new biography journalist Stephen Tomkins narrates the story of Wesley's colorful and dramatic life for a new generation.
Writing with verve and a light, sure touch, Tomkins follows Wesley from his childhood at Epworth rectory through his schooling and university career at Oxford to his mission to Georgia, his conversion in 1738, and finally his life as a religious leader in England.... The life and work of John Wesley (1703-1791) have had an enormous influence on modern Christianity, including his role as founding father of the Metho...
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100,66 zł |
The Journey to the Mayflower: God's Outlaws and the Invention of Freedom
ISBN: 9781473649118 / Miękka / 2021 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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The Origins of Humankind
ISBN: 9780521466769 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Origins of Humankind gives a concise account of human evolution. It covers evolutionary theory, the primates, the human fossil story, the cultural evolution of humans and the origins of agriculture and civilisation. It begins with an account of the development of ideas about evolution, from pre-Darwinian theories through to the study of molecular evolution, and goes on to give detailed explanations of the physical and evolutionary stages leading to Homo sapiens.
The Origins of Humankind gives a concise account of human evolution. It covers evolutionary theory, the primates, the human fossil story, the cultural...
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184,22 zł |
Jesus and His World - Paul and His World
ISBN: 9781912552153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Have you ever wanted accessible introductions to the key figures of Christian history? In this book two expert authors draw on biblical scholarship to bring Jesus and Paul and their worlds vividly to life. Jesus and His World Jesus Christ is probably the single most influential figure in world history, but who was this preacher from Nazareth? Can we be sure he existed? And if he did, what was the world like in which he lived? Placing Jesus firmly in the Jewish world of 1st-century Palestine, Peter Walker explores the religious and social background to his life, the Jewish expectations of a...
Have you ever wanted accessible introductions to the key figures of Christian history? In this book two expert authors draw on biblical scholarship to...
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112,18 zł |