Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> History

In the modern period,...

• A rich overview of the Reformation, skillfully blending social, political, religious and theological dimensions
• A clearly and engagingly written narrative which draws on the latest and best scholarship
• Includes the history of the Reformation in Scandinavia and Eastern Europe, areas that are rarely covered in any detail
• The Reformation is placed in the context of the entire history of Christianity to draw out its...

By the end of the nineteenth century, almost all the great writers, artists, and intellectuals had abandoned Christianity, and many abandoned belief in God altogether. This was partly the result of scientific discovery, particularly the work of Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species. (No reader here will soon forget the venomous Oxford debate between Thomas Huxley, brilliant defender of Darwin, and Bishop Wilberforce in 1860.) But as Wilson demonstrates in such fascinatingly diverse lives as those of Gibbon, Kant, Marx, Carlyle, George Eliot, and Sigmund Freud, the doubt about religion...

• This new edition of a classic text has been updated throughout with the very latest scholarship
• Includes greater coverage of the Catholic reformation, the counter-reformation, and the impact of women on the reformation
• Explores the core ideas and...

The Inquisition Just the word itself evokes, to the modern reader, endless images of torment, violence, corruption, and intolerance committed in the name of Catholic orthodoxy and societal conformity. But what do most people actually know about the Inquisition, its ministers, its procedures? This systematic, comprehensive look at one of the most important Inquisition tribunals in the New World reveals a surprisingly diverse panorama of actors, events, and ideas that came into contact and conflict in the central arena of religious faith.

Edited and annotated by John F. Chuchiak IV,...

Gerald & Carolyn are overjoyed to present this definitive book cataloging the history of the Apostolic Faith Church of God. This book contains the researched history of the Apostolic Faith Church Of God from the beginning to the present. Bishop William Joseph Seymour from Los Angeles, California is credited with establishing this organization in Handsome, Virginia. The photographs included enliven the transcript and allow the readers to visualize the history of the past and present.

We felt it was necessary to research and preserve this legacy so generations to come will know their...