How have the three dominant monotheistic religions--Judaism, Christianity, and Islam--shaped and altered the conception of God? The images encompass medieval Gospel manuscripts, artworks from the high Renaissance and modern documentary photography, all drawn from sources including the Vatican, Cairo’s Coptic Museum and private collections. So you get a sense that for him being in a relationship with Rome is what it is to be true, and yet also curiously what it is to be local, to be where he is in the north of England. Augustine evolves and analyses his past with all the resources of the reading which shaped his mind: Virgil and Cicero, Neoplatonism and the Bible.

Forgeries, heresies, martyrs, even unfamiliar texts featuring women (who was Thecla and why was she hanging around with Paul? S. Lewis ofrece una inigualable oportunidad al creyente y al no creyente para escuchar un argumento fuerte y racional para la fe cristiana. Bestselling British novelist Cara Hunter—author of the DI Fawley series and Murder in the Family—talks us through some of her favourite crime novels set in the city of dreaming spires. The groundbreaking debut novel of Hugo Award-winning author Becky Chambers, one of the most imaginative voices in contemporary science fiction, is a truly galactic limited edition. Yes, it’s often used as a college textbook, but it’s a good way to get grounded in China’s unique religious history.As Canadian as the maple leaf" is how one observer summed up the United Church of Canada after its founding in 1925.

He’s writing about 130 years after the English had first experienced Christianity, and so one reason to choose Bede is that if you’re in any sort of English-speaking tradition, his history is the first really, really big piece of history in that tradition. A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch: review," Daily Telegraph, Oct. If you’re like me, it will lead you to read Brown’s other works, such as his epic 2012 study , Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD.An admirable and impressive work of synthesis that will give insight and satisfaction to thousands of lay readers. Brown's reflections on the significance of these exciting new documents are contained in two chapters of a substantial Epilogue to his biography (the text of which is unaltered).

Christians have convinced themselves that the battle isn’t worth fighting, which is why our godless culture seems to be winning.Scottish society remained full of festivity, but it had a rather different relationship with the Church. Karen] Armstrong has a dazzling ability: she can take a long and complex subject and reduce it to the fundamentals, without oversimplifying. The Lost Letters of Pergamum imagines an exchange of letters between Luke, the evangelist, and a fictional character Antipas. The book consists of fictional letters between Luke and Antipas in which matters of faith and life in the first century are explored.