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Give Me Liberty
$35.95Add to cartA biographical study of Patrick Henry, whose “”Give me liberty of give me death”” speech in 1775 at the second Virginia Convention has inspired since than all who treasure freedom. This book goes beyond the oratory and eloquence to portray Henry, whose whole life seemed to embody American courage and patriotism, as well as his family, ideas, and times.
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Prayer Book Parallels
$66.95Add to cartThe two volumes of Prayer Book Parallels are aids to the study of the development of the American book from as many points of view as possible. They include liturgical texts and related historical documents. Volume One contains the texts of the public services of the American Church arranged in parallel columns–from the colonial period to the present–to enable comparative study. The two volumes are of great value to seminarians, clergy, church historians, and anyone interested in the development of the present Prayer Book.
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Schleitheim Confession
$7.99Add to cartIn the historic meeting held in 1527 at Schleitheim, Switzerland, an ad hoc group of Anabaptists worked through fundamental disagreements and emerged with a consensus on seven points of faith that became known as the Schleitheim Confession. Also known as the Brotherly Union, this text constitutes one chapter from The Legacy of Michael Sattler.
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This Rebellious House
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THIS REBELLIOUS HOUSE: AMERICAN HISTORY & THE TRUTH OF CHRISTIANITY by Steven J. Keillor There was a day when the plausibility of Christianity was debated on a philosophical and metaphysical basis: Does God exist? Can a good God create and sustain a world marred by evil? Can peoples in all times and places take seriously the very particular claims made by and for Jesus Christ? But in the college classrooms of today, Christianity is often considered disproved on the basis of history. Rather than attack the supposed proofs of God’s existence, skeptics are more likely to point to slavery, patriarchalism, mistreatment of Native Americans and other historical examples of Christian oppression. Limiting himself to the United States, a country he never supposes to have been a genuinely “Christian nation,” historian Steven Keillor here meets the anti-Christian case head-on. He relies on basic Christian assumption and the best contemporary historical scholarship to present a provocative, compelling and robustly pro-Christian reading of American history. A significant book for historians, students, Christians and other citizens caught in the crossfire of America’s current-day culture wars.
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Company Of The Creative
$39.99Add to cartA History of Biblical Preaching from the Old Testament to the Modern Era) contends that in the modern world “casual television and junk reading dilute the content of the mind…and the interior life has become bloated with malnourishment.” In addition, he says, many Christians believe that the Bible contains all the truth they need about the world, so they do not read beyond the Bible. The author maintains, however, that “all Christians need to read broadly, deeply, and copiously.” He asserts that reading is vital to an engagement of the mind with serious issues of faith and culture. Reading, he notes, opens us to insights about issues and people; it stimulates the imagination and introduces us to beauty. In a series of insightful chapters, Larsen provides short, thematic summaries of more than 500 thought-provoking works of fiction, poetry, drama and biography that incite the imagination. He arranges the chapters according to historical period; for example, in “Identifying Our Assets from the Middle Ages,” Larsen ranges over Augustine, Jerome, Dante, Aquinas, Bernard of Clairvaux, Beowulf, Chaucer and the Arthurian legends. In each of his summaries, the author is attentive to the lessons that Christians can take from these writings. Such interpretive lenses sometimes cloud Larsen’s summaries, however. For instance, he remarks that “the actual state of Willa Cather’s spiritual life is questionable…and whether she had truly come to terms with God at her death is a matter of conjecture.” Such remarks fail to consider the power of the writing and turn readers away from the very fiction that Larsen urges them to read. While his book is an admirable attempt to recover the importance of reading for the Christian life, Larsen’s comments are often too narrow to be helpful.
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Between Athens And Jerusalem (Reprinted)
$41.99Add to cartOne of the most creative and consequential collisions in Wester culture involved the encounter of Judaism with Hellenism. In this widely acclaimed study of the Jews who lived in Hellenistic Eqypt, “between Athens and Jerusalem,” John J. Collins examines the literature of Hellenistic Judaism, treating not only the introductory questions of date, authorship, and provenance but also the lager question of Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman world.
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Jesus And The Restoration Of Israel
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Acclaimed as one of the most significant works in the quest for the historical Jesus, Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God reveals a surprising portrait of Christ. In this critical appraisal of Wright’s book, Alister McGrath, Marcus Borg, and other well-known scholars discuss Wright’s views on Jesus’ identity, acts, and sayings. Includes a response from Wright.
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From Irenaeus To Grotius
$73.99Add to cartA masterpiece! This outstanding collection brings together influential pieces from 65 authors in the days when theology and politics were intermingled: Origen, Augustine, Gregory I, Dante, William of Ockham, Luther, Calvin, and Grotius. Introductions, bibliographies, plus outstanding translations.
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Amazing Women Of The Civil War
$14.99Add to cartFascinating true stories of some of the most interesting and influential personalities of the Civil War. Their heroic deeds and selfless acts ranged from caring for the wounded to fighting on the battlefields. Included are Harriet Tubman, Belle Boyd, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, and many others.
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William Bradford : Plymouths Faithful Pilgrim
$25.99Add to cartWilliam Bradford came to the New World with the other Pilgrims in search of religious freedom. With great faith in God and in his own abilities, he established a stable colony, doing his best to be just and fair to his fellow colonists as well as to the Native Americans living in the area. After he became governor of the colony, he was reelected more than thirty times. Toward the end of Bradford’s life, the community that he helped build began to split apart, something that troubled him deeply. But in enduring both triumph and heartache, he made a permanent mark on American history and left an inspiring legacy of unswerving faith in the God he loved. Filled with maps, paintings, and historical illustrations, this fascinating biography introduces readers to the dramatic story of the founder of Plymouth Colony.
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Invitation To The Apocrypha A Print On Demand Title
$25.99Add to cartIn this volume a leading biblical scholar helps readers rediscover the ancient books of the Old Testament Apocrypha. INVITATION TO THE APOCRYPHA provides a clear, basic introduction to these important–but often neglected–ancient books that is ideal for personal study, churches, and classroom settings. Using the latest and best scholarship yet writing for those new to the Apocrypha, Daniel Harrington guides readers through the background, content, and message of each book. A distinctive feature of this primer is that it focuses throughout on the problem of suffering, highlighting what each book of the Apocrypha says about this universal human experience.
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Anglo Saxon Christianity
$18.99Add to cartHere is a lively, carefully researched and fascinating introduction to the culture and spirituality of the Anglo-Saxons. Following the immense interest in recent years in Celtic spirituality, Paul Cavill’s book looks at the impact of Christianity on the pagan Germanic peoples who invaded Britain from the fifth century onwards. Drawing on historical and archaeological evidence, he paints a vivid picture of Anglo-Saxon culture and belief, contrasting this with the Celtic world view, and explaining how the powerful warrior code of the Anglo-Saxon peoples became merged with new Christian values. Quotes from Anglo-Saxon literature include the mighty epic Beowulf, and The Dream of the Rood–surely the most spectacular expression of Anglo-Saxon Christianity–along with Caedmon’s beautiful Hymn to creation, a translation of Psalm 136 and numerous miracle stories.
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Daring And Suffering 3rd Edition
$23.99Add to cartDuring the evening of April 7, 1862, twenty-four men infiltrated the Confederate lines below Shelbyville, Tennessee, and travelled by separate routes toward Atlanta. Their goal was to steal a train and head north for Chattanooga, disrupting rail service between the two cities by burning bridges, tearing up track, and cutting telegraph wires. If successful, they would isolate Chattanooga and facilitate its capture and further Union raids into Alabama. The raid failed, and on June 18, 1862, seven of the raiders were hanged as spies in Atlanta. Four months later eight escaped from prison. The remaining six languished in a Southern prison until they were paroled in March 1863. Eight days later they were presented the first Medals of Honour. Among this group was Cpl. William Pittenger. Shortly after the war, Pittenger composed an account of the raid, a book enlarged over subsequent editions and supplemented from various sources to become the most well known and best-regarded account. A 1925 edition was given the more popular title The Great Locomotive Chase.The story of the Andrews raid is fascinating because of the dogged persistence of one man – William Fuller, the conductor of the stolen train who relentlessly pursued the raiders. He chased them on foot, by handcar, and by locomotive, even running the engine in reverse at speeds up to ninety miles an hour. Daring and Suffering is a reproduction of the 1887 edition of Pittenger’s account, duplicated exactly as it appeared at that time, with the exception of a brief introduction by Col. James G. Bogle.
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O Jerusalem : The Contested Future Of The Jewish Covenant
$21.00Add to cartThis century has bequeathed to the Jewish people a series of events “with horrific and startling consequences” including the Holocaust, the birth of the state of Israel, and now a powerful military state capable of defense against outsiders and repression of Palestines. In this new context, the history and identity of the Jewish people are being decisively transformed and reinterprted. What is their destiny? In this “struggle for the heart and soul of the Jewish people” Ellis asks. “Are there religious ideals, intellectual concepts, and political movements…that will help Jews confront the history we are creating, calling us toward justice?” Ellis finds that dynamic center in the covenant, symbolized by Jerusalem. His book offers a renewed theology of the covenant and its justice dimensions, its present “exile” and its future in revolutionary forgiveness. Raising profound questions for Jews and Christians, Ellis persuasively argues that authentically embracing the covenant first entails justice–most immediately for the Palestinian people.
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Louisa May Alcott
$10.99Add to cartEasy to read, and full of the spirit and adventure of the famous Americans who’ve made America what it is today, the Childhood of Famous Americans Series is a series of fictionalized biographies for children 8 & up.
Learn about Lousia May Alcott’s avant garde upbringing in Boston & Concord, and her life as an author.
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Story Of Christian Theology
$65.99Add to cart2000 GOLD MEDALLION WINNER
Olson offers an engaging perspective of historical theology, presenting it in vivid narrative form. His panoramic work recounts the deeds of cultists and apostolic fathers of the second century, the clash between the theological schools of Alexandria and Antioch, the revolutionary advent of the Reformation, and more. Throughout, Olson traces a common thread: a concern for salvation.
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Jews And Christians
$53.99Add to cartThis volume contains papers from the second Durham-Tubingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism that help clarify the extent to which we can speak of the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism. Twelve internationally respected scholars carefully analyze the chief Jewish and Christian documents and traditions from the period A.D. 70-135, drawing out what they say about the mutual relations between early Christianity and Judaism and the light they shed on the diverging trajectories of these two major religious traditions.
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Unbroken Circle : A Quotable History Of The Grand OLE Opry
$12.99Add to cartUnbroken Circle: a Quotable history of the Grand Ole Opry, edited by Randall Bedwell, is a tribute to this most homegrown of American institutions. Filled with quotations from Opry stars — from Uncle Dave Macon to Patsy Cline, Hank Williams to Roy Acuff and Minnie Pearl — it is a loving, respectful tribute to the stars and the show that have made country music the music of the people.
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Robe
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The classic story of the man who gambled for Christ’s robe and won. A Roman soldier, Marcellus, wins Christi’s robe as a gambling prize. He then sets forth on a quest to find the truth about the Nazarene’s robe a quest that reaches to the very roots and heart of Christianity and is set against the vividly limned background of ancient Rome. Here is a timeless story of adventure, faith, and romance, a tale of spiritual longing and ultimate redemption. -
Womens War In The South
$22.95Add to cartThe Women’s War in the South: Recollections and Reflections of the American Civil War, edited by Charles G. Waugh and Martin H. Greenberg, recounts the manner in which Southern women experienced the war and the changes it brought about in their lives. Filled with excerpts from the letters, books, diaries, and postwar writings the women left behind, it reveals the other side of the war — the women’s war — through first-person accounts of women running farms, buying and selling goods, working outside the home, serving as spies, and even participating in combat in disguise.
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History And The Christian Historian A Print On Demand Title
$28.99Add to cartThirteen noted evangelical thinkers incisively comment on the relationship of faith to historical investigation and discuss how one’s personal worldview affects one’s understanding of the past. Foundational issues, as well as unusual themes, are taken up by Marsden, Noll, Leonard, Wells, and others.
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Thurgood Marshall : Young Justice
$7.99Add to cartWhenever Thurgood Marshall got into trouble at school, the principal would make him sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. By the time he was 12, he had most of it memorized and his interest in law had begun to take seed. In 1967 he was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court–the first African American to serve in that position.
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May I Quote You General Grant
$7.95Add to cartAmazingly, Ulysses S. Grant seemingly failed at everything he did before the war, yet he became a successful leader of men in wartime and later president in a crucial period of American history. The quotations in this book provide insight into the strength and character that he showed throughout his life.
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May I Quote You General Lee Vol 2
$7.95Add to cartThis second volume of words and statements of Robert E. Lee speak of duty and principle, faith and doubt, bravery in the face of certain defeat, hard choices, and the qualities of leadership that made him great. Lee’s command was characterized by gallantry and chivalry in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Israel And The Nations (Revised)
$28.99Add to cartNow completely revised and updated! This outstanding work has long been hailed as an excellent introduction to Israel’s history. With sparkling clarity, Bruce renders the years from the Exodus to Jerusalem’s destruction in A.D. 70—giving special attention to the intertestamental years which form the backdrop to the New Testament. Includes a revised bibliography.
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Judaism And Christianity In First Century Rome
$33.50Add to cartA collection of the most important papers from a 5-year project of the Seminar on New Testament Texts in Their Cultural Environment sponsored by Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. Archaeological, epigraphic, sociocultural, historical, and literary findings are lucidly, accurately presented.
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Against The Third Reich
$40.00Add to cart“From the Publisher:” During World War II, the US asked Tillich to rally native Germans through a series of radio broadcasts. In these addresses, available in English for the first time, he is passionate and political–urging Germans to recognize the horror of Hitler and to reject a morally and spiritually bankrupt government.
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Masorah Of Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia
$38.99Add to cartIdeal for beginning students of biblical Hebrew! Designed as a parallel text, this excellent resource offers a solid introduction to the field of Masoretic studies and clearly explains the mechanics of using the Masorah of BHS. An annotated glossary covers basic definitions for terms found in BHS, including pertinent examples.
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Beyond The Essene Hypothesis
$31.99Add to cartThis volume offers a view of the ideology of the Qumran sect, the ancient desert community closely related to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Gabriele Boccaccini moves beyond the Essene hypothesis and posits a unique relationship between what he terms “Enochic Judaism” and the group traditionally known as the Essenes. Building his case on what the historical records tell us about the Essenes and on a systematic analysis of the documents found at Qumran, Boccaccini argues that the literature betrays the core of an ancient and distinct variety of Second Temple Judaism. Tracing the development of this tradition, Boccaccini shows that the Essene community at Qumran was really the offspring of the Enochic party, which in turn contributed to the birth of parties led by John the Baptist and Jesus. Convincingly argued, this work will surely spark fresh debate in the discussion on the Qumran community and the famous Dead Sea Scrolls.
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Wisdom In Ancient Israel
$45.99Add to cartIn this collection, an international group of specialists considers the nature of wisdom in relation to the thought world of the ancient Near East and its impact on the rest of the Old Testament. In addition to full coverage of the wisdom books and other literature most frequently thought to have been influenced by them, thematic studies also introduce the principal comparative sources among Israel’s neighbors and discuss the place of wisdom in Israelite religion, theology and society.
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Angels In The Architecture
$29.00Add to cartForeword
1. Introduction: Positively Medieval
2. A Wine Dark Sea And Tumbling Sky
3. To Deum
4. The Emerging Divide
5. Where Righteousness And Mercy Kiss
6. The Font Of Laughter
7. Worshiping With Body
8. Mother Kirk
9. Saying The Creeds
10. A Good Wife And Welcoming Hearth
11. Nurturing Fat Souls
12. Swords Into Plowshares
13. And Babylons Fall
14. Rights Of Degree
15. Heritage Of Harmony
16. Poetic Knowledge
17. A Second Christendom
18. Concluding Unmodern PostcriptAdditional Info
Christianity presents a glorious vision of culture, a vision overflowing with truth, beauty, and goodness. It’s a vision that stands in stark conflict with the anemic modern (and postmodern) perspectives that dominate contemporary life. Medieval Christianity began telling a beautiful story about the good life, but it was silenced in mid-sentence. The Reformation rescued truth, but its modern grandchildren have often ignored the importance of a medieval grasp of the good life. This book sketches a vision of “medieval Protestantism,” a personal and cultural vision that embraces the fullness of Christian truth, beauty, and goodness.This volume is a breath of fresh air in our polluted religious environment. Hopefully many readers will breathe deeply of its contents and be energized.
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Church People In The Struggle
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This comprehensive study represents the first effort by an historian to examine the relationship of the mainstream Protestant Churches to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. The focus is on the National Council of Churches, the principal ecumenical organization of the national Protestant religious establishment. Drawing on hitherto little-used and unknown archival resources and extensive interviews with participants, Findlay reveals the widespread participation of the predominantly white churches in the efforts moving toward black freedom that continued throughout the sixties. He documents the churches’ active involvement in the March on Washington in 1963 and the massive lobbying effort to secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, their powerful support of the struggle to end legal segregation in Mississippi, and their efforts to respond to the Black Manifesto and the rise of black militancy before and during 1969. Findlay chronicles initial successes, then growing frustration as the national liberal coalition, of which the churches were a part, disintegrated as the events of the 1960s unfolded. For the first time, Findlay’s study makes clear the highly significant role played by liberal religious groups in the turbulent, exciting, moving, and historic events of the 1960s. -
Missing Persons And Mistaken Identites
$29.00Add to cartIn these outstanding studies, the author retrieves the indentities of women in ancient Israel through penetrating investigations of Israelite religion, the creation stories in Genesis, harlots and hierodules, and the interpretation and authority of the Bible itself.
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Faith Of Our Foremothers
$38.00Add to cartHere are the stories of twelve women, all religious educators, all of whom transformed the field of religious education, some long before the contemporary feminist movement. Though the women represent different times, interests, and approaches to the discipline, they all shared a commitment to creative and enthusiastic religious education.
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On Being A Theologian Of The Cross A Print On Demand Title
$23.99Add to cartWhile there is increasing interest in the “theology of the cross,” few people have specific knowledge of what makes it different from other kinds of theology. Gerhard O. Forde here provides an introduction to this theological perspective through an analysis of Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation of 1518, the classic text of the theology of the cross.
The book first clarifies the difference between a theology of glory and a theology of the cross and explains how each perspective shapes the very nature of being a theologian. The main body of the book provides commentary on the Heidelberg Disputation – the only complete analysis of this document currently available. Underlying Forde’s exposition is the contention that one ought not speak of the theology of the cross as merely another item among a host of theological options; instead, one must pursue what it means to be a theologian of the cross and to look at all things through suffering and the cross.
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Key Into The Language Of America
$15.95Add to cartA discourse on the languages of Native Americans encountered by the early settlers written by Roger Williams, who was forced to leave Massachusetts and established Rhode Island. This early linguistic treatise gives rare insight into the early contact between Europeans and Native Americans.
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Israels Wisdom Literature
$26.00Add to cartDianne Bergant offers a fresh approach to all the wisdom books of the Hebrew Bible and the Greek Apocrypha: Job, selected psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Song, Wisdom of Solomon, and Sirach. She concentrates on the final canonical form of each book and takes the “integrity of creation” as the basic interpretive perspective. This means, among other things, that the idea of the unity of humankind – indeed, the unity of all living things – lies at the heart of the approach.
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May I Quote You General Lee
$7.95Add to cartMay I Quote You, General Lee? edited by Randall Bedwell. Robert E. Lee, long regarded as preeminent among the southern generals, has been described as a wholly human gentleman. Quotations from General Lee and comments about him from leaders who knew him well, the book illuminates the beliefs of the fighting men whose steadfast convictions kept them loyal to their cause.
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May I Quote You General Forrest
$7.95Add to cartMay I Quote You, General Forrest? is a collection of quotations from Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate general whose innovative tactics set him apart from other military leaders of his time. His reputation as a cunning tactician and commander has only increased over time.
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May I Quote You General Longstreet
$7.95Add to cartJames Longstreet was one of the most lauded and most maligned generals of the Civil War. Renowned as a courageous, clear-thinking, and efficient leader, years later he was condemned as a traitor and blamed for key losses that led to the South’s surrender.
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Diary Of A Young Girl
$8.99Add to cartDiscovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic-a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
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History Of Japanese Theology A Print On Demand Title
$22.99Add to cartThis is the first book on the history of Japanese theology written by Japanese theologians. Editor Yasuo Furuya and four other eminent Japanese theologians – Akio Dohi, Toshio Sato, Seiichi Yagi, and Masaya Odagaki – clarify the tumultuous history of Japanese Christianity and describe the context, methodology, and goals shaping Japanese theology today.
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Introduction To The Talmud And Midrash
$39.00Add to cartStrack’s classic introduction to Rabbinic literature has now been fully revised and updated by Gunter Stemberger, an established expert on Rabbinic history and literature. This work, the only comprehensive one-volume introduction to the subject, will be invaluable as textbook and reference guide for students and scholars of Jewish history and literature alike. H L Strack (1848-1922) was Profesor of Old Testament at the University of Berlin. He founded the Institutum Judaicum in Berlin. Every canonical text is represented, includes indices and appendices.
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Presidential Trivia
$9.99Add to cartThe President of the United States has always been in the spot light, but there are always some facts that don’t make the news. Presidential Trivia offers a unique glimpse at the different backgrounds and personalities of the individuals who served in this high office. Spanning over 200 years, it contains more than 1,200 well-known and obscure facts about our presidents.
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Diary Of A Young Girl (Anniversary)
$14.00Add to cartTHE DEFINITIVE EDITION * Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank’s remarkable diary has since become a world classic-a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit.
Updated for the 75th Anniversary of the Diary’s first publication with a new introduction by Nobel Prize-winner Nadia Murad
In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the “Secret Annex” of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
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Yet With A Steady Beat The African American Struggle For Recognition In The
$54.95Add to cartDr. Lewis has written an excellent, comprehensive study of the history of black Episcopalians. This is an inspiring yet sobering analysis of the efforts of black Christians to find a spiritual home within the Episcopal Church. I hope it will be read widely throughout our denomination.
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Jewish Life And Thought Among Greeks And Romans
$39.00Add to cartA huge, masterful treasury of source material grouped under 10 headings: Greeks Discover Jews, Beginnings of Hellenization, The Diaspora, Pro-Jewish Views of Government, Pro-Jewish Views of Intellectuals, Conversion, God-Fearers, Palestine, Revolts, and Anti-Semitism.
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You Have Stept Out Of Your Place
$58.00Add to cartThis book fills an important gap in American women’s history. The author manages to discuss four centuries of women’s experience in the United States clearly, inclusively, and with both a sensitivity to feminist issues and a faithfullness to women’s own experience that ensures this book will have a wide readership. This book spans a broad range of geographic, ethnic, racial and denominational range of American women’s religious experiences and contributions and attempts to preverse the intregrity and diversity of their voices. In the absense of strong counterevidence, the author has assumed that American women were basically telling the truth about who they were, what they did, and why they did it.
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Gift Of Music
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One of the finest achievements of Western culture is its brilliant heritage of classical music. A Gift of Music looks at the lives of the greatest composers who have given us this heritage, and especially at how their music was shaped by their beliefs.The result is a remarkable and inspiring book, showing the importance of Christian faith for many composers, and the effect of this upon their music. But it also shows how the lack of faith has brought profound change in the meaning and form of contemporary music.
Thus A Gift of Music seeks to open up a whole new world of music-to encourage listening to the finest compositions with new understanding and pleasure, and to stretch our ears and imaginations. It is a book which will be greatly appreciated by those who already love classical music, and by others who want to explore this delightful world for the first time.
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Battered Love : Marriage Sex And Violence In The Hebrew Prophets
$27.00Add to cartBattered Love unmasks the violence against women incorporated in certain images and symbols used by some of the biblical prophets to convey God’s relation to God’s people. In her exciting work, Weems has provided insights that will influence womanists, feminists, and other scholars in religious studies to reflect upon the violence embedded in the sacred tests of the religions they explore.
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Map Of 20th Century Theology
$30.00Add to cartThe only one-volume anthology of twentieth- century theology.
Indispensable to understanding the advent and import of today’s radically pluralistic scene, this unique historical anthology presents thirty- seven signal readings from key theologians of this century.
Outstanding interpreters of these figures and their generative ideas, Braaten and Jenson offer solid and sympathetic introductions and a clear scheme, a roadmap that makes sense of the fundamental and formative questions, concerns, “schools,” and movements that have animated the theological enterprise in this explosive century from 1900 right up to the threshold of contemporary currents.
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Sage Priest Prophet
$37.00Add to cartIn this volume in the Library of Ancient Israel, the author investigates three forms of biblical Israel’s intellectual and religious leadership; the sage, the priest, and the prophet. He looks at the development and character of these roles and how they functioned in their particular time and place. This investigation will lead to a keener understanding of the literature of the Old Testament and the society in which it evolved. It will also shed light on how certain religious traditions originated and how they have developed.
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Short History Of Christian Thought (Revised)
$106.99Add to cartTable Of Contents
INTRODUCTION
1. Scriptural Sources
2. The Mystery Of The Trinity
3. The Mystery Of The Incarnation
4. The Atonement
5. The Fall And Original Sin
6. The Age Of Natural Theology
7. Authority And Revelation
8. Discovering The Foundations
9. The Sacraments (new)
10. The Church And Ministry (new)
Epilogue (revised)
Bibliography
IndexAdditional Info
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What do Christians believe and why do they believe it? What are the historical roots of modern Christian doctrines, and what logical connections link them together? This concise introduction to Christian thought provides thorough yet succinct answers to these and other important questions, incorporating expanded discussions of the sacraments, the Church and the ministry, recent ecumenical movements and trends, and women’s ordination. Avoiding a strict chronological approach, the author traces the development of each great issue that formed Christian theology. Questions of doctrine such as the Trinity and the Incarnation are dealt with in full. Also addressed are the important issues in natural theology such as the existence of God, miracles, freedom of the will, and the problem of evil. The text shows which issues in Christian thought constitute the “common denominators” of Christian belief, and traces the roots of Christian doctrine to their sources, explaining why certain doctrines are logically essential to Christianity and were thus adopted. By analyzing the significant issues in Christian thinking from their early formulations to contemporary re-examination, A Short History of Christian Thought demonstrates that classical Christian doctrines are reasonable articulations of basic convictions and that Christian thought is relevant to the full range of human experience. Features
Completely updated text, introducing the historical roots of modern Christian doctrines and the links between them
Expanded chapters on the Sacraments and Church and Ministry
Revised epilogue deals with contemporary issues such as women’s ordination and the relationship between Christianity and other religions -
Welfare In America A Print On Demand Title
$53.99Add to cartThis is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.
Between 1992 and 1995, the Center for Public Justice, a Christian civic-education and public-policy think tank undertook an extended project named the Welfare Responsibility Inquiry. In May 1994, the project hosted a conference in Washington, DC, on “Public Justice and Welfare Reform.” The project involved, at its center, a group of scholars who met periodically to discuss the issues involved. Those scholars then wrote the papers which are collected in Welfare in America.
“Welfare in America,” James Skillen writes, “argues that assistance to the needy does not, and should not, come primarily from government. Government, whether at federal or state levels, should help hold people accountable to their various institutional and personal responsibilities rather than fill in for every failure.” The range of topics addressed in Welfare in America is extensive. Though no reader will agree with everything here, those whose calling requires them to think through this issue with care will be wise to include Welfare in America in their list of books to be read.
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Sally Wisters Journal A True Narrative
$9.95Add to cartThe diary of a young girl during the Revolutionary War. In 1775 Sally Wister was sent to the countryside to avoid harm. This is a delightful historical record of a young girlis life during a perilous and all-important time in American history.
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Blockaded Family : Life In So. Alabama During The Civil War
$14.95Add to cartThis reminiscence of daily life on a Southern plantation during the Civil War was originally published in 1888. Filled with vivid details of everything from methods of making dyes and preparing foods to race relations and the effects of the war, the book is an unusual and beautifully written primary source of Southern life inside the blockade imposed by the Union.
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American Jihad : Islam After Malcolm X
$19.00Add to cartAmerican Jihad is the only popular book available about the religious experience of Muslims, both black and white, in America. With over one billion faithful worldwide, and over six rnillion in the United States alone, Islam is the world’s fastest-growing religion. In fact, the population of American Muslims surpasses the membership of many mainline Protestant denominations. However, the media’s depiction of Muslims in America often stops short of any real examination and opts instead to cover only the sensational, puzzling charisma of Louis Farrakhan, who leads the Nation of Islam, or the violence of some of the more extremist Muslims. American Jihad dispels these prominent but dangerously deceptive stereotypes and is the first book to take a serious and inclusive approach to exploring how the Muslim faith is embraced and practiced in America. Like many African-Americans of his generation, author Steven Barboza was affected profoundly by Malcolm X and converted from Catholicism after reading the Autobiography. In American Jihad, he features a myriad of faithful Muslims who come from many different walks of life from a foreign policy advisor of Richard M. Nixon’s, to a blond Sufi, to an AIDS activist, and so on. In American Jihad, you’ll hear from some of the most famous American Muslims after Malcolm X, including Louis Farrakhan, Kareem Abdul Jabar, Attallah Shabazz (Malcolm X’s daughter), and the former H. Rap Brown. In American Jihad, Steven Barboza does for Islam what Studs Terkel has recently done for race relations.
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Hiroshima And Nagasaki Memories And Questions
$12.95Add to cartOf all the anniversaries associated with the end of World War II-the liberation of the death camps, Hitler’s suicide, the forming of the United Nations organization, etc. — the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the only event that engenders controversy among Americans.
This book of resources for the local church commemorated the tragic destruction of those two cities. Included is a chancel drama (dramatic dialogue) in which the pacifist Albert Einstein and the builder of the bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer, debate its use. There is also an order of service which remembers the sufferings of those killed and injured without placing collective guilt and national recrimination. And there are several chapters of topics for discussion which canvass all viewpoints. All generations will find this material enlightening and fascinating.
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Goodbye Is Not Forever
$18.99Add to cart1. Soviet Justice
2. I’m Yours Forever
3. A Picture For Daddy
4. The Battle For Survival
5. War!
6. The German Occupation
7. The Cattle Train
8. Labor Camp
9. Rejection At Hitler Youth Camp
10. Friends Among Enemies
11. War’s End
12. The Hiding Place
13. A New Awareness
14. The Voice Of America
15. Heart To Heart
16. Two Different Worlds
17. A Special Birthday
18. A New Master
19. An Unexpected Call
20. Face To Face
21. Goodbye Is Not Forever!
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Little Amy Never Knew Her Father.One dark night when she was only a baby, the Soviet secret police forcefully arrested Amy’s father…and condemned him to the frigid wastelands of Siberia.
Then as World War II began, the armies of the Third Reich invaded her small Russian Village. Amy, a tender seven-year-old child, was taken by cattle car to a slave labor camp and witnessed firsthand the horrors of Hitler’s Germany.
As the war ends, Amy and her mother make a daring escape, with execution the likely verdict if they are captured. Over the years, Amy wondered about her father. Was he still alive? Would she ever see him again?
A true story, Goodbye Is Not Forever serves as a vivid confirmation of God’s never-ending grace in the lives of His children.
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Mother Of The Wire Fence
$34.00Add to cartIs it possible to empathize fully with the victims of the Holocaust? Can those who approach the Holocaust in the aftermath ever know it in a way that does not trivialize its horror? With what language can we speak of such an event without at the same time betraying its meaning? In this powerful book, Karl Plank takes a hard look at these questions as he explores the boundaries that lie between those outside and those inside the experience of the Holocaust.
Mother of the Wire Fence tries to bridge inside and outside as it studies the power of poetry, artifact, memory, and religious symbol to respond to the Holocausts shattering of human connection. This bridge is essential so that we avoid giving a posthumous victory to the oppressors by silencing its victims forever.
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Emigrants Guide To Oregon And California
$14.95Add to cartA popular guidebook during the western expansion and a valuable collectible today, The Emigrantsi Guide was first published in 1845. While the book introduced those heading west to the beauty and habitable nature of the Pacific coast, it had considerable shortcomings – it was the guide used by the ill-fated Donner Party. As a corrective, Randolph Marcy published a more accurate guide, The Prairie Traveler (also available from Applewood Books).
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Ancient Orient A Print On Demand Title
$31.99Add to cartThis book represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation of ancient Near Eastern civilization. Concentrating on Mesopotamia and North Syria and focusing particularly on the cultures of Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, von Soden covers the earliest times to Hellenization. His study of ancient “humanity in its wholeness” includes treatments of the history of language and systems of writing, the state and society, nutrition and agriculture, artisanry, economics, law, science, religion and magic, art, music, and more. A valuable background work for students of the Bible. Includes 18 black-and-white photographs.
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Christian Ethics : A Historical Introduction
$50.00Add to cartThis one-volume history of Christian ethics is the only comprehensive resource currently available to survey major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. Topics discussed are: the legacies of Christian ethics, the ethics of early Christianity, the Reformation and Enlightenment, eighteenth and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelism, Christian ethics in the twentieth century, and Christian ethics toward the third millennium.
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History Of Ancient Palestine
$59.00Add to cartThe magnum opus of Ahlstrom who founded a school of historical studies at the University of Chicago to counteract what he felt were the prevailing literary approaches in North America. He labored on and off for decades on this dispassionate reconstruction of the major epochs of Israel’s history by tapping all known textual, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence.
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Professor Reinhold Niebuhr
$55.00Add to cartIn this book, Ronald Stone breaks new ground by providing a fresh survey of Reinhold Niebuhr as a professor, demonstrating that this vocation was central to Niebuhr’s lifework. This book reveals Niebuhr’s passion for the development of an intellectually equipped, socially concerned Christian ministry.
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Violent Evangelism : The Political And Religious Conquest Of The Americas
$50.00Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the sixteenth-century political debates–where priests and theologians are both voices of dissent against the Spanish military conquest and fervent defenders of it. Rivera contrasts “discovery” and conquest and examines the tragic outcome: demographic collapse–from the islands Columbus first sighted to the Inca empire in Peru.
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Columbus And Cortez
$14.99Add to cartColumbus – conquistador or Christ-bearer? Did Christopher Columbus exploit the people of America, or did he evangelize them? What were his true goals, his motives, his reasons for undertaking the dangerous voyage? Cortez – Militarist or missionary? Did Hernando Cortez subjugate the people of Mexico, or did he liberate them? Why all the controversy over these explorers? Is it really to correct the historical record? Or is it an assault on the values of Western Civilization and Christianity which is the source of those values? This book by John Eidsmoe answers these questions and more.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer : Witness To Jesus Christ
$25.00Add to cartBonhoeffer’s theological brilliance, committed discipleship ecumenical insight and courageous participation in the struggle against Nazism have profoundly shaped contemporary Christian understanding and action. Although his early death at the hands of the Gestapo prevented him from providing us with a full and systematic theology, his writings are remarkably extensive and have become increasingly influential. This volume concentrates on the key texts and ideas in Bonhoeffer’s thought. It presents the essential Bonhoeffer for students and the general reader.
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Teddy Roosevelt : Young Rough Rider
$7.99Add to cartEasy to read, and full of the spirit and adventure of the famous Americans who’ve made America what it is today, the Childhood of Famous Americans Series is a series of fictionalized biographies for children 8 & up.
Learn about Teddy Roosevelt overcame asthma to become one of our most outdoors-loving presidents.
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Theological Turning Points
$38.00Add to cartIn a single volume Donald K. McKim traces the historical and systematic development of eight major Christian doctrines from the early centuries to the present. Clearly written and amply documented, his introductory handbook features primary sources and extensive endnotes. He covers: the Trinity, Christology, Ecclesiology, Anthopology, Soteriology, Authority, the Sacraments, and Eschatology; concentrating on the decisive points in the development of the Church’s theology. Well structured for use as a basic text.
