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 The First Crusade: A New History: The Roots of Conflict between Christianity and IslamBest Price: $8.98 Although I have yet to finish the book, I have been satisfied with what I have read and find it... |  Christian Education HandbookBest Price: $18.67 Powers' text is the definitive classic in Christian Education Administration. It has been the... |  Ten Dates Every Catholic Should KnowBest Price: $8.15 For 177 pages the author only provides 8 endnotes. With that said, it is understandably... |  Zondervan Handbook to the History of ChristianityBest Price: $15.57 This is a great book on the history of the church, I ended up using it for a class and then... |  Saint Augustine: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies)Best Price: $4.95 It's hard to love St. Augustine. Even as one of the most influential religious thinkers in the... |
 The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century MillerBest Price: $7.50 The Cheese and the Worms has got to be the most ridiculously over-rated academic work of history... |  From Age to Age: How Christians Have Celebrated the EucharistBest Price: $16.50 First, this is an interesting book on an interesting subject--how the Eucharist was celebrated... |  The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian WomenBest Price: $8.31 I would like to say I really enjoyed this book. I found it interesting to hear several... |  Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the WorldBest Price: $8.26 Before reading this work I had, at best, a very cursory knowledge about Michael Servetus, John... |  The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford Paperback Reference)Best Price: $13.86 I bought this book (so much more affordable than its big brother The Oxford Dictionary of the... |
 Great Giveaway, The: Reclaiming the Mission of the Church from Big Business, Parachurch Organizations, Psychotherapy, Consumer Capitalism, and Other Modern MaladiesBest Price: $5.31 This is one of the best articulations of the inherent problems with modern forms of ecclesiology... |  Learning Theology With the Church FathersBest Price: $11.09 Learning Theology is the second in Christopher Hall's three-volume introduction to patristic... |  How the Reformation HappenedBest Price: $8.40 The defiance of Martin Luther and Henry VIII were not, as Hilaire Belloc points out, all that... |  Solving Marriage ProblemsBest Price: $5.44 If you believe in the authenticity of the Bible this book on marriage is for you. |  The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish PeasantBest Price: $6.00 The first 100 or so pages enthralled me as Crossan analyzes the writings of Josephus and others... |
 Francis and Clare: The Complete Works (The Classics of Western Spirituality)Best Price: $10.95 I am new as an Inquirer to the Secular Franciscan Order. This book is a must read and was... |  Jesus Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents the Historical JesusBest Price: $8.07 What I love about a book like this, is that it takes a hard critical look at the critics. The... |  The Celtic Way of Prayer: The Recovery of the Religious ImaginationBest Price: $7.80 Esther de Waal provides readers with a very good overview of Celtic Christian spirituality by... |  Building Bridges: Christianity and IslamBest Price: $7.30 I bought this book hoping to learn more about Islam. But as I started to read the book it was... |  Ignatius of Loyola: Spiritual Exercises and Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)Best Price: $15.99 An enlightening book about St. Ignatius of Loyola... It has an informative introduction and... |
 The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials (The Middle Ages Series)Best Price: $10.99 I'd like to offer a counterpoint to the rather harsh reviews of this book offered elsewhere on... |  Truth And Tolerance: Christian Belief And World ReligionsBest Price: $10.29 The first chapter's treatment of Karl Rahner's famous in-theological-circles theory of the... |  Ancient-Future Faith: Rethinking Evangelicalism for a Postmodern World (Ancient-Future)Best Price: $6.00 I have read Webber's book for a class, and I generally was not impressed. His arguments for... |  Muhammad (Past Masters)Best Price: $6.84 An interesting and original semi-biography. If you want a chronological description of his life,... |  The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom (600-1700)Best Price: $15.00 i really don't know what to say. It's Pelikan. |
 Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown (Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism)Best Price: $19.77 Jonathan Z. Smith is the enfant terrible of the History of Religions discipline, although he's... |  A History of the Church in EnglandBest Price: $16.03 A very complete, readable history of the church. I really like the author's writing style. |  Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias (Classics of Western Spirituality)Best Price: $16.95 Hildegard was one of the most famoust mystics of the medieval period. A rarity amoung women of... |  Women and Religion: The Original Sourcebook of Women in Christian ThoughtBest Price: $12.62 |  Studying the Historical Jesus: A Guide to Sources and MethodsBest Price: $14.92 This is one very handy book. If you know very little about biblical scholarship, it fills in... |
 The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Doctrine, Volume 4: Reformation of Church and Dogma (1300-1700) (The Christian Tradition: A History of the Development of Christian Doctrine)Best Price: $14.11 Jaroslav Pelikan, whose works always are very thorough and show a genuinely diverse collection... |  The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene, the Companion of JesusBest Price: $3.35 Another important book about the wife of Jesus. The Church is disturbed by this book, so are... |  Power and the Holy in the Age of the Investiture Conflict: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture)Best Price: $11.43 The type of literature surrounding the investiture contest has a tendency to be a but dull and... |  Living Jesus: Learning the Heart of the GospelBest Price: $5.24 This book is more or less a sequel to Johnson's REAL JESUS, which exposes the fallacies of many... |  From Sea to Shining SeaBest Price: $5.00 I liked this book better than The Light And The Glory. It is true, and must be admitted by those... |
 Reading the Old Testament with the Ancient Church: Exploring the Formation of Early Christian Thought (Evangelical Ressourcement: Ancient Sources for the Church's Future)Best Price: $4.72 In this thorough and scholarly addition to the Evangelical Ressourcement series, Prof. Heine... |  The Age of Bede (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $6.99 This Penguin Classics volume has had a somewhat complicated history, and those who are familiar... |  The Legacy of Sovereign Joy: God's Triumphant Grace in the Lives of Augustine, Luther, and Calvin (The Swans Are Not Silent) (The Swans Are Not Silent)Best Price: $8.80 The books in the Swan series are taken from a conference for pastors, where Dr. Piper presents... |  In Memory of HerBest Price: $14.99 Those not familiar with Elisabeth's work might do well to read her article entitled,... |  Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and TheologyBest Price: $15.00 For some of us, the apostle Paul is like a distant uncle. We've heard he's pretty important.... |
 One Sacred Effort: The Cooperative Program Of Southern BaptistsBest Price: $11.45 The preamble of the original constitution of the Southern Baptist Convention describes the... |  Telling God's Story: The Biblical Narrative from Beginning to EndBest Price: $18.78 This book is a great introduction to the historical story presented in the Bible. For one... |  The Cruelty of Heresy: An Affirmation of Christian OrthodoxyBest Price: $10.74 For nearly three hundred years after Christ's Crucifixion, a welter of muddled concepts... |  Understanding Fundamentalism and EvangelicalismBest Price: $8.49 Among his fellow religious historians, George M. Marsden is widely recognized as the leading... |  Cloud Of WitnessesBest Price: $8.95 |
 Roots of Christian Mysticism: Texts from Patristic Era with CommentaryBest Price: $15.53 This awe-inspiring and other-worldly book has the ability to unite Christians, if we would... |  The Anabaptist Story: An Introduction to Sixteenth-Century AnabaptismBest Price: $14.96 It's hard for us in the United States to believe that people were once attacked by so-called... |  The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine (Cambridge Companions to Religion)Best Price: $20.00 An earlier, self-described "very conservative evangelical" reviewer criticized the... |  The Life of Christina of Markyate (Oxford World's Classics)Best Price: $8.93 Popular belief holds that during the Middle Ages sex was avoided like the plague --another... |  God's Global Mosaic: What We Can Learn from Christians Around the WorldBest Price: $5.79 I know my low rating on this book may seem a little tuff, but please read my explanation. When... |
 History of ChristianityBest Price: $8.27 Paul Johnson passes as an "entertaining" or "popular" writer of history... |  Late Ancient Christianity: A People's History Of Christianity, Vol. 2Best Price: $21.00 The premise of the series--namely, that of investigating the social and cultural forces at work... |  Strange Virtues: Ethics in a Multicultural WorldBest Price: $15.16 Strange virtues is a book on cross-cultural ethics. The author is a professor of ethics at an... |  That Old-Time Religion: The Story of Religious FoundationsBest Price: $8.05 Every Christian needs to read this book. I'm serious ! It is not just some half-truth/half-lies... |  The Essence of Christianity (Philosophical Classics)Best Price: $6.98 "I DO NOT GENERATE THE OBJECT FROM THE THOUGHT, BUT THE THOUGHT FROM THE OBJECT" -... |
 Joan of Arc: In her own wordsBest Price: $2.99 I've begun reading this, along with 3 other books I purchased. It is not a narrative read, and... | ||||
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