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  • Exvangelical and Beyond

    How American Christianity Went Radical and the Movement That's Fighting Back

    A pioneer of the “exvangelical” movement examines how a toxic right-wing movement took over American Christianity—and why people are leaving the church and speaking out against itWith the rise of Trumpism, the American evangelical movement has more political influence than ever—yet at the same time, people are leaving Christianity in record numbers. Why are so many people walking away from the ... Read more

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  • Priests of History

    Stewarding the Past in an Ahistoric Age

    How can Christians engage meaningfully with history?In an age underpinned by the idea that life is about self-invention and fulfilment, contemporary Western culture holds that the past has little to teach us. We live in what this book terms the "Ahistoric Age," in which we are profoundly disconnected from history.In the attempt to appear relevant, the church often embraces this ahistoric worldview ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Christus

    De transformatie van Jezus in het Vroege Christendom

    by Henk Bakker ...
    Een studie naar hoe het geloof in Jezus zich ontwikkelde in het vroege christendom.In Christus laat Henk Bakker zien hoe vroegchristelijke schrijvers hun Jezusbeeld hebben laten kleuren door eigen ervaringen, in de context van politieke en sociale veranderingen, vervolgingen, onderlinge strijd, studie en groei. In het boek vervolgt Bakker zijn boeiende studie Jezus uit 2020. Daarin ging de auteur ... Read more

    $13.30 USD

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  • The Bible

    A Global History

    by Bruce Gordon ...
    A global history of the world’s best-known and most influential bookFor Christians, the Bible is a book authored by God for humanity. Its eternal words are transmitted across the world by fallible human hands. Following Jesus’s departing instruction to go out into the world, the Bible has been a book in motion from its very beginnings, and every community it has encountered has read, heard, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The House of War

    The Struggle between Christendom and Islam

    A powerful new history detailing the most significant military clashes between Islam and Christendom over the 1300 years of the Muslim caliphate.From the taking of Jerusalem in the 7th century AD 638 by Caliph Umar, to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the end of World War I, Christian popes, emperors and kings, and Muslim caliphs and sultans were locked in a 1300-year battle for ... Read more

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  • The Trials of Jesus

    Evidence, Conclusions, and Aftermath

    by Paul Barnett ...
    See the Passion narrative like you’ve never seen it before.The Gospels describe a complex chain of events from Jesus’s arrest to his crucifixion—interrogations from multiple high priests, a confrontation with Herod the Tetrarch, and finally Pontius Pilate’s unusual hesitancy leading to Jesus’s execution. The narrative raises several questions: Why was Jesus interrogated so many times? Why was he ... Read more

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  • Bevrijding

    Een kleine geschiedenis van de wereld

    Een nieuwe kijk op de wereldgeschiedenis in het licht van de Bijbel.Het boek Bevrijding is een kleine wereldgeschiedenis waarin Bram van de Beek laat zien waarachter hoop schuilt. De wereld is geen leuke plek om te wonen. De geschiedenis wordt bepaald door winnaars – die over lijken zijn gegaan. De rest van de natuur is niet beter: the survival of the fittest. Ook de kerk heeft meegespeeld in het ... Read more

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  • The Great Search

    Turning to Earth and Soul in the Quest for Healing and Home

    In the great tradition of authors who leave church but remain spiritual—such as Barbara Brown Taylor, Rob Bell—the author of Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul forges a new path toward a true spiritual home, embracing a deep connection to the natural world.The story of Adam and Eve’s fall from innocence in the Garden of Eden is a mythical account of humanity’s broken relationship with the divine, with ... Read more

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  • Scripture in Doctrinal Dispute

    Doctrine and Scripture in Early Christianity, vol. 2

    How did Scripture function in early arguments about doctrine?Historical criticism has revealed a gap between Scripture and the mainstream doctrines that define Christianity today. Not the least of these are the Trinity and two natures of Christ—widely accepted since the fifth century, but seemingly unfounded in historical readings of Scripture. How did these dogmas become so integral to the faith ... Read more

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  • A History of Christianity in America

    The story of Christianity in America is a fascinating one, marked by constant change, development, and innovation. The faith has shaped the country, even as the country has shaped it. Award-winning historian Mark Granquist has written an up-to-date telling of this story from the arrival of Europeans to the present day. While the twists and turns are complex, varied, and at times confusing, ... Read more

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  • The Mary We Forgot

    What the Apostle to the Apostles Teaches the Church Today

    Who was among the last at the cross and the first at the empty tomb? Mary Magdalene.Her role in Jesus's ministry as told in all four Gospels was pivotal in many ways. Yet her story is often overlooked, confused, or scandalized by the church.In The Mary We Forgot, award-winning church historian and theologian Jennifer Powell McNutt unpacks Scripture and church history to reveal the real Mary ... Read more

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  • Herod and Mary

    The True Story of the Tyrant King and the Mother of the Risen Savior

    Series Book 1 - Ancient Evil, Living Hope
    Explore the interwoven lives of King Herod and Mary, Mother of Jesus as New York Times bestselling author Kathie Lee Gifford brings these biblical figures into a new light. Follow Herod from boyhood as he strives and fails throughout his life to become a beloved king. Walk in the steps of Mary of Nazareth as she navigates the repercussions of Herod's deadly obsession.Delve into the complex history ... Read more

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  • The Roman Curia

    History, Theology, and Organization

    by Anthony Ekpo ...
    A historical, theological and juridical explanation of the nature of the Roman CuriaThe Roman Curia is the central body for the administration of the Roman Catholic Church. Its structure and organization is governed by Praedicate Evangelium, a new law issued by Pope Francis in 2022. The nature of the Curia is both confusing to many and vitally important for the administration of the Church and the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Remarriage in Early Christianity

    by A. Andrew Das ...
    What did early Christians believe about remarriage after divorce?The New Testament sends mixed messages about divorce. Jesus forbids it in Mark’s and Luke’s Gospels, but he seems to make an exception for victims of infidelity in Matthew’s Gospel. Paul permits divorce in 1 Corinthians when an unbeliever initiates it. Yet other Pauline passages imply that remarriage after divorce constitutes ... Read more

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  • Christmaker

    A Life of John the Baptist

    Meet the real John the Baptist.For many, John the Baptist is a footnote in the gospels—Jesus’s unkempt forerunner. But if we look closer, John emerges as a fascinating and influential religious leader in his own right.Esteemed New Testament scholar James F. McGrath turns his critical eye to overlooked details in Scripture and long-neglected sources to discover who John the Baptist really was. ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Early Church Timeline

    Spread of Christianity AD 100--300

    This foldout timeline covers 200 years of early church history, highlighting 50 key events and people with brief descriptions for each. See the growth of the church from the end of the era of the apostles in the first century to the time of Emperor Constantine in the fourth century.Did you know?Christians used the fish as a symbol as early as the 2nd century.An aspiring philosopher named Justin ... Read more

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  • Anglican Confirmation 1820-1945

    From ‘Renewing the Baptismal Covenant’ to ‘The Sacramental Principle’

    by Phillip Tovey ...
    Series series Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
    This book focuses on Anglican Confirmation in theology, liturgy, and practice from 1820 to 1945. This was a period of great change in the ways Anglicans approached Confirmation. The Tractarian movement transformed the Communion, and its ideas were carried overseas with the missionary movement. The study examines the development of a two-stage theology and its reception. It analyses the wave of ... Read more

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  • A Rumor of Black Lutherans

    The Formation of Black Leadership in Early American Lutheranism

    The history of Lutheran engagement in the Black context in the United States is regrettably thin. The book helps Lutherans in the US and other students of American history to assemble a complete account of the role of early American Lutherans in higher education among African Americans.The book does so by tracing the stories of ten remarkable African Americans from their encounters with Lutherans ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Machen's Hope

    The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princeton

    The first critical biography of J. Gresham Machen, examining the full arc of his intellectual careerJ. Gresham Machen is known as a conservative hero of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy. But was he always so staunchly antimodernist?In this sweeping new biography, Richard E. Burnett examines the whole of Machen’s life and career—from his early years at Princeton, to his experience in the ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

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  • The Progressives' Bible

    How Scriptural Interpretation Built a More Just America

    While conservative groups have often appealed to the Bible to support their positions, so too have many progressive voices rooted in the Bible, seeing their struggles in its narratives and characters, and drawing on its verses to prove the truth of their arguments. Abolitionism countered pro-slavery arguments with copious biblical material. Women's rights advocates strongly disagreed with one ... Read more

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  • Religious Conflict at Canterbury Cathedral in the Late Twelfth Century

    The Dispute between the Monks and the Archbishops, 1184-1200

    by James Barnaby ...
    Series Book 56 - Studies in the History of Medieval Religion
    The first comprehensive study of a bitter dispute which occupied the archbishops and monks of Canterbury throughout the 1180s and 1190s.For fifteen years the monks of Christ Church Canterbury waged a war against their archbishop, over a plan to build a church to provide funds for their administration, dedicated to Thomas Becket. Fearing the loss of their most beloved (and lucrative) saint to this ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Guiding God's Marriage

    Faith and Social Change in Premarital Counseling

    Examines how religious leaders use premarital counseling to influence how we view intimacyIt is well-known that the institution of marriage has changed dramatically in the past few decades. However, very little research has focused on the role of religious institutions in helping couples form and maintain their relationships.Guiding God’s Marriage offers an examination of Christian marriage ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Sola

    Christ, Grace, Faith, and Scripture Alone in Martin Luther's Theology

    Leppin explores the four "solas" of Reformation theology--Christ, grace, faith, and scripture--as both anchored in the culture of late-medieval devotion and representing new, firmly demarcated formulae. Luther's four pillars became clarion calls in the fight against the medieval church. Leppin helps readers understand, however, that in the journey toward these new theological understandings, ... Read more

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  • The Empathic God

    A Clinical Theology of At-Onement

    by Frank Woggon ...
    What if Jesus did not come to die for our sins? What if, instead, Jesus's life and death was intended to provide a way out of our shame? While traditional Christian teachings about the atonement emphasize sin as guilt and transgression against God's will and commandments, Frank Woggon points out that clinical spiritual care reveals that the human condition is predominantly marked by shame rather ... Read more

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