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  • Great Orders of the Catholic Church

    From the Benedictines to the Carmelites

    by Harry Schnitker ...
    From very early in her history the Church has been filled with men and women who have dedicated themselves exclusively to God in the religious life. Over the centuries the Holy Spirit has inspired a multitude of religious orders, from which many of the great saints have emerged. This eBook examines the Benedictines, the Augustinian family, the Cistercians, the Carthusians, the Dominicans, the ... Read more

    $4.89 USD

  • The Church and World War I

    by Harry Schnitker ...
    What role did the Church play during the First World War and what effect did the Great War have on the Church? In this international conflict, Catholics were facing Catholics in the trenches, and everyone looked to their own Bishops and the Pope for a response. This eBook examines the role of Pope Benedict XV in the efforts to find peace, the role of the local Churches in the combatant nations and ... Read more

    $4.89 USD

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    Monastic Hagiography in the Late Fourth Century

    by Andrew Cain ...
    Series series Oxford Early Christian Studies
    The Greek Historia Monachorum in Aegypto was one of the most widely read and disseminated Greek hagiographic texts during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. To this day it remains, alongside Athanasius' Life of Antony, one of the core primary sources for fourth-century Egyptian monasticism as well as one of the most fascinating, yet perplexing, pieces of monastic hagiography to survive from the ... Read more

    $140.39 USD

  • The Pope Who Quit

    A True Medieval Tale of Mystery, Death, and Salvation

    by Jon M. Sweeney ...
    The riveting story of Pope St. Celestine V, the pope who retired from the papacy.At the close of the tumultuous Middle Ages, there lived a man who seemed destined from birth to save the world. His name was Peter Morrone, a hermit, a founder of a religious order, and, depending on whom you talk to, a reformer, an instigator, a prophet, a coward, a saint, and possibly the victim of murder. A stroke ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Desert Fathers

    Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

    Edited by Benedicta Ward ...
    The Desert Fathers were the first Christian monks, living in solitude in the deserts of Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. In contrast to the formalised and official theology of the "founding fathers" of the church, the Desert Fathers were ordinary Christians who chose to renounce the world and live lives of celibacy, fasting, vigil, prayer and poverty in direct and simple response to the gospel. Their ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Rule of Benedict

    by St Benedict ...
    Translated by Carolinne White ...
    Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and love, its aim is to create a harmonious and efficient religious community in which individuals can make progress in the Christian virtues and gain eternal life. Here, Benedict ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Middle Ages

    Explore the Turbulent Times and Events of This Extraordinary Era

    by Timothy C. Hall M.A. ...
    Shed some light on one of history’s darkest periods.The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to the Middle Ages gives readers the beginning, middle, and end of the era, starting with the fall of the Roman Empire in the year 550 and ending with the Renaissance in 1500—and covers some uncomfortable similarities between the so-called “Dark Ages” and today’s “modern world.”- A fascinating, fact-filled book that ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • Classic Spurgeon Sermons Volume I: 50 sermons from 1855 (Illustrated Edition)

    by Charles Spurgeon ...
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher who remains highly influential among Christians of different denominations, among whom he is still known as the "Prince of Preachers". Spurgeon was to 19th century England what D. L Moody was to America. Although Spurgeon never attended theological school, by the age of twenty-one he was the most ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Life in a Medieval Monastery

    The Monks of Durham Cathedral

    by Anne Boyd ...
    A fascinating glimpse into the world of Medieval Monasticism.Durham Cathedral is one of the most complete sets of monastic buildings in Europe, housing clues to the life of a prominent and thriving medieval Benedictine community.Through its buildings, and the books, treasures and records housed within, the world of Durham’s monastic past comes alive once more, offering clues to the history of this ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

    Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • A Faith Worth Teaching

    The Heidelberg Catechism’s Enduring Heritage

    Edited by Jon D. Payne, Sebastian Heck ...
    For 450 years, churches throughout the world have been using the Heidelberg Catechism (1563) to instruct God’s people in foundational Christian doctrine. When Elector Frederick III (1515–1576) commissioned the preparation of a manual for instructing the youth and guiding the pastors and teachers of his domain, he could not have imagined the profound effect it would have on future generations of ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Quakers

    by Peter Furtado ...
    Series Book 752 - Shire Library
    Though there have never been many Quakers, these small numbers belie the sect's tremendous impact, both historical and contemporary.Quakerism has produced an astonishing and disproportionate number of eminent thinkers, scientists, industrialists and businessmen, who are united not only by their success but by their commitment to philanthropy and social justice. Quakers also played an important ... Read more

    $9.89 USD