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  • A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood

    The Bible and the American Civil War

    by James P. Byrd ...
    In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides "read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other." He wasn't speaking metaphorically: the Bible was frequently wielded as a weapon in support of both North and South. As James P. Byrd reveals in this insightful narrative, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Story of Religion in America

    An Introduction

    by James P. Byrd, James Hudnut-Beumler ...
    Written primarily for undergraduate classes in American religious history and organized chronologically, this new textbook presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sacred Scripture, Sacred War

    The Bible and the American Revolution

    by James P. Byrd ...
    Winner of an Award of Merit in the Christianity Today Book Awards, History/Biography category On January 17, 1776, one week after Thomas Paine published his incendiary pamphlet Common Sense, Connecticut minister Samuel Sherwood preached an equally patriotic sermon. "God Almighty, with all the powers of heaven, are on our side," Sherwood said, voicing a sacred justification for war that Americans ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Through a Glass Darkly

    Contested Notions of Baptist Identity

    by James P. Byrd, Bill J. Leonard, James A. Patterson, Christopher H. Evans, Alan Scot Willis, Barry Hankins, Jewel L. Spangler, Curtis W. Freeman, Elizabeth H. Flowers, Edward R. Crowther, John Gordon Crowley0, Paul Harvey1 ...
    Series series Religion and American Culture
    Normal0falsefalsefalseMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Through a Glass Darkly is a collection of essays by scholars who argue that Baptists are frequently misrepresented, by outsiders as well as insiders, as members of an unchanging monolithic sect.In contemporary discussions of religious denominations, it is often fashionable and easy to make bold claims regarding the history, beliefs, and practices of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    The Story of Religion in America

    An Introduction

    by James P. Byrd, James Hudnut-Beumler ...
    Narrated by Jim Seybert ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 17 min

    Written primarily for undergraduate classes in American religious history and organized chronologically, this new textbook presents the broad scope of the story of religion in the American colonies and the United States. While following certain central narratives, including the long shadow of Puritanism, the competition between revival and reason, and the defining role of racial and ethnic ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood

    The Bible and the American Civil War

    by James P. Byrd ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 55 min

    In his Second Inaugural Address, delivered as the nation was in the throes of the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed that both sides ""read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other."" He wasn't speaking metaphorically: the Bible was frequently wielded as a weapon in support of both North and South.As James P. Byrd reveals in this insightful narrative, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Little Flowers of St. Francis (Italian Fioretti di San Francesco) is a florilegium (excerpts of his body of work), divided into 53 short chapters, on the life of Saint Francis of Assisi which was composed at the end of the 14th century. The anonymous Italian text, almost certainly by a Tuscan author, is a version of the Latin Actus beati Francisci et sociorum eius, of which the earliest extant ... Read more

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  • Attack of the Theocrats

    How the Religious Right Harms Us All—and What We Can Do about It

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  • The 1534 Act of Supremacy

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    With just one paragraph, Englands King Henry VIII changed the course of the Catholic Churchs history. The Act of Supremacy of November 1534 (26 Hen. 8 c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England under King Henry VIII declaring that he was "the only supreme head on earth of the Church in England" and that the English crown shall enjoy "all honours, dignities, preeminences, jurisdictions, ... Read more

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  • Ratification

    The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

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    In this engaging introduction to the New Testament, Professor Dale B. Martin presents a historical study of the origins of Christianity by analyzing the literature of the earliest Christian movements. Focusing mainly on the New Testament, he also considers nonbiblical Christian writings of the era.Martin begins by making a powerful case for the study of the New Testament. He next sets the Greco ... Read more

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