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  • Kingdom Theology

    Inaugurated Eschatology and Its Implication for Missions

    What this book argues for in today's twenty-first-century church was a hallmark doctrine of old school Presbyterianism of the nineteenth century: the doctrine of the spirituality of the church. Which eschatological approach one uses will affect one's understanding of the nature and practice of missions. Mission creep--the expansion of the church's original objective(s)--is a real concern for the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Opening of the Protestant Mind

    How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty

    by Mark Valeri ...
    During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-eighteenth century, they would describe amicable debates between evangelical missionaries and Algonquian religious leaders about the moral appeal of Christianity, recount learned ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • Dartmouth and the World

    Religion and Political Economy circa 1769

    For the 250th anniversary of the founding of Dartmouth College, the Political Economy Project at Dartmouth assembled a stellar cast of junior and senior scholars to explore the systemic conditions facing those seeking to found a new college two hundred fifty years ago.What were the key political, economic and religious parameters operating in the Atlantic world at the time of the College’s ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Practicing Protestants

    Histories of Christian Life in America, 1630–1965

    Series series Lived Religions
    This collection of essays explores the significance of practice in understanding American Protestant life. The authors are historians of American religion, practical theologians, and pastors and were the twelve principal researchers in a three-year collaborative project sponsored by the Lilly Endowment.Profiling practices that range from Puritan devotional writing to twentieth-century prayer, from ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Heavenly Merchandize

    How Religion Shaped Commerce in Puritan America

    by Mark Valeri ...
    Heavenly Merchandize offers a critical reexamination of religion's role in the creation of a market economy in early America. Focusing on the economic culture of New England, it views commerce through the eyes of four generations of Boston merchants, drawing upon their personal letters, diaries, business records, and sermon notes to reveal how merchants built a modern form of exchange out of ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

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    The Opening of the Protestant Mind

    How Anglo-American Protestants Embraced Religious Liberty

    by Mark Valeri ...
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    Unabridged

    10 hours 3 min

    During the mid-seventeenth century, Anglo-American Protestants described Native American ceremonies as savage devilry, Islamic teaching as violent chicanery, and Catholicism as repugnant superstition. By the mid-eighteenth century, they would describe amicable debates between evangelical missionaries and Algonquian religious leaders about the moral appeal of Christianity, recount learned ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The First Prejudice

    Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early America

    Series series Early American Studies
    In many ways, religion was the United States' first prejudice—both an early source of bigotry and the object of the first sustained efforts to limit its effects. Spanning more than two centuries across colonial British America and the United States, The First Prejudice offers a groundbreaking exploration of the early history of persecution and toleration. The twelve essays in this volume were ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament

    A Book-by-Book Survey

    The groundbreaking Dictionary for Theological Interpretation of the Bible (DTIB) introduced readers to key names, theories, and concepts in the field of biblical interpretation. It has been well received by pastors and students, won book awards from Christianity Today and the Catholic Press Association, and was named the ECPA 2006 Christian Book of the Year. Theological Interpretation of the Old ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Heretics

    The Creation of Christianity from the Gnostics to the Modern Church

    A lively examination of the heretics who helped Christianity become the world's most powerful religion.From Arius, a fourth-century Libyan cleric who doubted the very divinity of Christ, to more successful heretics like Martin Luther and John Calvin, this book charts the history of dissent in the Christian Church.As the author traces the Church's attempts at enforcing orthodoxy, from the days of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Barbarous Years

    The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

    **Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Four Views on the Book of Revelation

    Series series Counterpoints: Bible and Theology
    Of all the books of the Bible, few are as fascinating or as intimidating as Revelation.Four grim horsemen, the Antichrist, the ten-horned beast, the ultimate battle at Armageddon, the "mark of the beast." It's no wonder that these images have griped the imagination of so many--and have been variously interpreted as symbolizing everything from Hitler and Gorbachev to credit cards and the Internet ... Read more

    $5.49 USD

  • How Christianity Changed the World

    Western civilization is becoming increasingly pluralistic,secularized, and biblically illiterate. Many people todayhave little sense of how their lives have benefited fromChristianity’s influence, often viewing the church withhostility or resentment.How Christianity Changed the World is a topicallyarranged Christian history for Christians and non-Christians. Grounded in solid research and written ... Read more

    $10.49 USD