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  • Pilgram Marpeck

    His Life and Social Theology

    by Stephen B. Boyd ...
    Series Book 12 - Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
    This intellectual and social history is the first comprehensive biography of Pilgram Marpeck (c. 1495–1556), a radical reformer and lay leader of Anabaptist groups in Switzerland, Austria, and South Germany. Marpeck’s influential life and work provide a glimpse of the theologies and practices of the Roman Church and of various reform movements in sixteenth-century Europe.Drawing on extensive ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Thought of Pope Benedict XVI new edition

    An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger

    by Aidan Nichols ...
    Aidan Nichols' timely book is the first full-scale investigation of Joseph Ratzinger's theology, from the 1950s to the present day. It presents a chronological account of the development of Ratzinger's writing that reflects a wide range of historical and theoretical interests. A comprehensive introduction to a figure who is in his own right, quite apart from his significance in the politics of the ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Twisted Cross

    The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich

    by Doris L. Bergen ...
    How did Germany’s Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the 600,000 self-described 'German Christians,' who sought to expunge all Jewish elements from the Christian church. In a process that became more daring as Nazi plans for genocide unfolded, this group of Protestant lay people and clergy rejected the Old ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Introduction to the Study of Liturgy

    by Albert Gerhards, Benedikt Kranemann ...
    Translated by Linda M. Maloney ...
    Worship is at the heart of the Christian faith. This applies equally to all denominations. For that reason it is all the more important that the ordering of worship and its place in the life of the church is regularly rewritten and reinterpreted. This volume—based on the third, completely revised German edition from 2013 by two of the foremost liturgical scholars in Germany—offers a contemporary, ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Pietism

    Retrieving an Evangelical Tradition

    by Roger E. Olson, Christian T. Collins Winn ...
    The historical movement known as Pietism emphasized the response of faith and inward transformation as crucial aspects of conversion to Christ. Unfortunately, Pietism today is often equated with a "holier-than-thou" spiritual attitude, religious legalism, or withdrawal from involvement in society.In this book Roger Olson and Christian Collins Winn argue that classical, historical Pietism is an ... Read more

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  • Karl Barth

    A Life in Conflict

    by Christiane Tietz ...
    Translated by Dr Victoria J. Barnett ...
    From the beginning of his career, Swiss theologian Karl Barth (1886-1969) was often in conflict with the spirit of his times. While during the First World War German poets and philosophers became intoxicated by the experience of community and transcendence, Barth fought against all attempts to locate the divine in culture or individual sentiment. This freed him for a deep worldly engagement: he ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Martin Luther

    An Ecumenical Perspective

    by Walter Kasper ...
    Emphasizes how relevant Luther's message is for Christians of all denominations. Luther's message of divine mercy was his answer to his own problems and to the questions of his time, as it is now to us in our times. ... Read more

    $9.56 USD

  • The Anabaptist Vision

    by Harold S Bender ...
    The Anabaptist Vision, given as a presidential address before the American Society of Church History in 1943, has become a classic essay. In it, Harold S. Bender defines the spirit and purposes of the original Anabaptists. Three major points of emphasis are: the transformation of the entire way of life of the individual to the teachings and example of Christ, voluntary church membership based upon ... Read more

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  • Crime and Culture in Early Modern Germany

    by Joy Wiltenburg ...
    Series series Studies in Early Modern German History
    With the growth of printing in early modern Germany, crime quickly became a subject of wide public discourse. Sensational crime reports, often featuring multiple murders within families, proliferated as authors probed horrific events for religious meaning. Coinciding with heightened witch panics and economic crisis, the spike in crime fears revealed a continuum between fears of the occult and more ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • An Introduction to German Pietism

    Protestant Renewal at the Dawn of Modern Europe

    by Douglas H. Shantz ...
    Series series Young Center Books in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies
    An up-to-date portrait of a defining moment in the Christian story—its beginnings, worldview, and cultural significance.Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award of the Young Center for Anabaptists and Pietist Studies at Elizabethtown CollegeAn Introduction to German Pietism provides a scholarly investigation of a movement that changed the history of Protestantism. The Pietists can be credited with ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Johann Arndt

    A Prophet of Lutheran Pietism

    by Daniel van Voorhis ...
    This is the story of the most significant devotional author of the seventeenth century in his first full English language biography. Using previously unknown letters as a few of the resources, this story aims to recreate the theological, sometimes magical, and social worlds of Johann Arndt.Arndt was regarded by his peers and successive generations as either the most significant Reformer since ... Read more

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  • Mechthild of Magdeburg and Her Book

    Gender and the Making of Textual Authority

    by Sara S. Poor ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    Sometime around 1230, a young woman left her family and traveled to the German city of Magdeburg to devote herself to worship and religious contemplation. Rather than living in a community of holy women, she chose isolation, claiming that this life would bring her closer to God. Even in her lifetime, Mechthild of Magdeburg gained some renown for her extraordinary book of mystical revelations, The ... Read more

    $76.99 USD