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Scm Studyguide Anglicanism

by Stephen Spencer

The SCM Studyguide Anglicanism offers a comprehensive introduction to the many different facets of Anglicanism. Aimed at students preparing for ministry, it presumes no prior knowledge of the subject and offers...


Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects

by Virginia Burrus

Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion...


Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook

by A.D.(Doug) Lee

In this book A.D. Lee charts the rise to dominance of Christianity in the Roman empire. Using translated texts he explains the fortunes of both Pagans and Christians from the upheavals of the 3rd Century to...


Steel City Gospel: Protestant Laity and Reform in Progressive-Era Pittsburgh

by Keith A. Zahniser

Demonstrating the power religious language, ideas, and institutions had in shaping progressive reform in Pittsburgh, this cross-disciplinary study addresses significant debates in the fields of Progressive-Era...


The Death of Christian Britain

by Callum G. Brown

The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years....


The A to Z of the Puritans

by Charles Pastoor & Galen K. Johnson

The A to Z of Puritans tells the story of Puritanism from its origins until its eventual demise. This is done through a chronology, an introduction, a bibliography, and several hundred cross-referenced dictionary...


George Berkeley Alciphron in Focus

by David Berman

Alciphron, or the Minute Philosopher (1732) is Berkeley's main work of philosophical theology and a crucial source of his views on meaning and language. This edition contains the four most important dialogues...


Invention of Saintliness

by Anneke B. Mulder-Bakker

This volume discusses, from an historical and literary angle, the ways in which sanctification and the inscription of saintliness take place. Going beyond the traditional categories of canonization, cult, liturgical...


The Formation of Christianity in Antioch: A Social-Scientific Approach to the Separation Between Judaism and Christianity

by Magnus Zetterholm

Magnus Zetterholm uses theoretical insights from the social sciences to deal with the complex issues raised by the parting of Judaism and Christianity, and the accompanying rise of Christian anti-Semitism in...


Writings of Henry Barrow, 1590-91

by Leland H. Carlson

This volume contains the great Separatist's solus writings from 1590-1591. It includes texts taken from manuscript sources, and rare tracts that have been reprinted here for the first time.


The A to Z of the Coptic Church

by Gawdat Gabra

The A to Z of the Coptic Church details the history of one of the oldest Christian churches. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary...


The Franciscans in the Middle Ages

by Michael Robson

St Francis of Assisi is one of the most admired figures of the Middle Ages - and one of the most important in the Christian church, modelling his life on the literal observance of the Gospel and recovering an...


Doctors of the Church

by Benedict, Pope XVI

Pope Benedict XVI explores the lives and significance of thirty-two of the Doctors of the Church like no one else can. Taken directly from the pope's addresses in his weekly audiences.


Christian History Made Easy

by Dr. Timothy Paul Jones

Christian History Made Easy summarizes the most important events in Christian history from the time of Jesus to today in 12 easy-to-read chapters. Christian History Made Easy presents key events and people every...


Black Egyptians: The African Origins of Ancient Egypt

by Segun Magbagbeola

Black Egyptians sets out to prove once and for all that Black Africans started and inhabited the Ancient Egyptian civilisation. This is the book to finally put the lid on the Ancient Egyptian race controversy....


Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West: Between Mind and Body

by Geoffrey Samuel & Jay Johnston

Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques...


The Book of Margery Kempe

by John Skinner

Though a familiar name, little was known about the English mystic Margery Kempe (c. 1373-c. 1440) for hundreds of years except that she had an association with the great Julian of Norwich. This all changed in...


Historical Dictionary of the Shakers

by Stephen J. Paterwic

The Historical Dictionary of the Shakers relates the history of this fascinating group through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and over two hundred cross-referenced dictionary entries on...


Spectacles of Empire: Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation

by Christopher A. Frilingos

The author reads the Book of Revelation as a text firmly situated in the world of imperial Roman Asia Minor, where it was written. He argues that Revelation is a Christian version of that world, complete with...


Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East

by Derek Krueger

Drawing on comparative literature, ritual and performance studies, and the history of asceticism, Derek Krueger explores how early Christian writers came to view writing as salvific, as worship through the production...