Assembling Early Christianity: Trade, Networks, and the by Cavan W. Concannon

Covenant-Making: The Fabric of Relationship

This assortment explores the valuable theological suggestion of covenant. it's been produced in honor of Dr. R. Larry Shelton, revered student and liked husband, father, colleague, and good friend. Covenant--the unifying subject of this book--is a topic to which Dr. Shelton committed huge recognition over his forty-five-year profession as a pupil and instructor.

Awakening the Evangelical Mind: An Intellectual History of the Neo-Evangelical Movement

The 1st significant learn to attract upon unknown or overlooked resources, in addition to unique interviews with figures like Billy Graham, Awakening the Evangelical brain uniquely tells the attractive tale of the way evangelicalism built as an highbrow move in the midst of the 20 th century. starting with the lifetime of Harold Ockenga, Strachan exhibits how Ockenga introduced jointly a small group of Christian students at Harvard college within the Forties who agitated for a reloaded Christian mind.

Becoming Christian: The Demise of the Jesus Movement

The evolution of Christianity because it is understood at the present time begun in Antioch, yet as turning into Christian unearths, it had as soon as been particularly various. whereas such a lot histories gloss over the earliest interval of Christianity firstly the Christian institution, this ebook uncovers the little-known historical past in the "gap" among 31 and 70 CE, whilst the Jesus move used to be founded in Jerusalem below the authority of James bar Joseph, the brother of Jesus, and the apostles served as missionaries wearing the lessons of Jesus all through Judea, Galilee, and Samaria.

The House of the Virgin Mary

Come to grasp the home of the Virgin Mary which, based on numberless saints, rankings of popes, and lots of respectable files of the Vatican (and to guard it from the depredations of the Saracens) was once within the past due 1200s miraculously transported from Mary’s village of Nazareth to a hillside in Italy.