The Cambridge History of Christianity: Volume 4, by Miri Rubin,Walter Simons

Covenant-Making: The Fabric of Relationship

This assortment explores the significant theological idea of covenant. it's been produced in honor of Dr. R. Larry Shelton, revered pupil and loved husband, father, colleague, and pal. Covenant--the unifying subject of this book--is a topic to which Dr. Shelton dedicated massive realization over his forty-five-year occupation 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 ignored resources, in addition to unique interviews with figures like Billy Graham, Awakening the Evangelical brain uniquely tells the attractive tale of the way evangelicalism constructed as an highbrow stream in the course of the twentieth century. starting with the lifetime of Harold Ockenga, Strachan exhibits how Ockenga introduced jointly a small neighborhood of Christian students at Harvard collage within the Nineteen Forties who agitated for a reloaded Christian mind.

Becoming Christian: The Demise of the Jesus Movement

The evolution of Christianity because it is understood this day all started in Antioch, yet as changing into Christian unearths, it had as soon as been really assorted. whereas so much histories gloss over the earliest interval of Christianity first of all the Christian institution, this booklet uncovers the little-known background in the "gap" among 31 and 70 CE, whilst the Jesus move used to be situated in Jerusalem below the authority of James bar Joseph, the brother of Jesus, and the apostles served as missionaries sporting 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, in accordance with 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 overdue 1200s miraculously transported from Mary’s village of Nazareth to a hillside in Italy.