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SPCK - Kregel God and Me at the Sea
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Kregel Academic & Professional 40 Questions About Bible Translation
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Kregel Academic & Professional 40 Questions About the Apostle Paul
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Church Revitalization A Pastoral Guide to Church
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SPCK - Kregel Divine Love Theory How the Trinity is the Source
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Kregel Publications Rooted in Wonder Nurturing Your Familys Faith
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Isaiah Discovering Assurance Through Prophecies
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Kregel Publications,U.S. My Dearest Dietrich A Novel of Dietrich
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Kregel Publications,U.S. The Songs That Could Have Been
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Kregel Publications Trading Faces Removing the Masks that Hide Your
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Kregel Publications Can I Borrow a Cup of Hope How to Find Faith for
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SPCK - Kregel Finding Rest Guiding Workbook An Invitation to
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SPCK - Kregel Ishmael in the Shadow of Israel Gods Prophetic
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Kregel Publications Pastoral Identity True Shepherds in the
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Kregel Publications 1 Timothy Discovering Clarity in a World That
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SPCK - Kregel Multisite Churches
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Kregel Publications 101 Hymn Stories 40th Anniversary Edition
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Kregel Publications Ordinary Men Called by God new cover A Study of
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SPCK - Kregel Woman After GodsHeart BibleTeal
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SPCK Unlikely Converts
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SPCK - Kregel If You Give a Boy a Bible
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Kregel Publications,U.S. A Trip Through the Bible
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SPCK - Kregel Colossians and Philemon A Commentary for
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SPCK - Kregel Hebrews A Commentary for Biblical Preaching and
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Kregel Publications,U.S. 1 Peter A Commentary for Biblical Preaching and
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Kregel Publications,U.S. Psalms volume 1 The Wisdom Psalms A Commentary
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SPCK - Kregel Numbers A Commentary for Biblical Preaching and
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Inter-Varsity Press New Dictionary of Christian ethics pastoral
Book SynopsisThis dictionary breaks new ground by combining articles on Christians ethics and pastoral theology in one volume. It seeks to integrate moral, pastoral and practical theology.
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Inter-Varsity Press The Revelation of God
Book SynopsisIn modern times, the Christian faith's claim to possess a unique revelation of God has faced numerous challenges. A central issue has been the role of the Bible. While some have continued to defend the view that the Bible, inspired by God, is his self-revelation in a direct way, others have argued that God's revelation is to be found primarily in his actions, or in the person of Jesus Christ, rather than in the Scriptures as such. In a fresh approach, Peter Jensen argues that it is better to follow the biblical categories of the knowledge of God and the gospel, rather than to start from 'revelation' as an abstract concept. First Dr Jensen focuses on revelation, whether 'special' or 'general', from the viewpoint of the knowledge of God through the gospel. Next, he examines the nature and authority of Scriptures and our approach to reading it. Finally, he turns to the revelatory work of the Holy Spirit through illumination. The result is a creative and compelling exposition of the evangelical understanding of revelation for the contemporary scene.Table of Contents1. The gospel as revelation 2. The nature of the gospel 3. The gospel and the knowledge of God 4. The gospel as a pattern of revelation 5. Revelation and human experience 6. The gospel and religious experience 7. The authority of Scripture 8. The nature of Scripture 9. On reading Scripture 10. The gospel and the Spirit 11. Contemporary revelation
£17.99
SPCK - IVP Daughters of Islam
Book SynopsisTheir clothing is often distinctive. Their beliefs and values are strongly held. They love their families. Any they live everywhere on earth. They are women of Muslim background. Some still belong to Islam, but some now belong to Christ. In 'Daughters of Islam', Miriam Adeney introduces you women such as Ladan, Khadija and Fatma. You'll learn about their lives, questions and hopes, as well as those of other Arab, Iranian, Southeast Asian and African sisters. And you'll gain new understanding of why Muslim women come to Christ. This book discusses aspects of everyday living such as; sex, marriage and family relations; the place of religion; finances; teaching and learning styles; women's diversity. Through vibrant real-life case studies you will learn strategies for relating to women like the ones described here. You will see what - and who - became the means of their understanding and responding to Jesus as Saviour and Lord. Miriam Adeney says, Surely in the end what counts are the perennial necessities of mission: a human being witnessing, discipling and serving in the appropriate language.This is why she has written this enlightening book.Table of Contents1. Every Woman is an exception: Five kinds of Arab Women; 2. Arab sisters; 3. What is liberation for Muslim Women? 4. Iranian Sisters; 5. Sex, singles, husbands, children; 6. Southeast Asian Sisters; 7. Singing our theology: teaching and learning; 8. African sisters; 9. Who pays? Money matters; 10. When you seek me with all your heart
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Inter-Varsity Press The Message of Creation
Book SynopsisThe large number and diversity of biblical passages dealing with the theme of creation underlines its central importance to the biblical message.
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Inter-Varsity Press Engaging with God Biblical Theology of Worship
Book SynopsisAn exposition of the biblical theology of worship. Deploying impressive exegetical gifts across the significant biblical data, Peterson sees worship as engaging with God in terms of a total lifestyle directed to glorifying him. A book which challenges much current thinking and practice.
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SPCK - IVP The Gospel to the nations
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Inter-Varsity Press The Message of the Living God
Book SynopsisBible passages used from the opening of Genesis to Revelation to explore biblical insights into God
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Inter-Varsity Press Imagine A Vision For Christians And The Arts
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SPCK - IVP Judaism before Jesus
Book SynopsisIn turning the page from Malachi to Matthew in the Bible, we skip over a lot of history. Anthony Tomasino tells the story of intertestamental Judaism in an accessible, informative and entertaining book specifically designed for Christian laypeople.
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Inter-Varsity Press Encountering Gods word Beginning Biblical Studies
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Visitation Articles and Injunctions of the Early
Book Synopsis`An invaluable source for ecclesiastical history... promises to be a highly important record series.' ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEWThis is the first of two volumes which reproduce manuscript and printed documents for the years 1603-1642. The articles issued by archbishops, bishops, archdeacons and others exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction have been frequently used by historians as evidence of the priorities and concerns of church government, but until now there has been no systematic examination of the structure and contents of articles, nor the relationship between sets issued bydifferent archbishops, bishops or archdeacons. These two volumes attempt to fill this gap. Volume 1, centring on the Church of James I, contains no less than sixty-six sets of articles, printed either in full or in collated form and includes injunctions or charges issued duringor after visitations. Volume 2 extends the same treatment to the Caroline Church up to the Civil War.KENNETH FINCHAM is lecturer in history at the University of Kent at Canterbury.Trade ReviewAn important sourcebook for research about early seventeenth-century religious and social history. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTSets a standard of excellence which will gain the society a high reputation... A rich quarry for historians with a range of interests... a major achievement in the scholarly editing of a set of documents which have for much too long been inaccessible to ecclesiastical and social historians and which they cannot afford to ignore. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY`Evidence on such matters as Laudianism, episcopal jurisdiction, recusancy and the church courts - also a rich source for information on the day-to-day life of Jacobean England.'CHURCH TIMES An important work... the introduction is especially valuable for its analysis of the authorship of the articles and for its detailed description of how the bishops used them. CHURCH HISTORY [US]An invaluable source for ecclesiastical history... a splendid forst volume in what promises to be a highly important record series. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsBishop Francis Godwin's injunctions for Llandaff diocese 1603; Archbishop Richard Bancroft's letter to his commissioners for his metropolitical visitation 1605; Archbishop Richard Bancroft's articles for ten dioceses 1605 - Bishop Henry Cotton's articles for Salisbury diocese (1614), Bishop James Montagu's articles for Bath and Wells diocese (1609), Montagu's articles for Bath and Wells diocese (1609), collated with Archdeacon Richard Fitzherbert's articles for Dorset archdeaconry (1624); Archbishop Richard Bancroft's articles for Wells Cathedral 1605; Bishop Richard Vaughan's articles for London diocese 1605 - Bishop Thomas Ravis's articles for London diocese (1607), Bishop John King's articles for London diocese (1612), Archdeacon Edward Layfield's articles for Essex archdeaconry (1637), Bishop Gervase Babington's articles for Worcester diocese (1607), Bishop Henry Parry's articles for Gloucester diocese (1607), Archdeacon Samuel Burton's articles for Gloucester archdeaconry (1618), Bishop Robert Abbot's articles for Salisbury diocese (1616); Bishop Thomas Ravis's orders for Gloucester deanery 1605; Bishop Lancelot Andrewes's orders for Chichester diocese 1606; Archbishop Tobie Matthew's articles for York province 1607 - Bishop William James's articles for Durham diocese (1607), Bishop James's articles for Durham diocese (1613), Bishop Henry Robinson's articles for Carlisle diocese (1612), Bishop Barnabie Potter's articles for Carlisle diocese (1629), Bishop Thomas Morton's articles for Chester diocese (1617), Matthew's articles for York diocese (1622-3), Matthew's articles for York diocese (1622-3) collated with Archbishop Samuel Harsnett's articles for York province (1628-9); Bishop William Chaderton's articles for Lincoln diocese, 1607 - Bishop George Montaigne's articles for Lincoln diocese (1618), Montaigne's articles for Lincoln diocese (1618), collated with Bishop John Williams's articles for the same (1622), Montaigne's articles for Lincoln diocese (1618), collated with Archdeacon George Eland's articles for Bedford archdeaconry (1629), Chaderton's articles for Lincoln diocese, (1607) collated with Bishop Lancelot Andrewes's articles for Ely diocese (1610), Chaderton's articles for Lincoln diocese (1607), collated with Bishop Richard Neile's articles for Durham diocese (1624), Neile's articles for Durham diocese (1624), collated with his own for York province (1633), Archbishop Neile's articles for York province (1633), collated with his own for (1636), Neile's articles for York province (1633), collated with Archdeacon Henry Wickham's articles for York archdeaconry (1635); Archbishop Richard Bancroft's orders for Canterbury Cathedral 1609; royal instructions to the episcopate, July 1610; royal instructions to the episcopate, May 1611. (Part contents).
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Anglican Canons 15291947
Book SynopsisA essential reference work for the history of the Church of England and Anglican canon law.This volume is a major new scholarly edition of some of the most important sources in the history of the Anglican Church. It includes all the canons produced by the Church of England, from the opening of the Reformation parliamentin 1529 to 1947. Most of the material comes from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, among which the canons of 1529, 1603 and 1640, and Cardinal Pole's legatine constitutions of 1556, are of particular importance. Butthe volume also includes the first scholarly editions of the deposited canons of 1874 and 1879 and the proposed canons of 1947. In addition, it includes both the Irish canons of 1634 and the Scottish canons of 1636. The canons areaccompanied by a substantial number of supplementary texts and appendixes, illustrating their sources and development; Latin texts are accompanied by parallel English translations, and the editor provides a full scholarly apparatus, which is particularly valuable for its identification of the sources of the various canons. The texts are preceded by an extended introduction, which provides not only an up-to-date analysis of the framing and significance ofeach set of canons, but also critical discussions of the origins and development of canon law and the system of ecclesiastical courts. It is an essential work of reference for anyone interested in the history of the Church of England since the Reformation, or in Anglican canon law. GERALD BRAYis Anglican Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School, Samford University.Trade ReviewA formidable volume - the first critical edition of post-Reformation Anglican canon law to appear since 1842... A substantial introduction combines conceptual clarity with immense detail... Altogether, this is a book of remarkable scholarship and weight, and, for historians of canon law, it must be an indispensable volume. A work of great historical interest to the Church of England... will undoubtedly prove to be an invaluable asset. Offers theologians, historians and legal experts the most comprehensive and expertly annotated single volume available on English canon law from the genesis of the English Reformation to the reign of * ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPAL HISTORY *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Reckoned Expense Edmund Campion and the
Book SynopsisEssays exploring different facets of the life and influence of Edmund Campion, the sixteenth-century Jesuit and martyr.This volume forms the first modern study of Edmund Campion, the Jesuit priest executed at Tyburn in 1581, and through him focuses on a theme that has been attracting growing interest among sixteenth-century historians: the passagefrom a Catholic to an Anglican England, and the resistance to this move. The essays collected here investigate the historical context of Campion's mission; different aspects of his writing and work; the network of colleagues withwhom he was in contact; his relationship with contemporaries such as Sir Philip Sidney; the effect of his English mission; and the legacy he left. THOMAS M. MCCOOG, S.J. is the Archivist of the British province of theSociety of Jesus and a member of the Jesuit Historical Institute at Rome. Contributors: FRANCISCO DE BORJA MEDINA, JOHN BOSSY, NANCY POLLARD BROWN, KATHERINE DUNCAN-JONES, DENNIS FLYNN, VICTOR HOULISTON, JOHN J. LAROCCA, COLM LENNON, DAVID LOADES, JAMES MCCONICA, THOMAS M. MCCOOG, THOMAS MAYER, MICHAEL QUESTIER, ALISON SHELL, MICHAEL E. WILLIAMSTrade ReviewA major contribution to English Jesuit and recusant history. * HISTORY *The success of Reckoned Expense, which is an unusual contribution to Tudor history, comes from its presentation of some very recent, and also some very specialised, research on Catholicism in the British Isles during the reigns of Mary I and Elizabeth I, which, refreshingly, moves away from a completely Anglocentric approach to the period. * THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Scholars interested in the Jesuits, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, or the English Reformation will find much of interest within it. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *Table of Contents``We Are Made a Spectacle': Campion's Dramas'. - The spirituality of the restored catholic church (1553-1558) in the context of the counter reformation - David M Loades A test of wills: Cardinal Pole, Ignatius Loyola, and the Jesuits in England - Thomas Mayer The catholic experience in tudor Oxford - James McConica Edmund Campion's Histories of Ireland and reform in tudor Ireland - Colm Lennon Sir Philip Sidney's debt to Edmund Campion - Katherine Duncan-Jones `We are made a spectacle': Campion's dramas - Alison Shell `Playing the Champion': the role of disputation in the Jesuit mission - Thomas M McCoog, S.J. The heart of Robert Persons - John Bossy Why Robert Persons would not be pacified: Edmund Bunny's theft of The Book of Resolution - Victor Houliston `Out of Step': six supplementary notes on Jasper Heywood - Dennis Flynn Robert Southwell: the mission of the written word - Nancy Pollard Brown Intrigues of a Scottish Jesuit at the Spanish Court: unpublished letters of William Crichton to Claudio Acquaviva (Madrid 1590- 1592)1592) - Francisco De B. Medina, S.J. Popery and Pounds: the effect of the Jesuit mission on penal legislation - John La Rocca, S.J. `Like locusts over all the world': conversion, indoctrination and the society of Jesus in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England - Michael Questier Campion and the English continental seminaries - Michael Williams
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Cartulary of Chatteris Abbey
Book Synopsis15c cartulary of Benedictine nunnery illuminates relationship with Ely, estate management, and life of women religious.Takes its place as perhaps the finest available study of a house for women religious. ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW The fifteenth-century cartulary of the Benedictine nunnery of Chatteris Abbey in Cambridgeshire (founded in the early eleventh century) has important implications for the study of women religious, especially in the light of the small number of surviving cartularies from English nunneries, yet until now it has received little attention, perhaps due to its damage in the Cotton Library fire of 1731. This critical edition of the manuscript, which contains documents copied into it from the mid-twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, offers a full transcription, together with historical notes and apparatus. The introduction draws on the cartulary itself, as well as manorial and episcopal records, to analyse the nunnery's relationship with its patron, the bishop of Ely, and the development and management of its estates; it also examines the location and layout of the abbey, the social and geographical origins of the nuns, and the production and organisation of the cartulary. The edition is accompanied by an annotated listof all known abbesses, prioresses and nuns. CLAIRE BREAYgained her Ph.D. at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of London; she is currently a curator of medieval manuscripts at the British Library.Trade ReviewA valuable addition to the corpus of printed sources available to historians of the religious orders, and especially those interested in the history of religious women. * AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW *Its importance lies in being one of the very few surviving cartularies from English nunneries and in its consequent value for the study of women religious... An exemplary edition... comprehensive introduction. * MEDIUM AEVUM [H E J Cowdrey] *Table of ContentsThe cartulary of Chatteris Abbey and the history of English nunneries; the foundation and patronage of Chatteris Abbey; the endowment - the development and extent of the abbey's endowment, temporalities, spiritualities, the value of the abbey's temporalities and spiritualities, the chronology, type and size of donations made to the abbey, the abbey's benefactors, donations to the abbey for purposes specified by the benefactors, dowry-grants, bequests to Chatteris abbey; the management of the estate - purchases, sales and exchanges made by the abbey, the abbey's methods of exploiting its estates, the sale and consumption of agricultural produce, mills, manorial courts, the abbey's officials; the abbey - the site, plan and seal of the abbey, the nuns, chaplains, servants and lay-sisters; the production and arrangement of the cartulary; editorial method; the cartulary of Chatteris Abbey and an original charter - appendix 1 the known abbesses, prioresses, nuns and lay-sisters of Chatteris, chronological list of the known abbesses, chronological list of the known prioresses, alphabetical list of the known abbesses, prioresses, nuns and lay-sisters; appendix 2 the inventory of Chatteris Abbey, 1538.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Premonstratensian Order in Late Medieval
Book SynopsisDetailed study of monastic life of the English white canons, based on 15c visitation records.Monasteries were a dominant feature of the landscape of medieval England, but although much critical attention has been devoted to them, comparatively little has been written on the thirty abbeys of the English Premonstratensians[`White Canons'], a gap which this book, the first detailed study since the early 1950s, seeks to fill. Centred upon the remarkable visitation records of Richard Redman [d.1505], commissary-general and visitor of the English Premonstratensian abbeys, it covers topics such as the foundation and development of the English Premonstratensian province; Redman's visitation of the Premonstratensian abbeys; conventual food and clothing; misdemeanours, such as sexual immorality and apostasy; liturgical observances; spirituality and learning; and English Premonstratensian libraries. It thus offers evidence for the vitality of the English Premonstratensians, as well as re-evaluating their monastic observances.Trade ReviewA valuable addition to a growing body of new research on the old monastic orders at the end of the middle ages. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *An important addition to the literature on the religious orders in the late middle ages. * AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW *A useful volume. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *A work of meticulous scholarship that makes a valuable contribution to the subject. * HISTORY *This new study is to be welcomed.... Gribbin's discussion...is persuasive and revealing. * SPECULUM *Table of ContentsThe establishment of the Premonstratensians in England and the development of the "Provincia Angliae"; the visitation records of the late medieval English Premonstratensians; the visitation of England's Premonstratensian abbeys, c.1478-1500; the English Premonstratensian liturgy in the later middle ages; learning, spirituality and "Pastoralia" - English Premonstratensian manuscripts, books and libraries in the later middle ages; Richard Redman, O. Praem; conclusion - from cessation to dissolution. Appendices: the visitation itineraries of Richard Redman in Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 1519; maps of Redman's proposed visitation journeys, 1478, 1491 and 1500; English Premonstratensian visitations, 1458-1503; fornication among the English Premonstratensians, 1475-1500; the date of John Capgrave's "Life of St Norbert".
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Choral Revival in the Anglican Church
Book SynopsisSurvey of an important period in the development of the choral tradition in the Anglican church.When Bernarr Rainbow was director of music at the College of St Mark and St John, Chelsea, he came across the 1849 diary of service music of Thomas Helmore. Astonished at its breadth of repertoire, he was inspired to investigate the circumstances of the document. His findings are recorded in this book, which sets Thomas Helmore's contribution in perspective against the background of the Choral Revival as a whole.In tracing the history of the remarkable revival of care for the music of the liturgy, the author produced a socio-musical history of a period vital in the evolution of the Anglican Church, and made clear, probably for the first time, how music in the Anglican Churchcame to follow lines which are unique in Christendom. His book was originally published at a time of important changes in ecclesiastical thinking; his presentation of the decisions taken in the past which led to the existing relationship between choirs and congregations, interesting in itself, is also valuable in the continuing debate.Trade ReviewThis reissued classic is unique in being the only book specifically on the musical history of the Catholic Movement in the CofE. * NEW DIRECTIONS *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Christabel Pankhurst Fundamentalism and Feminism
Book SynopsisChristabel Pankhurst, one of the leading champions of women's suffrage in Britain, entered the evangelical world after the first world war as a preacher of the second coming. Larsen shows that the two causes, far from being automatically antagonistic, could be complementary.Christabel Pankhurst was arguably the most influential member of her famous family in the struggle to win the vote for women in the years before the First World War. Paradoxically, she has also been the most neglected subsequentlyby historians. Part of the reason for this may be that, in the years after women's suffrage had been achieved in 1918, she turned her energies to Christian fundamentalism and carved out a new career as a writer of best-selling evangelical books and as a high-profile speaker on the fundamentalist preaching circuit, particularly in the United States. In this important work Tim Larsen provides the first full account of this part of Christabel Pankhurst's life. He thus offers both a highly original contribution to Christabel Pankhurst's biography and also a fascinating commentary on the relationship between fundamentalism and feminism. His book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the Pankhursts, in the history of the women's movement, or in fundamentalism in Britain and North America. TIMOTHY LARSEN is Associate Professor of Theology, Wheaton College, USA.Trade Review[The book] reveals a nuanced picture [and] is evidently the product of considerable research. In raising the complex relationship between feminism and fundamentalist Christianity, Larsen has identified issues of central importance to scholars of both feminist history and religious studies. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Larsen restores a more understandable version of Christable Pankhurst in her later incarnation...and equips future biographers to explore more sensitively the personal and political connections between her suffragist and her Adventist years. * ALBION *Shed[s] light on a significant woman...who has not received the attention she obviously deserves. * JNL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF RELIGION *Table of ContentsChristian ministry; eschatology and theology; current events; doom and hope; the fundamentalist circuit; fundamentalism and feminism in society; fundamentalism and feminism in the Church.
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd The Cult of King Charles the Martyr
Book SynopsisThe first study to deal exclusively with the cult and the political theology underpinning it, taking the story up to 1859.The cult of King Charles the Martyr did not spring into life fully formed in January 1649. Its component parts were fashioned during Charles's captivity and were readily available to preachers and eulogists in the weeks and monthsafter the regicide. However, it was the publication of the Eikon Basilike in early February 1649 that established the image of Charles as a suffering, innocent king, walking in the footsteps of his Saviour to his own Calvary at Whitehall. The figure of the martyr and the shared set of images and beliefs surrounding him contributed to the survival of royalism and Anglicanism during the years of exile. With the Restoration the cult was given official status by the annexing of the Office for the 30th January in the Book of Common Prayer in 1662. The political theology underpinning the cult and a particular historiography of the Civil Wars were presented as the only orthodox reading of these events. Yet from the Exclusion Crisis onwards dissonant voices were heard challenging the orthodox interpretation. In these circumstances the cult began to fragment between those who retained the political theology of the 1650s and those who sought to adapt the cult to the changing political and dynastic circumstances of 1688 and 1714. This is the first study to deal exclusively with the cult and takes the story up until1859, the year in which the Office for the 30th January was removed from the Book of Common Prayer. Apart from discussing the origins of the cult in war, revolution and defeat it also reveals the extent to which politicaldebate in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was conducted in terms of the Civil Wars. It also goes some way to explaining the persistence of conservative assumptions and patterns of thought. ANDREW LACEY is currently Special Collections Librarian, University of Leicester, and College Librarian, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.Trade ReviewScholarly, readable, stimulating, and approachable. * CHURCH TIMES *By placing before us a considerable, informed, and often sensitive reading of material too easily dismissed as predictable and unenlightening, Lacey has offered both a foundation for further studies and a well-placed stepping stone for others' journeys. * H-NET BOOK REVIEWS *Scholarly, insightful, and thought-provoking...[a] groundbreaking study. * REVIEWS IN HISTORY *It is a tribute to this intelligent, fascinating and cogent study that it provokes far-reaching reflection. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *A major contribution to early modern British history. * JOURNAL OF MODERN HISTORY *Original in its treatment of the origins and early development of the cult of Charles I as martyr in the 1640s and 1650s.... An important contribution towards a better understanding of what was in the king's mind and what were the beliefs of his supporters. * HISTORY *A valuable study of the materials of Charles' memorialization and the pressures that made the myth. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Should be read by anyone interested in royal culture and its evolution over time. * HISTORICAL JOURNAL *
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Religion and the Conduct of War c.300c.1215
Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive analysis of the dynamic interpenetration of religion and war in the West from C4 to early C13.Warfare in all histories and cultures shows evidence of the driving need to sanctify the cause, from the personal devotions of individuals to the grand designs of the architects of battle. In his important study David Bachrach takes a first thorough look at warfare in western Europe and its interaction with Christianity, from the initial appearance of the pacifist sect to the medieval popes' certainty of the crusades as "holy war". Religion played a necessary and crucial role in the conduct of war during late Antiquity and the middle ages. Military discipline and morale depended in significant part on religious rites carried out by priests and soldiers in the field and by their supporters on the home front. Just as importantly, warfare in the late Roman empire and its western successor states had a profound impact on Christian religious practice and doctrine: liturgicalTrade ReviewA valuable study. [...] Deserves to become a standard point of entry for anyone interested in the inherent conflict between 'Thou shalt not kill' and the thousands of Christian warriors marching off to battle. * JOURNAL OF MILITARY HISTORY *A solid book on an important subject. Recommended. * CHOICE *This valuable contribution to military history also enriches our understanding of popular religion and piety in Europe. . This long view of military religion and of the practices and beliefs of the larger society is both informative and enlightening and should serve as a solid cornerstone for future scholarship. Worth a careful read because it is rich in interesting and suggestive detail. * SPECULUM *
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SPCK Publishing Anyone Can Tell a Bible Story
Book SynopsisCatch and hold the attention of your listeners as you tell great stories from the Bible.
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SPCK - Monarch The SpiritFilled Church Finding Your Place in
Book SynopsisHow the Holy Spirit works through the church todayTrade Review"Finally a book on the move of the Spirit that isn't flakey, extrabiblical, manipulative or experience driven. Terry Virgo has written a truly exceptional book that is biblically sound, doctrinally consistent, and easily understood. I predict this is going to have a huge impact on the Western church in bringing it forward to a healthier understanding on not just the persons of the Trinity but the function of the Trinity today." -- Bob Roberts, Jr., Senior Pastor NorthWood ChurchTable of ContentsContentsForeword 8Acknowledgments 10Introduction 111. You shall receive power 132. I will be with you a little longer 203. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit 294. Empowered by the Spirit and the word 395. Healings and miracles, signs and wonders 486. Transforming grace 567. Worship in spirit and truth 658. Consider yourself one of the family 769. Empowering the poor 8910. Shepherds after my own heart 9811. Churches that pray 10512. A prophetic people 11213. The crucial role of leadership 12214. The church through an apostle’s eyes 13715. The work of an apostle 145Bibliography 158
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