Church history books

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The relationship between early Christianity in Arabia and the development of Islam was a question that absorbed...  Read More >>

The text in Chinese and Syriac, with English translation and notes, of the Nestorian Stele, set up in Changan in...  Read More >>

In the present work, Wilhelm Baum provides an historical survey of the experiences of Christian communities in Turkey...  Read More >>

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Fascinating accounts of the history and architecture of Reading's ecclesiastical heritage.  Read More >>

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Examines three writers, Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, and William Cowper, who are known as famous poets, but are...  Read More >>

Members of many religions live alongside one another in sprawling urban centers and isolated rural communities,...  Read More >>

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"In the late fourth century, tales began to circulate of 'anthropomorphites' dwelling in the Egyptian desert—uneducated...  Read More >>

Revised thesis (doctoral) - Freie Universitèat, Berlin, 2010.  Read More >>

In The Blood of Martyrs, Salisbury chronicles the many spectacles of violent martydom that took place during the...  Read More >>

The lives of some 300 women, who have made a contribution to the spread of Christianity, are woven into this account...  Read More >>

Edition of rare surviving litanies from the middle ages, providing evidence for monastic worship.  Read More >>

This book explores a key economic institution, the medieval tithe, as a social and political phenomenon in eleventh-century...  Read More >>

Explores the afterlife of the classical Greek symposium in the Greco-Roman and early Christian culture of the Roman...  Read More >>

In a historical survey of the Graeco-Roman, Celtic and Germanic backgrounds against which the gospel was first preached...  Read More >>

Lilias Trotter moved from England to Algiers in 1888, at the age of 35, and died there in 1928. Lilias based The...  Read More >>

Using the idea that church buildings are sacred spaces, this study seeks to examine a central figure of thought...  Read More >>

This work is a catalogue of 38 Arabic and Syriac manuscripts found in the Syrian Orthodox Monastery of St. Mark...  Read More >>

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Examines the roles of Scripture and hymnody in a Christian community in the twenty-first century, an era marked...  Read More >>

This book investigates how Syon Abbey responded to the religious turbulence of the 1520s and 1530s. It examines...  Read More >>