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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Russian Church under the Soviet Regime 1917-1982	Dimitry Pospielovsky	The first complete modern history of the Russian Orthodox Church from the revolution to the present day, this unique two-volume work is a thoroughly researched original study based on published sourc…	OL15844949W
God is red	Yiwu Liao	When journalist Liao Yiwu first stumbled upon a vibrant Christian community in the officially secular China, he knew little about Christianity. In fact, he'd been taught that religion was evil, and t…	OL16238040W
Blessed	Kate Bowler	How have millions of American Christians come to measure spiritual progress in terms of their financial status and physical well-being? How has the movement variously called Word of Faith, Health and…	OL16805671W
A War With A Silver Lining Canadian Protestant Churches And The South African War 18991902	Gordon L. Heath	"On 11 October 1899, Britain was officially at war in South Africa against the Transvaal Republic and the Orange Free State. While the war was thousands of kilometres away, and Canada's contribution …	OL17570468W
Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt	Hildegard Temporini,Wolfgang Haase	A study of the Empress Pompeia Plotina and of Ulpia Marciana.	OL18852126W
The empty church	Thomas C. Reeves	America is in a state of spiritual decline. According to recent opinion polls and election returns, Americans are deeply concerned about the quality of life in this country. While liberals want big g…	OL1999292W
St. Ignatius and Christianity in Antioch	Virginia Corwin	The theology of St. Ignatius of Antioch was wrought in struggle, not in the study. His letters, written on the road to his death in Rome, show him still inextricably engaged with life, and give clear…	OL20940210W
John Knox and the British Reformations	Roger A. Mason	"John Knox is one of the towering figures of the European Reformation, his name synonymous with hard-line evangelical Protestantism, and his influence spreading far beyond his native Scotland. The pr…	OL20943799W
Pastoral care before the parish	Sharpe, Richard,Blair, John	This book examines the pastoral and sacramental work of the early medieval church in the British Isles. It provides a synthesis of recent scholarship which has uncovered new evidence about the organi…	OL20963476W
America's God	Mark A. Noll	"Mark A. Noll is McManis Professor of Christian Thought at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois."--BOOK JACKET.	OL2674364W
Politics and Religion in Napoleonic Italy	Michael Broers	The Politics of Religion in Napoleonic Italy explores the intense cultural conflict created by French rule in Italy at the start of the nineteenth century. Napoleon's desire for cultural conformity s…	OL2677836W
A heart frozen in the wilderness	Mary Kloska	"Mary Kloska's experience as a Siberian Missionary was inspired by an appeal from Our Blessed Mother, who prophesied at Fatima, "I shall come to ask for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate He…	OL28765415W
In context	Mark O'Keefe	The Spanish world of the sixteenth century -- The city of Ávila -- Honor, social class, and poverty -- Reform of the Church and religious orders -- The Carmelites -- The Monastery of the Incarnation …	OL28767316W
The first liberty	William Lee Miller	Explores the American concept of religious liberty: how it originated, its enactment into law, and its continuing consequences.	OL2952834W
Family Religion in Babylonia, Syria, and Israel	K. van der Toorn	This volume deals with the religious practices of the family in the ancient Babylonian, Ugaritic and early Israelite civilizations. On the basis of documents from both the private and the literary re…	OL2973356W
Sinful Folk	Ned Dykstra Hayes	A tragic loss. A desperate journey. A mother seeks the truth. In December of 1377, four children were burned to death in a suspicious house fire. Villagers traveled hundreds of miles across E…	OL2976830W
Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion in Armenia	Claude E. Cox	This book contains an analysis of remnants of the translations of Aquila, Symmachus, and Theodotion found in the margins of Armenian manuscripts of the Old Testament. Some 181 marginal readings are p…	OL3244489W
Jesus in America	Richard Wightman Fox	"This book is for believers and non-believers alike. It is not a book about whether one should believe in Jesus, but about how Americans have believed in and portrayed him." (From the Introduction)Je…	OL3252376W
The Revolution of the Saints	Michael Walzer	The Revolution of the Saints is a study, both historical and sociological, of the radical political response of the Puritans to disorder. It interprets and analyzes Calvinism as the first modern expr…	OL3350264W
Orthodoxies in Massachusetts	Janice Knight	ix, 301 pages ; 24 cm	OL3907835W