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Now in its fourth edition, this bestselling textbook (over 125,000
copies sold) isolates key events that provide a framework for
understanding the history of Christianity. The book presents
Christianity as a worldwide phenomenon rather than just a Western
experience. This popular textbook is organized around 14 key
moments in church history, providing contemporary Christians with a
fuller understanding of God as he has revealed his purpose through
the centuries. The new edition includes a new preface, updates
throughout the book, revised "further readings" for each chapter,
new sidebar content, and study questions. It also more thoroughly
highlights the importance of women in Christian history and the
impact of world Christianity. Turning Points is well suited to
introductory courses on the history of Christianity as well as
study groups in churches. Additional resources for instructors are
available through Textbook eSources.
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The Tudors are England's most notorious royal family. But, as
Leanda de Lisle's gripping new history reveals, they are a family
still more extraordinary than the one we thought we knew. The Tudor
canon typically starts with the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before
speeding on to Henry VIII and the Reformation. But this leaves out
the family's obscure Welsh origins, the ordinary man known as Owen
Tudor who would fall (literally) into a Queen's lap--and later her
bed. It passes by the courage of Margaret Beaufort, the pregnant
thirteen-year-old girl who would help found the Tudor dynasty, and
the childhood and painful exile of her son, the future Henry VII.
It ignores the fact that the Tudors were shaped by their
past--those parts they wished to remember and those they wished to
forget. By creating a full family portrait set against the
background of this past, de Lisle enables us to see the Tudor
dynasty in its own terms, and presents new perspectives and
revelations on key figures and events. De Lisle discovers a family
dominated by remarkable women doing everything possible to secure
its future; shows why the princes in the Tower had to vanish; and
reexamines the bloodiness of Mary's reign, Elizabeth's fraught
relationships with her cousins, and the true significance of
previously overlooked figures. Throughout the Tudor story, Leanda
de Lisle emphasizes the supreme importance of achieving peace and
stability in a violent and uncertain world, and of protecting and
securing the bloodline. Tudor is bristling with religious and
political intrigue but at heart is a thrilling story of one
family's determined and flamboyant ambition.
Brahana Selassie is a priest in the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, and
here gives an account of Ethiopia's national Church from its
origins in biblical times to the present century. Drawing
extensively on both biblical and academic sources, 'Towards a
Fuller Vision' describes the controversies that have raged within
the Church, and its constant struggle for the independent existence
it has now achieved.
In this highly engaging book, Peter Walker uses his expertise in
Biblical studies and his extensive experience of leading tours
around the Mediterranean to bring the world of Saint Paul vividly
to life. Following Luke's account in the Book of Acts and using
evidence from Paul s own letters, he reconstructs the apostle s
wide-ranging travels and describes the many places Paul visited as
we encounter them today. In doing so he helps us to appreciate the
issues that Paul confronted and to understand the motivation that
drove him on. Enriched with boxed features outlining key timelines
and topics, and supplemented with maps and street plans, this book
is an ideal introduction to Paul and his travels for scholars at
all levels of study.
Smith tries to redress the balance with a comprehensive history of
mission that highlights the critical contributions of women, as
well as the theological developments that influenced their role.
Beginning with an examination of the New Testament record, Smith
goes on to review the long period between the apostolic church and
the Second Vatican Council. Following a survey of critical
developments since 1965 in both Catholic and other churches, she
concludes with a magisterial chapter entitled "A Feminist
Missiology for Contemporary Missionary Women. "Women in Mission" is
a landmark in women's history and essential reading for anyone
engaged in historical, theological, mission, and women's studies.
This is an accessible two-part introduction to key periods of
Christian history. Faith in the Byzantine World For many people the
Byzantine world is an intriguing mystery. Here, Mary Cunningham
presents readers with an ideal guide to this most fascinating of
empires. Covering the period between 330 and 1453, the author
begins by providing an outline of the history of the Byzantine
Church, and then looks at key aspects of its outward expression,
including the solitary ideal; holy places and holy people; service
to the community; the nature of belief; and art, architecture and
icons. Faith in the Medieval World The medieval period constituted
a turbulent stage in religious history. Gillian R. Evans begins her
immersive account by providing an overview of the development of
Christianity in the West in the Middle Ages, before looking at key
aspects of medieval faith: the Bible and belief; popular piety and
devotion; the Crusades and the idea of 'holy war'; politics and the
Church; rebellion against authority; and the road to Reformation.
This analysis is a must for all those keen to understand one of the
most enthralling periods of history.
Born without a dowry, nearly forced into a convent, and later
married off to a man she didn't love, Olimpia Maidalchini vowed
never to be poor, powerless, or beholden to any man again. Instead,
using her wits, Olimpia became the unofficial ruler of the most
powerful institution in the world: the Roman Catholic Church.
The Church firmly states that women must be excluded from church
leadership positions--but for more than a decade in the seventeenth
century, Olimpia ran the Vatican. As sister-in-law and reputed
mistress of the indecisive Pope Innocent X, she appointed
cardinals, negotiated with foreign ambassadors, and helped herself
to a heaping portion of the Papal States' treasury.
In Mistress of the Vatican, New York Times bestselling author
Eleanor Herman brings to life not only an extraordinary woman lost
in history but an entire civilization in all its greatness . . .
and ignominy. This is the unforgettable story of a woman ahead of
her time.
Hereford and Oxford in the century following the Restoration were
two widely contrasting sees. Hereford was old, dating from ad 676,
and large, sprawling over Herefordshire, half of Shropshire and
small parts of other border counties. The Oxford diocese, on the
other hand, dated from just 1542 and was compact, merely covering
the county of Oxfordshire. This interesting book concerns a
much-overlooked period in history, drawing on little-known original
sources to build a picture of the administration of these disparate
dioceses. There are fascinating insights into the working of the
church courts (which controlled people's lives in a way and to an
extent that would be unacceptable today), portrayals of the key
figures in both sees, and an analysis of diocesan patterns of
welfare and education provision. William Marshall's research also
reveals that there was a strong commitment to repair - or to build
new - places of worship, and to make good the damage caused to
Church infrastructure during the civil wars of the 1640s. The
closing chapters go on to examine the work of the bishops, their
social origins, their academic standards, their efficiency and
diligence. As a group, they certainly cut a more energetic and
conscientious figure than has often been supposed, and for the most
part, the author argues, they were competent men who saw and
acknowledged the weaknesses of the Church and sought to address
them. In a departure from commonly held wisdom, what emerges from
William Marshall's research is that in many places the Church at
the time was very much alive, and even vigorous. Its worst failings
were, he claims, in its social welfare and in the tedium of its
worship for the mass of the people, but here, at this time, it was
certainly neither asleep nor decadent.
Sounding Forth the Trumpet brings to life one of the most crucial
epochs in America's history--the events leading up to and
precipitating the Civil War. In this enlightening book, readers
live through the Gold Rush, the Mexican War, the skirmishes of
Bleeding Kansas, and the emergence of Abraham Lincoln, as well as
the tragic issue of slavery.
In the second half of the nineteenth century, several thousand
impoverished young Jewish women from Eastern Europe were forced
into prostitution in the frontier colonies of Latin America, South
Africa, India, and parts of the United States by the Zwi Migdal, a
notorious criminal gang of Jewish mobsters.
Isabel Vincent, acclaimed author of "Hitler's Silent Partners,"
tells the remarkable true story of three such women--Sophia Chamys,
Rachel Liberman, and Rebecca Freedman--who, like so many others,
were desperate to escape a hopeless future in Europe's teeming
urban ghettos and rural shtetls. "Bodies and Souls" is a shocking
and spellbinding account of a monumental betrayal that brings to
light a dark and shameful hitherto untold chapter in Jewish
history--brilliantly chronicling the heartbreaking plight of women
rejected by a society that deemed them impure and detailing their
extraordinary struggles to live with dignity in a community of
their own creation.
Over the course of its growth in modern China, Christianity has
faced twists and turns in its embedding in Chinese society and
indigenous culture. This three-volume book delineates the genesis
and trajectory of Christianity's indigenization in China over the
course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The first volume
focuses on the presence of Christianity during the late Qing
dynasty and the early twentieth century, discussing the early waves
of Christian influence in China. Volume 2 discusses Christianity's
encounter with the turbulent history in the 1920s and responses of
Chinese church to criticisms and backlash against Christianity. The
final volume analyzes the endeavors of Christianity to adapt to the
changing social environments between the late 1920s and the end of
the 20th century. With a highlight on the relationship between the
development of Christianity and modern Chinese history, the book
will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of
Christianity in China and also modern Chinese history.
Winner of The PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Shortlisted for The
Wolfson History Prize 2022 A The Times Books of the Year 2022 Three
thousand years ago, in the Southwest Asian lands we now call Israel
and Palestine, a group of people worshipped a complex pantheon of
deities, led by a father god called El. El had seventy children,
who were gods in their own right. One of them was a minor storm
deity, known as Yahweh. Yahweh had a body, a wife, offspring and
colleagues. He fought monsters and mortals. He gorged on food and
wine, wrote books, and took walks and naps. But he would become
something far larger and far more abstract: the God of the great
monotheistic religions. But as Professor Francesca Stavrakopoulou
reveals, God's cultural DNA stretches back centuries before the
Bible was written, and persists in the tics and twitches of our own
society, whether we are believers or not. The Bible has shaped our
ideas about God and religion, but also our cultural preferences
about human existence and experience; our concept of life and
death; our attitude to sex and gender; our habits of eating and
drinking; our understanding of history. Examining God's body, from
his head to his hands, feet and genitals, she shows how the Western
idea of God developed. She explores the places and artefacts that
shaped our view of this singular God and the ancient religions and
societies of the biblical world. And in doing so she analyses not
only the origins of our oldest monotheistic religions, but also the
origins of Western culture. Beautifully written, passionately
argued and frequently controversial, God: An Anatomy is cultural
history on a grand scale. 'Rivetingly fresh and stunning' - Sunday
Times 'One of the most remarkable historians and communicators
working today' - Dan Snow
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