[PDF] Beginning From Jerusalem eBook

Author : James D.G. Dunn
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 1364 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802839320

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In Christianity in the making, James D.G. Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism. He mines all the first- and second-century sources, including the New Testament Gospels, New Testament apocrypha, and such church fathers as Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus, showing how the Jesus tradition and the figures of James, Paul, Peter, and John were still esteemed influences but were also the subject of intense controversy as the early church wrestled with its evolving identity.

Author : Glenn W. Olsen
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 21,69 MB
Release : 2010-10-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1681490528

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A highly regarded historian and professor presents a sustained reflection on the meaning of the Church's life in time. Divided into five parts, each section takes up a period of Church history and considers how the developments in church history relate to the Church today. From doctrines to customs, Olsen examines both the theological and historical impact of each new development. Beginning with ancient Christianity, the author illustrates how both secularization and sacralization take place in history and how it corresponds to our own age. Taking the reader from late ancient and early medieval Christianity, to the full bloom of medieval scholasticism and scholarship, to the dawn of the Renaissance and the aggressively anti-religious time of the "Enlightenment", Olsen considers all aspects of every age. The final section is a discussion of the Church in our own time, confronting such problems as modernization and the relation of the Church to culture. Appendices expand on The Catechism of the Catholic Church's teaching on the relation between prayer and history.

Author : P.D. James
Publisher : Canongate Books
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 38,64 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0857861077

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Acts is the sequel to Luke's gospel and tells the story of Jesus's followers during the 30 years after his death. It describes how the 12 apostles, formerly Jesus's disciples, spread the message of Christianity throughout the Mediterranean against a background of persecution. With an introduction by P.D. James

Author : Edward Earle Ellis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 23,97 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780391041684

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This volume identifies and investigates literary traditions and their implications for the authorship and dating of the Gospels and the letters of the New Testament. Ellis argues that the Gospels and the letters are products of the corporate authorship of four allied apostolic missions and not the creation of individual authors.

Author : Karen Armstrong
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 509 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2011-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0307798593

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Venerated for millennia by three faiths, torn by irreconcilable conflict, conquered, rebuilt, and mourned for again and again, Jerusalem is a sacred city whose very sacredness has engendered terrible tragedy. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly praised A History of God, traces the history of how Jews, Christians, and Muslims have all laid claim to Jerusalem as their holy place, and how three radically different concepts of holiness have shaped and scarred the city for thousands of years. Armstrong unfolds a complex story of spiritual upheaval and political transformation--from King David's capital to an administrative outpost of the Roman Empire, from the cosmopolitan city sanctified by Christ to the spiritual center conquered and glorified by Muslims, from the gleaming prize of European Crusaders to the bullet-ridden symbol of the present-day Arab-Israeli conflict. Written with grace and clarity, the product of years of meticulous research, Jerusalem combines the pageant of history with the profundity of searching spiritual analysis. Like Karen Armstrong's A History of God, Jerusalem is a book for the ages. BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Karen Armstrong's Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life.

Author : Charles H. Spurgeon
Publisher : Selected Christian Literature
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 19,4 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8582184263

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"To whom coming." 1 Peter 2:4 This is another volume in the series of Sermons by Charles Spurgeon. This Sermon based on the biblical passage in 1 Peter 2: 4 teaches us about the Glorious grace of God. This message will help you understand the love of God and His Grace.

Author : John Mark Reynolds
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2010-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830878866

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Christian theology shaped and is shaping many places in the world, but it was the Greeks who originally gave a philosophic language to Christianity. John Mark Reynolds's book When Athens Met Jerusalem provides students a well-informed introduction to the intellectual underpinnings (Greek, Roman and Christian) of Western civilization and highlights how certain current intellectual trends are now eroding those very foundations. This work makes a powerful contribution to the ongoing faith versus reason debate, showing that these two dimensions of human knowing are not diametrically opposed, but work together under the direction of revelation.

Author : Carl G. Rasmussen
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 26,69 MB
Release : 2013-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0310518113

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An up-close, comprehensive, and colorful atlas that allows you to travel to the lands where Jesus walked, Moses traveled, and Paul preached. Discover everything you need to know about the lands of the Bible. Packed with multidimensional maps, photos, diagrams, and charts; the Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible is designed to help you better understand the history and places of the Bible and its world. This full-color atlas is concise but thorough, perfect for Bible students, travelers to the Holy Land, or any reader of the Bible curious to find out more about commonly mentioned places in the Old and New Testaments. The Zondervan Essential Atlas of the Bible features: Nearly 200 stunning multidimensional and three-dimensional maps and full-color images. Accurate and up-to-date mapping technologies. Innovative chronological charts and maps covering historical backgrounds, regions, weather, and roads. With this easy-to-understand atlas, you'll find Bible study more engaging and comprehensible, and you'll learn key contextual facts about these historically and spiritually rich places.

Author : James Carroll
Publisher : HMH
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 14,50 MB
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0547549059

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A “masterful” history of the city and its holy wars past and present, from the New York Times–bestselling author of Constantine’s Sword (The Boston Globe). How did this ancient Middle Eastern city become a transcendent fantasy that ignites religious fervor unlike anywhere else on earth? Jerusalem, Jerusalem journeys through centuries of conflict among Jews, Christians, and Muslims, right up to the present-day Israeli-Palestinian struggle—with fascinating examinations of how the idea of the holy city has shaped not just the region’s history but the world’s.

Author : Puʻah Shṭainer
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,23 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780873063944

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The poignant, autobiographical story of the fall and evacuation of the Jewish Quarter, as witnessed through the eyes of a young girl. With maps.