Luke Timothy Johnson As part of the Christian Bible, the New Testament is at once widely influential and (especially among the young and the educated) increasingly unknown. Those who want... | Timothy Lim Since their accidental discovery in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls have been hailed as the greatest manuscript discovery ever made. Amidst the conspiracies, politics, and sensational claims, however, it can... |
Nick Page Become an instant expert on the Bible - in just an hour's read. | Desiderius Erasmus; Martin Luther Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at Cambridge. An... |
Mark A. Noll In this fresh and clear history of Protestantism, Mark A. Noll looks at the era from Martin Luther to the present day. Focussing on developments worldwide and including a range... | D.Stephen Long In this Very Short Introduction D. Stephen Long examines the sources, history and contemporary theorists involved in the study of Christian ethics. Using examples of specific practical matters such as... |
William Paley Offers an abridged edition of William Paley's seminal work, "A View of the Evidence of Christianity", which was required reading at Cambridge University until the twentieth century. | Charles Foster; Phyllis Tickle |
E. P. Sanders Paul is the most powerful human personality in the history of the Church. A missionary, theologian, and religious genius, in his epistles, he laid the foundations on which later Christian... | |
John Kinross These buildings deserve our attention and further study, and the book offers maps and directions on how to find these churches for those inspired to seek them out. | Terryl L. Givens With over 140 million copies in print, and serving as the principal proselytizing tool of one of the world's fastest growing faiths, the Book of Mormon is undoubtedly... |
Andrew Parker Could it be, however, that the creation story in "Genesis" was written as it was because that is in fact the correct order of events at the beginning of the... | Francis J. Bremer Written by a leading expert on the Puritans, this brief, informative volume offers a wealth of background on this key religious movement. This book traces the shaping, triumph, and decline... |
Paul B. Foster This Very Short Introduction offers a clear and concise account of the apocryphal gospels. Exploring their origins, discovery and interpretation, and examining controversies and case-studies, Paul Foster shows how the... | |