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A People's History of Christianity, Student Edition: From the Early Church to the Reformation, Volume 1

The essential material from A People's History of Christianity is available for classroom use covering topics from the Early Church to the Reformation.

Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action

Martin Luther King Junior is a rare mix of the deeply profound thinker and intellect who put the fruit of that reflection into the service of direct social action.

Theological Education at Finkenwalde: 1935-1937: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 14

This volume includes bible studies, sermons, and lectures on homiletics, pastoral care, and catechesis, giving a moving and up-close portrait of the Confessing Church in these crucial years.

Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod: A Conflict That Changed American Christianity

Power, Politics, and the Missouri Synod follows the rise of two Lutheran clergymen-Herman Otten and J. A. O. Preus-who led different wings of a...

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Dorothee Soelle - Mystic and Rebel: The Biography

Renate Wind has composed a well-researched and searching biography of Dorothee Soelle (1929-2003), who became a true religious provocateur...

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Theological Education Underground: 1937-1940: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 15

With extensive commentary about their historical context and theological significance, this volume of writings covers a crucial time and an understudied period...

Memoirs in Exile: Confessional Hope and Institutional Conflict

"John Tietjen's close account of the conflict within a Christian body moves with the skill, the drama, and the characterization of a novel. But there is no...

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The Emergence of Christianity: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Perspective

This brief survey text tells the story of early Christianity. Cynthia White explores the emergence of Christianity in Rome during the first four centuries of...

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Bonhoeffer and King: Their Legacies and Import for Christian Social Thought

Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- these giants of recent Christian social thought are here reassessed for a new context and a new generation....

A People's History of Christianity: Byzantine Christianity, Vol 3

This third volume in the pioneering A People's History of Christianity series focuses on the religious lives of ordinary people and introduces the religion of...

A People's History of Christianity: Reformation Christianity, Vol 5

Perhaps no period in Christian history experienced such social tumult and upheaval as the Reformation, as it quickly became apparent that social and political...

A People's History of Christianity: Modern Christianity to 1900, Vol 6

After the Reformation, Christians found themselves living amidst wars of religion, Enlightenment, and colonization. This volume explores the spread of...

A People's History of Christianity: Twentieth-Century Global Christianity, Vol 7

A specific focus and intent of this final volume of A People's History of Christianity is to delve behind the global phenomenon of Christianity to glimpse some...

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eBook-A People's History of Christianity:Christian Origins, Vol 1

Dealing with a time when "Christians" were moving towards separation from the movement's Jewish origins, this inaugural volume of A People's History of...

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eBook-A People's History of Christianity:Late Ancient Christianity, Vol 2

The particular excitement of this volume lies in its focus on the everyday realities of Christians' lives in the era of Christian ascendancy and Roman decline....

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eBook-A People's History of Christianity: Medieval Christianity, Vol 4

The fourth volume in A People's History of Christianity series accents the astounding range of cultural and religious experience within medieval Christianity...

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Sanctorum Communio: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 1

Now in an affordable paper edition, Sanctorum Communio is more readily usable for teaching and scholarship. The work, available in this series for the first...

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Act and Being: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 2

The fresh, critical translation of the volume is now available in paper. Act and Being, written in 1929-1930 as Bonhoeffer's second dissertation, deals with...

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Barcelona, Berlin, New York: 1928-1931: Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works, Volume 10

The period 1928 to 1931, which followed completion of his dissertation, was formative for Bonhoeffer's personal and pastoral and theological direction. Almost...

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Mission and Menace: Four Centuries of American Religious Zeal

Observing that Abraham Lincoln once described the United States as an "almost chosen nation," Robert Jewett offers a critical survey of the history of...

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