29 books in Religion - Church History
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Worlds Of Wonder, Days Of Judgment
Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Written by David D. Hall
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $24.99
This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of... Read more >
Popular Religious Belief in Early New England
Written by David D. Hall
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 1, 2013
Price: $24.99
This book tells an extraordinary story of the people of early New England and their spiritual lives. It is about ordinary people--farmers, housewives, artisans, merchants, sailors, aspiring scholars--struggling to make sense of their time and place on earth. David Hall describes a world of religious consensus and resistance: a variety of... Read more >
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The Church
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $21.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this thought-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $21.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this thought-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
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The Church
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this through-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
Unlocking the Secrets to the Places Catholics Call Home
Written by Cardinal Donald Wuerl and Mike Aquilina
Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: March 5, 2013
Price: $11.99
From the bestselling authors of The Mass, an insightful and practical guide that explores the architectural and spiritual components of the Catholic Church.
Your local church is not only a physical place, but a spiritual home. In this through-provoking book, Wuerl and Aquilina illuminate the importance of the Church in its many... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $28.95
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $28.95
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
eBook and a
trade paperback.
Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $12.99
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Format: eBook, 448 pages
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $12.99
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Also available as an
unabridged audio CD,
unabridged audiobook download,
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $50.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Compact Disc
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $50.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
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Going Clear
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $25.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief
Written by Lawrence Wright
Read by Morton Sellers
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: January 17, 2013
Price: $25.00
A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with current and former Scientologists—both famous and less well known—and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his... Read more >
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The Third Miracle
An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith
Written by Bill Briggs
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
Part detective story and part courtroom drama—with a touch of the supernatural—The Third Miracle exposes, for the first time ever, the secret rituals and investigations the Catholic Church today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.
On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep in the Indiana woods, a Baptist... Read more >
An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith
Written by Bill Briggs
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: November 13, 2012
Price: $15.00
Part detective story and part courtroom drama—with a touch of the supernatural—The Third Miracle exposes, for the first time ever, the secret rituals and investigations the Catholic Church today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.
On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep in the Indiana woods, a Baptist... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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From the Holy Mountain
A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces... Read more >
A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $16.95
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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From the Holy Mountain
A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $12.99
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces... Read more >
A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
Written by William Dalrymple
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2012
Price: $12.99
In the spring of A.D. 587, John Moschos and his pupil Sophronius the Sophist embarked on a remarkable expedition across the entire Byzantine world, traveling from the shores of Bosphorus to the sand dunes of Egypt. Using Moschos’s writings as his guide and inspiration, the acclaimed travel writer William Dalrymple retraces... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Absolute Monarchs
A History of the Papacy
Written by John Julius Norwich
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $20.00
A History of the Papacy
Written by John Julius Norwich
Format: Trade Paperback, 528 pages
On Sale: May 15, 2012
Price: $20.00
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as...
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eBook.
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Absolute Monarchs
A History of the Papacy
Written by John Julius Norwich
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as... Read more >
A History of the Papacy
Written by John Julius Norwich
Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: July 12, 2011
Price: $15.99
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In a chronicle that captures nearly two thousand years of inspiration and intrigue, John Julius Norwich recounts in riveting detail the histories of the most significant popes and what they meant politically, culturally, and socially to Rome and to the world. Norwich presents such popes as... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Mushroom in Christian Art
The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity
Written by John A. Rush
Foreword by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $29.95
In The Mushroom in Christian Art, author John A. Rush uses an artistic motif to define the nature of Christian art, establish the identity of Jesus, and expose the motive for his murder. Covering Christian art from 200 CE (common era) to the present, the author reveals that Jesus, the Teacher... Read more >
The Identity of Jesus in the Development of Christianity
Written by John A. Rush
Foreword by Martin W. Ball, Ph.D.
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $29.95
In The Mushroom in Christian Art, author John A. Rush uses an artistic motif to define the nature of Christian art, establish the identity of Jesus, and expose the motive for his murder. Covering Christian art from 200 CE (common era) to the present, the author reveals that Jesus, the Teacher... Read more >
The Third Miracle
An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith
Written by Bill Briggs
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $13.99
Part detective story and part courtroom drama—with a touch of the supernatural—The Third Miracle exposes, for the first time ever, the secret rituals and investigations the Catholic Church today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.
On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep in the Indiana woods, a Baptist... Read more >
An Ordinary Man, a Medical Mystery, and a Trial of Faith
Written by Bill Briggs
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $13.99
Part detective story and part courtroom drama—with a touch of the supernatural—The Third Miracle exposes, for the first time ever, the secret rituals and investigations the Catholic Church today undertakes in order to determine sainthood.
On a raw January 2001 morning at a Catholic convent deep in the Indiana woods, a Baptist... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Meaning of Mary Magdalene
Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity
Written by Cynthia Bourgeault
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $16.95
Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity—yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer... Read more >
Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity
Written by Cynthia Bourgeault
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2010
Price: $16.95
Mary Magdalene is one of the most influential symbols in the history of Christianity—yet, if you look in the Bible, you’ll find only a handful of verses that speak of her. How did she become such a compelling saint in the face of such paltry evidence? In her effort to answer... Read more >
Triumph
The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
Written by H.W. Crocker III
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $17.99
For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. But until now, Catholics interested in their faith have been hard-pressed to find an accessible, affirmative, and exciting history of the Church.
Triumph is that history. Inside... Read more >
The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church
Written by H.W. Crocker III
Format: eBook, 512 pages
On Sale: February 25, 2009
Price: $17.99
For 2,000 years, Catholicism—the largest religion in the world and in the United States—has shaped global history on a scale unequaled by any other institution. But until now, Catholics interested in their faith have been hard-pressed to find an accessible, affirmative, and exciting history of the Church.
Triumph is that history. Inside... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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The Wisdom Jesus
Transforming Heart and Mind--A New Perspective on Christ and His Message
Written by Cynthia Bourgeault
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $16.95
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can... Read more >
Transforming Heart and Mind--A New Perspective on Christ and His Message
Written by Cynthia Bourgeault
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $16.95
If you put aside what you think you know about Jesus and approach the Gospels as though for the first time, something remarkable happens: Jesus emerges as a teacher of the transformation of consciousness. Cynthia Bourgeault is a masterful guide to Jesus's vision and to the traditional contemplative practices you can... Read more >
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All the Pope's Men
The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
Written by John L. Allen, Jr.
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present.
The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing cultural gap between the English-speaking Catholic world and... Read more >
The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
Written by John L. Allen, Jr.
Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $11.99
A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present.
The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing cultural gap between the English-speaking Catholic world and... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Catholic Church
A Short History
Written by Hans Kung
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.99
In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes; and the expansion of... Read more >
A Short History
Written by Hans Kung
Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.99
In this extraordinary book, the renowned Hans Kung chronicles the Roman Catholic Church’s role as a world power throughout history. He examines great schisms — between East and West, Catholicism and Protestantism — the evolving role of the papacy and the stories of the great reforming popes; and the expansion of... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
The Faith
A History of Christianity
Written by Brian Moynahan
Format: eBook, 816 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $24.99
Beginning with the birth of Jesus and tracing the religion established by his followers up to the present day, The Faith is a comprehensive exploration of the history of Christianity. Judiciously covering all the signal moments without bogging down in minutia, author Brian Moynahan's superbly written and generously illustrated book is... Read more >
A History of Christianity
Written by Brian Moynahan
Format: eBook, 816 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $24.99
Beginning with the birth of Jesus and tracing the religion established by his followers up to the present day, The Faith is a comprehensive exploration of the history of Christianity. Judiciously covering all the signal moments without bogging down in minutia, author Brian Moynahan's superbly written and generously illustrated book is... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Where God Happens
Discovering Christ in One Another
Written by Rowan Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $19.95
The place "where God happens," according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other. It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of alienation that has become endemic to our age... Read more >
Discovering Christ in One Another
Written by Rowan Williams
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: August 14, 2007
Price: $19.95
The place "where God happens," according to Rowan Williams's striking new reading of the Desert Fathers and Mothers, is between each other. It's a truth that we of the twenty-first century most urgently need to learn in order to heal the experience of alienation that has become endemic to our age... Read more >
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In the Name of Heaven
3000 Years of Religious Persecution
Written by Mary Jane Engh
Format: Hardcover, 261 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2006
Price: $27.99
Religion—the source of inspiration, hope, and basic values for most of humanity throughout history—has also been the motive for atrocious persecutions from antiquity to the present. In the Name of Heaven is a wide-ranging historical survey of religious persecution encompassing three millennia and a great diversity of cultures worldwide.
Defining religious... Read more >
3000 Years of Religious Persecution
Written by Mary Jane Engh
Format: Hardcover, 261 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2006
Price: $27.99
Religion—the source of inspiration, hope, and basic values for most of humanity throughout history—has also been the motive for atrocious persecutions from antiquity to the present. In the Name of Heaven is a wide-ranging historical survey of religious persecution encompassing three millennia and a great diversity of cultures worldwide.
Defining religious... Read more >
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All the Pope's Men
The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
Written by John L. Allen, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $14.95
A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present.
The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing cultural gap between the English-speaking Catholic world and... Read more >
The Inside Story of How the Vatican Really Thinks
Written by John L. Allen, Jr.
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: October 17, 2006
Price: $14.95
A fascinating and enlightening look at the world’s oldest and most mysterious institution, written by an American journalist with unparalleled knowledge about the Vatican's past and present.
The sexual abuse scandals that shook American and British Catholicism in 2002 brought to light a long-standing cultural gap between the English-speaking Catholic world and... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Discovering Stained Glass
Written by John Harries
Illustrated by Carola Hicks
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $13.95
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Written by John Harries
Illustrated by Carola Hicks
Format: Trade Paperback, 96 pages
On Sale: December 1, 2005
Price: $13.95
Read more >
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The Unknown Sayings of Jesus
Written by Marvin Meyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
Hundreds of sayings were attributed to the sage from Nazareth by ancient admirers. More than fifteen hundred versions of five hundred quotations are attributed to Jesus in the New Testament, the Gospel of Thomas, and other Gospels found at Nag Hammadi. Marvin Meyer has combed additional Jewish, Muslim, and Christian sources... Read more >
Written by Marvin Meyer
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Price: $19.95
Hundreds of sayings were attributed to the sage from Nazareth by ancient admirers. More than fifteen hundred versions of five hundred quotations are attributed to Jesus in the New Testament, the Gospel of Thomas, and other Gospels found at Nag Hammadi. Marvin Meyer has combed additional Jewish, Muslim, and Christian sources... Read more >
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