Abraham's God: The Origin and History of the Beliefs of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, Paperback - John W. Dickerson

Reducere. Abraham's God is the incredible story of the origin of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and how they came to the shared faith in the God of Abraha...

Examines faith as one might examine a gem, gazing at different facets in turn. In this process, Patrick Ryan, a Jesuit who has lived for decades in...

Reducere. Across centuries, the Islamic Middle East hosted large populations of Christians and Jews in addition to Muslims. Today, this diversity is mostly a...

Reducere. Thomas B. Thayer investigates eternal hellfire as a punishment for deceased sinners, contrasting this idea to what actual, Biblical passages say ab...

Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard E. RubensteinEurope was in the long slumber of the Middle Ages, the Roman Empire was in tatters, and the Greek lang...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: A. M. Ruth Edna KelleySince its original publication in 1919, Ruth Edna Kelley's THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'EN remains the all tim...

Are Islam and Christianity the same religion, at their heart - part of the one family of Abrahamic faiths?Are Islam and Christianity essentially th...

Reducere. In a world torn by religious antagonism, lessons can be learned from medieval Spanish villages where Muslims, Christians, and Jews rubbed shoulders...

DescriptionThe fact that some who profess to be Christians fall away from the faith has always been an obstacle to God's people, but we are told in...

Christians everywhere are in the darkness of Deism regarding the Bible. Are you one of them? Deism believes God brings forth, then shows indifferen...

Reducere. Christians everywhere are in the darkness of Deism regarding the Bible. Are you one of them? Deism believes God brings forth, then shows indifferen...

Reducere. In its last decade, the Ottoman Empire underwent a period of dynamic reform, and the 1908 revolution transformed the empire's 20 million subjects i...

The essays and lectures colleced in this volume focus on the relationship of the Catholic Church with the other "Abrahamic" faiths, primarily Islam...

Reducere. Panentheism has gained popularity among contemporary thinkers. This belief system explains that "all is in God"; as a soul is related to a body, so...

Reducere. Many books have been written about the Bible, but few explain its origins. This updated volume of the original classic provides a fascinating overv...

Reducere. THE ORIGIN OF THE NAME OF GOD AND HIS TRUE IDENTITY. Synopsis and Translation of the Phoenician, Ugaritic, Canaanite, Sumerian, Akkadian, and Assyr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Friedrich GentzEditor: Peter KoslowskiThe Origin and Principles of the American Revolution is perhaps one of the most impor...

Reducere. Today's prophecy students continue to benefit from the insightful and biblical writings of 19th-century theologian George H. Pember. Though "Earth'...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John A. McGuckinDesigned for any 21st-century Christian, this prayer book gathers prayers and rituals from the ancient Chur...

Reducere. It is traditional to think we should praise Abraham for his willingness to sacrifice his son as proof of his love for God. But have we misread the ...

Reducere. W. D. Mahan investigates Roman, Greek and Jewish writings corresponding to the time of the death of Jesus Christ, including letters apparently writ...

Reducere. Questions Muslims Ask Christians by Joseph P. Knight is an indispensable guide for Muslims learning about the Christian faith and Christians sharin...

Reducere. DescriptionAmerican Christian Pastor A. W. Tozer hailed from the Midwest where as a teenager he overheard a street preacher say, "If you don't know...

Reducere. A Fresh Look at 4, 000 Years of Jewish History--Authoritative, Complete...Funny Through witty, illustrated narrative, celebrated artist Stan Mack w...

The relationship among Judaism, Gnosticism, and Christianity perpetually eludes easy description. While it is clear that by the second and third ce...

Reducere. A History of the Popes tells the story of the oldest living institution in the Western world--the papacy. From its origins in Saint Peter, Jesus' c...

Reducere. This insightful history sheds light on the early Christian church of Assyria, during the time of the Sassanid Persian Empire that ruled from the 2n...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen was the last time we truly paused to meditate and study the crucially important doctrine of the sovereignty of God? In this book A....

Contributor(s): Author: John D. CaputoApplying an ever more radical hermeneutics (including Husserlian and Heideggerian phenomenology, Derridian de...

Reducere. Born to Believe was previously published in hardcover as Why We Believe What We Believe. Prayer...meditation...speaking in tongues. What do these s...

Reducere. Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author ofThe Song of the Dod...

Reducere. In a material, dog-eat-dog world where pain and suffering exist and where only the fittest survive, how and why did selfless love appear? How did l...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: A. W. TozerThe decline of the Knowledge of the Holy has brought on our troubles. A rediscovery of the majesty of God will g...

Based upon hymns in praise of Mars, Venus, and Mercury visible in the heavens close to Earth, the Rig Veda reveals ninety-nine 30-year cyclic encou...

Reducere. For our entire history, humans have always searched for new ways to share information. This innate compulsion led to the origin of writing on the r...

In late 2007 Muslim leaders from around the world together issued in the pages of The New York Times an open letter to Christian leaders inviting c...

Reducere. The history of Ethiopia could also be called the history of humanity. The question is not if this history is well documented, but why it is not tho...

For a long time, American Christians have been hearing a story about Islam. Its a story about conflict and hostility, about foreigners and stranger...

Reducere. Creating Community expands the written histories of Springfield that have long overlooked this minority in the local community. It also adds to the...

DescriptionWinner of the J. Russell Major Prize, American Historical Association Winner of the David H. Pinkney Prize, Society for French Historica...