Product Description: Die Entwicklung des evangelischen Kirchenrechts und des Staatskirchenrechts in Deutschland seit Beginn der Reformation ist nur aus der steten Wechselwirkung der juristischen Probleme und Dynamik mit ihren theologischen und politischen Ursachen und Folgen zu erfassen...read more

Product Description: Frances Luttikhuizen chronicles the arrival, reception, and suppression of Protestant thought in sixteenth century Spain-referred to at that time as 'Lutheranism'. It opens with several chapters describing the socio-political-religious context that prevailed in Spain at the beginning of the sixteenth century and the growing trend to use the vernacular for parts of the Mass, as well as for catechizing the populace...read more

Product Description: English summary: Karl Barth (1886-1968) was one of the most important and defining theologians of the 20th century. With his theological works, especially his "The Church Dogmatics," he achieved a place of global influence. In this series of theological guides, the "Guide to Karl Barth" ("Barth Handbuch") offers clear and informative overviews concerning Barth's biography, works, and influence as well as more detailed views about his theological opinions and the themes that emerge in the works of the influential theologian...read more

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1831. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... pair of excellent virginals. So she played upon them, and turned what she had showed them into this excellent song; saying: Eve's apple we have shown to you; Of that be you aware : You have seen Jacob's ladder too, Upon which angels are. An anchor you received have ; But let not this suffice, Until with Abraham you have Giv'n your best sacrifice. Now about this time one knocked at the door: so the Porter opened ; and behold, Mr. Great-Heart was there. But when he was come in, what joy was there! For it came now afresh again in their minds, how but a while ago he had slain old Grim Bloody-man) the Giant; and had delivered them from the lions. Then said Mr. Great-Heart to Christiana, and to Mercy, " My Lord has sent each of you a bottle of wine, and also some parched corn, together with a couple of pomegranates; he also sent the boys some figs and raisins to refresh you in your way." Then they addressed themselves to their journey ; and Prudence and Piety went along with them. When they came at the gate, Christiana asked the Porter, if any of late went by ? He said, "No; only one some time since who also told me, that of late there had been a great robbery committed on the king's highway as you go; but (said he) the thieves are taken, and will shortly be tried for their lives." Then Christiana and Mercy were afraid ; but Matthew said, " Mother, fear nothing, as long as Mr. Great-Heart is to go with us, and to be our conductor." Then said Christiana to the Porter, " Sir, I am much obliged to you for all the kindness that you have showed to me since I came hither; and also that you have been so loving and kind to my children ; I know not how to gratify your kindness; wherefore, pray, as a token of my respect to you, accept of this small mite :" So she put a gold angel* ...

GET JOHN BUNYAN’S CLASSIC PURITAN ALLEGORY TODAY!A man dressed in rags, carrying a huge burden upon his back, weeps in the wilderness. The reason for his grief: he’s read from the book in his hand that he is doomed and the city in which he lives is destined for destruction. The more he reads, the heavier his burden becomes; and the heavier his burden, the greater his grief.When a man named Evangelist gives him a parchment scroll and provides instruction on how he can remove the burden from his back and flee from the coming wrath, the man in rags begins a pilgrimage with his ultimate goal being Mount Zion and the Celestial City. Before he gets there, however, the man must face many dangers, toils, and snares along the way: deceivers and the deceived; difficult climbs and roaring lions; humiliation and raging dragons; hobgoblins and angry mobs; false witnesses and gloomy giants; flatterers, atheists and rivers of death; and a multitude of situations and circumstances to test his faith in Christ and his love for Christ.In God’s providence, and by God’s grace, the pilgrim will receive help from Shining Ones, Shepherds, saints, scripture, as well as all the graces and promises God provides every Christian through their sojourn in as they travel through the wilderness of this world.Join Christian through his journey to gain entrance at the Celestial Gate in John Bunyan’s classic allegory, The Pilgrim’s Progress. This puritan classic is a must read for every Christian believer. The Biblical truths expressed in this timeless tome will inspire your soul, strengthen your faith and increase your understanding in spiritual matters.Of John Bunyan and his classic story, Charles H. Spurgeon had this to say: “...he cannot give us his Pilgrim’s Progress— that sweetest of all prose poems— without continually making us feel and say, ‘Why, this man is a living Bible!’ Prick him anywhere; his blood is Bibline, the very essence of the Bible flows from him.”PRAISE FOR PILGRIM'S PROGRESS“Pilgrim’s Progress is read with the greatest pleasure.”—George Whitefield (1714-1770)“It is a masterpiece of piety and genius; and will, we doubt not, be of standing use to the people of God be so long as the sun and moon endure.” —Augustus Toplady (1740-1748)”But as among the stars one excelleth another in glory, so of all our author’s writings, there is no one perhaps so universally and deservedly admired as his Pilgrim’s Progress, in which he gives a delineation of the Christian life under the idea of a journey or a pilgrimage, from the City of Destruction to the heavenly Jerusalem.” —John Newton (1725-1807)“Next to the Bible, the book I value most is John Bunyan’s ‘Pilgrim’s Progress.’” —Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)“That tenderest and most theological of books is pulsating with life in every word.” – J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)

Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research and the discipline of sociology itself. A key proponent of methodological antipositivism, which presents sociology as a non-empiricist field which must study social action through interpretive means based upon understanding the meaning and purpose that individuals attach to their own actions, Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.  Weber was also highly influential with his thesis in economic sociology, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world. Against Marx's "historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance, for understanding the development of capitalism, of cultural influences embedded in religion.   The Protestant Ethic formed the earliest part in Weber's broader investigation into the sociology of religion. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904.It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and sociology in general.

Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research and the discipline of sociology itself. A key proponent of methodological antipositivism, which presents sociology as a non-empiricist field which must study social action through interpretive means based upon understanding the meaning and purpose that individuals attach to their own actions, Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.  Weber was also highly influential with his thesis in economic sociology, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world. Against Marx's "historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance, for understanding the development of capitalism, of cultural influences embedded in religion.   The Protestant Ethic formed the earliest part in Weber's broader investigation into the sociology of religion. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904.It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and sociology in general.

Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research and the discipline of sociology itself. A key proponent of methodological antipositivism, which presents sociology as a non-empiricist field which must study social action through interpretive means based upon understanding the meaning and purpose that individuals attach to their own actions, Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.  Weber was also highly influential with his thesis in economic sociology, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world. Against Marx's "historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance, for understanding the development of capitalism, of cultural influences embedded in religion.   The Protestant Ethic formed the earliest part in Weber's broader investigation into the sociology of religion. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904.It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and sociology in general.

Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research and the discipline of sociology itself. A key proponent of methodological antipositivism, which presents sociology as a non-empiricist field which must study social action through interpretive means based upon understanding the meaning and purpose that individuals attach to their own actions, Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.  Weber was also highly influential with his thesis in economic sociology, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world. Against Marx's "historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance, for understanding the development of capitalism, of cultural influences embedded in religion.   The Protestant Ethic formed the earliest part in Weber's broader investigation into the sociology of religion. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904.It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and sociology in general.

Karl Emil Maximilian "Max" Weber (21 April 1864 – 14 June 1920) was a German sociologist and political economist who profoundly influenced social theory, social research and the discipline of sociology itself. A key proponent of methodological antipositivism, which presents sociology as a non-empiricist field which must study social action through interpretive means based upon understanding the meaning and purpose that individuals attach to their own actions, Weber is often cited, with Émile Durkheim and Karl Marx, as one of the three principal architects of modern social science.  Weber was also highly influential with his thesis in economic sociology, elaborated in his book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, that ascetic Protestantism was one of the major "elective affinities" associated with the rise of capitalism, bureaucracy and the rational-legal nation-state in the Western world. Against Marx's "historical materialism," Weber emphasised the importance, for understanding the development of capitalism, of cultural influences embedded in religion.   The Protestant Ethic formed the earliest part in Weber's broader investigation into the sociology of religion. Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904.It is considered a founding text in economic sociology and sociology in general.

Product Description: It used to be that Christians conceived of the world as a battleground. They believed in sin and the devil and hell as constituting one force, and in God and righteousness and heaven constituting the other. How different today. People think of the world not as a battleground, but as a playground...read more

Product Description: The Missionary, the Catechist and the Hunter examines the role of Protestantism in the Danish colonization of Greenland and shows how the process of colonization entails a process of subjectification where the identity of indigenous population is transformed...read more

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Product Description: We know a lot about the early missionaries who came to New Zealand from 1814 and how Christianity developed through their complex interactions with Maori. Less well known are the ways in which settler churches of Aotearoa New Zealand reached out to engage in missionary activity in other parts of the world...read more

Product Description: William Law was a Church of England priest in the 18th century and a Christian writer. The Way to Divine Knowledge is an excellent devotional in which Law shows Christians how to lead a more spiritual life.

Product Description: R.A. Torrey was a leading American evangelist pastor and writer. Torrey also was good friends with D.L. Moody and served as superintendent of his Bible Institute. In the book How to Pray, Torrey describes what prayer can do and when one should pray.