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Books : Religion & Spirituality : Christianity : Church History

• Christian Theology: An Introduction

  Alister E. McGrath

  
  
   

• Catholicism for Dummies (For Dummies)

  Rev. John Triglio, Rev. Kenneth Brighenti

  
  
   

• The She-apostle: The Extraordinary Life and Death of Luisa De Carvajal

  Glyn Redworth, British Hispanic Foundation Visiting Chair at the Complutense University in Madrid for the academic year 2008-9.

  
  
   

• The Penguin History of the Church: The Early Church v. 1 (Penguin History of the Church)

  Henry Chadwick

  
  
   

• The Long European Reformation: Religion, Political Conflict and the Search for Conformity, 1350-1750 (European History in Perspective)

  Peter G. Wallace

  
  
   

• The Vatican Pimpernel: The Wartime Exploits of Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty

  Brian Fleming

  
  
   

• Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths we Never Knew: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew

  Bart D. Ehrman

  
  
   

• The Christian Theology Reader

  
  
   

• The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England,1400-1580

  E Duffy

  
  
   

• Ecclesiastical History of the English People: With Bede's Letter to Egbert and Cuthbert's Letter on the Death of Bede (Classics)

  The Venerable, St.Bede, David Dumville

  
  
   

• The Revelations of Divine Love (Penguin Classics)

  Julian of Norwich

  
  
   

• Pagan Christianity: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices

  Frank Viola, George Barna

  
  
   

• The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (Oxford Paperback Reference)

  David Hugh Farmer

  
  
   

• The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit (Economy Editions)

  Max Weber

  
  
   

• The Gospel of Mary Magdalene

  
  
   

• The Historical Figure of Jesus

  E.P. Sanders

  
  
   

• Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus)

  Bart D. Ehrman

  
  
   

• The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks (Penguin Classics)

  
  
   

• The Voices of Morebath: Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village

  E Duffy

  
  Eamon Duffy's monumental The Stripping of the Altars provided a new slant on the English Reformation. Duffy has now dug deeper into the same fascinating period. The Voices of Morebath is the story of a hamlet buried deep in the heart of Devon. The parish priest, Sir Christopher Trychay remained in office through the troubled times of the mid-16th century. During his long tenure he carefully recorded the impact of national events in his ordinary rural community.

  Trychay's account is unique because it is not a personal diary but a record of the parish accounts. Sir Christopher, however, was talkative and opinionated so the accounts are laden with the minutiae of parish life. Duffy weaves these otherwise cryptic details into the wider tapestry of events of the time, and by analysing the result shows the devastating revolution that took place in ordinary people's lives. As the drama unfolds we see the folk of Morebath forced from their secure Catholicism into the new religion of King Henry. After Edward's brief reign the villagers breathe a sigh of relief and haul out all their Catholic paraphernalia, grateful that Mary Tudor has restored the Catholic faith. Then it all goes for good once Elizabeth takes the throne.

  Duffy has given us history that is absorbing, readable and complete. His own enthusiasm for his topic gives the book a zest that takes it beyond the usual academic tome. Anyone the least bit interested in English history must not neglect this important book. --Dwight Longenecker

  
   

• The Nag Hammadi Library in English

  James Robinson

  
  The Nag Hammadi Library was discovered in 1945 buried in a large stone jar in the desert outside the modern Egyptian city of Nag Hammadi. It is a collection of religious and philosophical texts gathered and translated into Coptic by fourth-century Gnostic Christians. These texts have since been translated into English by dozens of highly reputable experts. First published in 1978, this is the revised 1988 edition, supported by illuminating introductions to each document. The library itself is a diverse collection of texts that the Gnostics considered to be related to their heretical philosophy in some way. There are 45 separate titles, including a Coptic translation from the Greek of two well-known books: The Gospel of Thomas attributed to Jesus's brother Judas, and Plato's Republic. The word "gnosis" is defined as "the immediate knowledge of spiritual truth", thus this doomed radical sect believed in being here now, in withdrawing from the contamination of society and materiality, and that heaven is an internal state, not some place above the clouds. That this collection has come back into the light of day at this historical juncture is more than likely no coincidence. --P. Randall Cohan