Best of
Church-History

1989

Before Jerusalem Fell: Dating the Book of Revelation


Kenneth L. Gentry Jr. - 1989
    This is why they won't address Ken's monumental work. Before Jerusalem Fell is a scholarly and thorough study of the dating of Revelation. This is a must-read for all serious students of prophecy regardless of their position.

Our Father Abraham: Jewish Roots of the Christian Faith


Marvin R. Wilson - 1989
    This volume delineates the link between Judaism and Christianity, between the Old and the New Testament, and calls Christians to reexamine their Hebrew roots so as to effect a more authentically biblical lifestyle.As an introduction to the world of Hebrew thought, Our Father Abraham is biblical, historical, and cultural in nature. At the same time, the writing is personal and passionate, reflecting Marvin Wilson's own spiritual pilgrimage and his extensive dialogue with Jews. The book (1) develops a historical perspective on the Jewish origins of the church, (2) sets forth the importance and nature of Hebrew thought, (3) discusses how the church can become more attuned to the Hebraic mind-set of Scripture, and (4) offers practical suggestions for interaction between Jews and Christians. The study questions at the end of each chapter enhance the book's usefulness as a text and also make it suitable for Bible-study and discussion groups. All Christians--and Jews too--will profit from Wilson's sensible treatments of biblical texts, his thorough understanding of both the Christian and the Jewish faith, and his honest historical analysis of the general failure of the Christian church to acknowledge and understand its relation to Judaism.

Tyndale's New Testament


Anonymous - 1989
    The translation of the New Testament into English from its original Greek was printed in Germany in 1534 and smuggled back into England. It therefore escaped the fate of Tyndale's previous version, which had been seized and publicly burnt by the authorities. The 1534 edition outraged the clerical establishment by giving the laity access to the word of GOD, in print in English for the first time. Tyndale, who was already in exile for political reasons, was hunted down and subsequently burned at the stake for blasphemy. 429 Pages, 6" X 8" X 1".

Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up: A New Look at Today's Evangelical Church in the Light of Early Christianity


David W. Bercot - 1989
    A challenging look at today's evangelical church in the light of the early Christians.

Basic Theological Writings


Martin Luther - 1989
    - New features orient students into the Luther's life, context, and Reformation history- Additional readings allow teachers to explore further dimensions of Luther's thought

John Henry Newman: A Biography


Ian Ker - 1989
    Ker stresses the complexity of Newman's characterand the range of his achievement as major prose writer, dominant religious leader who anticipated the Second Vatican Council and the modern ecumenical movement, and universal Christian thinker, whose significance transcends his culture and time.

St Isaac of Nineveh on Ascetical Life


Isaac of Nineveh - 1989
    St Isaac's monastic anthropology had a major influence on all of Byzantine spiritual literature.

The Foundations of Christian Doctrine


Kevin J. Conner - 1989
    Foundations of Christian Doctrine presents a simply-written explication of the great doctrines of the Christian faith for use in classroom instruction and personal study.

We Don't Speak Great Things-- We Live Them!


Marcus Minucius Felix - 1989
    These important writings give a lively insight into what the primitive Christians believed, and how they worshipped and lived. Among other things, these writings describe a typical early Christian Sunday service and an early Christian baptism.

John Wesley on Religious Affections: His Views on Experience and Emotion and Their Role in the Christian Life and Theology


Gregory S. Clapper - 1989
    

The Papers of Joseph Smith


Dean C. Jessee - 1989
    

All One Body Why Don't We Agree?


Erwin W. Lutzer - 1989
    

Studies in Food and Faith


James B. Jordan - 1989
    Jordan looks at everything the Bible has to say on the matter of food and faith, focusing in particular on the clean/unclean laws and their redemptive meaning.

Confessor Between East and West: A Portrait of Ukrainian Cardinal Josyf Slipyj


Jaroslav Pelikan - 1989
    

The Classic Tales: 4,000 Years of Jewish Lore


Ellen Frankel - 1989
    Culled from traditional sources-the Bible, Talmud, Midrash, hasidic texts, and oral folklore-and retold in modern English by Ellen Frankel, these stories represent the brightest jewels in the vast treasure chest of Jewish lore. Beautifully clothed in contemporary language, these classic tales sparkle with the gentle and insightful humor of the Jewish folk imagination. And like so much of Jewish literature, these stories abound in allusions to classic Jewish texts. Biblical cadences, phrases from the prayer book, and ideas from Jewish proverbs and heroic legends resonate in the air when these tales are read or told aloud. In The Classic Tales, history sheds its dust to become as intimate as family memory. While the breadth and depth of this book make it completely unique, three special features also help distinguish it: God appears without gender (though certainly not without personality); women characters, so often nameless in the original biblical text, wear their midrashic names (e.g., Noah's wife Naamah, Abraham's mother Amitlai, Lot's wife Edith); and many tales of Sephardic origin have been included to correct the common American bias toward Eastern European sources. What's more, this volume has been uniquely designed to be of use to educators, rabbis, parents, and students. It features a chronological table of contents as well as six separate indexes?arranged by Jewish holidays, Torah and Haftorah readings, character types, symbols, topics, and proper names and places-to make the tales easily referenced in a wide variety of ways. Anyone who needs a story to inspire a child, to illustrate a point, to develop a sermon, or just to uplift his or her own thirsting soul will find just the right one in The Classic Tales.