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Turner Denys

ISBN: PB: 9780300192551, ISBN: HB: 9780300163919, Yale University Press, July 2013
288 pp., 21x14 cm

For centuries readers have comfortably adopted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner remedies this misapprehension, offering a sensitive new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues th...

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Serpent and the Lamb Cranach, Luther, and the Making of the Reformation

Ozment Steven E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192537, Yale University Press, June 2013
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 colour images, 81 black&white illus.

This compelling book retells and revises the story of the German Renaissance and Reformation through the lives of two controversial men of the sixteenth century: the Saxon court painter Lucas Cranach (the Serpent) and the Wittenberg monk-turned-refor...

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Calvinism A History

Hart D. G.

ISBN: HB: 9780300148794, Yale University Press, May 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 black&white illus.

This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history – from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and Sao Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the so...

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Transient Apostle Paul, Travel, and the Rhetoric of Empire

Luckritz Marquis Timothy

ISBN: HB: 9780300187144, Yale University Press, May 2013
216 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In a significant reevaluation of Paul's place in the early Christian story, Timothy Luckritz Marquis explores the theme of travel in the apostle's correspondence. He casts Paul's rhetorical strategies against the background of Augustus' age, when Rom...

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Conversions Two Family Stories from the Reformation and Modern America

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300192445, Yale University Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

This powerful and innovative work by a gifted cultural historian explores the effects of religious conversion on family relationships, showing how the challenges of the reformation can offer insight to families facing similarly divisive challenges to...

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Devil Within Possession and Exorcism in the Christian West

Levack Brian

ISBN: HB: 9780300114720, Yale University Press, March 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 16 black&white illus.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the era of the Reformation, thousands of Europeans were thought to be possessed by demons. In response to their horrifying symptoms – violent convulsions, displays of preternatural strength, vomiting of for...

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Age of Doubt Tracing the Roots of Our Religious Uncertainty

Lane Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780300188073, ISBN: HB: 9780300141924, Yale University Press, January 2013
248 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm, 19 black&white illus.

The Victorian era was the first great "Age of Doubt" and a critical moment in the history of Western ideas. Leading nineteenth-century intellectuals battled the Church and struggled to absorb radical scientific discoveries that upended everything the...

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Introduction to the Bible

Hayes Christine

ISBN: PB: 9780300181791, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This book examines the small library of 24 separate books common to all Jewish and Christian Bibles – books that preserve the efforts of diverse individuals over the span of many centuries to make sense of their personal experiences and those of thei...

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Holy Bones, Holy Dust How Relics Shaped the History of Medieval Europe

Freeman Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300184303, Yale University Press, September 2012
306 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Relics affected everyone in medieval society. Saintly morsels such as bones, hair, teeth, and clothes, and items like the Crown of Thorns, coveted by Louis IX of France, were thought to bring the believer closer to the saint who might intercede with...

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Book of Numbers, a Critique of Genesis

Carmichael Calum

ISBN: HB: 9780300179187, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this work Calum Carmichael – a legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bible – shows how each law and each narrative in "Numbers", the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narrative inc...

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