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Miracles at the Jesus Oak Histories of the Supernatural in Reformation Europe

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167023, Yale University Press, October 2011
336 pp., 21x14 cm

In the tradition of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and "The Great Cat Massacre", "Miracles at the Jesus Oak" is a rich, evocative journey into the past and the extraordinary events that transformed the lives of ordinary people. In the musty archive of...

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Sunday A History of the First Day from Babylonia to the Super Bowl

Harline Craig

ISBN: PB: 9780300167030, Yale University Press, October 2011
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

The mere mention of Sunday will immediately conjure up a rich mixture of memories, associations and ideas for anyone of any age. Whatever we think of Sunday, it occupies a unique place in Western civilization. But how did we come to have a day with s...

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History of Art

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Art of Worship Paintings, Prayers and Readings for Meditation

Holtam Nicholas, Chartres Richard

ISBN: HB: 9781857095319, Yale University Press, National Gallery London, June 2011
120 pp., 20x15 cm, 47 colour illus.

In this beautifully illustrated book, the Reverend Nicholas Holtam – vicar of London's internationally renowned church St Martin-in-the-Fields – presents his favourite paintings from the National Gallery, London, alongside religious commentary, Bible...

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History of Art

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Translating Truth Ambitious Images and Religious Knowledge in Late Medieval France and England

Kumler Aden

ISBN: HB: 9780300164930, Yale University Press, May 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 21 black&white illus., 63 colour illus.

"Translating Truth" is a novel and compelling account of how illuminated vernacular manuscripts transformed conceptions of Christian excellence in the later Middle Ages. Following the Fourth Lateran Council (1215), which legislated a broad pastoral o...

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Christian Imagination Theology and the Origins of Race

Jennings Willie James

ISBN: PB: 9780300171365, Yale University Press, May 2011
366 pp., 22.6x14.7 cm

Why has Christianity, a religion premised upon neighbourly love, failed in its attempts to heal social divisions? In this ambitious and wide-ranging work, Willie James Jennings delves deep into the late medieval soil in which the modern Christian ima...

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Biography & Memoires

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John Henry Newman The Challenge to Evangelical Religion

Turner Frank M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300173093, ISBN: HB: 9780300092516, Yale University Press, February 2011
752 pp., 22.4x14.7 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most controversial religious figures of the nineteenth century, John Henry Newman (1801-1890) began his career as a priest in the Church of England but converted to the Roman Catholic Church in 1845. He became a cardinal in 1879. Between 1...

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Marking the Hours English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300170580, Yale University Press, February 2011
208 pp., 23.9x18.8 cm, 120 colour illus.

In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the "Book of Hours", unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. He examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were...

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New History of Early Christianity

Freeman Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780300170832, Yale University Press, February 2011
400 pp., 19.8x12.8 cm, 16 black&white illus.

The relevance of Christianity is as hotly contested today as it has ever been. "A New History of Early Christianity" shows how our current debates are rooted in the many controversies surrounding the birth of the religion and the earliest attempts to...

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Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Among the Gentiles Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity

Johnson Luke Timothy

ISBN: PB: 9780300168105, Yale University Press, October 2010
480 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

The question of Christianity's relation to the other religions of the world is more pertinent and difficult today than ever before. While Christianity's historical failure to appreciate or actively engage Judaism is notorious, Christianity's even mor...

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Sin A History

Anderson Gary A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300168099, ISBN: HB: 9780300149890, Yale University Press, September 2010
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

What is sin? Is it simply wrongdoing? Why do its effects linger over time? In this sensitive, imaginative, and original work, Gary Anderson shows how changing conceptions of sin and forgiveness lay at the very heart of the biblical tradition. Spannin...

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