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Archaeology & Paleontology

Alexander to Constantine Archaeology of the Land of the Bible

Meyers Eric M., Chancey Mark A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205831, ISBN: HB: 9780300141795, Yale University Press, March 2014
392 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 colour images, 203 black&white illus.

This comprehensive and richly illustrated book explores the archaeological record of the land of the Bible from its conquest by Alexander the Great in the fourth century B. C. E. until the reign of the Roman Emperor Constantine in the fourth century...

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Saints and Sinners A History of the Popes

Duffy Eamon

ISBN: PB: 9780300206128, Yale University Press, March 2014
500 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 32 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.

This engrossing book encompasses the extraordinary history of the papacy, from its beginnings to the present day. This new edition covers the unprecedented resignation of Benedict XVI and the election of the first Argentinian pope.

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Europe

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Christian Monitors The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730

Sirota Brent S.

ISBN: HB: 9780300167108, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil society in Britain. After outlinin...

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First Thousand Years A Global History of Christianity

Wilken Robert Louis

ISBN: PB: 9780300198386, Yale University Press, December 2013
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

How did a community that was largely invisible in the first two centuries of its existence go on to remake the civilizations it inhabited, culturally, politically, and intellectually? Beginning with the life of Jesus, Robert Louis Wilken narrates the...

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Philosophy

Common Faith Second Edition

Dewey John, Alexander Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300186116, Yale University Press, September 2013
120 pp., 21x14 cm

In "A Common Faith", eminent American philosopher John Dewey calls for the "emancipation of the true religious quality" from the heritage of dogmatism and supernaturalism that he believes characterizes historical religions. He describes how a depth o...

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Evangelical Disenchantment Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt

Hempton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300198256, Yale University Press, September 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In this engaging and at times heartbreaking book, David Hempton looks at evangelicalism through the lens of well-known individuals who once embraced the evangelical tradition, but later repudiated it. The author recounts the faith journeys of nine cr...

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What Really Happened in the Garden of Eden?

Zevit Ziony

ISBN: HB: 9780300178692, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.

The Garden of Eden story, one of the most famous narratives in Western history, is typically read as an ancient account of original sin and humanity's fall from divine grace. In this highly innovative study, Ziony Zevit argues that this is not how an...

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Biography & Memoires

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Francis of Assisi The Life and Afterlife of a Medieval Saint

Vauchez Andre

ISBN: PB: 9780300198379, Yale University Press, August 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this towering work, Andre Vauchez draws on the vast body of scholarship on Francis of Assisi, emphasizing in particular the important research of the last 30 years. He creates a complete and engaging portrait of the saint, then explores how the me...

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Philosophy

Essays on Religion

Simmel Georg, Helle Horst Jurgen

ISBN: PB: 9780300205077, Yale University Press, August 2013
244 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

The noted German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel wrote a number of essays that deal directly with religion as a fundamental process in human life. These essays set forth Simmel's mature reflections on religion and its relation to modernity,...

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Protestant Interest New England After Puritanism

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205046, Yale University Press, August 2013
226 pp., 21.6x14 cm, black&white illus.

During the early eighteenth century, colonial New England witnessed the end of Puritanism and the emergence of a revivalist religious movement that culminated in the evangelical awakenings of the 1740s. This engrossing book explores the religious his...

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