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How Africa Shaped the Christian Mind: Rediscovering the African Seedbed of Western Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Africa has played a decisive role in the formation of Christian culture from its infancy. Some of the most decisive intellectual achievements of ...
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The Crusades: An Epitome
PaperbackOriginal price $12.50 - Original price $12.50Original price $12.50$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /This sweeping yet succinct new survey introduces readers to the history of the crusades from the eleventh to the twenty-first century. By synthes...
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On Zion's Mount: Mormons, Indians, and the American Landscape
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Shrouded in the lore of legendary Indians, Mt. Timpanogos beckons the urban populace of Utah. And yet, no "Indian" legend graced the mount until ...
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The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In the wake of Jerusalem's fall in 1099, the crusading armies of western Christians known as the Franks found themselves governing not only Musli...
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Mirror to the Church: Resurrecting Faith after Genocide in Rwanda
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /We learn who we are as we walk together in the way of Jesus. So I want to invite you on a pilgrimage. Rwanda is often held up as a model of evang...
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Sacramental Theology: Means of Grace, Way of Life
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Discover the rich history and meaning of the Catholic sacraments! In Sacramental Theology, readers will learn: What is a sacrament? The diffe...
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Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality: Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $31.00 - Original price $31.00Original price $31.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /John Boswell’s National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreakin...
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History of Christianity
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /First published in 1976, Paul Johnson’s exceptional study of Christianity has been loved and widely hailed for its intensive research, writing, a...
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The First Crusade: "The Chronicle of Fulcher of Chartres" and Other Source Materials / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The First Crusade received its name and shape late. To its contemporaries, the event was a journey and the men who took part in it pilgrims. Only...
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A Jewish Book of Comfort: Three thousand years of wisdom and experience
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Whether you are a person of faith or not, there are always times in every human life when we need to find comfort, to sustain us through times of...
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The Friend
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /In the chapel of Christ's College, Cambridge, some twenty years ago, historian Alan Bray made an astonishing discovery: a tomb shared by two men,...
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Pastoral Power, Clerical State: Pentecostalism, Gender, and Sexuality in Nigeria
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Ebenezer Obadare examines the overriding impact of Nigerian Pentecostal pastors on their churches, and how they have shaped the dynamics of state...
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The Archangel Michael in Africa: History, Cult and Persona
PaperbackOriginal price $40.95 - Original price $40.95Original price $40.95$56.99$56.99 - $56.99Current price $56.99| /This book takes an interdisciplinary approach in order to understand angels, focusing on Africa and the cult and persona of the Archangel Michael...
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The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $47.50 - Original price $47.50Original price $47.50$58.99$58.99 - $58.99Current price $58.99| /Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In ...
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Christianity Remade: The Rise of Indian-Initiated Churches
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /If there is one question that haunts Indian Christians, it is this: "What does it mean to be Indian and Christian?" This matter of identity present...
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This Suffering Is My Joy: The Underground Church in Eighteenth-Century China
PaperbackOriginal price $36.00 - Original price $36.00Original price $36.00$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Tracing the little-known history of the first underground Catholic church in China, Mungello illuminates the century between the imperial expulsion...
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In Search of Japan's Hidden Christians: A Story of Suppression, Secrecy and Survival
HardcoverOriginal price $9.99 - Original price $9.99Original price $9.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /The story of Japan's hidden Christians is the subject of a major motion picture by director Martin Scorsese, based on Shusaku Endo's famous novel, ...
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The White Mosque: A Memoir
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Winner of the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Biography & Memoir (Midland Authors Book Award) Finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award A histori...
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Global Christianity and the Black Atlantic: Tuskegee, Colonialism, and the Shaping of African Industrial Education
HardcoverOriginal price $54.99 - Original price $54.99Original price $54.99$72.99$72.99 - $72.99Current price $72.99| /Many Europeans saw Africa's colonization as an exhibition of European racial ascendancy. African Christians saw Africa's subjugation as a demonstra...
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Rainbow Prayer
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Rainbow Prayer is a meditation rendering of 39 passages from the book of Psalms, 11 Canticles, 35 passages from Hebrew and Christian scriptures, an...
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Queens and Prophets: How Arabian Noblewomen and Holy Men Shaped Paganism, Christianity and Islam
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /A groundbreaking examination of female power in pre-Islamic Arabia 'A genuinely paradigm-shifting work by one of the most exciting and innovative s...
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Israel Always: Experiencing God's Pursuit of You Through His Chosen People
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"A succinct and compelling survey of everything Israel!" --J. Randall Price, author, professor, archaeologist God's faithfulness to Israel is an i...
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The Life of Theodotus of Amida: Syriac Christianity under the Umayyad Caliphate
PaperbackOriginal price $90.00 - Original price $90.00Original price $90.00$107.99$107.99 - $107.99Current price $107.99| /The Life of Theodotus of Amida is that rare thing: a securely dated eye-witness account of life under Arab Muslim rule in the first century of Isla...
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History of the Vartanants Saints: Volume 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The History of the Vartanants Saints (formerly, the History of Vartan and the Armenian War) is a major source for the Battle of Avarayr, its causes...
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