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On the Free Choice of the Will, on Grace and Free Choice, and Other Writings (10 Edition) by Augustine Publisher Comments The works translated here deal with two major themes in the thinking of St Augustine (354-430): free will and divine grace. On the one hand, free will enables human beings to make their own choices; on the other hand, God's grace is required for these... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Cosmos, Chaos, and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith by Norman Cohn Publisher Comments The author of the classic work The Pursuit of the Millennium takes readers on a journey of exploration, through the world-views of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and India, through the innovations of Iranian and Jewish prophets and sages, to the earliest... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism (Emblems of Antiquity) by Garry Wills Publisher Comments No two men were more influential in the early Church than Ambrose, the powerful Bishop of Milan, and Augustine, the philosopher from provincial Africa who would write The Confessions and The City of God. Different in background, they were also... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately After the Execution of Jesus by John Crossan Publisher Comments In this national bestseller, John Dominic Crossan, the world's leading expert on the historical Jesus, reveals how Christianity emerged in the period following Jesus' death. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, Crossan shines new light on the... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rise of Christianity (97 Edition) by Rodney Stark Publisher Comments This "fresh, blunt, and highly persuasive account of how the West was won—for Jesus" (Newsweek) is now available in paperback. Stark's provocative report challenges conventional wisdom and finds that Christianity's astounding dominance of the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Penguin Classics) by Eusebius Publisher Comments "Could I do better than start from the beginning of the dispensation of our Saviour and Lord, Jesus the Christ of God?" Bishop Eusebius (c. AD 260–339), a learned scholar who lived most of his life in Caesarea in Palestine, broke new ground in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Augustine of Hippo: A Biography - New Edition by Peter Brown Publisher Comments A new expanded edition of Peter Brown's classic study of the life, times and ever-changing thought of one of the founders of Latin Christianity, Augustine of Hippo.... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Confessions by Augustine Publisher Comments ‘As a youth … I had prayed to you for chastity and said “Give me chastity and continence, but not yet”’ The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Origin of Satan (95 Edition) by Elaine Pagels Publisher Comments From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. With magisterial learning and the elan of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching #0027: Church State Christian Society by Gerd Tellenbach Book News Annotation A contextual explication of the great 11th-century crisis in Christian history, here reprinted from the 1948 printing of the 1940 translation (published by Basil Blackwell, Oxford) of Libertas: Kirche and Weltordnung in Zeitalter des... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Jews in the Time of Jesus : an Introduction (96 Edition) by Stephen M. Wylen Publisher Comments Understanding Jewish life in the first century will help us better understand Jesus mission and how it relates to our own religious concerns today. For anyone who is interested in understanding the Jewish roots of Christianity.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Formation of Christendom (Princeton Paperbacks) by Judith Herrin Publisher Comments In a lucid history of what used to be termed "the Dark Ages," Judith Herrin outlines the origins of Europe from the end of late antiquity to the coronation of Charlemagne. She shows that the clash between nascent Islam and stubburn Byzantium was the... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gregory of Nyssa (Early Church Fathers) by Anthony Meredith Publisher Comments "Gregory of Nyssa" provides a concise and accessible introduction to the thought of this early church father with new translations of key selections of his writings. Anthony Meredith presents a diverse range of Gregory's writings including his... (read more) List Price $45.75 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Lost Gospel Q: The Original Sayings of Jesus by Marcus J Borg Publisher Comments The image of the historical Jesus takes form in the words of the Gospel Q. The Lost Gospel Q represents the very first Gospel, older than the traditional Gospels and written by Jesus's contemporaries. It preserves Jesus's original words — the Sermon... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Community of the Beloved Disciple by Raymond Edward Brown Publisher Comments The life, loves and hates of an individual church in New Testament times. Considers the life and writings of St. John.... (read more) List Price $11.22 Your price: $9.96 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Search for the Origins of Christian Worship: Sources and Methods for the Study of Early Liturgy by Paul F Bradshaw Publisher Comments This is a substantially expanded and completely revised verision of Bradshaw's classic account, first published in 1993. Traditional liturgical scholarship has generally been marked by an attempt to fit together the various pieces of evidence for the... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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City of God (Modern Library Classics) by Saint Augustine Of Hippo Publisher Comments One of the great cornerstones in the history of Christian philosophy, The City of God provides an insightful interpretation of the development of modern Western society and the origin of most Western thought. Contrasting earthly and heavenly cities... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Confessions of St. Augustine (Image Book) by Augustine Publisher Comments The greatest spiritual autobiography of all time, this classic work is a literary and theological masterpiece. John K. Ryan's masterful translation brings out the luster of Augustine's unmatched tale of his soul's journey to God.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of the Church (the Church History of Eusebius) by Eusebius Publisher Comments "The History of the Church" or "The Church History of Eusebius" is a comprehensive ecclesiastical history of the Christian church from the time of Christ to Constantine. Christians and theology scholars will find much of interest in this volume... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity by Richard Fletcher Publisher Comments The conversion of the pagan world that began in the obscurity of the Dark Ages was in no way inevitable. England did not embrace Christianity until 627, and while confessing communities existed from Greenland to China by the millennium, the last European... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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