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God's Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible (P.S.)
by Adam Nicolson  Publisher Comments A network of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the era of the Gunpowder Plot and the worst outbreak of the plague. Jacobean England was both more godly and less godly than the country...
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The life of Thomas More
by Peter Ackroyd Publisher Comments Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a magnificent reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More was a renowned statesman, the author of a political fantasy that gave a name to a genre and...
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Life of Thomas More (98 Edition)
by Peter Ackroyd Synopsis In a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures in history, Ackroyd provides an unmatched portrait of the everyday, the religious, and intellectual life of the early 16th century. in color....
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Catholics, Anglicans, and Puritans: Seventeenth-Century Essays
by Hugh R Trevor Roper Publisher Comments Renaissance Essays, published in 1985, confirmed Hugh Trevor-Roper's reputation as one of the most distinguished writers of history and as an unequaled master of the historical essay. Received with critical acclaim in both England and the United States...
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Spirituality, Gender, and the Self in Renaissance Italy: Angela Merici and the Company of St. Ursula (1474-1540)
by Querciolo Mazzonis Synopsis Angela Merici (1474-1540), like other mystic women such as Catherine of Siena, was considered a santa viva-- a living saint--by virtue of her mysticism, sacred knowledge, human qualities, and participation in civic life. However, Angela's originality and...
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In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture
by Alister E Mcgrath Synopsis In the tradition of "The Professor and the Madman" comes an eye-opening investigation into the creation of the world's most famous Bible, the King James Version....
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Life of Thomas More
by Peter Ackroyd Synopsis Pre-eminent as a courtier and a humanist, a friend to Henry VIII and the author of "Utopia", Thomas More is one of the great figures of England's history. This is a portrait of the first English layman to be beatified as a martyr, and of the social and...
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Selected Works (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Jeremy Taylor Synopsis The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted! In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions...
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Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England
by Ramie Targoff Publisher Comments Common Prayer explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. Ramie Targoff challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized world of Catholicism and the more...
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Last Letters of Thomas More
by Alvaro Desilva Synopsis In letters written from the Tower of London, Thomas More writes on prayer and penance, the right use of riches and power, the joys of heaven, psychological depression and suicidal temptations, and much more. This superb new edition of More's prison...
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Pensees (66 Edition)
by Blaise Pascal Publisher Comments This collection of short writings ponders the contrast between man in his fallen state and in a state of grace. It is a work of extraordinary power; a lucid, eloquent, and often satirical look at human illusions, self-deceptions, and follies....
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God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests and the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot
by Alice Hogge Publisher Comments One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to...
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For God's Greater Glory: Gems of Jesuit Spirituality
by Louis Lallemant Synopsis Focusing on key writings by three of the most important representatives of the Jesuit order, Louis Lallement, Jean Pierre Caussade and Claude de la Columbiere, this work takes the reader to the heart of one of the most influential spiritual traditions...
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Jacob Boehme: The Way to Christ (Classics of Western Spirituality)
by Jacob Boehme Synopsis The most in-depth and scholarly panorama of Western spirituality ever attempted! In one series, the original writings of the universally acknowledged teachers of the Catholic, Protestant, Eastern Orthodox, Jewish, Islamic and Native American traditions...
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History of Christianity in Asia Volume 1
by Samuel H Moffett Synopsis The history of Christianity in the West has often been told, but the story of Christianity in the East has received scant attention. This Christianity looked neither to Rome nor Constantinople, and for centuries remained proudly Asian. This first volume...
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Shaping the Wesleyan Message: John Wesley in Theological Debate
by Allan Coppedge Synopsis John Wesley's debates with Anglican leaders revealed dramatic differences between his understanding of the Christian life and the Calvinism that dominated the Church of England. This carefully researched book traces how Wesley's ideas took shape in the...
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Saint Thomas More: Selected Writings (Vintage Spiritual Classics)
by More And Thornton Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-253)....
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Prophetic Writings of Lady Eleanor Davies (Women Writers in English 1350-1850)
by Esthe Cope Publisher Comments Eleanor Davies (1590-1652) was one of the most prolific women writing in early seventeenth-century England. This volume includes thirty-eight of the sixty-some prophetic tracts that she published. Inspired to prophecy by a visionary experience in 1625...
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Galileo's Mistake: A New Look at the Epic Confrontation Between Galileo and the Church
by Wade Rowland Synopsis A provocative reexamination of one of the defining confrontations between science and religion, the historic conflict between Galileo and the Roman Catholic Church....
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Thriving Churches in the 21st Century
by Gary L Mcintosh Synopsis An innovative approach to dynamic church ministry through recognition of spiritual health and energy as the basis of ministry vitality. Using the analogy of the human body, Thriving Churches in the Twenty-First Century explores the ten interlocking...
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