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Mother Of The Wire Fence
$34.00Is it possible to empathize fully with the victims of the Holocaust? Can those who approach the Holocaust in the aftermath ever know it in a way that does not trivialize its horror? With what language can we speak of such an event without at the same time betraying its meaning? In this powerful book, Karl Plank takes a hard look at these questions as he explores the boundaries that lie between those outside and those inside the experience of the Holocaust.
Mother of the Wire Fence tries to bridge inside and outside as it studies the power of poetry, artifact, memory, and religious symbol to respond to the Holocausts shattering of human connection. This bridge is essential so that we avoid giving a posthumous victory to the oppressors by silencing its victims forever.
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Emigrants Guide To Oregon And California
$14.95A popular guidebook during the western expansion and a valuable collectible today, The Emigrantsi Guide was first published in 1845. While the book introduced those heading west to the beauty and habitable nature of the Pacific coast, it had considerable shortcomings – it was the guide used by the ill-fated Donner Party. As a corrective, Randolph Marcy published a more accurate guide, The Prairie Traveler (also available from Applewood Books).
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Indian Stories From The Pueblo
$10.95Indian Stories from the Pueblos is a combination of tales of early Pueblo days and stories from 1929, when the book was first published. Frank Applegate was a New Mexican artist who lived among the Pueblos.
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Ancient Orient A Print On Demand Title
$31.99This book represents the first comprehensive, interdisciplinary presentation of ancient Near Eastern civilization. Concentrating on Mesopotamia and North Syria and focusing particularly on the cultures of Sumer, Babylonia, and Assyria, von Soden covers the earliest times to Hellenization. His study of ancient “humanity in its wholeness” includes treatments of the history of language and systems of writing, the state and society, nutrition and agriculture, artisanry, economics, law, science, religion and magic, art, music, and more. A valuable background work for students of the Bible. Includes 18 black-and-white photographs.
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Christian Ethics : A Historical Introduction
$50.00This one-volume history of Christian ethics is the only comprehensive resource currently available to survey major thinkers, movements, and issues from the early church to the present. Topics discussed are: the legacies of Christian ethics, the ethics of early Christianity, the Reformation and Enlightenment, eighteenth and nineteenth-century rationalism and evangelism, Christian ethics in the twentieth century, and Christian ethics toward the third millennium.
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History Of Ancient Palestine
$59.00The magnum opus of Ahlstrom who founded a school of historical studies at the University of Chicago to counteract what he felt were the prevailing literary approaches in North America. He labored on and off for decades on this dispassionate reconstruction of the major epochs of Israel’s history by tapping all known textual, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence.
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Manual Of Parliamentary Practice
$10.95As vice president of the United States, Thomas Jefferson presided over the Senate. To improve its procedures, he wrote A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. It was published in 1800 and is still considered part of the Senate rules today.
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Professor Reinhold Niebuhr
$55.00In this book, Ronald Stone breaks new ground by providing a fresh survey of Reinhold Niebuhr as a professor, demonstrating that this vocation was central to Niebuhr’s lifework. This book reveals Niebuhr’s passion for the development of an intellectually equipped, socially concerned Christian ministry.
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Violent Evangelism : The Political And Religious Conquest Of The Americas
$50.00In this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conversion, peaceful or forced, of the natives. He recaptures the sixteenth-century political debates–where priests and theologians are both voices of dissent against the Spanish military conquest and fervent defenders of it. Rivera contrasts “discovery” and conquest and examines the tragic outcome: demographic collapse–from the islands Columbus first sighted to the Inca empire in Peru.
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Columbus And Cortez
$14.99Columbus – conquistador or Christ-bearer? Did Christopher Columbus exploit the people of America, or did he evangelize them? What were his true goals, his motives, his reasons for undertaking the dangerous voyage? Cortez – Militarist or missionary? Did Hernando Cortez subjugate the people of Mexico, or did he liberate them? Why all the controversy over these explorers? Is it really to correct the historical record? Or is it an assault on the values of Western Civilization and Christianity which is the source of those values? This book by John Eidsmoe answers these questions and more.
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer : Witness To Jesus Christ
$25.00Bonhoeffer’s theological brilliance, committed discipleship ecumenical insight and courageous participation in the struggle against Nazism have profoundly shaped contemporary Christian understanding and action. Although his early death at the hands of the Gestapo prevented him from providing us with a full and systematic theology, his writings are remarkably extensive and have become increasingly influential. This volume concentrates on the key texts and ideas in Bonhoeffer’s thought. It presents the essential Bonhoeffer for students and the general reader.
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Fabric Of This World (Reprinted)
$26.50Work concerns all of us: we spend more of our waking hours working than doing anything else. The importance of work and the need to reflect more fully and meaningful on it make Lee Hardy’s Fabric of This World a highly relevant book.
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Teddy Roosevelt : Young Rough Rider
$7.99Easy to read, and full of the spirit and adventure of the famous Americans who’ve made America what it is today, the Childhood of Famous Americans Series is a series of fictionalized biographies for children 8 & up.
Learn about Teddy Roosevelt overcame asthma to become one of our most outdoors-loving presidents.
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Theological Turning Points
$38.00In a single volume Donald K. McKim traces the historical and systematic development of eight major Christian doctrines from the early centuries to the present. Clearly written and amply documented, his introductory handbook features primary sources and extensive endnotes. He covers: the Trinity, Christology, Ecclesiology, Anthopology, Soteriology, Authority, the Sacraments, and Eschatology; concentrating on the decisive points in the development of the Church’s theology. Well structured for use as a basic text.
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Recollections Of The Jersey Prison Ship
$12.95The miseries endured by American seamen during the Revolutionary War are documented in Captain Dring’s account of his experience as a prisoner on the Jersey off the coast of Long Island. Originally published in 1829.
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Davy Crockett : Young Rifleman
$7.99A biography of the famous frontiersman and Congressman, focusing on his childhood. – See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.com/Davy-Crockett/Aileen-Wells-Parks/Childhood-of-Famous-Americans/9780020418405#sthash.YRR8HOyN.dpuf
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Martha Washington : Americas First First Lady
$7.99A biography stressing the childhood of Martha Washington, America’s first First Lady. From astronauts to athletes, and poets to presidents, the books in this popular biography series incorporate intriguing childhood anecdotes, informative career facts, and lively illustrations as they tell the real-life stories of America’s most amazing individuals. There are 54 different titles available. Ages 8-12.
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Jim Thorpe : Olympic Champion
$9.99A biography of the American Indian known as one of the best all-round athletes in history, for his accomplishments as an Olympic medal winner as well as an outstanding professional football and baseball player.
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Albert Einstein
$7.99All children know who Albert Einstein grew up to be–but what was he like as a child? The clear text in this book is enhanced by illustrations and paintings, documents and photographs from the Smithsonian and the National Gallery.
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Survey Of Israels History (Revised)
$44.99Since its first publication in 1970, A Survey of Israel’s History has established itself as a popular and useful text in Bible colleges and seminaries. This revision by David O’Brien, which brings A Survey of Israel’s History up to date, is certain to add to its value and continue its popularity. A chapter on the Intertestamental Period has been added. Numerous line-maps, charts, and diagrams help to clarity details. An extensive chronological chart provides an overall summary of names and dates. Authoritative, thoroughly biblical, factually sound, and movingly human — A Survey of Israel’s History will prove enormously helpful to the student of the Bible, and to anyone in search of a definitive history of the chosen people.
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Renaissance And Reformation
$37.99Readable and informative, this major text in Reformation history is a detailed exploration of the many facets of the Reformation, especially its relationship to the Renaissance. Estep pays particular attention to key individuals of the period, including Wycliffe, Huss, Erasmus, Luther, Zwingli, and Calvin. Illustrated with maps and pictures.
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Letter Writing In Greco Roman Antiquity
$35.00Do the New Testament epistles follow conventional forms? Stowers analyzed thousands of ancient letters, both formal and personal, and constructed useful classifications based on the letters’ social functions. He quotes hundred of letters, shows how to ”read” them, and illuminates the structure and purpose of New Testament letters.
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Jewish Writings Of The Second Temple Period
$69.00This volume describes that part of the rich literary production of ancient Judaism which was not contained in the Hebrew Bible nor in rabbinic literature. These writings originated in the Second Temple period, a period which proved highly creative in the midst of strong external influences and internal movements. Prime example are the Dead Sea scrolls, documents of an extremely separatist sect. Their discovery in 1947 revolutionized our understanding of Second Temple Judaism and its literature. Yet another group are the Apocrypha, closely related to later biblical writings and incorporated within the Greek Old Testament. Finally, the encounter with Greek culture is documented by Jewish authors writing in Greek, notably Philo and Josephus. After a historical outline which sets the stage, the chapters of this book describe and analyse these documents. Selective bibliographies for further reading conclude the chapters. Includes indexes of sources, names, and subjects. This is an analysis of the early documents and does not contain the actual writings of the Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha, Qumran sectarian writings, Philo or Josephus.
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History Of Christianity
$23.00Since publication of the first edition in 1918, A History of the Christian Church by Williston Walker has enjoyed outstanding success and recognition as a classic in the field. Written by an eminent theologian, it combines in its narrative a rare blend of clarity, unity, and balance. In light of significant advances in scholarship in recent years, extensive revisions have been made to this fourth edition. Three scholars from Union Theological Seminary in New York have incorporated new historical discoveries and provided fresh interpretations of various periods in church history from the first century to the twentieth. The result is a thoroughly updated history which preserves the tenor and structure of Walker’s original, unparalleled text.
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Paul And Palestinian Judaism
$42.00)”Perhaps the most important book on Paul to be written in this generation,”—Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Written out of an encyclopedic knowledge of Josephus, Philo, the Mishnah, Talmud, Tosefta, Mekilta, Dead Sea Scrolls, Apocrypha, and Pseudepigrapha.
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Women Of The Reformation From Spain To Scandinavia
$34.00In this fascinating and concluding volume in his series on the contributions of women to the Reformation, celebrated historian Roland Bainton tells the stories of twenty-seven courageous figures – some famous, some less well-known – all ardently committed to religious reform during the restless years of the Reformation. Bainton’s knack for combining an intimate knowledge of this historical period with a congenial and personal style of writing is once again on display in these memorable portraits of sixteenth-century women from Spain, Portugal, Scotland, England, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Hungary, and Transylvania.
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Women Of The Reformation In France And England
$34.00Marguerite of Navarre, Jeanne d’Albret, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine Parr, and Elizabeth I – these are a few of the courageous women who used their political influence to promote religious reform during the chaotic days of the Reformation in France and England. In a warm and personal style, renowned historian Roland Bainton opens up the lives of these significant women who devoted their lives to the cause of religious reform.
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Women Of The Reformation In Germany And Italy
$34.00In this first installment in celebrated historian Roland Bainton’s Women of the Reformation trilogy, sixteen women who are usually lost behind familiar Reformation figures and events come to life. Extensively researched and vividly told, these are the stories of unsung reformers who courageously renounced religious vows, opened their homes to those fleeing religious persecution, and faced estrangement from their families in the cause of the Protestant Reformation in Germany and Italy.
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Scholastic Miscellany : Anselm To Ockham
$60.00Edited and translated by Eugene R. Fairweather. The Library of Christian Classics presents in English a selection of the most indispensable Christian treatises written before the end of the sixteenth century. These books meet the needs of lay people, students, and pastors alike. The first section of this volume deals primarily with Anselm of Canterbury, the second deals with ‘Theologians of the Twelfth Century,’ and the third deals with Franciscan thought in ‘The Thirteenth Century and After.’ Especially helpful are the introductions and the bibliographies provided by Fairweather. Contents are exactly the same as the original hardbound edition
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Augustine Later Works
$60.00The three works of St. Augustine translated in this volume, in whole or part, were all published in the years between 410 and 420, when Augustine was in his late fifties or early sixties, still at the height of his powers, and not yet wholly absorbed by the Pelagian controversy, which forced him to imprison his doctrine of Grace in a system of rigid logic.
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Augustine Earlier Writings
$55.00These are Augustine’s writings from the time of his conversion to Christianity in A.D.386 until he became Bishop of Hippo in 395-396. This volume is part of The Library of Christian Classics containing the great literature of the Christian heritage.
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