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"Winner of the 2003 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Religion, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004" F. E. Peters is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and History at New York University. His books include Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and The Children of Abraham (all Princeton).
The world's three great monotheistic...
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Sang Hyun Lee is K. C. Han Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary, and a member of the editorial committee of the Yale edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards. He is the author of The Philosophical Theology of Jonathan Edwards (Princeton, 1988; paperback 2000); the editor of volume 21 of the Yale edition of The Works of Jonathan Edwards, Writings on the Trinity, Grace and Faith; and the coeditor of Edwards in Our Time....
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Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at the Divinity School and Graduate Department of Religion of Vanderbilt University. Dale C. Allison Jr. is Errett M. Grable Professor of New Testament Exegesis and Early Christianity at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. John Dominic Crossan is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul University.
The Historical Jesus in Context is a landmark collection...
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"Winner of the 2003 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Religion, Association of American Publishers" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004" F. E. Peters is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and History at New York University. His books include Islam: A Guide for Jews and Christians; Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; and The Children of Abraham (all Princeton).
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"Ancient Christians invoked sin to account for an astonishing range of things, from the death of God's son to the politics of the Roman Empire that worshipped him. In this book, award-winning historian of religion Paula Fredriksen tells the surprising story of early Christian concepts of sin, exploring the ways that sin came to shape ideas about God no less than about humanity. Long before Christianity, of course, cultures had articulated the idea...
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"Winner of the 2005 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the Constructive-Reflective Studies Category, American Academy of Religion." "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2005" Robert A. Orsi is Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America, Harvard Divinity School. He is the author of The Madonna of 115th Street, winner of the John Gilmary Shea Prize of the American Catholic Historical Association; and of...
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"Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Book Award in History" "Winner of the 2018 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of Missiology" "Winner of a 2019 Award of Merit in History, Christianity Today Book Awards" "One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" "One of First Things' Favorite Books of 2018" Brian Stanley is professor of world Christianity at the University of Edinburgh. His books include The Global Diffusion...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2010" "Miri Rubin is professor of medieval and early modern history at Queen Mary, University of London. Her books include Mother of God: A History of the Virgin Mary, The Hollow Crown: A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages, and Corpus Christi: The Eucharist in Late Medieval Culture.
Medieval Christianity in Practice provides readers with a sweeping look at the religious practices of the European...
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Judith Herrin is professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at King's College London. Her books include Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe; Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire; Unrivalled Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium; Margins and Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire; and Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Byzantium (all Princeton). She lives in Oxford, England.
A groundbreaking history...
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Alan Jacobs is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford) and Original Sin: A Cultural History (HarperOne), and he has edited W. H. Auden's long poems For the Time Being and The Age of Anxiety (both Princeton).
How The Book of Common Prayer became one of the most influential works in the English language
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"Shortlisted for the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Book Prize" "Finalist for the Award for Excellence in the Historical Study of Religion, American Academy of Religion" "The Spectator's Books of the Year" Christian C. Sahner is associate professor of Islamic history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of St Cross College. He is the author of Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present.
A look at the developing conflicts in Christian-Muslim...
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"A Seminary Co-Op Notable Book of the Year" "Winner of the American Book Fest Best Book Award, Religion Category" Kim Haines-Eitzen is the Hendrix Memorial Professor of Early Christianity and Early Judaism at Cornell University. She is the author of The Gendered Palimpsest and Guardians of Letters. She appeared in National Geographic's The Story of God with Morgan Freeman. She divides her time between Ithaca, New York, and the remote desert mountains...
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"Honorable Mention, 2015 Catholic Press Association Book Award, History Category" Bernard McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. His many books include Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil and The Presence of God, a multivolume history of Western Christian mysticism.
The life and times of...
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William Chester Jordan is the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History at Princeton University. His many books include Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership (Princeton), The French Monarchy and the Jews: From Philip Augustus to the Last Capetians, Men at the Center: Redemptive Governance under Louis IX, and From England to France: Felony and Exile in the High Middle Ages (Princeton).
The thirteenth century brought new urgency...
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Sidney H. Griffith is Ordinary Professor in the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America. His books include The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic and The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque (Princeton).
From the first centuries of Islam to well into the Middle Ages, Jews and Christians produced hundreds of manuscripts containing portions of the Bible in Arabic. Until recently, however,...
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Bruce Gordon is the Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School. He is the author of Calvin and The Swiss Reformation. He lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
An essential biography of the most important book of the Protestant Reformation
John Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion is a defining book of the Reformation and a pillar of Protestant theology. First published in Latin in 1536 and in Calvin's native French...
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"Winner of the Philip Schaff Prize, American Society of Church History" "One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" David Frankfurter is professor of religion at Boston University and a scholar of early Christianity whose specialties include apocalyptic literature, magical texts, demonology, popular religion, and Egypt in the Roman and late antique periods. He is the author of Religion in Roman Egypt: Assimilation and Resistance and...
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George M. Marsden is the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. His books include Fundamentalism and American Culture, Jonathan Edwards: A Life, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship, and The Soul of the American University. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The life and times of C. S. Lewis's modern spiritual classic
Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis's eloquent and winsome defense of the Christian...
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Katherine Ludwig Jansen is professor of history at the Catholic University of America. Her books include the award-winning The Making of the Magdalen: Preaching and Popular Devotion in the Later Middle Ages (Princeton).
Medieval Italian communes are known for their violence, feuds, and vendettas, yet beneath this tumult was a society preoccupied with peace. Peace and Penance in Late Medieval Italy is the first book to examine how civic peacemaking...
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Garth Fowden is Research Director at the Institute of Historical Research, National Research Foundation, Athens, and Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths at the University of Cambridge. His books include The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind and Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (both Princeton).
A new historical framework integrating Islam into European and Asian history
Islam...
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