Category: General Church History

Religion in American Life: A Short History

By: Butler, Jon, Wacker, Grant, Balmer, Randall

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 2003

Seller ID: 41606

ISBN-13: 9780195158243

Stated 1st Edition - Dust jacket clean and in very good condition. Previous owner's name and green mark on the front inside cover. No marks or writing observed in the text. Binding is tight and square.
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Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts

By: Crossan, John Dominic,Reed, Jonathan L

Price: $6.96

Publisher: HarperCollins : November 2003

Seller ID: 89733

ISBN-13: 9780060616342

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Collectible - Good

First Harpercollins Paperback Edition 2002- No apparent marks in text. Binding tight and square. Light wear on cover.
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Religion and Healing in America

By: Editors-Linda L. Barnes, Susan S. Sered

Price: $35.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : December 2004

Seller ID: 67454

ISBN-13: 9780195167955

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st Edition / 1st Printing (Oxford - 2005) Cover worn, bumped corners and spine wear. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read. No dust jacket. . . . . . . . Americans have long been aware of the phenomenon loosely known as faith healing. Such practices most often received attention when they came into conflict with biomedical practice. During the 1990s, however, the American cultural landscape changed dramatically and religious healing became a commonplace feature of our society. The essays in this book chart this new reality. Insofar as healing traditions...
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Marching to Glory: The History of the Salvation Army in the United States, 1880-1992 (2nd Edition, Revised and Expanded)

By: Edward H. McKinley; Foreword-James Osborne

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co : October 1995

Seller ID: 34626

ISBN-13: 9780802837615

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

First Eerdmanns Edition (1995). Previous owner's name and green mark on inside front cover. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) 1880-1890 -- 2.) 1880-1900 -- 3.) 1896-1914 -- 4.) 1914-1929 -- 5.) 1929-1950 -- 6.) 1950-1980 -- 7.) 1980-1992 ------ * APPENDIXES: A.) The doctrines of the Salvation Army -- B.) The ranks of the Salvation Army, 1878-present -- C.) National commanders of the Salvation Army, 1880-1993. . . . . . . . . . . . Well-researched and laid out history of the Salvation Army in the United States f...
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The Sawdust Trail; the Story of American Evangelism

By: Hall, Gordon Langley

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Macrae Smith Co. : January 1964

Seller ID: 34571

ISBN: B000I9WIDK

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st printing/1st edition. Previous owner's name and green mark on inside front cover. No marks or writing observed in text. Rough cut page edges and priced dust cover. Jacket has small tears on edges and now is protected with a mylar cover.
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Undermined Establishment: Church-State Relations in America, 1880-1920 (Studies in Church and State)

By: Handy, Robert T.

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr : November 1991

Seller ID: 114658

ISBN-13: 9780691073859

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st printing. Previous owner's name and green mark on inside front cover. Remainder mark on edge. No apparent marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Appears unread. DJ is very good. . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) The Protestant *establishment* in late nineteenth-century America -- 2.) Protestantism challenged: Latter-day Saints and Roman Catholics -- 3.) Signs of change: religion and public affairs in the 1890s -- 4.) Expansionism in government and religion as a new century dawns -- 5.) The spirit of reform in politics and religion -- 6.) Unitive and d...
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What Has Christianity Ever Done for Us? : How It Shaped the Modern World

By: HILL, JONATHAN

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Intervarsity Pr : August 2005

Seller ID: 40685

ISBN-13: 9780830833283

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

Stated 1st Edition - Previous owner's name and green mark on the front inside cover. No marks or writing observed in text. Dust jacket clean with minor wear. Binding tight and square.
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History and Heresy: How Historical Forces Can Create Doctrinal Conflicts (Good News Studies)

By: Kelly, Joseph F.

Price: $17.97

Publisher: Liturgical Press : October 2012

Seller ID: 86833

ISBN-13: 9780814656952

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st Edition / 1st Printing - No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Gently read.
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Princeton in the Nation's Service : Religious Ideals and Educational Practice, 1868-1928 (Religion in America Series)

By: Kemeny, P. C.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : October 1998

Seller ID: 25689

ISBN-13: 9780195120714

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st Edition / 1st Printing - Previous owner's name and green mark on inside front cover. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Education and Religion in the Nation's Service, 1868-1888 -- 2.) Religion and University Aspirations, 1868-1888 -- 3.) The Travails of Becoming a University, 1888-1902 -- 4.) Making the University Safe for Democracy, 1902-1910 -- 5.) Religion and the Modern American University, 1910-1928 -- * Epilogue -- * Notes -- * Works Cited -- * Index. . . . . . . . . . This book argues against t...
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Deeper Experiences of Famous Christians: Gleaned from their biographies, autobiographies and writings

By: Lawson, J. Gilchrist

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Gospel Trumpet Company : 1911

Seller ID: 115996

ISBN: B005T3TWU2

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st Edition, Gospel Trumpet Company (1911) No marks noted in text. Binding is tight and square. Light fading to spine. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Old Testament characters -- 2.) New Testament characters -- 3.) Other early saints and sages -- 4.) Girolamo Savonarola -- 5.) Madam Guyon -- 6.) Fenelon -- 7.) George Fox -- 8.) John Bunyan -- 9.) John Wesley -- 10.) George Whitefield -- 11.) John Fletcher -- 12.) Christmas Evans -- 13.) Lorenzo Dow -- 14.) Peter Cartwright -- 15.) Charles G. Finney -- 16.) Billy Bray -- 17.) Elder Jacob Knapp -- 18.) ...
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Authority Vested: A Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod

By: Mary Todd; Foreword-Martin E. Marty

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company : November 1999

Seller ID: 13719

ISBN-13: 9780802844576

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st Edition / 1st Printing - Previous owner's name and green mark on inside front cover. No apparent marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. Appears unread. . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Introduction 2.) Defining Decade, 1831-1841: The Formative Years -- 3.) Establishing an Identity: The Nineteenth Century -- 4.) Identity Redefined: A Twentieth-Century Church? -- 5.) The Issue of Authority: Woman Suffrage -- 6.) *Not in God's Lifetime*: The Significance of the Ordination of Women -- 7.) The Problem of Authority. . . . . . . . . . . . . Like other major P...
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God's Bestseller: William Tyndale, Thomas More, and the Writing of the English Bible---A Story of Martyrdom and Betrayal

By: Moynahan, Brian

Price: $16.95

Publisher: St. Martin's Press : August 2003

Seller ID: 41214

ISBN-13: 9780312314866

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st Edition / 1st Printing - Binding is tight and square. Dust jacket is clean with minor shelf wear. No dust jacket. Previous owner's name and green mark on the front inside cover. . . . . . . Few history books have influenced my thinking as has Brian Moynahan's *God's Bestseller: William Tyndale* (2002). I found this 422-page (hardback) difficult to put down. I was often cheering for and, in the end, crying over the life of William Tyndale. Moynahan portrays Tyndale as a man of rare talent and extraordinary vision. Almost from the beginning of his clerical career he wanted to offer t...
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Peter Cartwright: A great circuit rider (The Hall-of-Fame Series)

By: Olson, Bessie G.

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Walfred Publishing : 1955

Seller ID: 33633

ISBN: B0007G3QCQ

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1955 Printing by Walfred Publishing - Cover shows minor signs. One dogeared page noted. No marks or writing observed in text. Binding tight and square. . . . . . . . . . Peter Cartwright, (born Peter Cartwright, Jr.), also known as *Uncle Peter*, *Backwoods Preacher*, *Lord's Plowman*, *Lord's Breaking-Plow*, and *The Kentucky Boy* (September 1, 1785 ? September 25, 1872), was an American Methodist, revivalist, preacher, in the Midwest, as well as twice an elected legislator in Illinois. Cartwright, a Methodist missionary, helped start America's Second Great Awakening, personally baptizing tw...
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Protestants, The Birth of a Revolution

By: Ozment, Steven

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Doubleday : 1992

Seller ID: 114663

ISBN: B000RWMN8S

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Collectible - Good

1st Edition / 1st Printing - Small amount of marginalia in text. Binding is tight and square. Gently read. Dust jacket has light wear. . . . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: * Preface * Introduction -- * PART I: In Search of the Reformation: 1.) Turning the World Upside Down -- 2.) Religious Origins and Social Consequences ------ * PART II: Theology and Propaganda: The Reformation Envisioned: 3.) The Revolution of the Pamphleteers -- 4.) Evangelizing the Real World ------ * PART III: From Propaganda to Law: The Reformation Enacted: 5.) Gaining a Big Stick: Ordinance and Catechi...
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