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What are the most significant points at issue between the Reformed and Mennonite communions-Baptism, peace and church-state relations? Is there a way forward? In the hope that there may be, the contributors to this book attempt to clear the way to closer relations between Reform…
In this study, newly translated into English, Bat Ye'or provides a lucid analysis of the dogma and strategies of jihad, offering a vast panorama of the history of Christians and Jews under the rule of Islam. A pioneer in a virgin field of research for which she coined the word "…
As a young prince, Louis XIV paid little attention to virtue or sin, but he later became committed to imprisoning blasphemers and prostitutes. Using police and prison archives, administrative correspondence, memoirs and letters, this volume describes the formation of Louis's nar…
Steigmann-Gall argues that Nazism was neither unrelated to Christianity nor actively opposed to it.
To what extent is Christian doctrine accountable for Nazism and its historical legacy? In The Holy Reich, esteemed historian Richard Steigmann-Gall grapples with this question, and forces us to confront new and disturbing answers. Despite the popular belief that Nazi ideology re…
In this relevatory account of the people who founded the New England colonies, historian David D. Hall compares the reforms they enacted with those attempted in England during the period of the English Revolution. Bringing with them a deep fear of arbitrary, unlimited authority,…
As the population of Africa increasingly converts to Christianity, the church has stepped up its involvement in secular affairs revolving around the transition to democracy in nations such as Zambia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Comparative in approach, the author analyzes patter…
"This book examines the Catholic elaboration on the relationship between state and Church in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. Among the several factors which have contributed to the complex process of state-formation in early modern Europe, religious affiliation has certai…