Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Luca and Isolde continue their journey searching for evil in medieval Christenndom.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A trusted historian shows that "biblical womanhood" isn't biblical, but was born in a clearly definable historical moment, and presents a better way forward for the contemporary church"--
Biblical womanhood--the belief that God designed women to be submissive wives, virtuous mothers, and joyful homemakers--pervades North American Christianity. From choices about careers to roles in local churches to relationship dynamics, this belief shapes the...
Author
Description
Each generation suffers from self-obsession, and we do well to keep one eye on the past, to consider not only where we wish to go, where we have been. Christianity has a long and storied past that testifies to God's enduring grace, and even though so much of Christian history has passed away and many of its people and objects have been lost to time, a few precious relics and locations remain.
As we consider these objects with careful eyes and look...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"The #1 New York Times best-selling author of Zealot recounts the spellbinding tale of an unrecognized American martyr for democracy. As a student of Woodrow Wilson at Princeton, Howard Baskerville was aflame not only with the gospel of Jesus, but with the Wilsonian gospel that constitutional democracy is the birthright of all nations. Rather than become a small-town minister like his father in South Dakota, he volunteered for missionary service in...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1990], ©1983
Description
The most fitting word with which to describe the Church Fathers' attitude toward women is ambivalence. Women were God's creation, his good gift to men---and the curse of the world. They were weak in both mind and character---and displayed dauntless courage, undertook prodigious feats of scholarship. Vain, deceitful, brimming with lust---they led men to Christ, fled sexual encounter, wavered not at the executioner's threats, adorned themselves with...
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
The long-awaited, compelling sequel of the best-selling book The Essenes - Children of the Light. What is the secret of Mary Magdalene s power? Who were the female disciples of jeshua? Did Jeshua and Mary Magdalene have a child? How can we understand the New Children now being born? What changes will the New Consciousness bring into our lives? This is the story of the Essenes and the female disciples of Jeshua who were deliberately marginalised and...
10) Changeling
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1453, seventeen-year-old Luca Vero, accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, is recruited to help investigate evil across Europe but frees his first subject, Isolde, from captivity in a nunnery, and together they seek the one who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
12) Fools' gold
Author
Series
Order of darkness volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Tasked to expose a coin counterfeiting scheme, Luca and Isolde, whose romantic attraction continues to grow, travel to Venice in 1454, where they meet an alchemist who plans to create the Philosopher's Stone, a mystical substance said to be capable of turning base metals into gold and producing the elixir of life.
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
"One of Los Angeles Times Book Review's Twenty Best Books for 2003" Perez Zagorin (1920-2009) was Joseph C. Wilson Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Rochester and a Fellow of the Shannon Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Virginia and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the author of many books, including Francis Bacon and Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader (both Princeton).
Religious intolerance,...
Author
Pub. Date
[1980]
Description
"John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members -- among them priests, bishops, and even saints -- when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted...
15) The case for God
Author
Description
Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of...
17) Christianity
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From its origins to the 21st century, the faith of Christianity is explored in this Eyewitness Book that explains to readers different denominations, church rituals, and how Christians in different parts of the world worship. Full color.
Author
Description
"'Sitting at the feet of Rabbi Jesus' takes you on a fascinating tour of the Jewish world of Jesus, offering inspirational insights that can transform your faith. Ann Spangler and Lois Tverberg paint powerful scenes from Jesus' ministry, immersing you in the prayers, feasts, history, culture, and customs that shaped Jesus and those who followed him"--Inside cover.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request