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Theodore (¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿) appears to have composed this treatise in defense of the Christian faith against the political and intellectual attacks many many of of his Jewish and Islamic contemporaries. He is also deeply concerned with the question of Christological Orthodoxy, defending the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon against the Nestorian polemicists who seek to battle with Theodore's own West Syriac orthodoxy. His apologetic work would be preserved for some centuries with the aid of the Byzantine Church.

The Studia Philonica Annual is a scholarly journal devoted to the study of Hellenistic Judaism, particularly the writings and thought of the Hellenistic-Jewish writer Philo of Alexandria (circa 15 BCE to circa 50 CE).

This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives of Acadia/Nova Scotia from the mid-seventeenth century until 1755, the year of the Great Deportation of the Acadians. It provides a new understanding of the role played by the French missionaries in the most peripheral and less populated area of Canada during the colonial period. The decision to focus on this period is dictated by the need to investigate how and to which extent the French missionaries sought to carry out their activity within a contested territory which was exposed to the pressures coming out of both French and British imperial interests.

Prepare yourself for an eye-opening journey into the heart of a religious institution plagued by secrecy and manipulation. In The White Estate Fraud, Steve Daily fearlessly confronts the sins of omission committed by the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA).For years, dissenting voices have been silenced, their characters tarnished, and critical information distorted. Daily sets the record straight, debunking the claims that D. M. Canright, the author whose book exposed the fraud within the church, had recanted. Drawing on meticulous research, Daily exposes the shocking inner workings of the SDA.The White Estate Fraud exposes for the first time¿ The defamatory and fabricated book by Carrie Johnson used to destroy the reputation and life of D. M. Canright¿ The theft of D. M. Canright's personal diary by Carrie Johnson and Arthur White, still contained in the White Estate today¿ The never-before revealed dishonesty, secrecy, and fraud of Carrie Johnson and Arthur White

"The present work...seeks, under the guidance of the spirit of evangelical catholicity, to furnish the historical evidence that...evangelical Protestant Christendom forms a unity."from the Preface

This 2004 Wipf & Stock edition of The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre by Henry Baird is a digital facsimile of the original 1896 edition published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Company.

"The present work...seeks, under the guidance of the spirit of evangelical catholicity, to furnish the historical evidence that...evangelical Protestant Christendom forms a unity."from the Preface

This 2004 Wipf & Stock edition of The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre by Henry Baird is a digital facsimile of the original 1896 edition published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Company

This is a short panegyric about the relationship of the High Byzantine Empire, under Basil II, and its relationship to its Armenian ally to the east. The text tells of the endowment of a piece of the True Cross to the Armenian monastery at Aparank, sometime during the early 11th century. St. Gregory makes references to several other powers within the Armenian church at the time, including the bishop of Mokk, Stephanos. It is stylistically broken down into 144 sections, which are translated here into English for the first time.

I salute you, my brothers. It is to you and for you that I speak. You are the strong nails that hold the church together. You will spark, sending bursts of light streaming through the post-modern church as the new millennium unfolds.

Anne Hayward spends several months each year walking to sacred sites in Britain and beyond, now having covered many thousands of miles. Her third book recounting these pilgrimage walks looks in more detail at the history of 40+ sites she has visited in Wales or in places with a strong connection to it. In roughly chronological order, the book follows the history of Christianity in the country, discussing topics as varied as Roman roads, early medieval bell-founding, the development of Quaker graveyards, and the reinvention of an early saint in contemporary literature. It tells the remarkable story of religious faith in Wales, not only from the later Roman period and the Age of the Saints, but also in later times and into our own day, asking whether anywhere else has packed quite so much interest into so small a nation.

The Donation of Constantine is a forged Roman imperial decree by which the 4th-century emperor Constantine the Great supposedly transferred authority over Rome and the western part of the Roman Empire to the Pope.

Dynamius the Patrician lived at a turning point in western civilization where the fragments of the old Roman Order were beginning to fade without the edifice of empire to support them. In his time as a legate, Dynamius, appears to have interacted with the of the significant political agents in the region and was influential enough to support some of his own agency with his friend Pope Gregory I the Great. His letters are addressed to those who might be able to sway the welfare of the church in his own age.

This document contains the words of the famous Frankish saint, Burgundofara, relating the the nunnery that she had founded on her father's aristocratic lands and with the blessing of the reigning Frankish king. This work contains both the original Latin, as well as the English translation.

The council of Markabta was the third ecumenical council for the Church of the East, and one that would be held in response to the lack of central authority within the eastern church. Mar Dadisho is responding to various episcopal authorities within the realm who refuse to bow to his royally sanctioned authority. Moreover, this council marks that no Persian bishop can request assistance from bishops within the Roman Empire without the expressed consent of the patriarch in Seleucia-Ctesiphon.

Die ,Unterscheidung der Geister' macht es sich zur Aufgabe, die Seelenregungen des Menschen sowie vermeintliche Gnadenerfahrungen auf ihren göttlichen, teuflischen oder natürlichen Ursprung hin zu überprüfen. Obgleich sie bereits in der frühchristlichen Wüstenväterspiritualität präsent ist, gewinnt sie im abendländischen Denken erst seit dem 12. Jahrhundert zunehmend an Relevanz. Besondere Aufmerksamkeit erfährt sie im Kontext der spätmittelalterlichen Ordensreformbewegungen. Vor allem im 15. Jahrhundert entsteht ein ebenso komplexes wie systematisches Unterscheidungsschrifttum, das mittels einer Fülle psychologischer, dogmatischer und moralischer Kriterien zur Evaluation des inneren wie äußeren Menschen anleitet. Der vorliegende Band bietet eine ausführlich kommentierte Edition von sieben volkssprachlichen Traktaten aus dem Kontext der Melker Observanz. Im Zentrum steht die ,Probate spiritus'-Kompilation, eine freie Übertragung der wirkmächtigen Schrift ,De quattuor instinctibus' des Erfurter Augustinereremiten Heinrich von Friemar. Die weiteren Traktate greifen die hier behandelten Aspekte in je unterschiedlicher Weise auf und vermitteln so einen Eindruck von der Spannbreite des spätmittelalterlichen Unterscheidungsdiskurses

'Exquisite... intelligent, illuminating, mischievous ... delightful The TimesThe acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of historyThe illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. But we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence.This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years. A monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America - all of them were participants in what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club.This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel's unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion which crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been.In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript 'at a bookseller's in a back alley'. This was his reaction: 'The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold - as many of them were - cannot be told.' The members of de Hamel's club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style, and a lifetime's experience.

This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous historical studies of leprosy, the book examines the care and management of the incarcerated, enabling a broader understanding of their experience, beyond a singular trope of banishment, oppression and death. From the 1930s until the 1980s, respective governments appointed the trained sisters to four leprosaria across remote northern Australia, where almost two thousand people had been removed from their homes and detained under law for years - sometimes decades. The book traces the sisters¿ holistic nursing from early efforts of amelioration and palliation to their part in the successful treatment of leprosy after World War II. It reveals the ways the sisters stepped out of their assigned roles and attempted to shape the institutions as places of health and hygiene, of European culture and education, and of Christianity. Making use of accounts from patients, doctors; bureaucrats; missionary men; and Indigenous families and communities, the book offers fresh perspectives on two important strands of history. First, its attention to the day-to-day work of the Australian sisters helps to demystify leprosy healthcare by female missionaries, generally. Secondly, with the sisters specifically caring for Indigenous people, this book exposes the institutional practices and goals specific to race relations of both the Australian government and Catholic missionaries. An important and timely read for anyone interested in Indigenous history, medical history and the connections between race, religion and healthcare, this book contextualizes the twentieth-century leprosy epidemic within Australia's broader colonial history.

Selections from the writings of 'Abdu'l-Bahá, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Plain Parochial Sermons, preached in the Parish Church of Bolton-le-Moors, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Plain Sermons, Preached at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Regent Street, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Pioneers and Founders ; or, Recent Workers in the Mission field, a classical book, has been considered essential throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.