Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, ...
Lawrence WrightA clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaeda's 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal inter...
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas an...
Elaine PagelsThe two leading, bestselling experts on the Gnostic Gospels weigh in on the meaning of the controversial newly discovered Gospel of Judas. When the Gospel of Judas was published by the National Geographic Society in April 2006, it ...
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism...
Jeff SharletThey insist they are just a group of friends, yet they funnel millions of dollars through tax-free corporations. They claim to disdain politics, but congressmen of both parties describe them as the most influential religious organizat...
How the Catholic Church Built Western...
Thomas E. WoodsNo institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. This book by best-selling author and professor Thomas E. Woods is ess...
Peter, Paul and Mary Magdalene: The F...
Bart D. EhrmanBart Ehrman, author of the bestsellers Misquoting Jesus and Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code, here takes readers on another engaging tour of the early Christian church, illuminating the lives of three of Jesus' most intriguing f...
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, ...
Lawrence WrightNational Book Award FinalistA New York Times Notable BookA Best Book of the Year: The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, New York magazine, Slate, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, People, Publishers ...
How the Catholic Church Built Western...
Thomas E. WoodsNo institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known. This book by best-selling author and professor Thomas E. Woods is ess...
Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation ...
Ross DouthatAS THE YOUNGEST-EVER OP-ED COLUMNIST FOR The New York Times, Ross Douthat has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. In Bad Religion he offers a masterful and forceful account of how American ...
The True Jesus: Uncovering the Divini...
David Limbaugh"Who do you say that I am?" Uttered by Jesus Christ, this profound question has presented an age-old challenge to believers, skeptics, scholars, and rulers. In attempting to answer this question, The True Jesus goes straig...
Hitler's Cross: How the Cross Was Use...
Erwin W. LutzerThe story of Nazi Germany is one of conflict between two saviors and two crosses. "Deine Reich komme," Hitler prayed publicly—"Thy Kingdom come." But to whose kingdom was he referring?When Germany truly needed...
God's Secretaries: The Making of the ...
Adam Nicolson[This is the Audiobook CD Library Edition in vinyl case.] A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England h...
Head and Heart: American Christianiti...
Garry WillsA landmark examination of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush.
America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I...
William J. BennettBennett, a secretary of education under President Reagan and author of The Book of Virtues, offers a new, improved history of America, one, he says, that will respark hope and a 'conviction about American greatness and purpose' in rea...
Home Is Where My People Are: The Road...
Sophie HudsonAll roads lead to home. It's easy to go through life believing that we can satisfy our longing for home with a three-bedroom, two-bath slice of the American dream that we mortgage at 4 percent and pay for over the course of thirty yea...
Many are amazed to discover in Revelation 17 that there is also another mysterious character at the heart of prophecy--a woman who ride the beast. Dave Hunt illumines this shadowy personage in this book, Woman Rides the Beast. Subm...
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation ...
Bart D. EhrmanNew York Times bestselling author and Bible expert Bart Ehrman reveals how Jesus's divinity became dogma in the first few centuries of the early church.The claim at the heart of the Christian faith is that Jesus of Nazareth was, and i...
Movements That Change the World: Five...
Steve AddisonWhen Jesus commissioned his followers, he was not just inaugurating the historical church, he was founding a missionary movement.Originally released by Missional Press and now revised and expanded to include a multi-session discussion...
The Confutatio Pontificia is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Johann Michael Reu is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjo...
Leveling the Praying Field: Can the C...
Ansel AugustineRELIGION / Christianity / Catholic RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues RELIGION / Christian Ministry / Youth In Leveling the Praying Field, Ansel Augustine offers a personal and historical perspective on issues of race a...
A Doctor at Calvary: The Passion of O...
M. D. Pierre BarbetWhat the Gospels don't reveal about Christ's sufferings, science does.While the Gospels relate only the barest essentials concerning the physical suffering of Jesus, Dr. Pierre Barbet addresses these gaps with scientific inquiry. A Do...
A People's History of Christianity: T...
Diana Butler BassThe Grassroots Movements That Preserved Jesus's Message of Social Justice for 2,000 Years and Their Impact on the Church TodayFor too long, the history of Christianity has been told as the triumph of orthodox doctrine imposed through ...
Christianity After Religion: The End ...
Diana Butler BassDiana Butler Bass, one of contemporary Christianity's leading trend-spotters, exposes how the failings of the church today are giving rise to a new "spiritual but not religious" movement. Using evidence from the latest natio...
Hilaire Belloc examines the five most destructive heretical movements to have affected Christian Civilization: Arianism, Mohammedanism (Islam), Albigensianism (Cathar), The Reformation (Protestant), and "The Modern Phase." B...
Jesus, the Apostles, and the Early Ch...
Pope Benedict XVIBased on Pope Benedict XVI's weekly teaching on the relationship between Christ and the Church, this book tells the drama of Jesus' first disciples — his Apostles and their associates — and how they spread Jesus' message throughou...
Binding the Strongman Over America: H...
John BenefielCAN A NATION LOOK LIKE HEAVEN?\n\nAs the daily news points to growing spiritual darkness over the nations, many Christians are tempted to believe that America is a lost cause. But is this true?\n\nMany Christian prophetic leaders agre...
How God Became Jesus: The Real Origin...
Michael F. BirdIn his recent book How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher From Galilee historian Bart Ehrman explores a claim that resides at the heart of the Christian faith--- that Jesus of Nazareth was, and is, God. According to...
The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and ...
Peter BrownIn this groundbreaking work, Peter Brown explores how the worship of saints and their corporeal remains became central to religious life in Western Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire. During this period, earthly remnants served...
Christ pleads with God, he pleads with a just and righteous God, and therefore he must plead law, and nothing but law; and this he pleaded in both these pleas-First, in confessing of the sin he justified the sentence of the law in pro...
Beginning with an insightful study on the nature of man, Chesterton argues that the central character in history is Jesus Christ, the everlasting Man. No other explanation of the world fits the evidence. Exploding the stale formula of...
Introduction to World Christian Histo...
Derek CooperChristianity is a global faith. Today, people are increasingly aware that Christianity extends far beyond Europe and North America, permeating the Eastern and Southern hemispheres. What we may know less well is that Christianity has...