Teachers' Book of Early Christian Heroes
Author: John Lincoln Keedy
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 176
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Author: John Lincoln Keedy
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Published: 1907
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dave Jackson
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0842334858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReaders will discover the remarkable stories of those who have suffered for the cause of Christ throughout the course of history. This volume reveals what inspired the great heroes of faith and drove them to give their all.
Author: Candida Moss
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 247
ISBN-13: 0062104543
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors. According to cherished church tradition and popular belief, before the Emperor Constantine made Christianity legal in the fourth century, early Christians were systematically persecuted by a brutal Roman Empire intent on their destruction. As the story goes, vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or burned alive because they refused to renounce Christ. These saints, Christianity's inspirational heroes, are still venerated today. Moss, however, exposes that the "Age of Martyrs" is a fiction—there was no sustained 300-year-long effort by the Romans to persecute Christians. Instead, these stories were pious exaggerations; highly stylized rewritings of Jewish, Greek, and Roman noble death traditions; and even forgeries designed to marginalize heretics, inspire the faithful, and fund churches. The traditional story of persecution is still taught in Sunday school classes, celebrated in sermons, and employed by church leaders, politicians, and media pundits who insist that Christians were—and always will be—persecuted by a hostile, secular world. While violence against Christians does occur in select parts of the world today, the rhetoric of persecution is both misleading and rooted in an inaccurate history of the early church. Moss urges modern Christians to abandon the conspiratorial assumption that the world is out to get Christians and, rather, embrace the consolation, moral instruction, and spiritual guidance that these martyrdom stories provide.
Author: Richard Newton
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 204
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Sidwell
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781579247348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys the history of African-American Christian churches through the study of fourteen notable black clergymen. In addition to the challenges that normally confront heralds of the gospel, African American Christians also faced slavery and racial discrimination. Their deep love for Christ and their fellow believers and their passion for lost souls made them dauntless soldiers for the Lord, proclaiming the way of salvation and the equality of all men and women in God's sight. - Publisher.
Author: Michael W. Holmes
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2007-11
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 080103468X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA contemporary version of important early Christian texts that are not included in the New Testament. The translation, Greek texts, introduction, notes, and bibliographies are freshly revised.
Author: Todd Miles
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Published: 2018-04-01
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 146275080X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComic superheroes embody the hopes of a world that is desperate for a savior. But those comic creations cannot save us from our greatest foes—sin and death. Throughout the history of the Church there have been bad ideas, misconceptions, and heretical presentations of Jesus. Each one of these heresies fails to present Jesus as the Bible reveals him. In Superheroes Can’t Save You, Todd Miles demonstrates how these ancient heresies are embodied in contemporary comic superheroes. Miles compares something everybody already knows (who the superheroes are) with what they need to know (who Jesus is), in a book that makes vitally important Christian truths understandable and applicable to a wide audience.
Author: Janet Benge
Publisher: YWAM Publishing
Published: 2000-10
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781576581872
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCurriculum guide for use with the author's Nate Saint, on a wing and a prayer.
Author: Sunday School Commission
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: 2009-04
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781104380717
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author: Susan H. Swetnam
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2009-04-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0829430458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscipline problems, self-doubt, tense meetings, classroom stress . . . Couldn’t every teacher use some saintly help? Every teacher can think of at least one mentor who has served as an inspiration over the years. However, many teachers—even those with a Catholic faith—might not have considered that saints can serve as mentors. Author and teacher Susan H. Swetnam believes that saints aren’t only good teachers—they’re the best teachers. In My Best Teachers Were Saints, Swetnam focuses on fifty-two saints—many of them teachers—who faced challenges similar to those that nearly all educators face today, from indifferent students and recalcitrant colleagues to their own limitations and feelings of isolation. With the examples of saints such as Augustine, Ignatius of Loyola, and Scholastica, Swetnam eagerly shares how their words and deeds helped immensely in her own career as a teacher and how they can aid and inspire other educators as well. Anyone involved in education—whether teaching religion or mathematics, kindergartners or graduate students—will discover within these pages a treasure trove of saintly help that is sure to prove that the best teachers are in fact saints!