The Presbyterian review. Managing eds.: A.A. Hodge, C.A. Briggs
Author: Presbyterian review association
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 888
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Author: Presbyterian review association
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 888
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 842
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Author: Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
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Published: 1890
Total Pages: 728
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Author: Jack Rogers
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 1985-01-01
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780664254964
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides clergy, laity, and students with a thorough introduction to their faith as set forth in the Book of Confessions. Jack Rogers explains technical terms and places current issues in perspective by examining the meaning of the creeds, confessions, and declarations found in the Book of Confessions. He examines their role in history, their full meaning, and their continued relevance to the Christian community.
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.
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 666
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Published: 1854
Total Pages: 724
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Published: 1845
Total Pages: 442
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Published: 1873
Total Pages: 776
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Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-01-19
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780484335362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from The Presbyterian Review: October, 1887 In 1838 he married the lady who survived him, and whose genial hospitality hundreds of visitors from all countries gratefully remem ber. They had only three children - all sons; one died young, an other, August, has been for some years Professor of Theology at the Theological Seminary, Wittenberg, and were he not handicapped by bearing so eminent a name, would find fuller recognition of his ability and learning than has hitherto officially been the case; the third, a most promising and interesting youth, was early laid aside by a hopeless affliction, to the great grief of his loving, expectant, yet wonderfully patient parents. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.