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1) The ecclesiastical history of the English people ; the Greater Chronicle ; Bede's letter to Egbert
Author
Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In The Triumph of Christianity, Bart Ehrman, a master explainer of Christian history, texts, and traditions, shows how a religion whose first believers were twenty or so illiterate day laborers in a remote part of the empire became the official religion of Rome, converting some thirty million people in just four centuries. The Triumph of Christianity combines deep knowledge and meticulous research in an eye-opening, immensely readable narrative that...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
The rise of Christianity from the death of Jesus to the establishment of the first Christian church is often portrayed as a rapid, almost seamless, movement in history. Sociologist Stark ponders why Christianity succeeded as it did in the early years of the first century. Stark uses contemporary social-scientific data, about why people join new religious movements and how religions recruit members, to investigate the formative history of Christianity....
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A profound and moving journey into the heart of Christianity that explores the mysterious and often paradoxical lives and legacies of the Twelve Apostles—-a book both for those of the faith and for others who seek to understand Christianity from the outside in.
9) Betrayed!
Series
Storykeepers A.D. 64 volume 10
Publisher
GoodTimes Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1996
Language
English
Description
Ben and the gang must smuggle those who helped them free Tacticus out of Rome. But their fear of betrayal by Antonius, the miller, leads Ben to tell the stories of Judas and of the Last Supper. Helena, meanwhile, relates the story of Mary Magdalene anointing th ehead of Jesus with perfume. When the Romans threaten to burn down Ben's bakery, with Anna and the boys still inside, the stage is set for an exciting--and surprising climax.
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