A History of the Work of Redemption: (Banner of Truth) Contributor's Bio: Jonathan Edwards: pastored the church at Northampton, Massachusetts before being removed by the congregation. He then pastored an American Indian congregation at Stockbridge, where he did most of his writing. Edwards accepted the presidency of the College of Ne... Details...

A Reformation Reader, with CD-ROM: Primary Texts with Introductions: (Augsburg Fortress) Publisher's Comments: This volume, the first anthology of the most important documents of the sixteenth-century European Reformations, is now significantly augmented and improved with a CD-ROM. Usable in state university and religious settings, A Reformation Reader includes 95 pr... Details...

Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity: (Wipf & Stock Publishers) Publisher's Comments: In a comprehensive and detailed survey on its remarkably widespread employment in the Roman empire, Dr. Hengel examines the way in which "the most vile death of the cross" was regarded in the Greek-speaking world and particularly in Roman-occupied Palestine. Details...

Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This provocative new study reevaluates the history of the early Church. Focusing on the struggle between Ambrose of Milan, upholder of orthodoxy and the famous `Nicene' creed still used in the western Church today, and the heretical Arians who denied the di... Details...

American Religious Traditions: The Shaping of Religion in the United States, with CD-ROM: (Augsburg) Publisher's Comments: In this fully revised and enhanced edition of his Religion in the New World (Fortress Press, 1990), Wentz extends and deepens his successful account of the shaping of America’s diverse religious traditions. Using religious studies categories, such a... Details...

Apologetics in the Roman Empire: Pagans, Jews, and Christians: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book is a comprehensive survey of the dialogue between pagans, Jews, and Christians in the Roman empire up to the time when Constantine declared himself a Christian. Each chapter is written by a distinguished scholar and is devoted to a single text or ... Details...

Arator on the Acts of the Apostles: A Baptismal Commentary: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: Baptism for the early Christians was a subject of crucial importance, and its symbolism fired the imagination of writers throughout the Christian world. Arator, the Roman sub-deacon who wrote a verse-commentary on the Acts of the Apostles in A.D. 544, was n... Details...

Ascetic Eucharists: Food and Drink in Early Christian Ritual Meals: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: The early Eucharist has usually been seen as sacramental eating of token bread and wine in careful or even slavish imitation of Jesus and his earliest disciples. In fact, the evidence suggests great diversity in conduct, including the use of foods, in the f... Details...

Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book examines the late second century writings of Irenaeus and Clement. Writing before monasticism became the dominant paradigm of Christian asceticism, Irenaeus and Clement afford fascinating glimpses of alternative approaches to asceticism in late an... Details...

Ascetics and Ambassadors of Christ: The Monasteries of Palestine 314-631: (Oxford University Press) Publisher's Comments: In this book, Binns examines the monastic movement in Palestine during the Byzantine period, from the accession of Constantine to the fall of Jerusalem to the Persians in 614. The monasteries of the desert—in Jerusalem, Egypt, and Syria—played a... Details...