The latest scholarship on the role of hymns in American evangelicalismMusic and song are important parts of worship, and hymns have long played a central role in Protestant cultural history. This book explores the ways in which Protestants have used and continue to use hymns to clarify their identity and define their relationship with America and to Christianity. Representing seven groups—Baptists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Mennonites, Holiness, Hispanics,...

Angels are mentioned often in the Qur'an and Hadith. Islam is clear about the nature of angels saying they are messengers of God. That Angels have no free will, and can only do what God orders them to do. An example of a task they may carry out is that of testing of individuals by granting them abundant wealth and curing their illness. Believing in angels is one of the six Articles of Faith in Islam.The Qur'an also mentions angels who God has chosen to punish the sinful in hell, th...

Winner of the 2013 Christianity Today Book Award for Theology/Ethics Scholars and laypersons alike regard Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) as North America's greatest theologian. The Theology of Jonathan Edwards is the most comprehensive survey of his theology yet produced and the first study to make full use of the recently-completed seventy-three-volume online edition of the Works of Jonathan Edwards. The book's forty-five chapters examine all major aspects of Edwards's thou...

Rome and Canterbury tells the story of the determined but little known work being done to end the nearly five hundred year old divisions between the Roman Catholic and the Anglican/Episcopal Churches. The break was never intended, has never been fully accepted and is experienced, by many, as a painful and open wound. It is a personal account that begins the story by reviewing the relevant history and theology, looks at where we are today, and concludes with some reflections on fai...

In the last decades of the 17th century, the feast of Christmas in Lutheran Germany underwent a major transformation when theologians and local governments waged an early modern "war on Christmas," discouraging riotous pageants and carnivalesque rituals in favor of more personal and internalized expressions of piety. Christmas rituals, such as the "Heilig Christ" plays and the rocking of the child (Kindelwiegen) were abolished, and Christian devotion focused increasingly on the me...

It is not my intention in this brief note to discuss the fact of Peter’s presence in Rome. That he found his way thither in the latter part of his life, and met his death there, is now so generally recognized among scholars that it would be gratuitous to argue the matter. But though the fact itself may be regarded as established, the date of the apostle’s arrival in Rome and the length of his stay there demand, it seems to me, renewed investigation.

HAVING abundant evidence that this pamphlet has been rendered very useful, the first issue being exhausted, and feeling that there is as great need as ever for light upon the subject, the author has been induced to issue a second edition. In doing so she has taken the opportunity to enlarge and improve it, rendering it, on the whole, she trusts, better worthy of the important subject of which it treats. IN dealing with the pamphlet before us we purpose to deal exclusively with the principl...

The Lord Jesus appointed one particular thing for Christians to do in this age,—the good news of His saving grace is to be preached to every creature. This ministry is not committed to His Church: it is committed to the individuals who form His Church. Nor is it committed to the “clergy”: it is committed to every member in His blessed body. The undertaking has too long been considered the responsibility of an indefinite com¬bination of people, with the resulting woeful effect that what is ...

This book examines the stories of radical Protestant women who prophesied between the British Civil Wars and the Great Awakening. It explores how women prophets shaped religious and civic communities in the British Atlantic world by invoking claims of chosenness. Elizabeth Bouldin interweaves detailed individual studies with analysis that summarizes trends and patterns among women prophets from a variety of backgrounds throughout the British Isles, colonial North America, and continental E...

Throughout Spanish colonial America, limpieza de sangre (literally, "purity of blood") determined an individual's status within the complex system of social hierarchy called casta. Within this socially stratified culture, those individuals at the top were considered to have the highest calidad-an all-encompassing estimation of a person's social status. At the top of the social pyramid were the Peninsulares: Spaniards born in Spain, who controlled most of the positions of power within the c...

Born into a traditional Catholic family,I had brushed aside much of the teaching that seemed less credidble than the empirical facts coming from science. I was dazzled by evidence that ancient beings apparently came from space, bringing building techniques impossible without equipment even now on the cutting edge, and medical scientists awed me with life-saving devices and techniques that repaired organs and kept people living much longer, maybe indefinitely,like jellyfish.Space wa...

The Doctrine of Repentance Is Enough to Make You Get the Spiritual Sickness.People all over the world are afraid of the viruses like SARS, because they would possibly die by being exposed to such invisible viruses.Likewise, Christians these days around the world are dying in their bodies and spirits by being infected with the doctrine of repentance. Who would know that the doctrine of repentance is that much wrong?Do you know who made Christians fall ...