The Complete Works of the First Fathers of the Church gathers a formative body of early Christian writing: pastoral epistles, martyrial exhortations, apologies, theological treatises, biblical interpretation, ecclesiastical histories, and visionary instruction. Spanning the generations from the apostolic age to late antiquity, it records Christianity's emergence within Jewish, Greek, and Roman intellectual worlds. Particularly compelling are its defenses of Christian belief before pagan cr...

Ante-Nicene Church Fathers gathers the formative writings of Christianity before the Council of Nicaea into a capacious nine-volume archive of doctrine, pastoral counsel, apology, biblical interpretation, martyrial witness, and ecclesial debate. Its range extends from terse epistles and visionary allegory to philosophical dialogue and sustained theological treatise. Standout texts include early defenses of Christian belief, reflections on apostolic succession, and imaginative accounts of r...

Spanning the formative centuries of Christianity, Ante-Nicene, Nicene & Post-Nicene Church Fathers assembles apologetic treatises, theological disputations, biblical exegesis, sermons, letters, ecclesiastical histories, spiritual manuals, and conciliar-era reflections. Its range extends from the defensive prose of persecuted communities to the doctrinal precision of Trinitarian and Christological controversy, preserving landmark meditations on martyrdom, baptism, scriptural interpretation,...

The Nicene Creed gathers a capacious patristic witness to Christian confession, tracing the theological pressures, exegetical habits, and devotional languages through which Nicene faith was articulated. Its materials range from apostolic-era exhortation and apology to conciliar theology, biblical commentary, polemic, homily, ecclesiastical history, and liturgical reflection. Particularly compelling are the recurring treatments of the Son's relation to the Father, the Holy Spirit's divinity...

[a.d. 100.] The writer of this Epistle is supposed to have been an Alexandrian Jew of the times of Trajan and Hadrian. He was a layman; but possibly he bore the name of “Barnabas,” and so has been confounded with his holy and apostolic name-sire. It is more probable that the Epistle, being anonymous, was attributed to St. Barnabas, by those who supposed that apostle to be the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, and who discovered similarities in the plan and purpose of the two works. It ...

Have you ever wondered why some teachings of Jesus were passed down through word of mouth before they were ever written down, or what the earliest Christians learned directly from the surviving apostles?The Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord provides a compelling modern translation of the surviving fragments of one of the most important lost texts in early Christian history. Written in the early second century by Papias, the Bishop of Hierapolis, this monumen...

Have you ever wondered why some teachings of Jesus were passed down through word of mouth before they were ever written down, or what the earliest Christians learned directly from the surviving apostles?The Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord provides a compelling modern translation of the surviving fragments of one of the most important lost texts in early Christian history. Written in the early second century by Papias, the Bishop of Hierapolis, this monumen...

This book presents different aspects of renewable energy-based electric vehicle (EV) integration into the grid system. In this book, different challenges during the integration of EVs to the grid are discussed. Further, by enabling EVs to act as distributed energy storage units in a grid system, how to improve grid stability and reduce the risk of outages by providing critical support to the grid during peak demand periods and periods of renewable energy intermittency are also discussed. T...

Wings of Freedom by Papia Ray is a collection of poems written in different verse forms on varied subjects, objective and subjective.Nature, man, war, life, death, all find wings through the poet’s pen. Something as light as the ‘Bumble Bee’ or the mixed feelings of nostalgia in ‘The House’ or, the traumatic realization of ‘ the death of mighty Death’ in ‘Tread Softly’, or the bold and angry outburst in ‘Betrayal’, awakens a variety of emotions.Wings of Freedom has Nature’s inspirational p...

Cooking can be a lot of fun; add a little of this, change a bit of that, and before you know it, you have great tasting food. In Invent Your Recipe Italian, Thomas J. Papia introduces you to his concept: the idea that when you INVENT YOUR RECIPE, these Italian recipes simply become guidelines. The recipes offer the framework; you create the simple, great tasting food that you enjoy preparing and sharing.Start with a base recipe. Make a few changes. And inve...

This book acquaints the reader to the often invisible-ized practices and policies under the rhetoric of ‘inclusion’, through theoretical and empirical analysis. It emphasizes on the complexities of education policies in a multicultural state by identifying the challenges to the idea of ‘inclusion’ illuminated through judicial interventions, policy-frameworks and everyday experiences of individuals.Higher education is imperative to empowerment in socially stratified societies marred...

This book provides a brief insight of various challenges and its mitigation techniques in microgrid due to power quality (PQ) issues. The central concept of this book revolves around the PQ issues in microgrid. The main objective of this book is to make aware of the power and control engineers with different innovative techniques to mitigate the challenges due to PQ issues in microgrid. The topics covered in this book are PQ disturbances in microgrid and different recent and innovative sch...