Tag: Church

Free Download Richard Lints, "Uncommon Unity: Wisdom for the Church in an Age of Division"
English | ISBN: 1683596412 | 2022 | 288 pages | EPUB | 3 MB

Free Download Fr. Aidan Nichols O.P., "The Singing-Masters: Church Fathers from Greek East and Latin West"
English | ISBN: 1621645436 | 2023 | 343 pages | EPUB | 605 KB

Free Download Maya Stanfield-Mazzi, "Clothing the New World Church: Liturgical Textiles of Spanish America, 1520-1820"
English | ISBN: 0268108056 | 2021 | 432 pages | EPUB | 45 MB

Free Download Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BZWJ8LZL | 2023 | 9 hours and 58 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Nadya Williams
Narrator: Marni Penning
In the middle of the third century CE, one North African bishop wrote a treatise for the women of his church, exhorting them to resist such culturally normalized yet immodest behaviors in their cosmopolitan Roman city as mixed public bathing in the nude, and wearing excessive amounts of jewelry and makeup. The treatise appears even more striking, once we realize that the scandalous virgins to whom it was addressed were single women who had dedicated their virginity to Christ. Stories like this one challenge the general assumption among Christians today that the earliest Christians were zealous converts who were much more counterculturally devoted to their faith than typical church-goers today.

Free Download Edward D. Wynot Jr., "The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History"
English | ISBN: 073919884X | 2014 | 138 pages | EPUB | 1414 KB
The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History shows the adaptability of an Orthodox community whose members are a religious and ethnic minority in a predominantly Roman Catholic country populated by ethnic Poles. It features a triangular relationship among the Orthodox and Catholic hierarchies and the secular state of Poland throughout the changes of government. A secondary interrelationship involves the tense relationship between ethnic Poles on one hand, and minority Ukrainians and Belarusans on the other. As a "prisoner" of its own history and strangers in its own land, the Polish Orthodox Church faces a constant struggle for survival.

Free Download Edward D. Wynot Jr., "The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History"
English | ISBN: 073919884X | 2014 | 138 pages | EPUB | 1414 KB
The Polish Orthodox Church in the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Prisoner of History shows the adaptability of an Orthodox community whose members are a religious and ethnic minority in a predominantly Roman Catholic country populated by ethnic Poles. It features a triangular relationship among the Orthodox and Catholic hierarchies and the secular state of Poland throughout the changes of government. A secondary interrelationship involves the tense relationship between ethnic Poles on one hand, and minority Ukrainians and Belarusans on the other. As a "prisoner" of its own history and strangers in its own land, the Polish Orthodox Church faces a constant struggle for survival.

Free Download Janine Giordano Drake, "The Gospel of Church: How Mainline Protestants Vilified Christian Socialism and Fractured the Labor Movement"
English | ISBN: 0197614302 | 2023 | 328 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 19 MB
In 1908, Unitarian pastor Bertrand Thompson observed the momentous growth of the labor movement with alarm. "Socialism," he wrote, "has become a distinct substitute" for the church. He was not wrong.

Free Download Titus Cheravallil John, "The Church in the Salvific Plan of God and the Motherhood of the Church in the Writings of Mar Jacob of Sarug: A Study o"
English | ISBN: 3631853041 | 2022 | 444 pages | EPUB | 881 KB
This book deals with the ecclesiological themes in the writings of Mar Jacob of Sarug, a West Syrian Church father, who lived in the sixth century. Mar Jacob of Sarug (ca. 451-521) stands next to Ephrem the Syrian as a poet theologian of the West Syrian Church. His writings, especially the metrical homilies, illustrate his imaginative reflections on Bible passages, demonstrating his theological perceptions. This book deals with the ecclesiological themes in Mar Jacob’s writings. The primary sources of this work are the festal homilies of Mar Jacob and his two metrical homilies on the Church, which the author himself has translated.

Free Download Jennifer C. Snow, "Mission, Race, and Empire: The Episcopal Church in Global Context"
English | ISBN: 0197598943 | 2023 | 368 pages | EPUB, PDF | 726 KB + 18 MB
The history of the Episcopal Church is intimately bound up with the history of empire. The two grew in tandem in the modern era, and as they grew they developed particular ideologies and practices around race. As slavery was carried over into the new political formations of the United States, so too were racially based exclusions carried over in the Episcopal Church.

Free Download Gordon T. Smith, "Evangelical, Sacramental, and Pentecostal: Why the Church Should Be All Three"
English | ISBN: 0830851607 | 2017 | 143 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Evangelical. Sacramental. Pentecostal. Christian communities tend to identify with one of these labels over the other two. Evangelical churches emphasize the importance of Scripture and preaching. Sacramental churches emphasize the importance of the eucharistic table. And pentecostal churches emphasize the immediate presence and power of the Holy Spirit. But must we choose between them? Could the church be all three? Drawing on his reading of the New Testament, the witness of Christian history, and years of experience in Christian ministry and leadership, Gordon T. Smith argues that the church not only