Free Download Thomas Mathews, "The Dawn of Christian Art in Panel Paintings and Icons"
English | ISBN: 1606065092 | 2016 | 256 pages | PDF | 226 MB
Staking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings.

Free Download TTC – The Greatest Controversies of Early Christian History

Released 10/2024
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Christianity has arguably been the most important force in the history of Western civilization. Whether we view it in religious, social, political, or economic terms, Christianity has deeply and integrally influenced the Western worldview and way of life, as well as our most basic notions of selfhood, morality, and ethics. Without the presence and role of Christianity, our world would be considerably different. As such, understanding Christianity is fundamental to understanding our civilization, our culture, and our origins.

Free Download Stanley Rudman, "Concepts of Person and Christian Ethics "
English | ISBN: 0521090245 | 2008 | 424 pages | PDF | 31 MB
Should "personhood" or its perceived absence determine the allocation of scarce medical resources? This and other issues make the concept and definition of personhood central to current debates over ethics. In a wide-ranging discussion notable for its clarity, Stanley Rudman traces the development of modern ideas about personhood. Arguing against those who define persons by purely moral and rational criteria, he posits an ethic that instead understands personhood in relation to other people, to the environment, and to God.

Free Download Bruce Ashford, "Christian Higher Education: Faith, Teaching, and Learning in the Evangelical Tradition"
English | 2018 | pages: 576 | ISBN: 1433556537 | EPUB | 1,5 mb
Our world is growing increasingly complex and confused―a unique and urgent context that calls for a grounded and fresh approach to Christian higher education.

Free Download John Anderson, "Conservative Christian Politics in Russia and the United States"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0367600226 | EPUB | pages: 196 | 0.8 mb
This book explores the politics of conservative Christian churches and social movements in Russia and the United States, focusing on their similar concerns but very different modes of political engagement.

Free Download Charles E Raven, "Christian Socialism, 1848-1854"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0714621293, 1016554621 | EPUB | pages: 408 | 0.5 mb
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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by Michael W. Austin and Marlena Graves
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0802884350 | 130 Pages | True ePUB | 0.84 MB

Free Download Sidney H. Griffith, "The Beginnings of Christian Theology in Arabic: Muslim-Christian Encounters in the Early Islamic Period "
English | ISBN: 086078889X | 2002 | 345 pages | PDF | 24 MB
The articles in this collection complement those in Professor Griffith’s previous volume, Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of 9th-Century Palestine, studying the first efforts of Christians living in the early Islamic world to respond to the religious challenges of Islam. In particular, the author shows how Christian apologists who wrote in Arabic adopted in defense of Christian doctrines the modes of discourse (kalam) then employed by Muslim controversialists (mutakallimun) to advance the claims of Islam. The writers whose works are studied here developed a truly Christian ‘ilm al-kalam, that is to say a science of defending Christianity in an Arabic idiom borrowed largely from Muslims.

Free Download Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers: The Afterlives of Temples and Their Texts in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean (Cultures of Reading in the Ancient Mediterranean) by Anna M. Sitz
English | March 17, 2023 | ISBN: 0197666434 | 352 pages | MOBI | 36 Mb
What did people in the early Christian period think about the pagan inscriptions filling their late antique cities? Like public advertisements lining our streets today, these inscriptions were everywhere and communicated specific messages to literate late Roman viewers, often providing a very different view of the classical past than that being preached from early Christian church pulpits. In Pagan Inscriptions, Christian Viewers, Anna M. Sitz provides a fresh perspective on the Christianization of the Roman empire from the fourth to the seventh century CE by analyzing a previously overlooked body of evidence: the many ancient, pagan inscriptions, written in Greek or other languages, which were reused, preserved, or even partially erased in this period.

Free Download Kevin J. Vanhoozer, "Mere Christian Hermeneutics: Transfiguring What It Means to Read the Bible Theologically"
English | ISBN: 0310234387 | 2024 | 448 pages | EPUB | 1312 KB
Reading the Bible to the glory of God.