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Drawing on more than four decades of experience studying Christian communities in Egypt, Otto Meinardus offers here a sweeping overview of the principal Christian churches and organizations in Egypt today. For the first time, this wealth of information has been gathered into one volume, making it an ideal introduction to the contemporary scene of the various Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant denominations that have a presence in Egypt. Looking at...
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Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the region's political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers and as the momentum of religious change shifted from Christianity to Islam and back, adding new dimensions to the history of the region and the nature of the relationship between the...
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Are you ready for the Truth? Citing historical evidence, including a secret mathematical code in the Gospel of John, John Koerner makes a compelling case that in the mysterious forty days after Jesus rose from the dead he was hunted down, executed, and resurrected a second time. The product of years of research and analysis, Hunting the Nazarene follows the evidence that the Catholic Church covered up the second resurrection for centuries.
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In 1930, during the author's first assignment in Turkey, a wise old Cypriot philosopher said to him, "Just remember that you are working in a region where the unexpected is normal." In the more than 20 years that followed, this became increasingly evident, the more one stays in that part of the world the less one dares to predict. An American missionary, with 30 years’ service in various lands of the region once commented, "I can say that I have...
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"Kroeker is a Mennonite with a motorcycle. When his seemingly unflinching faith in a Christian worldview begins to shift, Kroeker hops on his bike to seek answers from another perspective. After shipping his ride to Europe, Kroeker discovers that the machine wobbles back and forth worse than his own opinions about spirituality. Still, he carries on, oscillating through Europe--Germany, Austria, Croatia, Albania--and into the Middle East--Turkey, Syria,...
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Following the so called "Arab Spring" the world's attention has been drawn to the presence of significant minority religious groups within the predominantly Islamic Middle East. Of these minorities Christians are by far the largest, comprising over 10% of the population in Syria and as much as 40% in Lebanon.The largest single group of Christians are the Arabic-speaking Orthodox. The author draws on archaeological evidence and previously unpublished...
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Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre las cruzadas en Tierra Santa, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.
En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá:
• Analizar el contexto en el que se enmarcan las cruzadas: el avance musulmán, la decadencia del Imperio bizantino y la política europea, ligada a la religión
• Descubrir las ocho cruzadas que se llevaron a cabo en Tierra Santa, así...
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The Ten Commandments are a set of rules or laws, God gave to the people of Israel. The commandments exist in different versions. One version can be found in the Book of Exodus of the Bible. Another version can be found in the Book of Horeb. In the book of Exodus, the mountain is called Mount Sinai, the book of Horeb talks about Mount Horeb. Both are probably different names for the same mountain. The rules were written on stone tablets. These rules...
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En "El Viaje de Jerusalén", Francisco Guerrero cuenta las peripecias de su peregrinación a Tierra Santa, a finales del siglo XVI. A pesar de piratas, ladrones, turcos, guerras, jenízaros, privaciones, prohibiciones, multitud de monedas de oro gastadas en exacciones abusivas y unas distancias de miles de leguas, este Maestro de Capilla de la Catedral de Sevilla consiguió llegar a Jerusalén, la "ciudad dichosa", y visitar los lugares donde tuvieron...
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Découvrez enfin tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur les croisades en Terre sainte en moins d'une heure !
Entreprises entre le XIe et le XIIIe siècle par la papauté, officiellement dans le but de délivrer le tombeau du Christ alors aux mains des musulmans, les croisades ont toujours occupé une place à part dans l'imaginaire collectif.
Du succès de la première croisade en 1096 à l'échec cuisant de la huitième en 1272, des milliers de chrétiens,...
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Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Crusades in next to no time with this concise guide.
50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the Crusades. In the 11th century, tensions peaked between the Christian West and the Muslim East over control of the Holy Land. At the pope's call to Crusade, a series of conflicts broke out that would endure for nearly two centuries. The cultural and political shockwaves...
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An authoritative account of the Coptic Papacy in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the onset of the Ottoman era, by a leading religious studies scholar.
In Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of "apostolicity, martyrdom, monastic patronage, and theological resistance" were determinative for the cultural construction of Egyptian church leadership in late antiquity. This second volume shows that the medieval Coptic popes...
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This third and final volume of The Popes of Egypt series spans the five centuries from the arrival of the Ottomans in 1517 to the present era. Hardly any scholarly work has been written about the Copts during the Ottoman period. Using court, financial, and building records, as well as archives from the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate and monasteries, Magdi Guirguis has reconstructed the authority of the popes and the organization of the Coptic community...
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"Dr. J.H. Allen of Portland...a strong and interesting speaker and many of his ideas and the results of his researches are original and unique...ancestry of Queen Victoria has been traced all the way back to Adam." -Spokane Chronicle, Nov. 8, 1902
"J.H. Allen, evangelist, is evidently a man who believes that the Bible says is the word of God...the author dispels the prevailing notion that all prophecy is fulfilled...the children of Abraham are to...
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"Winner of the James Henry Breasted Prize, American Historical Association" "Honorable Mention for the Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association" Jack Tannous is assistant professor of history at Princeton University.
A bold new religious history of the late antique and medieval Middle East that places ordinary Christians at the center of the story
In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured...
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This book takes you on a holy journey to visit the most significant sites for Christianity across the world.
"Who does not burst out in tears of joy, when pressing his lips on the sacred stone of the Holy Sepulchre, who can remain unmoved at the sight of Cavalry?" Writes Reverend James Pfeiffer.
His recount is so detailed that, as you read, you will feel that you're among the pilgrims in Jaffa, where Noah built his ark, in the church of the holy...
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Amidst a sometimes confusing barrage of news about the Middle East, Dr. Bernard Sabella, a Palestinian Christian, offers an enlightening, often humorous, personal narrative accompanied by reflections on lessons learned from his life in a conflict zone. Displaced from his home in infancy with his refugee family and educated in Jerusalem's Old City before pursuing university studies in the US, he blossomed into a committed educator, scholar, member...
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The Holy Land is much more than places and historical artifacts; it's an experience . . . an experience that is spiritual in nature for those with eyes to see. This book is designed to give you eyes to see what most people don't. It uncovers the riches and treasures of the Holy Land, so you can experience and be transformed by it. At each biblical site, this book will provide you with information about the location, historical background, places of...
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The Holy Land is much more, than places and historical artifacts; it's an experience... an experience that is spiritual in nature for those with eyes to see. This book is designed to give you eyes to see what most people don't. It uncovers the riches and treasures of the Holy Land, so you can experience, and be, transformed by it. At each biblical site, this book will provide you with information about the location, historical background, places of...
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