1959 results for '"Church, Roy A.'

Through grit and determination, the founding Black families of Sourland Mountain and surrounding Central New Jersey put down roots, built homes, established churches and navigated their lives in an...

Occupy Religion introduces readers to the growing role of religion in the Occupy Movement and asks provocative questions about how people of faith can work for social justice. From the temperance...

..".Aquinas and His Role in Theology is full of synthesis and insight. Experts have considered it to hold some of Chenu's finest pages on Aquinas: there succinct descriptions of church and society in...

In this book, Samuel Sandmel traces the history, institutions and ideas of Judaism from 200 B.C. to 175 A.D. Drawing on sources ranging from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha, the Rabbinic literature,...

The long-awaited reissue of Remnant's classic study of misericords in the United Kingdom, this new edition provides a complete listing of carvings from parish churches throughout the UK and also...

In studying the Late Antique period there are different approaches: political history (fall of the West Roman Empire and its replacement by the Successor States), socio-economic history (e.g...

'So I will write in English, pressing new words from this beautiful plain language spoken by all. Not courtly French to introduce God politely. Not church Latin to construct arguments. English to...

The New York Times Bestseller"[An] earth-shaking exposé of clerical corruption." - National Catholic ReporterIn the Closet of the Vatican exposes the rot at the heart of the Vatican and the Roman...

One of the world's most esteemed and influential psychologists, Roy F. Baumeister, teams with New York Times science writer John Tierney to reveal the secrets of self-control and how to master it...

The explosive southward expansion of Christianity in Africa, Asia, and Latin American has barely registered on Western consciousness. Nor has the globalization of Christianity--and the enormous...

The life and times of the most important theological work of medieval ChristendomThomas Aquinas’s Summa theologiae holds a unique place in Western religion and philosophy. Written between 1266 and...

In a series of fascinating interviews, a cradle Catholic (Robert P. George) and an adult convert (R. J. Snell), offer the stories of sixteen converts, each a public intellectual or leading voice in...

A luminous debut novel—the story of a friendship between a young schoolgirl and an aging professor—that follows them over the years and gives us an intimate look at a Catholic community in a Bombay...

Douglass Sullivan-González examines the influence of religion on the development of nationalism in Guatemala during the period 1821–1871, focusing on the relationship between Rafael Carrera and the...

Ignatiev traces the tattered history of Irish and African-American relations, revealing how the Irish used labor unions, the Catholic Church and the Democratic party to succeed in American. He...

"Satan's smoke has made its way into the temple of God through some crack."—Pope Paul VI, 1972The words of Pope Paul echoed the feelings of many on the Catholic right, who believed that the...

A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools is a nondenominational, ecumenical collection of over 400 hymns and 100 psalms designed especially for worship services in academic communities. Hymns and...

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom the bestselling and prize-winning author of Piranesi and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an enchanting, beautifully illustrated short story set in the world of Jonathan...

"This beautifully illustrated book, with numerous essays by an international roster of leading art historians, examines Jacopo Tintoretto's masterpiece Angel Foretelling the Martyrdom of Saint...

Fiction imagines for us a stopping point from which life can be seen as intelligible," asserts Joan Silber in The Art of Time in Fiction. The end point of a story determines its meaning, and one of...