Aiming to separate propaganda and myth from history, historian Lambert takes on Christian Right revisionists who maintain that liberals and secularists have distorted American history and that our fou
The C.S. Lewis Phenomenon names the way in which Lewis's presentations of Christianity in both his fiction and non-fiction depend upon the conventions of the public sphere-this study explores three fa
Democracy in Twenty-First Century America: Notes on Race, Class, Religion, and Region is an exercise in religious and political philosophy. Fundamentally concerned with the racial and economic crisis
The book's main objective is to thoroughly examine subjective truth, which is the core concept in Kierkegaard's philosophy. Here Gabriel contrasts subjective truth with objective truth in order to hig
The new Grimm brothers, says Morgan, are Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, who wrote the Left Behind series of books espousing pre-millennial dispensationalism. Having retired from three decades of tea
Melungeons are a group of people in the Appalachian Mountains who for centuries sought to evade legal and social sanctions against their racially mixed heritage by telling various tales of their exoti
William Wordsworth and Jane Austen, premier English Romantic poet and novelist, were baptized, confirmed, and buried (and for Wordsworth, married) in conformity with the Church of England. However, mo
This book of sermons seeks to record the words, insights, and experiences of several women ministers and preachers so as not to become part of the lost generations of women who have gone before them.
What Christian would not want to hear Mark's gospel as the first believers heard it? Using the tools of modern scholarship, Peter's Last Sermon takes seriously Mark's audience. The community would hav
William Bartram's Travels remains in print more than two hundred years after its first publication, a testament to its place as the seminal scholarship in southern and early American botany and natura
Brake (English and technical communication, King College, Tennessee) tells of the quest of the Melungeons of Appalachia to find themselves. She gives a brief history of the Melungeons, admitting that
Young (English, U. of Wisconsin La Cross), independent author Braziel and their contributors assert that racialized nationalism pervades standard notions of beauty, memory and public culture. Moving t
This book examines how biblical interpretation promoted both violent persecution and religious liberty in colonial America. Frequently, the Bible was a violent force in Puritan New England, where mini
The Triumph of the Ecunnau-Nuxulgee describes the 1825 tour by Marquis de Lafayette and the proceeding events, up to 1838, which resulted in the dispossession of Creek homelands and the removal of the
"This book provides a first-hand, intimate account of the trials and tribulations of climbing five well-known mountains or trails, all from the perspective of a middle-aged, "regular guy" who has surv
This detailed narrative account for historians and war buffs describes the destruction of Atlanta, Georgia, when Union General William T. Sherman ordered two months of bombing in the summer of 186
Trothen explores similarities between religion and sport and how that bears on the debate over performance enhancement. She discusses sport and techno-science, theological reflections on sport and tec
Thomas Aquinas has long been understood to have reconciled faith and reason. Typically, he is understood as having provided justification for faith by means of proof. In this book, Rosental argues tha
