A History of Christianity in Pittsburgh

A History of Christianity in Pittsburgh
Author: Gary Scott Smith
Publisher: History Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-12-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781467141093

Christians have played a vital role in the history of Pittsburgh as community leaders, activists, athletes and more. Their ministries have inspired many worshipers and improved the community. Leading Pirates, Steelers and Penguins who have powerfully promoted Christianity here include Andrew McCutchen, Clint Hurdle, Troy Polamalu, Mike Tomlin and Dan Bylsma. A diversity of parachurch organizations and congregations, from Baptist to Presbyterian and Catholic to nondenominational, have shaped and advanced the faith. Gary Scott Smith tells the exciting story of their quest, as Episcopal rector Samuel Shoemaker put it, "to make Pittsburgh as famous for God as for steel."

America's Christian History

America's Christian History
Author: Gary DeMar
Publisher: American Vision
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2005
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 0915815710

"From the founding of the colonies to the declaration of the Supreme Court, America's heritage is built upon the principles of the Christian religion. And yet the secularists are dismantling this foundation brick by brick, attempting to deny the very core of our national life. Gary DeMar presents well-documented facts which will change your perspective about what it means to be a Christian in America; the truth about America's Christian past as it relates to supreme court justices, and presidents; the Christian character of colonial charters, state constitutions, and the US Constitution; the Christian foundation of colleges, the Christian character of Washington, D.C.; the origin of Thanksgiving and so much more."--Publisher's description

The Origins of Christianity and the New Testament

The Origins of Christianity and the New Testament
Author: Rebecca I. Denova
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2021-07-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1119759625

"Denova explores how the first followers of Jesus arrived at their faith, the way their sacred texts developed into the New Testament, and how their movement eventually became the religion of Christianity. [Her] volume examines the concepts, beliefs, issues, and events that gave rise to institutional Christianity--providing readers with the historical context of the gospels of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, the Acts of the Apostles, the Book of Revelation, the letters of Paul, and other foundational New Testament documents"--Back cover.

Duty and Destiny

Duty and Destiny
Author: Gary Scott Smith
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2021-01-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1467461938

A nuanced portrait of a great historical figure considered everything from a “God-haunted man” to a “stalwart nonbeliever” What did faith mean to Winston Churchill? Churchill was far from transparent about his religious beliefs and never regularly attended church services as an adult, even considering himself “not a pillar of the church but a buttress,” in the sense that he supported it “from the outside.” But Gary Scott Smith assembles pieces of Churchill’s life and words to convey the profound sense of duty and destiny, partly inspired by his religious convictions, that undergirded his outlook. Reflecting on becoming prime minister in 1940, he wrote, “It felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.” In a similarly grand fashion, he described opposing the Nazis—and later the Soviets—as a struggle between light and darkness, driven by the duty to preserve “humane, enlightened, Christian society.” Though Churchill harbored intellectual doubts about Christianity throughout his life, he nevertheless valued it greatly and drew on its resources, especially in the crucible of war. In Duty and Destiny, Smith unpacks Churchill’s paradoxical religious views and carefully analyzes the complexities of his legacy. This thorough examination of Churchill’s religious life provides a new narrative structure to make sense of one of the most important figures of the twentieth century.

Christians Only

Christians Only
Author: James D. Murch
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 393
Release: 2004-01-13
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1592444601

The Shape of Christian History

The Shape of Christian History
Author: Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2022-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 151400223X

How should thoughtful Christians—especially historians and missiologists—make sense of global Christianity as an unfolding historical movement? Highlighting both the continuity and the diversity within the Christian movement over the centuries, this comprehensive resource from Scott Sunquist offers a framework for how to read and write church history.

Rethinking History, Science, and Religion

Rethinking History, Science, and Religion
Author: Bernard Lightman
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2019-10-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 082298704X

The historical interface between science and religion was depicted as an unbridgeable conflict in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Starting in the 1970s, such a conception was too simplistic and not at all accurate when considering the totality of that relationship. This volume evaluates the utility of the “complexity principle” in past, present, and future scholarship. First put forward by historian John Brooke over twenty-five years ago, the complexity principle rejects the idea of a single thesis of conflict or harmony, or integration or separation, between science and religion. Rethinking History, Science, and Religion brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars at the forefront of their fields to consider whether new approaches to the study of science and culture—such as recent developments in research on science and the history of publishing, the global history of science, the geographical examination of space and place, and science and media—have cast doubt on the complexity thesis, or if it remains a serviceable historiographical model.

Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period

Christianity and Violence in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period
Author: Fernanda Alfieri
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2021-03-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110643979

The volume explores the relationship between religion and violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Early modern period, involving European and Japanese scholars. It investigates the ideological foundations of the relationship between violence and religion and their development in a varied corpus of sources (political and theological treatises, correspondence of missionaries, pamphlets, and images).

Hellenistic Mystery-Religions

Hellenistic Mystery-Religions
Author: Richard Reitzenstein
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1978-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0915138204