Author | : Robert Shepherd |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826423809 |
A biography of Britain's centre of power and royal ceremony, evoking place, people and time.
Author | : Robert Shepherd |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826423809 |
A biography of Britain's centre of power and royal ceremony, evoking place, people and time.
Author | : Susan Hill Lindley |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0664224547 |
The Westminster Handbook to Women in American Religious History provides an affordable and accessible reference to over 750 outstanding individual women and women's organizations in American religious history.--From publisher description.
Author | : Stephen J. Nichols |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2021-02-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1433544806 |
Introducing the First Biography of the Life and Ministry of R. C. Sproul R. C. Sproul (1939–2017) was a pastor, a professor, an author, and the founder and president of Ligonier Ministries. His contributions in the areas of biblical studies, theology, worldview and culture, Christian living, and church history continue to be held in high regard. In this book, Stephen J. Nichols offers an in-depth look at Sproul's life and ministry—his childhood; his formative seminary education; his marriage and partnership with his beloved wife, Vesta; his influence on broader American evangelicalism; and his many friendships with key figures such as James Montgomery Boice, John MacArthur, John Piper, J. I. Packer, and Chuck Colson. This biography details the profound impact Sproul had on the lives of many during his lifetime, and highlights the various ways his legacy continues to influence countless pastors and students worldwide.
Author | : Robert Letham |
Publisher | : Westminster Assembly and the R |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780875526126 |
Drawing on new primary source material, The Westminster Assembly considers the Assembly's theology in terms of the unfolding development of doctrine in the Reformed church as a whole and its specific context in English history.
Author | : Michael Battle |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2021-03-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1646980085 |
The first biography of its kind about Desmond Tutu, this book introduces readers to Tutu's spiritual life and examines how it shaped his commitment to restorative justice and reconciliation. Desmond Tutu was a pivotal leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa and remains a beloved and important emblem of peace and justice around the world. Even those who do not know the major events of Tutu’s life—receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984, serving as the first black archbishop of Cape Town and primate of Southern Africa from 1986–1996, and chairing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from 1995–1998—recognize him as a charismatic political and religious leader who helped facilitate the liberation of oppressed peoples from the ravages of colonialism. But the inner landscape of Tutu’s spirituality, the mystical grounding that spurred his outward accomplishments, often goes unseen. Rather than recount his entire life story, this book explores Tutu’s spiritual life and contemplative practices—particularly Tutu’s understanding of Ubuntu theology, which emphasizes finding one’s identity in community—and traces the powerful role they played in subverting the theological and spiritual underpinnings of apartheid. Michael Battle’s personal relationship with Tutu grants readers an inside view of how Tutu’s spiritual agency cast a vision that both upheld the demands of justice and created space to synthesize the stark differences of a diverse society. Battle also suggests that North Americans have much to learn from Tutu’s leadership model as they confront religious and political polarization in their own context.
Author | : James Reid |
Publisher | : Banner of Truth |
Total Pages | : 772 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Rachel Reeves |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1786731517 |
Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in Westminster. Mentored by Herbert Morrison and Hugh Gaitskell, she rose through the party becoming a Home Office minister under Roy Jenkins and latterly an Education Minister with responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools. In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of substantial societal changes, including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. Her political career spanned some of the most momentous decades in Britain's postwar history and she played an integral part in some of the most significant social, educational and political changes which the country has ever witnessed.Labour MP Rachel Reeves here tells Alice Bacon's story, narrating one woman's extraordinary progression from the coalfields to the Commons.
Author | : Michael G. Long |
Publisher | : Westminster John Knox Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2017-03-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1611648017 |
Jackie Robinson believed in a God who sides with the oppressed and who calls us to see one another as sisters and brothers. This faith was a powerful but quiet engine that drove and sustained him as he shattered racial barriers on and beyond the baseball diamond. Jackie Robinson: A Spiritual Biography explores the faith that, Robinson said, carried him through the torment and abuse he suffered for integrating the major leagues and drove him to get involved in the civil rights movement. Marked by sacrifice and service, inclusiveness and hope, Robinson's faith shaped not only his character but also baseball and America itself.
Author | : J. V. Fesko |
Publisher | : Crossway |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2014-06-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1433533146 |
For centuries, countless Christians have turned to the Westminster Standards for insights into the Christian faith. These renowned documents—first published in the middle of the 17th century—are still considered by many to be some of the most beautifully written summaries of the Bible's teaching ever produced. Church historian John Fesko walks readers through the background and theology of the Westminster Confession, the Larger Catechism, and the Shorter Catechism, helpfully situating them within their original context. Organized according to the major categories of systematic theology, this book utilizes quotations from other key works from the same time period to shed light on the history and significance of these influential documents.