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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Originally published in hardcover in 2013 as On God’s Side : What Religion Forgets and Politics Hasn’t Learned About Serving the Common Good.

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• Common good — Religious aspects — Christianity.

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• Includes index.
• Presbyterian empire — The failure to found a Christian nation — Confronting the godless government — Slavery and the sin of secular America — Rejecting a Christian nation — Afterward: Holy Scotland in the contemporary Christian America debate.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects:

• Religious right — United States — History.
• Church and state — United States — History.
• Covenanters — United States.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-368) and index.
• Part 1: A singular man. A small town in Germany The making of a revolutionary Indulgence — Part 2: The eye of the storm. Outlaw Brand Luther — Part 3: Friends and adversaries. Luther’s friends The Reformation in the cities Partings — Part 4: Building the Church. The nation’s pastor Endings Legacy.
• When Martin Luther posted his theses on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of Europe within years, their author was not just famous, but infamous, responsible for catalyzing the violent wave of religious reform that would come to be known as the Protestant Reformation and engulfing Europe in decades of bloody war. Luther came of age with the printing press, and the path to glory of neither one was obvious to the casual observer of the time. Printing was, and is, a risky business–the questions were how to know how much to print and how to get there before the competition. Pettegree illustrates Luther’s great gifts not simply as a theologian, but as a communicator, indeed, as the world’s first mass-media figure, its first brand. He recognized the power of pamphlets, written in the colloquial German of everyday people, to win the battle of ideas. But that wasn’t enough–not just words, but the medium itself was the message. Fatefully, Luther had a partner in the form of artist and businessman Lucas Cranach, who together with Wittenberg’s printers created the distinctive look of Luther’s pamphlets. Together, Luther and Cranach created a product that spread like wildfire–it was both incredibly successful and widely imitated. Soon Germany was overwhelmed by a blizzard of pamphlets, with Wittenberg at its heart the Reformation itself would blaze on for more than a hundred years. This book fuses the history of religion, of printing, and of capitalism–the literal marketplace of ideas–into one enthralling story, revolutionizing our understanding of one of the pivotal figures and eras in human history.–Adapted from book jacket.
• A revolutionary look at Martin Luther, the Reformation, and the birth of publishing, on the eve of the Reformation’s 500th anniversary, –Amazon.com.

Subjects:

• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
• Reformation — Germany.
• Christian literature — Publishing — Germany — History — 16th century.
• Printing — Germany — Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt) — History — 16th century.
• Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) — History — 16th century.
• Germany — Church history — 16th century.
• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546. fast (OCoLC)fst00040681
• Christian literature — Publishing. fast (OCoLC)fst00859231
• Printing. fast (OCoLC)fst01076612
• Reformation. fast (OCoLC)fst01092555
• Germany. fast (OCoLC)fst01210272
• Germany — Wittenberg (Saxony-Anhalt) fast (OCoLC)fst01312398
• 1500 – 1599 fast
• Church history. fast (OCoLC)fst01411629
• History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628

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• Denominational and organizational Weblinks : pages 613-619.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 621-627 639-659) and index.
• Part one provides an overview of Christianity, the Bible, and theology in Latin America. Part two provides information for each country, including: demographics, timeline, church and state, autonomous churches, major religious festivals, popular devotions, saints and blesseds, and biographies.
• Latin America — Christianity in Latin America: A Short History — The Latin American Bible — Brief Introduction to Theology in Latin America — Religious Traditions — Argentina — Bolivia — Brazil — Chile — Colombia — Costa Rica — Cuba — Dominican Republic — Ecuador — El Salvador — Guatemala — Honduras — Mexico — Nicaragua — Panama — Paraguay — Peru — Puerto Rico — Uruguay — Venezuela — Latinos in the United States — Appendices.

Subjects:

• Christianity — Latin America.
• Latin America — Church history.
• Latin America — Religious life and customs.
• Christian biography — Latin America.

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Part of the series Luther study edition;Luther study edition.
Notes:

• Luther study edition –Cover.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 98).
• Preface — Chronology of Luther’s life — Map of Luther sites — Translator’s introduction : Martin Luther’s road to freedom — Letter to Pope Leo X — The freedom of a Christian.
• Translated from the German.
• Preface — Chronology of Luther’s life — Map of Luther sites — Translator’s introduction : Martin Luther’s road to freedom — Letter to Pope Leo X — The freedom of a Christian.

Subjects:

• Liberty — Religious aspects — Christianity.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [451]-465) and index.
• Introduction — 1. What’s in a worldview? Breaking out of the grid — Rediscovering joy — Keeping religion in its place — Surviving the spiritual wasteland — 2. Starting at the beginning. Darwin meets the Berenstain Bears — The science of common sense — Today biology, tomorrow the world — Darwins of the mind — 3. How we lost our minds. What’s so good about evangelicalism? — When America met Christianity– guess who won? — Evangelicals’ two-story truth — How women started the culture war — 4. What next? Living it out. True spirituality and Christian worldview. Appendices: 1. How American politics became secularized — 2. Modern Islam and the New Age Movement — 3. The long war between materialism and Christianity — 4. Isms on the run : practical apologetics at L’Abri.

Subjects:

• Christianity — Philosophy.
• Apologetics.
• Christian life.
• History — Religious aspects — Christianity.
• History — Philosophy.

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Part of the series Oxford historical monographs;Oxford historical monographs.
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• The reformation of convent life. Implementing enclosure in the city Visitations Multiple identities A new order in town — Female piety : women’s relationships with the living, the dead, and the divine. Civic wills and popular piety, 1600-1650 The parish church Memoria and the dead ‘The poor are always with us’ — An ideal marriage after Trent. the rocky road to marriage Married life ‘Solutions’ — Deviant women and the urban community. Servants Married women — A bishop, his priests,a nd their concubines. The bishop The clerics The women.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-208) and index.
• Examines how women from different social backgrounds encountered the counter-reformation in the northern German city of Münster, which was exposed to powerful Protestant influences but returned to Catholicism after the defeat of radical reformers.

Subjects:

• Counter-Reformation — Germany — Münster in Westfalen.
• Women — Religious life — Germany — Münster in Westfalen.
• Women — Germany — Münster in Westfalen — Social conditions.

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Subjects:

• Luther, Martin, 1483-1546.
• Reformation — Germany — Biography.

Requested by Kurpiers, R.

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• Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-379) and index.
• Beginning in Jerusalem — Ephesus, Rome, and Edessa: the spread of Christianity — The making of a Christian community — Divisions within — Constructing a catacomb — A learned faith: Origen of Alexandria — Persecution: Cyprian of Carthage — A Christian emperor: Constantine — The Council of Nicaea and the Christian creed — Monasticism — A Christian Jerusalem — Emperor Julian, the Jews, and Christians — Bishop and Emperor: Ambrose and Theodosius — Architecture and art — Music and worship — The sick, the aged, and the poor: the birth of hospitals — The bishop of Rome as pope — An ordered Christian society: canon law — Augustine of Hippo — The great controversy over Christ — Egypt and the Copts Nubia — African Zion: Ethiopia — Syriac-speaking Christians: the Church of the East — Armenia and Georgia — Central Asia, China, and India — A Christian empire: Justinian — New beginnings in the West — Latin Christianity spreads north — The SACKING of Jerusalem: more controversy over Christ — No God but God: the rise of Islam — Images and the making of Byzantium — Arabic-speaking Christians — Christians under Islam: Egypt and North Africa — Christians under Islam: Spain — An emperor in the West: Charlemagne — Christianity among the Slavs.
• A narrative account of the history of Christianity from its beginning to the end of the first millennium. The principal theme is the slow drama of the building of a Christian civilization. A major theme is the mission of Christians among different peoples in many regions of the ancient world: Ethiopia, Nubia, Armenia, Georgia, Persia, central Asia, India, China as well as among the Germanic peoples of northern Europe and the Slavic peoples in the Balkans and Russia. The rise and spread of Islam is integral to the story — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Church history — Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
• Church history — Middle Ages, 600-1500.

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-531)and index.

Subjects:

• Christian literature.
• Christian sociology.

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