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  The Reformation

  by Diarmaid MacCulloch

  At a time when men and women were prepared to kill—and be killed—for their faith, the Reformation tore the Western world apart. Acclaimed as the definitive account of these epochal events, Diarmaid MacCulloch’s award-winning new history brilliantly re-creates the religious battles of priests, monarchs, scholars, and politicians—from the zealous Martin Luther to the radical Loyola, from the tortured Cranmer... (more)
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  Letter and Papers from Prison

  by Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  One of the great classics of prison literature, Letters and Papers from Prison effectively serves as the last will and testament of the Lutheran theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, executed by the Nazis after incarceration in Tegel Prison. Acute and subtle, warm and perceptive, yet also profoundly moving, the documents collectively tell a very human story of loss, of courage, and of hope. Now reissued with a new... (more)
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  Bound for Canaan (the underground railroad and the war for the souls of america)

  by Fergus M. Bordewich

  With a historian's grasp of events and a novelist's ear for story, Fergus M. Bordewich has written a grand epic of American history -- focusing on the sixty years leading up to the Civil War, which brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But its beginnings can be traced to a clandestine alliance of both black and white abolitionists and slaves, who joined forces to lead tens of thousands of enslaved... (more)
• Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia MottMargaret Hope Bacon

  

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  Valiant Friend: The Life of Lucretia Mott

  by Margaret Hope Bacon, Diane Lynch-Fraser

  The compelling story of Lucretia Mott, whose life of constant battle never betrayed her Quaker pacifism. She fought slavery, poverty, war, and the low status of women in nineteenth century society.
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  Bearing the Cross

  Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

  by David J. Garrow

  Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author's access to King's personal papers and tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents,... (more)
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  Rufus Jones: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters Series)

  by Rufus Matthew Jones

  A Quaker mystic and social activist, Rufus Jones was awarded a Nobel Prize as co-founder of the American Friends Service Committee. Widely considered one of the most significant religious voices in America at the time of his death in 1948, his writings impart an Emersonian vision of the ever-present reality of God in our souls and in our world. Indeed, his quintessentially American "affirmative mysticism" infuses... (more)
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  Mother Ann Lee, Morning Star of the Shakers

  by Nardi Reeder Campion

  Originally published in 1976 as Anne the Word, this is a popular biography of colorful and controversial Shaker founder Ann Lee.
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  Wisdom of Daughters

  by Reta Halteman Finger, Kari Sandhaas

  Between 1975 and 1994, the Christian feminist magazine Daughters of Sarah published women's poetry, articles on feminist theology, personal essays and art. In The Wisdom of Daughters: Two Decades of the Voice of Christian Feminism, Reta Halteman Finger and Kari Sandhaas offer what they consider to be the best contributions from the magazine's two decades in print. The collection's "best of" format and relatively... (more)
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  Luther

  Man Between God and the Devil

  by Heiko Augustinus Oberman

  Written by an authority on Martin Luther, this is the definitive biography of the central figure of the Protestant Reformation.
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  The Outline of History

  (Complete)

  by H. G. Wells

  The Outline of History is available in four formats: 1) all in one volume, 2) two volume set, 3) three volume set, and 4) four volume set. The editions tab of this book sorts them in those categories.
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  Elizabeth Ann Seton: A Woman of Prayer : Meditations, Reflections, Prayers and Poems Taken from Her Writings

  by Elizabeth Ann Seton

  This extraordinary book allows the reader to penetrate the heart and soul of Elizabeth Ann Seton through her writings to her friends. During her brief life (1774-1821) she was a successful wife, mother, teacher. Seton was also founder of the Sisters of Charity, and is the first native-born American saint of the Roman Catholic Church. All of her accomplishments flowed from the fact that she was first and foremost a... (more)
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  Jonathan Edwards

  A New Biography

  by Iain H. Murray

  Iain Murray believes that Edwards cannot be understood apart from his faith. Only when seen first and foremost as a Christian do his life and writings make sense. The integrity of this interpretation is confirmed in this study as Edwards is allowed on point after point to speak for himself. The result is a biography which is both factually and theologically reliable. Edwards' theology is set in the context of his... (more)
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  Jonathan Edwards

  by Perry Miller

  Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) was preeminent as a theologian in the eighteenth century American colonies, deeply involved in the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. He was also the first American Puritan, or Calvinist, to recognize the challenges to traditional views of the world posed by figures like John Locke and Isaac Newton. Thus he is a pivotal figure as American thought evolved from heavily... (more)
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  Journeys That Opened Up World: Women, Student Christian Movements, and Social Justice, 1955-1975

  by Sara M. Evans

  This volume contains inspiring memoirs from sixteen women active in the civil rights movement, anti-war campaigns, and the rise of feminism in the Cold War era. It places religious activism at the center of social movements previously thought of as largely secular. For thousands of young women in the 1950s and 1960s, involvement with the student Christian movement (SCM) changed their worldviews. Religious... (more)
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  Hildegard of Bingen: The Woman of Her Age

  by Fiona Maddocks

  The twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen would have been remarkable in any age. Today, her growing reputation as a composer of religious music has overshadowed the astonishing variety of her accomplishments and her part in the scientific, cultural, and theological revolution of the pre-Renaissance, from religion and mysticism to medicine and sex. Scivias , her book of apocalyptic visions, with its... (more)
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  The Power of Erotic Celibacy: Queering Heteropatriachy (Queering Theology Series)

  by Lisa Isherwood

  This title considers various issues regarding celibacy and Christianity including the following: how the female body is used to underpin exploitative social systems, how Christianity has tried to control the bodies of women through regulations about the female body, how women have used celibacy to subvert the social order, how radical incarnationalism and queer theory create new challenges to traditional... (more)
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  Dorothy Day

  by Dorothy Day, Robert Ellsberg

  This year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day (1897-1980)--co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and one of the most inspiring figures of recent history. By her lifelong option for the poor and her devotion to active nonviolence, Day fashioned a new face for the gospel in our time. In 2000 the Vatican recognized her cause for canonization, and she was officially termed "Servant of... (more)
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  Prophesy Deliverance!

  An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity

  by Cornel West

  "Prophesy Deliverance! is an exhilarating and challenging intellectual exercise. Cornel West takes the philosophic enterprise, the quest for the right way to live, with utmost seriousness, and has given us an impressive blueprint toward a framework that would meet questions o human living. His book is one of the most important and sophisticated statements in the field of Black Religious Studies in recent years".... (more)
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  An Introduction to Mennonite History: A Popular History of the Anabaptists and the Mennonites

  by Cornelius J. Dyck

  A history of Anabaptist-Mennonite thought from the sixteenth century to the present, with a description of Mennonite life and thought around the world today.
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  Friend of life;: The biography of Rufus M. Jones

  by Elizabeth Gray Vining

  Preface To have lived for three years so close to the mind and spirit of Rufus M. Jones has been a rare privilege and an experience both stimulating and satisfying. It has also brought me into contact with many other persons, to whom I wish to express my warm appreciation of their generous aid and advice. My thanks go first of all to Rufus Jones sdaughter, Mary Hoxie Jones, who has given me unstinted help and... (more)