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History of Early Christianity

Religion, Culture, Identity

by Markus Öhler

Translated by Jason Valdez

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481313957

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2025-07-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2025-05-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

320 Pages

The period of early Christianity can only be understood in light of the burgeoning Christian movement’s internal diversity and against the background of the religious world of Greco-Roman antiquity....

Dietrich Bonhoeffer—The Last Eight Days

The Untold Story of the Journey to Flossenbürg

by John McCabe

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481321679

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2024-11-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2024-10-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

502 Pages

In the summer of 1945, Eberhard Bethge began the search for traces of his colleague and friend Dietrich Bonhoeffer. From as early as September 1945, Hermann Pünder provided Bethge a first-hand account...

Los Bautistas a través de los siglos

La historia de un pueblo global

by David W. Bebbington

Translated by Javier Elizondo

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481320887

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2023-08-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2023-07-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

384 Pages

Los Bautistas a través de los siglos ofrece una clara introducción a la historia y la teología de este pueblo influyente e internacional. David W. Bebbington, un destacado historiador bautista,...

Inventing Authority

The Use of the Church Fathers in Reformation Debates over the Eucharist

by Esther Chung-Kim

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781602584709

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2022-10-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2022-09-23

Imprint: Baylor University Press

208 Pages

Adding great historical insight to the events of the sixteenth century, Inventing Authority uncovers how and why the Protestant reformers came, in their dissent from the Catholic church, to turn to...

Christian Historiography

Five Rival Versions

by Jay D. Green

Price: $49.99

ISBN: 9781481315036

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

252 Pages

Christian faith complicates the task of historical writing. It does so because Christianity is at once deeply historical and profoundly transhistorical. Christian historians taking up the challenge...

The Parables after Jesus

Their Imaginative Receptions across Two Millennia

by David B. Gowler

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481314107

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-01

Imprint: Baylor University Press

320 Pages

Over the centuries, some interpreters have attempted to explain what parables mean. Other interpreters have endeavored to articulate what parables do--how they "work" rhetorically or poetically. With...

Reformation in the Western World

An Introduction

by Paul Silas Peterson

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481315074

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2020-12-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2020-12-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

288 Pages

The Reformation was the single most important event of the early modern period of Western civilization. What started out as a pastoral conflict about the sale of grace for money ultimately became a...

Baptists through the Centuries

A History of a Global People

by David W. Bebbington

Price: $74.99

ISBN: 9781481309486

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-08-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2018-07-23

Imprint: Baylor University Press

383 Pages

Baptists through the Centuries provides a clear introduction to the history and theology of this influential and international people. David Bebbington, a leading Baptist historian, surveys the main...

Christian Oxyrhynchus

Texts, Documents, and Sources

by Lincoln H. Blumell and Thomas A. Wayment

Price: $109.99

ISBN: 9781481309264

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2018-01-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-12-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

778 Pages

Blumell and Wayment present a thorough compendium of all published papyri, parchments, and patristic sources that relate to Christianity at Oxyrhynchus before the fifth century CE. Christian Oxyrhynchus...

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Bonhoeffer and the Theology of a Preaching Life

by Michael Pasquarello III

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481307512

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-09-20

Imprint: Baylor University Press

296 Pages

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906-1945) remains one of the most enigmatic figures of the twentieth century. His life evokes fascination, eliciting attention from a wide and diverse audience. Bonhoeffer is rightly...

Ancient Jewish Monotheism and Early Christian Jesus-Devotion

The Context and Character of Christological Faith

by Larry W. Hurtado

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781481307628

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-09-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2017-08-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

698 Pages

Ancient Jewish Monotheism and Early Christian Jesus-Devotion harvests from Larry W. Hurtado’s lifetime of study of the New Testament and the development of early Christianity. Hurtado’s career...

Civilized Piety

The Rhetoric of "Pietas" in the Pastoral Epistles and the Roman Empire

by T. Christopher Hoklotubbe

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481307178

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-08-15

Imprint: Baylor University Press

264 Pages

Early Christians in Asia Minor had to navigate the troubled waters of Roman social, political, and economic life while also preserving their faith. The church faced a double threat: Greeks and Romans...

Old Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul’s Christology

by David B. Capes

Price: $34.99

ISBN: 9781481307918

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-07-15

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2017-06-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

224 Pages

The earliest Christian communities engaged in bold and imaginative rereadings of their Scriptures--none more astounding and potentially inflammatory than of the passages that focus upon the name and...

Religion in Enlightenment England

An Anthology of Primary Sources

Edited by Jayne Elizabeth Lewis

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781602583009

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-07-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2017-06-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

420 Pages

Religion in Enlightenment England introduces its readers to a rich array of British Christian texts published between 1660 and 1750. The anthology documents the arc of Christian writings from the...

Destroyer of the gods

Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World

by Larry W. Hurtado

Price: $24.99

ISBN: 9781481304740

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2017-05-01

Format: Paperback

Sales Date: 2017-04-16

Imprint: Baylor University Press

304 Pages

"Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity--including branding...

Evangelicalism in America

by Randall Balmer

Price: $29.99

ISBN: 9781481305976

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-10-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-09-13

Imprint: Baylor University Press

215 Pages

Evangelicalism has left its indelible mark on American history, politics, and culture. It is also true that currents of American populism and politics have shaped the nature and character of evangelicalism....

Preacher Girl

Uldine Utley and the Industry of Revival

by Thomas A. Robinson

Price: $54.99

ISBN: 9781481303958

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-07-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-06-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

332 Pages

Uldine Utley defined the "girl evangelist" of the 1920s and 1930s. She began her preaching career at age eleven, published a monthly magazine by age twelve, and by age fourteen was regularly packing the largest...

Religion in Tudor England

An Anthology of Primary Sources

Edited by Ethan H. Shagan and Debora Shuger

Price: $99.99

ISBN: 9781602582972

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-06-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-05-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

675 Pages

Religion in Tudor England offers readers the prose and the poetry, the theology and the spirituality, the prayers and the polemics, of one of the most important epochs in the making of modern Christianity....

Alms

Charity, Reward, and Atonement in Early Christianity

by David J. Downs

Price: $64.99

ISBN: 9781602589971

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2016-04-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2016-03-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

350 Pages

Christianity has often understood the death of Jesus on the cross as the sole means for forgiveness of sin. Despite this tradition, David Downs traces the early and sustained presence of yet another...

Christian Theology and Its Institutions in the Early Roman Empire

Prolegomena to a History of Early Christian Theology

by Christoph Markschies

Series edited by Wayne Coppins and Simon Gathercole

Translated by Wayne Coppins

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481304016

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2015-09-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2015-08-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

520 Pages

Tension between unity and diversity plagues any attempt to recount the development of earliest Christianity. Explanations run the gamut--from asserting the presence of a fully formed and accepted unity...

Evangelical Christian Baptists of Georgia

The History and Transformation of a Free Church Tradition

by Malkhaz Songulashvili

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481301107

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2015-09-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2015-08-17

Imprint: Baylor University Press

536 Pages

Malkhaz Songulashvili, former Archbishop of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG), provides a pioneering, exacting, and sweeping history of Georgian Baptists. Utilizing archival sources in...

Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew

by Matthias Konradt

Series edited by Wayne Coppins and Simon Gathercole

Translated by Kathleen Ess

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781481301893

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2014-10-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2014-09-30

Imprint: Baylor University Press

500 Pages

Israel, Church, and the Gentiles in the Gospel of Matthew addresses one of the central theological problems of Matthew's Gospel: what are the relationships between Israel and the Church and between...

A Company of Women Preachers

Baptist Prophetesses in Seventeenth-Century England

by Curtis W. Freeman

Price: $89.99

ISBN: 9781602583184

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2011-04-15

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2011-03-31

Imprint: Baylor University Press

849 Pages

When the Baptist movement began four centuries ago, revolutionary forces had destabilized the centers of social control that had long kept women in their place. In the early seventeenth century, Baptist...

The British Zion

Congregationalism, Politics, and Empire, 1790-1850

by Michael A. Rutz

Price: $44.99

ISBN: 9781602582057

Publisher: Baylor University Press

Pub Date: 2011-03-01

Format: Hardcover

Sales Date: 2011-02-14

Imprint: Baylor University Press

200 Pages

Drawing upon extensive archival research and a wide range of secondary sources, The British Zion traces congregationalist missionaries' involvement in domestic and colonial politics in early nineteenth-century...

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