General, Encyclopedias

Celebrated as a visionary chronicler of spirituality, Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) suffered persecution by the Counter-Reformation clergy in Spain, who denounced her for her ‘diabolical illusions’ and …

‘Anglo-Catholic’ is not an abstract label for Father Gordon Butler Wadhams, the vibrant personality whose life is narrated and whose writings are anthologized here. In the Episcopal (Anglican) Church …

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach …

While industrial states competed to colonize Asia and Africa in the nineteenth century, conversion to Christianity was replaced by a civilizing mission. This new secular impetus strode hand in hand w …

The monastic life, traditionally considered as an area of withdrawal from the world, is here shown to be shaped by metaphors of war, and to be actively engaged with battle in the world outside. An ex …

Interested in basic astronomy? Suspicious about astrology? Think there is something significant in the constellations, but not quite sure what? This book is written with you in mind. …

We had hoped it was he [the Messiah] who would redeem Israel (Luke 24:21) In this book, you will learn that the religion Jesus founded was not Gentile or called Christianity. The name Christianity is …

Hitler died in his destructive quest to build a world empire. Caesar conquered the known world and was stabbed in the back. Louis XIV nearly bankrupted France in his pursuit of building the most glor …

In Africa, the emphasis on family, marriage, and offspring suggest that there is a kind of an unwritten ancestral law that imposes on every male the duty of begetting a son. The reason is because the …

Who was Jesus, really? Did he advocate the Jewish prophetic kingdom of God? Did he manifest theological convictions that prominently surfaced after his death? In the final analysis, does it make any …