Early Christians, Early Church

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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine
by: Eusebius
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,722 ratings
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The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died
The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia—and How It Died 4.03 avg rating — 2,016 ratings
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The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation
The Story of Christianity, Volume 1: The Early Church to the Reformation 4.24 avg rating — 4,868 ratings
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Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes
Pontifex Maximus: A Short History of the Popes 3.91 avg rating — 129 ratings
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City of God
City of God 3.94 avg rating — 13,449 ratings
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The Rise of Christianity
The Rise of Christianity 4.06 avg rating — 2,032 ratings
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A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years 4.11 avg rating — 6,542 ratings
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The Complete Works of Saint Cyprian of Carthage (Christian Roman Empire, 10)
The Complete Works of Saint Cyprian of Carthage (Christian Roman Empire, 10)
by: Cyprian
4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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A Plea for the Christians
A Plea for the Christians 3.83 avg rating — 48 ratings
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The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59)
The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection (Cistercian Studies, #59) 4.31 avg rating — 3,437 ratings
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How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee
How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee 4.10 avg rating — 7,403 ratings
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Early Christian Creeds
Early Christian Creeds 4.24 avg rating — 54 ratings
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I Am a Christian: Authentic Accounts of Christian Martyrdom and Persecution from the Ancient Sources
I Am a Christian: Authentic Accounts of Christian Martyrdom and Persecution from the Ancient Sources really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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40 Days with the Fathers (Revised Edition): A Daily Reading Plan
40 Days with the Fathers (Revised Edition): A Daily Reading Plan really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why 3.93 avg rating — 19,884 ratings
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Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus
Athanasius: The Life of Antony and the Letter to Marcellinus 4.16 avg rating — 621 ratings
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On the Incarnation
On the Incarnation 4.35 avg rating — 14,571 ratings
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From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East
From the Holy Mountain: A Journey Among the Christians of the Middle East 4.32 avg rating — 4,081 ratings
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On the Holy Spirit
On the Holy Spirit 4.33 avg rating — 1,159 ratings
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Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament
Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,378 ratings
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Pagans and Christians
Pagans and Christians 3.85 avg rating — 500 ratings
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The Christian Tradition 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom 600-1700
The Christian Tradition 2: The Spirit of Eastern Christendom 600-1700 4.49 avg rating — 413 ratings
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How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels
How God Became King: The Forgotten Story of the Gospels 4.26 avg rating — 3,341 ratings
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The Early Church (The Pelican History of the Church, #1)
The Early Church (The Pelican History of the Church, #1) 3.93 avg rating — 1,848 ratings
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Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture
Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture 4.04 avg rating — 252 ratings
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The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity
The Heresy of Orthodoxy: How Contemporary Culture's Fascination with Diversity Has Reshaped Our Understanding of Early Christianity 4.41 avg rating — 674 ratings
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Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture
Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture 4.04 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns
Ephrem the Syrian: Hymns 4.44 avg rating — 70 ratings
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On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images
On the Divine Images: 3 Apologies Against Those Who Attack the Divine Images 4.28 avg rating — 604 ratings
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The Life of Moses
The Life of Moses 4.28 avg rating — 1,194 ratings
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How The First Christians Changed Dying
How The First Christians Changed Dying 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity
Stealing Jesus: How Fundamentalism Betrays Christianity 3.86 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Would You Do What They Did? - Great Christian Leaders from Our Past
Would You Do What They Did? - Great Christian Leaders from Our Past 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Story of Our Lady of Good Success and Novena
The Story of Our Lady of Good Success and Novena 4.52 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Nazarene Jewish Christianity: From The End Of The New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance In The Fourth Century
Nazarene Jewish Christianity: From The End Of The New Testament Period Until Its Disappearance In The Fourth Century really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Yeshua's Yoga: The Non-Dual Consciousness Teachings of the Gospel of Thomas
Yeshua's Yoga: The Non-Dual Consciousness Teachings of the Gospel of Thomas 4.39 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Not Paul, But Jesus
Not Paul, But Jesus 3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Life of John Chrysostom: Based on the Investigations of Neander, Bohringer, and Others
Life of John Chrysostom: Based on the Investigations of Neander, Bohringer, and Others 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
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On God and Man: The Theological Poetry of St. Gregory of Nazianzus (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series.) (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series.)
On God and Man: The Theological Poetry of St. Gregory of Nazianzus (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series.) (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series.) 4.19 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Timeless Truth in Truthless Times: Answers to Tough Questions about God, Christianity, and the Bible
Timeless Truth in Truthless Times: Answers to Tough Questions about God, Christianity, and the Bible 4.19 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Early Christianity in Contexts: An Exploration across Cultures and Continents
Early Christianity in Contexts: An Exploration across Cultures and Continents 3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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De Morte d'Arthur
De Morte d'Arthur 3.92 avg rating — 38,982 ratings
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What is Gnosticism?
What is Gnosticism? 3.67 avg rating — 143 ratings
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In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity
In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity 4.36 avg rating — 112 ratings
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Resilient Faith
Resilient Faith 4.22 avg rating — 155 ratings
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Dismas - The Penitent Thief: An Introduction
Dismas - The Penitent Thief: An Introduction 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
The Patient Ferment of the Early Church: The Improbable Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire 4.47 avg rating — 564 ratings
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Early Christian Fathers
Early Christian Fathers 4.09 avg rating — 317 ratings
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Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are 4.02 avg rating — 3,704 ratings
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The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites: A Translation of the Syriac Text in Bedjam's Acta Martyrum Et Sanctorum, vol. 4 (Christian Roman Empire Series, 7)
The Life of Saint Simeon Stylites: A Translation of the Syriac Text in Bedjam's Acta Martyrum Et Sanctorum, vol. 4 (Christian Roman Empire Series, 7) 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Our Lady of Good Success: Prophecies for Our Times
Our Lady of Good Success: Prophecies for Our Times 4.62 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Book of Pastoral Rule (Popular Patristics Series 34)
The Book of Pastoral Rule (Popular Patristics Series 34) 4.16 avg rating — 689 ratings
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The Gnostic Gospels
The Gnostic Gospels 3.94 avg rating — 19,345 ratings
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The Ancient Road Rediscovered: What the Early Church knew...
The Ancient Road Rediscovered: What the Early Church knew... 4.71 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Rule of Saint Benedict
The Rule of Saint Benedict 3.99 avg rating — 8,144 ratings
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The Life of Saint Augustine: A Translation of the Sancti Augustini Vita by Possidius, Bishop of Calama (Christian Roman Empire Series)
The Life of Saint Augustine: A Translation of the Sancti Augustini Vita by Possidius, Bishop of Calama (Christian Roman Empire Series)
by: Possidius
3.93 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Stories and Miracles of Our Lady of Good Success
Stories and Miracles of Our Lady of Good Success 4.80 avg rating — 15 ratings
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On The Lord's Prayer
On The Lord's Prayer 4.15 avg rating — 111 ratings
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Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas 3.92 avg rating — 7,409 ratings
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Mothers of the Church: The Witness of Early Christian Women
Mothers of the Church: The Witness of Early Christian Women 4.06 avg rating — 52 ratings
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The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius: A History of the Church from AD 431 to AD 594 (Christian Roman Empire Series, 5)
The Ecclesiastical History of Evagrius: A History of the Church from AD 431 to AD 594 (Christian Roman Empire Series, 5) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Works on the Spirit PPS43 (Popular Patristics Series)
Works on the Spirit PPS43 (Popular Patristics Series) 4.22 avg rating — 119 ratings
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The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women
The Forgotten Desert Mothers: Sayings, Lives, and Stories of Early Christian Women 3.97 avg rating — 283 ratings
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The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church
The Fathers Know Best: Your Essential Guide to the Teachings of the Early Church 4.42 avg rating — 479 ratings
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On the Two Ways Life or Death, Light or Darkness: Foundational Texts in the Tradition (Popular Patristics Series Book 41)
On the Two Ways Life or Death, Light or Darkness: Foundational Texts in the Tradition (Popular Patristics Series Book 41) 3.93 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Reading the Early Church Fathers: From the Didache to Nicaea
Reading the Early Church Fathers: From the Didache to Nicaea 4.33 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Confessions
Confessions 3.99 avg rating — 71,263 ratings
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The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great (Christian Roman Empire Series)
The Dialogues of Saint Gregory the Great (Christian Roman Empire Series) 4.09 avg rating — 74 ratings
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Bethlehem to Patmos: The New Testament Story
Bethlehem to Patmos: The New Testament Story really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,817 ratings
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Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words
Four Witnesses: The Early Church in Her Own Words 4.41 avg rating — 487 ratings
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The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds Of Early Christian Women
The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds Of Early Christian Women 3.82 avg rating — 61 ratings
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History of the Armenians
History of the Armenians 3.57 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Four Desert Fathers (Popular Patristics Series Book 27)
Four Desert Fathers (Popular Patristics Series Book 27) 4.19 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Early Christians: In Their Own Words
The Early Christians: In Their Own Words 3.95 avg rating — 101 ratings
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Junia: The First Woman Apostle
Junia: The First Woman Apostle 4.32 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Counsels on the Spiritual Life (Popular Patristics Series Book 37)
Counsels on the Spiritual Life (Popular Patristics Series Book 37) 4.56 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God
The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God 4.29 avg rating — 1,050 ratings
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On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series)
On Pascha: With the Fragments of Melito and Other Material Related to the Quartodecimans (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series) 4.24 avg rating — 209 ratings
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Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew 4.07 avg rating — 6,119 ratings
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Women in the Early Church
Women in the Early Church 3.58 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Festal Orations (Popular Patristics Series Book 36)
Festal Orations (Popular Patristics Series Book 36) 4.50 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them 3.99 avg rating — 10,808 ratings
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Six Books on the Priesthood
Six Books on the Priesthood 4.25 avg rating — 475 ratings
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God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer
God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer 3.95 avg rating — 5,895 ratings
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Desert Wisdom:Sayings from the Desert Fathers
Desert Wisdom:Sayings from the Desert Fathers 4.48 avg rating — 173 ratings
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Wider Than Heaven: Eighth-century Homilies on the Mother of God
Wider Than Heaven: Eighth-century Homilies on the Mother of God 4.29 avg rating — 28 ratings
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In the Heart of the Desert: The Spiritualilty of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
In the Heart of the Desert: The Spiritualilty of the Desert Fathers and Mothers 4.15 avg rating — 175 ratings
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THE CREED
THE CREED really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity 3.75 avg rating — 1,491 ratings
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The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers
The Way of the Heart: The Spirituality of the Desert Fathers and Mothers 4.29 avg rating — 8,759 ratings
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On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies
On the Dormition of Mary: Early Patristic Homilies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent: Sex and Politics in Early Christianity 4.03 avg rating — 2,998 ratings
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Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings―Annotated & Explained
Desert Fathers and Mothers: Early Christian Wisdom Sayings―Annotated & Explained 4.25 avg rating — 105 ratings
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On The Human Condition (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series)
On The Human Condition (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press "Popular Patristics" Series) 4.44 avg rating — 294 ratings
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Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation 3.84 avg rating — 3,165 ratings
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The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion
The Day the Revolution Began: Reconsidering the Meaning of Jesus's Crucifixion 4.30 avg rating — 2,297 ratings
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The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity
The Psychedelic Gospels: The Secret History of Hallucinogens in Christianity 3.92 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth—and How They Confirm the Gospel Accounts
Searching for Jesus: New Discoveries in the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth—and How They Confirm the Gospel Accounts 4.14 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity
Pagans: The End of Traditional Religion and the Rise of Christianity 3.39 avg rating — 1,032 ratings
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