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• Encyclopedia of Christianity

  - 2006-10-03

  Encyclopedia of Christianity. Edited by John Bowden. Oxford University Press, 1,408pp., $125.00. TEN YEARS in the making, the new Encyclopedia of Christianity, edited by John Bowden, is a major scholarly achievement. This single volume contains 33 gateway entries to pivotal subjects; 300 major articles by distinguished authorities; 166 strategically...

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• Roger Williams

  - 2006-03-22

  Roger Williams. By Edwin S. Gaustad. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 150 pp. Over one hundred years before the American Constitution, the First Amendment, Thomas Jefferson or James Madison, and long before Jefferson coined the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state," Roger Williams pioneered...

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• Books received

  - 2005-12-18

  Heirs of the Fisherman: Behind the Scenes of Papal Death and Succession by John Peter-Pham, New York, Oxford University press, 368 pp 2004 Unfortunately the timing of this book was less than serendipitous. Nevertheless Pham gives us a Vatican insider's look at papal succession-and papal politics. Mary Magdalene: A...

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• Blair, John: The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society.(Book Review)

  - 2005-09-22

  Blair, John The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society Oxford: Oxford University Press 604 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-19-822695-0 Publication Date: July 2005 This is a wondrous work of scholarship with a very tricky title. Of many things that a reader tempted to pick it up might...

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• The Future of Christianity. .(Book Review)(Brief Article)

  - 2003-04-01

  By Alister E. McGrath. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002. Pp. xii, 172. Paperback $17.95. Published in the Blackwell Manifesto series, this succinct, accessible assessment by Alister E. McGrath, professor of historical theology, University of Oxford, and principal of Wycliffe Hall, examines "trends that can be...

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• His Inventions So Fertile: a Life of Christopher Wren. (book review)

  - 2002-04-01

  By ADRIAN TINNISWOOD. Oxford University Press. 462 pp. $35. Wren left almost noting in the way of letters, journals, or other personal testimony, so this wholly admiring story is told on the basis of his works. Chiefly, of course, the churches and other architectural ...

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• Pellucid addition to national conversation.

  - 2001-08-20

  Aug 20, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- The Roman Catholic Church has been broadly aligned with the Australian Labor Party ALP for many years. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell, has re-established the church's role in the political...

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• LIBERAL ISLAM.(Review)

  - 1999-04-01

  LIBERAL ISLAM. Edited by CHARLES KURZMAN. Oxford University Press. 340 pp. $49.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. The title of this anthology is not an oxymoron, although some may think it comes close. Thirty-two Muslim essayists affirm conventional Western liberal doctrines such as the separation of...

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• Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, The

  - 1998-07-01

  The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone, eds., 3rd ed., New York, Oxford University Press, 1997. 1786 pp. $ 125.00. The standard one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Christian church has now appeared in an enlarged edition. It was in 1939...

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• Frederick Douglass' multiracial abolitionism: "Antagonistic cooperation" and "redeemable ideas" in the July 5 Speech

  - 1997-10-01

  Frederick Douglass spoke to a multiracial public sphere by engaging in "antagonistic cooperation" with white and black abolitionists. Far from being a relic of "black history," he served as an "integrative ancestor" or all those trying to help build a multiracial democracy. Douglass ,]uly 5 Speech is placed in the...

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