history of doctrines

". . . recounts the long history of the afterlife ranging from the epic of Gilgamesh to the writings of Saint Augustine and focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers"--Adapted from dust jacket.

Chronicles the life of sixteenth-century scientist and theologian Michael Servetus, who wrote the "Christianismi Restitutio", a heretical work of biblical scholarship which refuted the orthodox Christianity that Servetus's colleague supported and ultimately cost Servetus his life.

In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science, contrary to conventional wisdom, affirms the validity of the religious quest. And this previously unrecognized evolutionary logic points not toward continued religious extremism, but future harmony.--From publisher description.

Jarvis Streeter details Ernest Becker's anthropological theories and compares them with traditional and contemporary Christian thought on human nature, sin, and salvation in order to see how the two approaches compare and where Becker might have insights to offer contemporary Christian thinkers.

Explores the ways in which the "idea" and "experience" of God evolved among monotheists--Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Recounts five true stories in which men and women in seventeenth-century England believe they had supernatural encounters.

Chronicles the life of Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan woman banished from Massachusetts in 1637 for her unconventional religious beliefs and the threat she posed, as an outspoken woman, to social order in the colony.

A work of major importance, written for an ecumenical audience, Doors to the Sacred is a sweeping and detailed account of the historical and cultural evolution of sacramental rituals and practices. His focus is on the seven ecclesial sacraments of the Catholic Church: Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Reconciliation, Anointing, Marriage, and Orders.