Search Results: Christianity from KALAMOS BOOKS

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1985 Book. Near Fine. Original Wraps. 1st Canadian Edition.. The Early Christian Monastery of Alahan occupies a terrace high in the mountains of Isauria in southern Asia Minor. Constructed din the second half of the fifth century, Its remains include three churches, a baptistry,a colonnaded walkway running the full lenght of its site, and several subsidiary buildings. It was almost certainly founded by the Emperor Zeno,[474-491] who was a native of the region, and is stands as the finest acheivment of the Isauran stone-masons and sculptors. Alahan is a key site in the history of early Byzantine architecture. The site was excavated and studied by Michael Gough, but publication was delayed by his early death in 1974; this full report has been completed by his collaborators. Edited by Mary Gough with contributions by Gerard Bakker and Jonathan Coulston. XVIII-235p. diagrams bibliography, index fold out plan + 24 pages of plates. Text neat and unmarked,… Read More

New York: Vantage Press, 1984 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st.US Edition. A novel set in Judea in the reign of Herod, King of the Jews, at the time of the birth of Christ. [The author was a biblical scholar, formerly Principal of Wycliffe College and Chaplain of Massey College at the University of Toronto, and worked on archaeological sites in the Holy Land.] ix.548p, maps on end papers.[6 copies found in Worldcat].

New York: Coward,McCann & Geoghegan, 1976 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. "A collection of poetry and prose which comprise the favourite passages on the subject of faith of the novelist, Elizabeth Goudge. The passages include selections from the Bible, George Herbert, Julian of Norwich, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leo Tolstoy and Gerard Manley Hopkins. 366p. index.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1972 Book. Fine. Pbk. 1st Pbk Edition. In this very personal anthology pf poetry Elizabeth Goudge has given us a . book that is at once understanding and optmistic,oc, meaningful and moving.. 319p.index.

London: Longmans Green & Co, 1958 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st UK Edition.. Interesting biography of Lyman MacCallum. Born into a Canadian missionary family in Turkey he studied engineering at Queen's University and worked at mining camps in N. Ontario, then enlisted in the Canadian Army in August 1914. His lungs seriously damaged he returned to Istanbul in 1925 and was recruited by the American Bible Society. He was responsible for distributing Bibles in the Islamic Middle East, and was instrumental in publishing and printing a new translation of the Bible in Turkish when Ataturk's educational reforms of 1928 mandated the use of the new Roman style alphabet. [p 75-87, p 115-121] In 1937 he was put in charge if the affairs of both the American and the British & Foreign Bible Societies in Turkey..

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984 Book. As New. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. A portrayal of the Christian movement as seen through the eyes of five representative figures from the second, third, and fourth centuries, including Roman senator Pliny the younger, Greek philosopher Celsus, and emperor Julian the Apostate. 214p. Bibliography, index..

New York: W W Norton, 1967 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... ".traces the course of two mighty empires, the Roman and the Christian, one declining, one growing, to determine how they influenced each other." 108p+ plates. illus. index. Name of previous owner, else finee/.

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1988 Book. Illus. by Trans E.M.Blcklock. Fine. Pbk. First Pbk.Ed... "The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and world views. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers" 285p. .

London: Penguin, 1961 Book. Illus. by Trans R. S. Pine-Coffin . Near Fine. Pbk. First Pbk.Ed... Original vintage Penguin edition # L114 "The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and worldviews. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to turn away from his youthful ideas and licentious lifestyle, to become instead a staunch advocate of Christianity and one of its most influential thinkers. A remarkably honest and revealing spiritual autobiography, the Confessions also address fundamental issues of Christian doctrine, and many of the prayers and meditations it includes are still an integral part of the practice of Christianity today. The son of a pagan father and a Christian mother, Saint Augustine spent his early years torn between conflicting faiths and worldviews. His Confessions, written when he was in his forties, recount how, slowly and painfully, he came to… Read More

New York: Collier Books, 1967 Book. Very Good. Soft cover. Reprint. 233p, tables, index. Crisp tight copy, but with a few underlinings, name of previous owner inside front cover.

Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989 Book. Fine. Soft cover. First Pbk.Ed... " The glory of the Italian Renaissance came not only from Europe's Latin heritage, but also from the rich legacy of another renaissance - the Palaeologan of late Byzantium. This nexus of Byzantine and Latin cultural and ecclesiastical relations in the Renaissance and Medieval periods is the underlying theme of the diverse and far-ranging essays in ""Constantinople and the West"". Addressing the disputed, provocative question of Palaeologan influence on Italian Renaissance humanism, the author systematically demonstrates that Byzantine scholars were not merely transmitters of ancient Greek writings to the West. More significantly, the Byzantine emigre scholars in Italy, through their intimate knowledge of the Alexandrian and Byzantine traditions, alone were able to unlock and authentically interpret the more difficult texts of Aristotle, Plato, Hermogenes, and other Greek thinkers.… Read More

San Francisco, CA.: Harper San Francisco, 1996 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st US Edition.. For years, Sue Monk Kidd was a conventionally religious woman. Then, in the late 1980s, she experienced an unexpected awakening, and began a journey toward a feminine spirituality. With the exceptional storytelling skills that have helped make her name, Kidd tells her very personal story of the fear, anger, healing, and freedom she experienced on the path toward the wholeness that many women have lost in the church. From a jarring encounter with sexism in a suburban drugstore, to monastery retreats and to rituals in the caves of Crete, she reveals a new level of feminine spiritual consciousness for all women one that retains a meaningful connection with the "deep song of Christianity," embraces the sacredness of ordinary women's experience, and has the power to transform in the most positive ways every fundamental relationship in a woman's life her marriage, her career, and her religion.… Read More

Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1984 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Canadian Edition. A reassessment of the Dialogues."The last two chapters of the book break new ground by conducting an enquiry into the Eastern Christian sources which may have influenced Gregory... and also offers some suggestions for solving the problem of how Gregory apparently obtained access to certain Greek writers, of which no Latin translations existed in his day." 227p, Maps, bibliography. index Neat tight unmarked text,A few tiny scuffs to wraps, else fine.

St.Catherines. ON: Your Neighbous in Need Mission, 1980 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Can Ed.. " A document of 35 years of atheist-communist terror against the Christians in the Peoples Republic of Bulgaria.' 148p. illus.map. Prublicity sheet laid in.[NO copes found in WorldCat].

Athens: [Ekdosis Hieras Metropoleos Phthiotidos], 1986 Book. Near Fine. Trade Paperback. 2nd Ed. "Are we Christians? ... after two thousand years" by Hieronymous Kotsonis , Archbishop of Athens [1967-1973] 211p [Only 2 copies in WorldCat].

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Twelve, 2007 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time "takes on his biggest subject yet the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world.With his unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which religion is man-made. "God did not make us," he says. "We made God." He explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science and reason, a realm in which hope and wonder can be found through a strand of DNA or a gaze through the Hubble Telescope. As Hitchens sees it, you needn't get the blues once you discover the heavens are empty. National Book award… Read More

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2007 Book. Fine. Hardcover. Reprint. Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as "one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time "takes on his biggest subject yet the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world.With his unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which religion is man-made. "God did not make us," he says. "We made God." He explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science and reason, a realm in which hope and wonder can be found through a strand of DNA or a gaze through the Hubble Telescope. As Hitchens sees it, you needn't get the blues once you discover the heavens are empty. Miniscule annotations in… Read More

New York: Paulist Press, 1978 Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. (Classics of Western Spirituality series) Translation, introduction and notes by Abraham J.Malherbe and Everett Ferguson. Introduction by John Meyendorff. This great spiritual master of the fourth century was born as the general persecution of Christians was ending. One of the Greek Cappadocian Fathers (the other two were Gregory's brother, St. Basil the Great, and their mutual friend, St. Gregory Nazianzen), Gregory has come to be regarded increasingly as the most brilliant and subtle thinker and most profound mystical teacher of the three.Gregory frames an immensely significant synthesis of the earlier Hellenistic and Jewish traditions in this work. He describes the spiritual ascent as taking place in three stages, symbolized by the Lords revelation of Himself to Moses, first in light, then in the cloud and, finally, in the dark. This translation and introduction, winner of the Christian Research Foundation Award, has been expertly… Read More

Seoul, Korea: Daehangidoggyoseohoe / Christian Literature Society of Korea, 2016 Book. New. Hardcover. 1st Korean Edition. "Gemeinsames Leben Das Gebetbuch der Bibel" Translated into Korean by Chi Lyon Chong, Kyoo Tae Sohn, 251p. [Only 2 copies found in WorldCat].

Peiraias: Stephanos K. Anagnostopoulos, 2007 Book. Fine. Decorative Cloth. 1st Greek Ed... 309p. + biblography. Number in ink on title page, else new. [WorldCat lists NO copies in the USA].