Examines the beginning of the Christian movement during the first centuries AD, and the explosive force of its expansion throughout the Roman world

By his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influence not only his contemporaries but also the West since his time. This Very Short Introduction traces the development of Augustine's thought, discussing his reaction to the thinkers before him, and themes such as freedom, creation, and the trinity.

"Spalding's Base Ball Guide" again greets the base ball public with the official records of America's national game. First issued in 1877, it has grown in popularity, has been enlarged and improved from year to year, and is now the recognized authority upon base ball matters. The statistics contained in the "Guide" can be relied upon, nearly all of them having been compiled from official records.

This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together a series of studies on Augustine, written in light of the new texts now available, and on other individual Christian authors of antiquity, in other words of the age when Christianity was acquiring its now familiar shape. A number of papers published here appear in print for the first time, or make accessible to English readers studies which first saw the light in German. These include a substantial discussion of the idea o...

Season Recap: The guide provides detailed accounts of the 1888 professional baseball season, including summaries of league standings, team performance, and highlights from key games. It documents the triumphs of notable teams like the New York Giants, who won the National League pennant that year and later triumphed in the World Series against the St. Louis Browns.Player Statistics and Profiles: This edition includes detailed statistics and profiles of prominent players of the era, offerin...

Augustine was arguably the greatest early Christian philosopher. His teachings had a profound effect on Medieval scholarship, Renaissance humanism, and the religious controversies of both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Here, Henry Chadwick places Augustine in his philosophical and religious context and traces the history of his influence on Western thought, both within and beyond the Christian tradition. A handy account to one of the greatest religious thinkers, this Very...

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal narrative, Augustine relates his rare ascentfrom a humble Algerian farm to the edge of the corridors of power at the imperial court in Milan, his struggle against the domination of his sexual nature, his renunciation of secular ambition and...

First Published in 1995. This book first appeared in 1937, and includes the Apostolic Tradition of St Hippolytus which is generally recognised as the single more illuminating single source of evidence on the inner life and religious polity of the early Christian Church. With a revised preface as well as the original first edition preface.

Few works of the early Church are as interesting to the modern reader or as important to the historian as Origen's reply to the attack on Christianity made by the pagan Celsus. The Contra Celsum is the culmination of the great apologetic movement of the second and third centuries AD, and is for the Greek Church what St Augustine's City of God is for Western Christendom. It is also one of the chief monuments of the coming together of ancient Greek culture and the new faith of the expanding ...

Adam berichtet von seinen Forschungsreisen mit dem Maler, Schriftsteller und Archäologen Nicholas Roerich. Gemeinsam suchten sie jahrelang nach der verlorenen Welt, der verborgenen Kultur von Agartha. Werden sie fündig werden? Während 1610 der Prozess gegen die "Blutgräfin" voranschreitet, wird im Frankreich des Jahres 1902 im Institut des Doktor Eugene-Louis Doyen zu einer Pressekonferenz geladen, die von zwei ungleichen Gefährten besucht wird. Was wollen sie von Doyen?

Dieses Buch enthält folgende Western: Pete Hackett: Terror, Hass und Tod Pete Hackett: Das Teufelsweib aus Texas Zane Grey: Westlich des Pecos Henry Herbert Knibbs: Sundown Slim kommt nach Arizona Neal Chadwick: Ein Revolvermann namens Jack Thompson Die acht Apachen jagten auf ihren Mustangs heran. Ihr wildes Kampfgeschrei ließ die Herzen der drei Weißen erbeben, die im letzten Moment eine Gruppe von Felsen erreicht hatten und die jetzt von den Pferden sprangen. In fliegender Hast schlange...

Ein deutscher Unternehmer reist 1860 gemeinsam mit zwei Ingenieuren nach Kairo und macht dort eine unfassbare Entdeckung. Arthur schwelgt in Erinnerungen an seine schönste Zeit in Lesser Hill. Doch er muss auch an die große Flut in Derby und deren Ursprung denken. Im IQIK hält Jack einen Vortrag über ein System der Zeit, bis er plötzlich jäh unterbrochen wird. Und nachdem sich Nikola Tesla einem sehr ernsten Gespräch mit dem Investor J. P. Morgan stellen musste, drängt Adam ihn zu einem ri...