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A comprehensive and critical account of Kierkegaard's thoughts on women, sexual difference, and men-women relations.

Contains 216 letters, the personal correspondence between George Washington Peddy, surgeon, 56th Georgia Volunteer Regiment, CSA, and his wife Kate.

Under the Baptist tent are such diverse groups as Primitive Baptists, Freewill Baptists, Seventh-Day Baptists, American Baptists, Southern Baptists, North American Baptists, and Independent Baptists. This Baptist history textbook highlights the diversity of the Baptist movement in North America as it has developed over the past few centuries.

Offers an overview of the major historical framework within which Baptists emerged with significant contributions to Christian social thought and action in the twentieth century. This book provides a summary of the life, principal ideas, writings, and significant contributions of nineteen Baptists since 1900.

This volume brings together, for the first time, a broad range of scholars from Mormon and other Christian traditions. Replacing polemics and apologetics with dialogue, these exchanges show how the full spectrum of contemporary theologies can be informed by uniquely Mormon ideas, and correlatively, how Mormon thought can be illuminated through the study of key ideas of the foremost theologians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The special contribution of [the Mercer Dictionary of the Bible] is its thorough, up-to-date scholarship and large amount of information offered in just a single, inexpensive volume. A truly balanced, thorough, and useful reference work for both academic and public libraries. Especially recommended for undergraduates.

Details the organization of the Philips Georgia Legion Cavalry Battalion unit and its combat odyssey. This book tells the story of this battalion.

This volume begins with letters following the birth of Emily Frances Judson. Emily and Adoniram Judson had been away from the US for eighteen months, and had been in Burma for about a year. These letters reflect correspondence between home, family, and friends, they also reflect the life within the missionary society in Burma with letters between the missionaries.

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The battle of Resaca in May 1864 represents a series of firsts: the first major battle of the Atlanta Campaign, the first occasion in Georgia in 1864 of Confederate and Federal armies in their entirety facing one another, and the first major encounter between Joseph E Johnston and William T Sherman as army field commanders.

Dealing with Shakespeare's darkest play, "The Tragedy of King Lear", this title precedes Cymbeline, King of Britain, as the earliest of Shakespeare's English history plays in the sense that it represents a primordial age when the 'sceptered isle' of 'England' was hardly yet even clearly differentiated from 'Britain'.

Provides an understanding of the intersection of race and region while addressing contemporary issues such as the future of elementary and higher education, the nature of health-care disparities, and voting and representation. The research presented here reveals that race and class-based problems remain, and geography often is a contributing factor to those differences.

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Jimmy Allen served as the last "moderate" president of the Southern Baptist Convention concluding his second term in 1979, the first year of the emergence of a new "fundamentalist" leadership of the convention. His life parallels the movement of Baptists in the South from a folk people rooted in a predominantly rural ethos into an urban, increasingly educated, and diverse people. --from publisher description

Offers students with a general introduction to the Christian religion, focusing on the biblical, historical, and theological traditions within Christianity. This book explores the Old Testament, and provides an overview of the New Testament. It also covers Christian history from the early centuries onwards.

Describing the early years of his childhood, the author reveals what made him a successful teacher and writer.

Carver was a Southern Baptist ahead of his time, gently prodding Southern Baptists to see beyond the narrow confines of theological conservatism and to engage the modern world. In the process, Carver became embroiled in numerous denominational controversies, some of which still resonate in our world today. These stories are the subject of this book. Carver's controversies illustrate how freethinking Baptist leaders interacted with their more c...

Features essays that address the central issue of authority in the Christian life.

Provides a revolutionary study of the Gospel of Mark. It suggests that Mark might be a Gnostic document. A gnostic origin for Mark would explain long-standing enigmas in Mark, including its high opinion of women, the annoying stupidity of the disciples, the amazing recognition of Jesus' real identity by a blind man, and the so-called Messianic Secret.

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