13 papers from the fifth in an annual series of conferences designed as a forum for postgraduate archaeologists working on Cyprus to present their research. Essays cover a ...

Did pagan mythologies represent Christs miracles in order to convince them to accept the Christian faith? Beyond these miracles is there enough evidence to prove there was a ...

In this highly original work, Elaine Pagels demonstrates how evidence from gnostic sources may challenge the assumption that Paul writes his letters to combat "gnostic ...

From its establishment in 1478 until its abolishment in 1834, no one expected its tribunals, which relentlessly sought to destroy everyone who was not a Roman Catholic ...

What society considers blasphemy - a verbal assault against the sacred - is a litmus test of the standards it believes to be necessary to preserve unity, order, and morality ...

A revised and updated edition of Waines' wide-ranging account of the history and theology of Islam.

Juan Diego, to whom the Virgin Mary appeared in 1531 miraculously imprinting her likeness on his cape, was canonised in Mexico in 2002 by Pope John Paul II. In 1999, the ...

An introduction to the life of the Orthodox Churches of the Christian East from 312 up to the year 2000.