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Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
By the end of the fifteenth century, the beauty and creativity of Italy is matched by its brutality and corruption, nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth or his passionate love for his illegitimate children, but by his blood. If the Borgias are to triumph, this charismatic, consummate politician with a huge appetite for life,...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Describes the first alliance of church and state in the fourth century, marked by the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity, and how this decision irrevocably compromised the Roman Empire's intellectual tradition of rationalism.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Adolf Hitler's Nazi party is gaining strength and becoming more menacing every day. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a pastor upset by the complacency of the German church toward the suffering around it, forms a breakaway church to speak out against the established political and religious authorities. When the Nazis outlaw the church, he escapes as a fugitive. Struggling to reconcile his faith and the teachings of the Bible with the Nazi Party's evil agenda,...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Seidel examines some of the key Supreme Court cases of the last thirty years--including Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple), Trump v. Hawaii (the anti-Muslim travel ban case), American Legion v. American Humanist Association (related to a group maintaining a 40-foot Christian cross on government-owned land), and Tandon v. Newsom (a Santa Clara Bible group exempted...
Publisher
Wallbuilders
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Sets forth the beliefs of many of the Founding Fathers of the United States concerning the role of Christian principles in education, government; and public affairs using excerpts from court cases showing that for 160 years Christian principles were officially and legally inseparable from American public life and shows what has happened since the courts have rejected the Founder's beliefs.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Discusses how America's revolutionaries--including Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Thomas Paine and Ethan Allen--were inspired by ideas that were ancient and pagan in nature, including the work of Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius and Dutch heretic Benedict de Spinoza.
Publisher
distributed by ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"An impassioned group of men and women risk everything for family, faith and the very future of their country--as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War--the daring people's revolt that rocked 20th century North America. ... General Gorostieta, the retired military man who at first thinks he has nothing personal at stake as he and his wife ... watch Mexico fall into a violent civil war. yet the man...
Publisher
WallBuilders
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
"Discover the forgotten and astonishing story of our nation's founding in the American Heritage Series. For centuries, we were taught a providential view of American history that presented our Godly heroes and the moral foundation upon which our nation was built. But in recent years, a new version of history has assaulted the fiber of our nation, censoring the core values of our past - until today! From separation of church and state to the Civil...
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In the summer of 1780, mob violence swept through London. Nearly one thousand people were killed, looting was widespread, and torch-bearing protestors marched on the Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. These were the Gordon Riots: the worst civil disturbance in British history, triggered by an act of Parliament designed to loosen two centuries of systemic oppression of Catholics in the British Isles. While many Londoners saw their homes...
Publisher
WallBuilders ; Rock Rapids, IA
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Learn the truth of America's past, so you can shape America's future." Historian David Barton is back with the second installment of the popular American Heritage Series. Accompanied by former legislator Rick Green, Barton traces America's history back to the source and navigates our nation's unique religious, moral, and constitutional heritage. In this six DVD set that has appeared on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Barton also answers the questions...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
"We're often told that the United States is, was, and always has been a Christian nation. But in One Nation Under God, historian Kevin M. Kruse reveals that the idea of 'Christian America' is an invention--and a relatively recent one at that. As Kruse argues, the belief that America is fundamentally and formally a Christian nation originated in the 1930s when businessmen enlisted religious activists in their fight against FDR's New Deal. Corporations...
296) Del fuego sagrado a la acción cívica: los católicos frente al Estado en Michoacán (1920-1940)
Author
Publisher
El Colegio de Michoacán
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Silver bells. When an ambitious businessman gets in a scuffle with a ref at his son's basketball game, he is suspended from his job and sentenced to community service, manning a red kettle and ringing bells for the Salvation Army for the rest of the Christmas season. At first he finds this humiliating, and in his self-pity determines to be the world's worst bell ringer. But as he encounters the people behind the kettle, his life, and especially his...
298) Early Christianity
Publisher
intellimation [distributor]
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
Concentrates on how an obscure sect within the Jewish community was able to grow and spread throughout the Greco-Roman community and influence its culture.
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