This study of urban citizenship sheds new light on medieval Catalonia's communal development, Jewish-Christian relations, Catalonia's place within the urban history of medieval Europe, and the transition from the High to the Late Middle Ages.
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain's non-Christian population. Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe's struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer. Perhaps the foremost preacher of his day, Ferrer spent the final two decades of his life traversing Europe, preparing the world for its imminent destruction. Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419), His World and Life reassesses the controversial preacher's motives, methods, and impact, tracing Ferrer's journey from obscure logician to angel of the apocalypse, as he came to be known. At the same time, the book offers new insights into the depth and breadth of late medieval apocalyptic anticipation, and into the processes that ultimately led to the expulsions of Spain's Jews and Muslims.
In an age of carefully managed public profiles presented via Instagram or BeReal, or even the public presentation of our churches, Paul’s stories of hardship in his letters to the Corinthians draw us to a different relationship with ourselves and our communities – one which enables to tell authentic stories about ourselves, warts and all. In his deep and careful study of the epistles to the Corinthians, Philip Plyming demonstrates how Paul calls the Corinthian Christians to a way of living which stands in stark contrast from the prevailing culture of Corinth, and argues that there are profound lessons to be learnt for faithful Christians and churches today.
This first book-length, English-language study of medieval urban citizenship focuses on Perpignan, a town second in population only to Barcelona in fourteenth-century Catalonia, yet neglected by modern historians. True Citizens describes and analyzes the rules that governed membership in the community of citizens, the definition of citizenship, and how the development of divergent memories within the community resulted in a crisis of citizenship. This study uses urban citizenship to shed new light on many important historiographical issues, such as Jewish-Christian relations, the place of towns in feudal society, the place of Catalonia in the urban history of medieval Europe, and the transition from the High to the Late Middle Ages.
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were times of tumultuous change in medieval Europe; they witnessed the Black Death, the Great Papal Schism, heightened fears of the apocalypse, and the elimination of Spain's non-Christian population. Few figures were as widely and as intimately involved in late medieval Europe's struggles as Saint Vincent Ferrer. Perhaps the foremost preacher of his day, Ferrer spent the final two decades of his life traversing Europe, preparing the world for its imminent destruction. Saint Vincent Ferrer (d. 1419), His World and Life reassesses the controversial preacher's motives, methods, and impact, tracing Ferrer's journey from obscure logician to angel of the apocalypse, as he came to be known. At the same time, the book offers new insights into the depth and breadth of late medieval apocalyptic anticipation, and into the processes that ultimately led to the expulsions of Spain's Jews and Muslims.
Bestselling author Philip Yancey writes on a diverse range of topics that touch on the fields of history, science, religion, ethics, and more, in this new edition based on his stimulating columns written especially for "Christianity Today" magazine.
Philip M. Bonaparte II brings "deep" wisdom and humor to create a learning environment that is light-hearted, yet purpose-filled. Philip was the bass singer of the Voices of Lee from Lee University. He has traveled across the world and sang on national television and alongside gospel greats as inspiration to others. Philip now uses his voice to help people dig DEEP within their own lives by notonly motivating people by telling them they can do it, but also directing them by showing them how to do it. Whether it is... Philip now lives in the greater NYC area working alongside his father at New Hope Church of God and as a speaker and trainer for students andorganizations across the country
The future of the Christian cause depends to a large degree on the quality of the next generation of spiritual leaders. Where will these men find role models? To whom will they turn for inspiration? There is the ever-present danger that they will do as Pauls rivals did in Corinth and turn to the world outside the Church and try to emulate the qualities that make for success in secular life. Indeed, it is not exaggerating to observe that the churches of the modern West, like the Church at Corinth, face a crisis of authority and leadership. In 2 Corinthians we have both a stern warning that we should avoid styles of leadership that are worldly, perhaps even cultic while cultivating the kind of leadership that Paul himself showed, leadership that was self-sacrificing and self-giving, a model of loving service based on the character of Christ himself.
The Philip Bennett Power Collection consists of three books on faith. Divine Guidance - It is true, we have daily displayed before us the increasing knowledge of man-but knowledge is one thing, and true wisdom is another, and the world by its wisdom knows not God. The Feet of Jesus - The head of Jesus was crowned with thorns on earth; it is crowned with glory in heaven-and in either aspect we feel that it is a subject far beyond our grasp. It moves our feelings, it excites our admiration, and we wonder and adore-where we cannot understand. But the feet of Jesus! those feet which were weary, which were dust-soiled, which moved about the common haunts of man; perhaps we think we understand more of them. The Shadowed Face - The world which we enter upon with such brightness-is soon seen to be full of shadows; and the longer we are in it, the farther we travel into them-the more deeply and thickly they gather upon us, until we go down to the grave; beyond which all shadows flee away in the land of light-OR deepen into darkness which may be felt.
Rising from his seat, Coach Bill McCartney got on his knees before Phillip Porter, a black pastor from Denver, Colorado. "I never meant to do anything wrong against my black brothers and I apologize, and beyond apologizing here, I'll do it publicly." At that moment the Holy Spirit revealed to Porter a new vision for reconciliation--a vision he's now proclaiming to men across America and around the world.Philip Porter is the chairman of the board of Promise Keepers and the founder and senior pastor of All Nations Pentecostal Center Church of God in Christ, Aurora, Colorado. He is a presiding Church of God in Christ bishop.
Human beings, including myself, seem odd to me. Half ainimal, half angel, weeep surprising and disappointing ourselves and each other". As Yancey seekso pin down this sense of oddness, he askes: why did God stay silent duringhe Holocaust; where did racial hatred come from; why do people show greatnterest in near-death experiences, but very little interest in Heaven; whys sex fun; and why is almost all religious art realistic, whereas much ofod's creation excels at abstract design? Here are 44 "ruminations" chosenrom Yancey's own awe at the world God made.
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