In the early centuries of Christianity (1st-4th century) the composition of the Bible was not fixed, as letters and manuscript were often kept separate, and different communities had different collections of texts. Many letters and sermons of the nascent Christian church in the first few centuries were persevered, even though they were not included in the New Testament. The most prominent of these historical documents are included in this reference collection by William Wake (d. 1737). The collection includes: Mary, Protevangelion of James, Infancy of Jesus Christ, the acts of Nicodemus, extra letters of St. Paul, and many others. This is a reproduction of "The forbidden books of the original New Testament of Jesus Christ: and other portions of the ancient holy scriptures, now extant, attributed to his apostles, and their diciples ... forbidden by the Bishops of the Noicene Council ..., " London: T. Owen, 1878. by William Wake (1657-1737)". To this book have been added images of early Christian artwork of the saints mentioned in the text.
Attributed to the Apostles & their Disciples. BANNED - after violent disputes by Bishops. SENSATIONAL - Joseph's shock at girl in his care pregnant DISCOVER - Jesus as a child makes clay animals & birds walk, fly & eat, He is taken as a sorcerer OUTRAGE - Jesus causes those he dislikes to die. "we will not allow him to go out; for everyone who displeases him is killed." REVEALED - Joseph is bad carpenter. Jesus corrects miraculously items "not properly made by Joseph" These Gospels fill a great void in the early life of the Saviour. It is consistent with every sincere Christian's faith to believe He had the power to perform the miracles here ascribed. E. Hancock: "I as an advocate of free thought dispute the authority of the ignorant who suppressed these Gospels & excluded them from the New Testament, of which they formed a part & were venerated during the first 400 yrs of the Christian Era. You only possess HALF THE TESTAMENT. READ THE COMPLETED BOOK.
Spanning six decades from 1833-1891, the correspondence of Henry Edward Manning and William Ewart Gladstone provides significant insights into debates on Church-State realignments, the entanglements of Anglican Old High Churchmen and Tractarians, and the relationships between Roman Catholics and the British Government.
This sparkling account of the great age of Whiggery during the reigns of George I and II is distinguished by its attention to social history. The author deftly explains how the political transformation which brought an end to the âeoerage of partyâe under Queen Anne and ushered in the âeoestrife of factionâe under the Hanoverians was related to social and economic conditions. This major political change brought stability to England andâe"by important, though incremental shifts in mobility, religion, agriculture, industry, and literacyâe"slowly transformed English society. W. A. Speck argues that in 1714 England was ruled by rival elites called Tory and Whig and that by 1760 they had fused to form a ruling class. This union became possible as divisive issues faded and economic and political interests were shared. Whiggery itself, however, split apart for lesser reasons. âeoeCountryâe Whigs were restorationists on moral and religious grounds while âeoeCourtâe Whigsâe"neither Saints, nor Spartans, nor Reformersâe"created the mechanisms to realize the promise of the Glorious Revolution of 1689: mixed monarchy, property and liberty, and Protestantism. Stability and Strife is the most up-to-date book in English eighteenth-century history in its methodsâe"the use of social science data and literary sourcesâe"and in its sophisticated topical and narrative approaches to this fascinating era.
This is an original interpretation of the early European Enlightenment and the religious conflicts that rocked England and its empire under the later Stuarts. In a series of vignettes that move between Europe and North Africa, William J. Bulman shows that this period witnessed not a struggle for and against new ideas and greater freedoms, but a battle between several novel schemes for civil peace. Bulman considers anew the most apparently conservative force in post-Civil War English history: the conformist leadership of the Church of England. He demonstrates that the church's historical scholarship, social science, pastoral care and political practice amounted not to a culturally backward spectacle of intolerance, but to a campaign for stability drawn from the frontiers of erudition and globalization. In seeking to sever the link between zeal and chaos, the church and its enemies were thus united in an Enlightenment project, but bitterly divided over what it meant in practice.
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