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The Acts of the Council of Chalcedon (Liverpool University Press - Translated Texts for Historians)
Liverpool University Press, 2007
The Council of Chalcedon in 451 was a defining moment in the Christological controversies that tore apart the churches of the Eastern Roman Empire in the fifth and sixth centuries. Theological division, political rivalry and sectarian violence combined to produce what ultimately became separate Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches, a schism ...
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A Christian Survey of World History
RHB, 1999
Nothing like this anywhere!
The brilliant lectures of RS Rushdoony on an overview of the history of the world.
Seeing the progress of the Gospel, with fair and balanced treatment of the influence of the disapora, Monks, various monarchs, and the motive behind exploration of the new world, ...
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Noble Savages: Exposing the Worldview of Pornography and Their War Against Christian Civilization
Ross House Books, 2005
Previous called Politics of Pornography.
This $57 billion dollar industry is swallowing peoples worldwide as its revenues exceed that of professional football, baseball, and basketball combined. Statistics reveal that upwards of 40 million American adults regularly visit over 372 million published pornographic web pages. How did we get here?
In ...
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The Harsh Truth About Public Schools
Bruce N. Shortt
Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 2004
Loud and Clear Warning
Bruce Shortt's book is one of best I've ever read on America's public school system, and I've read about two dozen of them. His arguments are backed up with facts, so even those who don't like his message can't deny the truth he reveals. Public schools have been on a ...
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A History of Christian Thought: Volume 1: From the Beginnings to the Council of Chalcedon (Revised Edition)
Justo L. Gonzalez
Abingdon Press, 1987
Justo Gonzalez - Theology for everyone
This series of books does an excellent job of laying out the issues that confronted Christianity during the first few hundred years. Gonzalez writes in a very accessible style, and tries to keep the technical language to a minimum. No matter what your exposure to ...
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The Early Papacy: To the Synod of Chalcedon in 451
Adrian Fortescue
Ignatius Press, 2008
A CLASSIC LOOK AT THE PAPACY
Fortescue argues the essential Catholic doctrines of the early understanding of the papacy with great authority and learning. This reviewer found much I didn't know and reinforced many things I knew but could never have said so elegantly. The volume is detailed and ...
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James I: The Fool as King
Otto Scott
Chalcedon, 2003
The View from a Reformed Christian Perspective
Otto Scott pulls no punches in his evaluation of James I of England (James VI of Scotland). Scott's writing is easy to read and fast paced, yet of a high scholarly quality. His solidly Christian perspective is unusual today. Look for other books by Scott. I ...
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Creation According to the Scriptures: A Presuppositional Defense of Literal, Six-Day Creation
P. Andrew Sandlin
Chalcedon Foundation, 2001
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The Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined
V. C. Samuel, Peter Farrington
Xlibris Corporation, 2001
Great Resource for the Council of Chalcedon
This book was very readable and informative. It went into great detail, giving a blow by blow analysis of everything that happened at the council. It also gave a detailed account and analysis of the events and desputes leading up to the council, as well as the ...
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Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria: Edition, Translation and Essays
Herophilus
Cambridge University Press, 2007
a detailed and valuable work
In the history of medicine, popularity is mainly focused on the famous scientists such as Hipoccrates and Galen. However on the basis of positive science, maybe the most important scientist is Herophilus. The knowledge on Herophilus is rare and scattered in different ...
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Thine is the Kingdom: Studies in the Postmillennial Hope
Kenneth L. Gentry, Jr.
Chalcedon, 2004
Postmillennialism Returns
This book is edited by Kenneth Gentry, who has written several other scholarly books on biblical prophecy: The Beast of Revelation, Before Jerusalem Fell, He Shall Have Dominion. He writes in defense of the postmillennial perspective. Postmillennialism teaches that ...
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Christology After Chalcedon
Iain R. Torrance
Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1998
The Intellectual Christology of Severus the Miaphysite
"Torrance's study is of an intricate debate among those theologians of the East who could not stomach the fourth ecumenical council at Chalcedon. He shows how deeply orthodox were the intentions of these divines." Henry Chadwick
Aftermath of Chalcedon:
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The Foundations of Social Order: Studies in the Creed and Councils of the Early Church
Rousas John Rushdoony
Chalcedon, 2003
Compulsory reading.
One of the seminal works of Christian scholarship, by one of the few men who actually believed that the Bible is authoritative. A study in the early Church's battles with various forms of heresy, that were then put down in creeds. But Rushdoony does something more: he ...
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Christ in Christian Tradition: From the Apostolic Age to Chalcedon (451) Christ in Christian Tradition) ...
Aloys Grillmeier
Westminster John Knox Press, 1975
Development of Christological concepts into Soteriological Doctrine
"The pendulum has now swung in the opposite direction, whereas the slogan used to be 'the pure Jesus of history, is now 'the pure Christ of faith.'" Aloys Grillmeier
"In order to make the confession "God was in Christ" intelligible, it must be made clear what is ...
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Patrology: The Eastern Fathers from the Council of Chalcedon (451) to John of Damascus (750)
James Clarke Company, 2006
Essential
Every student of the fathers is familiar with Quasten's "Patrology". The last volume of this was actually edited by Angelo Di Berardino. The story of the fathers ends in 450. Thereafter anyone wishing to learn about a later writer is left to struggle with briefer texts ...
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