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Una storia gloriosa quanto tormentata, quella dei Templari, segnata da processi, roghi, scandali, accuse di eresia: è forse per questo che intorno al potente ordine cavalleresco non hanno mai smesso di fiorire leggende e miti, destinati a suscitare un sempre rinnovato interesse. Il libro ne dipana l'intricata vicenda, dalla fondazione nel Duecento all'abolizione agli inizi del Trecento, in un racconto limpido e appassionante, basato su ricerche originali che hanno portato l'autrice a rintracciare il documento che attesta l'assoluzione papale dei cavalieri del Tempio.

Free Rose Light is the wide-ranging story of the people and community of South Street Ministries, in Akron, Ohio, told in the style of the ministry - improvisational, risky, and present. As much as this is the story of South Street through O'Connor's experience of the organization, it is also an invitation to the listener by example.

Il libro segreto dello spietato frate domenicano che ha ispirato il leggendario personaggio di Il nome della rosa. Un documento straordinario sull'efferato tribunale dell'inquisizione. La fama di Bernardo Gui, inquisitore del Trecento, è stata enormemente amplificata dal personaggio di Il nome della rosa che porta il suo nome. Il suo Manuale dell'inquisitore, un documento unico, non poteva non affascinare un cultore del Medioevo come Umberto Eco.

Este libro expone la decadencia en el corazón del Vaticano y de la actual Iglesia católica. Un brillante trabajo basado en cuatro años de investigación rigurosa, que incluye entrevistas a los más altos cargos eclesiásticos. Sodoma revela los secretos de un sistema que se inicia en los seminarios y continúa hasta el Vaticano; basado en la doble vida de algunos sacerdotes y en la homofobia más radical. La esquizofrenia resultante en la Iglesia es insondable.

La storia della Chiesa è stata, fin dai suoi albori, estremamente travagliata. Questo libro ne ripercorre le vicende approfondendo i principali "momenti" che hanno talvolta portato quest'istituzione a fortificarsi, altre volte a indebolirsi ma, in ogni caso, a cambiare in relazione ai vari contesti storici. Si va dalla "rivoluzione" attuata da Costantino, si passa per Carlo Magno con cui, nel primo millennio, l'impero assunse un carattere sacro, si arriva al Grande Scisma, alla lotta per le investiture, alla riforma protestante dilagata dal nord Europa.

La storia della Chiesa cattolica è costellata di episodi che hanno ben poco a vedere con la fede e con l'ammaestramento delle anime. Dalla vera e propria guerriglia urbana per l'elezione del vescovo di Roma al traffico delle reliquie, dalla gestione delle catacombe alla definizione di tariffari per la visita ai luoghi santi e per la remissione dei peccati, sin da quando alle faccende di spirito si è affiancata l'attività commerciale e finanziaria un'ombra di peccato e di colpa ha oscurato le gerarchie ecclesiastiche.

In the Closet of the Vatican is a fascinating description and evaluation of financial, sexual and political misconduct throughout the Catholic Church at a time when new revelations are being uncovered each and every week. This audiobook explores the underlying causes and includes interviews with numerous Cardinals and other individuals, some of whom cannot be named. Martel reveals financial scandals in the Vatican bank; political collusion with unsavoury regimes, including Castro’s Cuba and Pinochet’s Chile; sexual abuse and hypocrisy over homosexuality.

The Jesus People movement was a unique combination of the hippie counterculture and evangelical Christianity. It first appeared in the famed "Summer of Love" of 1967, in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and spread like wildfire in Southern California and beyond, to cities like Seattle, Atlanta, and Milwaukee. In 1971 the growing movement found its way into the national media spotlight and gained momentum, attracting a huge new following among evangelical church youth.

The truth shall set you free. Ignoring it will cost you a fortune. It has become clear that we are living a lie, and it has brought devastating results: Bankruptcy among churchgoers is equally as high as for those who don't attend. Financial misconduct is destroying marriages, families, individuals, and churches. A record number of churches are in foreclosure.

Evangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to community and family. They believe in the transformative power of a personal relationship with God, but are wary of religious enthusiasm. They are deeply skeptical of secular reason, but eager to find scientific proof that the Bible is true. In this groundbreaking history of modern American evangelicalism, Molly Worthen argues that these contradictions are the products of a crisis of authority that lies at the heart of the faith.

Confession is a crucial ritual of the Catholic Church, offering absolution of sin and spiritual guidance to the faithful. Yet this ancient sacrament has also been a source of controversy and oppression, culminating, as prize-winning historian John Cornwell reveals in The Dark Box, with the scandal of clerical child abuse. Drawing on extensive historical sources, contemporary reports, and first-hand accounts, Cornwell takes a hard look at the long evolution of confession.

In Baptists in America, Thomas S. Kidd and Barry Hankins explore the long-running tensions between church, state, and culture that Baptists have shaped and navigated. Despite the moment of unity that their early persecution provided, their history has been marked by internal battles and schisms that were microcosms of national events, from the conflict over slavery that divided North from South to the conservative revolution of the 1970s and '80s.

In this new and substantially expanded Third Edition, Philip Jenkins continues to illuminate the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South - in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Drawing upon the extensive new scholarship that has appeared on this topic in recent years, he asks how the new Christianity is likely to affect the poor, among whom it finds its most devoted adherents. How should we interpret the enormous success of prosperity churches across the Global South? Politically, what will be the impact of new Christian movements?

Have you joined a church or small group in hopes of experiencing real life change, only to be disappointed? Have you sat through inspiring sermons about what is possible when Christians gather together in mutually edifying relationships, only to recognize how cynical you have become after many failed attempts? Community may be one of the most over-promised, under-delivered aspects of the Christian life today. Individuals remain selfish and stuck in their ways.

Jesus taught his followers that it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter heaven. Yet by the fall of Rome, the church was becoming rich beyond measure. Through the Eye of a Needle is a sweeping intellectual and social history of the vexing problem of wealth in Christianity in the waning days of the Roman Empire, written by the world's foremost scholar of late antiquity.

Francis of Assisi is Catholicism's most popular saint. Tens of millions of spiritual seekers summon his name and example. But the real Francis - both his complicated personality and his complex theology - have been misunderstood for centuries. In 1228, Pope Gregory IX rushed to canonize St. Francis only two years after his death. Soon thereafter, the Church eliminated significant aspects of his biography from the public record.

The most profound characteristic of Western Europe in the Middle Ages was its cultural and religious unity, a unity secured by a common alignment with the Pope in Rome and a common language - Latin - for worship and scholarship. The Reformation shattered that unity, and the consequences are still with us today.

Who is Satan in the New Testament, and what is the evil that he represents? In this groundbreaking book, Elaine Pagels, Princeton's distinguished historian of religion, traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament, where Satan becomes the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate. In The Origin of Satan, Pagels shows that the four Christian gospels tell two very different stories.

"Il più grande missionario", "il vero fondatore del cristianesimo", "l'enfant terrible delle origini cristiane": sono alcune delle definizioni che sono state date di Paolo, una delle figure più affascinanti della cristianità. Ma chi era veramente Paolo di Tarso? L'audiolibro ne ripercorre la formazione culturale, le esperienze e le traversie, i viaggi missionari, illustrando la forza rivoluzionaria del suo pensiero.

Il segno della croce tracciato da destra a sinistra, semplice gesto quotidiano per il cristiano ortodosso, può destare in noi curiosità, ma può suscitare anche un senso di disarmonia e di estraneità, dovuto forse alla scarsa conoscenza di quella che può essere a giusto titolo considerata l'altra faccia del cristianesimo.