Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another. The first great English detective novel, Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone is presented in a Folio Society limited edition of 750 numbered copies. There’s virtually nothing about Jesus’ shed blood which washes away the sins of the world, about His resurrection, about the love and forgiveness of God, about the drawing of the Spirit or the grace by which even the worst of sinners can be saved. When I watched the Ridley Scott film Gladiator for the first time, I knew then my heart belonged in Ancient Rome.

Color maps give readers the geographical orientation they need for understanding historical accounts throughout the Bible. In this stunningly intelligent book, Karen Armstrong, one of Britain's foremost commentators on religious affairs, traces the history of how men and women have perceived and experienced God, from the time of Abraham to the present. Into this atmosphere of distrust comes Thomas Cromwell - a man as ruthlessly ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself.including the evolution of the early Christian sects, the Eastern Church in its entirety, the rise of Orthodoxy in both the Greek world and Russia" to the present throughout the world.

Timelines, parallel texts, weights and measures, calendars, and other helpful tables help navigate the biblical world. Esta obra poderosa y práctica es una de las más populares y queridas introducciones a la fe cristiana jamás escrita Mero Cristianismo reúne las legendarias charlas radiofónicas de C. His Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh were published in 2013 as Silence: A Christian History.

This is history on an epic scale, and like all the great epics, it begins in a distant time of confusion and struggle long before the birth of the protagonist. His works include Reformation: Europe’s House Divided (1993; The Folio Society, 2013), which won the Wolfson Prize for History, the British Academy Prize and the US National Book Critics’ Circle Award; Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996), which won the James Tait Black Prize, the Duff Cooper Prize and the Whitbread Biography Prize; Tudor Church Militant: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformation (1999); Silence: A Christian History (2013); All Things Made New: Writings on the Reformation (2016); and Thomas Cromwell: A Life (2018).