Religion and Theology

London: New English Library, 1971 Novel based on screenplay by Robert Phippeny. Spine creased.. First Thus. Paperback. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: SCM Press, 1955 Expository and critical treatment of the Atonement.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: B.T. Batsford, 1954 About the Holy Places and Sanctuaries, the Holy Wells and Shrines of the Royal Martyrs, the Soldiers of the Lord and the Unofficial Saints, and of the destruction of the shrines at the time of the Reformation, and their survival and revival in recent years. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Eric King. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1928 Some rubbing to cloth.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Gilbert James & Sidney W. Stanley. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Watts & Co., 1948. The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by the Catholic Church to eliminate the Cathar heresy in Languedoc. The Crusade was prosecuted primarily by the French and promptly took on a political flavour, resulting in not only a significant reduction in the number of practicing Cathars but also a realignment of Occitania, bringing it into the sphere of the French crown and diminishing the distinct regional culture and high level of Aragonese influence.. First Thus. Hardcover. Fine/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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London: Frederick Muller, 1974 Holmes sets out to show the role of witchcraft throughout British history, showing how it has affected the development of the nation and shaped the laws and political upheavals. Includes bibliography and index.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Tandem, 1976 Holmes sets out to show the role of witchcraft throughout British history, showing how it has affected the development of the nation and shaped the laws and political upheavals. Includes bibliography and index. An unread copy.. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Fine. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Oxford University Press, 1973 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1964 The story of this Christian sect from its obscure beginning among Russian peasants in the early 18th century to the 1960's in British Columbia, Canada. They examine religious beliefs and social life. The authors examine the sects resistance to conscription laws, their attempts to settle in Cyprus and their settlement in Canada. Includes photographs, bibliography and index. Usual library stamps etc. . First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Printed for William Hone, 1823. Covers grubby rear cloth loose but attached. Spine extremities worn.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket, as Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Harrison and Sons, 1902. Some pages uncut, some marking to boards.. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971 First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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1997 Hebrew text.. Third Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Chris Riddell. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Rider & Co., 1930 Comprehensive study of cats and their depiction in Art, Folklore, music, religion, the occult etc. Contents: Bast; Sekhmet; The Sistrum; Cat and the serpent; Cat and the riddle of Isis; Cat in Chaldean and Egyptian Magism; Freya and her cats; Christ and the cat; The Virgin and the cat; May kitten; Corn cat; Cat and the Sabbath; Witches in cat form; Witch cats and repercussion; Secret sects and cat worship; Cat as sacrifice; Cat and transmigration; Temple cat; Animated cat images; Cat in the necropolis; Cat in paradise; Ghostly cats; Demon cats; Vampire cats; Cat genii and familiars; Cat as omen of death; Clairvoyant cats; Cats and telepathy; Cat as phallic symbol; Cat as charm and talisman; Symbology of cat and mouse; Cat in heraldry; Cat's nine lives; Cat's nomenclature; Manx legends; L'Envoi. Illustrated together with a superb bibliography.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1910. Oxyrhynchus (El Bahnasa), was a site in upper Egypt, south of Cairo and south of the Faiyum, excavated at the turn of the 19th-20th cents. by British archaeologists who found a vast quantity of Greek papyri in 1906. They consisted of personal and business notes, official documents, and literary texts, including portions of the New Testament and of the apocryphal gospel of Thomas. Many date from the 3rd and 4th cents. The papyri contained about 900 lines of prose. These covered in detail and in a style commanding considerable respect events in the Greek world from 396 to 395 BC including the naval war between Athens under Conon and Sparta, the conflict between Thebes and Phocis (including a valuable excursus on the constitution of the Boeotian Confederacy, and Agesilaus' campaigns in Asia Minor. The Florentine Papyrus deals with events of the Ionian-Decelean War (final phase of the Peloponnesian War), especially the sea-battle at Notium 407/6. The close agreement between Diodorus Siculus and the Oxyrhynchus historian, where the two can be compared, shows that the latter was used by Diodorus' source Ephorus himself. This fact has led to the realization that Diodorus is a more reliable source at this point than had hitherto been thought. They are housed in libraries round the world, including Oxfrod, Cologne and American universities. Those that have been published shed considerable light on the language of the New Testament writers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1912. Oxyrhynchus (El Bahnasa), was a site in upper Egypt, south of Cairo and south of the Faiyum, excavated at the turn of the 19th-20th cents. by British archaeologists who found a vast quantity of Greek papyri in 1906. They consisted of personal and business notes, official documents, and literary texts, including portions of the New Testament and of the apocryphal gospel of Thomas. Many date from the 3rd and 4th cents. The papyri contained about 900 lines of prose. These covered in detail and in a style commanding considerable respect events in the Greek world from 396 to 395 BC including the naval war between Athens under Conon and Sparta, the conflict between Thebes and Phocis (including a valuable excursus on the constitution of the Boeotian Confederacy, and Agesilaus' campaigns in Asia Minor. The Florentine Papyrus deals with events of the Ionian-Decelean War (final phase of the Peloponnesian War), especially the sea-battle at Notium 407/6. The close agreement between Diodorus Siculus and the Oxyrhynchus historian, where the two can be compared, shows that the latter was used by Diodorus' source Ephorus himself. This fact has led to the realization that Diodorus is a more reliable source at this point than had hitherto been thought. They are housed in libraries round the world, including Oxfrod, Cologne and American universities. Those that have been published shed considerable light on the language of the New Testament writers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1911. Oxyrhynchus (El Bahnasa), was a site in upper Egypt, south of Cairo and south of the Faiyum, excavated at the turn of the 19th-20th cents. by British archaeologists who found a vast quantity of Greek papyri in 1906. They consisted of personal and business notes, official documents, and literary texts, including portions of the New Testament and of the apocryphal gospel of Thomas. Many date from the 3rd and 4th cents. The papyri contained about 900 lines of prose. These covered in detail and in a style commanding considerable respect events in the Greek world from 396 to 395 BC including the naval war between Athens under Conon and Sparta, the conflict between Thebes and Phocis (including a valuable excursus on the constitution of the Boeotian Confederacy, and Agesilaus' campaigns in Asia Minor. The Florentine Papyrus deals with events of the Ionian-Decelean War (final phase of the Peloponnesian War), especially the sea-battle at Notium 407/6. The close agreement between Diodorus Siculus and the Oxyrhynchus historian, where the two can be compared, shows that the latter was used by Diodorus' source Ephorus himself. This fact has led to the realization that Diodorus is a more reliable source at this point than had hitherto been thought. They are housed in libraries round the world, including Oxfrod, Cologne and American universities. Those that have been published shed considerable light on the language of the New Testament writers.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Pan Books, 1971 Covers creased and rubbed.. Second Printing. Paperback. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Dublin: Figgis, 1970 First Edition. Hard Cover. New/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Jerusalem: Feldheim Publishers, 1978 First Edition. Paperback. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Asia Publishing House, 1960. Scarce in any edition.. Second Edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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Paris: P.V. Stock, 1901 Long before Huysmans' return to the Roman Catholic Church he had been attracted as an artist by the artless perfection of the Lives of the Saints. Though he is generally termed a Naturalist, the style of his novels is that of a man intensely imaginative in a narrow range; he produces his effects by an astonishing wealth of unexpected associations. In this biography of Saint Lydwine, however, he lays aside his mundane genius and presents as starkly as possible the records of her tormented life. Though it contains less of Huysmans himself than En Route or La Cathédrale (to mention the two translations issued by the same publisher), the interest of this book is not only to the devout and the literary. It presents a very remarkable but not uncommon phenomenon which the materialist would dismiss as hallucination. More significant is the glimpse it gives into the mental life of the fourteenth century, when the supernatural was the most natural thing in the world. French text. Rebound with original wraps preserved. Title page torn but present. Rare.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1922 Beautifully written account of Huysmans' visit to Chartres cathedral in France. Translated by Clara Bell. Boards faded.. Second Impression. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Shapiro, Vallentine and Co., 1938 First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Methuen & Co., 1928 Revised and much expanded from the 1908 edition. The Jewish population of the British Isles has never formed any but a numerically insignificant proportion of the Diaspora. Yet, despite this relative insignificance of Anglo-Jewry, the story of the Jews in England is of supreme importance to the student of the philosophy of Jewry and of Jewish history. The adage that history repeats itself is well worn, but nonetheless true. The history of the Jews in England is the history in miniature of the Diaspora. Since the opening of the Christian era the story of the Jews has everywhere been the same - continual alternations of prosperity and persecution. With nations as with individuals the wheel of fortune ever revolves, but with the Jews its progress seems to have been more rapid, for the alternations have been more numerous than with any other race. But with the Jews the wheel lingers during the period of depression and hurries through that of elation in order to recover that item that has been lost. The story told in the following pages shows all the vicissitudes common these two thousand years to the lot of Jewry. The times of prosperity in England have been among the happiest in the annals of the race. All other seasons Anglo-Jewry has reached the lowest depths of despair, when but a step seemed to separate the community from annihilation. But the story of the Jews in England is something more than a mere illustration of the general fortunes of the Jews. The unparalleled preservation of mediaeval records in England enables the historical to trace more clearly than elsewhere the peculiar position of the Jews under the Feudal System. The story told in this book has its importance not merely as a record of the past but as a guide and hope for the future. The tale unfolded may not be brilliant, but the moral pointed is inspiring. Rebound in strong library binding.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993 While western-derived legal codes have superseded Islamic law in many parts of the Muslim world, Islamic, Koran-based law still retains its force in the area of marriage and family relations, the area that is key to the status of women. This work makes available for the first time in English three compilations of responses to questions about family law given by two prominent Muslim jurists of the ninth century (third century of Islam)--Ahmad b. Hanbal, the eponymous founder of the Hanbali rite of Sunni Islam (the one dominant in Saudi Arabia), and Ishaq b. Rahwayh. These compilations are basic sources for the study of the development of legal thinking in Islam. The introduction to the translation locates the compilations in a historical context and elucidates how the various issues of family law are treated. An appendix contains a collation of the significant variants among the manuscripts and printed versions of the Arabic texts. The volume concludes with a topical index and an index of names.. First Edition. Cloth. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates, 1992 Deals with incest as a 'structural and relational sexual violence committed by men against girls', exposes one of the conditions under which the abuse of girls has been able to continue for hundreds of years. It shows that religion can be a factor that is conducive to incest.. First English Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Cassell and Company, 1929 First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1911 Introduction by Prof. E. Vernon Arnold. Some prick marks to front board.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: The Jordan Publishing Co., 1960 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. more information

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New York: Hebrew Publishing Company, 1941 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Kyra Markham. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Jewish Chronicle Publications, 1959 Rosh Hashanah refers to the Jewish New Year. The term first appears in the Tanakh, in Ezekiel 40:1. There, however, it does not refer specifically to the first day of the year, but to the "beginning" of the year. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Vallentine, Mitchell & Co., 1961 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972 First systematic study in English of the methods of prayer of the Hasidic community founded by Baal Shem Tov. Part of the Littman Library of Jewish Civilisation.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Derby: The Citadel Press, 1970 A study and repudiation of John M. Allegro's theory of the nature and origins of Christianity within the fertility cults of the Ancient Near East. Top spine worn.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1960 First Edition. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1971 "This is a story of the Buddha, retold with skill, realism and delicacy.". First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. Illus. by Joanna Troughton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: The Great Western Railway, 1926 With An Additional Chapter On "Monastic Life and Buildings" By A. Hamilton Thompson.. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. more information

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London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1965. Third Printing. Cloth. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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London: New English Library, 1971 Some creasing and rubbing to covers.. Reprint. Paperback. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. more information

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London: Creation Books, 1996. Throughout our present decade, both the media and the general public - not to mention various fanatical religious factions - have been concerning themselves increasingly with the imminent end of the millennium and its possible implications for mankind. Kenneth Rayner Johnson predated them by 20 years with the publication in 1975 of The Zarkon Principle, his best-selling premonition of apocalypse in the year 2000AD. Now, with just four short years left on the clock, Johnson has returned with Armageddon 2000, an updated version of his earlier work. In Armageddon 2000, Johson not only demonstrates how many of his previous theories and predictions have already come true, but also how his research in the intervening decades has led him even more forcefully to one conclusion: the world as we know it is about to end. To reach this conclusion Johson has re-interpreted the scriptures of many religions, and the histories and writings of Alchemy, Freemasonry, Magick, Theosophy and other arcane disciplines. He has examined such ancient and enigmatic structures as the Pyramids and Stonehenge; delved into the secret lives of Jesus, Mohammed, Aleister Crowley and Adolf Hitler; and researched phenomena such as UFOs and alien abductions. He has correlated all this information with the most recent findings of astrophysicists, theoreticl physicists, meteorologists and ecologists, and posed a grim question: how long does mankind have left? And emerged with a terrifying answer.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Altajir World of Islam Trust, 1997. A series of lectures from the 1990s on various aspects of Islamic studies ranging from The Qur'an in the light of Earlier Arabic Prose, to the Arabic language, Islamic Ceramics from Ephesus, Reform among Muslims in Russia and the Russian Empire, and Islamic Ethics in a Multi-Cultural Society.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Altajir World of Islam Trust, 1998. A series of university lectures from the 1990s on various aspects of Islamic studies, ranging from Being British and Muslim, to Islamic Jerusalem, Shi''ite Exegesis and the Interpretation of the Qur''an, and Islamic Seals.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George G. Harrap, 1950 First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: George G. Harrap, 1959 Rebound in strong library binding.. Reprint. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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Enfield Lock: Hisarlik, 1998. Survey of druids in the Celtic Iron Age. Examines the image of the druid in medieval texts, assesses the religious and political agendas in the 18th century, and discusses the depiction of druids in 20th century films, television and books. Examines the changing figure of the druid as a continuum from classical times to the present. It poses the question, if we know virtually nothing about the real Druids (who were nothing more or less than the priests of the pre-Christian Celts), why have people continued to find the image of the Druid so compelling for over 2000 years? The image of the druid has been constantly re-invented, as much by Caesar as by Stukeley, and these revisions say more about the people who create them than about any objective reality of Celtic religion. There are two main versions of "Druidism": the image of the Druid as a nascently Christian priest (the chief metaphor of the 18th-century writers) and the image of the Druid as a shaman, the view that increasingly prevails today. Both these images have their roots in the representations of Druids, saints, warriors and poets found in the medieval Celtic literatures. The book begins with a brief survey of the current understanding, through anthropology, folklore and archaeology, of Celtic society in the Iron Age, and what little is known about Druids of that time. It then looks at the image of druids found in medieval Welsh and Irish texts, comparing the role of "priestly" Druids in the lives of early saints, such as Patrick and David, with the "shamanic" mysticism that prevails amongst warriors and poets such as Uchulainn, Owein ap Urien and Taliesin. The third section assesses the religious and political agendas underlying the resurgence of interest in Druidism in 18th-century Britain, comparing the archaeological enthusiasms of English neo-Druids, such as William Stukeley, with the emerging linguistic nationalism of Welsh writers, such as Iolo Morganwg. The final section looks at the image of the Druid in late-20th-century Britain and America, as it appears in popular film and television, in the books published for New Age and neo-pagan markets, and as it is constructed by those who participate in the discussions of all brands of Druidism on the computer service, America Online. Includes bibliography and index.. First Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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New York: Harper and Bros, 1938 Child development from a christian viewpoint. Corner clipped from fep.. Second Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Macmillan & Co., 1928 Contents: What is "Spiritual Religion"?, The Main Current of the Reformation, Hans Denck and the Inward Word, The Prophets of the Inward Word: Bünderlin and Entfelder, Sebastian Franck: an Apostele of Inward Religion, Caspar Schwenckfeld and the Reformation of the "Middle Way" Sebastian Castello: a Forgotten Prophet, Coornhert and the Collegiants, a Movement for Spiritual Religion in Holland, Valentine Weigel and Nature Mysticism, Jacob Boehme: His Life and Spirit, Boehme's Universe, Jacob Boehme's "Way of Salvation" Jacob Boehme's Influence in England, Early Enlish Interpreters of Spiritual Religion: John Everard, Giles Randall, and others, Spiritual Religion in High Places: Rous, Vane, and Sterry, Benjamin Wichcote, the first of the "Latitude-Men" John Smith, Platonist, Thomas Traherne and the Spiritual Poets of the 17th Century; With index; "This volume, together with my Studies in Mystical Religion, will at any rate furnish evidence that the ideas, aims, experiences, practices, and aspirations of the early Quakers were the fruit of long spiritual preparation." (Preface).. Second Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. more information

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London: Milner and Company Translated by Wiliam Whiston. nd. c.1860s. Rebound in strong library binding.. First Thus. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Library. more information

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