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The Resurrection of Our Lord Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 342
ISBN: 9781617192616
Pub Date: 12 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Theological Archive
Description:
The historicity, testimony, and importance of the Resurrection, by the Professor of Theology at Aberdeen.
The Separation of the Monophysites Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9781617191855
Pub Date: 12 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Syriac Studies Library
Description:
This is a history of the so-called "Monophysite" schism from the Council of Chalcedon to the Muslim conquest.
Titus von Bostra Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 276
ISBN: 9781617193682
Pub Date: 12 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Classics in the History of Early Christian Literature
Description:
The standard edition of the surviving fragments, and one palimpsest, of this polemical bishop's writings on Luke and Daniel.
Vier pseudojustinische Schiften Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 257
ISBN: 9781617193712
Pub Date: 12 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Classics in the History of Early Christian Literature
Description:
Four debates between the Christians and the Greeks on philosophy and theology;they come down to us among the works of Justin, but written by Diodorus of Tarsus.
Λογος σωτηριας προς την παρθενον (De Virginitate) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 150
ISBN: 9781617192791
Pub Date: 12 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Classics in the History of Early Christian Literature
Description:
The treatise of Athanasius of Alexandria on virginity, edited with critical notes and an evaluation of its origins are presented in this volume.
Patrologia Pacifica: Selected Papers Presented to the Asia Pacific Early Christian Studies Society Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 454
ISBN: 9781611430059
Pub Date: 09 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Scrinium: Revue de patrologie, d’hagiographie critique et d’histoire ecclésiastique
Description:
The volume collects selected papers from the fifth annual APECSS conference which focused on the topic of letters from Christian Antiquity. The conference papers deal with epistolography from the apostle Paul up to Theodore the Studite (ninth century), considered in different aspects, namely, historiography of studies, literary form, Church history, dogmatic contents, attribution, etc. Other patristic studies include hagiography, liturgics, Christian art, early Egyptian monasticism, Islamic-Christian relations in the Middle Ages, and the Jewish background of Christianity.
A Brief Account of the Chaldee Targums Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 20
ISBN: 9781611431599
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
The author describes the Chaldee Targums, recommending them to readers such that they can use the Targums to convert Jews who use them as evidence for their own religion. The author also analyses several Targums.
A brief sketch of an Argument respecting the nature of Scriptural, and the importance and necessity of numerous, rapid, frequent, powerful, and extensive Revivals of Religion Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 22
ISBN: 9781611431568
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
The author advocates spiritual revivals. He describes the proper revival and says why America in particular stands to benefit from more revivals. He also warns of the negative consequences if there are too few revivals.
A Hymn to Nergal Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 19
ISBN: 9781611430103
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
The god Nergal had his residence at Cutha, according to numerous passages in cuneiform literature. The ancient king of Uruk, Singamil (ca. 2750 B.
A Short Narrative of the Extraordinary Work of Grace at Cambuslang in Scotland; in a Letter to a Friend Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 28
ISBN: 9781611431575
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
This article introduces and reprints a letter relating the extraordinary conversion of a large number of sinners in Cambuslang, Scotland. Following are a series of attestations to the truth of the account by various Scottish ministers.
Acta Sanctorum Confessorum Guriae et Shamonae Exarata Syriaca Lingua a Theophilo Edesseno Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 84
ISBN: 9781617196164
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
Rahmani here presents the first edition of the martyrdom stories of Guria and Shmona in Syriac, who were killed during the Diocletian persecution. The editor also gives a Latin translation and discusses historical and textual matters in the introduction.
Against the Manichaeans Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 327
ISBN: 9781617190100
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Kiraz Theological Archive
Description:
This volume contains the Greek and Syriac versions of the Contra Manicheos by Titus, Bishop of Bostra, as well as the letters of Pope Julius I and a brief expostion of the Christian faith by Gregory the Thaumaturge.
An Essay on the Invalidity of Presbyterian Ordination Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 44
ISBN: 9781611431728
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
The article reviews and critiques an essay that attacks Presbyterian ordination. The reviewer points to logical and textual flaws in the argument, indicating the author’s incompetence.
Anwār al-Tanzīl wa-Asrār al-Tāwīl (Vol 1) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 646
ISBN: 9781617190131
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Turath: The Arabic and Islamic Literary Tradition
Description:
The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation is a classic thirteenth-century commentary on the Qur'an.
Anwār al-Tanzīl wa-Asrār al-Tāwīl (Vol 2) Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 503
ISBN: 9781617190148
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Turath: The Arabic and Islamic Literary Tradition
Description:
The Lights of Revelation and the Secrets of Interpretation is a classic thirteenth-century commentary on the Qur'an.
Bodily Affections produced by Religious Excitement Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 21
ISBN: 9781611431629
Pub Date: 07 Aug 2010
Imprint: Gorgias Press
Series: Analecta Gorgiana
Description:
The article is a response to an unprinted letter concerning involuntary body movement during moments of religious frenzy. The editor relates personal experience from 1800 to 1803 and ultimately discourages this behavior.