The Stripping of the Altars
Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
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Eamon Duffy
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This prize-winning account of the pre-Reformation church recreates lay people's experience of religion, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigorous tradition. For this edition, Duffy has written a new introduction reflecting on recent developments in our understanding of the period.
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Medieval Christianity
- A New History
- By: Kevin Madigan
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 21 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
For many, the medieval world seems dark and foreign - a miraculous, brutal, and irrational time of superstition and strange relics. The pursuit of heretics, the Inquisition, the Crusades, and the domination of the "Holy Land" come to mind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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New Standard Text for This Period
- By Bill Martin on 10-22-16
By: Kevin Madigan
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They Flew
- A History of the Impossible
- By: Carlos M. N. Eire
- Narrated by: Emmanuel Chumaceiro
- Length: 16 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 22
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Story5 out of 5 stars 22
Accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena abounded in the early modern era—tales of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft—even as skepticism, atheism, and empirical science were starting to supplant religious belief in the paranormal. In this book, Carlos Eire explores how a culture increasingly devoted to scientific thinking grappled with events deemed impossible by its leading intellectuals.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The sober documentation of levitation and bilocation stories.
- By Arthur Sippo on 03-01-24
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Historical Theology (3rd Edition)
- An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought
- By: Alister E. Mcgrath
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 20 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
Historical Theology: An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought traces the development of Christian theology from its earliest days to the present. This authoritative, accessible textbook introduces the major theological movements, key ideas, and individual theologians of the Patristic Period, the Middle Ages and Renaissance, the Reformation and Post-Reformation, and the Modern Era up to the present day. Now in its third edition, Historical Theology includes substantial new sections on theodicy, modern African Christologies, and postcolonial theology.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superb Overview for Christian Doctrine of the West
- By Noy on 08-26-24
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Introduction To Christianity (2nd Edition)
- By: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI
- Narrated by: Scott Russell
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 60
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Story5 out of 5 stars 43
One of Cardinal Ratzinger's most important and widely read books, this volume is a revised second edition with an improved translation and an in-depth preface by the Cardinal. As he states in the preface, since this book was first published over 30 years ago, many changes and significant events have occurred in the world, and in the Church. But even so, he says he is firmly convinced that his fundamental approach in this book is still very timely and crucial for the spiritual needs of modern man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great book poorly narrated
- By Harrison Ayre on 12-24-22
By: Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and others
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Benedict XVI: A Life, Volume One
- Volume One: Youth in Nazi Germany to the Second Vatican Council, 1927–1965
- By: Peter Seewald
- Narrated by: Jim Meskimen
- Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 129
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 120
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Story5 out of 5 stars 120
Benedict XVI: A Life offers insight into the young life and rise through the Church’s ranks of a man who would become a hero and a lightning rod for Catholics the world over. Based on countless hours of interviews in Rome with Benedict himself, this two-volume biography is the definitive record of the life of Joseph Ratzinger and the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI. This first volume follows his early life, from his days growing up in Germany and his conscription into the Hitler Youth during WWII to his career as an academic theologian and eventual archbishop of Munich.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Okay for some purposes
- By ReviewAmazon384 on 08-23-21
By: Peter Seewald
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America's Book
- The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911
- By: Mark A. Noll
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 37 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
America's Book shows how the Bible decisively shaped American national history even as that history influenced the use of Scripture. It explores the rise of a strongly Protestant Bible civilization in the early United States that was then fractured by debates over slavery, contested by growing numbers of non-Protestant Americans, and torn apart by the Civil War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I think this is Noll's best book so far
- By Adam Shields on 08-18-23
By: Mark A. Noll
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The Catholic Mass
- Steps to Restore the Centrality of God in the Liturgy
- By: Bishop Athanasius Schneider, Aurelio Porfiri - contributor
- Narrated by: Jim Denison
- Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 8
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Story5 out of 5 stars 8
In what is one of the most impressive and authoritative books on the Catholic Mass, Bishop Schneider reestablishes what Catholics have known for centuries but have forgotten today: that the Mass is the highest form of Christian prayer. You'll come to understand why the rubrics are vital to preserving the authenticity of the liturgy, and you'll learn why architecture, music, sacred art, and even incense are vital symbols that direct our attention to Heaven.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Understanding The Sacred
- By Dr. P.S. Roy on 01-08-25
By: Bishop Athanasius Schneider, and others
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Pagan America
- The Decline of Christianity and the Dark Age to Come
- By: John Daniel Davidson
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 125
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 118
We live in an anxious age. Long-held certainties, cherished beliefs, and social trust are crumbling. Don’t expect things to get better. For too long we have taken our Christian heritage—the heritage upon which America was built—for granted. But we’re rapidly, and now inevitably, losing the Christian culture that shaped the American republic. What will take its place is a despotism—and a new paganism, worse than the old, because it will be based on a hatred of Christianity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful; accurate projections for the future.
- By Nick Troutt on 04-02-24
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The Rational Bible: Genesis
- By: Dennis Prager
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,525
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,336
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1,326
Many people today think the Bible, the most influential book in world history, is not only outdated but irrelevant, irrational, and even immoral. This explanation of the Book of Genesis, the first book of the Bible, demonstrates clearly and powerfully that the opposite is true. The Bible remains profoundly relevant - both to the great issues of our day and to each individual life. It is the greatest moral guide and source of wisdom ever written.
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5 out of 5 stars
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So glad I bought this!
- By Alex Martinez on 06-10-19
By: Dennis Prager
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Byzantium
- The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire
- By: Judith Herrin
- Narrated by: Phyllida Nash
- Length: 16 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Byzantium. The name evokes grandeur and exoticism—gold, cunning, and complexity. In this unique book, Judith Herrin unveils the riches of a quite different civilization. Avoiding a standard chronological account of the Byzantine Empire's millennium-long history, she identifies the fundamental questions about Byzantium—what it was, and what special significance it holds for us today.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not a comprehensible history
- By kevin arsenault on 10-07-23
By: Judith Herrin
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries
- A New History
- By: James G. Clark
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 27 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Drawing on the records of national and regional archives as well as archaeological remains, James Clark explores the little-known lives of the last men and women who lived in England's monasteries before the Reformation. Clark challenges received wisdom, showing that buildings were not immediately demolished and Henry VIII's subjects were so attached to the religious houses that they kept fixtures and fittings as souvenirs. This rich, vivid history brings back into focus the prominent place of abbeys, priories, and friaries in the lives of the English people.
By: James G. Clark
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The Thirty Years War
- Europe's Tragedy
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
- Length: 33 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 179
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 148
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 148
The Thirty Years War devastated seventeenth-century Europe, killing nearly a quarter of all Germans and laying waste to towns and countryside alike. Peter Wilson offers the first new history in a generation of a horrifying conflict that transformed the map of the modern world.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Less caffeine, narrator
- By Jeff Joyner on 02-12-24
By: Peter H. Wilson
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Summa Theologica Part I (Prima Pars)
- By: Thomas Aquinas
- Narrated by: Martyn Swain
- Length: 52 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 49
The Summa Theologica, by Thomas Aquinas, is a fundamental text in Catholic doctrine, a compendium of theology that has been studied and debated since its first publication in the 13th century. Furthermore, it has been widely regarded as one of the classics of Western philosophy, not least because, perhaps for the first time in such a systematic manner, it set out to consider the views of non-Christian figures such as Aristotle, Boethius, Muslim writers including Averroes (Ibn Rushd) and Avicenna (Ibn Sina) and the Sephardic Jewish scholar Maimonides.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love it
- By Amazon Customer on 06-28-20
By: Thomas Aquinas
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Heart of Europe
- A History of the Holy Roman Empire
- By: Peter H. Wilson
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 34 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 349
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 308
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Story4 out of 5 stars 305
The Holy Roman Empire lasted 1,000 years, far longer than ancient Rome. Yet this formidable dominion never inspired the awe of its predecessor. Voltaire quipped that it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Yet as Peter H. Wilson shows, the Holy Roman Empire tells a millennial story of Europe better than the histories of individual nation-states.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Mixed feelings on this one.
- By Stuart Seymour on 09-19-17
By: Peter H. Wilson
Masterful, but sad.
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