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link to catalog page PATTERSON, The Sound of the Dove

The Sound of the Dove

Singing in Appalachian Primitive Baptist Churches

Author: Beverly Bush Patterson
Pub Date: Cloth: ; Paper: 2001

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link to catalog page WIGGER, Taking Heaven by Storm

Taking Heaven by Storm

Methodism and the Rise of Popular Christianity in America

Author: John H. Wigger
Pub Date: 2001

Thorough, readable, and comprehensive, this is the best history of Methodism from the founding of the country into the 1820s   learn more...

link to catalog page BARBER, Theodore Psalter (electronic facsimile) Author: Edited by Charles Barber

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link to catalog page FIRMAGE, Zion in the Courts

Zion in the Courts

A Legal History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900

Author: Edwin Brown Firmage and Richard Collin Mangrum
Pub Date: 2001

Explores the conflict between the Mormons' efforts to establish their own court system--one appropriate to the distinctive political, social, and economic practices they envisioned as Zion--and the pressures applied by the federal legal system to bring them to heel.   learn more...

link to catalog page ODEN, The Bible Without Theology

The Bible Without Theology

The Theological Tradition and Alternatives to It

Author: Robert A. Oden, Jr.
Pub Date: 2000

This is an examination of portions of the (Hebrew) Bible [Old Testament] through historical mythical parallels, anthropology, and other scientific methods to bring a refreshing new understanding of the biblical texts.   learn more...

link to catalog page MOREY, Book and Verse

Book and Verse

A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature

Author: James H. Morey
Pub Date: 2000

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link to catalog page MATHER, The Christian Philosopher Author: Cotton Mather
Pub Date: 2000

Solberg’s edition of The Christian Philosopher is basic to understanding the historical origins of the harmony between science and religion in American thought.   learn more...

link to catalog page MILLER, The Disappearance of God

The Disappearance of God

Five Nineteenth-Century Writers

Author: J. Hillis Miller
Pub Date: 2000

In this acclaimed study, J. Hillis Miller focuses on five Victorian authors--Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Brontë, Robert Browning, Thomas DeQuincey, and Gerard Manley Hopkins--to present their various responses to crises of faith in the face of Darwinism, the rise of science, urbanization and other factors that seemed to distance them from God.   learn more...

link to catalog page STRONG, Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration (expanded ed.) Author: Tracy B. Strong
Pub Date: 2000

A significant contribution to Nietzsche studies, the author examines both the personal and the political sides of Nietzsche’s writings to show how his writings can expand notions of democratic politics and democratic understanding.   learn more...

link to catalog page BOYER, The Golden Age of Gospel Author: Text by Horace Clarence Boyer Photography by Lloyd Yearwood
Pub Date: 2000

The best and most definitive history of gospel music in the United States, enhanced by the emotion-packed photos of Lloyd Yearwood   learn more...

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