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Mark of the lion volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Turning away from the opulence of Rome, Marcus is led by a whispering voice from the past into a journey that could set him free from the darkness of his soul.
2) Quo vadis?
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English
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Quo Vadis is a powerful historical novel about the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire. Through a romance between a high-born Roman pagan and a Christian woman, Henryk Sienkiewicz masterfully brings to life the decadence of imperial Rome during the reign of Nero Claudius Caesar (AD 54-68), the bloodthirsty persecutor of the early Christians.
Quo Vadis has been...
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Marj Charlier's The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church. At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. By the end of the sixth century, even this is eroding as the church begins to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Atretes, a revered gladiator, has won his freedom and vows to find the son he believed had died, but retrieving the baby from Rizpah, the young widow who has raised the child from birth, proves more difficult than he thought it would be, and Atretes is moved to take Rizpah into his household and into his heart.
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"In Jesus Is Risen, #1 bestselling author David Limbaugh provides a riveting account of the birth of Christianity. Using the Book of Acts and six New Testament epistles as his guide, Limbaugh takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the sorrow and suffering, as well as the joys and triumphs, of the apostles and other key figures as Christianity bursts through the borders of Judea following the death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus Christ....
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English
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"A woman with a devastating secret. A man bent on proving his worth. A chance encounter that catapults them into the heart of history. When the daughter of a prominent Roman general meets a disinherited Jewish immigrant, neither one can dream of God's plan to transform them into the most influential couple of the early church. Nor can they anticipate the mountains that will threaten to bury them. Their courtship unwittingly shadowed by murder and...
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Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Discusses the early years of Christianity, detailing the struggles early Roman Catholics faced when practicing their faith, the legitimization of Christianity by Constantine, and the development of the Catholic Church.
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HarperSanFrancisco
Pub. Date
c2004
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English
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The path from Jesus to Christianity is not as straight as we might think. White takes a historical approach, looking at the individual books of the New Testament in the sequence in which they were actually written. He explores what these books divulge about the disagreements, shared values, and unifying mission of the earliest Christian communities. He digs through layers of archaeological excavations, sifts through buried fragments of largely unknown...
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Western tradition volume program 13-14
Publisher
Intellimation
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
These programs describe the barbarian invasions that battered the Roman Empire from without and the moral decay that weakened it from within. With the fall of Rome the Church and barbarian kingdoms became heir to the Western Empire.
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