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1) Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality: gay people in Western Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth century

Author

Boswell, John

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Pub. Date

[1980]

Language

English

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"John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay members -- among them priests, bishops, and even saints -- when it was first published twenty-five years ago. The historical breadth of Boswell's research (from the Greeks to Aquinas) and the variety of sources consulted...

2) Misquoting Jesus: the story behind who changed the Bible and why

Author

Ehrman, Bart D

Publisher

HarperSanFrancisco

Pub. Date

[2005]

Language

English

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When Biblical scholar Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages, he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. For almost 1500 years these manuscripts were hand copied by scribes who were influenced by the cultural, theological and political disputes of their day. Both mistakes and intentional changes abound in the surviving manuscripts,...

3) Wanted women: faith, lies, and the war on terror : the lives of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui

Author

Scroggins, Deborah

Publisher

Harper

Pub. Date

c2011

Language

English

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Scroggins illuminates not only the disconnect between the West's often one-dimensional perception of Islam and its multifaceted reality but the schisms within Islam itself through the "weird symmetry" in the lives of two women--Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Aafia Siddiqui.

4) Our strangely warmed hearts: coming out into God's call

Author

Oliveto, Karen P

Publisher

Abingdon Press

Pub. Date

[2018]

Language

English

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This book traces the history of the UMC's struggle with homosexuality, highlighting critical incidents in culture and church which shaped the UMC's response.

5) Brigham Young, pioneer prophet

Author

Turner, John G

Publisher

Tantor Media

Pub. Date

[2012]

Language

English

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Brigham Young was a rough-hewn craftsman from New York whose impoverished and obscure life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He trudged around the United States and England to gain converts for Mormonism, spoke in spiritual tongues, married more than fifty women, and eventually transformed a barren desert into his vision of the Kingdom of God. While previous accounts of his life have been distorted by hagiography or polemical expose, John Turner...