Philip Jenkins

Book appears to be free of underlining and highlighting.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Indiana

The Coming of Global Christianity

This new and substantially expanded edition of Philip Jenkins's influential book The Next Christendom tracks the remarkable expansion of Christianity in the global South, in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and the implications of that shift in numbers and influence away from the traditional Christian heartlands of Europe and North America.

The Next Christendom

48f19dbb-ec73-4772-bfa4-419ea622efe4-1

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

How World War I Became a Religious Crusade

The Great and Holy War offers the first look at how religion created and prolonged the First World War. At the one-hundredth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, historian Philip Jenkins reveals the powerful religious dimensions of this modern-day crusade, a period that marked a traumatic crisis for Western civilization, with effects that echoed throughout the rest of the twentieth century. The war was fought by the world's leading Christian nations, who presented the conflict as a holy war. Thanks to the emergence of modern media, a steady stream of patriotic and militaristic rhetoric was given to an unprecedented audience, using language that spoke of holy war and crusade, of apocalypse and Armageddon. But this rhetoric was not mere state propaganda. Jenkins reveals how the widespread belief in angels and apparitions, visions and the supernatural was a driving force throughout the war and shaped all three of the major religions—Christianity, Judaism and Islam—paving the way for modern views of religion and violence. The disappointed hopes and moral compromises that followed the war also shaped the political climate of the rest of the century, giving rise to such phenomena as Nazism, totalitarianism, and communism. Connecting numerous remarkable incidents and characters—from Karl Barth to Carl Jung, the Christmas Truce to the Armenian Genocide—Jenkins creates a powerful and persuasive narrative that brings together global politics, history, and spiritual crisis as never before and shows how religion informed and motivated circumstances on all sides of the war.

The Great and Holy War

230cf326-0a22-45d3-867f-4f62dc8f8571-0

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way

Was Jesus really a subversive mystic whose true teachings were suppressed by an authoritarian church? Has the real nature of Christianity been deliberately obscured for centuries? Do recently discovered texts such as the Gospel of Thomas, the Gospel of Mary, and even the Dead Sea Scrolls
undermine the historical validity of the New Testament?
In this incisive critique, Philip Jenkins thoroughly and convincingly debunks such claims. Jenkins places the recent controversies surrounding the hidden gospels in a broad historical context and argues that, far from being revolutionary, such attempts to find an alternative Christianity date
back at least to the Enlightenment. And by employing the appropriate scholarly and historical methodologies, he demonstrates that the texts purported to represent pristine Christianity were in fact composed long after the canonical gospels found in the Bible. Produced by obscure heretical movements,
these texts offer no reliable new information about Jesus or the early church. They have attracted so much media attention chiefly because they seem to support radical, feminist, and post-modern positions in the modern church. Indeed, Jenkins shows how best-selling books on the "hidden gospels" have
been taken up by an uncritical, scandal-hungry media as the basis for a social movement that could have dramatic effects on the faith and practice of contemporary Christianity.
Brilliantly researched and sharply argued, Hidden Gospels unearths both the complex agendas and flawed methods of scholars who have created a whole new mythology about Jesus and the early church.

Hidden Gospels

872f801d-441b-4327-a852-e1e5e8cf1ddb-1

North Carolina

New Jersey

THE LAST ACCEPTABLE PREJUDICE

The New Anti-Catholicism (First Edition)

#hardcover #Jesus #HistoricalJesus #theology #Bible 
Like new condition. 


Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Arkansas

#spirituality #nativeamericans #history #comparativereligion
Hardback with dust jacket in new condition except for file number on spine. 
Questions? Just ask. Thanks! 

I am selling my personal theological library of approximately 1500 volumes. They all have the Library of Congress classification number on the spine and most have my name stamped in them. Most are in like new or excellent condition. 

How Mainstream America Discovered Native Spirituality

In books such as Mystics and Messiahs, Hidden Gospels, and The Next Christendom, Philip Jenkins has established himself as a leading commentator on religion and society. Now, in Dream Catchers, Jenkins offers a brilliant account of the changing mainstream attitudes towards Native Americanspirituality, once seen as degraded spectacle, now hailed as New Age salvation.While early Americans had nothing but contempt for Indian religions, deploring them as loathsome devil worship and snake dancing, white Americans today respect and admire Native spirituality. In this book, Jenkins charts this remarkable change, highlighting the complex history of whiteAmerican attitudes towards Native religions from colonial times to the present. Jenkins ranges widely, considering everything from the 19th-century American obsession with "Hebrew Indians" and Lost Tribes, to the early 20th-century cult of the Maya as bearers of the wisdom of ancient Atlantis, tofilms like Pocahontas and Dances With Wolves. He looks at the popularity of the Carlos Castaneda books, the writings of Lynn Andrews, and the influential works of Frank Waters, and he explores the New Age paraphernalia found in places like Sedona, Arizona, including dream-catchers, crystals,medicine bags, and Native-themed Tarot cards. Jenkins examines the controversial New Age appropriation of Native sacred places; notes that many "white Indians" see mainstream society as religiously empty; and asks why a government founded on religious freedom tried to eradicate native religions inthe last century--and what this says about how we define religion.An engrossing account of our changing attitudes towards Native spirituality, Dream Catchers offers a fascinating introduction to one of the more interesting aspects of contemporary American religion.

Dream Catchers

186b0e95-0d4c-40e0-9a4f-24ae9c190ac4-1

John Philip Jenkins

Wisconsin

The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia--And How It Died

The Untold Story of the Church's First Thousand Years In this groundbreaking book, renowned religion scholar Philip Jenkins offers a lost history, revealing that for centuries Christianity's center existed to the east of the Roman Empire.

The Lost History of Christianity

3538be59-3c91-4d4f-9d2b-6cca67759a21-0

New York

How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 Years

In Jesus Wars, highly respected religious historian Philip Jenkins (The Next Christendom) reveals in bloody detail the fifth century battles over Christianity's biggest paradox: the dual nature of Jesus Christ, as both fully human and fully divine. Jesus Wars is a must for the bookshelf of those who enjoy the work of Jared Diamond, Karen Armstrong, N.T. Wright, Elaine Pagels, and Alister McGrath, as well as anyone interested in early Christian history.

Browse by categories

Save this search

Philip Jenkins

The Next Christendom

Philip Jenkins

The Great and Holy War

Philip Jenkins

Hidden Gospels

Philip Jenkins

The Next Christendom

Philip Jenkins

The New Anti-Catholicism (First Edition)

Philip Jenkins

Hidden Gospels

Philip Jenkins

Dream Catchers

John Philip Jenkins

The Lost History of Christianity

John Philip Jenkins

Jesus Wars