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  • Stephen Shoemaker

    The Paintings and Their Stories

    by Stephen Shoemaker, Janet Pittard ...
    North Carolina artist Stephen Shoemaker and writer Janet Pittard have teamed up to present a selection of Shoemaker's paintings and drawings and the stories behind them. Known for his dramatic railroad paintings and scenes of life in the Blue Ridge mountains, Shoemaker shares the thought processes involved in creating his artwork, reveals his sources of inspiration (which often include events in ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Finding Jesus in His Prayers

    by H. Stephen Shoemaker ...
    In this brief but substantive examination of the prayers Jesus prayed, Stephen Shoemaker offers helpful applications of Jesus’ prayers as both a way to better understand Jesus and as a way to use his prayers as a model for our own prayer lives. The book addresses our twin hungers for spirituality and for a deeper grasp of who Jesus was. The author takes seriously the way Jesus prayed and how his ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • A Prophet Has Appeared

    The Rise of Islam through Christian and Jewish Eyes, A Sourcebook

    by Stephen J. Shoemaker ...
    Early Islam has emerged as a lively site of historical investigation, and scholars have challenged the traditional accounts of Islamic origins by drawing attention to the wealth of non-Islamic sources that describe the rise of Islam. A Prophet Has Appeared brings this approach to the classroom. This collection provides students and scholars with carefully selected, introduced, and annotated ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion

    by Stephen J. Shoemaker ...
    For the first time a noted historian of Christianity explores the full story of the emergence and development of the Marian cult in the early Christian centuries. The means by which Mary, mother of Jesus, came to prominence have long remained strangely overlooked despite, or perhaps because of, her centrality in Christian devotion. Gathering together fresh information from often neglected sources, ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • The Quest of the Historical Muhammad and Other Studies on Formative Islam

    by Stephen J. Shoemaker ...
    The lead essay in this book is the first effort to approach the historical figure of Muhammad in a manner comparable to the investigations that biblical scholars have made in the effort to recover the historical figure of Jesus. Using comparable methods and approaches, this study demonstrates that despite a widely held belief that Islam was born "in the full light of history," we in fact know ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Death of a Prophet

    The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam

    by Stephen J. Shoemaker ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35. Although this discrepancy has been known for several decades, Stephen J. Shoemaker here writes the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Mediating the Message in the 21st Century

    A Media Sociology Perspective

    by Pamela J. Shoemaker, Stephen D. Reese ...
    Hailed as one of the "most significant books of the twentieth century" by Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Mediating the Message has long been an essential text for media effects scholars and students of media sociology. This new edition of the classic media sociology textbook now offers students a comprehensive, theoretical approach to media content in the twenty-first century, with ... Read more

    $84.99 USD

  • The Death of a Prophet

    The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam

    by Stephen J. Shoemaker ...
    Series series Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
    The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Islamic sources indicate that Muhammad survived to lead the conquest of Palestine, beginning in 634-35. Although this discrepancy has been known for several decades, Stephen J. Shoemaker here writes the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Life of the Virgin: Maximus the Confessor

    Long overlooked by scholars, this seventh-century Life of the Virgin, attributed to Maximus the Confessor, is the earliest complete Marian biography. Originally written in Greek and now surviving only in Old Georgian, it is now translated for the first time into English. It is a work that holds profound significance for understanding the history of late ancient and medieval Christianity, providing ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Life of the Virgin: Maximus the Confessor

    Long overlooked by scholars, this seventh-century Life of the Virgin, attributed to Maximus the Confessor, is the earliest complete Marian biography. Originally written in Greek and now surviving only in Old Georgian, it is now translated for the first time into English. It is a work that holds profound significance for understanding the history of late ancient and medieval Christianity, providing ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque

    Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam

    by Sidney H. Griffith ...
    Series series Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World
    Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some 50 percent of the world's Christians lived and worshipped under Muslim rule. Just who were the Christians in ... Read more

    $31.69 USD