Astrotheology: Exoplanets, Christian Concerns, and Human Hopes

Are there planets beyond our solar system? What may appear quite plausible now had only been a hypothesis until about twenty years ago. The search for exoplanets is driven by the interest in the “habitable” ones among them. Could such planets one day in the far future provide resources or even shelter for humankind? Will we find one day a habitable planet that is even inhabited? These kinds of imaginative speculations drive public interest in the subject. Imagining alien intelligent life in the universe is not at all new. When Ted Peters called for establishing the field of “astrotheology,” he was certainly thinking less of historical precedents than of something analogous to the emerging field of astrobiology. Will astrotheology result in the decentering of humanity in cosmic dimensions? One could also conclude that we are alone, at least for all practical purposes.

Krise statt Aufbruch. Das Konzil der Orthodoxen [Gespräch mit Norbert Bischofberger und Stefanos Athanasiou]

Interview zum Grossen und Heiligen Konzil der Orthodoxen Kirche. Moderator Norbert Bischofberger diskutiert zusammen mit Dr. Stefanos Athanasiou über das Konzil der Orthodoxen Kirchen auf Kreta.

A critical history of the doctrine of a future life in Israel, in Judaism, and in Christianity or Hebrew, Jewish, and Christian eschatlology from pre-prophetic times till the close of the New Testament Canon, being the first Jowett lectures delivered in 1898-99

R. H. Charles

A history of mediaeval Christianity and Sacred art in Italy.

Intended as a sequal to His A history of Ancient Christianity and Sacred Art in Italy, 1866.

The history and antiquities of dissenting churches and meeting houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark : including the lives of their ministers, from the rise of nonconformity to the present time : with an appendix on the origin, progress, and present state of Christianity in Britain /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

History of the Church of Scotland, from the introduction of Christianity to the period of the disruption, May 18, 1843; with an introductory essay on the principles and constitution of the Church of Scotland.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of Latin Christianity; including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicolas v.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of Latin Christianity : including that of the popes to the pontificate of Nicolas V. /

Mode of access: Internet.

An ecclesiastical history of Great Britain; chiefly of England, from the first planting of Christianity, to the end of the reign of King Charles the Second; with a brief account of the affairs of religion in Ireland. Collected from the best ancient historians, councils, and records,

Mode of access: Internet.

The world's religions : a popular account of religions ancient and modern, including those of uncivilised races, Chaldaeans, Greeks, Egyptians, Romans : Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Mohammedanism, and a sketch of the history of Judaism and Christianity.

Mode of access: Internet.

History of paganism in Caledonia, with an examination into the influence of Asiatic philosophy, and the gradual development of Christianity in Pictavia.

Mode of access: Internet.

Fox's book of martyrs; or, The acts and monuments of the Christian church : being a complete history of the lives, sufferings, and deaths of the Christian martyrs; from the commencement of Christianity to the present period. To which is added an account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew massacre in France, the general persecution under Louis XIV, the massacres in the Irish rebellions in the years 1641, and 1798, rise, progress, and persecutions of the people commonly called Quakers, together with an account of the Western martyrology, or bloody assizes; with the lives of some of the early eminent reformers ... /

This edition first published 1829 by William Borradaile, New York (Cf. title page verso)

A history of the lives, sufferings, and triumphant deaths, of the primitive as well as the Protestant martyrs, from the commencement of Christianity to the latest periods of pagan and popish persecution. To which is added an account of the Inquisition; the Bartholomew massacre; the massacre in France, and general persecution under Louis XIV.; the massacres of the Irish rebellion in the year 1641; and the recent persecutions of Protestants in the South of France.

Mode of access: Internet.

The history and antiquities of dissenting churches and meeting houses, in London, Westminster, and Southwark : including the lives of their ministers, from the rise of nonconformity to the present time : with an appendix on the origin, progress, and present state of Christianity in Britain /

On spine: Dissenting churches.

A familiar survey of the Christian religion and of history : and of history : as connected with the introduction of Christianity : and with its progress tothe present time : intended primarily for the use of young persons of either sex : during the course of public or private education /

Includes index.