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Christianbook, LLC, formerly known as Christian Book Distributors (CBD), is a Christian catalog and internet retailer. Christian Book Distributors was started in 1978 by Stephen Hendrickson, 19 years old and a sophomore at Central Bible College in Springfield, Missouri, out of his parents’ home in Lynn, Massachusetts .
Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for, the consciousness of, and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of God" [1] or divine love. [2]
Lifeway produces curriculums and Bible studies used in Sunday schools and other church functions. Lifeway publishes the Christian Standard Bible (the successor to the Holman Christian Standard Bible), [2] as well as Christian books and commentaries through B&H Publishing. Lifeway has a research division that studies Protestant trends and ...
Family Christian (formerly called Zondervan Book Store, Family Book Stores, and Family Christian Stores), headquartered in Grand Rapids, Michigan is a Christian themed web retailer. [1] Originally a retail chain, by 2008, it was the world's largest Christian focused retailer. [ 2 ]
R. J. Hollingdale, who translated Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra into English, argued that a number of the themes of the work (especially amor fati) originated in the Lutheran Pietism of Nietzsche's childhood – Nietzsche's father, Carl Ludwig Nietzsche, was a Lutheran pastor who supported the Pietist movement. [23]
The association was first organized by 219 Christian bookstores and, by 2011, had grown to include 1700 stores. [3] The number of member stores expanded considerably in the 1990s with the rise of online shopping. [4] Bill Anderson is president of the association [5] and Curtis Riskey is executive director. [6]
Prudentius, writing in the 5th century, was the first author to allegorically represent Christian morality as a struggle between seven sins and seven virtues. His poem Psychomachia depicts a battle between female personifications of virtues and vices, with each virtue confronting and defeating a particular vice. [ 9 ]
The Gift of Piety is synonymous with of filial trust in God. [14] Through piety, a person shows reverence for God as a loving Father, and respect for others as children of God. Pope John Paul II defined piety as "the gift of reverence for what comes from God," and related it to his earlier lectures on the Theology of the Body. [15]