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In his twenties, Fydor Dostoevsky, son of a Moscow doctor, graduate of a military academy, and rising star of Russian literature, found himself standing in front of a firing squad, accused of subversive activities against the Russian Tsar. Then the drums rolled, signaling that instead he was to...

A staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has sold in its millions. But this fast-paced mystery is unusual in that the author states up front that the historical information in the book is all factually accurate. But is this claim true? As historian Bart D Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, The Da Vinci Code is filled with numerous historical mistakes.

He was a slave who became a cupbearer. He was a cupbearer who became a king’s emissary. He was an emissary who became a leader. And he was a leader who became a legend. All because he was a faithful servant of the Most High God. Consider his story — the portion you may already know … and...

In 1803, Thomas Jefferson copied from the four gospels such passages as he believed would best present the ethical teaching of Jesus, and arranged them according to time and subject. Accordingly, all references to miracles or events related to the supernatural were removed, and the text restructured to form a treatise on morality comparable to the Dhammapada or the Analects of Confucius.

Scotland's beloved storyteller George MacDonald, nineteenth-century Scottish novelist and poet, was reintroduced to twentieth century Christians by C.S. Lewis, whose reading of MacDonald’s Phantastes triggered his own spiritual awakening and conversion. Other renowned writers have voiced...

After a century of scholarship discounting even the possibility of knowing the Jesus of history, more and more contemporary scholarship is accepting the historicity of the Gospels and defending their reliability. LaGrange writing in the 1920s was the first to expose the prejudices and misconceptions of the German scholarship that rejected the miracles of Jesus and credibility of the believers' testimonies captured in the New Testament. Rev. Murphy-O'Connor does this in this riveting series of talks.

Das Musical ABRAHAM zeigt, wie sich der Urvater der drei monotheistischen Religionen, der zunächst Abram heißt, durchs Leben schlägt. In drei schwierigen Situationen muss er sich bewähren. Missernten bedrohen seine Herden. Der ägyptische Pharao könnte die Rettung sein. Aber der verlangt von Abram dessen Frau Sarai. Abram und Sarai sind kinderlos. Ein schweres Schicksal in der damaligen Zeit. Sarai schickt Abram zur Sklavin Hagar. Diese bekommt Ismael, aber sie beansprucht jetzt auch den ersten Platz neben Abram. Abraham und Sarah bekommen einen Sohn: Isaak.

Join one of the world’s leading New Testament scholars in encountering the real Mary Magdalene. Other than the Virgin Mary, no woman has so captivated our attention as Mary from Magdala. From her portrayal as a prostitute to speculation that she was Jesus’ wife in popular fiction like The Da...