The Encyclopedia of Christianity Vol 4 (P-Sh)

<B>Series:</B><a href=http://www.eerdmans.com/Products/CategoryCenter.aspx?CategoryId=SE!EC> The Encyclopedia of Christianity (EC)</a><BR /><BR />Volume 4 of the <I>EC</I> contains 299 articles constituting the alphabetical entries PûSh -- articles on significant topics ranging from Paul process theology and the Qur'an to religious liberty salvation history and Scholasticism. Like each volume in the complete <I>EC</I> this book incorporates many enhancements of and additions to the third revised edition of the German <I>Evangelisches Kirchenlexikon: Internationale theologische Enzyklopädie</I> on which the <I>EC</I> is based. Among the features of this English work are the following:<ul><li>articles on all but the smallest countries of the world including former communist states that have gained their independence since 1989;</li><li>the latest best statistical information compiled by David B. Barrett on the religious affiliation and ecclesiastical breakdown of each country and continent;</li><li>the addition of over seventy biographical articles on prominent figures throughout church history;</li><li>many expanded or entirely new articles that address topics of particular interest to English-speaking readers.</li></ul>Unparalleled in scholarship and breadth of content the <I>Encyclopedia of Christianity</I> will long serve as the standard reference work for the study of Christianity in the past and the present -- and its trajectory into the twenty-first century.