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From the Archives: Menno Simons
True and False Leaders(1539)
From the Archives: The Acts of Thecla
Charles Grandison Finney: Recommended Resources
From the Archives: Egeria at Thecla's Shrine
Constantine's mother, Helena, traveled to Palestine, touring biblical sites and, with her imperial wealth, establishing churches and shrines. Thereafter, it was quite fashionable for Christians to visit the Holy Land. Late in the 4th century, a nun named Egeria made the trek from western Europe and kept a diary of her travels. Not far from Tarsus, she visited the shrine of Thecla, then considered a historical figure.
From the Archives: John Woolman
A Plea for the Poor (1793)
From the Archives: Robert L. Dabney
Principles of Christian Economy
From the Archives: The Value of Virginity
The Best Seats in the House
From the Archives: Agnes: the Virgin Martyr
From the bitter persecution of Diocletian (303–305), a heroine emerged. Agnes embodied the two ultimate devotions of Christianity: virginity and martyrdom. Since church fathers often spoke in glowing, almost worshipful, terms of both virgins and martyrs, it was natural that they would hail this young girl, martyred in about 304 A.D. The early-5th-century poet Prudentius takes up the story:
From the Archives: Andrew Carnegie
The Gospel of Wealth (1900)
From the Archives: Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Women and the Early Church: Recommended Resources - Historical Writings and Pespectives, Scripture Studies, Bibliographies
St. Laurence and the Church's Treasures
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