Oxford University Press

How and why did the early Church come to regard certain gospels, epistles, and other books as authoritative Scripture? What considerations dictated the present sequence of the books in the New Testament? Dr Metzger takes up such questions and considers whether the canon is a collection of authoritative books or an authoritative collection of books....

How attitudes toward Native American spiritually evolved from horror to appropriation....

FirestormBlade is back in the city he hates and fears. His enemies have taken Jaz, the little girl who has become the centre of his life, and he knows they've brought her here. He has to get her back - but enemies lurk in every shadow and the police are hunting him too. Blade will only have one chance to rescue Jaz and it will take all his...

Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the        last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical        method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the        conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision...

Phineas Finn, the handsome Irishman, is intent on making a career in government. His love life marches hand in hand with his political career, and in both he must decide whether to stay true to his principles. The second ofTrollope's Palliser novels, Phineas Finn paints a vivid picture of some very topical dilemmas....

Comparing the medical systems of China, India, and the west (both mainstream and alternative),   Alternative Medicine? maps the transmission of medical expertise from one culture to another and lays bare the roots of today's distinctions between alternative, complementary, and orthodox medicine....