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A Brief History of Heaven

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  • In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture
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  • Creation
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    ""There is a genuine intellectual excitement to wrestling with God,"" writes Oxford University theologian McGrath in this first volume of a series on truth and the Christian imagination. (Future Continue reading »
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