Esta estimulante defensa de la fe, hecha por uno de los m&á s capaces defensores del cristianismo, es una reedici&ó n del cl&á sico History and Christianity, expandido para incluir el ensayo « Una defensa jur&í dica del cristianismo» del Dr. Montgomery.El Dr. John Montgomery, acadé mico, te&ó logo y apologista de la fe, desarroll&ó este libro a partir de un seminario que present&ó en la Universidad de British Columbia. Este accesible y convincente libro se divide en cuatro secciones:• La primera secci&ó n aborda cuatro errores b&á sicos que normalmente cometen aquellos que atacan la historicidad del Nuevo Testamento. • La segunda secci&ó n defiende la precisi&ó n de los documentos del Nuevo Testamento, usando pruebas que com&ú nmente se aplican a cualquier documento antiguo.• La tercera secci&ó n, titulada « Dios acorrala» , es una potente defensa de la naturaleza verdaderamente divina y verdaderamente humana de Cristo.• La cuarta secci&ó n muestra claramente que, si Jes&ú s no fuera el Hijo de Dios, las &ú nicas alternativas que quedan son o mentiroso o lun&á tico.• La &ú ltima secci&ó n contiene el ensayo « Una defensa jur&í dica del cristianismo» .El libro incluye la transcripci&ó n de un panel de discusi&ó n en el que el Dr. Montgomery, a partir de los cuatro puntos anteriores, argumenta convincentemente para demostrarle al lector la aplicaci&ó n de aquellos. Este es un excelente material para discusi&ó n en clases o estudio individual, especialmente apropiado para ayudar a j&ó venes cristianos a combatir conceptos humanistas de la Biblia y el cristianismo.

Since the publication of the still very valuable Biblioteca histórica de la filología by Cipriano Muñoz y Manzano, conde de la Viñaza (Madrid, 1893), our knowledge of the history of the study of the Spanish language has grown considerably, and most manuscript and secondary sources had never been tapped before Hans-Josef Niederehe of the University of Trier courageously undertook the task to bring together any available bibliographical information together with much more recent research findings, scattered in libraries, journals and other places. The resulting Bibliografía cronológica de la lingüística, la gramática y la lexicografía del español: Desde los principios hasta el año 1600 (BICRES) began appearing in 1994. BICRES I covered the period from the early beginnings to 1600), followed by BICRES II (1601–1700), BICRES III (1701–1800), and together with Miguel Ángel Esparza Torres of Madrid there followed BICRES IV (1801 to 1860). Now, the fifth volume, has become available, covering the years from 1861 to 1899. Access to the bibliographical information of altogether 5,272 titles is facilitated by several detailed indexes, such as a short title index, a listing of printers, publishers and places of production, and an author index. More than twenty years of research in the major libraries of Spain and other European countries have gone into this unique work — relative sources of the Americas have also been covered — making it exhaustive source for any serious scholar of any possible aspect of the Spanish language.

In the late eighteenth century, enlightened politicians and upper-class women in Spain debated the right of women to join one of the country’s most prominent scientific institutions: the Madrid Economic Society of Friends of the Country. Societies such as these, as Elena Serrano describes in her book, were founded on the idea that laypeople could contribute to the advancement of their country by providing “useful knowledge,” and their fellows often referred to themselves as improvers, or friends of the country. After intense debates, the duchess of Benavente, along with nine distinguished ladies, claimed, won, and exercised the right of women to participate in shaping the future of their nation by inaugurating the Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, or the Committee of Ladies of Honor and Merit. Ten years later, the Junta established a network of over sixty correspondents extending from Tenerife to Asturias and Austria to Cuba. With this book, Serrano tells the unknown story of how the duchess and her peers—who succeeded in creating the only known female branch among some five hundred patriotic societies in the eighteenth century—shaped Spanish scientific culture. Her study reveals how the Junta, by stressing the value of their feminine nature in their efforts to reform education, rural economy, and the poor, produced and circulated useful knowledge and ultimately crystallized the European improvement movement in Spain within an otherwise all-male context.