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Karl Barth (1886-1968) is generally acknowledged to be the most important European Protestant theologian of the twentieth century, a figure whose importance for Christian thought compares with that of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Friedrich...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-17
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Karl Barth (1886-1968) is generally acknowledged to be the most important European Protestant theologian of the twentieth century, a figure whose importance for Christian thought compares with that of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther, and Friedrich...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-12-17
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This indispensable revision guide is mapped precisely to the new Theology, Philosophy and Religion syllabus for 13+ Common Entrance, and provides students with a concise summary of everything they need to know for the latest exam beginning autumn 2019. Endorsed by ISEB,...
Editeur :
Galore Park
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2019-12-09
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The chapters reconstruct the values, norms, experiences, material manifestations, and power structures underlying the understandings of the holy and the sacred in early modern Christian contexts. They intend to gain a characteristic profile of the associated concepts...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-12-04
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A gripping story of grace, faith, and triumph for a woman whose world shattered hours after her husband's suicide. Becky Powell faced the unthinkable on May 16, 2013. Her husband Mark called and said, "I've done something terrible." Within hours, she learned that he had...
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FaithWords
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2019-12-03
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Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2019-12-02
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This publication investigates new ways of understanding international churches. Based upon recent fieldwork, six migrant Christian communities in Rotterdam were analysed using congregational study methods on how they construct identity. Through the frames of ‘koinonia’,...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2019-12-02
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This is a book about a deeply beloved place—many call it the spiritual capital of India. Located at a dramatic bend in the River Yamuna, a hundred miles from the center of Delhi, Vrindavan is the spot where the god Krishna is believed to have spent his childhood and...
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OUP India
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2019-11-30
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This book explores the ideals of liberation theology from the perspectives of major religious traditions, including Islam, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, and the neo-Vedanta and Advaita Hindu traditions. The goal of this volume is not to explain the Christian...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-29
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The modern West has made the focus on individuality, individual freedom, and self-identity central to its self-definition, and these concepts have been crucially shaped by Christianity. This book surveys how the birth of the Christian worldview affected the evolution of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-28
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A Rhetorics of the Word is the second volume of a three-part philosophy of Christian life. It approaches Christian life as expressive of a divine calling or vocation. The word Church (ekklesia) and the role of naming in baptism indicate the fundamental place of calling...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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A Rhetorics of the Word is the second volume of a three-part philosophy of Christian life. It approaches Christian life as expressive of a divine calling or vocation. The word Church (ekklesia) and the role of naming in baptism indicate the fundamental place of calling...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2019-11-28
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'Heart-warming and full of hope. I loved it' HEIDI SWAIN, Sunday Times bestselling author 'The most beautiful, heart-warming story. Gorgeously cosy, uplifting . . . utterly lovely book' HOLLY MARTIN, bestselling author of Christmas at Mistletoe Cove Escape to the...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2019-11-28
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This book examines the premodern encounter between the three monotheistic religions through the unique prism of a premodern literary work—The Parable of the Three Rings—a poignant and charming tale of a father who had three sons and one precious ring. By tradition he...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-27
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This book contains fresh insights into ecumenism and, notwithstanding claims of an “ecumenical winter,” affirms the view that we are actually moving into a “new ecumenical spring.” It offers new theological insights in the areas of Christology, Pneumatology and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-23
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This book uses Pseudo-Dionysius and his mystic theology to explore attitudes and beliefs about images in the early medieval West and Byzantium. Composed in the early sixth century, the Corpus Dionysiacum, the collection of texts transmitted under the name of Dionysius...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-20
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New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture
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Victorian Cosmopolitanism and English Catholicity in the Mid-Century Novel argues that the Creedal doctrines of “the communion of saints” and the “holy Catholic Church” providedVictorian novelists—both Roman Catholic and Protestant—with a means of exploring religious...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-11-20
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Jesus Among Giants: Religious Biographies in Comparative Context compares and contrastsJesus to Mahavira, Buddha, Krishna, Confucius, Laozi, Moses, and Muhammad in terms of their missions and messages. These foundational religious figures are introduced in their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-11-19
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This book argues that Political Islam in the Iranian context evolved into three main schools of thought during the 1960s and 1970s: Jurisprudential Islam led by Ayatollah Khomeini, Leftist Islam led by Shariati, and Liberal Islam led by Bazargan. Despite the fact that...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-11-14
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'A movingly personal book ... the fruit of much deeply meditated sharing of the good news with people of all sorts. Reading it is a real discovery of the fresh waters of faith.' - from the foreword by Rowan Williams 'After this, when Jesus knew that all now was...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2019-11-14
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