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Presbyterianism emerged during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation. It spread from the British Isles to North America in the early eighteenth century. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Presbyterian denominations grew throughout the world. Today,...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-08
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Exam Board: SQALevel: HigherSubject: RMPSFirst Teaching: August 2018First Exam: June 2019The only resource for RMPS Religious and Philosophical Questions at Higher level, written by a bestselling author and expert in the field. Completely updated for the 2018 SQA...
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Hodder Gibson
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2019-07-08
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Die Menschenrechte und das humanitäre Völkerrecht haben eines gemeinsam: das Ziel des Schutzes und der Absicherung der Menschen. Das Verhältnis zwischen ihnen ist dabei nach wie vor umstritten und nicht abschließend geklärt. Hierfür gibt es vielfältige Gründe. Sie...
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Springer VS
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2019-07-04
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Today's twentysomethings have been labeled the "lost generation" for their presumed inability to identify and lead fulfilling lives, "kidults" for their alleged refusal to "grow up" and accept adult responsibilities, and the "least religious generation" for their...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-02
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In this book, Gaven Kerr expands on the brief treatment of creation offered in his 2015 volume, Aquinas's Way to God: The Proof in De Ente et Essentia. Aquinas does not offer one cohesive treatment on the issue of creation; Kerr synthesizes discussions from across his...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-01
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The biblical figure Melchizedek appears just twice in the Hebrew Bible, and once more in the Christian New Testament. Cited as both the king of Shalem-understood by most scholars to be Jerusalem-and as an eternal priest without ancestry, Melchizedek's appearances become...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-01
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The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer's Divine Audience presents and explores a new 'metaperformative' approach to scenes of divine viewing, counsel, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-01
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The gods of Homer's Iliad have troubled readers for millennia, with many features of their presentation seeming to defy satisfactory explanation. Homer's Divine Audience presents and explores a new 'metaperformative' approach to scenes of divine viewing, counsel, and...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-06-27
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The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-06-27
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The Oxford History of Hinduism: Modern Hinduism focuses on developments resulting from movements within the tradition as well as contact between India and the outside world through both colonialism and globalization. Divided into three parts, part one considers the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-06-27
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AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the...
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Penguin
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2019-06-20
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Following a string of military defeats at the end of the eighteenth century, Ottoman leaders realized that their classical traditions and institutions could not compete with Russia and the European states' technological and economic superiority.One of a series of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-06-19
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At the time of his death in the autumn of 2017, Robert W. Jenson was arguably America's foremost theologian. Over the course of a career spanning more than five decades, much of Jenson's thought was dedicated to the theological description of how Scripture should be...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-06-18
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Stop believing the false narrative that Christianity is declining, and discover the truth about the health of the church in America and around the world.Much has been made of the so-called "nones" - those who claim no spiritual affiliation. Media has spun the nones into...
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Worthy Books
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2019-06-18
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Anlässlich des 65. Geburtstags von Detlev W. Belling und seines langjährigen erfolgreichen Wirkens als Direktor des Evangelischen Instituts für Kirchenrecht an der Universität Potsdam haben sich zahlreiche Autorinnen und Autoren aus dem Umfeld des Instituts...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2019-06-18
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Among his many accomplishments, Jonathan Edwards was an effective mentor who trained many leaders for the church in colonial America, but his pastoral work is often overlooked. Rhys S. Bezzant investigates the background, method, theological rationale, and legacy of his...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-06-17
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Jens Zimmermann locates Bonhoeffer within the Christian humanist tradition extending back to patristic theology. He begins by explaining Bonhoeffer's own use of the term humanism (and Christian humanism), and considering how his criticism of liberal Protestant theology...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-06-13
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Jens Zimmermann locates Bonhoeffer within the Christian humanist tradition extending back to patristic theology. He begins by explaining Bonhoeffer's own use of the term humanism (and Christian humanism), and considering how his criticism of liberal Protestant theology...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-06-13
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Apocalyptic expectations played a key role in defining the horizons of life and expectation in early modern Europe. Hope and Heresy investigates the problematic status of a particular kind of apocalyptic expectation—that of a future felicity on earth before the Last...
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Springer
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2019-06-12
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This volume contains nine chapters of translation, by a range of leading scholars, focusing on core themes in the philosophy of Zhu Xi (1130-1200), one of the most influential Chinese thinkers of the later Confucian tradition. It includes an Introduction to Zhu's life...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-06-07
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