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John Henry Newman (1801-1890) has always inspired devotion. Newman has made disciples as leader of the Catholic revival in the Church of England, an inspiration to fellow converts to Roman Catholicism, a nationally admired preacher and prose-writer, and an...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-18
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The five-volume Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions series is governed by a motif of migration ('out-of-England'). It first traces organized church traditions that arose in Britain and Ireland as Dissenters distanced themselves from a state church defined...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-17
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This book is a study of English conversion narratives between 1580 and 1660. Focusing on the formal, stylistic properties of these texts, it argues that there is a direct correspondence between the spiritual and rhetorical turn. Furthermore, by focusing on a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-10-04
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The Irish Presbyterian Mind considers how one protestant community responded to the challenges posed to traditional understandings of Christian faith between 1830 and 1930. Andrew R. Holmes examines the attitudes of the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland to...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-10-03
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The Irish Presbyterian Mind considers how one protestant community responded to the challenges posed to traditional understandings of Christian faith between 1830 and 1930. Andrew R. Holmes examines the attitudes of the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland to...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-09-13
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In Kenya's vibrant urban religious landscape, where Pentecostal and traditional churches of various orientations live side by side, religious identity tends to overflow a single institutional affiliation. While Kenya’s Christianity may offer modes of coping with the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-09-08
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In der weltweiten Ökumene wird das Konzept des gerechten Friedens gegenwärtig intensiv diskutiert. Diese Debatte verbindet sich mit den Fragen nach der gesellschaftlichen Wahrnehmung von Religion und der Beziehung von Staat und Kirche. Sie beeinflussen die...
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Springer VS
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2018-09-07
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Confession is a history of penance as a virtue and a sacrament in the United States from about 1634, when Catholicism arrived in Maryland, to 2015, fifty years after the major theological and disciplinary changes initiated by the Second Vatican Council. Patrick W. Carey...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-05
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Long before the followers of Jesus declared him to be the Son of God, Jesus taught his followers that they too were the children of God. This ancient creed, now all but forgotten, is recorded still within the folds of a letter of Paul the Apostle. Paul did not create...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-03
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Mit dem gerechten Frieden geht - gerade wie er in der Friedensdenkschrift der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland niedergelegt ist - für viele seiner Vertreterinnen und Vertreter eine Absage an die Lehre vom gerechten Krieg einher. Friedensordnung wird als Rechtsordnung...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-28
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Gerechter Frieden
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Die christliche Rezeption der Menschenrechte als grundlegendste Rechte, die einem Menschen zukommen, gestaltete sich in der Vergangenheit durchaus ambivalent. Der in diesem Band vorliegende Entwurf einer Theologie der Menschenrechte geht der fundamentalen...
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Springer VS
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2018-08-27
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Der gerechte Frieden stellt mit seiner Maxime Si vis pacem para pacem (Wenn du den Frieden willst, bereite den Frieden vor) einen Perspektivenwechsel in der christlichen Friedensethik dar. Nicht mehr der Krieg, sondern der Frieden steht im Fokus des neuen Konzeptes....
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Springer VS
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2018-08-27
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Gerechter Frieden
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The history of religious life in the Catholic Church has been filled with change: periods of membership growth and decline, shifts in the types of ministries, and changes in the ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds of the men and women who join. Today, as the numbers of...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-07-05
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This work compares the Minor Prophets commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria, isolating the role each interpreter assigns the Twelve Prophets in their ministry to Old Testament Israel and the texts of the Twelve as Christian scripture. Hauna T....
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-31
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The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-30
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This work compares the Minor Prophets commentaries of Theodore of Mopsuestia and Cyril of Alexandria, isolating the role each interpreter assigns the Twelve Prophets in their ministry to Old Testament Israel and the texts of the Twelve as Christian scripture. Hauna T....
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-30
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The Donatist Church in an Apocalyptic Age examines an apocalypse that never happened, seen through the eyes of a dissident church that no longer exists. Jesse A. Hoover considers Donatists, members of an ecclesiastical communion that for a brief moment formed the...
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OUP Oxford
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2018-05-25
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The primary aim of Knowing Faith is to uncover the intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge: why we need it, how to get there, where to stop, and how to recognise it once it has been attained. Its relative freedom...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2018-05-17
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The story of Catholic Emancipation begins with the violent Anti-Catholic Gordon Riots in 1780, fuelled by the reduction in Penal Laws against the Roman Catholics harking back to the sixteenth century. Some fifty years later, the passing of the Emancipation Bill was...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2018-05-17
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Gerechter Frieden wird im deutschen Diskurs, anders als im ökumenischen Kontext, als politisch-ethisches Leitbild verstanden. Im Mittelpunkt des Bandes steht die Auseinandersetzung mit dem Begriff des Leitbildes. Dieses bewegt sich zwischen handlungsleitender normativer...
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Springer VS
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2018-05-08
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