Großstadt = Gottlosigkeit? Sind die spätmodernen Metropolen mit ihren Lebensrhythmen überhaupt dafür geeignet, Spiritualität und Glaube eine Chance zu geben? Braucht Religion den Exodus aufs Land? Tatsächlich sind Religion und Urbanität, das Sakrale und das Säkulare,...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-12-08

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The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology. Dominic Legge, O.P, disproves Karl Rahner's assertion that Aquinas divorces the study of Christ from the Trinity, by offering a stimulating...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-12-06

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The Trinitarian Christology of St Thomas Aquinas brings to light the Trinitarian riches in Thomas Aquinas's Christology. Dominic Legge, O.P, disproves Karl Rahner's assertion that Aquinas divorces the study of Christ from the Trinity, by offering a stimulating...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-12-06

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This volume discusses the importance of a multidimensional and multidisciplinary approach to Christian formation based upon godly love and the imago Dei (Latin, image of God). Grounded biblically and theologically, this interdisciplinary collection offers perspectives...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-05
Collection : Christianity and Renewal - Interdisciplinary Studies
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This book is the only comprehensive study in a European language that analyzes how Sufi treatises, Qur’anic commentary, letters, hagiography, and poetry define and depict jihad. Harry S. Neale analyzes Sufi jihad discourse in Arabic and Persian texts composed between...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-12-01

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In this Very Short Introduction, Jon Balserak explores major ideas associated with the Calvinist system of thought. Beginning during the Protestant Reformation in cities like Zurich, Geneva, and Basel, Calvinismâalso known as Reformed Theologyâspread rapidly throughout...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-12-01

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In this Very Short Introduction, Jon Balserak explores major ideas associated with the Calvinist system of thought. Beginning during the Protestant Reformation in cities like Zurich, Geneva, and Basel, Calvinismâalso known as Reformed Theologyâspread rapidly throughout...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-12-01

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Kingship and Memory in Ancient Judah addresses the question of how a postmonarchic society would remember and imagine its monarchy, and kingship in general, as part of its past, present, and future. How did Judeans of the early Second Temple period conceive of the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-12-01

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In this work, Brian Philip Dunn focuses on the embodiment theology of the South Indian theologian, A. J. Appasamy (1891-1975). Appasamy developed what he called a 'bhakti' (devotional) approach to Christian theology, bringing his own primary text, the Gospel of John,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-12-01

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This book argues that Levi Gersonides articulates a unique model of virtue ethics among medieval Jewish thinkers. Gersonides is recognized by scholars as one of the most innovative Jewish philosophers of the medieval period. His first model of virtue is a response to...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-29

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Leadership and Conflict in African Churches: The Anglican Experience investigates the involvement of leadership and conflict in the African church. Mkunga H. P. Mtingele’s previous work with the government as a state attorney and his leadership positions in the Anglican...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2016-11-29

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Seeing, really seeing, is like meditation. In a world filled with distraction, seeing mindfully is a way to pay attention, to hit pause and find calm by focusing on what’s directly in front of us. See Your Way to Mindfulness is a gift book of inspiration and...

Editeur : Workman Publishing Company
Parution : 2016-11-29

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Die Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit den Schulfahrten an den Katholischen Gymnasien im Bistum Osnabrück und stellt die Frage, ob diese damit ihrem schulischen Auftrag nachkommen. Dabei trägt der Autor zunächst zur Weiterentwicklung der Pilger- und Wallfahrtstheologie...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-11-29

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 Teresa Forcades, Spanish Benedictine nun, theologian, physician and political activist, is one of Europe’s leading radical thinkers. Marrying her Catholic faith with a passion for social justice, she came to prominence for her eloquent condemnation of the abuses of...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2016-11-28

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This book aims to construct a contemporary Jewish philosophy that accounts for virtue ethics or, rather, to give Jewish virtue ethics a contemporary language for its expression. Ira Bedzow draws significantly on the work of Moses Maimonides and his religio-philosophical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2016-11-26

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Are We Not Men? offers an innovative approach to gender and embodiment in the Hebrew Bible, revealing the male body as a source of persistent difficulty for the Hebrew prophets. Drawing together key moments in prophetic embodiment, Graybill demonstrates that the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-11-24

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Since the early 1980s, there has been renewed scholarly interest in the concept of Christian Humanism. A number of official Catholic documents have stressed the importance of 'Christian humanism', as a vehicle of Christian social teaching and, indeed, as a Christian...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-11-24

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Since the early 1980s, there has been renewed scholarly interest in the concept of Christian Humanism. A number of official Catholic documents have stressed the importance of 'Christian humanism', as a vehicle of Christian social teaching and, indeed, as a Christian...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-11-24

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Philosophers of religion such as Mark Kingwell regard millenarian dreams as humanity’s most powerful hopes for transformation, transcendence, apocalypse, and utopia. In Catholics and Millennialism: A Theo-Linguistic Guide, Warren A. Kappeler III explores the insights of...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2016-11-24

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In this work, Brian Philip Dunn focuses on the embodiment theology of the South Indian theologian, A. J. Appasamy (1891-1975). Appasamy developed what he called a 'bhakti' (devotional) approach to Christian theology, bringing his own primary text, the Gospel of John,...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-11-24

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