'Idleness is the enemy of the soul'Saint Benedict's advice to monks - on everything from correct posture to the value of silence - has offered spiritual guidance to many for fifteen centuries. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2016-03-03

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Endorsed in its time by Francis Scott Key, John Jay, and Theodore Roosevelt, the American Bible Society (ABS) is a seminal institution for American Protestants. The group was founded in 1816 with the goal of distributing free copies of the Bible in local languages...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-03

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The cognitive science of religion has shown that abstract religious concepts within many established religious traditions often fail to correspond to the beliefs of the vast majority of those religions' adherents. And yet, while the cognitive approach to religion has...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-01

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To the dismay of religious leaders, study after study has shown a steady decline in affiliation and identification with traditional religions in America. By 2014, more than twenty percent of adults identified as unaffiliated--up more than seven percent just since 2007....

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-01

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Paul and the Gentile Problem provides a new explanation for the apostle Paul's statements about the Jewish law in his letters to the Romans and Galatians. Paul's arguments against circumcision and the law in Romans 2 and his reading of Genesis 15-21 in Galatians 4:21-31...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-03-01

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John Owen was a leading theologian in seventeenth-century England. Closely associated with the regicide and revolution, he befriended Oliver Cromwell, was appointed vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford, and became the premier religious statesman of the...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-02-29

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How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I presents a systematic account of the teachings of the Christian faith to offer a vision, from a human, created, and limited perspective, of the ways all things might be understood from the divine perspective. It explores how...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-26

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The School of Antioch: Biblical Theology and the Church in Syria contains the latest conclusions and findings of academic research by specialized biblical scholars in biblical theology of the Church in the East commonly referred to as the School of Antioch. This...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2016-02-26

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Preparing for her husband's retirement from his parish, Michele Guinness, author of The Guinness Legend, decided to clear out the attic and in doing so rediscovered a trunk of letters, diaries, journals and notebooks, over one hundred years old, belonging to Grace...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-02-25

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How the Light Gets In: Ethical Life I presents a systematic account of the teachings of the Christian faith to offer a vision, from a human, created, and limited perspective, of the ways all things might be understood from the divine perspective. It explores how...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25

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Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25

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Hinduism is practised by nearly eighty per cent of India's population, and by some seventy million people outside India. In this Very Short Introduction, Kim Knott offers a succinct and authoritative overview of this major religion, and analyses the challenges facing it...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25

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Latin is the language in which the New Testament was copied, read, and studied for over a millennium. The remains of the initial 'Old Latin' version preserve important testimony for early forms of text and the way in which the Bible was understood by the first...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25

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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Latin is the language in which the New Testament was...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2016-02-25

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When someone you care about makes poor choices in their lifestyles, relationships, or moral decision making, there is a way to love them back to the wholesome life that will bless them beyond imagination.

Editeur : Worthy Books
Parution : 2016-02-23

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The Sociology of Islam provides an accessible introduction to this emerging field of inquiry, teaching and debate.The study is located at the crucial intersection between a variety of disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities. It discusses the long-term...

Editeur : Wiley
Parution : 2016-02-23

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America's clergy are not just religious leaders. Their influence extends far beyond church doors. Houses of worship stand at the center of American civic life-one of the few spheres in which relatively diverse individuals gather together regularly. And the moral...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-02-16

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Transcending Subjects: Augustine, Hegel and Theology engages the seminal figures of Hegel and Augustine around the theme of subjectivity, with consideration toward the theology and politics of freedom. 

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2016-02-16
Collection : Challenges in Contemporary Theology
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An illustrated keepsake collection of old-world Christian tales of faith and morality. Beautifully packaged with a cloth case, foil stamping, a ribbon book maker, and lush full-color artwork. Christian Stories of Wisdom is the perfect antidote to our busy, modern lives....

Editeur : Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution : 2016-02-16

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This book deals with the world of the psalms, in order to reveal the elements of faith as expressed in the various prayers. It includes an encompassing study of the variety of experiences: How can an individual in distress experience a situation which contrasts his...

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2016-02-05

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