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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....
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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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...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-02-05
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The Saudi "ulama" are known for their strong opposition to Shi'a theology, Shi'a communities in Saudi Arabia, and external Shi'a influences such as Iran and Hezbollah. Their potent hostility, combined with the influence of the 'ulama' within the Saudi state and the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-05
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This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662). Building on newer biographical research and a growing international body of scholarship, as...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-04
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This study contextualizes the achievement of a strategically crucial figure in Byzantium's turbulent seventh century, the monk and theologian Maximus the Confessor (580-662). Building on newer biographical research and a growing international body of scholarship, as...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-02-04
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Naturalistic ethics is the reigning paradigm among contemporary ethicists; in God and Cosmos, David Baggett and Jerry L. Walls argue that this approach is seriously flawed. This book canvasses a broad array of secular and naturalistic ethical theories in an effort to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-02-01
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The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge,The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-01
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By the end of the twentieth century, ecumenism’s deteriorating state had become evident. This deterioration can be attributed to many causes, however, the erstwhile German ecumenist Dr. Gerhard Ebeling’s rancorous, public debate among theologians in Germany in 1998 over...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2016-01-29
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A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner-an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world."She is his Juliet and...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-01-28
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Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933?2010), a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2009, for his work The Mahabharata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, was a passionate scholar of Indian philosophy, strikingly original in his approach. An Indian Administrative Service...
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OUP India
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2016-01-28
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Paul Tillich is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. The way he has come to be viewed contrasts sharply with the current theological...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself.For many Irish Catholics, by contrast, the new world became...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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Without question, inter-religious relations are crucial in the contemporary age. While most dialogue works on past and contemporary matters, this volume takes on the relations among the Abrahamic religions and looks forward, toward the possibility of real and lasting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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As stories of borders, territorial disputes, and migration have escalated in recent years, so too space has emerged as a critical concept in theoretical literature. This book explores the imagination of space at the dawn of modern, liberal theology in the writings of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-23
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Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-18
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What does it mean for Christ to be the "image of God"? And, if Christ is the "image of God," can the human person also unequivocally be understood to be the "image of God"? Augustine's Early Theology of Image examines Augustine's conception of the imago dei and makes...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-15
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'Full of profound insights ... These meditations on Christ's Passion culminate in a completely convincing understanding of the Resurrection. Rolheiser's great gift is to make faith real. This deserves to become a classic.' - The TabletDaily readings from Lent, from one...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-01-14
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This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-12
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The timeless classic,The Imitation of Christ, is updated into modern English and arranged topically for daily devotions....
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Worthy Inspired
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2016-01-12
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The claim that God is timeless has been the majority view throughout church history. However, it is not obvious that divine timelessness is compatible with fundamental Christian doctrines such as creation and incarnation. Theologians have long been aware of the conflict...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-01-07
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