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Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-15
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Finding God in Solitude explores the devotional piety of one of America’s most important religious figures, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) of Massachusetts. From his childhood to his death shortly after becoming president of Princeton, and especially from his Christian...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-07-14
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In an era in which The Episcopal Church and the Church of England have become increasingly alarmed about numerical decline, Christian proclamation has become more important than ever. To fully meet this challenge, Anglicans must reclaim a vocation to preach the good...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-07-14
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This book offers a paradigm shift and fresh interpretation of Rumi's message. After being disentangled from the anachronistic connection with the Mevlevi order of Islamic Sufism, Rumi is instead placed in the world of philosophy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-07-08
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'It is an unexpected delight to read a book on preaching that makes you want to preach. Tim Keller has given us such a book... Here is an extremely readable book founded on sound scholarship... buy it. This is the most practical and inspirational book on preaching...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-07-02
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For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-01
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In this book, Yaroslav Komarovski argues that the Tibetan Buddhist interpretations of the realization of ultimate reality both contribute to and challenge contemporary interpretations of unmediated mystical experience. The model used by the majority of Tibetan Buddhist...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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On August 3rd, 1976, in Córdoba, Argentina's second largest city, Fr. James Week and five seminarians from the Missionaries of La Salette were kidnapped. A mob burst into the house they shared, claiming to be police looking for "subversive fighters." The seminarians...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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The legacy of Augustine of Hippo (354-430) continues to shape Western Christian language about both the Trinity and the Church, yet scholars rarely treat these two topics as related in his work. In Augustine, the Trinity, and the Church, Adam Ployd argues that...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-07-01
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This book commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, which concluded in 1965. A selection of essays by distinguished Irish theologians offers an objective assessment of the historical reception and pastoral implementation of Vatican II in...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-30
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This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2015-06-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such asThe Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-26
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The study discusses the Old Testament's parable of Nathan and the subsequent condemnation of King David.The intriguing episode of the Prophet Nathan pronouncing judgment on the erring King David has always attracted the interest of the exegete and various researchers...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-06-26
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The book of Revelation has been a source of continual fascination for nearly two thousand years. Concepts such asThe Lamb of God, the Four Horsemen, the Seventh Seal, the Beasts and Antichrist, the Whore of Babylon, Armageddon, the Millennium, the Last Judgement, the...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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Modernism's theological project was an attempt to explain two things: firstly, how faith might enable persons to experience their lives as hanging together, even in the face of disintegrating forces like injustice, tragedy, and luck; and secondly, how one could see such...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-06-25
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In this work of qualitative sociology, Anna Strhan offers an in-depth study of the everyday lives of members of a conservative evangelical Anglican church in London. 'St John's' is a vibrant church, with a congregation of young and middle-aged members, one in which the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-06-19
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WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL?That is the question at the heart of existentialism and it informs this book's exploration of the existentialist tradition in 19th and 20th century philosophy.Existentialism: All That Matters considers each of the key figures -...
Editeur :
John Murray
Parution :
2015-06-18
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All That Matters
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Based on her bestselling book, The Battle Belongs to the Lord, Joyce Meyer delivers practical advice and Biblical wisdom to help you triumph over any obstacle you face. By learning to lean on God's power, you'll be able to leave your fear behind and develop a...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-06-18
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Despite predictions of continuing secularisation, the twenty-first century has witnessed a surge of religious extremism and violence in the name of God.In this powerful and timely book, Jonathan Sacks explores the roots of violence and its relationship to religion,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-06-11
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Identität kann nach Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer als Netzwerk von Dispositionen des Wahrnehmens, Urteilens und Handelns begriffen werden. So lassen sich kollektive Akteure wie religiöse, ethnische oder politische Bewegungen in ihren sozialen Entstehungs- und...
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Springer VS
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2015-06-11
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