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Christopher Stephens focuses on canon law as the starting point for a new interpretation of divisions between East and West in the Church after the death of Constantine the Great. He challenges the common assumption that bishops split between 'Nicenes' and...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-21
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This project engages with scholarship on Paul by philosophers, psychoanalysts, and historians to reveal the assumptions and prejudices that determine the messiah in secularism and its association with the exception.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-19
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Winner of the I.R. Iran World Award for Book of the Year
In The Middle Path of Moderation in Islam, leading Islamic law expert Mohammad Hashim Kamali examines the concept of wasatiyyah, or moderation, arguing that scholars, religious communities, and policy circles...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-18
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'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'
Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her account...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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'All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well'
Julian of Norwich is one of the most celebrated figures of the English Middle Ages. She is esteemed as one of the subtlest writers and profoundest thinkers of the period for her account...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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The just war ethic emerges from an affirmative response to the basic question of whether people may sometimes permissibly intend to kill other people.
In Politics, Justice, and War, Joseph E. Capizzi clarifies the meaning and coherence of the 'just war' approach, to...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-05-14
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Medieval writers such as Chaucer, Abelard, and Langland often overlaid personal story and sacred history to produce a distinct narrative form. The first of its kind, this study traces this widely used narrative tradition to Augustine's two great histories: Confessions...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2015-05-13
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With over 2.3 million active and reserve military personnel, there are many families who are waiting at home and praying for their well being. While My Soldier Serves Hardcover Journal is the perfect place to record your thoughtful prayers and meditations. Whether you...
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Worthy Inspired
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2015-05-12
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Learn and apply God's teachings combining Scripture and life experience insights to help us know what to do when we don't have the answers on what to do.
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Worthy Inspired
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2015-05-12
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What does it mean to be a Brahmin, and what could it mean to become one? Over the years, intellectuals and dogmatists have offered plenty of answers to the first question, but the latter presents a cultural puzzle, since normative Brahminical ideology deems it...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-05
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Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband dokumentieren die heutige Diskussion um das Heilige, ein nach wie vor unerledigtes Problem der Religionswissenschaft. Sie wurden auf zwei verschiedenen Veranstaltungen präsentiert: einerseits auf dem Panel «Das Heilige als Problem in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-05-04
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The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, Baptists are the second-largest religious group in America, and their influence matches their numbers. They have built...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-01
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Suppose that God exists: what difference would that make to the world? The answer depends on the nature of God and the nature of the world. In this book, William E. Mann argues in one new and sixteen previously published essays for a modern interpretation of a...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-05-01
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Die Walpurgisnacht, die Nacht vom 30. April auf den 1. Mai, ist nach volkstümlicher Vorstellung das einschlägige Datum für die Zusammenkunft von Geistern und Hexen. Während der Hexenverfolgungen galt die Teilnahme am vermeintlichen Hexenkonvent als wichtiges Indiz für...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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Teil 2 dieser Vertiefung in Luthers Theologie entfaltet nun, was der erste aus den literarischen Gattungen seiner Schriften erarbeitet hatte. Es tritt den meisten bisherigen, sehr verschiedenen Gesamtkonzepten gegenüber. Christus, nicht die Schöpfung oder gar Ethik, ist...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-30
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This book represents a study of Evelyn Underhill’s premier work on mysticism, using Hegel’s dialectics and Kant’s theory of the sublime as interpretive tools. It especially focuses on two prominent features of Underhill’s text: the description of the mystical life as...
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Springer
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2015-04-29
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This is the first ever comprehensive English-language survey of Zoroastrianism, one of the oldest living religions Evenly divided into five thematic sections beginning with an introduction to Zoroaster/Zarathustra and concluding with the intersections of Zoroastrianism...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-04-27
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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This unparalleled introduction to cults and new religious movements has been completely up-dated and expanded to reflect the latest developments; each chapter reviews the origins, leaders, beliefs, rituals and practices of a NRM, highlighting the specific controversies...
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Wiley
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2015-04-27
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
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This book project traces the thought of several Roman Catholic Modernists (and one especially virulent anti-Modernist) as they confronted the intellectual challenges posed by the Great war from war from 1895 to 1907.
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-04-24
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This book examines several thousand examples of tense-aspect stem participles in the Rigveda, and the passages in which they appear, in terms of both their syntax and semantics. The Rigveda is an ancient collection of sacred Indian hymns, written in Vedic Sanskrit, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-04-23
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