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A Washington Post bestseller
While the world has made encouraging strides in the fight against global poverty, the hidden plague of everyday violence silently undermines our best efforts to help the poor. Common violence like rape, forced labor, illegal detention, land...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-03
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Since 2001, there has been a tremendous backlash against the very idea that it is possible to be both American and Muslim-the controversy over the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" and the attempts to ban shari'a law are examples. Even within the Muslim community many...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-02
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Winner of 2014 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology from the American Society of Missiology
Winner of the 2015 Christianity Today Award for Missions/Global Affairs
Named by the International Bulletin of Missionary Studies as an Outstanding Book of 2014 for Mission...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-01-02
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SommaireFOREWORDACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONHistorical SettingCalvin and the Liturgical Year The ManuscriptThe Biblical Text The Scribes The Edition AbbreviationsSelect BibliographySERMONS ON ACTS 1 TO 71 25 August 1549 Acts 1:1-2 2 22 December 1549 Acts 2:36-383 29...
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Librairie Droz
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2014-01-01
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Varia
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Drawing on material from a range of genres, with extensive reference to manuscript collections, Richard Snoddy offers a detailed study of James Ussher's applied soteriology. After locating Ussher in the ecclesiastical context of seventeenth-century Ireland and England,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-24
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Named a Book of the Year by History Today
In a compelling examination of the hermeneutical and epistemological anxieties gripping both the early modern and our current world, Stefania Tutino shows that post-Reformation Catholicism did not simply usher in modernity, but...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-23
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Jewish thought is, in many ways, a paradox. Is it theology or is it philosophy? Does it use universal methods to articulate Judaism's particularity or does it justify Judaism's particularity with appeals to illuminating the universal? These two sets of claims are...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-12-23
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This cool, clear-sighted comparative study has no theological axe to grind. It offers a trusty thematic guide to the figureheads of three of the largest religions in the world. The comparative approach is descriptive and even-handed, highlighting both similarities and...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-23
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Georges Florovsky is the mastermind of a 'return to the Church Fathers' in twentieth-century Orthodox theology. His theological vision-the neopatristic synthesis-became the main paradigm of Orthodox theology and the golden standard of Eastern Orthodox identity in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-12-20
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Mit diesem Jahrbuch informiert die gemeinnützige Gesellschaft im 40. Jahr ihres Bestehens über ihre Aufgaben und Ziele. Sie pflegt und fördert mit ihren 325 Mitgliedern die Zusammenarbeit unter den im Großraum Berlin tätigen Wissenschaftlern aller Disziplinen und...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The Reformed Church historian and orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) is a key figure in the history of Arabic and Islamic studies in early modern Europe. His life and his work have been almost completely neglected and there has never been a full-length...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-19
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Die Forschungsarbeit liefert den Entwurf einer Spiritualitätskritik. Im Mittelpunkt steht die Ausarbeitung von Kriterien für eine lebensförderliche Spiritualität. Als Inspiration dienen dafür die Gefängnisbriefe Dietrich Bonhoeffers. Sie sind das Zeugnis eines Theologen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-12-19
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Die Konversion zum Islam, vor allem in vorwiegend nichtmuslimischen Gesellschaften, ist ein wachsendes Forschungsphänomen. Diese Studie konzentriert sich auf die akuten Herausforderungen von deutschen wie britischen Konvertiten zum Islam hinsichtlich ihrer kulturellen...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2013-12-19
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The Black Church is an institution that emerged in rebellion against injustice perpetrated upon black bodies. How is it, then, that black women's oppression persists in black churches? This book engages the Chalcedonian Definition as the starting point for exploring the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-18
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Anatomy of Dissent in Islam is an interdisciplinary study of political and legal dissent in Islamic civilization from the seventh century on. (7th century). Using Ibadism as a case study, this work explores the events and teachings that shaped legitimacy and rebellion,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2013-12-17
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Written by a leading authority on Chinese philosophy, Decoding Dao uniquely focuses on the core texts in Daoist philosophy, providing readers with a user-friendly introduction that unravels the complexities of these seminal volumes. Offers a detailed introduction to...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-12-16
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For two-and-a-half millennia these two psalms have been commented on, translated, painted, set to music, employed in worship, and adapted in literature, often being used disputatiously by Jews and Christians alike. Psalm 1 is about the Law; at the heart of Psalm 2 is...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-13
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In the last century St. Catherine of Siena, an Italian lay woman and mystic of the fourteenth century, was named first a Doctor of the Church and then one of six patron saints of Europe. This recognition of her life and spirituality has been accompanied by increased...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-13
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Explaining the Cosmos analyzes the writings of three thinkers associated with Gaza: Aeneas, Zacharias and Procopius. Together, they offer a case study for the appropriation, adaptation, and transformation of classical philosophy in late antiquity, and for cultural...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-12-13
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Previous research on Mesopotamian Flood traditions tended to focus on a few textual sources. How the traditions originated and developed as a whole has not been seriously investigated. By systematically examining a large body of relevant cuneiform sources of diverse...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-12-12
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