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THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GOD is the first book in the Apprentice Series, which along with three other titles forms 'a curriculum for Christlikeness'.THE GOOD AND BEAUTIFUL GOD focuses on the character of God and how we can move into a life of intimacy with him. What we...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-02-16
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This book is a comprehensive, profound and immediately accessible book which opens the way for all to increase their understanding and develop their practice of prayer. Richard Foster explores the riches of the historical classics of prayer as well as his own personal...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-02-16
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Disillusioned by the distortions and hypocrisies of the church in which he grew up, Philip Yancey set out in search of a life enhanced by faith instead of diminished by religion. Having struggled to forge personal convictions about God amid the ironies of life and the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-02-16
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Providing inspiration from the man whose advice and insights have touched the hearts of millions, this collection of quotations, poems, and prayers reveals Pope John Paul II in his many roles: as teacher, pastor, poet, leader, lover of all humanity, and follower of...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-02-16
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With millions of copies sold, RUN BABY RUN is one of the most powerful true stories of our day: the tale of one man, a legend among gang leaders in New York, and how he turned his back on that world of tribal warfare, sex, drugs and murder for the sake of Christ. In...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2012-02-16
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How could settlement emerge in an early modern 'world on the move'?How did the Sufis imprint their influence on the cultural memory of their communities? Weaving together investigations of architecture, ethnography, local history, and migration, Making Space offers bold...
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OUP India
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2012-02-16
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A Postcolonial Reading of the Acts of the Apostles explores Acts, with its twofold motif of self-exaltation and self-attribution of divine prerogatives, from the viewpoint of postcolonial criticism. The Lukan community struggles to legitimize itself, in hybrid fashion,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-15
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The work of practical theologian James E. Loder, Jr. (1931-2001) deserves a wider audience. For more than forty years, he developed and exercised an interdisciplinary methodology that identified patterns of correlation in the fields of psychology, educational theory,...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-15
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The Matthean Beatitudes in Their Jewish Origins: A Literary and Speech Act Analysis examines how Matthew used Jewish concepts as paradigmatic utterances for the Matthean community. In fact, the Gospel of Matthew was the most Jewish of the Synoptic Gospels, and Matthew’s...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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The Use of Exodus in Hebrews illustrates how traditions and hermeneutics have significantly determined people’s valuations of the relationship between the Old and New Covenants in Hebrews. By showing how the author of Hebrews uses the canonical revelation from Exodus to...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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The Canon of the Bible and the Apocrypha in the Churches of the East features essays reflecting the latest scholarly research in the field of the canon of the Bible and related apocryphal books, with special attention given to the early Christian literature of Eastern...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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The metaphors in Hosea are rich and varied, comprising both gendered and non-gendered image fields. This book examines the use of metaphor in Hosea through the lens of masculinity studies, which provides a means to elucidate connections between the images and to analyze...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Life Histories of Bahá’í Women in Canada: Constructing Religious Identity in the Twentieth Century is an unprecedented study of the essential features of living a Bahá’í life, examining contributions and experiences of a diverse group of Canadian women and men in a new...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Thomas von Kempen (1379/80-1471), der den allergrößten Teil seines langen Lebens in klösterlicher Abgeschiedenheit zubrachte – auf der Suche nach Seelenfrieden «im Winkel mit einem Buch», wie sein Wahlspruch lautete – hat durch sein Werk Von der Nachfolge Christi nicht...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2012-02-14
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Madagascar is a poor country with very little power on the world stage. As a former French colony, Madagascar’s wealth has often been viewed as available to others with more power to take and use as they please. This trend continues today; while its unique flora and...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2012-02-14
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Provides the first extensive collection of traditional and academic Jewish approaches to the religions of the world, focusing on those Jewish thinkers that actually encounter the other world religions -that is, it moves beyond the theory of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-02-14
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Based on interview material with a wide range of Protestant clergy in Northern Ireland, this book examines how Protestant identity impacts on the possibility of peace and stability and argues for greater involvement by the Protestant churches in the transition from...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2012-02-10
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This book examines the writings of an early...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-02-09
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A Christianity Worth Believing offers an engaging, 'come-with-me-on-a-journey-of-exploring-the-possibilities' approach to what it means to be a follower of Jesus in our day. Written by Doug Pagitt?a leading voice in the Emergent conversation—this beautifully written...
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Jossey-Bass
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2012-02-07
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The Reformation's war against the saints and their miracles is well known.The story of the Protestant Reformers' embrace of natural wonders as miracles that could similarly spur piety and moral discipline is much less familiar. In Miracles and the Protestant...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-02-03
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