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This book is a study of the Anglican Reformed tradition (often inaccurately described as Calvinist) after the Restoration. Hampton sets out to revise our picture of the theological world of the later Stuart period. Arguing that the importance of the Reformed theological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-29
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This book is a study of the Anglican Reformed tradition (often inaccurately described as Calvinist) after the Restoration. Hampton sets out to revise our picture of the theological world of the later Stuart period. Arguing that the importance of the Reformed theological...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-05-29
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A defining work in the "Inner Emigration" literary movement, Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen's History of the Münster Anabaptists was written in 1937 as a criticism of the Nazi regime. This English translation includes documents, scholarly essays, and a detailed...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-05-26
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Where it all began-for two billion followers worldwide.The most popular religion in the world has a variety of doctrines, beliefs, and practices. This book helps its legion of followers to better understand where it all began, while exploring everything from how early...
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Dk
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2008-05-06
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'We are so focused on tomorrow that we often fail to appreciate and enjoy today.' 'One of my greatest desires is to see people thoroughly enjoy the quality of life Jesus died to give us - not just to read about it or talk about it, but to walk in it and experience it as...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2008-04-17
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The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers. Engages its readers in an informed and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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Leo the Great was the beneficiary of the consolidation of the power of the papacy in Rome and the Christianization of the city over the course of the preceding century. In this carefully nuanced study Bernard Green demonstrates the influences at work on this celebrated...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-04-10
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Across Africa, Christianity is thriving in all shapes and sizes. But one particular strain of Christianity prospers more than most -- Pentecostalism. Pentecostals believe that everyone can personally receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit such as prophecy or the ability...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-03-31
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Pastor Joel Osteen asks everyone to examine what he or she really believes. Why is this important? Because we will become what we believe. Our beliefs will prove either a barrier or vehicle as we strive to go higher, rise above our obstacles, and to live in health,...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2008-03-20
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Possidius, the bishop of Calama, was a life-long friend of St. Augustine's and best known for writing a biography of the bishop of Hippo, the Vita Augustini. Hermanowicz analyzes both the biography and the legally-oriented career of Possidius to illustrate how active...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-03-06
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Operating instructions for being a Catholic.The Catechism is an amazing collection of Church teachings and rules that cover everything from the basics, like honoring God, to more unusual subjects, such as paying just wages and respecting animals. Perfect for students,...
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Dk
Parution :
2008-03-04
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The Quakers are a fascinating religious group both in their origins and in the variety of reinterpretations of the faith since. Emerging from the social unrest of the English civil war, the Quakers have gone on to have an influence way beyond their numbers: be it their...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2008-02-28
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Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Naples, in the sixth century, St Benedict intended his Rule to be a practical guide to Christian monastic life. Based on the key precepts of humility, obedience and love, its aim is to create a harmonious and...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-01-31
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Does the Presbyterian church help or hinder individuals in their lives? Baillie uses over a hundred interviews with Ministers and individuals to examine the role of women, the influence of life history and geographical location, education, inter-church relations, the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2008-01-17
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For over half a century, scholars have laboured to show that C. S. Lewis's famed but apparently disorganised Chronicles of Narnia have an underlying symbolic coherence, pointing to such possible unifying themes as the seven sacraments, the seven deadly sins, and the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-01-15
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Catholicism was all over movie screens in 2004. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ was at the center of a media firestorm for months. A priest was a crucial character in the Academy Award-winning Million Dollar Baby. Everyone, it seemed, was talking about how...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-12-24
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James Pereiro provides a new key for a fuller and proper understanding of the Oxford Movement. Although references to ethos constantly surface in the writings and correspondence of the Tractarians, the study of the theory of religious knowledge which it implies has so...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-12-06
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Catholicism has grown from a suppressed and persecuted outsiders' religion in the American colonies to become the nation's single largest denomination. James Fisher surveys more than four centuries of Catholics' involvement in American history, starting his narrative...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-11-30
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`Judas' is synonymous with `traitor'. But a newly-discovered ancient text of the Gospel of Judas offers a picture of Judas Iscariot radically different from the Church's traditional understanding of him, and maintains that far from being the infamous betrayer, Judas was...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-11-02
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New Day,New You draws from 19 of Joyce Meyer's most popular books to provide her readers with a fresh word from God for each day of the year. Each devotion is an excerpt selected from one of her books, selected for the encouraging and strengthening messge it offers....
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2007-10-18
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