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In the beginning of American history, the Word was in Spanish, Latin, and native languages like Nahuatal. But while Spanish and Catholic Christianity reached the New World in 1492, it was only with settlements in the seventeenth century that English-language Bibles and...
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Oxford University Press
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2015-10-09
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In this book, Hye Kyung Park examines the functions and roles of the women who appear in the Elijah and Elisha narratives. The named and unnamed female characters in the Elijah and Elisha cycles frequently drive the plot of these narratives, giving a voice to important...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2015-08-28
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This book investigates the role of the laity in the Asian Church. Lay people have three responsibilities: proclaiming the Gospel, be a witness of life, and the triple dialogue with the cultures, the religions, and the poor. Focusing on the triple dialogue, the bishops...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-07-24
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Die 39 Beiträge dieses Sonderbandes beleuchten das Thema Theologie im Spannungsfeld von Kirche und Politik aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven. Neben historischen Aspekten werden sowohl politisch-zeitgeschichtliche Fragen als auch ethische Problemstellungen bedacht....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-09-10
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Lk 22:35-38 is peculiar because it is never proclaimed except on Palm Sunday in the Year C. Although it is a pragmatic instruction on mission, it puzzles us like the Apostles in the Upper Room. The Lord shortly before his arrest, asserting the importance of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-07-08
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Historical memory is the perception of order in what has been done and said. Such a memory creates awareness and consciousness, both individually and socially. Together it generates discernment and wisdom for the future, for the «res gerendae». This work is a...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2014-06-17
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In A Quiet Revolution: Some Social and Religious Perspectives on the Nigerian Crisis, Joseph F. Mali argues that contrary to popular belief, corruption and failed leadership are not at the heart of the Nigerian crisis. Corruption and misrule, though they have done a...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2014-03-26
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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
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2013-12-19
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The worldwide Pentecostal movement has 525 million adherents. A feature of the movement has been its embrace of pluralism and pragmatism. There are features of worship which are commonly and incorrectly considered to be distinctive to Pentecostalism.The quality of the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-18
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Living in a multicultural society offers many advantages but also poses many challenges not only in the political but also in the religious, social domains. With Cameroon as a point of departure, the author examines the advantages and challenges that accrue from living...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-15
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Der christliche Glaube ist durch große kulturelle Vielfalt geprägt, die auf das Selbstverständnis der Kirche als «Weltkirche» einwirkt: Kontextuelle wie interkulturelle Verstehensweisen des weltweiten Christentums gewinnen angesichts globaler Erfahrungsräume zunehmend...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-05
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«Babel is everywhere! Migrant readings from Africa, Europe and Asia» sets out to explore the intersection between religion, identity and migration. It does so by telling entangled histories between diaspora/s and homeland and by analysing biblical in-roads to issues and...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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This Very Short Introduction provides both the believer and non-believer with a balanced survey of the central questions of theology. David Ford's approach draws us in to considering the principles underlying religious belief, including the centrality of salvation to...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-24
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This Very Short Introduction provides both the believer and non-believer with a balanced survey of the central questions of theology. David Ford's approach draws us in to considering the principles underlying religious belief, including the centrality of salvation to...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-24
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Thomas Aquinas is widely recognized as one of history's most significant Christian theologians and one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the western tradition. But what has often not been sufficiently attended to is the fact that he carried out his theological...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-30
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This is the first full-length study of the doctrine of the Trinity from the standpoint of analytic philosophical theology. William Hasker reviews the evidence concerning fourth-century pro-Nicene trinitarianism in the light of recent developments in the scholarship on...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-08-02
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Heidegger's Eschatology is a ground-breaking account ofHeidegger's early engagement with theology, from his beginnings as an anti-Modernist Catholic to his turn towards an undogmatic Protestantism and finally to a resolutely a-theistic philosophical method. The book...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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This book aims to create a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners. The first are writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria. Here, special attention is given...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-07-25
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Reinhold Niebuhr remains at the center of a national conversation about Americas role in the world, and commentators with divergent political and religious positions look to his 1952 work, The Irony of American History, in support of their views. In this study, Scott R....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-06-13
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Originally published in Italian in 1978, The Transmission of Sin is a study of the origins of the doctrine of original sin, one of the most important teachings of the Catholic Church. While the doctrine has a basis in biblical sources, it found its classic expression in...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-05-01
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