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The primary aim of this book is to reconsider the meaning of darkness within mystical and contemplative thought and practice--especially as the ground and source of love.The book examines how a sustained, critical attention to apophatic spiritual traditions can help us...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-10
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Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. But what does 'spirituality' actually mean? And what does this recent 'spiritual turn' reveal about the nature of twenty-first century liberal democracies?
Secularization...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-05-10
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Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as 'spiritual but not religious'. But what does 'spirituality' actually mean? And what does this recent 'spiritual turn' reveal about the nature of twenty-first century liberal democracies?
Secularization...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-05-10
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Conquer the most common obstacles to life with this 50-day guide as #1 New York Times bestselling author Joyce Meyer draws upon the teachings of the apostle Paul to help you experience joy-filled living each day of your life. In this 50-day guide, #1 New York...
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FaithWords
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2022-05-10
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The book offers a comprehensive discussion on the Buddhist liberation and meditation concepts based on the original Pali scriptures of Theravada Buddhism. It interprets the early Buddhist soteriology critically and sympathetically by interweaving the Buddhological and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-09
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Sowohl in der biblischen Traditionals auch im Bereich der Neurowissenschaften steht die „Leiblichkeit" des Menschen im Zentrum der Wahrnehmung. Dies darf als gemeinsamer Ausgangspunkt für ein konstruktives Gespräch zwischen biblischer Theologie und gegenwärtiger...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-09
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This book deals with the ecclesiological themes in the writings of Mar Jacob of Sarug, a West Syrian Church father, who lived in the sixth century. Mar Jacob of Sarug (ca. 451-521) stands next to Ephrem the Syrian as a poet theologian of the West Syrian Church. His...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-09
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This book explores the protests of Job from the perspectives of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic religious and philosophical traditions. Shira Weiss examines how challenges to divine justice are understood from a Jewish theological perspective, including the pro-protest...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-06
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In this thesis the author firstly investigates various terms related to tathagatagarbha in the Srimalasutra. Secondly he focuses on the languages features of its Sanskrit fragments in the Schøyen Collection. It turns out that none of their noticeable language features...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-05
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This is the first book of its kind about the Turkish Muslim scholar, Fethullah Gülen, since the July 2016 events in Turkey, the trauma experienced by Gülen, and the disruption to initiatives inspired by his teaching, known as Hizmet. Drawing on primary interviews...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-04
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Debates concerning the relationship between Tridentine Catholicism and Catholicism after Vatican II dominate theological conversation today, particularly with regard to the Church and its engagement with the world. Current historical narratives paint ecclesiology after...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-03
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Das Buch rekonstruiert die Konzeption der Orthodoxen Kirche Siebenbürgens über die soziale Ordnung Rumäniens in der Zwischenkriegszeit. Der Autor fasst dieses regional geprägte Ordnungsdenken durch das Konzept der politischen Ethnotheologie zusammen. Dieser zufolge wäre...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2022-05-03
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In 1614 the shogunate prohibited Christianity amidst rumors of foreign plots to conquer Japan. But more than the fear of armed invasions, it was the ideological threat--or "spiritual conquest"--that the Edo shogunate feared the most. This book explores the encounter of...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-05-02
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From the author of The Tech-Wise Family'A fascinating and eye-opening book' - Tom Holland, author of Dominion: The Making of the Western MindOur greatest need is to be recognised - to be seen, loved, and embedded in rich relationships with the people around us. But for...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2022-04-28
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The coming of Islam marks a watershed in world history. A new movement arose from the sands of Arabia. It destroyed old empires and reshaped lands that had been the very cradle of civilisation in its own image. Debate on the origins of Islam is fierce. Far from being...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-04-27
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Proselytes of a New Nation analyzes questions such as: Why did many Muslims convert to Greek Orthodoxy? What did conversion mean to the converts? What were their economic, social, and professional profiles? And how did conversion affect the converts' relationships with...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-26
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This book is a multichapter introduction to spiritual formation within the Christian tradition. Corneliu C. Simu? discusses spiritual formation from the views of several Christian thinkers, with a chapter devoted to each thinker. The concluding chapter notes common...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-26
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A Grammy Award-winning singer and her husband share what a Godly marriage looks like and encourage readers with faith-forward and Biblical relationship advice. Fantasia Taylor—American Idol, Grammy-winning vocalist, and chart-topping singer—and...
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Worthy Books
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2022-04-26
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John Edwards of Cambridge (1637-1716) has typically been portrayed as a marginalized 'Calvinist' in an overwhelmingly 'Arminian' later Stuart Church of England. In Retaining the Old Episcopal Divinity, Jake Griesel challenges this depiction of Edwards and the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-04-22
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In this open-access monograph, Paul Weller explores how the movement known as Hizmet (meaning “service”) is undergoing a period of transitions in Europe. Inspired by the teaching and practice of the Turkish Islamic scholar, Fethullah Gülen, Hizmet has been active in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-04-21
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