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Words can make a difference in a conversation, in a day, and in a life. Fifty-two words are explored in five different devotions each week encouraging the reader to live more fully. This creative approach to daily devotions will renew both the mind and the spirit.
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Worthy Inspired
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2016-07-12
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A brilliant kaleidoscope on the Reformation from its leading scholar and 'one of the best historians writing in English today' (Sunday Telegraph)The Reformation which engulfed England and Europe in the sixteenth century was one of the most highly-charged, bloody and...
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Penguin
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2016-07-07
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What is a caliphate? Who can be caliph? And how are contemporary ideologues such as ISIS reviving - and abusing - the term today? In the first modern account of a subject of critical importance today, acclaimed historian Hugh Kennedy answers these questions by...
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Pelican
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2016-07-07
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Our world as it once was In August 2014, Farida was, like any ordinary teenager, enjoying the last days of summer before her final year at school. However, her peaceful mountain village in northern Iraq was an ISIS target as their genocide against the Yazidi people...
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Vintage Digital
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2016-07-07
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The year 2015 was the centenary of Brother Roger’s birth and the tenth anniversary of his death. As part of this special year, an international colloquium brought to Taizé 350 young women and men committed to the monastic or religious life—Catholics, Protestants and...
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Les Presses de Taizé
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2016-07-01
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This book offers an introduction to the thought of Robert Holcot, a great and influential but often underappreciated medieval thinker. Holcot was a Dominican friar who flourished in the 1330's and produced a diverse body of work including scholastic treatises, biblical...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The world stands before a landmark date: October 31, 2017, the quincentennial of the Protestant Reformation. Countries, social movements, churches, universities, seminaries, and other institutions shaped by Protestantism face a daunting question: how should the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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In the years since 1945, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has grown rapidly in terms of both numbers and public prominence. Mormonism is no longer merely a home-grown American religion, confined to the Intermountain West; instead, it has captured the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The thousand-year-old Sanskrit classic the Bhagavatapurana, or "Stories of the Lord," is the foundational source of narratives concerning the beloved Hindu deity Krishna. For centuries pious individuals, families, and community groups have engaged specialist...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The thirteenth-century Jewish mystical classic Sefer ha-Zohar (The Book of Splendor), commonly known as the Zohar, took shape against a backdrop of rising anti-Judaism in Spain. Mystical Resistance reveals that in addition to the Zohar's role as a theological...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-07-01
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The Evangelical Revival of the mid-eighteenth century was a major turning point in Protestant history. In England, Wesleyan Methodists became a separate denomination around 1795, and Welsh Calvinistic Methodists became independent of the Church of England in 1811. By...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-30
ePub
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Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-30
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Echoes of Enlightenment explores the issues of gender and sainthood raised by the recently discovered "liberation story" of the fourteenth-century Tibetan female Buddhist practitioner Sönam Peldren.
Born in 1328, Sönam Peldren spent most of her adult life as a nomad...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
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2016-06-29
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The Stream provides the refreshing life-giving water that must begin to flow freely if we are to restore freedom and rebuild America before it's too late. Robison's focus for 2016 and beyond is the restoration of the Christian faith and the renewal of an America whose...
Editeur :
Worthy Books
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2016-06-28
ePub
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The ABCs of Christianity is a concise summary of the fundamental principles of the religion of Jesus, presented so today's generation will understand the Bible and experience the gift of knowing God.Yes, this is Grandma's religion.The underpinnings are the same rock...
Editeur :
FaithWords
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2016-06-28
ePub
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Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the superior male body. This...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-06-27
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The Evangelical Revival of the mid-eighteenth century was a major turning point in Protestant history. In England, Wesleyan Methodists became a separate denomination around 1795, and Welsh Calvinistic Methodists became independent of the Church of England in 1811. By...
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OUP Oxford
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2016-06-24
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Die Garantie der unantastbaren Menschenwürde hat sich zu einer universalen ethischen und rechtlichen Norm herausgebildet. Sie wird jedoch in Abhängigkeit vom jeweiligen weltanschaulichen und religiösen Hintergrund unterschiedlich begründet. Diese Uneinheitlichkeit der...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-16
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Historically, the relationship between religion and psychotherapy has been more negative than positive. Are there inherent contradictions between the two, or can advances in the area of mental health care offer insights that are useful for the work of those in ordained...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-06-16
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