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The number of nonreligious people has increased dramatically over the past several decades, yet scholarship on the nonreligious is severely lacking. In response to this critical gap in knowledge,The Nonreligious provides a comprehensive summation and analysis of...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-02-01
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By the end of the twentieth century, ecumenism’s deteriorating state had become evident. This deterioration can be attributed to many causes, however, the erstwhile German ecumenist Dr. Gerhard Ebeling’s rancorous, public debate among theologians in Germany in 1998 over...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2016-01-29
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Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933?2010), a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2009, for his work The Mahabharata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, was a passionate scholar of Indian philosophy, strikingly original in his approach. An Indian Administrative Service...
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OUP India
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2016-01-28
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A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner-an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world."She is his Juliet and...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2016-01-28
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Paul Tillich is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. The way he has come to be viewed contrasts sharply with the current theological...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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For many English puritans, the new world represented new opportunities for the reification of reformation, if not a site within which they might begin to experience the conditions of the millennium itself.For many Irish Catholics, by contrast, the new world became...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2016-01-26
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Without question, inter-religious relations are crucial in the contemporary age. While most dialogue works on past and contemporary matters, this volume takes on the relations among the Abrahamic religions and looks forward, toward the possibility of real and lasting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-26
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As stories of borders, territorial disputes, and migration have escalated in recent years, so too space has emerged as a critical concept in theoretical literature. This book explores the imagination of space at the dawn of modern, liberal theology in the writings of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-23
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Narratives of possession have survived in early English medical and philosophical treatises. Using ideas derived from cognitive science, this study moves through the stages of possession and exorcism to describe how the social, religious, and medical were internalized...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-18
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What does it mean for Christ to be the "image of God"? And, if Christ is the "image of God," can the human person also unequivocally be understood to be the "image of God"? Augustine's Early Theology of Image examines Augustine's conception of the imago dei and makes...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-15
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'Full of profound insights ... These meditations on Christ's Passion culminate in a completely convincing understanding of the Resurrection. Rolheiser's great gift is to make faith real. This deserves to become a classic.' - The TabletDaily readings from Lent, from one...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2016-01-14
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This book reveals the huge sales and propagandist potential of Anglican parish magazines, while demonstrating the Anglican Church's misunderstanding of the real issues at its heart, and its collective collapse of confidence as it contemplated social change.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2016-01-12
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The timeless classic,The Imitation of Christ, is updated into modern English and arranged topically for daily devotions....
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Worthy Inspired
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2016-01-12
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The claim that God is timeless has been the majority view throughout church history. However, it is not obvious that divine timelessness is compatible with fundamental Christian doctrines such as creation and incarnation. Theologians have long been aware of the conflict...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-07
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The claim that God is timeless has been the majority view throughout church history. However, it is not obvious that divine timelessness is compatible with fundamental Christian doctrines such as creation and incarnation. Theologians have long been aware of the conflict...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-01-07
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"Whoever needs an act of faith to elucidate an event that can be explained by reason is a fool, and unworthy of reasonable thought." This line, spoken by the notorious 18th-century libertine Giacomo Casanova, illustrates a deeply entrenched perception of religion, as...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-06
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"Sara's story only grew louder, braver, bolder with her death. It's a story that we all need to keep hearing." -- Lisa-Jo Baker, bestselling author of Surprised by MotherhoodSara Frankl knew she had a terminal disease, but she didn't let it stop her from living. In the...
Editeur :
FaithWords
Parution :
2016-01-05
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Devotional Inspiration
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God has given you the weapons you need to keep Satan in his rightful place of defeat. Now more than ever, Satan is launching his most violent attacks against the children of God. But you are not defenseless against these attacks.God has provided you with powerful...
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FaithWords
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2016-01-05
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Using a new model focused on four core capacities-intellectual complexity, social location, empathetic accountability, and motivated action--Teaching Civic Engagement explores the significance of religious studies in fostering a vibrant, just, and democratic civic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-01-04
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Serving as a dynamic figure in the monastic school, Dorotheos of Gaza transformed the traditional understanding of healing in the spiritual life. Gazan monastic teachers, Isaiah of Scetis, Barsanuphius, John, and Dorotheos, utilized this discourse of healing to instruct...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-12-29
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