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This book presents how ancient Christianity must be understood from the viewpoint of the history of religions in late antiquity. The continuation of biblical prophecy runs like a thread from Jesus through Mani to Muhammad. And yet this thread, arguably the single most...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-30
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Judaism, Sufism, and the Pietists of Medieval Egypt addresses the extraordinary rise and inner life of the Egyptian pietist movement in the first half of the thirteenth century. The creative engagement with the dominant Islamic culture was always present, even when...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-30
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Latino/a Theology The one-volume Companion toLatino/a Theology presents a systematic survey of the past, present and future ofLatino/a theology, introducing readers to this significant US theological movement. Contributors to the Companion include many established...
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Wiley
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2015-07-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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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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This fascinating dictionary gives concise accounts of every officially recognized pope in history, from St Peter to Pope Francis, as well as all of their irregularly elected rivals, the so-called antipopes. Each pope and antipope's entry covers his family and social...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-07-23
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Whether you are searching for your calling or wholeheartedly pursuing your life's purpose, Brian Houston's transformative approach to life will help you navigate a faith path that is all your own and discover unique gifts tailored perfectly for your journey....
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-07-23
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This book 'hunts and gathers' across different historical epochs and situations, juxtaposing biblical materials and hip-hop, Christian colonialism and vodou, personal experience and racial politics, poetics and high theory, in order to challenge the current crisis of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-22
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In this engaging dialogue, Zygmunt Bauman, sociologist and philosopher, and Stanislaw Obirek, theologian and cultural historian, explore the place of spirituality and religion in the world today and in the everyday lives of individuals. Their conversation ranges from...
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Polity
Parution :
2015-07-21
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Michael Letney reveals and explains the four behaviors that lead to a long, happy, and committed marriage.
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Worthy Inspired
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2015-07-21
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The term «charism» is drawn originally from Pauline literature and refers to a gift given by the Spirit for the upbuilding of the body of Christ. Since the mid-twentieth century, Christians from a broad spectrum of theological positions have applied this term, in...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-20
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Diese Studie wurde mit dem Preis der Gesellschaft zum Studium des Christlichen Ostens 2015 ausgezeichnet. Das Buch ist ein Vergleich von Fürstenspiegeln vom Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts: Die Lehrworte des Neagoe Basarab an Sohn Theodosius (1520), Institutio Principis...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-07-20
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This book studies Korean American girls between thirteen and nineteen and their formation with regard to self, gender, and God in the context of Korean American protestant congregational life. It develops a hybrid methodology of de-colonial aims and indigenous research...
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Palgrave Pivot
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2015-07-16
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The Song of Songs is redolent with poetic imagery, featuring as it does the love songs of a man and a woman as they explore their relationship. Down the centuries it has often been interpreted either as a sexually-charged love story or an entirely metaphorical imagining...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-07-16
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What can atheists tell us about religious life? Russian archives contain a wealth of information on religiosity during the Soviet era, but most of it is written from the hostile perspective of officials and scholars charged with promoting atheism. Based on archival...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-15
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Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-15
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Finding God in Solitude explores the devotional piety of one of America’s most important religious figures, Jonathan Edwards (1703–1758) of Massachusetts. From his childhood to his death shortly after becoming president of Princeton, and especially from his Christian...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-14
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In an era in which The Episcopal Church and the Church of England have become increasingly alarmed about numerical decline, Christian proclamation has become more important than ever. To fully meet this challenge, Anglicans must reclaim a vocation to preach the good...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2015-07-14
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This book offers a paradigm shift and fresh interpretation of Rumi's message. After being disentangled from the anachronistic connection with the Mevlevi order of Islamic Sufism, Rumi is instead placed in the world of philosophy.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2015-07-08
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'It is an unexpected delight to read a book on preaching that makes you want to preach. Tim Keller has given us such a book... Here is an extremely readable book founded on sound scholarship... buy it. This is the most practical and inspirational book on preaching...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2015-07-02
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For the last several decades, at the far fringes of American evangelical Christianity has stood an intellectual movement known as Christian Reconstruction. The proponents of this movement embrace a radical position: that all of life should be brought under the authority...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2015-07-01
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