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Sacrifice has always been central to the study of religion yet attempts to understand and assess the concept have usually been controversial. The present book, which is the result of several years of interdisciplinary collaboration, suggests that in many ways the...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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This study describes the origin, development and crisis of the German nineteenth-century project of theology as science. Its narrative is focused on the two predominant theological schools during this period, the Tübingen School and the Ritschl School. Their work...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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Historians have sometimes argued, and popular discourse certainly assumes, that evangelicalism and fundamentalism are identical. In the twenty-first century, when Islamic fundamentalism is at the centre of the world's attention, whether or not evangelicalism should be...
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OUP Oxford
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2013-10-03
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Iwuchukwu examines the perennial conflicts in different parts of northern Nigeria and why they are popularly called Muslim-Christian clashes. Specifically, he examines the immediate and remote factors that are responsible for the conflicts.
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2013-10-02
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Lleno de fe y la inspiración, BREAK OUT lectores desafíos a tener una nueva perspectiva, a no dejar que nada los detenga, y rechazar cualquier etiqueta que pueda limitarlos. Osteen inspira y anima con el mensaje de que nuestros granitos primero debe ocurrir dentro de...
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FaithWords
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2013-10-01
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Rise above your greatest trials and discover the power of God's greatness with five simple strategies -- and step into the blessings of your life.We were not created to live average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling lives. God created us to leave our marks on our...
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FaithWords
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2013-10-01
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The advent of modernity brought with it a crisis of faith. Science had upended the religious certainties of earlier eras, and believers in the West were cast adrift. Some turned to a strident fundamentalism while, more recently, growing numbers have shunned religion...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-01
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Music as Prayer explores the spiritual and theological character of church music. Author Thomas H. Troeger--a theologian, preacher, poet and flutist-traces how making and listening to music can be an act of prayer, a way of sensing the irrepressible resilience of the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-10-01
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Evangelical Christianity is a paradox. Evangelicals are radically individualist, but devoted to community and family. They believe in the transformative power of a personal relationship with God, but are wary of religious enthusiasm. They are deeply skeptical of secular...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Thich Nhat Hanh has become known as a healer of the heart, a monk who shows us how the everyday world can both enrich and endanger our spiritual lives.In this book, Jesus and Buddha share a conversation about prayer and ritual and renewal, and about where such concepts...
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Ebury Digital
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2013-09-30
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Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-26
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Quakerism began in England in the 1650s. George Fox, credited as leading the movement, had an experience of 1647 in which he felt he could hear Christ directly and inwardly without the mediation of text or minister. Convinced of the authenticity of this experience and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2013-09-26
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We live in a world polarized by the ongoing conflict between Muslims, Christians and Jews, but - in an extraordinary narrative spanning fourteen centuries - Zachary Karabell argues that the relationship between Islam and the West has never been simply one of animosity...
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John Murray
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2013-09-26
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Considered in Islam to be the infallible word of God, The Qur'an was revealed to the prophet Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel in a series of divine revelations over many years after his first vision in the cave. In 114 chapters, or surahs, it provides the rules of...
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Penguin
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2013-09-26
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Winner of the 2014 Mythopoeic Myth & Fantasy Studies Award
At the heart of the mythology of the Anglo-Scandinavian-Germanic North is the evergreen Yggdrasil, the tree of life believed to hold up the skies and unite and separate three worlds: Asgard, high in the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-25
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This volume contains the first modern critical editions of Concilium (1525) and Rychsztag (1526), two vernacular verse dialogues by the Zurich-based Zwinglian author Utz Eckstein, together with translations of both into English prose. These works are of interest not...
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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-09-24
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Journey into the Heart of God is a captivating exploration of the history and evolution of the Church Year: the cycle of seasons in the Christian tradition that begins with Advent and culminates with Easter and is marked by the celebrations of saints, feast days, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-23
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This unique commentary on James by an outstanding New Testament specialist, David B. Gowler, provides a broad range of original perspectives on how people have interpreted, and been influenced by, this important epistle. The author explores a vast array of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-23
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Wiley Blackwell Bible Commentaries
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This popular text has been updated to ensure that it continues to provide a current and comprehensive overview of the main Christian theologies of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each chapter is written by a leading theologian and gives a clear picture of a...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-23
Collection :
The Great Theologians
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Beware the women who are called witches, or those who claim the name for themselves...Banshees - a howling night-witch and harbinger of death; She-devils - Lilith and her daughters; or Bitches - Hecate, whose chariot is drawn by dogs.Alluring women, enchantresses,...
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Virago
Parution :
2013-09-19
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