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In Calvin's Company of Pastors, Scott Manetsch examines the pastoral theology and practical ministry activities of Geneva's reformed ministers from the time of Calvin's arrival in Geneva until the beginning of the seventeenth century. During these seven decades, more...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-11-29
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The call to repentance is central to the message of early Christianity. While this is undeniable, the precise meaning of the concept of repentance for early Christians has rarely been investigated to any great extent, beyond studies of the rise of penitential...
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OUP Oxford
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2012-11-29
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This book is devoted to resonant energy conversion in power electronics. It is a practical, systematic guide to the analysis and design of various dc-dc resonant inverters, high-frequency rectifiers, and dc-dc resonant converters that are building blocks of many of...
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Wiley
Parution :
2012-11-27
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This groundbreaking study looks beyond biblical texts, which have had a powerful influence over our views of women's roles and worth, in order to reconstruct the typical everyday lives of women in ancient Israel. Carol Meyers argues that biblical sources alone do not...
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Oxford University Press
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2012-11-26
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Standard works on Christology seldom give much consideration to the way Christ is perceived outside the Western tradition. The Other Jesus is an in depth study of understandings of the person of Jesus Christ by major Asian Christian theologians of the 20th century....
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-23
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Animal sacrifice has been critical to the study of ancient Mediterranean religions since the nineteenth century. Recently, two theories have dominated the subject of sacrifice: the psychological and ethological approach of Walter Burkert and the sociological and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-23
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In today's increasingly competitive and insecure economic environment, we often question the reason for work: why am I doing this? Why is it so hard? And what can I do about it? Work may seem just a means to an end: we do it to earn the money to enjoy life outside the...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-11-22
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In her dynamic new devotional, international speaker Joyce Meyer provides you with powerful 'starting points' for every day of the year. Each day's devotion is filled with practical advice from Joyce along with life-changing promises from God's Word that you can quickly...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-11-22
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From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lorna Byrne.In this short ebook Lorna, who sees angels with as much clarity as the rest of us see people, tells of the special angels she sees at Christmas. She movingly describes the Christmas angels she has seen...
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Coronet
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2012-11-22
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Multi-millionaire Anthony Spencer is trapped in a coma and finds himself in a surreal world that reflects the skewed priorities of the life he's lived on earth where he meets a stranger who turns out to be Jesus and a grandmother who is the Holy Spirit.Pleading for a...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2012-11-22
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Human trafficking has captured worldwide attention as a crucial moral and political issue, but perhaps nowhere more than in the United States. Since they were signed into law in 2000, U.S. federal laws and policies on human trafficking have been understood as concrete...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-20
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Modern Hindu Personalism explores the life and works of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the Chaitanya school of Bengal. Ferdinando Sardella examines Bhaktisiddhanta's background, motivation and thought, especially as it relates to his creation...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-20
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One of the most vexing problems facing medieval Jewish interpreters of the Hebrew Bible was how to implement the new interpretive strategy of extracting the straightforward, contextual meaning of biblical verses (peshat), without neglecting revered ancient rabbinic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-20
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Consideration of children in the academic field of Religious Studies is taking root, but Buddhist Studies has yet to take notice. Little Buddhas brings together a wide range of scholarship and expertise to address the question of what role children have played in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-19
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Die Publikation dokumentiert zeitgenössische Beobachtungen und Deutungen zur Persönlichkeit der Freunde Franz Overbeck und Friedrich Nietzsche. Sie stellt außerdem die Anfänge des Streits zwischen dem Nietzsche-Archiv in Weimar und der von Overbeck begründeten Basler...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-19
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Through a series of close readings, Boer explores the earthy nature of the Bible. These readings are gathered into three parts: the Song of Songs; Masculinities; Paraphilias. Each study is undertaken with rigorous attention to relevant scholarship and significant...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2012-11-15
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For more than thirty years, Jonathan Z. Smith has been among the most important voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion. Smith has also produced a significant corpus of essays and lectures on teaching and on the essential role of academic...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-15
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In a groundbreaking book, Neta Stahl examines the attitudes adopted by modern Jewish writers toward the figure of Jesus. Stahl argues that twentieth-century Jewish writers reconsidered Jesus' traditional status as the Christian Other and looked to him instead as a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2012-11-14
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Die katholische Kirche hat auf individual- und kollektivrechtlicher Ebene ein weitgehend eigenständiges Arbeitsrecht entwickelt, den «Dritten Weg». Ziel der Arbeit ist es Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsbedingungen der katholischen Kirche...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2012-11-13
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