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In The Resurrection of the Messiah, Christopher Bryan combines literary, historical, and theological approaches in a study of the doctrine of the Resurrection. The book is divided into three parts. The first section provides a careful and sympathetic description of...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-03-21
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The Abode of Love is Kate Barlow's remarkable account of growing up within the remnants of a religious cult.Protected from the truth about her family's past by a wall of secrecy, it was years before Kate unearthed her grandfather's controversial claim to be the...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-03-18
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Joyce Dalsheim's ethnographic study takes a ground-breaking approach to one of the most contentious issues in the Middle East: the Israeli settlement project. Based on fieldwork in the settlements of the Gaza Strip and surrounding communities during the year prior to...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-03-18
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In our busy lives we often sideline prayer and spiritual practice, or wrap the subject up in a tangle of guilt-driven showmanship and ‘self-motivation’. Stripping away the jargon that we can often get caught up in, NAKED SPIRITUALITY presents the core concepts of prayer...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2011-03-17
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Philosophical theology is aimed primarily at theoretical understanding of the nature and attributes of God and of God's relationship to the world and its inhabitants. During the twentieth century, much of the philosophical community (both in the Anglo-American analytic...
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OUP Oxford
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2011-03-17
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Judaism isn’t a race or even a particular culture or ethnic group. There are about 13 or 14 million Jews spread around the world, including about 6 million in the United States and about 5 million in Israel – soJudaism clearly isn’t “a nation.” So what does it mean to...
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For Dummies
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2011-03-16
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Can you imagine what it would be like to be swept off your feet by a royal prince to live a charmed life in the marble palaces of an oil-rich nation - and then to watch your fairy-tale romance turn into a nightmare of Islamic superstition, isolation, betrayal and abuse?...
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Mainstream Digital
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2011-03-11
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'Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.'
Jesus Christ is the central figure in Western culture, and one of the most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2011-03-10
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This book provides a new way of understanding the role of the cult of the martyrs for the Cappadocian Fathers and their families. The study shows that the cult of the martyrs was so popular among all social levels of Christians, including the Cappadocian Fathers, that...
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Oxford University Press
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2011-03-10
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The Reformation: A Brief History is a succinct and engaging introduction to the origins and history of the Protestant Reformation. A rich overview of the Reformation, skillfully blending social, political, religious and theological dimensions A clearly and engagingly...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2011-03-08
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Wiley Blackwell Brief Histories of Religion
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Diese Studie analysiert am Beispiel der Zeugen Jehovas Chancen und Risiken weltanschaulicher Erziehung in geschlossenen religiösen Gruppierungen. Im Mittelpunkt steht eine qualitative Inhaltsanalyse von Texten der Zeugen Jehovas zum Thema Erziehung. Dabei werden...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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It has been widely recognized that the Book of the Twelve, Hosea to Malachi, was considered a single composition in antiquity. Recent articles and monographs have discussed the internal clues to this composition, but there has been little effort to understand the way...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-07
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In the twenty-five years since his death, Karl Rahner moved from being the most celebrated Roman Catholic theologian of the twentieth century to among the most neglected of the twenty-first. This work attempts to redress this imbalance, with the contributors treating...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Scholarship on early Christian exegesis is full of puzzlement at the commentator’s apparent lack of concern for the literal or historical meaning of the text, usually explained as the result of an illegitimate allegorical method. This study comes to grips with the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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«Schweizer Kirchengeschichte – neu reflektiert» – unter diesem Titel vereinigt das vorliegende Buch die Vorträge des gleichnamigen Symposiums, das im November 2008 zum 65. Geburtstag von Prof. Dr. Rudolf Dellsperger in Bern veranstaltet wurde. Die Beiträge des Bandes...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Christianity has changed. Formerly known as the religion of Europe and North America, it is now a religion of the Global South: Asia, Africa, and Latin America. However,Christianity has never been merely a Western phenomenon – it has always been a borderless religion....
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-07
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How can one believe in a God of love amid all the evil and suffering found in the world?How does one do theology ‘after Auschwitz’, while vast numbers of people still have to endure violent oppression every day? This book seeks to address such questions from a...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2011-03-07
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Born out of a decade of discussion and collaboration between The Monk and the Management Consultant - His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Laurens van den Muyzenberg - The Leader's Way represents the synthesis of East and West and provides an inspiring manifesto for business...
Editeur :
John Murray Business
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2011-03-04
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With the current turmoil in the Middle East, there is a growing interest about Islam—the world’s second largest religion and one of the fastest growing—and its holy book, the Koran (or Qur’an). Now, with this easy-to-follow, plain-English guide, you can explore the...
Editeur :
For Dummies
Parution :
2011-03-04
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In 1695, Louis Sébastien, Le Nain de Tillemont completed volume 13 of his Mémoire ecclésiastique, entitled La vie de saint Augustin. Consisting of approximately 1,200 pages wherein Tillemont compiled all extant passages relevant to the biography of Augustine of Hippo,...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2011-03-03
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