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This volume examines the use of the image of the Jewish temple in the writings of the Anglo-Saxon theologian and historian, Bede (d. 735). The various Jewish holy sites described in the Bible possessed multiple different meanings for Bede and therefore this imagery...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-10-08
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This comprehensive volume brings together a team of distinguished scholars to create a wide-ranging introduction to patristic authors and their contributions to not only theology and spirituality, but to philosophy, ecclesiology, linguistics, hagiography, liturgics,...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2015-06-29
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion
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Das Buch leistet einen Beitrag zur Geschichte des Kulturkampfes im nördlichen Rheinland (Regierungsbezirke Düsseldorf, Aachen und Köln) und zur Geschichte des Grundrechts auf öffentliche kollektive Religionsausübung. Der preußische Staat beschnitt im Kulturkampf...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-04-20
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Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662) has become one of the most discussed figures in contemporary patristic studies. This is partly due to the relatively recent discovery and critical edition of his works in various genres, including On the Ascetic Life, Four Centuries on...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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Maximus the Confessor (c.580-662) has become one of the most discussed figures in contemporary patristic studies. This is partly due to the relatively recent discovery and critical edition of his works in various genres, including On the Ascetic Life, Four Centuries on...
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OUP Oxford
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2015-03-26
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Das Buch schildert den Kampf zwischen der katholischen Aufklärung und dem Ultramontanismus um die Haltung der Kirche zum Wallfahrtswesen, einer beliebten Form der Volksfrömmigkeit. Während der Kölner Erzbischof Spiegel (1825–1835) Wallfahrtsprozessionen mit staatlicher...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2015-03-16
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In this fascinating historical and cultural biography, writer and broadcaster Peter Stanford deconstructs that most vilified of Bible characters: Judas Iscariot, who famously betrayed Jesus with a kiss. Beginning with the gospel accounts, Peter explores two thousand...
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Hodder & Stoughton
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2015-03-12
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The Ladder of Divine Ascent, the work of an otherwise shadowy figure, John Climacus (meaning of the Ladder), abbot of St. Catherine's, Sinai (ca. 579-649 CE), is one of the most popular and enduring classics of Greek ascetic spiritual direction. Hailed as the great...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-02-19
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Der erste Bischof von Budweis, Johann Prokop Schaffgotsch (1748-1813), ist zweifellos eine große Gestalt der Geschichte Südböhmens. Ziel dieses Werkes ist es, dem Leser eine tiefergehende und systematischere Darstellung von Schaffgotschs Leben, vor allem der Zeit seines...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2015-01-28
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The Reformation was a seismic event in history, whose consequences are still working themselves out in Europe and across the world.The protests against the marketing of indulgences staged by the German monk Martin Luther in 1517 belonged to a long-standing pattern of...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2015-01-22
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Byzantine church law remains terra incognita to most scholars in the western academy. In this work, David Wagschal provides a fresh examination of this neglected but fascinating world. Confronting the traditional narratives of decline and primitivism that have long...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-27
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Philoxenos of Mabbug (c. 440-523) was a prolific late-antique theologian and polemicist who produced the largest literary corpus to have survived in Syriac. He earned a reputation as the leading Syriac opponent of the Council of Chalcedon (451) and its two-nature...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-11-06
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The 1662 Act of Uniformity and the consequent 'ejections' on 24th August (St. Bartholomew's Day) of those who refused to comply with its stringent conditions comprise perhaps the single most significant episode in post-Reformation English religious history. Intended, in...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-30
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The Formation of Christian Europe analyses the Carolingians' efforts to form a Christian Empire with the organizing principle of the sacrament of baptism. Owen M. Phelan argues that baptism provided the foundation for this society, and offered a medium for the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-10-23
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The work presents Abrahamic monotheistic religions and the belief of the traditional religions in Africa, especially in Igboland. Religion exists notwithstanding many rots and bad religious behaviours through systematic and atheistic upbringing. It is true that in the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-14
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Integrating patristics and early Jewish mysticism, this book examines Gregory of Nyssa's tabernacle imagery, as found in Life of Moses 2. 170-201. Previous scholarship has often focused on Gregory's interpretation of the darkness on Mount Sinai as divine...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-09-25
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The legend of Saint Patrick is irresistibly captivating-he drove the snakes out of Ireland, battled the druids, and used the three-leaf Shamrock to convert the pagan Irish to belief in the Christian Trinity. Yet, as so often happens, these stories are mere myths that...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2014-08-01
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The European Community has largely been considered a predominantly secular project, bringing together the economic and political realms, while failing to mobilise the public voice and imagination of churchmen and the faithful. Drawing on a wide range of archival...
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OUP Oxford
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2014-07-31
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Textual Warfare and the Making of Methodism argues that the eighteenth-century Methodist revival participated in and was produced by a rich textual culture that includes both pro- and anti-Methodist texts; and that Methodism be understood and approached as a rhetorical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-05-15
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As celebrations of the five-hundredth anniversary of Martin Luther's initiation of the most dramatic reform movement in the history of Christianity approach, 47 essays by historians and theologians from 15 countries provide insight into the background and context, the...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2014-04-24
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