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In the decades either side of 1700, England witnessed a major public debate about the immortality of the soul. At its centre were two unlikely figures: the lawyer Henry Layton and the physician William Coward. Across numerous publications, both argued that the soul's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-03-11
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In the decades either side of 1700, England witnessed a major public debate about the immortality of the soul. At its centre were two unlikely figures: the lawyer Henry Layton and the physician William Coward. Across numerous publications, both argued that the soul's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2026-02-24
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This Handbook challenges the view--widely held today--that religious toleration is a specifically modern, liberal, and Western concept. To the contrary, it shows that principles of religious coexistence have been articulated since recorded history. As many cultures have...
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Springer
Parution :
2026-01-30
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A non-canonical Biblical text attributed to the prophet Enoch, now repackaged for Union Square and Co.'s Signature Editions series. An excluded book of the Bible that tells the story of the fallen angels in Genesis who took human wives, created the giant...
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Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2025-08-19
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Signature Editions
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From early Christianity to the emergence of Islam, the long late antiquity denotes a truly revolutionary period in the history of religions. In many ways, religious ritual patterns and theological worldviews were then radically transformed throughout the Near East and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-21
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The end of the fourteenth century was a time of upheaval and contested authority among the traditional institutions of medieval Europe. In response to these conditions, a number of people began to claim their own authority, as prophets speaking the word of God. They...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-16
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From early Christianity to the emergence of Islam, the long late antiquity denotes a truly revolutionary period in the history of religions. In many ways, religious ritual patterns and theological worldviews were then radically transformed throughout the Near East and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-08
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The end of the fourteenth century was a time of upheaval and contested authority among the traditional institutions of medieval Europe. In response to these conditions, a number of people began to claim their own authority, as prophets speaking the word of God. They...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-07-02
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In sixteenth-century Germany Martin Luther and his followers engaged in a thorough reform of beliefs and practices related to prayer, a reform rooted in Luther's theological insights. Rejecting medieval beliefs that saw prayer as a good work, Luther and his followers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-04-10
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In sixteenth-century Germany Martin Luther and his followers engaged in a thorough reform of beliefs and practices related to prayer, a reform rooted in Luther's theological insights. Rejecting medieval beliefs that saw prayer as a good work, Luther and his followers...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-03-22
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This book is a study of the mystical nature of tradition, and the traditional nature of mysticism, and of St Symeon as both a highly personal and very traditional ecclesiastical writer. The teachings of St Symeon (late tenth to early eleventh century) created much...
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Clarendon Press
Parution :
2025-02-18
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Few today think of Andrew Jackson, the American military hero and president, as a religious man. Nevertheless, Jackson considered himself a Christian throughout his life. Raised a "rigid presbeterian," Jackson's mother wanted her son to grow up to become a clergyman,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-22
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This book offers a fresh perspective on early modern philosophy by highlighting Pierre Bayle's engagement with non-Christian sources. If our major political, ethical, and epistemic doctrines were solely rooted in Christian genealogies, it would seem necessary to include...
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Springer
Parution :
2025-01-22
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Few today think of Andrew Jackson, the American military hero and president, as a religious man. Nevertheless, Jackson considered himself a Christian throughout his life. Raised a "rigid presbeterian," Jackson's mother wanted her son to grow up to become a clergyman,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-14
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Scriptural Vitality challenges the view...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2025-01-01
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Scriptural Vitality challenges the view...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-18
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Dieses Buch bringt interdisziplinäre Wissenschaftler aus den Bereichen Geschichte, Theologie, Volkskunde, Ethnologie und Meteorologie zusammen, um zu untersuchen, wie David Cranz' Historie von Grönland (1765) in verschiedenen Disziplinen, Epochen und Ländern Resonanz...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-10-28
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The star quarterback takes the field for the national championship game, "John 3:16" scrawled on his eye black.The NBA's Most Valuable Player leads his team in Bible study.The newly crowned World Series champion thanks God in a postgame interview while wearing a t-shirt...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-09-24
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The Reformation of the Heart: Gender and Radical Theology in the English Revolution offers fresh insight into the relationship between radical theology and gender radicalism in the English Revolution. It addresses together two themes which have long fascinated...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-01-03
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This comprehensive new presentation of the religion of the Rigveda is the result of a thorough-going endeavour to extrapolate historical circumstances from that literary text and present them chiefly from the perspective of the adherents to this religion. For them...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-27
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