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The search for a distinctive Latter-day Saint place carried followers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from New York to the western frontier of the United States over the church's first two decades.The prophet-colonizer Brigham Young declared a spot...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-07-25
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Dieses Buch untersucht individuelle Gottesvorstellungen christlicher Gläubiger. Auf Grundlage der in einer qualitativen Interviewstudie erhobenen empirischen Daten werden individuelle Gottesbilder rekonstruiert und innerhalb einer Typologie auf ihre Wirkweise und...
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Springer VS
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2025-07-04
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This book establishes a lay social spirituality for health care practitioners that pursues the Catholic Church’s social teachings on the preferential option for the poor, structural sin, and health care reform to address today’s commodification of...
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Springer
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2025-07-01
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This book introduces new scholarship exploring liturgical futures in light of Sacrosanctum Concilium at 60+. In critical dialogue with a variety of knowledge areas, scientific developments, evolving philosophical and technological innovations, and contemporary...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-05-09
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Who wrote the Pauline Epistles? For nearly 1,700 years the answer seemed fairly straightforward. The New Testament canon set the boundary at thirteen (or fourteen, including Hebrews) Pauline Epistles, alongside an uncontroversial biographical framework within which to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-04-15
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Imagine if you could follow in the footprints of the saints when they were alive?Or walk around the places of the Bible stories? Imagine if you could hear from people who were there at the time?Look out for the golden footprints and maybe you can!In Footprints of Faith:...
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Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2025-03-13
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Young Explorers
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The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-25
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The leading statesman of nineteenth-century Britain, a figure who bestrode the political world like a Colossus, is 'Gladstone' to modern biographers. In order to signal the difference between Wheeler's approach and those of earlier biographers, the subject of this book...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-12-10
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This book sets out to examine the perceptions of the senior management, faculty members, and administrators of Jesuit leadership in four Asian Jesuit universities. The research question is framed as follows: What are the conceptualisation, collaboration with others, and...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-12-01
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This is a biography of Cardinal John Tong of Hong Kong, which charts his experiences through the Second World War, his time as a seminarian in Macau, and his studies in Rome during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), which represented a pivotal moment in modern...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-30
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This book provides the first complete English translation of Giulio Aleni’s Wanwu Zhenyuan ???? (‘The True Source of the Myriad Things’). Aleni is one of the most important Jesuit missionaries to China, as is evidenced by the fact that he was reverentially called...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-25
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Slip into a pew at a Catholic church almost anywhere in the world on a Sunday morning, and you'll likely find something missing: the Bible. More than five hundred years after the Bible came off the first printing press, why does the world's largest biblical religion...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-11-18
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This book sociologically investigates the contemporary Catholic Church’s stance on gender diversity and “gender ideology” and explores ways to adapt the social science perspectives on sex, gender, and gender fluidity in the Church’s moral teachings, applying Pope...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-11-06
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Our churches are beset by challenges. From the outside, they are beset by a rapidly secularizing culture. From the inside, they're being hollowed out by the departure of young people and a watered-down spirituality. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2024-10-24
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More than 20 percent of Americans are Catholic, and overall membership in the Catholic Church has remained relatively steady even as increasing numbers of people claim no religious affiliation. The rising prominence of Catholics in important leadership positions and...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-10-15
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This book employs an experimental approach to critically re-examine the Catholic Church’s traditional teachings on homosexuality, heterosexual marriage, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersexual (LGBTQI) inclusivity in light of Pope Francis’s...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-19
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This is the first academic work to focus explicitly on Pentecostal public theology in Europe. Following a growing interest in understanding Pentecostal beliefs and practices with respect to the public sphere, this book shifts the focus of Pentecostal engagement with...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-11
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Seventh-day Adventism is the largest religious group to have emerged out of the Millerite revivals of the 1840s. When Christ's literal return to earth did not materialize in 1844, Adventists searched for biblical explanations. They wove together beliefs in the heavenly...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-06-04
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This book is a comprehensive study of the history of pew-renting in the church of England, from the first known rented sittings in the fifteenth century to the system’s collapse in the twentieth. The book’s significance is partly its originality; no book and very...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-05-26
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The evolution and spread of Protestantism has been shaped largely by its focus on reading and interpreting the Bible. For evangelists in late-nineteenth-century Brazil, the promotion of literacy was key to spreading the gospel throughout the country, a fact that shaped...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2024-05-18
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